I agree.. but MO also hasn't gotten in all there votes and nobody cares what happens there because the electoral college is so close. Those people who voted for 7 electoral colleges essentially have no say right now. There votes could be thrown out and it wouldn't make a diffrence. Now lets take for example that all of those votes are for gore. He get X(hundred thousand, million, whatever) more which would most likely throw him way over the edge and into a much vaster majority win but he still loses. I;m not sure if I helped proved my point or not but the electoral college is a flawed system period. I know why it was created but I doubt if they had up to the second poll information on 100 diffrent channels when the founding fathers created this country that they would have let such a flawed system get written into the constitution. We have an ever evolving country and technolgy is making it so easy to manipulate the masses. We're a diffrent class (for the most part) here on/. and we have to remeber that modifications are going to need to be implemented to keep this country fair and open so that all people completly understand the issues and aren't blinded by campaign ads. (ok I went off on a unrelated tangent there)
As a side note. Is it not riduculous that people are spending 8+ million dollars on a position that only pays 130,000 a year? Somebody please explain that to me.
Actually the electoral college is a Federal thing that is defined in the constitution. And it does NOT require the electorals to vote the way the majority vote goes. It has never actually happened but it isn't written that it can't. It is rumored as far as I know to have happened in the Dewey/Truman election (thanks for the correction Dickhead). So it is possible that it could change things. It's also another reason the the electoral college should be revised if nothing else.
And how would that be fair? We know that the Rep. kept hold on the house (by a small margin) but it still gives us a pretty good foresight into what would happen if that scenario was put into action and not based on the peoples vote. Yes I know indirectly it does but when you figure Gore has the majority vote and Bush has the electoral you have to wonder what this country is going to do when someone is in office and how much power that person will actually have. Especially if that person was not a majority holder. It's time to reform the electoral college a bit and get something that echo's the peoples opinions in our government.
We all need to be watchdogs for this office now. Just because the elections over doesn't mean our job as citizens stop.
Finally I think the press rigged this for the ratings.
Since the Electorates?Electorals aren't required to vote the way their states voted does anyone think that the closeness of this race will sway them to vote diffrently? Some people say this happened in the Dewey/Nixon election. Any thoughts.
And who here feels that the press isn't loving every damn second of this?
However, AOL is reportedly uncertain how to sell it and concerned that it will be hacked into a conventional, general-purpose PC, bypassing its single application, a captive AOL client.
I don't know but for me the only way I would buy such a device (and it does sound cool to have a touch screen in say my kitchen) Would be if I could hack it into a Non-AOL computer.
ok I'm an idiot. I haven't coded HTML in years.. bite me
My experience today will consist of leaving work at 2. Driving 4 hours to New Jersey where I lived one week ago. Casting my vote and driving right back. And why am I doing this? To make sure Nader gets his 5% and to be a part of the new permanent reform party that this country desperatly needs. Even if you hate all the canidates GET OUT AND VOTE! This is your chance to do something. If you don't believe in the canidates fill in None of the Above. If that wins all the canidates get thrown out and we get new ones. Today's the first step in making a diffrence.
Isn't the whole reason we have an antitrust suit against microsoft because they forcable embedded the browser into the OS? Isn't that why windows isn't cut out for half the thing that Linux is? Because we can't seperate the browser from the os. We don't want IE ported to linux. Think of all the system files M$ would force us to install just to make it work. We'd no longer have the freedom that linux provides.
If all the posts on this thread were converted into 1 line of code for Netscape each we'd probably have a better browser allready. Slashdot is becoming a bunch of Whinning Babies. We all know linux is better, We all know where the future lies. Stop flaming every post that comes up here cause it doesnt agree with your views. If I were working at M$ I'd have 3 people assigned to posting pro-M$ comments on/. all day since it would drain the opensource communities resources.
I was a contractor for the US Army Corps of Engineers for 2 1/2 years. I was making a ridiculous amount of money (in the 6 figures) which was only a third of what the Corps actually paid for me. With all that I still quit the job because I couldn't deal with all the political crap. I've seen a 50 BILLION dollar project get pushed through even though tests said it was unneeded but the Corps needs a mission to keep the "Good old boys" around. I've seen the Hardest workers put down and blantantly lied to about benefits they would recieve which eventually destroyed 4 years of there work life and put them in a worse position then when they left college. I've seen so much crap from this government and now I have to choose one of these pricks to vote on and people feel that wasting more taxpayers money on a 33% increase in pay for n house computer sepecialists is going to help? I have news for you.. 80% of the IM force in the corps of engineers is contractors and each one costs +300k. I would never in my life work for the government again. Or not until Nader sits in the oval office.
Up until recently I was a contractor for the Gov. More annoying than the fact that there securty sucks is the fact that instead of advertising a contract for the OS for the next 5-10 years is the fact that the Gov is allready moving to W2k.
My particular office was running on Pentium 200's with 64-100 megs of ram and a 2gig HD. During my time there I was able to make the system extremley reliable for an NT network. Before leaving I asked all the users "What functionality are you missing from your desktop that stops you from being able to complete your work" The answer I got from every user was "NOTHING"
So my question becomes WHY IS THE GOV GOING TO SPEND MILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS ON W2K AND THEN MILLIONS MORE ON UPGRADING THEIR HARDWARE TO SUPPORT THE OS?
Needless to say I asked many of my superiors this question and I was basically told to shut-up cause that's the way things work. They even had the nerve to tell me that the GOV has input on the way Microsoft writes it's OS's. I promptly quit after hearing this.
Within the next 6 months at my former job the W2k upgrade will begin. Does anyone else see what hipocrits the gov is being supporting this OS?
Just my 2 cents. which in the government only goes as far as.002 cents.
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I agree.. but MO also hasn't gotten in all there votes and nobody cares what happens there because the electoral college is so close. Those people who voted for 7 electoral colleges essentially have no say right now. There votes could be thrown out and it wouldn't make a diffrence. Now lets take for example that all of those votes are for gore. He get X(hundred thousand, million, whatever) more which would most likely throw him way over the edge and into a much vaster majority win but he still loses. I;m not sure if I helped proved my point or not but the electoral college is a flawed system period. I know why it was created but I doubt if they had up to the second poll information on 100 diffrent channels when the founding fathers created this country that they would have let such a flawed system get written into the constitution. We have an ever evolving country and technolgy is making it so easy to manipulate the masses. We're a diffrent class (for the most part) here on /. and we have to remeber that modifications are going to need to be implemented to keep this country fair and open so that all people completly understand the issues and aren't blinded by campaign ads. (ok I went off on a unrelated tangent there)
As a side note. Is it not riduculous that people are spending 8+ million dollars on a position that only pays 130,000 a year? Somebody please explain that to me.
Actually the electoral college is a Federal thing that is defined in the constitution. And it does NOT require the electorals to vote the way the majority vote goes. It has never actually happened but it isn't written that it can't. It is rumored as far as I know to have happened in the Dewey/Truman election (thanks for the correction Dickhead). So it is possible that it could change things. It's also another reason the the electoral college should be revised if nothing else.
Geez.. It was a mistake... You'd think somebody could correct you without flamming as well... ASSHOLE!
And how would that be fair? We know that the Rep. kept hold on the house (by a small margin) but it still gives us a pretty good foresight into what would happen if that scenario was put into action and not based on the peoples vote. Yes I know indirectly it does but when you figure Gore has the majority vote and Bush has the electoral you have to wonder what this country is going to do when someone is in office and how much power that person will actually have. Especially if that person was not a majority holder. It's time to reform the electoral college a bit and get something that echo's the peoples opinions in our government. We all need to be watchdogs for this office now. Just because the elections over doesn't mean our job as citizens stop. Finally I think the press rigged this for the ratings.
Since the Electorates?Electorals aren't required to vote the way their states voted does anyone think that the closeness of this race will sway them to vote diffrently? Some people say this happened in the Dewey/Nixon election. Any thoughts. And who here feels that the press isn't loving every damn second of this?
However, AOL is reportedly uncertain how to sell it and concerned that it will be hacked into a conventional, general-purpose PC, bypassing its single application, a captive AOL client.
I don't know but for me the only way I would buy such a device (and it does sound cool to have a touch screen in say my kitchen) Would be if I could hack it into a Non-AOL computer.
ok I'm an idiot. I haven't coded HTML in years.. bite me
My experience today will consist of leaving work at 2. Driving 4 hours to New Jersey where I lived one week ago. Casting my vote and driving right back. And why am I doing this? To make sure Nader gets his 5% and to be a part of the new permanent reform party that this country desperatly needs. Even if you hate all the canidates GET OUT AND VOTE! This is your chance to do something. If you don't believe in the canidates fill in None of the Above. If that wins all the canidates get thrown out and we get new ones. Today's the first step in making a diffrence.
Isn't the whole reason we have an antitrust suit against microsoft because they forcable embedded the browser into the OS? Isn't that why windows isn't cut out for half the thing that Linux is? Because we can't seperate the browser from the os. We don't want IE ported to linux. Think of all the system files M$ would force us to install just to make it work. We'd no longer have the freedom that linux provides. If all the posts on this thread were converted into 1 line of code for Netscape each we'd probably have a better browser allready. Slashdot is becoming a bunch of Whinning Babies. We all know linux is better, We all know where the future lies. Stop flaming every post that comes up here cause it doesnt agree with your views. If I were working at M$ I'd have 3 people assigned to posting pro-M$ comments on /. all day since it would drain the opensource communities resources.
And the wheel!
I was a contractor for the US Army Corps of Engineers for 2 1/2 years. I was making a ridiculous amount of money (in the 6 figures) which was only a third of what the Corps actually paid for me. With all that I still quit the job because I couldn't deal with all the political crap. I've seen a 50 BILLION dollar project get pushed through even though tests said it was unneeded but the Corps needs a mission to keep the "Good old boys" around. I've seen the Hardest workers put down and blantantly lied to about benefits they would recieve which eventually destroyed 4 years of there work life and put them in a worse position then when they left college. I've seen so much crap from this government and now I have to choose one of these pricks to vote on and people feel that wasting more taxpayers money on a 33% increase in pay for n house computer sepecialists is going to help? I have news for you.. 80% of the IM force in the corps of engineers is contractors and each one costs +300k. I would never in my life work for the government again. Or not until Nader sits in the oval office.
Up until recently I was a contractor for the Gov. More annoying than the fact that there securty sucks is the fact that instead of advertising a contract for the OS for the next 5-10 years is the fact that the Gov is allready moving to W2k. My particular office was running on Pentium 200's with 64-100 megs of ram and a 2gig HD. During my time there I was able to make the system extremley reliable for an NT network. Before leaving I asked all the users "What functionality are you missing from your desktop that stops you from being able to complete your work" The answer I got from every user was "NOTHING" So my question becomes WHY IS THE GOV GOING TO SPEND MILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS ON W2K AND THEN MILLIONS MORE ON UPGRADING THEIR HARDWARE TO SUPPORT THE OS? Needless to say I asked many of my superiors this question and I was basically told to shut-up cause that's the way things work. They even had the nerve to tell me that the GOV has input on the way Microsoft writes it's OS's. I promptly quit after hearing this. Within the next 6 months at my former job the W2k upgrade will begin. Does anyone else see what hipocrits the gov is being supporting this OS? Just my 2 cents. which in the government only goes as far as .002 cents.