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CA Sec. of State Panel on Open Source Elections
goombah99 writes "The Open Voting Consortium has announced that California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson is forming a panel to investigate using open source software in elections. Suggested Panel members include Security expert Bruce Perens and Python guru David Mertz who is associated with the sourceforge EVM2003 voting machine project. This is big since a favorable outcome could help fund prototypes of true open source election equipment and systems."
Getting rich was never about working hard as much as about finding a way up first, THEN working hard, and not fucking up on the way by selling drugs or something.
If you're just working hard and you haven't found the way up first, you may just be digging yourself deeper, y'know?
You can still do that in America, and it's still easier to do it here than there.
But the real problem is that all of these people who are working hard didn't start by looking for the way up at the very first, or they fucked up, and they have to fight bad credit card debt, that drug conviction, goofing off in high school, picking Art History as a major in college, and not quitting their job when they should have quit their job.
Perhaps a more accurate way to state it is that in America, you are valued for how hard you work, not for who you are. Outside of the USA, it's the other way around.
The truth is, most people are not willing to do what is necessary to become rich. It is not that they lack the talent or the luck. It's the cold truth, but it's so much easier to blame a failed system than to take the blame yourself.