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Open Source in California Government

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the economy-larger-than-most-nations dept.

catfoo writes "California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has recently posted the California Performance Review Report, a 2,500 page plan to overhaul state government and save $32 billion over the next five years. Part of the proposal: Open Source alternatives. Imagine that..."

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  1. subject by skipsandwichdx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My CPU is a neural-net processor- a learning computer.

  2. New Species by 5m477m4n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here's the new-and-improved California Penguin:
    click

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  3. Re:Not because he's good, but because he HAS to. by JPamplin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OK, Strong Bad, pipe down about Sibbie, he's my man. Besides, Bubs still wants to produce that song.

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  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Re:IT-Less version of the story by EduardoFonseca · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    aaaaaarggghhh!!!

  6. Re:The Governator! by aristotle-dude · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    His stance on filming in Canada is ironic considering all of his most recent films where filmed in Vancouver,BC,Canada.

    He made a lot of money off our beautiful scenery.

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  7. he'd like to thank all the little people by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No such loyalties? Schwarzenegger is spending plenty of time outside of California campaigning for Bush in swing states, although Californians are paying him to work on California. You'd think, with the limited time left in the Davis term he took over, that he'd be spending as much time actually running California like he demanded. But of course, he's beholden to the Republican Party that elected him. Starting with the creation of the "Dump Davis" recall, run by fellow millionaire Darrell Issa, (who said he wouldn't vote for Schwarzenegger, because Issa couldn't handpick the candidate himself). And rolling down the line to endorsements by Bush, and vote tabulation manipulation across California counties - some of which might have been enough to twist the actual recall result from "No" to "Yes". Along the way, Schwarzenegger met with Enron's Ken Lay and some other California Republicans, to negotiate dropping California's state lawsuit against Enron (and others) for $8B back in illegal overcharges, documented meetings denied by Schwarzenegger with "I don't remember that". Hell, if Bush hadn't stopped the Feds from responding to Davis' complaint, asking them to stop Enron's overcharging through their market monopoly, Davis would have kept his office, rather than get sacrificed on an altar of Republican energy policy. What makes all of this make more sense to the oh-so-human Schwarzenegger? Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch is sponsoring a *constitutional amendment* (these conservatives really know how to conserve things) to let Schwarzenegger, born in Austria, run for president, in the Ronald Reagan mold.

    Schwarzenegger has the training to be a politician: he's an *actor*. He says what other people tell him to say. When he knows that his agent's right about the strategic value of a gig to his career, he turns on the empathy. He doesn't care what goes down the drain to fuel his ambition, or how fake his "empathy" to win friends keeping him on camera. Those "sheeple" you deride are foolish enough to believe the Hollywood that produced him. The modern Republican wolves who consort with any predator that looks like one of their pack are the real villains.

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