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"Can't seem to remember OSS being used by any other presidential candidate in the past, ever."

Clark Tech corps

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I for one welcome the possibility of an open source advocating/understanding overlord =P

(Granted the dean and clark campaigns weren't a political success, but dean's online campaign was considered initially a social networking success... until he ARRRRRRGGGGGD himself out of the race...)

Good luck!

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One innovative use of the internet this time around is Wesley Clark's TechCorps. I don't see a lot mentioned about it, but it seems he's got a pretty good thing going on. It's not a new concept to those on /. to get together and write open source software, but I think it may be new in politics to get together and do this to benefit a candidate, especially when the project coordination is all done via the internet at http://clark04.com/techcorps/

And no, I'm not trying to push Clark. I'm not even a supporter. I just think it's a great idea. I like what they say on their page: "Democracy cannot function without openness and transparency. The Clark TechCorps represents a significant commitment to both these guiding principles."

Vote Clark. You'll be glad you did. Here's some snippets from his Manufacturing Plan:

STOP REWARDING COMPANIES THAT MOVE JOBS OVERSEAS AND START REWARDING COMPANIES THAT PRODUCE IN AMERICA

Require companies to disclose layoffs in America and job increases overseas. Consumer, investors, and workers all have the right to know which companies are moving which jobs overseas. As President, Wes Clark would work to develop a system of timely reporting to ensure that we have timely and accurate information on companies that export jobs.

Stop rewarding companies that shift jobs overseas. As President, Wes Clark would eliminate government incentives for companies to shift jobs overseas.

Stop tax breaks for companies that move overseas for tax reasons. Wes Clark would close outrageous loopholes in the tax code, like the ones that allow companies to avoid taxes by shifting income to Bermuda. In addition, Wes Clark would institute a 90-day review of all tax and spending provisions affecting large manufacturing firms. The review will focus on eliminating tax and spending provisions that give manufacturing firms incentives to move jobs overseas.

Deny government contracts to firms that move headquarters overseas for tax reasons or shift substantial numbers of U.S. jobs overseas. Wes Clark believes that companies should not be rewarded for moving their headquarters to overseas tax havens or shift substantial numbers of U.S. jobs abroad. As President, he will look for ways to make certain these companies are not rewarded with government contracts.

Start rewarding companies that create jobs in America. As President, Wes Clark would seek to implement tax and spending initiatives - above and beyond the $10,000 job creation tax credit - that provide manufacturing firms the incentive to keep existing manufacturing jobs in the United States.

General Wesley Clark wants to be the President of USA, brands SPAM as terrorism, outlines a plan to use 1% of US military budget (~$4 billion) to combat this disease. In cooperation with military, expert groups and Spamhaus project individuals who send most of the spam are identified, tracked down, prisoned, put to trial and executed. All that with full online video feed coverage. Those spammers that are not USA residents will have mysterious "accidents", breaks malfunctioning, poisonous food etc.

Spammers don't understand that what they are doing is wrong, so just punish them with extreme prejudice - that being death.

Too extreme? Yeah, like you've got a better plan...

Reuters coverage of this story is here

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-- Compare war time president's military record (www.awolbush.com) with Wesley Clark's (Wesley Clark's Army Career)

Like everyone else here is saying, why would you pay top $$ for a most recent processor when you could rather upgrage your fast P4 2.4 GHz box with other items that really affect the performance like extra fast SCSI or Serial ATA hard drive, more and faster RAM, faster graphics card etc.... Unless you do something that is very CPU cycle intensive (like graphics editing/encoding etc)....

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-- Compare war time president's military record (www.awolbush.com) with Wesley Clark's (Wesley Clark's Army Career)

I liked it when Clark said "We'll take away any incentives for companies that want to outsource or leave the country. And we'll have incentives for companies to create jobs in here" but I don't believe it.

I thought it was a good plan. But I do have a question: Why don't you believe it? I completely believe your story that you were being shadowed by people who would ultimately you and that is the problem. But Clark isn't president, so I don't see why you don't believe the statement.

If what you didn't believe is that such a plan would work, I think it would. In part because such jobs are already starting to come back and if people get a bit of extra money in their stockings for doing what they're already being pressured to do, so much the better.

As for the original quote from Clark (which was taken completely out of context), let me simply remind people: Clark is not a politician. Up until a few months ago, Clark was a retired four-star general and a military commentator for CNN. The last line was a blunder. He did not mean that he doesn't care about software jobs in the US, he simply meant that there are other important technologies to pursue. I believe what the grandparent's more complete version of the quote left out was the beginning, which read something on the order of "I am very concerned with jobs leaving America." He continued on, as quoted in the grandparent, with what he would do to keep jobs here and bring them back.

ADDITIONALLY, NOT exclusively, he stated that we needed a national goals program to direct science projects and that we needed to pour more money into research.

As I said, Clark is not a politican. I, for one, find that refreshing. More importantly in my mind, he can challenge Bush on every area of strength Bush has and best him (gee, a pilot lieutenant who did a fantastic job of guarding Texas during Vietnam, or a commander who was shot three times in combat in the jungles and later rose to be the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe for NATO?). He can also challenge him on issues Bush is weak on, such as the economy: Clark's master's degree from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar, was in part in economics, and he taught economics at West Point. So as to the great-grandparent (god that's awkward), let's not bastardize the man's statements for a political point. I advise everybody to check out Clark's position of issues at http://clark04.com/issues/ and make up their minds with all the information.

From The 100 Year Vision by Wesley Clark: "And even more importantly, we will assure in meeting the near term challenges of the day - whether they be terrorism or something else - that, we don't compromise the freedoms and rights which are the very essence of the America we are protecting."

Oh, and about your "without consent" comment, we grant our representatives the power to consent on our behalf, that is the point of a representative government. The real question is not "how laws like this get passwed without consent" -- it should be "how do representatives like this get elected and stay elected".

As we swing into the thick of the 2004 electoral playoffs, it's interesting to see what kinds of platforms are running under the candidates' official campaign Web sites. Netcraft has a handy feature called "What's that site running?" that lets us see combinations of Web servers and OS platforms. So here's a quick rundown, in alphabetical order:

• George W. Bush: Microsoft IIS on Windows 2000

• Wesley Clark: Apache on Linux

• Howard Dean: Apache on FreeBSD

• John Edwards: Microsoft IIS "behind a computer running NetWare"

• Richard Gephardt: Microsoft IIS on Windows 2000

• John Kerry: Apache on Linux

• Dennis Kucinich Apache on Linux

• Carol Mosely-Braun: Apache on FreeBSD

• Al Sharpton: Apache on Solaris 8

• Joe Lieberman: Apache on FreeBSD

For what it's worth, the Republican National Committee is running Microsoft IIS on Windows 2000, while the Democratic National Committee is running Apache on Linux.

As of this writing, November 5, 2003, the RNC has an uptime of 4.26 days (maximum of 39.04) and a 90-day moving average of 16.91. The DNC has an uptime of 445.02 days (also the maximum) and a 90-day moving average of 395.38 days.

Draw your own conclusions.

Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal.

Such bluntness and resistance to limp-wristed caution is an attribute to be emulated and admired.

Absolutely! He just got my vote! Maybe once in office, he can get the Pentagon to research diamond body-armor for our GIs in harm's way.