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The "Techie" Vote?
Ironica writes "This Los Angeles Times article discusses a compelling trend: techies are making their collective voice heard in politics. Quote from the article: "After years as political agnostics, the programmers and engineers who orchestrated the technological revolution of the 1990s are trying to reboot government...They have money, earned during the boom. They have time, found since the bust. And they are using their technological savvy to recruit even casual Internet users to their causes." Perhaps instead of "boxers or briefs," our next presidential candidate will have to answer "POP3 or IMAP?""
and may god help the candidate who does an interview on Slashdot and voluntarily claims to use a Microsoft product....
Mike
The techie votes are/
Emacs or VI
Gnome or KDE
Linux or BSD
Gimp or Photoshop
Slashdot or Fark.
Since Al Gore invented the Internet, it is only natural that he get the geek vote, and if there is any chance he might lose, the electronic voting machines must be hacked.
Perhaps instead of "boxers or briefs," our next presidential candidate will have to answer "POP3 or IMAP?
Considering some of the candidates, perhaps a more appropriate question would be "spit or swallow?"
So if I voted for the IMAP candidate... ...does that mean everyone gets to see my vote, until I purge it?
But that would insinuate we care enough to leave our homes and go to the polls! Wait, online voting systems are coming down the pipe!
Err...wait, online polling systems aren't secure. I know! We can hack the polling systems to accomplish our goals!
Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
I think so Brain, but how you going to get Larry Flynt to strip for you at 2 a.m. on such short notice?
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
Allows us to rally, colaberate and plan things quicker better and more effectively.
True, true. It always warms my heart to see so much cooperation among techies. Just look at any usenet group or irc channel! You can practically feel the love.
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> Perhaps instead of "boxers or briefs," our next presidential candidate will have to answer "POP3 or IMAP?"
No, the difference will show up when some sexual indiscretion is discovered, and the usual "Who?" will be replaced by a geeky "How?"
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
No way. We need to resolve the whole "vi" vs "emacs" issue first. After that, "tabs" vs "spaces", then the whole issue of placement of braces (not to mention brace-less languages like Python). After all thats settled then maybe we'll be ready for email transport preferences if the browser wars don't flare up again first.
We want jobs, dammit! ;-)
I'm one techie who's not voting for *anything* unless there's a CowboyNeal option.
* Please do not read my signature.
And what if he answers "CowboyNeal"?
John
If you want someone to represent the little guy, vote for Gary Coleman for governor.
"The internet is a amazing communication system used primarily to diss movies and share pornography. . ."
Try this in your robots.txt file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Here's what I do: Bitty Browser & Andromeda
kids trying to look k33l
Did you mean l33t or k3wl?
- from the leetspeak grammar police
Don't you wish your girlfriend was a geek like me?
Er, as far as we in europe can tell, americans are on the 1930s germany path, not us...
Recall we have laws against bribery. Enforcement on the other hand...
Yes, but we still allow lobbying. It's not the same thing you say? Oh that's right, one is giving money/favors/etc to someone so that they will use their position to help you. The other is giving a congress-critter money/favors/etc so that they will use their position to help you. Those two things are very different, we must always make certain to keep them straight. One is illegal, the other is the way our govenment works.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Laziness is the father.