I'm going to have to bite the bullet and write a "me too" post here. I recently was exposed to the joy that is FreeBSD on the desktop. It is certainly more work to set up than your average friendly Linux distro, but once you do, IT ZOOMS. KDE 3 under FreeBSD 4.7 Stable is hella fast on my PIII 733MHz...it absolutely roars compared to KDE 3 under Red Hat 7.3. And this was before anyone could get to tuning things specifically for PIII.
The beauty of the FreeBSD codebase is how tight and fast it is. You can run it on a 486 and it doesn't struggle half as much as Linux on such a platform. You can run it on up-to-date hardware too, and it just feels like the difference between an SUV and a sportscar.
I have been involved in an effort to create a distro specifically for older computers. That's what the link to the Kawaii Project is all about. Originally the idea was Kawaii Linux, but the versatility and power of FreeBSD has opened my eyes to a potential alternative code base that could not only create a decent Open operating system for rescued old computers, but also an Open desktop operating system which could run the gamut from i486 to the fastest P4/Athlon machines.
Certainly Apple has proved that a desktop OS with a BSD under the hood is not only doable, but a great choice. Why should x86 users miss out on the fun? It's a great operating system which only needs some prettying up and simplification to be a contender on the desktop. The Kawaii Project hasn't officially decided on FreeBSD as the codebase for the project, but let's just say it's a very strong possibility that will be the way we'll go.
It's very early on yet, but here's the link: http://www.kawaiiproject.org/. BSD-heads who want in on a desktop project are encouraged to contribute ideas.
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"Is BSD dying?"
How interesting you'd bring this up in an article about MacOS X, of all places. MacOS X is living proof that BSD is emphatically NOT dying. What's under the hood? Darwin, a full-blooded BSD descendent.
If you want to run a xNIX on a G3 or lower run Yellow Dog Linux, DebianPPC or any of the other alternative free OSes that are out there. Yellow Dog installs easier and is a bit friendlier to dual boot with Classic MacOS, but Debian's a good choice if you're geekier. My G3 blue-and-white will get the dual-boot treatment eventually. I have no illusions of ever getting Jag-wire to run on it...350MHz and no Altivec/Velocity Engine/Whatever IBM calls it means no way, d00d, not even crammed with 1GB RAM.
However, during the latter part of the Spindler era, some truly god-awful PPC Performas came out. This poisoned the Performa name. I'm not sure if Steve killed the Performa designation or his immediate predecessor, but by the time it was killed nobody took the Performa seriously anymore and nobody shed tears over the designation's demise.
Desktop motherboards that can accept chips designed for laptops. Intel's Banias chip is going to smoke all the benchmarks for P4s megahertz for megahertz, and it's actually based on the PIII core.And it's going to do it for less power consumption and it will give off less heat.
There will probably be a point where mini-boxen and laptops will converge. I actually prefer the mini-box plus separate LCD screen solution because it allows for a lot more bang for the buck, plus portability. You can't use it on a plane or a train but that's fine with me...I'd rather keep the money in my pocket.
It will be interesting to see what VIA does too with the Centaur lineage chips. They might have an interesting (and cheap) laptop chip up their sleeve...
Cuts a window in it and puts KEWL FLASHING NEON LIGHTS INSIDE! W00t!
Neuters it but gives it NEUTICLES so it won't know that it's been altered!
Enters it in the swimming competition on Techno Games!
Runs it for President in 2004!
Remembers that Sony is still a member of the RIAA and MPAA so they take it back to Fry's where they give no questions asked refunds for up to 30 days after purchase!
(Had to find an imaginative way of driving that point home yet again...I'm almost as bad as that Roman Senator who always would add "Carthage must be destroyed" to every speech he gave...)
Wh00t, the page is being slashdotted!
The link is listed on the frontpage of slashdot.org
Server won't like all this traffic, i'm working on it!
We did it again...
Although I wonder one thing...is today the "Sony is kewl, check out this bright shiny Sony object" day, or is this the "Sony is an evil member of the RIAA and the MPAA" day and we just forgot the schedule?:P
VIA is also not in the TCPA alliance. Maybe their CPUs are weak tea now, but the roadmap for the CIII architecture and beyond suggests that it can be extended and enhanced well beyond its current capabilities.
Very impressive. All you schmucks who are drooling on and on with your anti-Islam, anti-Pakistani statements are really pissing me off. These guys basically took monitors and video cards that would normally be consigned to dumpsters here and turning them into a pretty amazing video wall. So, they have yet to put the guts of the monitors into cases that would allow closer placement of the CRTs. Big whoop. That's just a matter of time and materials. Any idiot can physically mod a case, be it a PC case or a CRT case.
Props for a very cool experiment, guys. Don't let the trolls grind you down.
There are a lot of people rooting for Microsoft. The people who root against them are the same as people who rooted for the beating of Reginald Denny.
OK Anonymous Retard, listen up. I live in LA and was watching in abject horror in 1992 as Reginald Denny was beaten by a group of thugs. I didn't like the verdict but the riots were inexcusable.
As far as the starving retirees, widows and orphans who might be inconvenienced by an adverse verdict against a very deserving Microsoft: there was ample warning that MS had done something wrong, they could suggest to their broker to put them into something that did not contain the offensive stock. There were literally YEARS to prepare for this moment. Besides, anyone who didn't get out of tech stocks in 2000 was a fool.
Besides, all indications are that MS will only get a slap on the wrist and a half-hearted "don't DO that!" They 0wn the Department of Justice. Who's to say they haven't already bought and paid for a favorable verdict here too?
Spumco Studios did more for Flash as art form than anyone.
"Weekend Pussy Hunt," "The Goddamn George Liquor Show"...great fsckn stuff. Only people in their league was Camp Chaos, famous for "Napster Bad!" and "This Thing Of Ours" which was The Sopranos before The Sopranos were The Sopranos. I think they're still around: http://www.campchaos.com/
Spumco now have the happy situation of being busy with two different projects, "The Ripping Friends" and the revival of "The Ren & Stimpy Show" so they can't really spend much more time doing online cartoons anymore. Their website isn't even up anymore, alas. But the prospect of more Ren & Stimpy episodes and more Ripping Friends episodes makes their web silence bearable.
Spumco contributed a lot of ideas to Macromedia during the evolution of the Flash product. Whether that's a good thing or not depends on what you think about Flash. But many of the improvements in the program during its evolution are directly traceable to feedback from Spumco.
I have these pointing devices on most of my computers here at Catseye Labs. Logitech Marble Mouse. Trackball centered at the top, with buttons on either side. Very, very comfy. Usable by lefties and righties. Easy to clean...just a wipe will do.
Note that the link does not have any affiliation attached to it...mouse over it and see. I just grabbed the first link to this pointing device I saw on Google. Yeah these buggers cost more than the Fry's $5 Special but I'm cool with that. Worth every penny.
The trouble is, Berman might as well be running unopposed. His Republican opponent, David Hernandez, would rather be Mayor of the new City of the San Fernando Valley, and is spending most of his money on the race. His Libertarian opponent, Kelley Ross, doesn't stand a chance.
I'm going to be voting for Hernandez only because I have met with him, he seems like a decent enough bloke, he's a "McCain Republican" who also cut his political teeth with Cesar Chavez, and he's also against the Berman Bill. But I do not hold much hope out for him to have any effect. Just look at the tale of the tape, courtesy of Opensecrets.Org. Hernandez has exactly zero in his war chest, Berman has almost $1 Million left. And guess where most of that comes from? Well take a wild flying guess, folks. Viacom and Walt Disney are his two biggest contributors.
No matter what we do at this late date, Berman will be back, just like the freakin' Terminator, next Congress. And after the election, he won't be as kindly bent to take outside input on his precious P2P hax0r bill.
I got one of the post-lawsuit AD-1200s. Can't play VCDs, won't play VCDs. Thanks a bunch, Philips! Philips owns the patent on the VCD process...anyone remember CD-I? That's the origins of VCD. Philips got ticked at Apex and forced them to remove VCD compatibility. They never bothered to license it from them, oh well...
I can do you one better. We have a car that was developed jointly by Chevrolet and Toyota, and assembled in Fremont, CA, US. It is basically an '86 Toyota Corolla with Chevy badging. Ugly little car with a weird beige paint job, but damn, it runs and runs and runs. The original sticker says that it does 25MPG in stop-and-go city driving and 30MPG on the highway. It still maintains that kind of fuel economy today, 16 years later.
Shows you what a little cooperation can do...
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Look. My personal experiences when I have had dealings with Rollins have all been good. I live in LA and was active in the punk rock scene here for quite some time. My husband was on SST Records around the time of the last Flag albums. Remember a band called Zoogz Rift and His Amazing Shitheads? Remember Zoogz' then-drummer, Richie Hass? OK. That's my husband. I was writing for some local music rags around this time, you might remember the byline of one Michelle Klein. That's me. I'm now known IRL as Michelle Klein-Hass. Richie's now working with another former SST band, Saccharine Trust. http://www.saccharinetrust.com/.
While Greg Ginn turned out to be a complete twit, Rollins has been nothing less than honorable any time I've had dealings with him. Same with Chuck Dukowski, who played bass with Black Flag and SWA and is now doing punk avant-garde music with the Chuck Dukowski Sextet and rock with Fish Camp.
My fondest memory of Rollins was at Be-Bop Records and Fine Art in Reseda, CA. Rollins was headlining with his spoken-word thing and Paper Bag was the opening act. While M. Segal, drummer/percussionist for Paper Bag, was hauling his stuff in and setting up, Rollins was taking care of Segal's young son Mathew, who was at that point 1 year old. This was no lunkhead jock standing there making sure that kid was OK and didn't get in the way of the band setting up. I understand now that Rollins has kids of his own now and suspect he's a really good father to them.
In regards to some of the things he's said in his writings...man, do you have any sense of IRONY? Do you think that every freakin' thing the man writes he takes 100% seriously? Come on! That's like saying Edgar Allen Poe really wanted to be a serial killer because he wrote "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Tell-Tale Heart." Christ, dude, grow a brain.
Buying both Crossover Office and Crossover Plugin will set you back, in total, almost $99. KDE 2.2.2 has seen some improvements recently, many of them given back by Lycoris. I have a great way of thinking about Xandros. Think of it as a braindead simple way of getting Debian and both Crossover Office and Crossover Plugin in the bargain.
Of course, if Xandros is trying to pull the same Lindows crap and charge $99/year "subscription"...then screw that, I'll wait for Debian to put out 3.0 with the Progeny installer.:-P At least with Lycoris' "Iris" simple software installer it costs you only $20 per seat, forever.
These are NOTORIOUS for their tendency to burn out at the drop of a hat. However, both Sparkle and PC Power And Cooling make 145W and 180W (the latter is AMD certified) power supplies that are direct replacements for the SFX-L power supply included in the system.
EMachines are not necessarily bad machines. They just have cheap-ass power supplies and also cheap-ass hard drives. Replacing both when the machine is brand-new is a must if you want one to last for more than a few months.
That guy is a complete muscleheaded retard. He's not an engineer. He doesn't know shit about shit. He's perhaps the least qualified person I can imagine to be providing commentary on this type of a show. Remember Carmen Elektra's out-of-place cluelessness on Battlebots? Same deal here, except who wants to look at some 40+ man with some old, dumb tattoos, grecian formula hair treatment, and a jock attitude?!?
I KNOW Henry Rollins. It is obvious that you are an idiot troll and are also totally clueless about Rollins and his work. Rollins is NOT a, quote: "muscleheaded retard". In fact, he is one of the most intelligent and sensitive individuals I have ever met.
Is a person who not only is physically but mentally fit, in spite of being 40, an impossibility? Were you dropped on your head a few too many times by jocks in High School?
Why don't you sit down and actually WATCH some footage of Rollins doing his spoken-word stuff? Someone dubbed him a "Stand-up Poet" and that's actually pretty close to the mark. He's FUNNY. He's clever. He's sensitive, amazingly enough.
I also know I'm being trolled, that I've lost, and I should have a nice day. But man, when someone who is of your acquaintance who you know to NOT be a "muscleheaded retard", you have to respond. Rollins is a national treasure. I'm glad he's successful. You, sir, are obviously jealous of his status.
If you used Sam Spade or something like that you would prolly find that the IP address that Eudora is going to is at Qualcomm and that all it's doing is sucking down more ad banners. Opera does the same thing. Not a serious problem. Eudora's privacy policies are golden. Eudora is pretty Opera-like on that score. If you are really concerned don't run it. I pick my privacy battles and with truly evil schtuff like Doubleclick and Kazaa out there Eudora and Opera don't seem like a big deal.
OK. I live here in Panorama City, CA, USA, in the heart of the San Fernando Valley. My congressman is Howard Berman, the author of the infamous "Berman Bill." My senators are Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. All three are massively 0wn3d by the RIAA & MPAA. What a predicament I'm in!
Berman is standing for re-election this election. He might as well be running unopposed like another congressman in a neighboring district is. David Hernandez, the Republican in the race, would rather be Mayor of the City of the San Fernando Valley than Congressman for the 28th Congressional District of California. The Libertarian is serious about it but he's not really competitive. Basically Berman will be in whether I vote Libertarian, Republican or write in Lawrence Lessig in protest.
When Feinstein and Boxer come up for re-election, I'm really faced with a painful choice. Both are women. Both are people whose views, outside the Intellectual Property arena, are pretty much views I share. But because they are gunning for my industry and paid lap dogs of people who want to seize our computers and place us behind glorified XBoxen, I am going to have to vote against them.
This is a nightmare, folks. Unfortunately Zoe Lofgren and Rick Boucher don't represent me. These chuckleheads do. Pity me.
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Oddly enough this is precisely the tack that the main developer on this project is suggesting. Stay tuned.
The beauty of the FreeBSD codebase is how tight and fast it is. You can run it on a 486 and it doesn't struggle half as much as Linux on such a platform. You can run it on up-to-date hardware too, and it just feels like the difference between an SUV and a sportscar.
I have been involved in an effort to create a distro specifically for older computers. That's what the link to the Kawaii Project is all about. Originally the idea was Kawaii Linux, but the versatility and power of FreeBSD has opened my eyes to a potential alternative code base that could not only create a decent Open operating system for rescued old computers, but also an Open desktop operating system which could run the gamut from i486 to the fastest P4/Athlon machines.
Certainly Apple has proved that a desktop OS with a BSD under the hood is not only doable, but a great choice. Why should x86 users miss out on the fun? It's a great operating system which only needs some prettying up and simplification to be a contender on the desktop. The Kawaii Project hasn't officially decided on FreeBSD as the codebase for the project, but let's just say it's a very strong possibility that will be the way we'll go.
It's very early on yet, but here's the link: http://www.kawaiiproject.org/. BSD-heads who want in on a desktop project are encouraged to contribute ideas.
How interesting you'd bring this up in an article about MacOS X, of all places. MacOS X is living proof that BSD is emphatically NOT dying. What's under the hood? Darwin, a full-blooded BSD descendent.
BSD dying? You wish.
If you want to run a xNIX on a G3 or lower run Yellow Dog Linux, DebianPPC or any of the other alternative free OSes that are out there. Yellow Dog installs easier and is a bit friendlier to dual boot with Classic MacOS, but Debian's a good choice if you're geekier. My G3 blue-and-white will get the dual-boot treatment eventually. I have no illusions of ever getting Jag-wire to run on it...350MHz and no Altivec/Velocity Engine/Whatever IBM calls it means no way, d00d, not even crammed with 1GB RAM.
However, during the latter part of the Spindler era, some truly god-awful PPC Performas came out. This poisoned the Performa name. I'm not sure if Steve killed the Performa designation or his immediate predecessor, but by the time it was killed nobody took the Performa seriously anymore and nobody shed tears over the designation's demise.
Actually there were a few Performas that kicked serious ass in their day. Gotta love that low-slung case. Vroom.
Desktop motherboards that can accept chips designed for laptops. Intel's Banias chip is going to smoke all the benchmarks for P4s megahertz for megahertz, and it's actually based on the PIII core.And it's going to do it for less power consumption and it will give off less heat.
There will probably be a point where mini-boxen and laptops will converge. I actually prefer the mini-box plus separate LCD screen solution because it allows for a lot more bang for the buck, plus portability. You can't use it on a plane or a train but that's fine with me...I'd rather keep the money in my pocket.
It will be interesting to see what VIA does too with the Centaur lineage chips. They might have an interesting (and cheap) laptop chip up their sleeve...
(Had to find an imaginative way of driving that point home yet again...I'm almost as bad as that Roman Senator who always would add "Carthage must be destroyed" to every speech he gave...)
We did it again...
Although I wonder one thing...is today the "Sony is kewl, check out this bright shiny Sony object" day, or is this the "Sony is an evil member of the RIAA and the MPAA" day and we just forgot the schedule? :P
VIA is also not in the TCPA alliance. Maybe their CPUs are weak tea now, but the roadmap for the CIII architecture and beyond suggests that it can be extended and enhanced well beyond its current capabilities.
Very impressive. All you schmucks who are drooling on and on with your anti-Islam, anti-Pakistani statements are really pissing me off. These guys basically took monitors and video cards that would normally be consigned to dumpsters here and turning them into a pretty amazing video wall. So, they have yet to put the guts of the monitors into cases that would allow closer placement of the CRTs. Big whoop. That's just a matter of time and materials. Any idiot can physically mod a case, be it a PC case or a CRT case.
Props for a very cool experiment, guys. Don't let the trolls grind you down.
OK Anonymous Retard, listen up. I live in LA and was watching in abject horror in 1992 as Reginald Denny was beaten by a group of thugs. I didn't like the verdict but the riots were inexcusable.
As far as the starving retirees, widows and orphans who might be inconvenienced by an adverse verdict against a very deserving Microsoft: there was ample warning that MS had done something wrong, they could suggest to their broker to put them into something that did not contain the offensive stock. There were literally YEARS to prepare for this moment. Besides, anyone who didn't get out of tech stocks in 2000 was a fool.
Besides, all indications are that MS will only get a slap on the wrist and a half-hearted "don't DO that!" They 0wn the Department of Justice. Who's to say they haven't already bought and paid for a favorable verdict here too?
Spumco Studios did more for Flash as art form than anyone. "Weekend Pussy Hunt," "The Goddamn George Liquor Show"...great fsckn stuff. Only people in their league was Camp Chaos, famous for "Napster Bad!" and "This Thing Of Ours" which was The Sopranos before The Sopranos were The Sopranos. I think they're still around: http://www.campchaos.com/
Spumco now have the happy situation of being busy with two different projects, "The Ripping Friends" and the revival of "The Ren & Stimpy Show" so they can't really spend much more time doing online cartoons anymore. Their website isn't even up anymore, alas. But the prospect of more Ren & Stimpy episodes and more Ripping Friends episodes makes their web silence bearable.
Spumco contributed a lot of ideas to Macromedia during the evolution of the Flash product. Whether that's a good thing or not depends on what you think about Flash. But many of the improvements in the program during its evolution are directly traceable to feedback from Spumco.
ROBO MOD TIME!!! Just add some neon and a few windows...d00d! /\/\y 31337 m0dd3d r0b0t r0x0rz!!!!
Now to add water cooling and overclock that sucka...
Note that the link does not have any affiliation attached to it...mouse over it and see. I just grabbed the first link to this pointing device I saw on Google. Yeah these buggers cost more than the Fry's $5 Special but I'm cool with that. Worth every penny.
I'm going to be voting for Hernandez only because I have met with him, he seems like a decent enough bloke, he's a "McCain Republican" who also cut his political teeth with Cesar Chavez, and he's also against the Berman Bill. But I do not hold much hope out for him to have any effect. Just look at the tale of the tape, courtesy of Opensecrets.Org. Hernandez has exactly zero in his war chest, Berman has almost $1 Million left. And guess where most of that comes from? Well take a wild flying guess, folks. Viacom and Walt Disney are his two biggest contributors.
No matter what we do at this late date, Berman will be back, just like the freakin' Terminator, next Congress. And after the election, he won't be as kindly bent to take outside input on his precious P2P hax0r bill.
I got one of the post-lawsuit AD-1200s. Can't play VCDs, won't play VCDs. Thanks a bunch, Philips! Philips owns the patent on the VCD process...anyone remember CD-I? That's the origins of VCD. Philips got ticked at Apex and forced them to remove VCD compatibility. They never bothered to license it from them, oh well...
...I suppose today is "ooh! Sony's cool!" day.
TOMORROW must be "Sony is an evil member of the RIAA and the MPAA" day.
Silly me, I thought Sony was a member of the RIAA and the MPAA, with all that implies, 24 x 7 x 365...
I can do you one better. We have a car that was developed jointly by Chevrolet and Toyota, and assembled in Fremont, CA, US. It is basically an '86 Toyota Corolla with Chevy badging. Ugly little car with a weird beige paint job, but damn, it runs and runs and runs. The original sticker says that it does 25MPG in stop-and-go city driving and 30MPG on the highway. It still maintains that kind of fuel economy today, 16 years later.
Shows you what a little cooperation can do...
As far as I know apt-get is in Xandros too...
While Greg Ginn turned out to be a complete twit, Rollins has been nothing less than honorable any time I've had dealings with him. Same with Chuck Dukowski, who played bass with Black Flag and SWA and is now doing punk avant-garde music with the Chuck Dukowski Sextet and rock with Fish Camp.
My fondest memory of Rollins was at Be-Bop Records and Fine Art in Reseda, CA. Rollins was headlining with his spoken-word thing and Paper Bag was the opening act. While M. Segal, drummer/percussionist for Paper Bag, was hauling his stuff in and setting up, Rollins was taking care of Segal's young son Mathew, who was at that point 1 year old. This was no lunkhead jock standing there making sure that kid was OK and didn't get in the way of the band setting up. I understand now that Rollins has kids of his own now and suspect he's a really good father to them.
In regards to some of the things he's said in his writings...man, do you have any sense of IRONY? Do you think that every freakin' thing the man writes he takes 100% seriously? Come on! That's like saying Edgar Allen Poe really wanted to be a serial killer because he wrote "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Tell-Tale Heart." Christ, dude, grow a brain.
Buying both Crossover Office and Crossover Plugin will set you back, in total, almost $99. KDE 2.2.2 has seen some improvements recently, many of them given back by Lycoris. I have a great way of thinking about Xandros. Think of it as a braindead simple way of getting Debian and both Crossover Office and Crossover Plugin in the bargain.
:-P At least with Lycoris' "Iris" simple software installer it costs you only $20 per seat, forever.
Of course, if Xandros is trying to pull the same Lindows crap and charge $99/year "subscription"...then screw that, I'll wait for Debian to put out 3.0 with the Progeny installer.
These are NOTORIOUS for their tendency to burn out at the drop of a hat. However, both Sparkle and PC Power And Cooling make 145W and 180W (the latter is AMD certified) power supplies that are direct replacements for the SFX-L power supply included in the system.
EMachines are not necessarily bad machines. They just have cheap-ass power supplies and also cheap-ass hard drives. Replacing both when the machine is brand-new is a must if you want one to last for more than a few months.
I KNOW Henry Rollins. It is obvious that you are an idiot troll and are also totally clueless about Rollins and his work. Rollins is NOT a, quote: "muscleheaded retard". In fact, he is one of the most intelligent and sensitive individuals I have ever met.
Is a person who not only is physically but mentally fit, in spite of being 40, an impossibility? Were you dropped on your head a few too many times by jocks in High School?
Why don't you sit down and actually WATCH some footage of Rollins doing his spoken-word stuff? Someone dubbed him a "Stand-up Poet" and that's actually pretty close to the mark. He's FUNNY. He's clever. He's sensitive, amazingly enough.
I also know I'm being trolled, that I've lost, and I should have a nice day. But man, when someone who is of your acquaintance who you know to NOT be a "muscleheaded retard", you have to respond. Rollins is a national treasure. I'm glad he's successful. You, sir, are obviously jealous of his status.
If you used Sam Spade or something like that you would prolly find that the IP address that Eudora is going to is at Qualcomm and that all it's doing is sucking down more ad banners. Opera does the same thing. Not a serious problem. Eudora's privacy policies are golden. Eudora is pretty Opera-like on that score. If you are really concerned don't run it. I pick my privacy battles and with truly evil schtuff like Doubleclick and Kazaa out there Eudora and Opera don't seem like a big deal.
OK. I live here in Panorama City, CA, USA, in the heart of the San Fernando Valley. My congressman is Howard Berman, the author of the infamous "Berman Bill." My senators are Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. All three are massively 0wn3d by the RIAA & MPAA. What a predicament I'm in!
Berman is standing for re-election this election. He might as well be running unopposed like another congressman in a neighboring district is. David Hernandez, the Republican in the race, would rather be Mayor of the City of the San Fernando Valley than Congressman for the 28th Congressional District of California. The Libertarian is serious about it but he's not really competitive. Basically Berman will be in whether I vote Libertarian, Republican or write in Lawrence Lessig in protest.
When Feinstein and Boxer come up for re-election, I'm really faced with a painful choice. Both are women. Both are people whose views, outside the Intellectual Property arena, are pretty much views I share. But because they are gunning for my industry and paid lap dogs of people who want to seize our computers and place us behind glorified XBoxen, I am going to have to vote against them.
This is a nightmare, folks. Unfortunately Zoe Lofgren and Rick Boucher don't represent me. These chuckleheads do. Pity me.