Kucinich is very well known for having a serious grudge against corporate power. He actively dislikes entrenched corporate power. Check him out; he is running for President!
We can do whatever we want in order to maximize benefits to American citizens. Fairness or corporate profit is not really our concern. If we want to penalize companies that outsource, that is our prerogative. Unfair? WHo cares?
He is a definite contrarian with a dislike for corporate power. This is well acknowledged in the political world. He is a card carrying union member. There are plenty of corporate butt-kissing politicians out there already. How about we get someone who is going to watch OUR back for us, instead of being in the pockets of the corporations?
...the crime there makes NY City look like a upscale gated subdivision. And guess what? Neoliberal policies are importing Bogota and Mexico City here...
Boom in Computer-linked home security devices
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There will likely continue to be an increase in crime due to several factors, such as increasing poverty because of neoliberal economic policies, and also due to importation of poverty from 3rd world, which also lowers wages.
I predict that this increasing poverty will cause a boom in home and auto security devices which are linked to personal computers in order to provide more sophisticated theft deterrents. For example, motion detectors which transmit detected motion signals to a personal computer via serial port or USB interface via either wireless transmission or signal wires.
The motion detected signals will be detected by software that will be able to be configured by an unsophisticated user to take actions that will scare off burglars. For example, play useful sound files output to speakers outside. The sound files might be randomly selected files that sound like a security officer talking to a dispatched about an intruder.
Also the computer could communicate with relays and stepper motors via via serial port or USB interface to turn on and move in a random, jerky manner an outside floodlight.
There are some products currently out now that can provide these deterrents, but they typically too expensive, unreliable, or too hard to use right now.
Because often they are using their phone line to go online via their dialup ISP connection. These people are those who spend MOST of their leisure online reading news, blogs, and doing other leisure reading and reading, ALL online. And at night or at other times, they download books and music from Kazaa or Usenet. Thus, they cannot be reached by phone by either parent, friend, or pollster. Thus, the Always-Online political persuasion is not reflected in political polls, such as Presidential race polls (Go Kucinich!) and other polls.
I propose that we Always-Online types are often of radical political persuasions. And because our opinions are not reflected in the polls, the polls come out looking LESS radical, and more mainstream than America really is in reality.
And since one big factor in politics is The BandWagon Factor, our absence from political polls means that America is being deradicalized. Look for example at online polls. DO they have somewhat different results from telephone polls? You bet!
Just read this thread and the websites/links given at the top. That is where we need to take America. And then the friggin economy or outsourcing won't matter so much, and we can relax a bit and enjoy our lives:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/dub oa rd.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=920274
Please read the website pages I linked to at the top of the thread!
...about how well the European social democracies are working with their cradle to grave social welfare state. That is one big reason they are starting in with the demonizing of France. Pretty soon they will find reasons to be demonizing Denmark, Netherlands, et al.
I have already seen propaganda posing as news that denigrates the Canadian universal healthcare system.
The rich investors that control the US media and govt want to keep their billionaires for themselves. It is really the same pattern repeating ltself from decades ago when they demonized and terrorized countries that attempted socialism.
I have misterhouse running on XP. What I need to play a sound file upon motion detected. I have a ms132 up and running and everytime it picks up motion, the misterhouse GUI prints out a "garage light XA2J is on" notification. I just want to play a sound file everytime that happens....
What next? On-the-fly MRI Brain scans?
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If they are able to scan your brain as you drive towards the billboard, they could possible determine something about you, and use that to select custom advertising for you....
Now I know why my Kucinich-Diebold submissions were all rejected--Slashdot is a Dean stronghold.
Well, I got news for you boys: Dean is a Rockefeller Republicrat, rich boy, trust fund baby, Old Money Blueblood who crushed a drive to have universal health care in Vermont.
He is NO LIBERAL!
Vote KUCINICH!
That's one reason why there's less IT support jobs
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One reason for the boom in IT jobs was that almost anyone who knew how to work Windows competently could get a $20/hour job helping office workers with Windows. Now that everyone has figured out how to work Windows, those jobs are not there.....
Try finding out what is happening in western europe. That is where Kucinich wants to take us. Just try reading this URL with an open mind: http://www.american-pictures.com/english/ra cism/ar ticles/welfare.htm
His main issues are: 1. universal health care. About 60-70% of all Americans want it, according to polls. The so-called "serious" candidate, Howard Dean, does NOT advocate universal health care. Now how is serious?
2. Ending the Iraq war. About 50% of the people want to end the war now. How is Kucinich's position not serious?
3. Fighting for the rights of people against corporations. Diebold, for example. How do YOU feel about it? Howard Dean never said squat about the DMCA abuse, even while Kucinich was courageously publishing the Diebold memo links. I guess if you have some balls and stand up against abuse of corporate power, you must not be a "serious candidate".
4. Decriminalizing marijuana. Again, if you agree with 50-60% of the American people, you must not be a "serious candidate"....
...like you might have in Europe. They still have private property there (in fact, in some western euro countries, more people own homes than in the USA). THey still have lots of capitalism there. In fact many of their consumer goods are of the highest quality in the world...
....to everyone now. Surely we must do something, find someone to be a counterweight to the corporate takeover of govt and media. We need someone with a serious grudge against the Establishment, someone who LIKES to fight the Powers That Be...NOT someone who likes to "go along to get along"
Maybe we will force them to hand over those fruits
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You know, the citizens can elect representatives that redistribute wealth to the people from those who own the robots.....
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Kucinich is very well known for having a serious grudge against corporate power. He actively dislikes entrenched corporate power. Check him out; he is running for President!
We can do whatever we want in order to maximize benefits to American citizens. Fairness or corporate profit is not really our concern. If we want to penalize companies that outsource, that is our prerogative. Unfair? WHo cares?
He is a definite contrarian with a dislike for corporate power. This is well acknowledged in the political world. He is a card carrying union member. There are plenty of corporate butt-kissing politicians out there already. How about we get someone who is going to watch OUR back for us, instead of being in the pockets of the corporations?
...the crime there makes NY City look like a upscale gated subdivision. And guess what? Neoliberal policies are importing Bogota and Mexico City here...
There will likely continue to be an increase in crime due to several factors, such as increasing poverty because of neoliberal economic policies, and also due to importation of poverty from 3rd world, which also lowers wages.
I predict that this increasing poverty will cause a boom in home and auto security devices which are linked to personal computers in order to provide more sophisticated theft deterrents. For example, motion detectors which transmit detected motion signals to a personal computer via serial port or USB interface via either wireless transmission or signal wires.
The motion detected signals will be detected by software that will be able to be configured by an unsophisticated user to take actions that will scare off burglars. For example, play useful sound files output to speakers outside. The sound files might be randomly selected files that sound like a security officer talking to a dispatched about an intruder.
Also the computer could communicate with relays and stepper motors via via serial port or USB interface to turn on and move in a random, jerky manner an outside floodlight.
There are some products currently out now that can provide these deterrents, but they typically too expensive, unreliable, or too hard to use right now.
I propose that we Always-Online types are often of radical political persuasions. And because our opinions are not reflected in the polls, the polls come out looking LESS radical, and more mainstream than America really is in reality.
And since one big factor in politics is The BandWagon Factor, our absence from political polls means that America is being deradicalized. Look for example at online polls. DO they have somewhat different results from telephone polls? You bet!
What can we Always-Onliners do about it? VOTE!!
See you at the polling place.
As soon as I take it down, back they come.
you poor thing.....
Just read this thread and the websites/links given at the top. That is where we need to take America. And then the friggin economy or outsourcing won't matter so much, and we can relax a bit and enjoy our lives:
b oa rd.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=920274
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/du
Please read the website pages I linked to at the top of the thread!
...about how well the European social democracies are working with their cradle to grave social welfare state. That is one big reason they are starting in with the demonizing of France. Pretty soon they will find reasons to be demonizing Denmark, Netherlands, et al.
I have already seen propaganda posing as news that denigrates the Canadian universal healthcare system.
The rich investors that control the US media and govt want to keep their billionaires for themselves. It is really the same pattern repeating ltself from decades ago when they demonized and terrorized countries that attempted socialism.
I have misterhouse running on XP. What I need to play a sound file upon motion detected. I have a ms132 up and running and everytime it picks up motion, the misterhouse GUI prints out a "garage light XA2J is on" notification. I just want to play a sound file everytime that happens....
TIA
THe avoidance of offshoring stories by /. editors sure does make sense now!
truth hurts, don't it, moderators?
If they are able to scan your brain as you drive towards the billboard, they could possible determine something about you, and use that to select custom advertising for you....
Now I know why my Kucinich-Diebold submissions were all rejected--Slashdot is a Dean stronghold.
Well, I got news for you boys: Dean is a Rockefeller Republicrat, rich boy, trust fund baby, Old Money Blueblood who crushed a drive to have universal health care in Vermont.
He is NO LIBERAL!
Vote KUCINICH!
One reason for the boom in IT jobs was that almost anyone who knew how to work Windows competently could get a $20/hour job helping office workers with Windows. Now that everyone has figured out how to work Windows, those jobs are not there.....
With their universal health care, western europeans live longer lives (up to 3 years more), and work fewer hours during a year.
Try finding out what is happening in western europe. That is where Kucinich wants to take us. Just try reading this URL with an open mind:a cism/ar ticles/welfare.htm
http://www.american-pictures.com/english/r
His main issues are:
1. universal health care. About 60-70% of all Americans want it, according to polls. The so-called "serious" candidate, Howard Dean, does NOT advocate universal health care. Now how is serious?
2. Ending the Iraq war. About 50% of the people want to end the war now. How is Kucinich's position not serious?
3. Fighting for the rights of people against corporations. Diebold, for example. How do YOU feel about it? Howard Dean never said squat about the DMCA abuse, even while Kucinich was courageously publishing the Diebold memo links. I guess if you have some balls and stand up against abuse of corporate power, you must not be a "serious candidate".
4. Decriminalizing marijuana. Again, if you agree with 50-60% of the American people, you must not be a "serious candidate"....
He just wants to give more power to the people, as opposed to rich investors and corporations.
Since when is giving more power the same as taking away ALL power.
Please don't try to create a strawman argument.....
...like you might have in Europe. They still have private property there (in fact, in some western euro countries, more people own homes than in the USA). THey still have lots of capitalism there. In fact many of their consumer goods are of the highest quality in the world...
like Dennis Kucinich, who really started the ball rolling on the Diebold situation by publishing links to the memos on his Congressional website.
You want democracy? Then vote for politicians who have made a career of fighting corporate power.....like Dennis Kucinich....
He is the one who stood up to Diebold and published the links on his website.
And he is running for President.
Time for libertarian geeks to both talk the talk and walk the walk.....
....to everyone now. Surely we must do something, find someone to be a counterweight to the corporate takeover of govt and media. We need someone with a serious grudge against the Establishment, someone who LIKES to fight the Powers That Be...NOT someone who likes to "go along to get along"
You know, the citizens can elect representatives that redistribute wealth to the people from those who own the robots.....