Recent content by KevinF

Where are the lists? Who has copies of the Ron Paul ballot petitions. It should be fairly easy to try to get many of the same people from those lists to sign petitions to put RP friendly delegates on the NJ ballot. I believe the deadline for the petitions is in April so we need to get moving...

So, how close does this plan match to the new plan?

No one ever answered a major question I had. Why skip over all the cities on the East coast? Philadelphia is on the way from DC to NY, and areas like Delaware and Connecticut fall right on that path.

According to the numbers I've seen the MAXIMUM speed is 60-70 MPH. Cruising speed is 30-50 MPH, and typical miles per day is 200-300. The schedule just is not feasible given those numbers which were presented by one of the people tasked with the logistics.

I agree that Iowa might be too far out of the way, but the Iowa weather is probably better than that of NH, Boston and New York. Further, isn't the whole point of the blimp to improve the RP standing in important states? My prediction is that this race is going to turn into Huckabee vs. Paul...

Yes, but this plan assumes the following: (1) Good weather throughout most of December in New York and New Hampshire. (2) That the blimp is going to be funded for more than one month. Even I have to agree that the plan on the web page is wasteful, impractical and fairly non-optimal. I am...

I'm not sure if I'm going to have the time to develop a nice model. I'll see what I can do in my free time this week. Given the time and distance restrictions, the logistics may not allow for too many stops.

I think that all ideas should be assessed by facts. Within the "mathematical model" discussion, the following facts came to the surface regarding the blimp movements. Cruising speed: 30-50 MPH Typical Miles Per Day: 200-300 miles per day Flight Time Per Month Contract: 160 Hours Here are...

tangent, When you calculated your tentative routes, did you take into account the maximum of 160 hours? At a maximum of 200-300 miles per day, and cruising speed of 30-50 miles per hour ,I would estimate that your flying for about 6 hours per day. Under those conditions, you would not be...

How do you verify a pledge without receiving the money unless it is legally binding?

I'm more worried that he is not alone. If three of four guys did the same thing, we'd be at less than $100K.

Well, all of that personal information was available publicly. None of it was apparently private information. It just happens to be collected in a nice tidy bundle here.

I'll see what I can come up with. I'm not sure how much time I'll have to devote to this. It appears that I will need to do a lot more data collection than I anticipated. I'll probably get going on Sunday to play around with the idea.

Here come the flame wars. Is there any way to do a preemptive IP address ban on this guy?

The real question is how do we determine how many of the pledges are real? My guess is that we could be far away from the amount we need in real pledges. Is there any way to do something like this in a better manner in the future? Any way to make a pledge a binding legal agreement?