cause they were lying. Or they didn't foresee the addiction of being able to customize your computer with whatever you you want. Once you build your computer there will always be something you can upgrade to make it faster or something you should have spent more money on the first time around. That 800 Mhz was fine.....for a while, then everyone started having 1.4 Ghz chips and suddenly you were the last on the block kid with a tricycle while everyone else was riding a BMX. And it doesn't stop there. Your 8 gigs of mp3s was fine...for a while(anyone seen Dog City, by Jim Henson? small reference here), until the 60 gig hard drives came out and then suddenly you had the 8-track of collections, while everyone else was listening to CDs.
I'm warning you, once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. You'll have ide cables coming out your dresser drawers and spare motherboads in your bathroom. You gotta ask yourself is it worth saving a few hundred bucks and having a kickass machine at all times? I'm not sure, but I'm building a building fool and I just can't stop.
but only if you like the internet the way it is, and not heavily regulated, or if you like being able to send email with out it being monitored. I can't believe the apathy among computer enthusiasts when politicians in Washington who know nothing are deciding what the internet will be for future generations. These are decisions that directly affect users and programmers of the internet. One example is a supreme court case that will be heard in the next year or two regarding privacy and whether or not an ISP has to reveal the identity of it's subscribers if they have commited a malicious act(in this case slandered a company on message boards). They want to reveal the identities of people and prosecute them just because they said some bad things about the President of a company. That doesn't sound too free to me. Is that what you want, zero anonymity on the internet and total supervision of everything you do and say because it could be illegal? If you don't voice your opinion politicians won't care about you and they'll happily appease all the parents out there by totally regulating the internet, leaving us out in the cold. This is the type of thing where you wake up one day and it's too late to do anything about it. There could be as many as 4 supreme court justices chosen by the next president and those justices will decide what the internet is and how it should be regulated. The conservatives have always been pro-censorship while the liberals have generally been more in favor of the individuals freedoms over what could be called the moral majority. This election is crucial in the future of the internet and if you don't care about it then I'd better not see you whining on this message board in 8 years when all the freedom of the internet you've enjoyed is taken away. Vote Al Gore, you might not like the man, but the supreme court justices he would choose would preserve individual freedoms and not allow censorship. I wouldn't blatantly tell you who to vote for if I wasn't so scared of the other option. Vote strategically for the party and it's ideals, and not the man, to make sure our internet remains free. And to all of you people out there complaining about taxes, why don't you stop using the government roads, eating food the government makes sure is clean, using electricity the government makes sure is affordable, and using an internet that wouldn't have been possible without government funding. The government has done a lot for you, and it's a privaledge to live in this country where we have more opportunity for luxury than anywhere else, why don't you realize it.
What are you talking about??? The national debt tripled under Reagan and the economy was nothing but stagnant under Bush. When Clinton was elected and began instituiting his economic policies, the republicans in the house specifically said that they wanted no responsibility for his actions and policies. I say we give them no responsibility. Clinton definitely got help from the booming private sector, but many of his reforms have helped boost the lower classes into a much better position in our economy and therefore become better consumers and boost it even more. Trickle down economics are a joke, you're not going to help the economy by giving more money to the wealthy and hope that they spend enough to help the poor. Instead you must build up the consumer class so that there are more people with money to buy products and services from all of the emerging industries. Don't be fooled into thinking our economy will flourish no matter which candidate is elected as they both have very differing views on how to keep it strong. One has worked for the past 8 years, and the other led to the recession felt in the early 90's.
I don't mean to offend any third party candidate supporters here or anything, but I think this is an election where picking between the less of two evils is extremely important. The thing that people fail to realize is that the next president will probably get to pick atleast three supreme court justices. Don't look at the candidates, but their parties and what kind of justices they will pick. Whichever president gets elected will be out in 4 years, but the supreme court justices will be intrepreting the constitution as it pertains to our rights and the internet for the next 30 years. Do you really want 3 conservative justices who will decide that it is the governments place to regulate the internet and allow our freedoms to be taken away for the greater good. Bush and Gore might walk and talk alike, but their justices willl definitely have different views. The liberal justices in general have supported individual rights over the rights of the moral majority and have fought censorship in all its forms. Bush's core voters have always been the Christian Coalition and the religious conservatives. I don't have anything against these people but they always feel the need to tell me what I can and can't read and what I should and shouldn't do, even when it is none of their business. Gore's wife Tipper might be a nazi about censorship, but as long as he doesn't put her on the supreme court, the internet and our freedoms to privacy and free speech will be much more secure with him as president. If this much wasn't at stake I think I would definitely vote for a third party candidate, but I'm too afraid of what could happen to my freedom in the years to come.
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cause they were lying. Or they didn't foresee the addiction of being able to customize your computer with whatever you you want. Once you build your computer there will always be something you can upgrade to make it faster or something you should have spent more money on the first time around. That 800 Mhz was fine.....for a while, then everyone started having 1.4 Ghz chips and suddenly you were the last on the block kid with a tricycle while everyone else was riding a BMX. And it doesn't stop there. Your 8 gigs of mp3s was fine...for a while(anyone seen Dog City, by Jim Henson? small reference here), until the 60 gig hard drives came out and then suddenly you had the 8-track of collections, while everyone else was listening to CDs.
I'm warning you, once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. You'll have ide cables coming out your dresser drawers and spare motherboads in your bathroom. You gotta ask yourself is it worth saving a few hundred bucks and having a kickass machine at all times? I'm not sure, but I'm building a building fool and I just can't stop.
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but only if you like the internet the way it is, and not heavily regulated, or if you like being able to send email with out it being monitored. I can't believe the apathy among computer enthusiasts when politicians in Washington who know nothing are deciding what the internet will be for future generations. These are decisions that directly affect users and programmers of the internet. One example is a supreme court case that will be heard in the next year or two regarding privacy and whether or not an ISP has to reveal the identity of it's subscribers if they have commited a malicious act(in this case slandered a company on message boards). They want to reveal the identities of people and prosecute them just because they said some bad things about the President of a company. That doesn't sound too free to me. Is that what you want, zero anonymity on the internet and total supervision of everything you do and say because it could be illegal? If you don't voice your opinion politicians won't care about you and they'll happily appease all the parents out there by totally regulating the internet, leaving us out in the cold. This is the type of thing where you wake up one day and it's too late to do anything about it. There could be as many as 4 supreme court justices chosen by the next president and those justices will decide what the internet is and how it should be regulated. The conservatives have always been pro-censorship while the liberals have generally been more in favor of the individuals freedoms over what could be called the moral majority. This election is crucial in the future of the internet and if you don't care about it then I'd better not see you whining on this message board in 8 years when all the freedom of the internet you've enjoyed is taken away. Vote Al Gore, you might not like the man, but the supreme court justices he would choose would preserve individual freedoms and not allow censorship. I wouldn't blatantly tell you who to vote for if I wasn't so scared of the other option. Vote strategically for the party and it's ideals, and not the man, to make sure our internet remains free. And to all of you people out there complaining about taxes, why don't you stop using the government roads, eating food the government makes sure is clean, using electricity the government makes sure is affordable, and using an internet that wouldn't have been possible without government funding. The government has done a lot for you, and it's a privaledge to live in this country where we have more opportunity for luxury than anywhere else, why don't you realize it.
What are you talking about??? The national debt tripled under Reagan and the economy was nothing but stagnant under Bush. When Clinton was elected and began instituiting his economic policies, the republicans in the house specifically said that they wanted no responsibility for his actions and policies. I say we give them no responsibility. Clinton definitely got help from the booming private sector, but many of his reforms have helped boost the lower classes into a much better position in our economy and therefore become better consumers and boost it even more. Trickle down economics are a joke, you're not going to help the economy by giving more money to the wealthy and hope that they spend enough to help the poor. Instead you must build up the consumer class so that there are more people with money to buy products and services from all of the emerging industries. Don't be fooled into thinking our economy will flourish no matter which candidate is elected as they both have very differing views on how to keep it strong. One has worked for the past 8 years, and the other led to the recession felt in the early 90's.
I don't mean to offend any third party candidate supporters here or anything, but I think this is an election where picking between the less of two evils is extremely important. The thing that people fail to realize is that the next president will probably get to pick atleast three supreme court justices. Don't look at the candidates, but their parties and what kind of justices they will pick. Whichever president gets elected will be out in 4 years, but the supreme court justices will be intrepreting the constitution as it pertains to our rights and the internet for the next 30 years. Do you really want 3 conservative justices who will decide that it is the governments place to regulate the internet and allow our freedoms to be taken away for the greater good. Bush and Gore might walk and talk alike, but their justices willl definitely have different views. The liberal justices in general have supported individual rights over the rights of the moral majority and have fought censorship in all its forms. Bush's core voters have always been the Christian Coalition and the religious conservatives. I don't have anything against these people but they always feel the need to tell me what I can and can't read and what I should and shouldn't do, even when it is none of their business. Gore's wife Tipper might be a nazi about censorship, but as long as he doesn't put her on the supreme court, the internet and our freedoms to privacy and free speech will be much more secure with him as president. If this much wasn't at stake I think I would definitely vote for a third party candidate, but I'm too afraid of what could happen to my freedom in the years to come.