Mitt Romney Answers Tech Questions

DesScorp sends a link to a TechCrunch interview in which GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney answers questions of interest to techies. Included are questions on H-1B visas, Internet taxation, venture capital taxation, alternative energy, and carbon emissions. Finally, we learn that Romney is a PC guy, and get a summary of what's on his iPod.

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Re:America's best shot at having a secular preside

[amRadioHed]

Really? I'm trying real hard, but I don't see how "freedom requires religion" could in any way be considered secular.

Re:America's best shot at having a secular preside

[iamdrscience]

I know he's a mormon and all but there is not going to be a woman and certainly not a black guy in the whitehouse

Take another look at the many polls that have been done on this (look under "Other Polls"). They clearly show that Americans are significantly more prejudiced against Mormans than blacks or women when it comes to presidential Candidacy:

94% to 79% - Willing to vote for an African American
92% to 72% - Willing to vote for a woman
72% to 38% - Willing to vote for a Morman

Re:I agree with the flamebait tag.

[encoderer]

One more thing:

Most people don't realize how young Thomas Jefferson was. He was just 33 when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. He was very good friends with Franklin, nearly 40 years his senior.

In fact, Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration and sent it to Franklin with a request that he suggest revisions such that his age and experience compel, or something along those lines.

He made a change of just a few syllables, but with an enormous magnitude far beyond his years. He read Jefferson's line, "We hold these truths to be scared and undeniable" and he was worried that the word "scared" might be misused in future generations to justify religious dogmas. (Most people fond of saying that this country was founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs look over the fact that most our founding fathers were agnostic.)

So he put a few slashes thru the words and penned in their place, perhaps the most succinctly written statement of purpose in all of human history: "We hold these truths to be self-evident." What seems like just a small change was, in reality, a massively different statement. It is undeniable that 2+2 = 4. It is undeniable that the opposite of True is False. But a select few truths in this world are Self-Evident. At that time, the list was even smaller: The world in which we live and that we are being.

After 7/4/1776, that list became: The world in which we live, that we are being, and that we are free and that all men are created equal.

Simple as it sounds, it's the first time anybody thought to actually write it down.

And herein ends the history lesson for today :)