Part of the slowness of Fedora Extras was that Red Hat had to set up a single CVS system for it and also merge three pre-existing internal CVS into it. Bound to take a fair bit of time to do. Seth Vidal gives a good insight on the process in his blog including the rolling out of a demonstration Pre-Extras so that people can see progress. Hopefully all the excellent independent packagers: Dag Wieers, Axel Thimm, Matthias Saou will be able to find a way to contribute to this project.
You should just remove the up2date gnome-applet unless you are subscribed to RHN. It is exactly as you say: a pay for access service for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The gnome-applet "throbber" does nothing except use 30M of memory and take up space on the panel unless you're subscribed.
Just do a "rpm -e up2date" you'll missing nothing if you're running Fedora Core.
Holes today were an unruly crawler. The appropriate/25 is now firewalled at the squids. Yesterday two of the five database slaves were down for a while. Site was available but it was slower than usual on the database side. Performance issues these days are mostly due to uneven apache load balancing. We're working on it.
I love it! Unintentional poetry. (And no I'm not being snarky or rude or something, I really do like the images of "unruly crawlers" being stopped by "firewalls" at the "squids" while the "database slaves" collapse and there are continuing problems with the "balancing apaches".)
That's a good point. I'd think, though, that there are obvious cases where someone is nuts and the majority of editors (even those holding viewpoints opposed to each other) could agree that the person is nuts and their ravings are not good material. I'm not sure, maybe an editorial board isn't a good idea except for academic subjects.
Whether anybody has an ax to grind or not seems, to me, to kind of be beside the point. Hersch has been caught, repeatedly, reporting things that just aren't so. The most egregious example I know about was the one I cited before, where he completely made up a story about a military engagement in Afghanistan. Ironically, if he'd been less zealous, he might have gotten away with it. As it is, anybody who reads the story who actually knows how many AC-130s existed at that time will know that Hersch was just plain lying.
I think you should provide some links to back up your serious allegations. Specific links covering all sides of this particular "AC-130" story and at links to at least 5 other instances of Hersch "being caught, repeatedly" would go a way to establishing that you aren't just making things up.
You already have the freedom to license *your* code nay damn way you choose.
Write it, release it under a license that states that Microsoft and Apple shall be the sole and only recipients of the first-born children that are exchanged for your FrogGolfPlanner2003.
What you don't have the right to do is to take *my* GPL'ed code for GNUFrogGolf, change a couple of strings, make it buggy and unstable and release it under *your* license.
If you really believe the FSF needs to *tell you* that you can do any damn thing you please as long as you don't steal GPL'ed code then I hereby give you permission to get up tomorrow morning.
I agree with you that higher ranking USMIL people probably have an axe to grind with respect to Seymour Hersch, but you should also be aware that he's widely considered to be a conduit for leaks from some CIA elements and he hasn't been doing any actual on-the-ground investigative journalism in recent years as compared to Robert Fisk who is one of the few Western journalist to have interviewed Osama bin Laden, has actually physically visited the places that he reports on as a non-embedded (e.g. traditionally free agent) report, placing his own life at risk at times.
Yes, you can clearly see that he has a bias, but he's upfront about it and it's always clear in his writing which parts are his opinion and which are the factual experiences that he's recording.
With regard to Wikinews, I think that it's interesting that the "neutral" and "non biased" articles about (to take just one example) the Indonesian earthquake disaster don't mention the shenanigans going on over the withholding of disaster relief to "rebel" strongholds in Aceh and the request from representatives of the "rebels" that international aid is not delivered into the hands of the government. This is covered in one of the few independent and courageous news sources these days: Amy Goodman's "DemocracyNOW!" radio program. Here's a sample from January 7th:
Indonesian Military Beats Acehnese, Bars Journalists
Meanwhile, Australian journalists who witnessed a confrontation between Indonesian soldiers and Acehnese yesterday were ordered to leave the area and warned not to report on the incident. The incident occurred just 25 miles from the provincial capital Banda Aceh, the centre of the relief operation spearheaded by US and Australian forces in Aceh. Government soldiers fired into the air and beat up Acehnese they claimed were supporters of the Free Aceh Movement, known as the GAM. The incident prompted special forces Kopassus soldiers to confront The Australian's representatives in the area. A Kopassus Commander told the journalists, "Your duties here are to observe the disaster, not the conflict between TNI (the Indonesian army) and GAM. Kopassus ordered the Australian journalist and photographer to leave. The Indonesian military has killed thousands of Acehnese in the conflict. Aceh has been under martial law and sealed off for years. The Kopassus are infamous for their extreme brutality during the occupation of East Timor.
If Wikinews isn't reporting this sort of stuff in order to avoid appearing "contentious" then it's providing a misleading picture of the actual physical facts of the world. Not very impressive.
The man that invented XModem should get more credit for starting free software than RMS. While RMS was up in his ivory tower playing with mainframes and minis there where normal people creating public domain software on their Apple IIs, Kaypros, Osbournes, Altars, and TRS-80s. The first c compiler I ever used was not gnu c it was small c which came out years before there was gnu.
RMS _did_ invent "free" software in the sense of software which emphasizes freedom. I guess you know that very well. In the quote above you confuse "public domain" and "free". RMS isn't anywhere "on the left" that I can see. If anything he's a libertarian and I doubt he fits exactly into that mold either.
You really should read the article. If you did then you'd see that he gives the example that he'd use a Windows machine at your house if there were no other way to get online, but that he won't run Windows on his machine. Also he mentions that he would access an internet server using non-free software and that he thinks the server operator is the one being harmed because s/he is unable to benefit from the freedom of using free software.
Really, either you're deliberately creating a false impression of RMS or else you've bought into the bogeyman that other people have created.
I think we're going quite off-topic here, but I still think that you're presenting a strange definition of communism:
In communism I have to accept that I will have a crappy job because that is where my place is in the community.
Look, "Communism" is too broad a term to be discussed without specifying which specific manifestation (real or imagined) that you mean when you use it. I can imagine several varieties of communism in which what you state above isn't true and several versions of "capitalism" in which the same above criticism would hold.
Under the current manifestation of "capitalism" (which most libertarians would point out is far from what they imagine to be "capitalist") most people aren't lawyers or accountants, most lawyers and accountants don't "go on to greatness". Conversely under the Soviet command economy (a type of state capitalism some would argue) there were plenty of fat, happy bureaucrats who achieved a plush lifestyle at the expense of most other people in their society.
Communism doesn't posit that everyone has the same abilities.
Wikipedia fails because it's possible for someone that knows the subject less well than you and writes less well than you to come along and you just have to accept that what you wrote may be removed by that idiot.
Ultimately it's predicated upon a complete "free speech" model which is non-workable: it means that a troll or loony with more time and energy to spend than you will win.
It's like trying to have a public meeting with no rules, or a society with no rules: he who shouts loudest or is willing to use violence will win.
I love the idea of Wikipedia if only they'd introduce some sort of editorial board.
So in the above case, isn't the only point of the PEG to allow more efficient transfer of the DNA through the already permeable membrane, by reducing charged interactions with cell membrane proteins?
Yes, it increases the uptake of DNA by competent cells. Competence can be induced artificially by the methods that you mention, or it can occur naturally (eubacteria snag bits of DNA from each other when environmental conditions prompt it and it seems to be a succesful evolutionary strategy). PEG increases the likelihood of a succesful uptake, it doesn't guarantee transfection. It's a numbers game....
I'm not calling it as a definite possibility and saying the method shouldn't be used because of it, just considering it as a potential problem.
PEG is used to facilitate the uptake of DNA into eubacterial cells among other things. I wonder what this will do for transposing pathogenic bacteria with random DNA from patients. Sounds dodgy to me.
First, I'll restate the primary point of my post which was to point out that you confused "specialized" and "proprietary". I think it's instructive that you did so.
This makes no sense to me. First off, Apple has given *greatly* to the OSS community, from open sourcing Darwin, Rendevous, to helping improve GCC for the PPC,
Those are the only examples that I can think of and they illustrate to me that Apple has benefitted greatly from standing on the shoulders of all the people that created an Open operating system (BSD), a Free compiler (GCC), the BSD-Lite2 monolithic kernel and the Mach microkernel. Add to this the huge number of Free and Open programs that are runnable on OS X and the improvements that Apple made to IOKit fall into perspective.
to others, Apple is "ESR Approved", and I have never heard anything but good words about Apple from the OSS community.
Again, that says more about you than about whether Apple is a net taker or giver.
Second, iTunes isn't built on open source technologies. It's all Apple.
I never said it was. But it does run on an OS which could not exist if it were not for Free and Open Source software. So, again, it's parasitic to derive advantage from FL/OSS in this manner and Apple should GPL or LGPL iTunes.
Third, as an Apple stockholder I would oppose any move to OS iTunes.
This isn't a "third" argument. It's a statement of your financial interest and has no bearing on the ethical standing of Apple in the Free and Open Software communities.
You make it sound like Apple has a moral obligation to OS iTunes, and I just don't think that is the case, no matter how generous I am.
Mac OSX wouldn't exist without Free and Open software. Apple has got more from that than it's put in. In my world generosity only applies when you give more than you get. In your world (and Apple's) generosity is a pat you give yourself on the back.
Add to all of this that Apple are prepared to use fundamentally innovation stifling laws like the DMCA to squash competition (see previous Slashdot story about playfair and promote a proprietary audiofile format (which is supposedly illegal to reverse-engineer under the auspices of said DMCA) and you have a company which is bucking to be the next Microsoft.
"Personally, I want a player that doesn't require proprietary software to use."
Most hardware devices need specialized software to interface with it. You might think that just using it as a disk and managing your files yourself is better, but as someone who once handled their music that way I can say that is not true. But you can't understand until you've tried something better as I have.
You're missing his point: he didn't say he wouldn't like "specialized software", he said he didn't want proprietary software. There's little reason why the specialized software can't be Free or Open Source. And given that Apple have been piggy-backing on Free and Open Source software they should give back to the community by Freeing/OpenSourcing iTunes.
and here is a clickable link to the URI I gave earlier.
Part of the problem with this is that the tonsil thing may actually be quite widespread and not be a symptom of anything other than the lymphatic system doing its job: trapping and killing foreign bacteria. This produces the unpleasant accretions, especially with "cryptic" tonsils (ramified holes). So that _may_ be an epiphenomenon of whatever problem you have. Like I say, I'm NOT a doctor.
I Am Not A Doctor. I also have something similar to what you describe in terms of the "nodules". I discovered that they are apparently coming from the tonsils at the back of my throat. I talked to a doctor about them ages ago and was reassured they were nothing. I now worry and I notice the following:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BUM/is _3_82/ai_99618585
An acquaintance also mentioned that they had "tonsillar accretions" or whatever the correct term would be and that they just disappeared.
Good luck with sorting out the whole thing. The human body is a miracle of appalling engineering and we have by no means plumbed all of it's defects yet.
I gave them up a few years ago, ever since they decided not provide support for freely downloadable ISO's [...] the fact is, Debian really needs a "grown up" large company to provide commercial support, that will quiet the fears of managers.
And if you get that how will it be different than the current situation created by Red Hat? Red Hat provides freely downloadable ISOs of Fedora Core. Support is provided by a community of volunteers on the mailing-lists and bulletin boards. There is commercial support for the freely downloadable source-code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Almost identically Debian provides freely downloadable ISOs supported by an excellent volunteer community. Commercial support must be purchased.
The only difference I can see is that you claim that Debian doesn't provide the commercial support yet. (And I think that's wrong because Progeny are providing that with their Componentized Platform Services (for both Red Hat AND Debian)
I have no interest in dealing with a company that can make such a profound shift without considering the needs of their existing customers.
It's a profound shift that explicitly did consider the needs of existing customers. Problem is that there were two types of customers: those that wanted a stable, highly-tested, long-product cycle deployment with guaranteed support that they purchased with a contract; and there were those that wanted a free, highly-tested, short-product cycle, rapid feature adoption product. Both those groups are now catered for, with the free one serving as a testbed for the non-free.
Suse looks like its moving in the opposite direction of redhat so that might be an option for a good option down the road.
Both RH and Suse offer certain configurations of their software which you cannot get without paying. I don't have anything against paying someone for software I use, if it's also available for free. But I do have a problem with software that you can't even look at unless you pay.
Some specifics would be useful in evaluating your strongly stated claim that Red Hat and SuSE have software that "you can't even look at unless you pay". As far as I'm aware this is completely untrue. All of Red Hat and SuSE's software is offered under FL/OSS licenses and can be downloaded from their servers. This extends all the way up to the top of the line offerings from Red Hat's "Enterprise" and "Advanced Server" ranges which include stuff like Piranha and the Satellite update system. What they don't offer are binaries of this software. You have you use your shallow bug-eyes to read the code and figure out how to compile and install it.
As for wanting your software configured for you for free: hire a systems administrator or do it yourself. No one's under any obligation to configure your systems for you or to play your games for you.
Ah. I've never visited Sunnyvale, but I suspect that I understand what you're talking about having seen places like the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles: sort of urban wastelands.
I feel that high-density urban areas or quiet countryside are the natural habitat of the cyclist. I've lived in Boston, Toronto, Los Angeles and London and always enjoyed cycling. The only times I've not liked it has been in places like the SGV or Orange County which seem to have been designed to make life unpleasant if you're not in a car!
What was wrong with the Bay Area commute experience? Sounds like it was good to me!
One important thing worth mentioning to anyone that's considering cycling with or without an assisting motor is to learn how to operate the vehicle correctly. And I mean really learn! There are skills and behavior appropriate to bicycling that many people that drive (and unfortunately a sizeable number that cycle occasionally) seem to have no idea about.
The main point to remember is that the bicycle is considered a vehicle with some variant abilities and should be ridden as such. The clearest exponent of this is John Forester (a road-traffic engineer who spent years collecting empiricial data on how experienced club-cyclists ride), who codified his work into a tome called "Effective Cycling".
There's a short, amusing and mostly accurate quiz to take here which encapsulates many of these ideas.
Many people's disinclination to cycle is based upon fear due to their lack of understanding of how to ride with traffic.
Those are even less convincing answers than I would have thought possible. Talk about dodging and not answering a straight accusation with a straight denial. No where in that long script does she actually deny that she's doing the work of the Democrats. An easy, simple statement to make. That said it's a pity that Donnelly didn't get some more of the details correct so that she wouldn't be able to muddy the waters with them.
the Green Party and your candidacy in particular has been accused of being dominated by Democratic Party insiders who seek to undermine Nader's campaign using un-democratic methods.
A well-researched example of this is Marnie Glickman, one of the three members of the Green Party's National Co-ordinating Committee, who has a history as a committed and succesful (over $10 million) Democratic Party fundraiser.
The article referenced above concludes:
The upshot is not a single incumbent Oregon Democrat member of Congress has any possibility of the PGP [*] impacting their reelection. Add in Cobb's current polling at 0% and some might say "Mission Accomplished."
Given that your campaign would appear to have a number of recent "ex Democratic Party" activists and that your campaign seems mainly to have served to attack Nader's candidacy do you feel that you've been played for a patsy by more experienced politicos?
Bush shares blame for PATRIOT, because he signed it.
As did Kerry. Hence if Kerry were President he'd probably sign the PATRIOT USA Act, go to war on Iraq without even an excuse, ban gay-marriage, and generally be an all-round pain-in-the-ass which is why he's going to lose.
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Part of the slowness of Fedora Extras was that Red Hat had to set up a single CVS system for it and also merge three pre-existing internal CVS into it. Bound to take a fair bit of time to do. Seth Vidal gives a good insight on the process in his blog including the rolling out of a demonstration Pre-Extras so that people can see progress. Hopefully all the excellent independent packagers: Dag Wieers, Axel Thimm, Matthias Saou will be able to find a way to contribute to this project.
You should just remove the up2date gnome-applet unless you are subscribed to RHN. It is exactly as you say: a pay for access service for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The gnome-applet "throbber" does nothing except use 30M of memory and take up space on the panel unless you're subscribed. Just do a "rpm -e up2date" you'll missing nothing if you're running Fedora Core.
That's a good point. I'd think, though, that there are obvious cases where someone is nuts and the majority of editors (even those holding viewpoints opposed to each other) could agree that the person is nuts and their ravings are not good material. I'm not sure, maybe an editorial board isn't a good idea except for academic subjects.
You already have the freedom to license *your* code nay damn way you choose.
Write it, release it under a license that states that Microsoft and Apple shall be the sole and only recipients of the first-born children that are exchanged for your FrogGolfPlanner2003.
What you don't have the right to do is to take *my* GPL'ed code for GNUFrogGolf, change a couple of strings, make it buggy and unstable and release it under *your* license.
If you really believe the FSF needs to *tell you* that you can do any damn thing you please as long as you don't steal GPL'ed code then I hereby give you permission to get up tomorrow morning.
I agree with you that higher ranking USMIL people probably have an axe to grind with respect to Seymour Hersch, but you should also be aware that he's widely considered to be a conduit for leaks from some CIA elements and he hasn't been doing any actual on-the-ground investigative journalism in recent years as compared to Robert Fisk who is one of the few Western journalist to have interviewed Osama bin Laden, has actually physically visited the places that he reports on as a non-embedded (e.g. traditionally free agent) report, placing his own life at risk at times.
Yes, you can clearly see that he has a bias, but he's upfront about it and it's always clear in his writing which parts are his opinion and which are the factual experiences that he's recording.
With regard to Wikinews, I think that it's interesting that the "neutral" and "non biased" articles about (to take just one example) the Indonesian earthquake disaster don't mention the shenanigans going on over the withholding of disaster relief to "rebel" strongholds in Aceh and the request from representatives of the "rebels" that international aid is not delivered into the hands of the government. This is covered in one of the few independent and courageous news sources these days: Amy Goodman's "DemocracyNOW!" radio program. Here's a sample from January 7th:
If Wikinews isn't reporting this sort of stuff in order to avoid appearing "contentious" then it's providing a misleading picture of the actual physical facts of the world. Not very impressive.
You really should read the article. If you did then you'd see that he gives the example that he'd use a Windows machine at your house if there were no other way to get online, but that he won't run Windows on his machine. Also he mentions that he would access an internet server using non-free software and that he thinks the server operator is the one being harmed because s/he is unable to benefit from the freedom of using free software.
Really, either you're deliberately creating a false impression of RMS or else you've bought into the bogeyman that other people have created.
I think we're going quite off-topic here, but I still think that you're presenting a strange definition of communism:
Look, "Communism" is too broad a term to be discussed without specifying which specific manifestation (real or imagined) that you mean when you use it. I can imagine several varieties of communism in which what you state above isn't true and several versions of "capitalism" in which the same above criticism would hold.
Under the current manifestation of "capitalism" (which most libertarians would point out is far from what they imagine to be "capitalist") most people aren't lawyers or accountants, most lawyers and accountants don't "go on to greatness". Conversely under the Soviet command economy (a type of state capitalism some would argue) there were plenty of fat, happy bureaucrats who achieved a plush lifestyle at the expense of most other people in their society.
Communism doesn't posit that everyone has the same abilities. Wikipedia fails because it's possible for someone that knows the subject less well than you and writes less well than you to come along and you just have to accept that what you wrote may be removed by that idiot. Ultimately it's predicated upon a complete "free speech" model which is non-workable: it means that a troll or loony with more time and energy to spend than you will win. It's like trying to have a public meeting with no rules, or a society with no rules: he who shouts loudest or is willing to use violence will win. I love the idea of Wikipedia if only they'd introduce some sort of editorial board.
Yes, it increases the uptake of DNA by competent cells. Competence can be induced artificially by the methods that you mention, or it can occur naturally (eubacteria snag bits of DNA from each other when environmental conditions prompt it and it seems to be a succesful evolutionary strategy). PEG increases the likelihood of a succesful uptake, it doesn't guarantee transfection. It's a numbers game....
I'm not calling it as a definite possibility and saying the method shouldn't be used because of it, just considering it as a potential problem.
PEG is used to facilitate the uptake of DNA into eubacterial cells among other things. I wonder what this will do for transposing pathogenic bacteria with random DNA from patients. Sounds dodgy to me.
First, I'll restate the primary point of my post which was to point out that you confused "specialized" and "proprietary". I think it's instructive that you did so.
Those are the only examples that I can think of and they illustrate to me that Apple has benefitted greatly from standing on the shoulders of all the people that created an Open operating system (BSD), a Free compiler (GCC), the BSD-Lite2 monolithic kernel and the Mach microkernel. Add to this the huge number of Free and Open programs that are runnable on OS X and the improvements that Apple made to IOKit fall into perspective.
Again, that says more about you than about whether Apple is a net taker or giver.
I never said it was. But it does run on an OS which could not exist if it were not for Free and Open Source software. So, again, it's parasitic to derive advantage from FL/OSS in this manner and Apple should GPL or LGPL iTunes.
This isn't a "third" argument. It's a statement of your financial interest and has no bearing on the ethical standing of Apple in the Free and Open Software communities.
Mac OSX wouldn't exist without Free and Open software. Apple has got more from that than it's put in. In my world generosity only applies when you give more than you get. In your world (and Apple's) generosity is a pat you give yourself on the back.
Add to all of this that Apple are prepared to use fundamentally innovation stifling laws like the DMCA to squash competition (see previous Slashdot story about playfair and promote a proprietary audiofile format (which is supposedly illegal to reverse-engineer under the auspices of said DMCA) and you have a company which is bucking to be the next Microsoft.
You're missing his point: he didn't say he wouldn't like "specialized software", he said he didn't want proprietary software. There's little reason why the specialized software can't be Free or Open Source. And given that Apple have been piggy-backing on Free and Open Source software they should give back to the community by Freeing/OpenSourcing iTunes.
and here is a clickable link to the URI I gave earlier. Part of the problem with this is that the tonsil thing may actually be quite widespread and not be a symptom of anything other than the lymphatic system doing its job: trapping and killing foreign bacteria. This produces the unpleasant accretions, especially with "cryptic" tonsils (ramified holes). So that _may_ be an epiphenomenon of whatever problem you have. Like I say, I'm NOT a doctor.
I Am Not A Doctor. I also have something similar to what you describe in terms of the "nodules". I discovered that they are apparently coming from the tonsils at the back of my throat. I talked to a doctor about them ages ago and was reassured they were nothing. I now worry and I notice the following: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BUM/is _3_82/ai_99618585
An acquaintance also mentioned that they had "tonsillar accretions" or whatever the correct term would be and that they just disappeared.
Good luck with sorting out the whole thing. The human body is a miracle of appalling engineering and we have by no means plumbed all of it's defects yet.
And if you get that how will it be different than the current situation created by Red Hat? Red Hat provides freely downloadable ISOs of Fedora Core. Support is provided by a community of volunteers on the mailing-lists and bulletin boards. There is commercial support for the freely downloadable source-code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Almost identically Debian provides freely downloadable ISOs supported by an excellent volunteer community. Commercial support must be purchased.
The only difference I can see is that you claim that Debian doesn't provide the commercial support yet. (And I think that's wrong because Progeny are providing that with their Componentized Platform Services (for both Red Hat AND Debian)
It's a profound shift that explicitly did consider the needs of existing customers. Problem is that there were two types of customers: those that wanted a stable, highly-tested, long-product cycle deployment with guaranteed support that they purchased with a contract; and there were those that wanted a free, highly-tested, short-product cycle, rapid feature adoption product. Both those groups are now catered for, with the free one serving as a testbed for the non-free.
Explain please.
I'll take it off your hands for $30 including postage.
Some specifics would be useful in evaluating your strongly stated claim that Red Hat and SuSE have software that "you can't even look at unless you pay". As far as I'm aware this is completely untrue. All of Red Hat and SuSE's software is offered under FL/OSS licenses and can be downloaded from their servers. This extends all the way up to the top of the line offerings from Red Hat's "Enterprise" and "Advanced Server" ranges which include stuff like Piranha and the Satellite update system. What they don't offer are binaries of this software. You have you use your shallow bug-eyes to read the code and figure out how to compile and install it.
As for wanting your software configured for you for free: hire a systems administrator or do it yourself. No one's under any obligation to configure your systems for you or to play your games for you.
Ah. I've never visited Sunnyvale, but I suspect that I understand what you're talking about having seen places like the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles: sort of urban wastelands.
I feel that high-density urban areas or quiet countryside are the natural habitat of the cyclist. I've lived in Boston, Toronto, Los Angeles and London and always enjoyed cycling. The only times I've not liked it has been in places like the SGV or Orange County which seem to have been designed to make life unpleasant if you're not in a car!
What was wrong with the Bay Area commute experience? Sounds like it was good to me!
One important thing worth mentioning to anyone that's considering cycling with or without an assisting motor is to learn how to operate the vehicle correctly. And I mean really learn! There are skills and behavior appropriate to bicycling that many people that drive (and unfortunately a sizeable number that cycle occasionally) seem to have no idea about.
The main point to remember is that the bicycle is considered a vehicle with some variant abilities and should be ridden as such. The clearest exponent of this is John Forester (a road-traffic engineer who spent years collecting empiricial data on how experienced club-cyclists ride), who codified his work into a tome called "Effective Cycling". There's a short, amusing and mostly accurate quiz to take here which encapsulates many of these ideas.
Many people's disinclination to cycle is based upon fear due to their lack of understanding of how to ride with traffic.
Those are even less convincing answers than I would have thought possible. Talk about dodging and not answering a straight accusation with a straight denial. No where in that long script does she actually deny that she's doing the work of the Democrats. An easy, simple statement to make. That said it's a pity that Donnelly didn't get some more of the details correct so that she wouldn't be able to muddy the waters with them.
the Green Party and your candidacy in particular has been accused of being dominated by Democratic Party insiders who seek to undermine Nader's campaign using un-democratic methods.
A well-researched example of this is Marnie Glickman, one of the three members of the Green Party's National Co-ordinating Committee, who has a history as a committed and succesful (over $10 million) Democratic Party fundraiser.
The article referenced above concludes:
Given that your campaign would appear to have a number of recent "ex Democratic Party" activists and that your campaign seems mainly to have served to attack Nader's candidacy do you feel that you've been played for a patsy by more experienced politicos?
* PGP = Pacific Green Party
As did Kerry. Hence if Kerry were President he'd probably sign the PATRIOT USA Act, go to war on Iraq without even an excuse, ban gay-marriage, and generally be an all-round pain-in-the-ass which is why he's going to lose.