>>11493223 (pb)
What's the story behind the guy Bill Gates bought DOS from?
When IBM couldn't or wouldn't make a deal with Kildall, Microsoft bought what became MS DOS from Seattle Computer Products for $50,000 and licensed it to IBM. It was written by Tim Paterson, who mimicked CP/M's application programming interface. How much of Kildall's intellectual property he appropriated is a matter of some dispute.
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-story-behind-the-guy-Bill-Gates-bought-DOS-from
How Bill Clinton and American Financiers Armed China
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-bill-clinton-and-american-financiers
How America Equipped China with Missile Technology
In August of 1994, Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Commerce, Ron Brown, flew to China to try and seal two deals for American corporations. The first was to enable Chrysler the ability to build minivans in China, and the second was to get the Chinese to buy 40 MD-90 aircraft ‘Trunkliners” from McDonnell Douglas.
Why would it be hard? Watermark the cardstock. We know that California, at least, has watermarks as evidenced by the Alex Padilla (CA SecState) document.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Croatia_USAF_CT-43_crash
On April 3, 1996, a United States Air Force Boeing CT-43A (Flight IFO-21) crashed on approach to Dubrovnik, Croatia, while on an official trade mission. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-200 originally built as T-43A navigational trainer and later converted into a CT-43A executive transport aircraft, was carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 other people, including The New York Times Frankfurt bureau chief Nathaniel C. Nash.[1] While attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport, the airplane crashed into a mountainside. An Air Force Technical Sergeant survived the initial impact, but died en route to a hospital. Everyone else on board died at the scene of the crash.[2]
Do you think every city/county prints their own ballots?
Orders go to the printing company along with a PDF file (or whatever) to be printed.
Apparently you've never had anything custom printed.
If it is a heavy-water isotope watermark (invisible), why is it harder to do than printing normal? But you can continue to believe as you will. I don't need to convince you. Time will tell.
If you were interested, you could actually investigate instead of speculating.
https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/regulations/current-regulations/elections/ballot-printing
Ballot Paper.
Ballot paper means blank paper either in rolls or sheets cut to size that contain no election specific information including tint and watermark.
Note: Authority cited: Section 13004, Elections Code. Reference: Section 13004, Elections Code.
https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/regulations/current-regulations/elections/ballot-printing
Shipment of Unfinished Ballot Cards or Ballot Cards.
All unfinished ballot cards and ballot cards shall be packaged as instructed by the jurisdiction. At a minimum, each order shall contain documentation stating the number of unfinished ballot cards and/or ballot cards contained within the shipment.
The unfinished ballot cards being shipped to a finisher to be finished shall be packaged with documentation that contains the following information:
Format;
Ballot card dimension;
Tint;
Watermark;
Contract or purchase order number;
Number of unfinished ballot cards or ballot cards in each case or physically contained package; and
Ballot type.
Note: Authority cited: Section 13004, Elections Code. Reference: Section 13004, Elections Code.
Storage and Security.
All unfinished ballot cards not shipped from the ballot printer's facility shall remain in a secured area of the ballot printer's facility until converted to ballot cards, shipped, or placed in a warehouse. All unfinished ballot cards that are to be finished by the ballot printer will be placed in a warehouse unless finishing will take place within the same business day, except where the facility is running and is staffed and secured 24-hours a day, in which case the ballot printer can maintain the unfinished ballot cards in a secured area of the ballot printer's facility until the finishing is complete. Finishers shall store in a warehouse all unfinished ballot cards they receive from a manufacturer until they are ready to finish them.
Note: Authority cited: Section 13004, Elections Code. Reference: Section 13004, Elections Code.
No. Watermark the blank stock. Certified ballot printers need to have chain of custody on how many, where they were delivered, who took delivery, etc.
Uncertified ballot printers don't have the isotope marked blank stock, so when the fake ballots are in the mix, valid vs. invalid ballots are (relatively) easy to determine by means of the isotope detector.
Hanx still hasn't posted to his Twatter since May 22.
And when not enough of them are available to capture the win, they have to generate fake ones.