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Examining Presidential Candidates' Tech Agendas
Aaron Ricadela writes to mention that BusinessWeek is taking a look at the tech agendas for several presidential candidates. The amount of attention being paid to Silicon Valley especially is unprecedented with the computer industry citing contributions of $2.2 million up from just $1.2 million in the first six months of the 2004 and 2000 primary campaigns. "So even while the general election is likely to be dominated by the war in Iraq, the continued threat of terrorism, and economic issues, candidates have staked out early positions on topics dear to the tech industry, including increasing federal spending on research and development, allowing more highly educated foreign workers into the country, widening the availability of high-speed Internet service to create new markets for hardware and online services, and improving the state of U.S. math and science education."
I hope one of their goals is to get bigger tubes for this new "inter-web" thing.
I hear it could be big.
Why should political aspirants have prejudicial tech inclinations? I look forward to a future of impartial leaders that give unfamiliar issues equal weight relying on subject matter experts from all sides. Sound, informed decisions without prejudice.
Unless they want to replace all government machines with Ubuntu- then they already got my vote.
If the Democrats win, we'll be living like Star Trek on January 21, 2009. If the Republicans win, we'll all instantly forget that fire and the wheel ever existed on that date.
You have to translate all of that out of Washingtonian-double-talk back into Southern-Dixiecrat-cum-Republican talk. So, for instance, "The American worker must be protected from cheaper imported labor" actually means (and say this in a good Foghorn Leghorn voice) "We here don't want none of those funny brown-skinned peckers with odd last names coming here and takin' any of our lazy-ass good ol' boys jobs they ain't never gonna work at anyways."
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Instead of affirmative action, I think we can all agree that the present system is much superior, where the non-merit seats go to the children of the richest alumni.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.