When Bush asked for help, he told us to shop. And the majority of Americans did so. Outside of that, I can't think of a single thing Bush asked us to do.
Do all the finger pointing you want. Here are links to specific policy initiatives on Obama's website. It will be easier for you to keep saying that Obama has no plans if you don't read them, however.
No. As much as people tried to pretend that Obama was just running on "hope" and rhetoric, he has specific policy goals that he keeps outlining. Here's where he reiterated them again in last night's acceptance speech:
"You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime - two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair."
Those are his policy priorities that he's been reiterating. If your nightmares line up with those, congratulations! If not, sorry that your nightmare fixing guy didn't win. I'd recommend helping Obama achieve those goals and win again, then maybe next term he can work on your nightmares.
Will change mean that I am not called a racist if I disagree with Obama? Yes. Although if you use a racial slur when disagreeing wiht Obama you will still be regarded as a racist.
Will change mean that slavery is now something that can finally be put to bed 145 years after it ended? Yes. There will always be some people who will complain, but for the majority of Americans slavery already had been put to bed.
Will change mean that people can have a rabid hatred of Obama as people had of Bush and still be free? Yes.
Will change mean that people with little money will have more money? Dunno. Hopefully.
With change my conservative values will that make me a target of hate? I have no clue why people would hate you more than they used to. Maybe less since they won't necessarily immediately equate your with Bush.
Will change mean the majority be sensitive to my beliefs and values? Yes. Because they're Democrats. This is part of our platform. We're a bit more like Jesus in that we do our best to turn the other cheek and overcome pettiness. We don't always achieve that, but we try. Even after decades of Republicans doing everything in their power to take away our rights and diminish our beliefs, we still don't believe in doing that to others. But I'll be honest. If your beliefs include the belief that you have the right to discriminate against others, there may be laws passed that you disagree with.
Will change mean nothing has really changed but people are now happy Europe is not mad at us any more? Obama will be a great diplomatic force in that he can speak to people in a way that brings them together. Bush divided, and Obama's victory last night seems to proove that he can unite. That said Obama is still a fairly right-wing politician by European standards so I doubt they'll suddenly be happy with everything we do. Most Americans realize that how the rest of the world views us has a direct impact on people wanting to blow us up and so it behooves us to play nice.
Will change mean that our troops will be not be forgotten. I can guarantee it.
Will change mean that government will not take over our 401k, healthcare, car payments, house payments, freedom? 401k - no. this is a very popular program.
healthcare - potentially, but it already is the biggest insurer in the country, and this is where our country is going. This was a massive issue in this election.
car payments - I have never heard a Democrat mention anything about car payments.
house payments - hopefully they'll have the stomach for real change, rather than bailing out homeowners but I don't know if that's possible. Politicians are beholden to their constituents. I think Republican or Democrat you can't have your constituents loosing their homes.
freedom - I'm hoping that most of Bush's egregious stomping on the constitution will be rolled back, but I worry about this too. I didn't want Bush to have that power not just because Bush was a religious zealot with an almost uncanny ability to make the wrong decision. I didn't want the President to have that power because I knew that once the door was opened it would be very hard to roll back. That said, I think you can rest assured that Obama will not restrict our freedom more than Bush has already done. That speaks more to Bush than to any faith I have in Obama, however.
I think that Obama has more than enough to do in trying to fix our financial markets, slow global warming, and fix our health care system. I doubt he'll have time for some of your personal nightmares.
Many people have said this, but delivering software on a hardware platform is delivering it. This is why we have source code for things like the linux running on Linksys routers. The routers are mean to be as locked up as a voting machine, but because of the GPL they are forced to distribute the source.
My guess is that someone stole that laptop to pawn. I don't know why the Obama campaign with their huge lead would feel the need to start stealing laptops at this point. I realize their are always people who get a little too wrapped up in their campaigns, but still...
I should have been more clear. I was commenting on the fact that currently nuclear waste just piles up at the reactor sites because the US Federal Government hasn't been able to get Yucca Mountain cleared. I.e. we have places we *can* store nuclear waste, but we don't have places we *may* store it.
"Environmentalists don't care where Coal, Gas, or Oil waste goes"
Wow. That's one of the most stunningly ignorant statements I've read in a long time. Seriously. Almost every environmental political and legal group is constantly working on issues related to air-pollution from power plants.
You are right in that it's hypocritical to have higher standards for nuclear power than the other power sources. But I'd prefer to bring our standards up, rather than lower nuclear's standards to that of coal. The way most coal powered plants are run it'd look like Chernobyl around the plant, and they'd store the waste in big piles out in the open.
The amount of high-quality useful uranium is unknown and I find both sides reporting on the amount to be highly suspect. The model, however, is very similar to oil in that we can probably keep recovering it in more and more expensive manners as the price of it goes up (thus where the "nearly-unlimited" supply comes from). But how much is there that is equivalent in price to coal, oil, wind, or solar?
Nuclear power is simple economics. It will start making political sense once the lower cost outweighs the publics fears. What's that cost? I don't know but it's significantly higher than the cost of oil currently, and the fact that we have very promising solar and wind technologies makes it very high indeed.
Um... have we managed to find a place to store nuclear waste? Have we uncovered an unlimited trove of radioactive material? Most intelligent people realize that a change is coming where we're going to have to move away from the oil economy. Oil is finite. Do we really want to spend all our time and money on building infrastructure that's also non-renewable? Nuclear is a lot of money and risk for a non-renewable energy source.
That said, will we add more nuclear as we move away from oil? More than likely. Should it be a goal? No. It's unsustainable.
They're probably just telling you the line about work experience to be nice. Do you have any pertinent work experience besides your degree? Are you passing their technical questions? I started out doing tech support and it has always been seen as something employers WANT. They want to know that you're going to be willing to jump in and fix your bugs. They want to know that you understand the steps to take when troubleshooting a problem.
Do you have any outside projects? Have you ever written anything that wasn't required for class?
A good example is that the Republican party is generally identified as the party of small government. In recent history under Republicans the government has grown larger, and under Democrats it has grown smaller. But this doesn't change the fundamental fact that Republicans believe a smaller government is more efficient. Just because Republicans are unable to actually achieve their goals of smaller government, doesn't mean this isn't what the party members actually believe or are striving to attain.
So if you believe in a small government you can still vote Republican because they share your belief in small government. They just suck at execution. There's no ideological disconnect there, even if Democrats (and I am one) would often like to call it "lying" or "dishonest".
And I'm just using the Republicans as an example here because I find it easier to see the speck in my neighbors eye...
Thank goodness coal is a renewable resource! Oh wait...
While this is an ok stopgap, and we should make all of our current coal plants clean coal plants (after all if we can make them clean why would want to breath that crap), it doesn't solve the problem that with ever increasing energy needs we need renewable forms of energy or we're going to quickly run out.
I don't believe the airline industry is as bad as the tobacco industry (the existence of this book notwithstanding). But that still doesn't mean that airline travel is something that we are going to have to analyze as the price of fossil fuels go up and the environment becomes less stable. NASA might build the most environmentally conscious rockets possible, but as long as they use fossil fuels they'll probably be harmful to the environment.
Whether you view the world through the prism of "we are running out of fossil fuel" or "the environment is destabilizing" (discounting those who think everything is fine), you have to admit that our transportation options are going to have to change and widen. We're especially going to need electric high speed train links between cities if we're going to have enough fossil fuels for trans-oceanic airline flights.
This review is still bogus though. They should be comparing diesel city buses to regional carrier aircraft, or high speed trains and aircraft. Comparing every person on a flight driving an SUV alone 1000 miles vs. taking a jumbo jet might get close to similar gas mileage, but it doesn't take into account that an airplane is mass transit.
And what is this doing on slashdot anyway? Does slashdot have some sort of fairness doctrine for global warming deniers?
Sure. We weed people out with them. But it's also a way to get a code sample that we know was written by the applicant. I don't think every person works well on every dev team. Some people absolutely won't change the way they indent. Some use very interesting forms of logic. I learn far more about what it would be like to work with an applicant from their coding test than from talking to them about why they're leaving their current job or what an interface is.
They do realize that they would have only sold like 10 of these things if they required people to buy Nike shoes with them, right?
Nike doesn't make running shoes in my size. And I'm a jogger and a Nike+ user. Well I was until my sweat short circuited the Nike+ sensor. Apple needs to think about things like water resistance in these things. Did the Nike 10k last week and there were probably only 10% Nike shoes. Nike isn't that popular with runners.
It's not that great of a product. But the price ($30) is unbeatable. If you have to buy shoes with it the price is quite beatable by better tech on the market.
I can only hope this is a beginning of a return of regulation to t he markets, and will help foster a truly competitive marketplace. Breaking up all these cartels will be great for the flounder US economy.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no TV under 2 and limited under 3. So, I guess the censorship is interesting, but we decide people can't handle certain levels of violence, sex, or language on TV. Makes more sense to ban the baby shows in my opinion. There's a lot of hard evidence there.
I work from home 3 days a week. Go into the office 2 days a week. Because I'm programmer it's pretty easy to tell if I get my work done. I got this arrangement because they decided to move my office somewhere the bus doesn't go.
I also develop software and hardware that helps IT staffs work remotely. There are ways to hit the power button remotely you know. Wiring on the other hand is more difficult.
You may have said it before, but it doesn't make it true. What is the difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen? Until they've been convicted in a court of law, nothing.
You're going to need to explain further how the fourth amendment doesn't cover spying.
I agree that the issue of blackbox voting machines should not be made into a partisan issue. On the other hand the issue of Diebold voting machines being a partisan issue was cemented when the CEO of Diebold said in a fundraising letter that he was committed to delvering Ohio for President Bush. It may have been the most ridiculously stupid comment ever, but it definitely had the effect of making the issue partisan.
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When Bush asked for help, he told us to shop. And the majority of Americans did so. Outside of that, I can't think of a single thing Bush asked us to do.
Do all the finger pointing you want. Here are links to specific policy initiatives on Obama's website. It will be easier for you to keep saying that Obama has no plans if you don't read them, however.
The Economy:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/economy/index.php
Education:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/education/index.php
Energy:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/newenergy
Ethics:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/ethics/index.php
Foreign Policy:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/foreign_policy/index.php
Etc, etc. I'm bored of copying and pasting links. You can find the rest here:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
I see more than enough specific policy initiates to keep he and the Democratic congress working for at least 4 years.
The issue becomes a little more complex when it's an Internet cafe equally owned by the people of California.
No. As much as people tried to pretend that Obama was just running on "hope" and rhetoric, he has specific policy goals that he keeps outlining. Here's where he reiterated them again in last night's acceptance speech:
"You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime - two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair."
Those are his policy priorities that he's been reiterating. If your nightmares line up with those, congratulations! If not, sorry that your nightmare fixing guy didn't win. I'd recommend helping Obama achieve those goals and win again, then maybe next term he can work on your nightmares.
Will change mean that I am not called a racist if I disagree with Obama?
Yes. Although if you use a racial slur when disagreeing wiht Obama you will still be regarded as a racist.
Will change mean that slavery is now something that can finally be put to bed 145 years after it ended?
Yes. There will always be some people who will complain, but for the majority of Americans slavery already had been put to bed.
Will change mean that people can have a rabid hatred of Obama as people had of Bush and still be free?
Yes.
Will change mean that people with little money will have more money?
Dunno. Hopefully.
With change my conservative values will that make me a target of hate?
I have no clue why people would hate you more than they used to. Maybe less since they won't necessarily immediately equate your with Bush.
Will change mean the majority be sensitive to my beliefs and values?
Yes. Because they're Democrats. This is part of our platform. We're a bit more like Jesus in that we do our best to turn the other cheek and overcome pettiness. We don't always achieve that, but we try. Even after decades of Republicans doing everything in their power to take away our rights and diminish our beliefs, we still don't believe in doing that to others.
But I'll be honest. If your beliefs include the belief that you have the right to discriminate against others, there may be laws passed that you disagree with.
Will change mean nothing has really changed but people are now happy Europe is not mad at us any more?
Obama will be a great diplomatic force in that he can speak to people in a way that brings them together. Bush divided, and Obama's victory last night seems to proove that he can unite. That said Obama is still a fairly right-wing politician by European standards so I doubt they'll suddenly be happy with everything we do. Most Americans realize that how the rest of the world views us has a direct impact on people wanting to blow us up and so it behooves us to play nice.
Will change mean that our troops will be not be forgotten.
I can guarantee it.
Will change mean that government will not take over our 401k, healthcare, car payments, house payments, freedom?
401k - no. this is a very popular program.
healthcare - potentially, but it already is the biggest insurer in the country, and this is where our country is going. This was a massive issue in this election.
car payments - I have never heard a Democrat mention anything about car payments.
house payments - hopefully they'll have the stomach for real change, rather than bailing out homeowners but I don't know if that's possible. Politicians are beholden to their constituents. I think Republican or Democrat you can't have your constituents loosing their homes.
freedom - I'm hoping that most of Bush's egregious stomping on the constitution will be rolled back, but I worry about this too. I didn't want Bush to have that power not just because Bush was a religious zealot with an almost uncanny ability to make the wrong decision. I didn't want the President to have that power because I knew that once the door was opened it would be very hard to roll back. That said, I think you can rest assured that Obama will not restrict our freedom more than Bush has already done. That speaks more to Bush than to any faith I have in Obama, however.
I think that Obama has more than enough to do in trying to fix our financial markets, slow global warming, and fix our health care system. I doubt he'll have time for some of your personal nightmares.
Many people have said this, but delivering software on a hardware platform is delivering it. This is why we have source code for things like the linux running on Linksys routers. The routers are mean to be as locked up as a voting machine, but because of the GPL they are forced to distribute the source.
My guess is that someone stole that laptop to pawn. I don't know why the Obama campaign with their huge lead would feel the need to start stealing laptops at this point. I realize their are always people who get a little too wrapped up in their campaigns, but still...
I should have been more clear. I was commenting on the fact that currently nuclear waste just piles up at the reactor sites because the US Federal Government hasn't been able to get Yucca Mountain cleared. I.e. we have places we *can* store nuclear waste, but we don't have places we *may* store it.
"Environmentalists don't care where Coal, Gas, or Oil waste goes"
Wow. That's one of the most stunningly ignorant statements I've read in a long time. Seriously. Almost every environmental political and legal group is constantly working on issues related to air-pollution from power plants.
You are right in that it's hypocritical to have higher standards for nuclear power than the other power sources. But I'd prefer to bring our standards up, rather than lower nuclear's standards to that of coal. The way most coal powered plants are run it'd look like Chernobyl around the plant, and they'd store the waste in big piles out in the open.
The amount of high-quality useful uranium is unknown and I find both sides reporting on the amount to be highly suspect. The model, however, is very similar to oil in that we can probably keep recovering it in more and more expensive manners as the price of it goes up (thus where the "nearly-unlimited" supply comes from). But how much is there that is equivalent in price to coal, oil, wind, or solar?
Nuclear power is simple economics. It will start making political sense once the lower cost outweighs the publics fears. What's that cost? I don't know but it's significantly higher than the cost of oil currently, and the fact that we have very promising solar and wind technologies makes it very high indeed.
Um... have we managed to find a place to store nuclear waste? Have we uncovered an unlimited trove of radioactive material? Most intelligent people realize that a change is coming where we're going to have to move away from the oil economy. Oil is finite. Do we really want to spend all our time and money on building infrastructure that's also non-renewable? Nuclear is a lot of money and risk for a non-renewable energy source.
That said, will we add more nuclear as we move away from oil? More than likely. Should it be a goal? No. It's unsustainable.
Man you just summed up the problem with science education in our country in one comment.
They're probably just telling you the line about work experience to be nice. Do you have any pertinent work experience besides your degree? Are you passing their technical questions? I started out doing tech support and it has always been seen as something employers WANT. They want to know that you're going to be willing to jump in and fix your bugs. They want to know that you understand the steps to take when troubleshooting a problem.
Do you have any outside projects? Have you ever written anything that wasn't required for class?
A good example is that the Republican party is generally identified as the party of small government. In recent history under Republicans the government has grown larger, and under Democrats it has grown smaller. But this doesn't change the fundamental fact that Republicans believe a smaller government is more efficient. Just because Republicans are unable to actually achieve their goals of smaller government, doesn't mean this isn't what the party members actually believe or are striving to attain.
So if you believe in a small government you can still vote Republican because they share your belief in small government. They just suck at execution. There's no ideological disconnect there, even if Democrats (and I am one) would often like to call it "lying" or "dishonest".
And I'm just using the Republicans as an example here because I find it easier to see the speck in my neighbors eye...
I love the fact you guys haven't come up with any new put downs since 1962. It's cute. Like your grandma talking about HeeHaw.
Sort of like we had a frickin' lot of oil at the beginning of this century?
Thank goodness coal is a renewable resource! Oh wait...
While this is an ok stopgap, and we should make all of our current coal plants clean coal plants (after all if we can make them clean why would want to breath that crap), it doesn't solve the problem that with ever increasing energy needs we need renewable forms of energy or we're going to quickly run out.
I don't believe the airline industry is as bad as the tobacco industry (the existence of this book notwithstanding). But that still doesn't mean that airline travel is something that we are going to have to analyze as the price of fossil fuels go up and the environment becomes less stable. NASA might build the most environmentally conscious rockets possible, but as long as they use fossil fuels they'll probably be harmful to the environment.
Whether you view the world through the prism of "we are running out of fossil fuel" or "the environment is destabilizing" (discounting those who think everything is fine), you have to admit that our transportation options are going to have to change and widen. We're especially going to need electric high speed train links between cities if we're going to have enough fossil fuels for trans-oceanic airline flights.
This review is still bogus though. They should be comparing diesel city buses to regional carrier aircraft, or high speed trains and aircraft. Comparing every person on a flight driving an SUV alone 1000 miles vs. taking a jumbo jet might get close to similar gas mileage, but it doesn't take into account that an airplane is mass transit.
And what is this doing on slashdot anyway? Does slashdot have some sort of fairness doctrine for global warming deniers?
Sure. We weed people out with them. But it's also a way to get a code sample that we know was written by the applicant. I don't think every person works well on every dev team. Some people absolutely won't change the way they indent. Some use very interesting forms of logic. I learn far more about what it would be like to work with an applicant from their coding test than from talking to them about why they're leaving their current job or what an interface is.
They do realize that they would have only sold like 10 of these things if they required people to buy Nike shoes with them, right?
Nike doesn't make running shoes in my size. And I'm a jogger and a Nike+ user. Well I was until my sweat short circuited the Nike+ sensor. Apple needs to think about things like water resistance in these things. Did the Nike 10k last week and there were probably only 10% Nike shoes. Nike isn't that popular with runners.
It's not that great of a product. But the price ($30) is unbeatable. If you have to buy shoes with it the price is quite beatable by better tech on the market.
I can only hope this is a beginning of a return of regulation to t he markets, and will help foster a truly competitive marketplace. Breaking up all these cartels will be great for the flounder US economy.
Cows can't create sunglasses. Standing North/South is the next best thing.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no TV under 2 and limited under 3. So, I guess the censorship is interesting, but we decide people can't handle certain levels of violence, sex, or language on TV. Makes more sense to ban the baby shows in my opinion. There's a lot of hard evidence there.
I work from home 3 days a week. Go into the office 2 days a week. Because I'm programmer it's pretty easy to tell if I get my work done. I got this arrangement because they decided to move my office somewhere the bus doesn't go.
I also develop software and hardware that helps IT staffs work remotely. There are ways to hit the power button remotely you know. Wiring on the other hand is more difficult.
You may have said it before, but it doesn't make it true. What is the difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen? Until they've been convicted in a court of law, nothing.
You're going to need to explain further how the fourth amendment doesn't cover spying.
I agree that the issue of blackbox voting machines should not be made into a partisan issue. On the other hand the issue of Diebold voting machines being a partisan issue was cemented when the CEO of Diebold said in a fundraising letter that he was committed to delvering Ohio for President Bush. It may have been the most ridiculously stupid comment ever, but it definitely had the effect of making the issue partisan.