Sounds like this might be useful for coaxial or fiber optic cable as well, perhaps vastly increasing the capacity of that? It might be able to be put to use in a much more quick way on that medium. Then you dont have to worry about the electromagnetic waves breaking strands of DNA in your body since its confined to the cable, given the very well justified concerns that EMF waves from cell phones could damage the body, which is an entirely reasonable concern since DNA in the body is actually rather delicate and is held together by EMF fields, which can be disrupted by an external EMF source.
Infinite bandwidth fiber optic connections would be a nice breakthrough. And it would end all of this ISP throttling nonsense.
Not many have mentioned this but one of Kodaks mistakes was not going into high end SLR digital camera market. Kodak did go into digital, but in fact, the low end market, which odd enough, the market for low end standalone cameras is shrinking. That is due to cell phones.
Why , does a window manager to be tied to DRIVERS? Give me a break! I would recommend just dropping KDE and using XFCE, or even FVWM, its fast, it doesnt use much RAM and it actually follows good X design philosophy.
Another question, why not just allow Kwin to use an OpenGL software renderer (Mesa) if there isn no hardware support. OpenGL is an A P I, that means that you should be able to drop in a software renderer as a backup if there is not adequate hardware rendering. Whats so hard about this for this dolts to figure out?
Of course the US governments attitude to websites is going to have an affect on the confidence of website operators to be able to locate there and may make many look at other countries to host it instead. The prosecution of the web site owners for the actions of their users, which they cannot control, most stop, as well as the PIPA and SOPA nonsense, and the country needs to implement full Network Nuetrality. That is a recipe for creating a truly pro-consumer, pro-jobs environment that is also good for website operators.
The fact is that the GOP pretty much is an enemy of freedom, and has for years been the paid agent of the large media corporations which seems to want to trample over free speech turn the webpage in to a one way TV MTV equivalent. Another concerning thing is the fact that the conservatives are regressives and often driven by extreme theocratic tendancies, ready to force their religious ideas and moralities on others and trample over freedom of speech as a result.The high levels of income inequality that the GOP has caused through our low taxes on the wealthy has also been detrimental to other businesses, by draining money out of the pockets of the middle class, and shrinking the middle class significantly. if we really wanted to live in a country that was healthy we would restore the millionaire tax bracket to what it was in the 50s and 60s and elect liberals to office that will respect our freedoms, are not religious whackjobs, who will eliminate ridiculous laws that conservatives try to pass that lead to censorship and try to force the government into deciding what is "indecent", the government has no right to decide such a thing and things which are indecent cannot be censored, but we have social conservatives in the GOP who are basically totalitarian theocrats who would like to destroy free speech and force their religious moralities on everyone. We dont need a bigoted, theocratic religious whackjob religious nutjobs banning harmless and consensual activities such as pornography and other harmless, indecent things.
There needs to be a internet bill of rights that would also ban any censorship, that would prohibit ISPs or government from storing any information on traffic that can be used to monitor individual users such as source and destination IPs and so on, would stop ISPs from discriminating against certain traffic and so on. The fear based tactic they so often used exploits anxieties, and obscure the fact that any action or policy is not justifiable to prevent crime, such as survellience, tracking and monitoring without warrant are unacceptable in a free society and these things cannot be justified in order to prevent crime. If we allow these activities we open the door as well to their abuse by corporations and governments, they are perfect tools for trying to keep track of people who have unpopular views and opinons, and use that information against them. The less right to privacy people have, the less safe they are.
Many large corporations , such as the major record labels, have interests opposite that of small businesses and common people. Their goal is to maintain and consolidate wealth and that means hoarding and consolidating wealthy by suppressing the wages of other workers and using their control over large parts of the money to basically consolidate wealthy. We need common, average people to have a lot of money in their pocket and to avoid having certain corporations dominating much of that, through suppression of wages, thus crowding out small businesses as well as impoversiing common workers. The policies that the wealthy elite hate the most, a high income and corporate tax on the wealthy, is exactly what the country needs to put more money back into average peoples pockets and to give workers more power such as through unions, all things that will give common people more spending power, money to buy things other than to shop at wal mart. The attacks on unions and the demands for more tax cuts for the rich are ultimately unhealthy, they allow a few corporations t
Per FLOP or whatever the modern mainframes actually are more cost efficient, as they reduce several inefficiences that exist with having banks of hundreds of individual units, and also, they still provide for redundancy, you can rebuilt an entire modern IBM mainframe without powering it down basically. Any older, aging computer is going cost than a more modern unit, that includes individual single CPU servers and mainframes, that an old mainframe is losing its cost value compared to newer stuff does not mean mainframes are no longer viable since modern mainframes are very competitive.
One thing that has been chaning that with the increasing power of individual chip CPUs, that these smaller systems can now handle all of the tasks a large mainframe used to. The mainframe market is shrinking but still can be competitve where hundreds of individual single CPU systems would still be the alternative.
My advice: forget about types. You are wrong to think that types are a debugging feature. They are not. Types were originally included for use in programming languages where there was no automatic memory alliocation and when memory usage had to be manually managed. With a VM language like javascript, this is no longer necessary, Some dynamically typed languages such as perl really have just one scalar type, a string, and there are several data structures and there are references and objects. All of the size types are simply unnecessary and actually created more complicated code. The size types do not prevent a wide variety of coding errors and really just not something that one needs to think a necessary thing to have for debugging.in Perl, in fact, is a much safer language than C because it lacks C's buffer overrun craziness, as well as cleaner code with less unnecessary typing mess to worry about. Perl automatically sizes its strings for data.
This is quite outrageous these cuts, and the mission is a good is a very good value. It is simply a terrible state of affairs that high value and relatively low cost probe programs are being cut when we have politicians talking about a much more expensive manned mars mission, if we can't afford unmanned probes we have no business contemplating a much more expensive and much worse cost-benefit wise manned mission,. Ask scientists and they will say unmanned probes are the best value, give us the most data for least money and have best scientific value compared to manned missions, which are vastly more expensive. It is indeed almost a twighlight zone insanity and backwardsness when we have people talking about spending massive amounts of money on a hugely expensive (hundreds of billions) human mars mission programme, which has terrible comparative value and return on investment to unmanned probes, and we face this kind of cuts to real science probe programs.
Unfortunately, US space exploration policy is driven more by buzzwards and hype than it is by real science. A human mission to mars would be very expensive and would, considering we can get a lot of data from unmanned probes, have very little additional value. For many people an manned mission is for entertainment value, it would be a very expensive and entertaining stunt. There is room for entertainment but spending hundreds of billions for this really way over the top.
It has mostly been Republican politicians who threaten huge cuts to the space probe programs and to NASAs science missions but then they see to have these crackpot ideas of sending a manned mission to mars just after they have attacked much higher value probes. ThIs i think speaks to the immaturity of them and the lack of understanding of science and the finer points of what are actually the most cost effective ways to obtain data. Republicans are simple minded, they are too ignorant to understand the value of a probe mission and satellites and unfortunately it takes a glitzy circus like manned mars mission stunt which has comparatively little science value, it is because they dont understand the science and what the probes are doing. It is similar to how they view foreign policy, they don't have any like of anything that requires the use of the mind rather than muscle,. such as diplomacy, the only thing that stimulates the Republicans is outright aggression, bombs, missiles, fighting etc, so GOP foreign policy is full of wars and plans for wars but with very little room for diplomacy.
The US clearly needs better leadership that is scientifically acute, that will continue to fully fund satellites, space probes and so on and is less aroused by stunts and entertainment that woujld be a manned mars mission,.
It makes sense that if these things are done to collaborate between the major nations of the earth. Why not include china as well, to pool resources, it will happen quicker, with rewards for everyone, and with more distributed cost.
this is such a massive project, with enormous cost, that such collaboration makes sense.
However, I am doubtful as to wether this is a good use of money. The fact is the moon is a very inhospitable place, it makes Earth look like a paradise. It seems like it makes better sense to spend the money to save the better planet and keep it haitable than to try to move to one that is totally uninhabitable.
Moon, mars and so on are all unprotected from solar rays having no magnetic field, which means they are constantly toasted by the sun. They have no oxygen atmosphere, weak gravity and enormous lists of other downsides. I think for Moon to even be viable there needs to be a water resource on the moon that could be developed locally.
These ideas are, when you look at the logistics, of trying to move to the moon or mars or create a base there, are just so outrageous. If we are talking about scientific research, they provide a very poor return on investment compared to probes, we can launch thousands of probes for what it costs to launch a few people into space.
It is truly a concept for people who are wild eyed and do not have any grounding in reality, efficiency, cost and practicality. Unless we can make a major breakthrough, like a free energy technology that can generate massive amounts of energy without fuel, anti gravity and so on, we really should shelve these ideas, and work on doing things to save the only habitable planet we have and what is really the best one we have.
These sorts of adventures are popular for people who look at them in the same light as tight rope walks and so other stunts, thats what a trip to the moon or mars would be, a stunt, but any real scientists can tell you the return on investment for an unmanned probe is far better and they can get far more information for less money with those.
wrong. There is nothing illegal about a file locker. What if I made a painting that I own and simply wanted to upload a copy of it via megaupload, to share it? That megaupload has legal uses shows that the safe harbor provisions do apply. And the search engines, megaupload cannot control what google indexes, so thats not under MUs control. Clearly the safe harbor seems to have been violated here. This should be a very ominous sign. this will result in making it imopossible to run any kind of user contributed content site at all in the US, they might as well arrest google execs for accidently indexing illegal material and for users uploading pirated videos to youtube.
so what megaupload "looks like" is not a valid legal determination here.
With these actions it will become impossible for people to share their own content that they made on the internet. It will give the FBI carte blanche pretext to carry out arrests for things they didnt even do, to punish site owners from what users outside of their control have done. This has chilling effects, it will destroy free speech and web services in the US and make it impossible to run community sites in the country.
I strongly agree, that, if especially, megauploads owners have been arrested due to material that users of the site had uploaded, this is a very ominous sign, really. If this is so, it will mean that it will be basically impossible to run a user generated content service such as youtube in the USA. it is impossible for site owners to police their sites, to arrest people for what others out of their control have done really brings us to a new letter of fascist insanity and is deeplyu worrying and concerning, it is clearly an outright attack on free speech in the US and will make operating any kind of site that allows for free speech, legitimate content, virtually impossible, as it would take only one illegal post which site owners have no way of being able to prevent, to give the feds a pretext to carry out their gestapo type sweep.
We should all be very concerned and worried about this ominous and dark development.
It seems like they are already trying to enforce SOPA before it has even been passed.
This is not really a bad idea, considering as well the moon has little erosion, you wouldnt just be looking for something in the recent history, but considering the moon is 4.5 billion years old, there is a possibility that someone could have been there in the past. It is sort of ridiculous to assume that if intelligent life did visit the moon that it would have done so, just in the past few years, or that, some past vist there long ago would be of no interest, of course it would be of interest. Also consider the fact that if an ET visited this area long ago, maybe 5 million years ago, any evidence on earth could easily disappear due to erosion, however, things would be much better preserved on the moon, if they had for whatever reason decided to land on the moon. Another theory is that there may be some universal prime directive treaty, where you cant mess with life on a planet, since the moon has no life on it, if you were an ET and wanted to watch and study the earth from afar withouit landing their, the moon might be a good location to do so.
i find the Qwikster split to be pointless and ticked off many users who wanted both. The fact is as well, regarding streaming, many people also want to rent Blu-rays as well, because the picture quality is better. THis is what is missing from many of these discussions. Blu-ray delivery is not dying, in fact, its the best quality format that is available. This is why delivery will still be an important option, many people such as me were having movies we wanted to see on bluray delivered and watching others that were not as important on streaming, so the two serves where complimentary, it was this way with MANY people, the idea that streaming is as good as bluray and that people want one service or another is wrong.
I would partly blame Firefox (!) however as well. Why would I say such a thing? Firefox fails to offer some means to block the loading of the flash plugin selectively, I would like for instance to by default block it and then opt in to allow certain pages to use flash. This should be integrated into a general security zones feature where you can create a security zone with this and settings for other things like javascript, to be enabled or disabled for the sites you have added to the zone. Firefox lacks the most basic tools to even manage flash adn so helps make the problem worse. And dont say it should be an add-on, because add-ons THEMSELVES are an inventiona to trojabs!
I am using the original definition of the term. You have redefined the term socialist. Socialism is a worker democracy. It does not intrinsically include any requirement that government must own the means of production. In a situation where government owns the means of production and it is not democratic it is called state capitalism.
Communism, nor socialism did not exist in the USSR. The USSR was a state capitalist country where a wealthy elite controlled and owned all resources. Communism is a stateless society where there is no elite at all and no central planning or authority. Socialism is a system where there is a democratic system whereby the people elect those who will make economic decisions and everyone has an equal voice in economic issues.
The Economy of the USSR is actually pretty similar to that of the USA, with a wealthy, powerful elite that controls all of the resources (capitalism). There is very little difference between state capitalism and corporate capitalism, both lead to massive consolidation of wealth and capital. In the US, the corporations maintain their dominance by controlling resources and capital people depend on, and controlling markets, this is maintained by factors such as size advantages, economy of scale, and other monopolistic-oligarchistic practices. The Corporations also have their own security forces which could even protect and assert their control over these resources. The only limit on corporate, unelected power is a democratic government, corporations would vastly expand their power in the case that democratic government is weakened or abolished, and that is the goal of the Republican party, to overthrow democratic government in the US and usher in the Corporations as absolute unelected economic royalty.
Communism as i said is a stateless, anarchic system. It is the opposite of corporate capitalism or state capitalistm found in the USSR, or today in North Korea. I do not sure Communism would work as, while most people are really wonderful, eventually an evil few would try to consolidate resources and begin to build up aggregations of resources, along with a security force to maintain such control, these things usually lead to the formation of a absolute monarchy. Free market mom and pop type capitalism in absense of a democratic government is almost exactly the same as communism, and would fail for the same reason that communism can often fail, that out of the decentralisation some evil individuals will try to decentralise and consolidate power.
A democratic state is necessary to guard against the antidemocratic consolidation of power by such evil, power hungry people. Democratic states rarely form spontaneously, the trend in centralisation by a want-to-be elite is to get power and keep it. Creating a democratic state by filling the power void can pre-empt the formation of monarchies however. And the more democratic government is weakened, the more the non democratic capitalist systems will take its place. In the US today, we have an already established anti democratic agalmation of power and the more the democratic government is weakened, the more of democracy itself that we lose as the corporations become even less regulated and their powers become more boundless.
Marx was properly correct in his diagnosis of the problems of capitalism, in that it is utterly repressive and seeks to exploit common workers to enrich an elite. Capitalism also seeks to manipulate or totally destroy democratic government, as democratic government limits corporate power, eliminating democratic government would infinite expand corporate power and turn corporations into economic monarchies. We have the fact that is the fact that capitalism is an emerging economic monarchy that often fights a war with or totally defeats or pre-empts formation of democratic states. Despite what people in the US believe, our capitalist system is not associated with democracy, it is a anti-democratic system where a few control many via vast control of resources. Power corrupts people and therefore it is wise through democracy to distribute power authority, both politically and economically, this means higher income taxes on the wealthy and limits to resource ownership that assures resource and income distribution are more equal.
Marx however, was overly optimistic and believed that capitaists could be easily defeated o
I disagree with him, movies and audio are easily digitized, so they have moved over to software distribution easily. But it is fallacious thinking that movie and audio can be digitized that other things can as well. For instance, houses, cars, and so on cannot be digitized, they may use some software but this is just one component.
Also, software runs on hardware, and that requires a physical devices, antennas, cables, and manufacturing and so on, and manufacturing of computers depends on hundreds of other industries, all the way back to mining the minerals which are used to build a computer and farming for food for computer engineers to eat.
It is more accurate to say that software basically is dependant on a hundred physical industries. In fact, these physical industies can exist without software, but software could not exist without them. Software has helped improved efficiency of operations but farming, mining, cars, houses, etc have been around long before software.
This is a really bad idea. A data breach WILL happen, i can gaurantee it. In fact, some with sinister motives will want to get that data, those of major corporations may want to get information on people who are trying to form a union, for instance, or a corrupt government official may want to get information on people critical of him.
What also concerns me is how this sort of thing will likely simply destroy privacy altogether and as well the system of search warrants may be rendered ineffective. Search warrants really need to be about particular people. Therefore you have to know who those people are already. If you ask for a search warrant for all who looked at a website, you dont know who those people are already, its basically just a blanket thing that pulls in massive amounts of data and allows massive survellance. It is indeed unconstitutional, of course. This is a very dangerous tendancy, and tis even possible they make up pages specifically for the purpose of people accidentily looking at the page, perhaps even, for instance, to develop a page about communism and then place a little bit of what is considered illegal somewhere on there, and viola, you get to arrest a bunch of communists.
To saw its slow is a little ridiculous. Compared to a 286? I know, that this is in comparison to other modern CPUs, but any modern CPU is pretty fast.
I wonder if AMD or Intel will ever manage to develop an x86 integrated chip for handheld devices. It would be pretty interesting to have binary compatability between desktop and handheld devices.
What other open source virtualisation is there? Virtualbox is actually pretty good, I dont know of any others that provide its features and ease of use.
you dont know too much about Teachers Unions and have been listening to far too much Republican bullshit. Teachers unions for years have fought for better education funding, better materials for their children. The fact is teachers are being paid far less in the US than they are in Japan. If teachers are being asked to do far more, at least we should pay them similar to what they are paid in other advanced countries. Look. Republicans whine and complain about teachers pay but then they give tax breaks to billionaires who exploit workers and destroy jobs.Teachers work hard and are far more valuable than some bankster, corporate elitists, etc. It is disgusting, Republicans purely sefish, greedy behaviour which is a crass display of all of the worst and most irresponsible and self centered behaviour. We punish those in society who are dedicated to serving the public, everyone rich or poor, and then reward those who enrich themselves from stealing from the commoners. Republicans and the conservatives are authoritarian fascists who are driven purely by greed, arrogance and cruelty and that is their entire ethos. Its time to restore altruism, compassion, decency and unselfishness to this society, where people serve the common good is seen as a noble trait, rather than selfishly acting to enrich themselves.
In related news, Republicans announce massive new cuts to US science research and computer analysis projects, in order to give new tax breaks to wealthy billionaires who offshore US jobs to china.
Is there any doubt any more that Republicans are traitors, owned by globalist corporations which hold no allegiance whatsoever to the US and view common people as things to be exploited to enrich themselves, and have done all they can to undermine the US;s basic critical public investments in its science and education capabilities, as well as our investments in training new scientists, and even health care and rehabilitative services so we are not leaving our own people to die on the street? Republicans are more than willing to offer up the poor and decimate essential public investments in science to give more tax breaks to bloated billionaires who make their riches by destroying this country and its industry and massive human exploiitation and abuse.
The US is a failing country because corporate elites have decided they no longer need the US and the American people are buying into the lies of the fascist Republicans whose entire agenda and every policy is designed to hurt americans, to destroy our countries ability to fund its needs, to give more tax breaks to billionaires who are destroying our jobs to enrich themselves at our expense. Their systematic attcks on unions and our education system is designed to leave the people of this country with no voice and with no rights. To reverse this, we need to increase taxes on the wealthiest elites and invest it back into this countries infrastructure, reducing income inequality and putting more money back into the middle class, who need to be employed to build the countries future. Republicans worship and give tax breaks to bankers and wall street types who make their money as parasites and adding nothing of value, and take millions of dollars, than attack teachers and firefighters who earn average, middle class wages and whose services could not be more critical and valuable. Unless something enriches wealthy billionaires republicans want to get rid of it, and what we see is reverse income redistribution where money is being taken from the middle class and being given to an ever bloated wealthy elite who seem to think they should be able to exploit workers and control and own everything in this country, to enrich themselves with profits gained by further impoverishing workers.
Until we can reinvigorate unions, renew our comiitment to public education and make college education a universal option, invest in new energy infrastructure to get us off oil and onto renewable energy, invest heavily in NASA and science and cut the defence spending, and move health care from the for profit insurance system to a France type universal health care system which provides better quality for half the cost, and publicly invest in our people, such as rehabilitation and aid to help make sure children are well fed and grow up to be healthy and smart, and that we are not allowing our people who have been laid off by offshoring billionaires to die on the street, the US will continue its downward slide.
I do believe you are wrong and that we have passed up the maximum reasonable and from a practical standpoint, functional population sizes. A billion or so people are malnourished and the attack on the rainforest and destruction of wilderness habitat increases. We are rapidly depleting non renewable resources, such as copper, coal, oil, and phosphorus, that have been burned through to feed a ever growing and larger population that cannot be fed without all of these non renewable inputs. people are increasingly dependant on food imports and food aid to survive, which places greater burden and stress on fragile governmental, corporate, transportation and technological systems. The problems with getting emergency food aid into these impoverished areas is itself a symptom of overpopulation and the greater stress it is placing on governmental and transportation infrastructure, the realistic ability of government and transportation infrastructure to cope is a part of the equation and in the real world, we can talk idealistically all we want about how government and transportation systems should function, but we live in the real world and have to deal with all of the imperfections of the real world. The fact is if many regions were not locally overpopulated, so that they would have a surplus of arable land, and we were not globally overpopulated which results in food supplies having to be moved around, often in fact, causing even more acute food shortages in poor countries as rich countries buy food from these poor countries, the stresses and problems would be less severe. Overpopulation aggravates a vast array of other problems and further stresses economic, governmental, social, and environmental systems. Furthermore, the issue of overpopulation and increases population growth narrows the surplus of arable land and food supply. in Fact, productivity of arable land is not steady, it fluctuates. An oversupply of such resources can help buffer against a fluctation and crop failures. We are talking about finiite non renewable resources here. The amount of land on the earth is finite, the amount of water is finite, and the amount of energy is finite. the planet is not getting bigger, new oil is not being generated in the ground prolifically, etc. Increased population narrow the buffer that we have between actual demand and the supply available, considering that supply can fluctuate due to various casues such as global warming, drought, or political causes, basically, we are making our selves more vulnerable to these things. Efforts to increase food production have relied heavily on fossil fuel inputs, and on fertilisers and chemicals which often have known carcinogenic and toxic effects or which pollute waterways and groundwater. Phosphate fertilisers are non renewable, as well are oil inputs. As population level grows, it will collide with intractable energy , fossil fuel and resource collapse. The results will not be pretty. I fully expect that by 2100 the level of starvation adn poverty will increase by billions, and wilderness habitat destruction will rapidly accelerate leading to the loss of over 50% of this planets special biodiversity, much of which is contained within the rainforests that are being rapidly destroyed, rainforests often located in poorer countries with the most rapid population growth. UN estimates global population will rach 10 billion by 2100, this will require the surface area of arable land of several brazil sized regions just to feed this additional population. With depletion of fossil fuel, metal resources we will outpace the ability to have any expectation of bringing such things as computers or cell phones to everyone, people will be lucky just to have food to eat, and probably should not even expect that. We probably could increase the worlds population to 10 billion. Overpopulation is not about this being necessarily impossible, but it is also about environmental quality, wilderness preservation adn quality of life. The quality of life in this overpopulated future will be very low. It will not be
Especially about the better quality, is the ironic truth. Remember those who were copying Star Wars Laserdiscs and making them into movie files, because the DVDs were often so slow in coming, and then the DVD releases were only of the new doctored versions and the original versions of star wars were impossible to purchase? The Laserdiscs of Star Wars were also reported to have better special features compared to the later DVD releases.Often times its impossible to get movies on DVDs from the companies, which basically is the companies tell fans, screw you, so fans just share the copies with themselves. For years companies have treated their customers like shit, and they then expect people to love them?
I am really truly disgusted that Obama would support this. I voted for Obama once in 2008 in the final election (but for Kucinich in primaries). I am a progressive and now i feel duped for having voted for what is a conservative pro corporate, anti worker president who apparently loves being ass kisser of Republicans and surrendering to their poor and working class hating, billionaire worshipping ways. The difficulty in 2012 is that there is no one else for a progressive to vote for, we have two conservative candidates running against each other. One can vote Green, but they have no chance of winning, but its better than not voting. People do need to vote , even for the greens, to show them that they are there and that progressives are out there, rather than to give the impression we don't care. I voted for Obama, and basically am greatly disappointed about what has basically turned into a conservative, fascist, war mongering, corporatist president. He would do far less damage if he would run under the Republican party where his ideas are more at home and stop polluting the Democratic party with his corrupt policies. It seems like what he says in speeches is just enough to try to appease progressives but then he turns around adn stabs us in the back in another attack on our rights such as this, or attacks on social security and medicare, continued failures in enacting a public option for health care and making universal health care a reality, and more tax breaks for the wealthy. I get the feeling he loves surrendering to the Republicans in tax cuts for the rich and more attacks on common people.
I think the only thing that might force Obama to take progressives seriously, rather than ignore them, a mass defection of progressives to the green party that would cut into his support base and threaten his chance of winning. That desperately needs to happen. An example of him ignoring progressives is that while he invited Republicans who want to continue to let the poor die while insurance companies rake in massive profits, he excluded advocates of medicare for all from the health care debates. He also started out with a proposal that was already conservative, the idea of the exchanges were the republicans own ideas from the 90s, leaving himself the only negotiating room was into conservative territory. This is all relevant to internet rights and fair use of copyright and having decent, non fascist copyright laws, since the same thing applies, it keeps selling us out to republicans and corporations.
it is also time to look at election reform to implement proportional representation so we are not stuck with the two party system, such as like they have in Europe, so minority parties like the greens can have representation, and that we are not locked into two parties. Currently we have an extremist conservative right wing party, the Republicans, that wants to scorch the earth and kill the poor, and we have a centrist party, the Democrats, that is where the Republicans were ideologically, 40 years ago. Its been said that Obama is more conservative than Richard Nixon or Eisenhower. Sad, but true.
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Sounds like this might be useful for coaxial or fiber optic cable as well, perhaps vastly increasing the capacity of that? It might be able to be put to use in a much more quick way on that medium. Then you dont have to worry about the electromagnetic waves breaking strands of DNA in your body since its confined to the cable, given the very well justified concerns that EMF waves from cell phones could damage the body, which is an entirely reasonable concern since DNA in the body is actually rather delicate and is held together by EMF fields, which can be disrupted by an external EMF source.
Infinite bandwidth fiber optic connections would be a nice breakthrough. And it would end all of this ISP throttling nonsense.
Not many have mentioned this but one of Kodaks mistakes was not going into high end SLR digital camera market. Kodak did go into digital, but in fact, the low end market, which odd enough, the market for low end standalone cameras is shrinking. That is due to cell phones.
Why , does a window manager to be tied to DRIVERS? Give me a break! I would recommend just dropping KDE and using XFCE, or even FVWM, its fast, it doesnt use much RAM and it actually follows good X design philosophy.
Another question, why not just allow Kwin to use an OpenGL software renderer (Mesa) if there isn no hardware support. OpenGL is an A P I, that means that you should be able to drop in a software renderer as a backup if there is not adequate hardware rendering. Whats so hard about this for this dolts to figure out?
Of course the US governments attitude to websites is going to have an affect on the confidence of website operators to be able to locate there and may make many look at other countries to host it instead. The prosecution of the web site owners for the actions of their users, which they cannot control, most stop, as well as the PIPA and SOPA nonsense, and the country needs to implement full Network Nuetrality. That is a recipe for creating a truly pro-consumer, pro-jobs environment that is also good for website operators.
The fact is that the GOP pretty much is an enemy of freedom, and has for years been the paid agent of the large media corporations which seems to want to trample over free speech turn the webpage in to a one way TV MTV equivalent. Another concerning thing is the fact that the conservatives are regressives and often driven by extreme theocratic tendancies, ready to force their religious ideas and moralities on others and trample over freedom of speech as a result.The high levels of income inequality that the GOP has caused through our low taxes on the wealthy has also been detrimental to other businesses, by draining money out of the pockets of the middle class, and shrinking the middle class significantly. if we really wanted to live in a country that was healthy we would restore the millionaire tax bracket to what it was in the 50s and 60s and elect liberals to office that will respect our freedoms, are not religious whackjobs, who will eliminate ridiculous laws that conservatives try to pass that lead to censorship and try to force the government into deciding what is "indecent", the government has no right to decide such a thing and things which are indecent cannot be censored, but we have social conservatives in the GOP who are basically totalitarian theocrats who would like to destroy free speech and force their religious moralities on everyone. We dont need a bigoted, theocratic religious whackjob religious nutjobs banning harmless and consensual activities such as pornography and other harmless, indecent things.
There needs to be a internet bill of rights that would also ban any censorship, that would prohibit ISPs or government from storing any information on traffic that can be used to monitor individual users such as source and destination IPs and so on, would stop ISPs from discriminating against certain traffic and so on. The fear based tactic they so often used exploits anxieties, and obscure the fact that any action or policy is not justifiable to prevent crime, such as survellience, tracking and monitoring without warrant are unacceptable in a free society and these things cannot be justified in order to prevent crime. If we allow these activities we open the door as well to their abuse by corporations and governments, they are perfect tools for trying to keep track of people who have unpopular views and opinons, and use that information against them. The less right to privacy people have, the less safe they are.
Many large corporations , such as the major record labels, have interests opposite that of small businesses and common people. Their goal is to maintain and consolidate wealth and that means hoarding and consolidating wealthy by suppressing the wages of other workers and using their control over large parts of the money to basically consolidate wealthy. We need common, average people to have a lot of money in their pocket and to avoid having certain corporations dominating much of that, through suppression of wages, thus crowding out small businesses as well as impoversiing common workers. The policies that the wealthy elite hate the most, a high income and corporate tax on the wealthy, is exactly what the country needs to put more money back into average peoples pockets and to give workers more power such as through unions, all things that will give common people more spending power, money to buy things other than to shop at wal mart. The attacks on unions and the demands for more tax cuts for the rich are ultimately unhealthy, they allow a few corporations t
Per FLOP or whatever the modern mainframes actually are more cost efficient, as they reduce several inefficiences that exist with having banks of hundreds of individual units, and also, they still provide for redundancy, you can rebuilt an entire modern IBM mainframe without powering it down basically. Any older, aging computer is going cost than a more modern unit, that includes individual single CPU servers and mainframes, that an old mainframe is losing its cost value compared to newer stuff does not mean mainframes are no longer viable since modern mainframes are very competitive.
One thing that has been chaning that with the increasing power of individual chip CPUs, that these smaller systems can now handle all of the tasks a large mainframe used to. The mainframe market is shrinking but still can be competitve where hundreds of individual single CPU systems would still be the alternative.
My advice: forget about types. You are wrong to think that types are a debugging feature. They are not. Types were originally included for use in programming languages where there was no automatic memory alliocation and when memory usage had to be manually managed. With a VM language like javascript, this is no longer necessary, Some dynamically typed languages such as perl really have just one scalar type, a string, and there are several data structures and there are references and objects. All of the size types are simply unnecessary and actually created more complicated code. The size types do not prevent a wide variety of coding errors and really just not something that one needs to think a necessary thing to have for debugging.in Perl, in fact, is a much safer language than C because it lacks C's buffer overrun craziness, as well as cleaner code with less unnecessary typing mess to worry about. Perl automatically sizes its strings for data.
This is quite outrageous these cuts, and the mission is a good is a very good value. It is simply a terrible state of affairs that high value and relatively low cost probe programs are being cut when we have politicians talking about a much more expensive manned mars mission, if we can't afford unmanned probes we have no business contemplating a much more expensive and much worse cost-benefit wise manned mission,. Ask scientists and they will say unmanned probes are the best value, give us the most data for least money and have best scientific value compared to manned missions, which are vastly more expensive. It is indeed almost a twighlight zone insanity and backwardsness when we have people talking about spending massive amounts of money on a hugely expensive (hundreds of billions) human mars mission programme, which has terrible comparative value and return on investment to unmanned probes, and we face this kind of cuts to real science probe programs.
Unfortunately, US space exploration policy is driven more by buzzwards and hype than it is by real science. A human mission to mars would be very expensive and would, considering we can get a lot of data from unmanned probes, have very little additional value. For many people an manned mission is for entertainment value, it would be a very expensive and entertaining stunt. There is room for entertainment but spending hundreds of billions for this really way over the top.
It has mostly been Republican politicians who threaten huge cuts to the space probe programs and to NASAs science missions but then they see to have these crackpot ideas of sending a manned mission to mars just after they have attacked much higher value probes. ThIs i think speaks to the immaturity of them and the lack of understanding of science and the finer points of what are actually the most cost effective ways to obtain data. Republicans are simple minded, they are too ignorant to understand the value of a probe mission and satellites and unfortunately it takes a glitzy circus like manned mars mission stunt which has comparatively little science value, it is because they dont understand the science and what the probes are doing. It is similar to how they view foreign policy, they don't have any like of anything that requires the use of the mind rather than muscle,. such as diplomacy, the only thing that stimulates the Republicans is outright aggression, bombs, missiles, fighting etc, so GOP foreign policy is full of wars and plans for wars but with very little room for diplomacy.
The US clearly needs better leadership that is scientifically acute, that will continue to fully fund satellites, space probes and so on and is less aroused by stunts and entertainment that woujld be a manned mars mission,.
It makes sense that if these things are done to collaborate between the major nations of the earth. Why not include china as well, to pool resources, it will happen quicker, with rewards for everyone, and with more distributed cost.
this is such a massive project, with enormous cost, that such collaboration makes sense.
However, I am doubtful as to wether this is a good use of money. The fact is the moon is a very inhospitable place, it makes Earth look like a paradise. It seems like it makes better sense to spend the money to save the better planet and keep it haitable than to try to move to one that is totally uninhabitable.
Moon, mars and so on are all unprotected from solar rays having no magnetic field, which means they are constantly toasted by the sun. They have no oxygen atmosphere, weak gravity and enormous lists of other downsides. I think for Moon to even be viable there needs to be a water resource on the moon that could be developed locally.
These ideas are, when you look at the logistics, of trying to move to the moon or mars or create a base there, are just so outrageous. If we are talking about scientific research, they provide a very poor return on investment compared to probes, we can launch thousands of probes for what it costs to launch a few people into space.
It is truly a concept for people who are wild eyed and do not have any grounding in reality, efficiency, cost and practicality. Unless we can make a major breakthrough, like a free energy technology that can generate massive amounts of energy without fuel, anti gravity and so on, we really should shelve these ideas, and work on doing things to save the only habitable planet we have and what is really the best one we have.
These sorts of adventures are popular for people who look at them in the same light as tight rope walks and so other stunts, thats what a trip to the moon or mars would be, a stunt, but any real scientists can tell you the return on investment for an unmanned probe is far better and they can get far more information for less money with those.
wrong. There is nothing illegal about a file locker. What if I made a painting that I own and simply wanted to upload a copy of it via megaupload, to share it? That megaupload has legal uses shows that the safe harbor provisions do apply. And the search engines, megaupload cannot control what google indexes, so thats not under MUs control. Clearly the safe harbor seems to have been violated here. This should be a very ominous sign. this will result in making it imopossible to run any kind of user contributed content site at all in the US, they might as well arrest google execs for accidently indexing illegal material and for users uploading pirated videos to youtube.
so what megaupload "looks like" is not a valid legal determination here.
With these actions it will become impossible for people to share their own content that they made on the internet. It will give the FBI carte blanche pretext to carry out arrests for things they didnt even do, to punish site owners from what users outside of their control have done. This has chilling effects, it will destroy free speech and web services in the US and make it impossible to run community sites in the country.
I strongly agree, that, if especially, megauploads owners have been arrested due to material that users of the site had uploaded, this is a very ominous sign, really. If this is so, it will mean that it will be basically impossible to run a user generated content service such as youtube in the USA. it is impossible for site owners to police their sites, to arrest people for what others out of their control have done really brings us to a new letter of fascist insanity and is deeplyu worrying and concerning, it is clearly an outright attack on free speech in the US and will make operating any kind of site that allows for free speech, legitimate content, virtually impossible, as it would take only one illegal post which site owners have no way of being able to prevent, to give the feds a pretext to carry out their gestapo type sweep.
We should all be very concerned and worried about this ominous and dark development.
It seems like they are already trying to enforce SOPA before it has even been passed.
This is not really a bad idea, considering as well the moon has little erosion, you wouldnt just be looking for something in the recent history, but considering the moon is 4.5 billion years old, there is a possibility that someone could have been there in the past. It is sort of ridiculous to assume that if intelligent life did visit the moon that it would have done so, just in the past few years, or that, some past vist there long ago would be of no interest, of course it would be of interest. Also consider the fact that if an ET visited this area long ago, maybe 5 million years ago, any evidence on earth could easily disappear due to erosion, however, things would be much better preserved on the moon, if they had for whatever reason decided to land on the moon. Another theory is that there may be some universal prime directive treaty, where you cant mess with life on a planet, since the moon has no life on it, if you were an ET and wanted to watch and study the earth from afar withouit landing their, the moon might be a good location to do so.
i find the Qwikster split to be pointless and ticked off many users who wanted both. The fact is as well, regarding streaming, many people also want to rent Blu-rays as well, because the picture quality is better. THis is what is missing from many of these discussions. Blu-ray delivery is not dying, in fact, its the best quality format that is available. This is why delivery will still be an important option, many people such as me were having movies we wanted to see on bluray delivered and watching others that were not as important on streaming, so the two serves where complimentary, it was this way with MANY people, the idea that streaming is as good as bluray and that people want one service or another is wrong.
I would partly blame Firefox (!) however as well. Why would I say such a thing? Firefox fails to offer some means to block the loading of the flash plugin selectively, I would like for instance to by default block it and then opt in to allow certain pages to use flash. This should be integrated into a general security zones feature where you can create a security zone with this and settings for other things like javascript, to be enabled or disabled for the sites you have added to the zone. Firefox lacks the most basic tools to even manage flash adn so helps make the problem worse. And dont say it should be an add-on, because add-ons THEMSELVES are an inventiona to trojabs!
I am using the original definition of the term. You have redefined the term socialist. Socialism is a worker democracy. It does not intrinsically include any requirement that government must own the means of production. In a situation where government owns the means of production and it is not democratic it is called state capitalism.
Communism, nor socialism did not exist in the USSR. The USSR was a state capitalist country where a wealthy elite controlled and owned all resources. Communism is a stateless society where there is no elite at all and no central planning or authority. Socialism is a system where there is a democratic system whereby the people elect those who will make economic decisions and everyone has an equal voice in economic issues.
The Economy of the USSR is actually pretty similar to that of the USA, with a wealthy, powerful elite that controls all of the resources (capitalism). There is very little difference between state capitalism and corporate capitalism, both lead to massive consolidation of wealth and capital. In the US, the corporations maintain their dominance by controlling resources and capital people depend on, and controlling markets, this is maintained by factors such as size advantages, economy of scale, and other monopolistic-oligarchistic practices. The Corporations also have their own security forces which could even protect and assert their control over these resources. The only limit on corporate, unelected power is a democratic government, corporations would vastly expand their power in the case that democratic government is weakened or abolished, and that is the goal of the Republican party, to overthrow democratic government in the US and usher in the Corporations as absolute unelected economic royalty.
Communism as i said is a stateless, anarchic system. It is the opposite of corporate capitalism or state capitalistm found in the USSR, or today in North Korea. I do not sure Communism would work as, while most people are really wonderful, eventually an evil few would try to consolidate resources and begin to build up aggregations of resources, along with a security force to maintain such control, these things usually lead to the formation of a absolute monarchy. Free market mom and pop type capitalism in absense of a democratic government is almost exactly the same as communism, and would fail for the same reason that communism can often fail, that out of the decentralisation some evil individuals will try to decentralise and consolidate power.
A democratic state is necessary to guard against the antidemocratic consolidation of power by such evil, power hungry people. Democratic states rarely form spontaneously, the trend in centralisation by a want-to-be elite is to get power and keep it. Creating a democratic state by filling the power void can pre-empt the formation of monarchies however. And the more democratic government is weakened, the more the non democratic capitalist systems will take its place. In the US today, we have an already established anti democratic agalmation of power and the more the democratic government is weakened, the more of democracy itself that we lose as the corporations become even less regulated and their powers become more boundless.
Marx was properly correct in his diagnosis of the problems of capitalism, in that it is utterly repressive and seeks to exploit common workers to enrich an elite. Capitalism also seeks to manipulate or totally destroy democratic government, as democratic government limits corporate power, eliminating democratic government would infinite expand corporate power and turn corporations into economic monarchies. We have the fact that is the fact that capitalism is an emerging economic monarchy that often fights a war with or totally defeats or pre-empts formation of democratic states. Despite what people in the US believe, our capitalist system is not associated with democracy, it is a anti-democratic system where a few control many via vast control of resources. Power corrupts people and therefore it is wise through democracy to distribute power authority, both politically and economically, this means higher income taxes on the wealthy and limits to resource ownership that assures resource and income distribution are more equal.
Marx however, was overly optimistic and believed that capitaists could be easily defeated o
I disagree with him, movies and audio are easily digitized, so they have moved over to software distribution easily. But it is fallacious thinking that movie and audio can be digitized that other things can as well. For instance, houses, cars, and so on cannot be digitized, they may use some software but this is just one component.
Also, software runs on hardware, and that requires a physical devices, antennas, cables, and manufacturing and so on, and manufacturing of computers depends on hundreds of other industries, all the way back to mining the minerals which are used to build a computer and farming for food for computer engineers to eat.
It is more accurate to say that software basically is dependant on a hundred physical industries. In fact, these physical industies can exist without software, but software could not exist without them. Software has helped improved efficiency of operations but farming, mining, cars, houses, etc have been around long before software.
This is a really bad idea. A data breach WILL happen, i can gaurantee it. In fact, some with sinister motives will want to get that data, those of major corporations may want to get information on people who are trying to form a union, for instance, or a corrupt government official may want to get information on people critical of him.
What also concerns me is how this sort of thing will likely simply destroy privacy altogether and as well the system of search warrants may be rendered ineffective. Search warrants really need to be about particular people. Therefore you have to know who those people are already. If you ask for a search warrant for all who looked at a website, you dont know who those people are already, its basically just a blanket thing that pulls in massive amounts of data and allows massive survellance. It is indeed unconstitutional, of course. This is a very dangerous tendancy, and tis even possible they make up pages specifically for the purpose of people accidentily looking at the page, perhaps even, for instance, to develop a page about communism and then place a little bit of what is considered illegal somewhere on there, and viola, you get to arrest a bunch of communists.
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To saw its slow is a little ridiculous. Compared to a 286? I know, that this is in comparison to other modern CPUs, but any modern CPU is pretty fast.
I wonder if AMD or Intel will ever manage to develop an x86 integrated chip for handheld devices. It would be pretty interesting to have binary compatability between desktop and handheld devices.
What other open source virtualisation is there? Virtualbox is actually pretty good, I dont know of any others that provide its features and ease of use.
you dont know too much about Teachers Unions and have been listening to far too much Republican bullshit. Teachers unions for years have fought for better education funding, better materials for their children. The fact is teachers are being paid far less in the US than they are in Japan. If teachers are being asked to do far more, at least we should pay them similar to what they are paid in other advanced countries. Look. Republicans whine and complain about teachers pay but then they give tax breaks to billionaires who exploit workers and destroy jobs.Teachers work hard and are far more valuable than some bankster, corporate elitists, etc. It is disgusting, Republicans purely sefish, greedy behaviour which is a crass display of all of the worst and most irresponsible and self centered behaviour. We punish those in society who are dedicated to serving the public, everyone rich or poor, and then reward those who enrich themselves from stealing from the commoners. Republicans and the conservatives are authoritarian fascists who are driven purely by greed, arrogance and cruelty and that is their entire ethos. Its time to restore altruism, compassion, decency and unselfishness to this society, where people serve the common good is seen as a noble trait, rather than selfishly acting to enrich themselves.
In related news, Republicans announce massive new cuts to US science research and computer analysis projects, in order to give new tax breaks to wealthy billionaires who offshore US jobs to china.
Is there any doubt any more that Republicans are traitors, owned by globalist corporations which hold no allegiance whatsoever to the US and view common people as things to be exploited to enrich themselves, and have done all they can to undermine the US;s basic critical public investments in its science and education capabilities, as well as our investments in training new scientists, and even health care and rehabilitative services so we are not leaving our own people to die on the street? Republicans are more than willing to offer up the poor and decimate essential public investments in science to give more tax breaks to bloated billionaires who make their riches by destroying this country and its industry and massive human exploiitation and abuse.
The US is a failing country because corporate elites have decided they no longer need the US and the American people are buying into the lies of the fascist Republicans whose entire agenda and every policy is designed to hurt americans, to destroy our countries ability to fund its needs, to give more tax breaks to billionaires who are destroying our jobs to enrich themselves at our expense. Their systematic attcks on unions and our education system is designed to leave the people of this country with no voice and with no rights. To reverse this, we need to increase taxes on the wealthiest elites and invest it back into this countries infrastructure, reducing income inequality and putting more money back into the middle class, who need to be employed to build the countries future. Republicans worship and give tax breaks to bankers and wall street types who make their money as parasites and adding nothing of value, and take millions of dollars, than attack teachers and firefighters who earn average, middle class wages and whose services could not be more critical and valuable. Unless something enriches wealthy billionaires republicans want to get rid of it, and what we see is reverse income redistribution where money is being taken from the middle class and being given to an ever bloated wealthy elite who seem to think they should be able to exploit workers and control and own everything in this country, to enrich themselves with profits gained by further impoverishing workers.
Until we can reinvigorate unions, renew our comiitment to public education and make college education a universal option, invest in new energy infrastructure to get us off oil and onto renewable energy, invest heavily in NASA and science and cut the defence spending, and move health care from the for profit insurance system to a France type universal health care system which provides better quality for half the cost, and publicly invest in our people, such as rehabilitation and aid to help make sure children are well fed and grow up to be healthy and smart, and that we are not allowing our people who have been laid off by offshoring billionaires to die on the street, the US will continue its downward slide.
I do believe you are wrong and that we have passed up the maximum reasonable and from a practical standpoint, functional population sizes. A billion or so people are malnourished and the attack on the rainforest and destruction of wilderness habitat increases. We are rapidly depleting non renewable resources, such as copper, coal, oil, and phosphorus, that have been burned through to feed a ever growing and larger population that cannot be fed without all of these non renewable inputs. people are increasingly dependant on food imports and food aid to survive, which places greater burden and stress on fragile governmental, corporate, transportation and technological systems. The problems with getting emergency food aid into these impoverished areas is itself a symptom of overpopulation and the greater stress it is placing on governmental and transportation infrastructure, the realistic ability of government and transportation infrastructure to cope is a part of the equation and in the real world, we can talk idealistically all we want about how government and transportation systems should function, but we live in the real world and have to deal with all of the imperfections of the real world. The fact is if many regions were not locally overpopulated, so that they would have a surplus of arable land, and we were not globally overpopulated which results in food supplies having to be moved around, often in fact, causing even more acute food shortages in poor countries as rich countries buy food from these poor countries, the stresses and problems would be less severe. Overpopulation aggravates a vast array of other problems and further stresses economic, governmental, social, and environmental systems. Furthermore, the issue of overpopulation and increases population growth narrows the surplus of arable land and food supply. in Fact, productivity of arable land is not steady, it fluctuates. An oversupply of such resources can help buffer against a fluctation and crop failures. We are talking about finiite non renewable resources here. The amount of land on the earth is finite, the amount of water is finite, and the amount of energy is finite. the planet is not getting bigger, new oil is not being generated in the ground prolifically, etc. Increased population narrow the buffer that we have between actual demand and the supply available, considering that supply can fluctuate due to various casues such as global warming, drought, or political causes, basically, we are making our selves more vulnerable to these things. Efforts to increase food production have relied heavily on fossil fuel inputs, and on fertilisers and chemicals which often have known carcinogenic and toxic effects or which pollute waterways and groundwater. Phosphate fertilisers are non renewable, as well are oil inputs. As population level grows, it will collide with intractable energy , fossil fuel and resource collapse. The results will not be pretty. I fully expect that by 2100 the level of starvation adn poverty will increase by billions, and wilderness habitat destruction will rapidly accelerate leading to the loss of over 50% of this planets special biodiversity, much of which is contained within the rainforests that are being rapidly destroyed, rainforests often located in poorer countries with the most rapid population growth. UN estimates global population will rach 10 billion by 2100, this will require the surface area of arable land of several brazil sized regions just to feed this additional population. With depletion of fossil fuel, metal resources we will outpace the ability to have any expectation of bringing such things as computers or cell phones to everyone, people will be lucky just to have food to eat, and probably should not even expect that. We probably could increase the worlds population to 10 billion. Overpopulation is not about this being necessarily impossible, but it is also about environmental quality, wilderness preservation adn quality of life. The quality of life in this overpopulated future will be very low. It will not be
Especially about the better quality, is the ironic truth. Remember those who were copying Star Wars Laserdiscs and making them into movie files, because the DVDs were often so slow in coming, and then the DVD releases were only of the new doctored versions and the original versions of star wars were impossible to purchase? The Laserdiscs of Star Wars were also reported to have better special features compared to the later DVD releases.Often times its impossible to get movies on DVDs from the companies, which basically is the companies tell fans, screw you, so fans just share the copies with themselves. For years companies have treated their customers like shit, and they then expect people to love them?
I am really truly disgusted that Obama would support this. I voted for Obama once in 2008 in the final election (but for Kucinich in primaries). I am a progressive and now i feel duped for having voted for what is a conservative pro corporate, anti worker president who apparently loves being ass kisser of Republicans and surrendering to their poor and working class hating, billionaire worshipping ways. The difficulty in 2012 is that there is no one else for a progressive to vote for, we have two conservative candidates running against each other. One can vote Green, but they have no chance of winning, but its better than not voting. People do need to vote , even for the greens, to show them that they are there and that progressives are out there, rather than to give the impression we don't care. I voted for Obama, and basically am greatly disappointed about what has basically turned into a conservative, fascist, war mongering, corporatist president. He would do far less damage if he would run under the Republican party where his ideas are more at home and stop polluting the Democratic party with his corrupt policies. It seems like what he says in speeches is just enough to try to appease progressives but then he turns around adn stabs us in the back in another attack on our rights such as this, or attacks on social security and medicare, continued failures in enacting a public option for health care and making universal health care a reality, and more tax breaks for the wealthy. I get the feeling he loves surrendering to the Republicans in tax cuts for the rich and more attacks on common people.
I think the only thing that might force Obama to take progressives seriously, rather than ignore them, a mass defection of progressives to the green party that would cut into his support base and threaten his chance of winning. That desperately needs to happen. An example of him ignoring progressives is that while he invited Republicans who want to continue to let the poor die while insurance companies rake in massive profits, he excluded advocates of medicare for all from the health care debates. He also started out with a proposal that was already conservative, the idea of the exchanges were the republicans own ideas from the 90s, leaving himself the only negotiating room was into conservative territory. This is all relevant to internet rights and fair use of copyright and having decent, non fascist copyright laws, since the same thing applies, it keeps selling us out to republicans and corporations.
it is also time to look at election reform to implement proportional representation so we are not stuck with the two party system, such as like they have in Europe, so minority parties like the greens can have representation, and that we are not locked into two parties. Currently we have an extremist conservative right wing party, the Republicans, that wants to scorch the earth and kill the poor, and we have a centrist party, the Democrats, that is where the Republicans were ideologically, 40 years ago. Its been said that Obama is more conservative than Richard Nixon or Eisenhower. Sad, but true.