Lee Parson, an 18-year-old in Minnesota who had found, slightly altered and re-released the Blaster code, prosecutors claim. Parson may have been seeking notoriety, or he may have had no clue how much damage the worm could cause: he did nothing to hide his identity and even included a reference to his personal Web site in the code. (He was arrested and charged with intentionally causing damage to computers; when his trial begins, probably this spring, he faces up to 10 years in jail.)
10 years?! What kind of ruthless, brutal regime would put teenagers in jail for 10 years, especially given the circumstances descrbied above? Oh yeah, the same one that fucking executes teenagers and the mentally retarded.
It just occured to me that the hysterical paranoia of these parents is deterimental to the constitutional foundation of American society. Please, for the sake of humanity, purge yourselves of this sentinal meme so you don't poison the next generation of parents with the idea that the censorship of informaton will somehow keep people "safe" from "potential harm". As good-intentioned as you may be you will not achieve your goals but may very well retard your child's concept of Freedom and Personal Liberty. This will perpetuate a cycle of people going out of their way to infringe on other people's rights [sic.] because you know whats appropriate or inappropriate for someone else. Respect your child's rights as you would any stranger, but offer guidance when they need it - which is very different from playing the role of authoritarian dictator. Wake up and get real!
I remember hearing a story done on this once on NPR. A 12 year old girl was murdered in her house and the only other person *in* the house once police arrived was her 15 year old brother. I don't remember everything about it but what I clearly remember is that he was bullied into confessing that he killed his 12 year old sister (later they found the actual murderer). They (the NPR show) played the tapes of his confession. It was disgusting... basically these two 'cops' were telling him that he failed a [fabricated] lie detector test and insisted that he was the one who killed his 12 year old sister until he began to break down and start to believe that he may have actually done it and couldn't remember it. I'm not sure about this case but from what I've seen out of the current administration in particular with regards to "Homeland Security" I have no reason to put trust what the feds say is even "usually" true; especially when they kidnap people and hold them for five weeks illegally and hold secret court hearings.
What? This should have been rated as funny. The original post had nothing made no mention of Bush or even faintly mimicked the comment "Eith you are with us, or are you are with the terrorists." If you were really trying to be serious then I wonder how you could have possibly hallucinated something completely different from what the original poster said.
Great book and a must-have if you enjoyed "Learning Perl" and would like to round out your knowledge of the language. Daimon Conway's "Object-Oriented Perl" is also a great book and would follow nicely from Randal's if your objective is to write good OO code in Perl.
Even though I already have Conway's book I still picked up Schwartz's since I need a quick refresher and Schwartz has a knack for being clear, concise and congenial for the real-world programmer.
Definitely consider picking it up if your working on a moderately complex project that would benefit from better code organization and maintainability. Using references, modules and objects is essential in such situations.
Ok sorry for the accusation!:) I didn't really believe that your post was from a market droid but the story about Sony is true so it did make me speculate. Enjoy your TV!
I haven't complained about this before on/. but have heard others do it. I had to with this one: This sounds incredibly like a paid advertisement including the first post (by some corporate lackey who does performs this sort of social espionage for a living)!
No seriously folks similar guerilla marketing tactics have been used before by the likes of Sony to promote a new video cell-phone doohickey. They would get some good looking people to start using pre-production units in very populated and/or touristy areas and try to strike up conversations with the people focusing on the phone. I guess they only had to say they worked for Sony if explicitly asked.
Maybe one of the issues is that IT departments especially in larger companies are not very proactive in offering new "official support" for anything besides the latest Windows release, therefore any Linux installations are deemed "unofficial" and are not supported well if at all by IT. Once enough rogue employees are running Linux desktops though or if/when a company starts offering Linux support for their main products IT will probably be forced to catch up at some point by management. It would be nice if companies dropped proprietery mail/groupware/office suite solutions too as that would really make a Linux desktop that much easier to use and support.
Yes there are some side-effects but this varies at least slightly from person to person. Two of the more pronounced side-effects are: it keeps you awake for if u take it at night like me u will not sleep but thats controllable if u can force yourself to not take it past a certain time, and two, loss of appetite, which worked out quite well for me since I had a few extra pounds to spare anyway. You may also get slight dry mouth/nose but its not really noticeable too much. I would suggest to at least try it, at least 10mg two times a day 4 hours apart. Oh yeah and since its an emphetamine is speeds up your heart rate but its not bad for you if you don't already have a fast heart rate.
I have been diagnosed with ADD but not until I was 20 yeard old. What you describe as your day sounds shockingly familiar. BTW you don't have to be hyperactive to have ADD, that would be specifically ADHD. The medications for m/AD[H]?D/i work really well but are of course, not perfect. I take 4, 10 mg pills of Adderall a day. If I'm at work I absolutely NEED my Adderall or I will just refuse to get any work done and I'll be crawling under my skin (like you I have an office/tech job with the web just a click away). After taking the Adderall my concentration starts to improve and my attention becomes "stickier" such that if I'm working on a task for more than 10 minutes I will probably follow that task to its completion or at least work on it for another hour or two. The trick is (when on the Adderall) to always force yourself to just start doing a portion of the work and realize that 10-15 minutes later you will find it very difficult to stop doing that work. One huge caveat though! If you start goofing off for 15 minutes you will find it very hard to stop goofing off and may get a solid hour or two of your time hacked off for making the mis-step. Overall I get a hella more work done (and very good work I might add;-) on the Adderall.
BTW, my first time taking it is how I really discovered I had ADD. I asked a friend at work if he knew of something that would keep me awake since I was really tired and he suggested to try one of his adderall. So I did and for the first time since I could remember I had an incredible feeling of relief and a sesation to all the mental static. I was finally able to concentrate.
You can find a few very interesting bits on massive OSS deployments at www.mysql.com. I remember seeing one for the U.S. treasury and another for some huge cable company. I believe they ran MySQL on Linux.
On private property? Like resteraunts, department stores, grocery stores, malls, corporate sites, auditoriums, floral shops, bistros, banquet halls, movie theaters, amusement parks, art galleries, car dealerships, arcades, hospital clinics, everybody elses plot of land, and even the appartment building that one may rent to temporarily use? Looks our designated Free Speech zones are getting kind of cramped don't you think?
...hold on a sec gotta wipe the ultra conservative BS off my eyes!
Ok so you think it's ok for someone wearing a buttom that says "Suspected Terrorist" gets kicked off the plane... for just wearing a buttom or actually being a terrorist? Wearing a button labeled "Suspected Terrorist" should be a pretty easy political message to decipher (as in "we're all suspected terrorists and treated as such"). So do "the rules" include ad hoc censorship of political speach?
Also, WTF does "When you board a plane, you no longer follow the Constitution to the letter --- it's not the open public." mean? So when you board a plane you lose your constitutional rights? As far as "its not the open public" I'm not sure wtf your talking about...
Honestly now, how can we go about allowing people to patent methods of causing chemical reactions? This is rediculous. I thought patents were suppose to protect the developer/artist by ensuring that they get credit (i.e., recognition) for their original works or discoveries but not to ensure ongoing "profit streams". This is similar to whats happening with SCO vs. Linux and the recent Slashdot article on Blizzard vs. Freecraft.
So I guess your not allowed to write your own programs and give them away for free if they could in any way shape or form interrupt the profit stream of a company who has enough money to invest in expensive lawsuits. I can understand suing someone who say, writes a bunch of cracking software to bypass the licensing scheme of your commercial software (and even then only if the software in question is not in End Of Life mode). But suing people over fricking ideas and having a reasonable chance of winning? IDEAS. I'de say that I would rather throw the whole idea of intellectual "property" out the window instead of being held hostage by corrupt government and industry. Yes there would be a downside to it, but is it really worth the downside we have now of enforcing IP? People can always make a profit from manufacturing physical objects unless people actually steal those physical objects in question, because then you dont have them and they do. Trying to commoditize thoughts (or sequences of bits) will just never work and a lot of already less well-off people will get screwed over by the already more well-off.
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I'm not particularly interested in Roswell or "ET" related conspiracy theories but I do find that the way "conspiracies" are discussed (atleast in U.S. mainstream media) is a bit silly. It seems there is a conspiracy that there are no such things as conspiracies.
Let me give an example which has nothing to do with aliens, the occult, or what have you:
The 'conspiracy theory' that 9-11 was actually an internal coup used to set the stage for an extremely controversial and anachronistic military doctrine of preemption. It's a 'conspiracy theory' that, if discussed and treated as a plausible scenario, could actually make much more sense of today's geopolitical scene than it does with the more mainline views. Unfortunatley this view of 9-11 is definitely not taken seriously and usually frowned upon in mainstream media. I've heard the idea (even on NPR) just brushed aside as 'just some conspiracy theory' which evidently shouldn't be taken seriously since its 'way out there'. But why? Why exactly? Why are certain ideas just brushed off as "conspiracy theory" without second thought? What makes it at all implausible that the world's strongest empire would engage in sociopolitical manipulation in order to get what it wants? I'm not arguing the theory here I'm just trying understand why people will (in all ranks of society) compeltely dismiss something that has happened all throughout the history of mankind as "way out there" and "just a conspiracy theory". Yes people LIE, CHEAT, and STEAL. "Power corrupts". There ARE such things as "conspiracies" and we've learned about them all throughout childhood in our history class and elsewhere. We hear of it in the news when Enron and Worldcom, et al. are busted for engaging in conspiracies. So all I'm saying is: some conpiracies should be taken seriously at least in discussion.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
Conspiracy \Con*spir"a*cy\, n.; pl. Conspiracies. [See Conspiration.]
1. A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
At my company they were hiring people shorlty before and after layoffs. What I think they are doing is not only cutting down the roster but also taking back on other people who they still need but will work for a lot less due to the 5-8% unemployment rate. People who have been at a company for a while and have accumulated many pay raises are prime targets for this kind of severance and replacement.
The TIA program apart from being appalling in and of itself intrigues me in conjunction with the U.S. Military's "Join Vision 2020" doctrine (parts 1 & 2). Especially interesting are the sections headed "Full Spectrum Dominance" and "Information Superiority".
Hell I would be employee of the month each month I had 'virtually no contact with management'.:) I think what we need to do here in the U.S. to boost productivity is to use the 'virtually no contact with management' model by out sourcing managerial positions instead of technical positions. That way companies could save big on their payroll savings and since noone understands managers anyway there's no real 'language-barrier' that hasn't already been put in place.
It's funny; today someone at work knew I had a Mac and was asking me about it. He's thinking of getting a new machine and so he's pondering a Mac this time around. He asked me if he could connect to work (via VPN) the same way he does from Windows. I happily told him yes he can especially now that Mac OS X natively supports VPN, and he can also use VNC and even a WTS client. Not only can he do everything he could do with his old Windows box, he can have a decent terminal to work with (cmd.exe sucks) and has all the perks of running UNIX (running remote X sessions, ssh, etc). He said one of the main reasons he was pondering a Mac was for its multimedia capabilities (Apple SuperDrive DVD Burner, iMovie, iPhoto, etc). He looks pretty convinved now that he knows all the tools are out there on the Mac for work as well as play.
US threatened to walk out of the WIPO meeting because the proposed treaty did not 'mandate patents for all fields of activity.'
Just like the U.S. pulled out of the Kyoto Treaty since Bush "will not accept a plan that will harm our economy."
Or, just like the U.S. is "upholding international law" by walking out on the U.N. when an absolute mandate for war was not immediately and unconditionally accepted.
Unemployment "only" up to 10%? That's 1 out of 10 guy; doesn't sound too good to me. I wonder how high would it have to get before you would call it "high", 20%, 25% (1 out of 4)?
As far as the economy is concerned; yeah the the bubble would have burst with Bush or not. That's why it's especially shocking to see his economic "stimulus" package consisting of ever more incentives for the super-rich leaving joe nobody to pick up the tab. His foreign policy initiatives (or 'initiviative' I should say), besides being just downright evil, are stifling any opportunity for new growth as it seems the DJIA sinks or flies depending on how many times Bush drops an 'axis of evil'-type catch phrase. In any case I'm sure we would be going in a lot better direction with Gore (or Nader!) in there than this drooling cowboy Bush.
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Sounds like you've never had to professionally support a large enough group of users to understand.
Lee Parson, an 18-year-old in Minnesota who had found, slightly altered and re-released the Blaster code, prosecutors claim. Parson may have been seeking notoriety, or he may have had no clue how much damage the worm could cause: he did nothing to hide his identity and even included a reference to his personal Web site in the code. (He was arrested and charged with intentionally causing damage to computers; when his trial begins, probably this spring, he faces up to 10 years in jail.)
10 years?! What kind of ruthless, brutal regime would put teenagers in jail for 10 years, especially given the circumstances descrbied above? Oh yeah, the same one that fucking executes teenagers and the mentally retarded.
It just occured to me that the hysterical paranoia of these parents is deterimental to the constitutional foundation of American society. Please, for the sake of humanity, purge yourselves of this sentinal meme so you don't poison the next generation of parents with the idea that the censorship of informaton will somehow keep people "safe" from "potential harm". As good-intentioned as you may be you will not achieve your goals but may very well retard your child's concept of Freedom and Personal Liberty. This will perpetuate a cycle of people going out of their way to infringe on other people's rights [sic.] because you know whats appropriate or inappropriate for someone else. Respect your child's rights as you would any stranger, but offer guidance when they need it - which is very different from playing the role of authoritarian dictator. Wake up and get real!
I remember hearing a story done on this once on NPR. A 12 year old girl was murdered in her house and the only other person *in* the house once police arrived was her 15 year old brother. I don't remember everything about it but what I clearly remember is that he was bullied into confessing that he killed his 12 year old sister (later they found the actual murderer). They (the NPR show) played the tapes of his confession. It was disgusting... basically these two 'cops' were telling him that he failed a [fabricated] lie detector test and insisted that he was the one who killed his 12 year old sister until he began to break down and start to believe that he may have actually done it and couldn't remember it. I'm not sure about this case but from what I've seen out of the current administration in particular with regards to "Homeland Security" I have no reason to put trust what the feds say is even "usually" true; especially when they kidnap people and hold them for five weeks illegally and hold secret court hearings.
What? This should have been rated as funny. The original post had nothing made no mention of Bush or even faintly mimicked the comment "Eith you are with us, or are you are with the terrorists." If you were really trying to be serious then I wonder how you could have possibly hallucinated something completely different from what the original poster said.
Great book and a must-have if you enjoyed "Learning Perl" and would like to round out your knowledge of the language. Daimon Conway's "Object-Oriented Perl" is also a great book and would follow nicely from Randal's if your objective is to write good OO code in Perl.
Even though I already have Conway's book I still picked up Schwartz's since I need a quick refresher and Schwartz has a knack for being clear, concise and congenial for the real-world programmer.
Definitely consider picking it up if your working on a moderately complex project that would benefit from better code organization and maintainability. Using references, modules and objects is essential in such situations.
Ok sorry for the accusation! :) I didn't really believe that your post was from a market droid but the story about Sony is true so it did make me speculate. Enjoy your TV!
I haven't complained about this before on /. but have heard others do it. I had to with this one: This sounds incredibly like a paid advertisement including the first post (by some corporate lackey who does performs this sort of social espionage for a living)!
No seriously folks similar guerilla marketing tactics have been used before by the likes of Sony to promote a new video cell-phone doohickey. They would get some good looking people to start using pre-production units in very populated and/or touristy areas and try to strike up conversations with the people focusing on the phone. I guess they only had to say they worked for Sony if explicitly asked.
Maybe one of the issues is that IT departments especially in larger companies are not very proactive in offering new "official support" for anything besides the latest Windows release, therefore any Linux installations are deemed "unofficial" and are not supported well if at all by IT. Once enough rogue employees are running Linux desktops though or if/when a company starts offering Linux support for their main products IT will probably be forced to catch up at some point by management. It would be nice if companies dropped proprietery mail/groupware/office suite solutions too as that would really make a Linux desktop that much easier to use and support.
Guess SCO is taking tips from the Bush administration on how to justify the unjustifiable.
Yes there are some side-effects but this varies at least slightly from person to person. Two of the more pronounced side-effects are: it keeps you awake for if u take it at night like me u will not sleep but thats controllable if u can force yourself to not take it past a certain time, and two, loss of appetite, which worked out quite well for me since I had a few extra pounds to spare anyway. You may also get slight dry mouth/nose but its not really noticeable too much. I would suggest to at least try it, at least 10mg two times a day 4 hours apart. Oh yeah and since its an emphetamine is speeds up your heart rate but its not bad for you if you don't already have a fast heart rate.
I have been diagnosed with ADD but not until I was 20 yeard old. What you describe as your day sounds shockingly familiar. BTW you don't have to be hyperactive to have ADD, that would be specifically ADHD. The medications for m/AD[H]?D/i work really well but are of course, not perfect. I take 4, 10 mg pills of Adderall a day. If I'm at work I absolutely NEED my Adderall or I will just refuse to get any work done and I'll be crawling under my skin (like you I have an office/tech job with the web just a click away). After taking the Adderall my concentration starts to improve and my attention becomes "stickier" such that if I'm working on a task for more than 10 minutes I will probably follow that task to its completion or at least work on it for another hour or two. The trick is (when on the Adderall) to always force yourself to just start doing a portion of the work and realize that 10-15 minutes later you will find it very difficult to stop doing that work. One huge caveat though! If you start goofing off for 15 minutes you will find it very hard to stop goofing off and may get a solid hour or two of your time hacked off for making the mis-step. Overall I get a hella more work done (and very good work I might add ;-) on the Adderall.
BTW, my first time taking it is how I really discovered I had ADD. I asked a friend at work if he knew of something that would keep me awake since I was really tired and he suggested to try one of his adderall. So I did and for the first time since I could remember I had an incredible feeling of relief and a sesation to all the mental static. I was finally able to concentrate.
You can find a few very interesting bits on massive OSS deployments at www.mysql.com. I remember seeing one for the U.S. treasury and another for some huge cable company. I believe they ran MySQL on Linux.
On private property? Like resteraunts, department stores, grocery stores, malls, corporate sites, auditoriums, floral shops, bistros, banquet halls, movie theaters, amusement parks, art galleries, car dealerships, arcades, hospital clinics, everybody elses plot of land, and even the appartment building that one may rent to temporarily use? Looks our designated Free Speech zones are getting kind of cramped don't you think?
...hold on a sec gotta wipe the ultra conservative BS off my eyes!
... for just wearing a buttom or actually being a terrorist? Wearing a button labeled "Suspected Terrorist" should be a pretty easy political message to decipher (as in "we're all suspected terrorists and treated as such"). So do "the rules" include ad hoc censorship of political speach?
Ok so you think it's ok for someone wearing a buttom that says "Suspected Terrorist" gets kicked off the plane
Also, WTF does "When you board a plane, you no longer follow the Constitution to the letter --- it's not the open public." mean? So when you board a plane you lose your constitutional rights? As far as "its not the open public" I'm not sure wtf your talking about...
I remember Dell offering Red Hat on desktop machines... or was that only considered "corporate" desktops vs. home use desktops?
Honestly now, how can we go about allowing people to patent methods of causing chemical reactions? This is rediculous. I thought patents were suppose to protect the developer/artist by ensuring that they get credit (i.e., recognition) for their original works or discoveries but not to ensure ongoing "profit streams". This is similar to whats happening with SCO vs. Linux and the recent Slashdot article on Blizzard vs. Freecraft.
So I guess your not allowed to write your own programs and give them away for free if they could in any way shape or form interrupt the profit stream of a company who has enough money to invest in expensive lawsuits. I can understand suing someone who say, writes a bunch of cracking software to bypass the licensing scheme of your commercial software (and even then only if the software in question is not in End Of Life mode). But suing people over fricking ideas and having a reasonable chance of winning? IDEAS. I'de say that I would rather throw the whole idea of intellectual "property" out the window instead of being held hostage by corrupt government and industry. Yes there would be a downside to it, but is it really worth the downside we have now of enforcing IP? People can always make a profit from manufacturing physical objects unless people actually steal those physical objects in question, because then you dont have them and they do. Trying to commoditize thoughts (or sequences of bits) will just never work and a lot of already less well-off people will get screwed over by the already more well-off.
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I'm not particularly interested in Roswell or "ET" related conspiracy theories but I do find that the way "conspiracies" are discussed (atleast in U.S. mainstream media) is a bit silly. It seems there is a conspiracy that there are no such things as conspiracies. Let me give an example which has nothing to do with aliens, the occult, or what have you: The 'conspiracy theory' that 9-11 was actually an internal coup used to set the stage for an extremely controversial and anachronistic military doctrine of preemption. It's a 'conspiracy theory' that, if discussed and treated as a plausible scenario, could actually make much more sense of today's geopolitical scene than it does with the more mainline views. Unfortunatley this view of 9-11 is definitely not taken seriously and usually frowned upon in mainstream media. I've heard the idea (even on NPR) just brushed aside as 'just some conspiracy theory' which evidently shouldn't be taken seriously since its 'way out there'. But why? Why exactly? Why are certain ideas just brushed off as "conspiracy theory" without second thought? What makes it at all implausible that the world's strongest empire would engage in sociopolitical manipulation in order to get what it wants? I'm not arguing the theory here I'm just trying understand why people will (in all ranks of society) compeltely dismiss something that has happened all throughout the history of mankind as "way out there" and "just a conspiracy theory". Yes people LIE, CHEAT, and STEAL. "Power corrupts". There ARE such things as "conspiracies" and we've learned about them all throughout childhood in our history class and elsewhere. We hear of it in the news when Enron and Worldcom, et al. are busted for engaging in conspiracies. So all I'm saying is: some conpiracies should be taken seriously at least in discussion. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913): Conspiracy \Con*spir"a*cy\, n.; pl. Conspiracies. [See Conspiration.] 1. A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
At my company they were hiring people shorlty before and after layoffs. What I think they are doing is not only cutting down the roster but also taking back on other people who they still need but will work for a lot less due to the 5-8% unemployment rate. People who have been at a company for a while and have accumulated many pay raises are prime targets for this kind of severance and replacement.
The TIA program apart from being appalling in and of itself intrigues me in conjunction with the U.S. Military's "Join Vision 2020" doctrine (parts 1 & 2). Especially interesting are the sections headed "Full Spectrum Dominance" and "Information Superiority".
you have a right against unwarranted searches and seizure of your person and property
Not anymore; this was even discussed on slashdot not too long ago.
Hell I would be employee of the month each month I had 'virtually no contact with management'. :) I think what we need to do here in the U.S. to boost productivity is to use the 'virtually no contact with management' model by out sourcing managerial positions instead of technical positions. That way companies could save big on their payroll savings and since noone understands managers anyway there's no real 'language-barrier' that hasn't already been put in place.
It's funny; today someone at work knew I had a Mac and was asking me about it. He's thinking of getting a new machine and so he's pondering a Mac this time around. He asked me if he could connect to work (via VPN) the same way he does from Windows. I happily told him yes he can especially now that Mac OS X natively supports VPN, and he can also use VNC and even a WTS client. Not only can he do everything he could do with his old Windows box, he can have a decent terminal to work with (cmd.exe sucks) and has all the perks of running UNIX (running remote X sessions, ssh, etc). He said one of the main reasons he was pondering a Mac was for its multimedia capabilities (Apple SuperDrive DVD Burner, iMovie, iPhoto, etc). He looks pretty convinved now that he knows all the tools are out there on the Mac for work as well as play.
US threatened to walk out of the WIPO meeting because the proposed treaty did not 'mandate patents for all fields of activity.' Just like the U.S. pulled out of the Kyoto Treaty since Bush "will not accept a plan that will harm our economy." Or, just like the U.S. is "upholding international law" by walking out on the U.N. when an absolute mandate for war was not immediately and unconditionally accepted.
Unemployment "only" up to 10%? That's 1 out of 10 guy; doesn't sound too good to me. I wonder how high would it have to get before you would call it "high", 20%, 25% (1 out of 4)? As far as the economy is concerned; yeah the the bubble would have burst with Bush or not. That's why it's especially shocking to see his economic "stimulus" package consisting of ever more incentives for the super-rich leaving joe nobody to pick up the tab. His foreign policy initiatives (or 'initiviative' I should say), besides being just downright evil, are stifling any opportunity for new growth as it seems the DJIA sinks or flies depending on how many times Bush drops an 'axis of evil'-type catch phrase. In any case I'm sure we would be going in a lot better direction with Gore (or Nader!) in there than this drooling cowboy Bush.