Besides, most people will probably check in only once or twice while their at work (as only the exit poll results will be available), and traffic will only be heavy once people get home, and since few people have dedicated connections at home, it will not be that heavy as if it was happening during the day. You also will have all major stations covering this, so it won't be that hard to find info.
Few people back East or in the South, maybe. But here in the West, where Washington State, Oregon, and maybe California will all be waiting to see if we can vote Green or not, is another thing. We have way more high-speed than the rest of the nation put together - some of us have multiple high-speed net connections like me - Cable modem and DSL is rampant in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, and San Francisco, hotbeds of Green supporters, and we don't wait for noone.
Hope you've got some akamai - better have local cache on the West Coast or it'll surge across the country and take down the pipelines with it...
In fact, election night turns out to be anti-climactic in most cases. I designed and built the election returns system for Washingtonpost.com in 1998. I busted my ass for a month prior to the elections. On election night, I ate pizza and watched returns. There was simply nothing for me to do.
Considering how many of us in the West have Cable modems and DSL and T1 (I've got all three), you might be in for a bumpy ride, since we're going to watch your returns to figure out whether we can risk voting Green or not.
You might want to make sure you have some good cache in San Fran...
Here's your Internet IP forecast for the West Coast. Expect Net brownouts and timeouts all along the West Coast, especially since we're waiting on Pennsylvania, Florida, Illinois, and other swing states to declare victors in the Presidential races to see if we can vote Green or not.
We have DSL and Cable modems, and we're not afraid to use them, especially at Election Night Ballot Stuffing parties where we plan to drop our absentee ballots off at 11 pm PST based on the votes already cast. It's legal, it's fun, and it really upsets those East Coast voters, cause they realize we get to find out who they voted for and then swing the vote back.
Prediction: Win, Win, Win - Bush will win the popular vote (by a minority), Gore will win the Electoral College and the presidency (due to nice people like me), and Nader will win national recognition for the Green Party, especially in Texas, with more than 5 percent of the vote.
If you don't believe me, I'll buy you a hard lemonade (or a beer, if you're one of those old fogies) if I'm wrong - collectable in person, just come up to me and say the magic words: "Will in Seattle, you owe me a drink or your karma will suffer." If you're not sure who I am, it's not like there's tons of Afflecks in the phone book, right? Especially ones involved in politics...
We of the drunk driving community, wish to endorse Bush, with one DUI and a fine, and Cheney, with two DUIs.
We figure their morals say more about what their record in office will be than anything else.
Also, we plan to drive around local schoolgrounds in support of them - after all, if we run over a few kids, they're too young to vote anyway, and maybe we can find some high school girls at the same time.
As for Bush, his intransigence on the doomed war on drugs is really starting to get to me.
You last used cocaine 28 years ago. Are you:
a) still in jail; or
b) running for president.
Discuss the effect that your race and your father's net worth had on your answer.
Well, at least Bush was never convicted for snorting coke, even if he was charged with DUI and paid a fine, while his VP has two DUIs.
Moral: Drinking and Driving is Good. Drugs are ok, so long as you don't get caught and are wealthy and/or powerful. Everyone else goes to jail.
So, if you're tired of that short article, here's the long Forbes article which goes into great detail about what this means for Linux OS market share, as they report as "one out of every four new corporate servers runs Linux".
"Why did Lawson choose Linux? Because ``it's easy to maintain and costs less than other operating systems to implement,'' according to Makoto Takayama, general manager of the company's New Business Division. Translation: It's cheaper than Windows, which currently runs the terminals that Lawson customers use to order concert tickets and book airline reservations.
Server appliances will grow at a significantly faster pace than that forecast for general-purpose servers, with Linux accounting for 25 percent of shipments
These are packaged shipments, in dollar amounts. So all those people who buy servers and then put a Linux distro/suite on aren't being counted. And all those people who make them aren't being counted. And all those people who convert older systems aren't being counted.
That said, I project 25 percent by year end 2002 and 50 percent by year end 2005, using their measurement scheme.
The combined high-end strength of Unix and low-end strength of Linux will effectively neutralize the Windows juggernaut in the enterprise, resulting in nearly equivalent shares for Windows and Unix/Linux by 2005.
Yes, but around year end 2002, given non-linear growth rates and known shipping patterns.
It's Gartner, they just make it sound like they know what they're saying, they have a very bad track record for predicting the future.
Oh, wait, I guess we're supposed to vote for Bush, right?
Can we write in Linus Torvalds for President instead? I know he's Finnish, but I don't mind voting for people from other religions, and since this Linux thing must be a religion or something, he might not do too well down south.
Also, if Linus wins, does that mean that we keep Bill Gates as CEO of the World, or do we have to have another election afterwards?
1) War on Drugs: Do you believe the War on Drugs has been an unqualified success, and if not, what would you change about it if elected president?
Your real answer:
Bush - No, it hasn't been stringent enough. We need to lock up more drug dealers and anyone who uses drugs, impose drug testing at all public facilities (schools, military, any government jobs), provide tax writeoffs for companies that drug test, and increase jail time for anyone who does drugs, while minimizing any chance of legalistic appeals. Plus, we should fry anyone on a second conviction, turn them into BBQ. Especially if they're not American or are poor.
Gore - Nah, I think Bush is a cokehead. I figure we should cut the drug enforcement budget outside US borders (except for interdiction in the Caribbean) in half, figure which types of interdictions actually work, double the size of the treatment budget, and get rid of mandatory penalties. But I'll never admit this in public and I won't propose legislation on the issue, cause I'd be crucified. I will shift the budget though, but over eight years. Hey, face it, both Bush and me toked a few and he did way more - should we make you pay for doing what we did - nah?
2) Minority Religions...: What will you do to protect the rights of atheists and those who hold minority faiths, such as Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, et al?
Your real answer:
Bush - nothing. If they're not Christians I won't do a darned thing. I won't go after those devil-worshippers, but I won't help them, that's for damned sure.
Gore - Oh get real. Not much, really. I won't let the feds or those we contract with discriminate against them, but I can't do much else.
3) Why give a tax cut?: Why is a tax cut so big? Wouldn't the money be better spent on the deficit so when worse times roll along, a tax cut can be easily given by not paying as much on the debt?
Your real answer:
Bush - because I promised the people who gave me hundreds of millions of dollars that I would. And if I don't they'll hunt me down and kill me, no matter how many Secret Service agents I have. They don't call me George "Wuss" Bush for nothing. Oh, also cause it'll help all my buds and stick it to people who hardly ever vote for me anyway.
Gore - because Bush made it such an issue and you all yammer about it all the time. Face it, I'd rather put it all into deficit reduction, building Internet II, and NASA, but that's not going to happen. I've gotta deal with Congress and the Senate - it's like herding cats without a rifle.
4) electoral reform: What is your position on this (electoral college) issue?
Your real answer:
Bush - if I lose I want to get rid of it. If I win, I like it. So I won't do anything, but I'll pass some bill on campaign finance reform with tons of loopholes for corporations and big spenders to use, and pretend I fixed it.
Gore - man, that Nader pisses me off. Yeah, I'm gonna take out the electoral college, but I doubt it will get through both the House and Senate in four years. I will get that campaign finance passed, cause I don't get no nookie with Tipper when I get embarrassed by those scandals and it's boring pretending to be friends with big money people.
5)How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?: Do you feel that out current system of intellectual property is a good one? Which parts of it (e.g. trademarks, patents, copyrights) do you feel are well suited to the world of the Internet and which do you think need to be changed (and, if changes are needed, what changes are needed)?
Your real answer:
Bush - I like intellectual property. We need to extend patents even more, increase copyrights, except for movies and music, cause I hate those Hollywood types and they gave to Gore mostly. Screw the public.
Gore - I hate it. I'm going to cut copyright back to lifetime plus 10 years, except 20 years for paintings since most artists die penniless. And I'm going to reform the patent office and cut patents back to reasonable lengths. But Congress and the Senate will probably sneak something past and I may have to settle for holding steady.
6) Encryption....: what would you do to help preserve our right to privacy through the use of strong encryption? Also in a related question what are your thoughts and what do you plan to do about the fact that we can not export many forms of strong encryption?
Your real answer:
Bush: Forget it. My dad ran the CIA. No joe blow will be safe from us, and I'll make it illegal to use encryption for normal people, so I can preserve the freedom of big government and big business like every GOP President before me.
Gore: Man, I know what you mean, but I'm afraid some terrorist will attack us. So I'll keep going back and forth on this issue, which is the best you're going to get from any American politician.
7) Rising Political Protests: we have seen a tremendous escalation in the quantity and size of political protests against globalization and the rising power of corporate multi-nationals. Do you believe that these people have reason to be concerned? If you do believe that they have reason for concern, what steps would you take as president to deal with their concerns?
Your real answer:
Bush: Nah, why would I help those liberal commies. Crush them all. Won't do a damned thing to help those protesters, want 'em locked up in fact.
Gore: I'm going to help the environmental protesters, but I'll screw over the globalization protesters. Sorry, I know which side my bread is buttered on. And if I did more, Congress would have my head on a platter.
8) Asteroid Defenses: Would you renew funding of programs to research and develop global defense systems against asteroids or other such threats from space?
Your answer:
Bush: Yup. Lots of military bucks to help my friends on the corporate boards there, like Dick Cheney's wife, call her Buttercup, that's her nickname. Probably won't work, don't much care if it does. This is what I really think government is good at - helping the Military Industrial Complex.
Gore: Yup. I'll try to do it efficiently, figure which plans work best, but will have to watch out for all the military bloat you usually get when you do this.
9) The Future of the Country, and of Humanity: What is our mission? To me, it seems to be "to watch TV and use the Internet." What would you say the defining national mission of today is? What should it be? Furthermore, how would you show this in your activities as a lawmaker?
Your real answer:
Bush - Our mission is to make business owners rich. And control the world. Hate the internet - those commie liberals are starting to use it to attack me. Other than that, I don't care.
Gore - Our mission is to promote environmentally sound pro-market democracy throughout the world. And keep ourselves from getting into one of our war cycles, as we always do.
Seriously, under low pressure, atmospheres tend to disperse and escape from the gravitational well. The water goes as well. As the atmosphere of the planet is depleted, surface water locked in ice and water slowly sublimates and escapes as well.
I'd like to take this opportunity to ask those of you in the 99 percent of Americans who make less to please vote Nader.
Think about it - if you just vote Nader in swing states, you can help put Bush over the top and allow us to deduct our corporate expense trips to Bahrain and the Bahamas. We need our perks - like our annual meetings in St. Lucia - for without them we'll get cranky.
So, please, if you're thinking of using your common sense - hold off on that thought. Sure, it would be easy for you to all vote Green in Texas and other pro-Bush states and give Nader 10 percent of the vote, but we want you to vote Gore where it doesn't matter and Nader where it might make a difference to your lives.
Won't you please help my child? He's only had six trips to Santa Barbara this year, one week in the French West Indies (corporate tax writeoff, since we're researching French companies to buy with his earnings), and a Christmas cruise from Los Angeles to Baja, California. If you don't help us now, he may only be able to spend one week on the French Riviera next year and we may have to ski at local ski hills.
Please - please - think about how you vote and find it in your heart to help a deserving child learn three languages at your expense.
I find this 'let's-tax-the-rich-so-that-we-can-give-more-to-th e-poor' trend a bit disturbing. Allow me to explain why. I came to the United States about ten years ago. I was 15 at the time, and wasn't particularly fond of the idea of leaving all my friends behind, etc.
You know, if there's one thing I can't stand, it's all these recent immigrants who think that, just because they left their home countries due to higher taxes on the rich, that somehow they should get an even better deal than they were already getting.
I mean really - you left a country where the richest one percent are taxed at a 70 percent tax rate to come to one of the only countries which taxes you at 38 percent, and you think you deserve more?!?
Get real and go back to whence you came - then change the system there before you try to impose your un-American values on us native-born Americans.
I want a real conservative politician, one who will bring back the 40 percent tax on corporations, and make sure that only 15 percent of Americans pay taxes at all, such as we had until the 1960s. When a corporation could be dechartered for not doing enough for the public good.
Oh, what's that you say? You don't want that? Then stop complaining and stop putting your ill-gotten gains in tax havens like the Bahamas and expecting the 90 percent of Americans who are below you from subsidizing your vacations!
Many people who participate in IPOs have been wondering if it's a good time to do so. You can read articles on CBS Marketwatch or Red Herring or numerous other sites, and you'll notice IPOs slipping further out in the stream.
Turbo Linux may, or may not, be a good IPO. Another good IPO coming up is the Transmeta (TMTA) IPO, which is listing at $13 to $14, is noted as Red Hot by Red Herring's IPO street poll. This, of course, is the company that Linus Torvalds works for, and it will IPO in six days on November 6.
For those whondering how to qualify for IPOs - basically, you need an account at a broker who carries them and sufficient funds. This can be pot-luck such as E-Trade, who is not a lead broker (you'll probably need more than $50,000 in market assets), or one of the major IPO brokers such as Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. But MSDW requires you to have more than $250,000 to participate in IPOs.
Think about it: if there weren't hired "analysts" out there, having to come up with something new to say about why this poll is up, or this poll is down, when any first-year statistics student can tell you that one in twenty polls will be way off and any poll can be up or down 4 percent for no reason. If they didn't have to come up with false distinctions between look-alike candidates.
And if slashdot didn't have it's own version, such as those who feel the need to think that everything is a conspiracy that will result in the rise of the ubergeeks and the overthrow of normal society by the technological advantaged.
Man, if we could line all those people up against a cliff and give them a short sharp swift kick to the rear, what a wonderful silence would result.
See - there is someone already working on it - so join them at source forge and get cracking.
No complaining about GPL constraints, now, it's still Open Source and you can always apply another licensing paradigm, such as that used in BSD, on the portions of your code that you create for it.
Of course, since the open source release is GPLed, porting it to other OSes is perfectly legitimate.
In other words, Do The Work Yourselves. If you're upset that there's no BSD or other version, form a group and use the GPL to do it yourself. Don't complain, get to work.
It's not like it's closed source proprietary, where you can't do that.
Personal TV or MP3 Jukebox - which is killer app?
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Actually, the Personal TV may be the killer app, assuming that it is something like TiVo or ReplayTV. Although they'll need a bigger hard drive for it to have decent capacity. A game machine and a TiVo in one box would be pretty cool.
It's only got a 10GB hard drive and no flash memory. I think this is just lameo TV, and there's still nothing good on the PC side for this, but maybe in a couple of years.
My vote is still that the MP3 Jukebox will get more people to buy it.
Don't buy it -- It's an evil canadian trick! Think about it... what does Cana-kit most sound like? That's right: Rootkit! Even worse, what's its main purpose? To transmit.
Funny. Actually, though, most "US" satellites and telecom devices are Canadian, except for the other ones made in other countries, so it's too late.
They want "one million dollars!" for the data. To you, that's not much, but it's like a billion Canadian dollars, with the current exchange rate. In fact, the entire Canadian banking industry almost collapsed when Bill Gates accidentally wrote a check in US dollars to buy out a Canadian firm instead of the quoted Canadian dollar amount.
Seriously, you don't even have to know they tell you this, they can publish it on a website that you're supposed to check (yeah, right) and it's enforceable.
Aren't you glad you're not voting? See what happens when you decide to not hold your legislators' feet to the fire? [note - I'm not talking about the State Rep from Redmond, Laura Ruderman, she actually is part of why UCITA didn't pass in Washington State, plus she's cute]
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Besides, most people will probably check in only once or twice while their at work (as only the exit poll results will be available), and traffic will only be heavy once people get home, and since few people have dedicated connections at home, it will not be that heavy as if it was happening during the day. You also will have all major stations covering this, so it won't be that hard to find info.
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Few people back East or in the South, maybe. But here in the West, where Washington State, Oregon, and maybe California will all be waiting to see if we can vote Green or not, is another thing. We have way more high-speed than the rest of the nation put together - some of us have multiple high-speed net connections like me - Cable modem and DSL is rampant in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, and San Francisco, hotbeds of Green supporters, and we don't wait for noone.
Hope you've got some akamai - better have local cache on the West Coast or it'll surge across the country and take down the pipelines with it
In fact, election night turns out to be anti-climactic in most cases. I designed and built the election returns system for Washingtonpost.com in 1998. I busted my ass for a month prior to the elections. On election night, I ate pizza and watched returns. There was simply nothing for me to do.
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Considering how many of us in the West have Cable modems and DSL and T1 (I've got all three), you might be in for a bumpy ride, since we're going to watch your returns to figure out whether we can risk voting Green or not.
You might want to make sure you have some good cache in San Fran
Here's your Internet IP forecast for the West Coast. Expect Net brownouts and timeouts all along the West Coast, especially since we're waiting on Pennsylvania, Florida, Illinois, and other swing states to declare victors in the Presidential races to see if we can vote Green or not.
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We have DSL and Cable modems, and we're not afraid to use them, especially at Election Night Ballot Stuffing parties where we plan to drop our absentee ballots off at 11 pm PST based on the votes already cast. It's legal, it's fun, and it really upsets those East Coast voters, cause they realize we get to find out who they voted for and then swing the vote back.
Prediction: Win, Win, Win - Bush will win the popular vote (by a minority), Gore will win the Electoral College and the presidency (due to nice people like me), and Nader will win national recognition for the Green Party, especially in Texas, with more than 5 percent of the vote.
If you don't believe me, I'll buy you a hard lemonade (or a beer, if you're one of those old fogies) if I'm wrong - collectable in person, just come up to me and say the magic words: "Will in Seattle, you owe me a drink or your karma will suffer." If you're not sure who I am, it's not like there's tons of Afflecks in the phone book, right? Especially ones involved in politics
In the distant past, DUI laws were less strict, especially depending on what state he was cited in. Therefore, Bush had alot more than 'just one beer'
Well, to be drunk enough to make the car go off the road usually takes at least 5 or 6 beers in rapid succession.
And the fact he doesn't drink now just means he's a "dry" alcoholic. Just takes one international crisis and he's back on the bottle.
We of the drunk driving community, wish to endorse Bush, with one DUI and a fine, and Cheney, with two DUIs.
We figure their morals say more about what their record in office will be than anything else.
Also, we plan to drive around local schoolgrounds in support of them - after all, if we run over a few kids, they're too young to vote anyway, and maybe we can find some high school girls at the same time.
As for Bush, his intransigence on the doomed war on drugs is really starting to get to me.
You last used cocaine 28 years ago. Are you:
a) still in jail; or
b) running for president.
Discuss the effect that your race and your father's net worth had on your answer.
Well, at least Bush was never convicted for snorting coke, even if he was charged with DUI and paid a fine, while his VP has two DUIs.
Moral: Drinking and Driving is Good. Drugs are ok, so long as you don't get caught and are wealthy and/or powerful. Everyone else goes to jail.
I'm not trying to flame anyone, just stating my view of the American Way as a Finnish citizen.
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Well, we try not to discrimate against people of other religions, even the Finnish. So long as they don't mind public prayer at sports games
I find the Bush answer particularly interesting, considering that he's got one DUI and his VP candidate Dick Cheney has two DUIs. That we know of.
Does hypocrisy know no bounds?
So, if you're tired of that short article, here's the long Forbes article which goes into great detail about what this means for Linux OS market share, as they report as "one out of every four new corporate servers runs Linux".
"Why did Lawson choose Linux? Because ``it's easy to maintain and costs less than other operating systems to implement,'' according to Makoto Takayama, general manager of the company's New Business Division. Translation: It's cheaper than Windows, which currently runs the terminals that Lawson customers use to order concert tickets and book airline reservations.
Server appliances will grow at a significantly faster pace than that forecast for general-purpose servers, with Linux accounting for 25 percent of shipments
These are packaged shipments, in dollar amounts. So all those people who buy servers and then put a Linux distro/suite on aren't being counted. And all those people who make them aren't being counted. And all those people who convert older systems aren't being counted.
That said, I project 25 percent by year end 2002 and 50 percent by year end 2005, using their measurement scheme.
The combined high-end strength of Unix and low-end strength of Linux will effectively neutralize the Windows juggernaut in the enterprise, resulting in nearly equivalent shares for Windows and Unix/Linux by 2005.
Yes, but around year end 2002, given non-linear growth rates and known shipping patterns.
It's Gartner, they just make it sound like they know what they're saying, they have a very bad track record for predicting the future.
Inquiring minds want to know ...
Oh, wait, I guess we're supposed to vote for Bush, right?
Can we write in Linus Torvalds for President instead? I know he's Finnish, but I don't mind voting for people from other religions, and since this Linux thing must be a religion or something, he might not do too well down south.
Also, if Linus wins, does that mean that we keep Bill Gates as CEO of the World, or do we have to have another election afterwards?
The cNet version of the story is here.
I notice it mentions that Lawson currently has Windows computers that let customers buy concert tickets and reserve airline tickets.
End result - Bill G loses, Linux wins.
1) War on Drugs: Do you believe the War on Drugs has been an unqualified success, and if not, what would you change about it if elected president?
Your real answer:
Bush - No, it hasn't been stringent enough. We need to lock up more drug dealers and anyone who uses drugs, impose drug testing at all public facilities (schools, military, any government jobs), provide tax writeoffs for companies that drug test, and increase jail time for anyone who does drugs, while minimizing any chance of legalistic appeals. Plus, we should fry anyone on a second conviction, turn them into BBQ. Especially if they're not American or are poor.
Gore - Nah, I think Bush is a cokehead. I figure we should cut the drug enforcement budget outside US borders (except for interdiction in the Caribbean) in half, figure which types of interdictions actually work, double the size of the treatment budget, and get rid of mandatory penalties. But I'll never admit this in public and I won't propose legislation on the issue, cause I'd be crucified. I will shift the budget though, but over eight years. Hey, face it, both Bush and me toked a few and he did way more - should we make you pay for doing what we did - nah?
2) Minority Religions...: What will you do to protect the rights of atheists and those who hold minority faiths, such as Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, et al?
Your real answer:
Bush - nothing. If they're not Christians I won't do a darned thing. I won't go after those devil-worshippers, but I won't help them, that's for damned sure.
Gore - Oh get real. Not much, really. I won't let the feds or those we contract with discriminate against them, but I can't do much else.
3) Why give a tax cut?: Why is a tax cut so big? Wouldn't the money be better spent on the deficit so when worse times roll along, a tax cut can be easily given by not paying as much on the debt?
Your real answer:
Bush - because I promised the people who gave me hundreds of millions of dollars that I would. And if I don't they'll hunt me down and kill me, no matter how many Secret Service agents I have. They don't call me George "Wuss" Bush for nothing. Oh, also cause it'll help all my buds and stick it to people who hardly ever vote for me anyway.
Gore - because Bush made it such an issue and you all yammer about it all the time. Face it, I'd rather put it all into deficit reduction, building Internet II, and NASA, but that's not going to happen. I've gotta deal with Congress and the Senate - it's like herding cats without a rifle.
4) electoral reform: What is your position on this (electoral college) issue?
Your real answer:
Bush - if I lose I want to get rid of it. If I win, I like it. So I won't do anything, but I'll pass some bill on campaign finance reform with tons of loopholes for corporations and big spenders to use, and pretend I fixed it.
Gore - man, that Nader pisses me off. Yeah, I'm gonna take out the electoral college, but I doubt it will get through both the House and Senate in four years. I will get that campaign finance passed, cause I don't get no nookie with Tipper when I get embarrassed by those scandals and it's boring pretending to be friends with big money people.
5)How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?: Do you feel that out current system of intellectual property is a good one? Which parts of it (e.g. trademarks, patents, copyrights) do you feel are well suited to the world of the Internet and which do you think need to be changed (and, if changes are needed, what changes are needed)?
Your real answer:
Bush - I like intellectual property. We need to extend patents even more, increase copyrights, except for movies and music, cause I hate those Hollywood types and they gave to Gore mostly. Screw the public.
Gore - I hate it. I'm going to cut copyright back to lifetime plus 10 years, except 20 years for paintings since most artists die penniless. And I'm going to reform the patent office and cut patents back to reasonable lengths. But Congress and the Senate will probably sneak something past and I may have to settle for holding steady.
6) Encryption....: what would you do to help preserve our right to privacy through the use of strong encryption? Also in a related question what are your thoughts and what do you plan to do about the fact that we can not export many forms of strong encryption?
Your real answer:
Bush: Forget it. My dad ran the CIA. No joe blow will be safe from us, and I'll make it illegal to use encryption for normal people, so I can preserve the freedom of big government and big business like every GOP President before me.
Gore: Man, I know what you mean, but I'm afraid some terrorist will attack us. So I'll keep going back and forth on this issue, which is the best you're going to get from any American politician.
7) Rising Political Protests: we have seen a tremendous escalation in the quantity and size of political protests against globalization and the rising power of corporate multi-nationals. Do you believe that these people have reason to be concerned? If you do believe that they have reason for concern, what steps would you take as president to deal with their concerns?
Your real answer:
Bush: Nah, why would I help those liberal commies. Crush them all. Won't do a damned thing to help those protesters, want 'em locked up in fact.
Gore: I'm going to help the environmental protesters, but I'll screw over the globalization protesters. Sorry, I know which side my bread is buttered on. And if I did more, Congress would have my head on a platter.
8) Asteroid Defenses: Would you renew funding of programs to research and develop global defense systems against asteroids or other such threats from space?
Your answer:
Bush: Yup. Lots of military bucks to help my friends on the corporate boards there, like Dick Cheney's wife, call her Buttercup, that's her nickname. Probably won't work, don't much care if it does. This is what I really think government is good at - helping the Military Industrial Complex.
Gore: Yup. I'll try to do it efficiently, figure which plans work best, but will have to watch out for all the military bloat you usually get when you do this.
9) The Future of the Country, and of Humanity: What is our mission? To me, it seems to be "to watch TV and use the Internet." What would you say the defining national mission of today is? What should it be? Furthermore, how would you show this in your activities as a lawmaker?
Your real answer:
Bush - Our mission is to make business owners rich. And control the world. Hate the internet - those commie liberals are starting to use it to attack me. Other than that, I don't care.
Gore - Our mission is to promote environmentally sound pro-market democracy throughout the world. And keep ourselves from getting into one of our war cycles, as we always do.
Seriously, under low pressure, atmospheres tend to disperse and escape from the gravitational well. The water goes as well. As the atmosphere of the planet is depleted, surface water locked in ice and water slowly sublimates and escapes as well.
Of course it's dry, they never repealed Prohibition!
You mean to tell me, after travelling all the way from Earth to Mars, and all they have is Light Air?
No wonder the Mars probe crashed - it was looking for a bar and couldn't find any!
We'll just have to cooperate with the Canadians or the Russians - we build the spacecraft, they supply the booze.
I'd like to take this opportunity to ask those of you in the 99 percent of Americans who make less to please vote Nader.
Think about it - if you just vote Nader in swing states, you can help put Bush over the top and allow us to deduct our corporate expense trips to Bahrain and the Bahamas. We need our perks - like our annual meetings in St. Lucia - for without them we'll get cranky.
So, please, if you're thinking of using your common sense - hold off on that thought. Sure, it would be easy for you to all vote Green in Texas and other pro-Bush states and give Nader 10 percent of the vote, but we want you to vote Gore where it doesn't matter and Nader where it might make a difference to your lives.
Won't you please help my child? He's only had six trips to Santa Barbara this year, one week in the French West Indies (corporate tax writeoff, since we're researching French companies to buy with his earnings), and a Christmas cruise from Los Angeles to Baja, California. If you don't help us now, he may only be able to spend one week on the French Riviera next year and we may have to ski at local ski hills.
Please - please - think about how you vote and find it in your heart to help a deserving child learn three languages at your expense.
I find this 'let's-tax-the-rich-so-that-we-can-give-more-to-th e-poor' trend a bit disturbing. Allow me to explain why. I came to the United States about ten years ago. I was 15 at the time, and wasn't particularly fond of the idea of leaving all my friends behind, etc.
You know, if there's one thing I can't stand, it's all these recent immigrants who think that, just because they left their home countries due to higher taxes on the rich, that somehow they should get an even better deal than they were already getting.
I mean really - you left a country where the richest one percent are taxed at a 70 percent tax rate to come to one of the only countries which taxes you at 38 percent, and you think you deserve more?!?
Get real and go back to whence you came - then change the system there before you try to impose your un-American values on us native-born Americans.
I want a real conservative politician, one who will bring back the 40 percent tax on corporations, and make sure that only 15 percent of Americans pay taxes at all, such as we had until the 1960s. When a corporation could be dechartered for not doing enough for the public good.
Oh, what's that you say? You don't want that? Then stop complaining and stop putting your ill-gotten gains in tax havens like the Bahamas and expecting the 90 percent of Americans who are below you from subsidizing your vacations!
Many people who participate in IPOs have been wondering if it's a good time to do so. You can read articles on CBS Marketwatch or Red Herring or numerous other sites, and you'll notice IPOs slipping further out in the stream.
Turbo Linux may, or may not, be a good IPO. Another good IPO coming up is the Transmeta (TMTA) IPO, which is listing at $13 to $14, is noted as Red Hot by Red Herring's IPO street poll. This, of course, is the company that Linus Torvalds works for, and it will IPO in six days on November 6.
For those whondering how to qualify for IPOs - basically, you need an account at a broker who carries them and sufficient funds. This can be pot-luck such as E-Trade, who is not a lead broker (you'll probably need more than $50,000 in market assets), or one of the major IPO brokers such as Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. But MSDW requires you to have more than $250,000 to participate in IPOs.
on slashdot.
Think about it: if there weren't hired "analysts" out there, having to come up with something new to say about why this poll is up, or this poll is down, when any first-year statistics student can tell you that one in twenty polls will be way off and any poll can be up or down 4 percent for no reason. If they didn't have to come up with false distinctions between look-alike candidates.
And if slashdot didn't have it's own version, such as those who feel the need to think that everything is a conspiracy that will result in the rise of the ubergeeks and the overthrow of normal society by the technological advantaged.
Man, if we could line all those people up against a cliff and give them a short sharp swift kick to the rear, what a wonderful silence would result.
See - there is someone already working on it - so join them at source forge and get cracking.
No complaining about GPL constraints, now, it's still Open Source and you can always apply another licensing paradigm, such as that used in BSD, on the portions of your code that you create for it.
Of course, since the open source release is GPLed, porting it to other OSes is perfectly legitimate.
In other words, Do The Work Yourselves. If you're upset that there's no BSD or other version, form a group and use the GPL to do it yourself. Don't complain, get to work.
It's not like it's closed source proprietary, where you can't do that.
Actually, the Personal TV may be the killer app, assuming that it is something like TiVo or ReplayTV. Although they'll need a bigger hard drive for it to have decent capacity. A game machine and a TiVo in one box would be pretty cool.
It's only got a 10GB hard drive and no flash memory. I think this is just lameo TV, and there's still nothing good on the PC side for this, but maybe in a couple of years.
My vote is still that the MP3 Jukebox will get more people to buy it.
Don't buy it -- It's an evil canadian trick! Think about it... what does Cana-kit most sound like? That's right: Rootkit! Even worse, what's its main purpose? To transmit.
Funny. Actually, though, most "US" satellites and telecom devices are Canadian, except for the other ones made in other countries, so it's too late.
They want "one million dollars!" for the data. To you, that's not much, but it's like a billion Canadian dollars, with the current exchange rate. In fact, the entire Canadian banking industry almost collapsed when Bill Gates accidentally wrote a check in US dollars to buy out a Canadian firm instead of the quoted Canadian dollar amount.
First, it's not the console, it's the games.
If they can get companies or Open Source gaming collectives to crank out games for them, they stand a good chance.
If they can't, they die.
Second - I noticed it's spec'd as having built-in MP3 Jukebox capabilities - this might be the killer app.
[I'm biased, I own MSFT and Nintendo stock]
Seriously, you don't even have to know they tell you this, they can publish it on a website that you're supposed to check (yeah, right) and it's enforceable.
Aren't you glad you're not voting? See what happens when you decide to not hold your legislators' feet to the fire? [note - I'm not talking about the State Rep from Redmond, Laura Ruderman, she actually is part of why UCITA didn't pass in Washington State, plus she's cute]