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Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama
SEAActionFund writes "Vint Cerf, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist who also happens to be credited with co-founding the Internet, submitted a video to our AVoteforScience YouTube challenge. In it he discusses the importance of net neutrality and endorses Barack Obama specifically because he supports net neutrality (John McCain does not.)
The AVoteForScience challenge calls upon scientists to upload videos to YouTube explaining who they are voting for and why. The first two videos were by Cerf and the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry Marty Chalfie. Any Slashdotters game for explaining who they are voting for and why?" Still waiting for one of the campaigns to ask for my endorsement, which is totally available to whichever campaign offers me the better cabinet seat.
is a vote 4 the american taliban:-( don't b a palin-drone;-)
Co-inventor of me, concurs. So what?
is another idiot whose "endorsement" matters ZERO. Why does non-news crap like this get posted to /. ? If /. wanted to discuss *real* issues, we'd have a story on the rampant voter fraud, and what the /. community could do to prevent it. Surely, there must be *some* techno ideas out there? Or, are we so totally bankrupt of ideas and fairness that we settle for bogus non-stories like this - and pretend that voter fraud doesn't exist. Give me a break. (Or, do you accept voter fraud so long as it's tilted towards *your* candidate?)
The upside of Endless War is that the more gullible of our rural tax-consuming citizens will offer their lives to a government that doesn't care about them.
The downside is the cost, death and destruction.
But given the 'salt of the earth' I've been hearing at McCain/Palin rallies...which is the lesser of the two weevils?
Blar.
A staggering number of people in this country dont believe results that these scientists / engineers come up with...
So things like cars, telephones, and computers are just a figment of their imagination?
Last year I was convinced he was worse than NIXON.
He's easily worse than HARDING and COOLIDGE.
And I think he just beat BUCHANAN.
He is . . . the Worst President of All Time. Bush talks about the tax and spend Democrats, but he spends like a hallucinating-drunk Democrat. After spending all that money, he--like Obama and McCain--talk about tax cuts. And what does Bush have to show for it? Zipoleum. Any president would look good after him.
McCain would be 76 years old should he finish his term. Palin stands in the wings. This is a time of crisis, and all they chant is Drill, Drill, Drill. Substitute heroin for oil and it makes a pretty picture.
Gotta vote Obama. No real choice.
Ron Paul seconded. Except I will actually vote for McCain since 3rd parties don't stand a chance in our current 2 party system.
Obama tries to come off like a smooth player, but it seems incredibly fake to me. Especially from a guy with basically 0 experience leading. I also don't trust people that never show their angry emotions, they are the ones that statistically have irrational outbursts that often have severe repercussions.
Obama's style of speaking (imho) is heavily modeled after one of histories best and most achieved black speakers, MLK Jr. Hearing Obama speak makes my skin crawl. The more I hear Obama speak the more I think he is positioning himself to become an anti-Christ.
I will vote for someone who understands the NEED for violence and war. I will vote for someone who understands that psychopathic religious fanatics cannot be reasoned with. I will vote for someone who has been a TRUE leader for over a decade.
Got a brain? Vote for McCain!
Ditch the ZERO, vote for the HERO!
We're always hearing Hollywood types telling us who to vote for. Like they have *anything* in common with the rest of us? What a crock.
The sad thing (to be appended to very many sad aspects of this election) that the guy who was supposed to be Conservative, the guy who was supposed to limit government and lower taxes, the guy who was supposed to be the problem SOLVER is against us on the net. Another sad thing is that the alternative will surely tax us into another Jimmy Carter economy of taxing the job-makers and wondering why everyone's out of work.
Obama wants change. Obama has a dark past, and has all the media backing him. He could kill a woman in a car wreck and hide it (like it's done before) and the man would still get elected.
The chief sad thing is, Hitler was the same way; "Don't ask for details, just for for change!"
Sorry guys; it's gonna get hard, soon.
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So you preach,
"Whatever happened to having even the slightest touch of basic human compassion? Is the financial bottom line really THAT important to you, that you cannot fathom spending a few bucks on a fellow human being? Why should the tax payers pay for rape exams you ask? Because it's the fucking decent fucking thing to do, that's why!"
Then in what is truly a show of how tolerant and compassionate you are, you say,
"GAWD! If I ever wished there was a way to stab someone in the face over the internet, now is the time. I hope you die from something painful."
classic how your version of compassion only applies to certain situations.
I don't give a rats ass what his name is. It could litterally be Saddam Hussein and I wouldn't think that would make him a terrorist. The problem is his association with Bill Ayers a unapoligetic terrorist.
And if you follow the argument "He's just a friend, I didn't know he was a terrorist" then he just has the worse judgement known to man.
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
Why should I have to pay for a rape kit for a woman I didn't even get to rape?
McCain will be surrounded by the same cronies Bush is.
McCain does not show any desire to understand technology.
Palin Is a crazy zealot who want's to force her religious into policy.
Let me know when actual republicans take back their party.
Fiscal Conservative, Social Liberal.
Remember Tax and spend is a lot better then Borrow and Spend.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
In 8 years, none of that is going to change regardless of who's president.
Have you looked at the Supreme Court lately? Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas. If McCain get's to pick so much as a single Supreme Court justice Roe v. Wade could be overturned.
What possible reason could there be for making rape the single exception to that rule?
That the rape kits included emergency contraception.
Right, I'm a troll for calling income redistribution "stealing". Armed Robbery is more like it.
Tell me, what do you call taking what doesn't belong to you, under the guise of force, or threat of force?
The BIGGEST problem with Obama's stated goal of income redistribution is that it creates a sense of entitlement, the poor are ENTITLED to money, just because they don't have any.
Please tell me, where am I wrong? Don't just mod me "troll", tell me, what right anyone has to take from anyone else, just because they want something?
Tyranny of the mob isn't an excuse!
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.