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Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues
Revolution Radio writes "BetaNews has a short description of what we might expect from Governor Palin regarding technology issues. She demonstrated her familiarity with the internet by initiating an online education program for state workers, using the web for government transparency, and a supporting the general concept of 'long-distance distribution of services' (similar to net neutrality?)."
We've previously discussed Senator Joe Biden's tech voting record and compared the technology platforms of Obama and McCain. In addition to the above story about Palin, Betanews also has analyses of Obama, McCain, and Biden regarding tech policy.
... I don't care what her views on tech issues are. I just know she's a MILF!
Isn't the fact that if it was up to her our schools would be teaching creationism enough for a Slashdot reader? You can call me a troll/off topic, but I think if we have a FAIL in basic science, technology issues are unimportant.
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I remember responses on Slashdot to Biden's poor tech record being rebutted with "well, he's just vice president." Couldn't you argue the same thing for Palin as well?
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For a future without books.
She has declined access to all media, and I doubt if we'll even see her speak with anything but the rabid right pundits who'll fawn over her. I'm guessing that they only tough questions she'll face on any subject will be the vp debate.
The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.
Isn't the fact that if it was up to her our schools would be teaching creationism enough for a Slashdot reader?
Nope. Because even though I disagree with her on that issue, her strong libertarian views means she would leave it up to states and local regions to decide what they teach. And THAT should be enough to convince the typical Slashdot reader to vote for her.
I vote for McCain this fall as a libertarian, hoping that Palin will be at the top of the ticket in four years.
Anyone who says they will not vote for a candidate because of a single issue is simply not looking at the big picture.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
So you vote based on one issue.
So you understand the anti-abortion crowd not considering Obama (or even listening to what he has to say) solely based on that issue?
Pity she doesn't support *those*, favoring abstinence instead. That really worked out well for her daughter...
Pretty twisted series of leaps and assumptions all leading to a totally unsupportable conclusion.
A vote for a creationist or someone who thinks both is okay is a vote for the U.S. as a backwater religious theocracy. The fact that you seem to think that teaching both in the classroom is "okay" means YOU don't understand the difference between the separation between church and state, or that you don't understand that creationism or intelligent design is NOT science, it it religious dogma masquerading as science. It has no testable hypotheses, it does not teach critical thinking, and it has no place in the science classroom! It does not deserve to be taught both as Palin states and the fact that you think she is "being reasonable" means you fell for the religious propaganda.
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Again this so called tech source ignores the DMCA completely.
This is the equivalent of talking about global warming and failing to mention the US addiction to the open road.
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wow are you deluded.
Palin is a creationist and you need to read other posts in this thread about her sneaking about trying to ban books.
libertarian indeed.
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Sarah Palin knows probably as much about the Internet as any other politician of her age does who did not work in tech. Which is to say, its unlikely that she'll be able to always avoid looking like an idiot to people who know tech, but she probably has a much better grounding than McCain or Biden and people of about that age.
In the end, the censorship aspects don't really bother me, because it tends to be a very local issue. You don't censor anything without some sort of agitation behind it, and she's much more likely to find a high percentage of similarly minded people in East Nowhere, AK than in national office.
And yes, I have to say that while her stance on certain things is not where I'd like it to be, the fact is that all indications are that she'll keep her nose out of the worst of it.
Ultimately, though, I don't know many people who will for for or against her based on her tech stance. Its going to be the Economy, the War, and then the various wedge issues like abortion, in some order.
Now, if you know small towns with drug problems, you know the patrons of the bars are also the patrons of the meth labs.
Citation needed. Sure, that sounds good, and might even be true, but if you're gonna generalize like that you've gotta back it up.
So for the Net under Palin, bottom line: less porn, more drugs.
What? More drugs? Are you serious, or am I having a "whoosh" moment?
The article basically has no proof, only speculation, and a record that ZERO books were actually banned. Obviously we do not know the whole story and just as obviously people are desperately trying to dig up anything negative on Palin they can find. So we should be very skeptical of stories like this until real concrete proof can be found of anything.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Actually Creationism is an affront to God as it teaches us that God, who is supposedly all powerful and all knowing, was not smart enough to develop a dynamic system but had to settle for a static one.
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The simple fact is, if she came out and said creationism was bullshit, she'd lose tens of thousands of votes. Actually, likely a lot more if she said it during the presidential election.
You *can't* be all out against it and get anywhere in the extreme conservatism of modern US politics.
It doesn't matter that pushing a version of how life arose which was discredited two centuries ago is insane for the US as a country.
Its all about the fact that if you say such things as 'Evolution is a proven fact, creationism is a philosophy with no basis in fact', you won't get anywhere in politics, at least not to a high level.
In reality this is all about pandering to the right wing christian voters.
A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.' - D. Adams
with basically one kind of business, oil.
That is completely untrue... Alaska's primary business sources may almost exclusively be exploitation of natural resources, but there's a lot more to it than oil.
If oil were to shut down tomorrow, Alaska would be hurting, but it wouldn't become like a 3rd world nation or anything - it would continue to have a steady source of revenue.
That statement shows such a simple-minded understanding of things that it would be the equivalent of saying that California only has the Movie industry.
Really? So how does a student see a "mistake" after learning Creationism? What does said student "learn" from that "mistake"?
No, you cannot. Not in a high school science class.
If you want to teach Creationism, then you do it a class on comparative religions.
NOT in a science class.
And when you want to teach BOTH in a science class you will only confuse the issue MORE.
SCIENCE is taught in a science class. Not religion.
Why do you have a problem with that?
Her other views -- and more importantly, McCain's other views -- make it highly likely that they'll be appointing more judges to the bench whose readings of the law allow *increasing* amount of power vesting in the federal executive and congress.
How so? The model for judges McCain and Palin would put forward are those who voted down the DC gun ban, and also voted against the horrific eminent domain decision the court barley passed.
Because of their libertarian nature, Roe Vs. Wade is not under attack in any way.
Hamdan vs Rumsfeld is far less significant in the long run than the issues I outlined and I'm not convinced that judges they might appoint would necessarily go one way or the other on that. Scalias descent was in large part based on the fact that he thought the matter should not have been before the coiurt, period - based on laws that were passed. The job of the court is not to choose which laws to ignore and which to support, it is to interpret the laws passed.
I think moving power more locally is a great idea, but I don't think handing the Presidency to Palin is really going to do the job.
Then who are you voting for, because Obama is trying to do things like take very effective high school volunteering programs and bring them up to control at the federal level. That's a huge concern to me, not to mention that speaking of judges the models Obama would use would leave eminent domain is the same shape it is now, and uphold things like the DC gun ban.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
When someone believes the earth is flat when we know different and can easily prove it.
She isn't saying the earth is flat though, is she? She's saying she doesn't oppose the teaching of ID.
Now I personally do not believe in ID. But it seems obvious to me it's not harmful to teach, for it can also serve as an introduction to the scientific method and explanations about why it's not a theory in the scientific sense.
Which leads me to the thing that really bothers me about your post. Precisely because ID cannot be proven, it also cannot be disproven - yet you claim in fact that it's easily proven. Where then sir is your grasp of the scientific method?
The simple fact is that Palin as VP, or President, would be fine even she she believes some things on faith that you do not. There has been a great tradition of scientists that also held strong religious views and I do not see that holding her back from making good choices in science policy.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Teaching non-science in a science class is not healthy debate.
Actually, I'm coming to believe a section in science class called "Challenges to the Theory of Evolution" could be extremely productive. You could take common problematic arguments like "If humans evolved from apes, why are there still apes?" and address some of the reasons why they're poor challenges.
And there's nothing wrong with exploring any legitimate challenges there may be. Some people will choose to stick God or some other intelligent actor in those gaps, but many might even choose to refine existing theory or explore other alternatives.
Either way, I think we'd end up with a more informed population less likely to be susceptible to fallacious arguments in the discussion on the topic.
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Mostly because it does not appear to be libertarian. How can you seriously support McCain and Palin and still consider yourself any sort of libertarian? While the Democrats are pushing the welfare state, the Republicans are pushing the warfare state. They're both pushing the extreme-debt state, too.
Take this election seriously. Our economy is near, if not at, a disastrous tipping point. Neither major party has any plans to do anything about it.
....throwing the race with bad technical choices in his campaign.
is like that of a small city, 683,478, with basically one kind of business, oil.
Considering that's more people than live in such "small cit[ies]" such as Baltimore, Boston, Seattle, Denver, DC, Atlanta, etc., I'm curious as to whether you're living in Mexico City or Sao Paulo....
"Country First" was heir big theme at the convention and it was creepy to me.
Far better than "Party First".
Nationalism combined with Libertarianism means strong states rights. You are combining nationalism with a philosophy of tight federal control, neither of which Palin or McCain share, and which would indeed be "creepy". That's why Obama's national volunteerism program freaks me out, a whole new federal department to do something that high schools across the nation are ALREADY DOING quite well.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"Considering that's more people than live in such "small cit[ies]" such as Baltimore, Boston, Seattle, Denver, DC, Atlanta, etc.,"
That is deceiving. Seattle's city limits, for example, is approx 8 miles wide (2 miles at its narrowest) by ~15 miles long. That is extremely small. But the houses, businesses and people don't stop at those boarders. How about we say the metropolitan area for each of those respective cities.
The $346 million dollars that Alaska received is about three times what Arizona (the lowest earmark beneficiary) got. Alaska is over 5 times as large as Arizona -- Alaska has a land area of 570,380 square miles, Arizona has 113,634 square miles.
When you consider the sheer size of Alaska, along with the remote setting, and that the federal government has prevented Alaska's economic development due to environmentalist protests, I'd say that implying that Alaska is a welfare state is unfair.
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This is not "Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues". This is "What BetaNews thinks Sarah Palin's Stance on Technology Issues are".
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
...fish, lumber or gold. These are also things that will eventually disappear...
Well, you got one out of three.
I don't usually reply to my own posts, but while looking around further, I found this chart showing the actual federal dollars spent among the states. It also includes spending for the District of Columbia (58.6 BILLION DOLLARS). Alaska received such a small amount that there isn't enough room on the graphic to even write the state's name. The USA Today article referenced in the grandparent post doesn't mention total federal spending per state.
This kind of bullshit -- trying to show that Alaska is a boondoggle dollar sponge by listing per capita breakdown of a portion of federal spending per state instead of actual totals -- is why people think that the mainstream media is in the tank for Obama.
3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.
It's not just Palin, McCain himself is avoiding the media these days.
McCain is my senator. He used to hate phonies. He used to shoot the breeze with reporters all the time and he'd almost never dodge a question.
To win this election, he has become one of the phonies he once hated.
Hey nutbar, you can observe there is no proof of any god, therefore there should be no teaching in how things have been created by the unprovable supernatural invention.
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Sorry, but she helped write that speech with the aid of a speechwriter. She;s very much her own person which you'd realize if you studied her past - especially in relation to the Republican party which she had to fight VERY hard to become governor.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If one feels that Palin is unqualified to be VP, then certainly Obama is unqualified to be President. And, by your same reasoning, Obama is being told exactly what to say and how to say it.
I know who is pulling Palin's strings - who's pulling Obama's?
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
If someone thinks that "god" is talking directly to them, then we need to find them a nice little padded room so they can do no harm to themselves nor to others.
And if "god" wants a pipeline then He can damn well snap His fingers and whip it up Himself. Should be no problem whatsoever for someone who can create an entire universe in a mere six days...
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Well, FUD to you too. The jet was draining the budget, jets require on-going maintenance, even if parked. Getting rid of it saved money. It depreciated, hence the 600K drop from purchase. Where did you find the market value and did you consider transportation? Good spin, though.
You should feel silly, for making such a joke of a comment. You pre-emptively call anyone who disagrees with you a troll, yet your post is full of completely unsupported assertions about Palin's supposed inability to make independent decisions. If her background says anything, it is that she does not just do what she is told.
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I'm a solid atheist, as can be seen by reading my posts here and elsewhere. Have been since age thirteen. "God's will" is neither scary nor odd. It's a common phrase uttered by religious people.
So you say that every one claims to believe in God, but some do not. Would not the worst people then be those that claim to do so only for political expediency?
Yes.
Should we not seek to elect those that generally tell us what they are actually thinking?
Can't remember when was the last time I saw one of those.
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Here's one measure of "readiness" to be president: The ability to face the press. Where is Palin on the Sunday talk shows? She is missing (we do not see Obama hiding from the press). This is highly unusual for a VP candidate. If that Kilkenny letter has any truth in it (and it appears to be legit at first blush), she has a lot to answer for on her record, and our country is in great danger if this person ever gets put into power. I think we have had enough of authoritarians already. I get the impression that she is a female Cheney or Nixon.
Sorry, but she helped write that speech with the aid of a speechwriter. She;s very much her own person which you'd realize if you studied her past - especially in relation to the Republican party which she had to fight VERY hard to become governor.
Hahahahahahahahahaha.
Evidence, please.
If you've heard her speak on her own, or seen things she writes, you know that she can barely put together a grammatically sensical sentence. Sometimes "with the aid of a speechwriter" means polish, and sometimes it means that the candidate stood there and had maybe a little input.
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God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies
I think that one quote sums if in a single sentence everything that's wrong with the Republican party's current ideals.
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I think Obama has far out-proven his qualifications for being president over McCain. Although I don't agree with all of his policies, his policies make sense and he has good and well-supported reasons for them. He has a good clear vision for the long-term and near-term future.
Way more significantly he has demonstrated decades more maturity than nearly anyone in the GOP. He has refused to reciprocate the meaningless character attacks and outright lies that the GOP and John McCain has leveraged against him. He has so far held true to his word. He has so far in his life proven that he's willing to put the needs of average citizens above his own greed.
The GOP has the audacity to MOCK his time as a public servant and community organizer in Chicago. Here's a guy who, with his Harvard law degree, and the ability to make hundreds of thousands of dollars, instead put aside his own greed and got his hands dirty on the streets.
This isn't a guy who's running for self gain. His pre-political career proves it unless you want to call those years merely a political tactic.
Here's a guy who sees something wrong with the system. Here's a guy who has the intelligence, charisma, and wherewithal to unite this country and make us feel good about ourselves again. He's got the necessary skills to make the world once again love the USA, or at least not despise us.
George Bush has spent the last 8 years using international good will toward the USA as form of currency to purchase the ability to misbehave in the world. International good will toward America has risen merely on the prospect that we'll be wise enough to elect this man president.
It's time the USA became a force for good in this world again. McCain won't lead us there, he's too busy slinging mud to even spend time forming a cogent policy on how to run this country. Obama can take us there.
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Considering that the vast majority of American(possibly all, but I'm not certain) logging companies specifically plant their own supply to avoid deforestation and much of Alaskan salmon(Not all by any means, but a quite sizable portion) is grown in fisheries, you're barking up the wrong tree on those. Yes gold is limited, but I'm pretty sure they know that and they also know it's completely non-renewable.
"I think you'll find that this is precisely the problem - education is being replaced with rote learning of stuff "
One, you're wrong. Two, I wish you were right.
Rote learning used to be part and parcel of US education, especially at the middle and high school level. It was absolutely essential. And we chucked it aside starting in the late 1960's in favor of more "organic" learning methods.
And that's precisely why students can't recall important dates, names, places, and events. This is one reason why we're worse at math. This is why we can't recite lines of important poetry anymore.
Rote learning is painful, boring, and hard work. It's also a necessary ingredient in a good, well rounded education, and I'm a bit tired of this faux-hippyish ranting against it. Learning... real learning... isn't all fun and games and personal fulfillment. Like anything else in this world worth achieving, it takes work, and not just the kinds of work we like
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
Someone (possibly Thom Hartmann during his radio show) talked about a conversation he had with disenfranchised Ron Paul supporters. Unhappy with both McCain and Obama, they would have supported Dennis Kucinich! Paul and Kucinich seem in many ways polar opposites, but they share honesty and the willingness to speak truth to power.
I don't blame them. Bringing back accountability, ethics, and good old fashioned non-felonious conduct is a top priority in my book. For what its worth, I don't trust Palin to move us in that direction.
Obama could fuck a squirrel in Millennium Park on live TV and the press would be gushing over his presence.
Huh, kinda like Obama won't go to a debate with McCain until just recently? Or how he wouldn't take Hillary up on her debate proposition?
Sure is ready.
If that were true, the GOP would have had McCain pick Kay Baily Hutchison, Mitt Romney, or Mike Huckabee. McCain himself wanted to pick Lieberman, but was pursuaded at the last minute to pick Palin by Rove, etc. There were several more qualified, longer serving Governors, Senators, and Congressmen that would have been more qualified than Palin.
Palin got picked b/c she would take orders and appeal to this fictitious demographic of disgruntled Hillary supporters that the MSM invented.
All Palin will do in the end is energize Democrats and level headed independents. Only Neo-Con stalwart Repub's will support McCain now. Sure there was a (significantly smaller than the Dem's) convention full of GOP'ers cheering their heads off for Palin. That happens at EVERY convention these days. Delegates are the most committed party workers. They would cheer for a cardboard cut-out of Ronald Reagan in a cowboy hat if the GOP nominated it.
Fact is, the MSM got nervous b/c they didn't want to be accused of being 'sexist' (btw, all of the sudden people have forgotten what that word means) by the GOP. But slowly and surely they will start demanding of Palin what they demanded of Obama, and Palin will come up severely wanting.
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Lincoln made a point as president to fill his cabinet with his political rivals. Every one of them from the VP on down had campaigned against him and, at the start, did not wish him well. By and large his enemies (except for Jefferson Davis) were closer than his friends.
It's a testament to his skill and personal charm that he managed not only to win their backing but to earn their respect, a respect that, whatever you say about his politics, did make them an effective team.
"If you're dumb surround yourself with smart people, and if you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you."
Why would the press be Liberal-biased when it is mostly Republican-owned?
Anyone who votes for candidates because they say they have 'faith' is a moron.
1. Belief in God has nothing to with whether a person has the attributes for leadership.
2. True people of faith don't wear their faith on their sleeves and brag about it; they walk humbly, respect and honor other human beings, and never assume that their 'faith' makes them better than someone else or that their faith is right while someone else's is wrong.
No I am not a 'psychic'. But I am an intelligent consumer. And I don't buy bull.
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Let me get this straight. You wonder why Palin has not appeared on the Sunday political talk shows. She accepted the nomination as Vice-Presidential candidate a few days ago. There has only been one Sunday since then (actually, only a fraction of a Sunday). Sounds like you may be parroting statements made on left-wing blogs. If you all will be a little bit patient, I'm sure you will see her on Sunday political talk shows in the near future. Then you can judge her based on her statements and not on speculation and misinformation obtained from blog sites.