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Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds?
blast writes "Given the broad field of candidates, I was wondering who the community thinks will make the best President when it comes to representing issues Slashdot readers might care about? Eg: privacy, 'total information awareness', Internet regulation and taxation, net neutrality, copyright/patent reform, the right to read, the right to secure communications, the right to tinker. Who do you think best represents your views? "
Ted Stevens, he understands that the Internet is not like a big truck
Because, as all the political threads on Slashdot show, Slashdot readers care about the same issues, and all lean toward the same side of each of those issues.
Please check the box for the candidate you wish to support.
Republican Stooge [ ]
Democrat Stooge [ ]
Some Wacko Independant [ ]
Non of the above [X]
CowboyNeal for president!
I read slashdot for the articles.
After all, he made our internet!
(Before you answer, yes, I know it's political spin, he never said it that way. But it had to be said, so now we're over with it and can go on with the show)
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Sad but true, it applies...
Someone broke into a party bureau. But no damage was done, all that's missing is the manifest and the election results of the next 10 years.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Cthulhu. "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
One ring to bind them - should probably have more fiber and less rings in their diet.
Yes, I'm left. You have a problem with that?
Mitch Kapor, I choose you! http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/006 .html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Kapor
.NET. And we'd have to listen to him say "Cool" a lot. "Cool" is a cool word, but every time I hear Bill Gates use it the word dies a little.
Al Gore should be offered a position in the administration: It would be a shame to waste all those PowerPoint and 3DSMAX skills. Plus the guy can take out a rowdy student with a laser pointer at 500 yards.
Bill Gates? Nay Bill. His first act would be to make all schools buy Microsoft, and recast the 'Best viewed with Internet Explorer' errors on all Government web sites. Then NASA would be forced to rewrite all their software in
I intend to vote for Kodos. That way, no one can blame me.
Zaphod Beeblebrox for president!
There you are, staring at me again.
Yes, they should take that word and put it somewhere it can't be used. Somewhere safe. I'm not sure what you'd call such a place...
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
It has *nothing* to do with any of those things.
Al Gore ithm
There! Now you know.
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The best thing a president could possibly do for nerds or just about anyone else is stop making more laws and start dismantling the stupid laws perpetrated by previous governments.
I am not in the US, so I can't do much about your choice of president, but at least I can have my say here. The way I see it from here, your options can be divided unambiguously into two groups:
1: Scumbags that will sell you out, nay, have already sold you out, to whichever corporate and special interests will finance their campaign.
2: Ron Paul.
I am a cynic. I hardly expect people to vote in their own best interests. There's a reason the scumbags sell their souls for campaign money - it gets them elected. So I expect another scumbag leading your country in 2009. But please, please, for the sake of all that is good, pure and true in this world, anyone but Giuliani.
I swear, if you guys elect Giuliani, I am going to go out every weekend, find drunk Americans, and beat the crap out of them. Maybe even daily. You've been warned.
Software patents delenda est.
It's merely a gateway. I'm looking toward being God Emperor...
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
Big deal. Check out George W. Bush's desktop computer.
Uhh, in case you didn't notice the article is about who is the "Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds?".
What on earth has a presidential candidate's foreign policy got to do with the matter?
"sell his sole"
So which candidate has been spotted barefoot this time? Or perhaps one of them has been endorsing a particular species of fish, hmm? Rather scandalous.
Sure, every democrat has to sell his sole during primaries.
They sell the bottom of their feet? I thought most Democrat candidates were a bit off, but that's just weird.
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
If Elected I promise:
1) Decriminalize most crimes except for the really bad ones (Murder, rape, robbery, etc) and institute a policy of impaling for the rest of them. Worked for Vlad. I'd be Greyfox the impaler.
2) Mandatory reversible sterilization for all children at puberty.
3) Breeding license. It's harder to buy a gun or a car than it is to have a child. We'll have a test to insure that the Wrong Sorts don't breed.
4) Forced breeding but
5) Child rearing is a very difficult task and parents are far too busy these days. Therefore all children will be confiscated at birth and raised in sanitary state run facilities.
6) Not only will gay marriage be legal, it will be mandatory for all people who don't hold breeding licenses.
7) All organized religion will be abolished and a mandatory state run one involving Smurfs will be put into place.
8) Mandatory Samurai honor code for corporate executives and public officials. Bring shame to your office, commit sepuku.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
We'll have a halibut time.
Check out my sci-fi/humor trilogy at PatriotsBooks.
I am Libertarian AND poor and I advocate liberty for all, not just the rich
Then you're doing it wrong.
Cthulhu might dismember and devour you, but at least he won't be taking away your freedom of speech and expression. You are free to scream and writhe to your heart's content. Ia! Ia!
Tell that to Hitler. He was Catholic.
No the Pope was Catholic. Hitler shat in the woods.
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