Mon 21 Jul 2008
For someone who wants to lead one of the largest economies on the planet in the 21st century, you sure don’t seem to understand the issues important to America.
Let’s start with your computer illiteracy. It is so great that you have a tutor now and learning how to “work the Google” and we all look forward to the day when you can use the word Google correctly in a sentence. Soon, you will be able to get your email at “The Hotmail” and you will really love it when you can pour all your rage into “The Vista” when you reach the Blue Screen Of Death. Don’t know what the Blue Screen Of Death is? Give it time, you will.
The computer revolution started in the late 70’s with the creation of the Apple II thirty years ago. That is thirty years of American and global economic progress that you have no clue about. Some old economy stalwarts are all concerned about the fate of General Motors. This is a company that has produced shoddy products that haven’t been appealing to Americans in some time. This is a company that is run by a guy who thinks global climate change is a myth. With that kind of intellectual ineptitude, I really couldn’t care less about the fate of GM, it could close for all I care. That at least would make way for a smarter car company to evolve – one that would actually be good for America.
Senator, you worry about the failure of GM because you are technology illiterate, what you should be more concerned about is the failure of Yahoo. If you were technology literate, you would have been very concerned about the outcome of SCO vs Novell – if that case had been found in favor of SCO, it would unleash a cluster fuck of network problems that you would have been woefully prepared to handle.
How will your administration deal with open source initiatives? Because of your illiteracy, would you stand beside your big money lobbyists and enact legislation that would be unfavorable towards open source projects?
How about PayPal? Do you consider it a bank? Do you know what PayPal is? What is your philosophy of secondary economies like auctioning off used belongings on eBay? Should that be taxed? Do you know PayPal is owned by eBay?
Don’t you think it is unreasonable for the United States to keep laptops of Americans returning to the US from abroad? Don’t you think imaging the hard drives is a violation of our civil rights? And Senator, don’t give me the terrorist crap. Did you know, once you pass through customs, you can just download the “terror” files from a remote server when you sit down at the wi-fi enabled Starbucks inside the airport’s concourse?
Yes you can get advisers to tell you all of this, but I am not electing them and even if I did trust them, you do not have the faculties to discern what is important and what it is not. It is nothing but a stream of three letter acronyms to you.
You don’t even know enough to talk about birth control so how in the world are you going to be able to make complicated decisions?
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July 22nd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
If PayPal could somehow be prodded to seize and hold hostage for 6 months an account of campaign donations to a Dem or GOP’er as they’ve arbitrarily done to 3rd party candidates under their abusive TOS for no apparent reason other than political platforms deemed not compatible with the images of business goals for PayPal, I suspect there’d be a real wakeup as to why PayPal is overdue to be classified the same way as functionally equivalent top 10 bank operated credit card processors and account issuers. How PayPal operates is rightfully felonious.
Absent that, how do we sell, lend, or rent a clue to major party candidates, over those important tech issues of more public importance than others political consultants suggest advocating? One of the side challenges is that most of the public is functionally illiterate in the very underpinnings of technology, public policy, and law issues on which almost everyone relies daily, and so politicians get away remaining clueless themselves. Even if most voters don’t get it either, it’s important that an elected leader have a sense of scale and importance for these issues, and find advisors to sort details while considering their impact in choices of judicial nominees and appointments. Too many courts make bass ackwards decisions when black robed lynchmen couldn’t buy a clue for free from Cluebot, and that goes far deeper than just the courts.
How do we change voter demands for functionally literate leaders? Obama’s no winner here, even if Hillary and McSame are far worse (except that McCain’s history of treachery in Senate tech related committee manipulations is very nasty).
It’s not like we’re asking candidates to know when a “bindery” isn’t related to books, or distinguish a “kernel” as something to compile from a fictitious Chicago exchange food Archers Daniel Midland pays off Congress to manipulate with broken energy policies, or Purdue exports to Europe and Asia if the crop is good. I do however know automotive engineers contracting to GM on projects like fuel cel cars and camless engines, albeit those efforts may not be highly visible outside the industry.