Bush got more votes than any American in history.
That statistic has been rankling me all day. To say that this is an accomplishment for Bush is ludicrous. The fact of the matter is that both Bush AND Kerry got more votes than any other candidates in history. Bush won by a very slim margin, and the slimness of that margin is unaffected by the fact that there was a big turnout.
It's wonderful that there was such a great turnout. The turnout was increased by the fact that more people feel passionate about the problems around them, and by the excellent jobs done by organizations devoted to getting voters out there. These are all good things.
But to say that Bush got the most votes of any president in history is silly. You might as well say that Kerry got more votes than any other presidential election loser in history. It's true. It doesn't mean he did any better against Bush. It jsut means there were lots of voters and most of them didn't vote for a tertiary party.
A lot of people, when they hear that Bush got more votes than anybody else in history, think that this means he has more popular support than anybody in history. And that just isn't true. I feel it's incredibly irresponsible for people or the media to perpetuate this misunderstanding of the statistic.
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It wouldn't need to be a replacement operating system - it would simply boot into a Linux-based environment, load up a Google browser of some kind (branded Firefox, whatever) and take you to a login screen that grants you access to your personal desktop where you find web-based utilities including GMail, GMailFS for storage, Google IM, and whatever else you can think of. Pretty much everything in Google Labs and then some. It could even include VPN software to allow secure access your own desktop, printers, etc.
Who cares what the underlying OS is? It could be anything, although Linux would be a best bet, methinks. The point is that the whole experience would be web-based and could be accomplished on any machine with a network connection.
But forget the CD - just put the whole shebang on a bootable USB memory stick keychain. Now you take it with you everywhere.
THAT would be incredibly handy. (It would also be a killer wireless PDA app.)
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Bush got more votes than any American in history. That statistic has been rankling me all day. To say that this is an accomplishment for Bush is ludicrous. The fact of the matter is that both Bush AND Kerry got more votes than any other candidates in history. Bush won by a very slim margin, and the slimness of that margin is unaffected by the fact that there was a big turnout. It's wonderful that there was such a great turnout. The turnout was increased by the fact that more people feel passionate about the problems around them, and by the excellent jobs done by organizations devoted to getting voters out there. These are all good things. But to say that Bush got the most votes of any president in history is silly. You might as well say that Kerry got more votes than any other presidential election loser in history. It's true. It doesn't mean he did any better against Bush. It jsut means there were lots of voters and most of them didn't vote for a tertiary party. A lot of people, when they hear that Bush got more votes than anybody else in history, think that this means he has more popular support than anybody in history. And that just isn't true. I feel it's incredibly irresponsible for people or the media to perpetuate this misunderstanding of the statistic. m
It wouldn't need to be a replacement operating system - it would simply boot into a Linux-based environment, load up a Google browser of some kind (branded Firefox, whatever) and take you to a login screen that grants you access to your personal desktop where you find web-based utilities including GMail, GMailFS for storage, Google IM, and whatever else you can think of. Pretty much everything in Google Labs and then some. It could even include VPN software to allow secure access your own desktop, printers, etc.
Who cares what the underlying OS is? It could be anything, although Linux would be a best bet, methinks. The point is that the whole experience would be web-based and could be accomplished on any machine with a network connection.
But forget the CD - just put the whole shebang on a bootable USB memory stick keychain. Now you take it with you everywhere.
THAT would be incredibly handy. (It would also be a killer wireless PDA app.)
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