I'm sure he won't read this, won't care, but nonetheless I wrote this:
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Mr. Obama,
I am writing to you in regards to your vote on the telecom immunity/FISA bill today. I have never voted in my life, mostly because I've always felt that all politicians, especially presidential candidates, are all corrupted to the core. Bribes, AKA "campaign contributions", are what get laws passed in this country. I feel that we have become the United Corporations of America, in such that the country is completely run by corporate-bought politicians.
Then you came along. Your message of change and hope, your rejection of lobbyists, and your sincerity caused me to believe in a candidate for the first time in my life. I was a big evangelizer of yours. I thought that maybe, just maybe this country had a chance to return to the ideals that our founding fathers believed in. You seemed to be our country's last hope.
But then you voted in favor of the FISA/telecom immunity bill. For months you've been saying that you did not support it, but then after you won the primaries, you seemed to have changed your tune. I cannot fathom how the Barack Obama I supported in the primaries could vote for such a bill. The bill is beyond unconstitutional. Increasing the president's abilities to illegally spy on Americans is bad enough, but now the telecoms who illegally participated in the past get immunity. How is this change? How is this hope? How is this anything different than the past decades of corporate bought and paid for government? Removing even more of our civil liberties, and giving a "get out of jail free" card to those telecoms is not change. It's more of the same.
I'm sure your position was switched because your top analysts told you that a vote against it would make you seem soft on terrorism. I had assumed you would do what you do best though - stand up and explain the situation from your perspective, and straighten everyone out. You did the same thing with the whole Jeremiah Wright ordeal. The media was having a frenzy, and you did something unprecedented - you talked to the media and the American people like a real person, not a politician. I had assumed you would stand your ground with the FISA bill, and address the American people as to why you voted that way. But instead, you fell into the trap that the current administration's fearmongering has laid.
I'm very sorry that you voted for this bill. With one single vote of yours, you have now lost me as a voter. I will no longer endorse you to those I know, and will work to make sure people I know understand the implications of this illegal bill you voted for. I know I am not the only one that feels this way. The internet is swarming with angry, upset supporters of yours, who feel the same as I do. They too will be abstaining from voting this November.
I haven't given up on you yet, and I'm hoping that you will do something publicly in the next few days to address this, and win my support back. I want to believe in hope and change, but frankly all I see now is another politician who managed to trick me. I hope you can prove me wrong.
I recently setup ubuntu, kubuntu with kde3, and kubuntu with kde4 on 3 separate volumes on my macbook. With ubuntu and kubuntu/kde3, i booted into it and it saw my wireless network, asked me for the wpa key, and i was signed in. i was pleasantly surprised. with kde4, it didn't event realize i had a wireless card, evn though it showed that it was using a restricted driver for it. i tried for an hour to get wireless to work, but with no avail.
for my second test, i connected to all 3 of these instances remotely via Leopard's builtin vnc viewer. again, with ubuntu and kde3 everything works great. with kde4, the remote screen had color splotches everywhere, menus would disappear, etc. the actual desktop on the computer was ok, but messed up in vnc.
these tests were all done about 2 weeks ago using ubuntu/kubuntu 8.04 with all the latest patches at the time. in my limited experience, kde4 felt like alpha software at best. i really want to like kde4, so hopefully 4.1 will fix these issues.
I expect that sort of misleading headline from the mainstream press, but Slashdot should really have fixed it.
You must be new here. Slashdottians don't read the article, only the summary.
We get those too, and I laugh every time. Another wonderful thing they do is they send us a net send message whenever there is a tornado drill. The problem is that the message is telling us that the tornado drill is OVER, and that we can come back to our desk now. We of course, are out in the hallway with no computer access, sitting around waiting for it to end.
I work for the DoD, and they have made it very clear - if IE 7.0, Windows Vista, or Office Vista is found on the network, you're in deep shit. But hell, we're still not even allowed to install SP1 for Windows 2003.
Or is that just the earth? I always get those confused. In any case, it would have been really cool to be Adam and Eve, and get to ride around on jesus horses (what you hellbound godless sinners refer to as "dinosaurs".
And it's also safe to say that the only reason arabs are dying from American bombings is because the arabs attacked us first. They started the mess, and we'll finish it, even if it means making the Middle East a giant sheet of glass.
Then we wouldn't have this problem. Seriously, there is a reason for what is happening here. Arabs performed terrorist attacks on US soil, and they have made it their life's mission to bring down the USA, and kill all the jews. Until this group of people can clean up their own house, how do they expect us to take any of them seriously? Stop performing jihad and attempting genocide, and maybe we will start treating you like human beings.
They were a necessary evil when the Industrial Revolution came about, but now they're just an unnecessary evil. The unions are nothign more than legal mafias. Just look at GM. I have 2 family members who work there. My brother-in-law is a toolmaker, and his job consists of playing cards, working out, watching TV, and taking naps. Oh, and for about an hour out of the day he actually has to do some actual work like reset a machine or something. Poor guy only makes $35/hour after being there for a year. He started at $28 an hour. He has no college degree either, so GM is paying for him to get his journeyman's card, and pays for him to attend school (pays for the school plus his hourly wage why he is there). Up until recently, he could take as much overtime as he wanted, including double and sometimes triple time on Sunday. Guess what he pays for family health insurance? $0.00 a month. I guess this is why GM is so financially sound, oh wait.......
Is that when its so misterious that they're is actual myst around it? You minus well knot even reed articles that our written by peeple with such bad speeling.
Christians think that people will be forced to wear this "mark of the beast", and they are trying to "save souls" by preventing this from being forced on them. I'm sure once this had been done, the enxt step will be to outlaw it altogether.
Baby steps.
They're not black holes, they're just a result of Intelligent Darkness. Seriously, why do we teach kids today the theory of black holes without not also teaching them about Intelligent Darkness?
This would have been funny, had you put the correct value ($936) instead of $926. I won't comment on "ti" either. Don't let an attempt at humor get in the way of proofreading.
I work on an air force base, and not only is IE the standard, but Firefox is on the list of unapproved apps. so if you're caught using it via the monthly scans, you're forced to uninstall it.
1. I will see it in theaters twice, just as I have with the other 2. I'll see it once in a regular theater for the midnight showing, and the other in digital about a week later. I did the same for EP2 when it came out. I see every good movie in a theater twice, no more.
2. I will buy the DVDs, just as I did witht he other 2. In fact, I have the VHS AND DVD for EP1, because we tricked us all into believing it would be on VHS only.
I just want to see it early, that's all. FYI, I have an XBox with a modchip and a 200 gig drive, and rather than renting the game for $3.00 and copying it, I chose to support Lucas and buy the "Revenge of the Sith" game for $50.00.
So once again, you're wrong!
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Mr. Obama,
I am writing to you in regards to your vote on the telecom immunity/FISA bill today. I have never voted in my life, mostly because I've always felt that all politicians, especially presidential candidates, are all corrupted to the core. Bribes, AKA "campaign contributions", are what get laws passed in this country. I feel that we have become the United Corporations of America, in such that the country is completely run by corporate-bought politicians.
Then you came along. Your message of change and hope, your rejection of lobbyists, and your sincerity caused me to believe in a candidate for the first time in my life. I was a big evangelizer of yours. I thought that maybe, just maybe this country had a chance to return to the ideals that our founding fathers believed in. You seemed to be our country's last hope.
But then you voted in favor of the FISA/telecom immunity bill. For months you've been saying that you did not support it, but then after you won the primaries, you seemed to have changed your tune. I cannot fathom how the Barack Obama I supported in the primaries could vote for such a bill. The bill is beyond unconstitutional. Increasing the president's abilities to illegally spy on Americans is bad enough, but now the telecoms who illegally participated in the past get immunity. How is this change? How is this hope? How is this anything different than the past decades of corporate bought and paid for government? Removing even more of our civil liberties, and giving a "get out of jail free" card to those telecoms is not change. It's more of the same.
I'm sure your position was switched because your top analysts told you that a vote against it would make you seem soft on terrorism. I had assumed you would do what you do best though - stand up and explain the situation from your perspective, and straighten everyone out. You did the same thing with the whole Jeremiah Wright ordeal. The media was having a frenzy, and you did something unprecedented - you talked to the media and the American people like a real person, not a politician. I had assumed you would stand your ground with the FISA bill, and address the American people as to why you voted that way. But instead, you fell into the trap that the current administration's fearmongering has laid.
I'm very sorry that you voted for this bill. With one single vote of yours, you have now lost me as a voter. I will no longer endorse you to those I know, and will work to make sure people I know understand the implications of this illegal bill you voted for. I know I am not the only one that feels this way. The internet is swarming with angry, upset supporters of yours, who feel the same as I do. They too will be abstaining from voting this November.
I haven't given up on you yet, and I'm hoping that you will do something publicly in the next few days to address this, and win my support back. I want to believe in hope and change, but frankly all I see now is another politician who managed to trick me. I hope you can prove me wrong.
Sincerely,
A Former Obama Supporter
for my second test, i connected to all 3 of these instances remotely via Leopard's builtin vnc viewer. again, with ubuntu and kde3 everything works great. with kde4, the remote screen had color splotches everywhere, menus would disappear, etc. the actual desktop on the computer was ok, but messed up in vnc.
these tests were all done about 2 weeks ago using ubuntu/kubuntu 8.04 with all the latest patches at the time. in my limited experience, kde4 felt like alpha software at best. i really want to like kde4, so hopefully 4.1 will fix these issues.
I expect that sort of misleading headline from the mainstream press, but Slashdot should really have fixed it. You must be new here. Slashdottians don't read the article, only the summary.
I wish I was joking.
Good ole' government. Last night at 11:37 PM the DoD distributed an email to all Blackberries informing them that the Blackberry service was down.
I work for the DoD, and they have made it very clear - if IE 7.0, Windows Vista, or Office Vista is found on the network, you're in deep shit. But hell, we're still not even allowed to install SP1 for Windows 2003.
Or is that just the earth? I always get those confused. In any case, it would have been really cool to be Adam and Eve, and get to ride around on jesus horses (what you hellbound godless sinners refer to as "dinosaurs".
All I need to do is make a batsuit, coat it in this stuff, and I'll be bulletproof.
And it's also safe to say that the only reason arabs are dying from American bombings is because the arabs attacked us first. They started the mess, and we'll finish it, even if it means making the Middle East a giant sheet of glass.
Then we wouldn't have this problem. Seriously, there is a reason for what is happening here. Arabs performed terrorist attacks on US soil, and they have made it their life's mission to bring down the USA, and kill all the jews. Until this group of people can clean up their own house, how do they expect us to take any of them seriously? Stop performing jihad and attempting genocide, and maybe we will start treating you like human beings.
As someone who spells "months" as "month's", I don't think you should be insulting these people.
They were a necessary evil when the Industrial Revolution came about, but now they're just an unnecessary evil. The unions are nothign more than legal mafias. Just look at GM. I have 2 family members who work there. My brother-in-law is a toolmaker, and his job consists of playing cards, working out, watching TV, and taking naps. Oh, and for about an hour out of the day he actually has to do some actual work like reset a machine or something. Poor guy only makes $35/hour after being there for a year. He started at $28 an hour. He has no college degree either, so GM is paying for him to get his journeyman's card, and pays for him to attend school (pays for the school plus his hourly wage why he is there). Up until recently, he could take as much overtime as he wanted, including double and sometimes triple time on Sunday. Guess what he pays for family health insurance? $0.00 a month. I guess this is why GM is so financially sound, oh wait.......
Is that when its so misterious that they're is actual myst around it? You minus well knot even reed articles that our written by peeple with such bad speeling.
Christians think that people will be forced to wear this "mark of the beast", and they are trying to "save souls" by preventing this from being forced on them. I'm sure once this had been done, the enxt step will be to outlaw it altogether. Baby steps.
Because we all know that is the REAL reason why a republican is pushing this bill.
They're not black holes, they're just a result of Intelligent Darkness. Seriously, why do we teach kids today the theory of black holes without not also teaching them about Intelligent Darkness?
This would have been funny, had you put the correct value ($936) instead of $926. I won't comment on "ti" either. Don't let an attempt at humor get in the way of proofreading.
I work on an air force base, and not only is IE the standard, but Firefox is on the list of unapproved apps. so if you're caught using it via the monthly scans, you're forced to uninstall it.
That's what you get for looking at porn when you're supposed to be working!
The jokes fails when you add an "h" to it. The Cheerios I eat don't contain any "h" shaped letters.
Will it keep the classic G1 flat-nose 18-wheeler look?
OMG dude you totally posted this for the wrong article. LOL!
1. I will see it in theaters twice, just as I have with the other 2. I'll see it once in a regular theater for the midnight showing, and the other in digital about a week later. I did the same for EP2 when it came out. I see every good movie in a theater twice, no more. 2. I will buy the DVDs, just as I did witht he other 2. In fact, I have the VHS AND DVD for EP1, because we tricked us all into believing it would be on VHS only. I just want to see it early, that's all. FYI, I have an XBox with a modchip and a 200 gig drive, and rather than renting the game for $3.00 and copying it, I chose to support Lucas and buy the "Revenge of the Sith" game for $50.00. So once again, you're wrong!
I already have my ticket for the midnight showing, so this isn't really "Stealing." I'm not depriving Lucas of any money whatsoever.
Seriously, where is the torrent already?