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Kerry and Bush Answer Questions on IT Industry
An anonymous reader writes "The questions were submitted by CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association) and each candidate's response follows. Read the responses at comptia.org."
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The problem is that if everyone elects higher class, they will only look after the higher class anyways. It's clearly defined in this Mousland Speech here: The Story of Mouseland as told by Tommy Douglas, 1944 It's the story of a place called Mouseland. Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do. They even had a Parliament. And every four years they had an election. Used to walk to the polls and cast their ballots. Some of them even got a ride to the polls. And got a ride for the next four years afterwards too. Just like you and me. And every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats. Now if you think it strange that mice should elect a government made up of cats, you just look at the history of Canada for last 90 years and maybe you'll see that they weren't any stupider than we are. Now I'm not saying anything against the cats. They were nice fellows. They conducted their government with dignity. They passed good laws that is, laws that were good for cats. But the laws that were good for cats weren't very good for mice. One of the laws said that mouseholes had to be big enough so a cat could get his paw in. Another law said that mice could only travel at certain speeds so that a cat could get his breakfast without too much effort. All the laws were good laws. For cats. But, oh, they were hard on the mice. And life was getting harder and harder. And when the mice couldn't put up with it any more, they decided something had to be done about it. So they went en masse to the polls. They voted the black cats out. They put in the white cats. Now the white cats had put up a terrific campaign. They said: "All that Mouseland needs is more vision." They said: "The trouble with Mouseland is those round mouseholes we got. If you put us in we'll establish square mouseholes." And they did. And the square mouseholes were twice as big as the round mouseholes, and now the cat could get both his paws in. And life was tougher than ever. And when they couldn't take that anymore, they voted the white cats out and put the black ones in again. Then they went back to the white cats. Then to the black cats. They even tried half black cats and half white cats. And they called that coalition. They even got one government made up of cats with spots on them: they were cats that tried to make a noise like a mouse but ate like a cat. You see, my friends, the trouble wasn't with the colour of the cat. The trouble was that they were cats. And because they were cats, they naturally looked after cats instead of mice. Presently there came along one little mouse who had an idea. My friends, watch out for the little fellow with an idea. And he said to the other mice, "Look fellows, why do we keep on electing a government made up of cats? Why don't we elect a government made up of mice?" "Oh," they said, "he's a Bolshevik. Lock him up!" So they put him in jail. But I want to remind you: that you can lock up a mouse or a man but you can't lock up an idea.
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SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
"My FY 2005 Budget would double funding for Justice Department programs that investigate and prosecute child exploitation and obscenity over the FY 2001 level. "
Notice how obscentiy doesn't have the world child in front of it? That is because the want to restart the 80's war on porn. Bush, like a lot of people on the right (and far left) have a major problem with porn and wish to use the goverment to get rid of it.
Google for "Protection from Pornograpy Week"
Judging from his gun record (banning tools because of how they are used) Kerry will go full force into banning things that the DMCA make illegal.
goto opensecrets.org and see how much the CA content producers have 'paid forward' into his campaign.
He seems to have the same problem my mother had, which is called "narcissistic personality disorder" - It's a common character disorder - and it seriously impairs the judgement of people who have it. Very Seriously. They have an inability to feel empathy with others, they tend to have delusions of grandeur (which is another, more traditional name for this disorder) and all the worst leaders in history have had it. (Nero, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, Pol Pot, etc.) It is uncurable. And people who have it are *always* *pathological* liars.
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Don't trust me on this, you should know that this is the opinion of the psychologists who work with intelligence agencies. (on the others, so far, they have been silent on Bush, no doubt because of another tendency of narcissists, the tendency to be incredibly vindictive and vengeful, and to never forget a slight..)
Before you just brush what I am saying off, I strongly recommend that you read Ron Suskind's article "Without a Doubt" in this last Sunday's New York Times Magazine and you will see what I mean.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BU
This disease is a mental illness.. Seriously.
Do you want someone with a mental illness running this country?
While only a little offtopic, was it just me or was it nice to read somewhat coherent answers to good questions that were not immediately followed with "And I would do a better job than him" or "He will cause the downfall of your country" or some other such drivel?
I certainly wish the campaigns themselves (and especially the debates) had more of this flavor. While clearly canned answers (Bush knowing what VOIP is????), it is a refreshing thing to see in a race that has become increasingly ugly.
Oh, and was anyone else a bit annoyed that 3rd party candidates (or even Nader) were not included? I am sure the Greens, Libertarians, and especially Nader would have had interesting responses (thought many of those can be dug out of the appropriate campaign website).
I am a Kerry supporter and Bush hater, and I have to say that Bush's responses were far better. They were more detailed and contained specific ideas of what he has done, and what he plans to do.
Of course, I do not believe that Bush (or Kerry) actually wrote any of this. But at the same time, his team apparently understands the issues alot better than Kerry's team, and that is important. Do I really think Bush or Kerry have a friggen clue as to what VOIP is? Noooo way. In fact, I am not even sure that if either Bush or Kerry even read the responses, they would fully understand what was being discussed. However, when something like the Can-Spam act comes across their desk, it appears Bush has a much better team working for him to put it in little words he can understand and thus should be able to make better decisions on these types of issues.
Bush's cybersecurity czar quit, abruptly, because he was unhappy with the way things were going.
That's very disturbing to me. One day's notice? Frustrated?
Are we ready for an attack? I don't think so, especially if the current administration is unwilling to listen to their own cybersecurity czar. I know when Kerry takes office, he'll listen to his people.
Now compare the emphasis of the two:
Bush: "We must vigorously enforce intellectual property protections"
Kerry: (roughly equivalent to) "I'm open to looking at whether we need more legislation to protect your right to fair use."
NOW which answer do you think was best?
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