Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers

kgamiel writes "The Obama campaign's CTO is hiring LAMP-biased geeks for the Boston office to help elect the Senator in the fall. This got me to wondering, what if he instead announced a SourceForge project toward the same end? What would such a project look like? Tools that both sides could use 'equally' would not achieve the desired end. And philosophically, could the Open Source community support one side in a competition such as this? What other issues does this raise?" Another reader notes that the Obama campaign is also searching for a security expert to plug the holes that allowed a hacker to redirect Obama's site (Linux/Apache hosted by GoDaddy) to Hillary Clinton's (Windows/IIS hosted by Rackspace).

Comments

Re:But they're anarchists! They can't have meeting

[mh1997]

a pragmatic concession to the fact that living as a Christian in a cruel, cruel world is rather difficult.

As Christians we make many compromises between our beliefs and our nature. I try to do my best and think most other Christians do too, but the only true Christian I know of was crucified about 2,000 years ago.

Re:It's murder, not killing, that is condemned

[something_wicked_thi]

The great thing about the bible is that, for everything it supports, it condemns it, too, and vice versa. Turn the other cheek? An eye for an eye. Though shalt not kill/murder? Never suffer a witch to live, and kill any child that does not follow the faith. Plus it becomes very unclear whether children can be punished for the sins of the father. Various books disagree on this point.

What's the point of arguing over this? The book is not internally consistent, and there's no way to assign weight, so why bother? Do what you think is right. The bible doesn't have the answers.

Re:But they're anarchists! They can't have meeting

[FredThompson]

No canard, it's right there. Jesus was the blood sacrifice which meets the sin debt of the OT. That's what the OT prophecies point to.

You are cherry picking. Turn the other cheek doesn't mean allow yourself to be killed, stolen from, etc.

The Jesus of the NT was a very buff guy, as would be anyone who was a "carpenter" in an age of only hand tools who was able to throw merchants out of the temple given all trade was done with coin, not electronic credit, and there would have been a lot of hired bodyguards.

Reading a translated few sentences from thousands of pages for five minutes will obviously give a very incorrect impression. Aramaic doesn't include temporal tenses and the overwhelming majority of people alive today would read ancient writings with their current philosophical viewpoints. Microwave mentality never leads to wisdom or insight other than it's stupid to stick your nose in the opening of the popcorn bag when you open it.

You don't have to agree with what is there. It's intellectually disingenuous to claim anyone can grasp intertwined prophecies and history of thousands of pages with 5 minutes of reading, be it the Bible, the Koran, the book of Mormon, the Bhagadvadgita or cave drawings.