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| 2008/7/1 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/Companies/Google] UID:50431 Activity:high 68%like:50435 |
6/30 Blog: Why I left Google. Politics, underperformance, infefficiencies,
ineffectiveness, and things that are plain stupid.
http://1-800-magic.blogspot.com/2008/06/back-to-microsoft.html
http://dannythorpe.com/about2
This is the auther of Delphi, Google Gears API, etc etc etc.
\_ he wrote the google gears API and delphi? really? i don't see
that in there.
\_ I think you've seriously misread this blog post. This guy has no
really valid criticisms of Google, other than things that affect
every workplace (which he admits, after listing a bunch of Google's
virtues). The main thing this douche seems to hate is open source
software.
\_ I wish him well having a great time managing inflicting the next
version of Windows Home Media Time Suck Fest Screw You Consumer
2010. Seriously, he should just shoot himself. |
| 2008/7/1-14 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Reference/RealEstate] UID:50432 Activity:nil |
6/30 Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy
The Boston Globe: http://csua.org/u/lu6
\_ I hate to sound like a partisan defender, but what do the failures
cited in this article actually have to do with Obama or his
proposed policies? Many of the failures began before he became a
State Senator.
\_ This is actually Bill Clinton's fault. |
| 2008/7/1-14 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:50433 Activity:nil |
7/01 Obama: "I'll meet McCain anywhere, anytime!" ... "or not!"
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5837182.html |
| 2008/7/1-14 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:50434 Activity:low |
7/01 Obama's continuing flip-flops. This time on same-sex marriage
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/1051404.html
\_ hey guess what dittoheads: conservatives are the only people who
care about "flip flops." The rest of us call it "reconsidering."
\_ I don't think _anyone_ here listens to Limbaugh. You might as
well put that one to bed.
\_ No wonder you like Obama, he reconsiders his opinion each time he
speaks! He's so nuanced!
\_ I hate to sound like a partisan defender, but what do the failures
cited in this article actually have to do with Obama or his
proposed policies? Many of the failures began before he became a
State Senator. (Aargh. Posted in response to wrong troll.)
\_ The problem which keeps being hilighted is that Obama changes his
opinion every time he's asked or talks to a different group.
He's said in the past he's not for same-sex marriage.
Just like he said he'd filibuster FISA, and now voted for it.
Just like he said he felt the DC gun ban was constitutional, but
now says the court made the right ruling.
\_ What does this prove? That he's capable of being persuaded of
another opinion? What makes this newsworthy? If we're going
to go this route, how about McCain's flip-flops on the tax-
cuts and off-shore drilling?
\_ When the change is within a short time, it's a flip-flop.
More time allows for 'persuaded'.
\_ McCain in May: Off-shore drilling will not help.
McCain in June: Off-shore drilling for life, yo.
\_ I have no love for McCain--it's the worship of Obama
I find confusing.
\_ I just looked this up (HuffPo: http://csua.org/u/lu8
and I think you're a bit off the mark. He's argueing
short vs long term, which I think is correct.
\_ Agin' it before he was for it:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3zzkof (cbs)
\_ This adds nothing to the HuffPo link, it's
almost content free. Why did you post this?
\_ It says that he was against off-shore
drilling at all before he was suddenly
for it. This was my original point. There
was a month's time-difference here.
\_ Haha "persuaded of another opinion." That's a pretty nice
way of putting it. I'm not against people changing their
minds, but Obama is flopping all over the map. He never
seems to give a reason for the changes either. It just
matches whatever the audience wants to hear. -!pp
\_ Pfft. I thought, for a moment, that you had an actual
point, but I see you're just trolling now. Looking
forward to more bitterness when President Obama is
inaugurated in '09.
\_ How do those blinders fit? (Not same person BTW)
\_ Willing to listen and talk, but not interested
in childish characterizations like "flip-flops"
especially when ignored in your own candidate.
\_ Who said I ignore them in McCain? Did you
miss the McCain thread a while back? But as
the guy says above, time allows for persuasion.
Changing your stance the NEXT DAY is a little
extreme.
\_ Potato, potato. If we're back to flip-
flops, the election's already over.
\_ Ummm... it worries me that they guy has
\_ Ummm... it worries me that the guy has
changed position so many times I can't
even figure out what is position IS on
most issues. You appear to just be
complaing about the word. Ignore that.
I don't think it's the right term for
what he's doing anyway.
\_ Then let's stop using the word
flip-flop for anything apart from
footwear. Given its historical use
as propaganda against Kerry, it's a
loaded term, and it needs to be
retired.
\_ Works for me, I never use it.
I'm not the guy who posted the link
though. I actually have no problem
with Obama's position here anyway.
It's a dumb link. -pp
\_ GOP in 1996: VOTE FOR DOLE, he's a WAR HERO! GOP in
2000: Forget that this guy is a draft dodger, it's
CHARACTER THAT MATTERS! GOP in 2004: Don't vote for
Kerry, he's a FAKE WAR HERO! CHARACTER MATTERS!
GOP in 2008: Vote for MCCAIN, he's a WAR HERO!
\_ What, you mean the GOP backs its canidate? Sacre
Bleu!
\_ And throws logic and previous statements under a
bus in his support? Quel shock!
\_ This is not a flip-flop, you are just too stupid to understand
his stance. He has said repeatedly that he believes that each
state should set its own same sex marriage policy and that the
the federal government should not set it nationwide. He has not
changed on that. He also disagrees with the initiative to ban
same-sex marraige in California. He can have an opinion on a CA
state proposition, in fact I expect my elected officials to have
opinions. That is not the same thing as trying to legislate your
opinion. Your black and white view of the world is precisely why
Conservatism is in the sorry shape that it is in.
\_ I agree. This is a dumb link. -Obama hater guy !op |
| 2008/7/1-14 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:50435 Activity:nil 68%like:50431 |
6/30 Blog: Why I left Google. Politics, underperformance, inefficiencies,
ineffectiveness, and things that are plain stupid.
http://1-800-magic.blogspot.com/2008/06/back-to-microsoft.html
\_ what blog are you getting these links from
\_ I think you've seriously misread this blog post. This guy has no
really valid criticisms of Google, other than things that affect
every workplace (which he admits, after listing a bunch of Google's
virtues). The main thing this douche seems to hate is open source
software.
\_ I wish him well having a great time managing inflicting the next
version of Windows Home Media Time Suck Fest Screw You Consumer
2010. Seriously, he should just shoot himself.
\_ He's got a pretty good point about bugs in Google apps...
\_ The whole article can be summed up with this line: "For me, this
really does make the project less interesting if people are not
willing to pay for it." I don't think this reflects badly on him
or google, they're just a poor match. |
| 2008/7/1-14 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:50436 Activity:nil |
7/01 Stevens' dissent in Heller (DC gun ban) has a few factual errors.
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/06/stevens_dissent.php
\_ Don't you have a job or something? |
| 2008/7/1 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:50437 Activity:high 90%like:50441 |
7/01 Reid self-Godwins
http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/news/2008/feb/19/sen-reid-accuses-coal-industry-using-old-hitler-li
\_ ffs, tinyurl your links. They don't work as well across line breaks.
Here, I'll help you: http://tinyurl.com/423xaf |
| 2008/7/1-14 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:50438 Activity:nil |
7/1 Obama to expand faith-based funding
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/07/obama.html
\_ Waiting for emarkp's brain to asplode...
\_ Huh? -emarkp |
| 2008/7/1-14 [Health] UID:50439 Activity:nil |
7/01 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080701/hl_nm/drugs_who_dc "The United States leads the world in rates of experimenting with marijuana and cocaine despite strict drug laws, World Health Organization researchers said on Tuesday. Countries with looser drug laws have lower rates of abuse, the researchers report in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine." \_ Experimenting with drugs and abusing them are WAY different. |
| 2008/7/1-14 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:50440 Activity:nil |
7/01 Awesome, now we can't even do solar power
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/us/27solar.html
\_ its just a moratorium of solar projects on public BLM land. Nothin
stopping folks from doing solar power on private land. Still the
vast tracts of cheap desert land under the BLM's control are
probably the best resources for solar plants. A government
concerned about alternate energy wouldn't put up obstacles like
this.
\_ ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
\_ "assess the effects of construction on the desert tortoise and
Mojave ground squirrel." I hate squrrels. Kill the squirrels!
\_ This is actually pretty funny. The continued carbon emissions
will drive the extinction of far more species than just
these two. Pave the desert!
\_ http://www.012009.com
\_ Or coal: http://preview.tinyurl.com/598vzr [treehugger]
\_ If you believe in clean coal, I have bridge in Brooklyn to
sell you.
\_ I refer you to
http://langmuir.nuc.berkeley.edu/~peterm/COAL_VS_NUCLEAR.html
for a discussion of the side effects of a coal plant.
\_ I'll gladly take nuclear as long as the safety
requirements are not neglected and the industry is
heavily regulated. |
| 2008/7/1-14 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:50441 Activity:nil 90%like:50437 |
7/01 Reid self-Godwins
http://tinyurl.com/423xaf [lv sun] |
| 2008/7/1-6 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:50442 Activity:nil |
7/1 The Obama smears and rumors (yes Virginia, they exist)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901871.html
\_ "The truth is that right after 9/11 I had a pin. Shortly after 9/11,
particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that
became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking
out on issues that are of importance to our national security.
"I decided I won't wear that [American Flag] on my chest. Instead,
I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will
make this country great, [emphasis added] and hopefully that will be
a testament to my patriotism." --Sen. Barack Obama |
| 2008/7/1-2 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:50443 Activity:very high 85%like:50449 |
7/1 Who's smearing whom?
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=DEFCE7F3-3048-5C12-00A118B64440DF50
\_ This article is really out to lunch. The smears of Obama are
everywhere. There are whole websites devoted to proving
that he's a gay racist from Indonesia who studied in a Madrassa,
and there are armies of freepers feeding the rumor mills. See
the above WaPo article for more. Just because "nobody with the
McCain campaign" is openly calling him a Muslim doesn't mean that
a large % of Americans now fervently believe this. Obama will
McCain campaign" is openly calling him a Muslim doesn't change the
fact that a large % of Americans now fervently believe this, and
are seemingly oblivious to the true fact of the matter. Obama
not be Swift-boated, because the fringe lunatics will do it for
them.
\_ So is being called a Muslim a smear?
\_ Of course not. It happens to be untrue. If someone were to
say that John McCain is homosexual, would that be a smear? |
| 2008/7/1-14 [Transportation/Car] UID:50444 Activity:nil |
7/1 "Most state workers in Utah shifting to 4-day week"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-30-four-day_N.htm
Maybe you can get your employer to do the same, or maybe one work-
from-home day in a week.
\_ Like I said before, Mormons have it good man.
\_ This is an actual decent way to reduce gasoline usage. We need more
good ideas like this.
\_ Question: Does a 4-day week actually reduce gas use?
I don't really stay home on weekends. On workdays, I pretty
much just go to/from work, which is actually a shorter commute
than what I get up to on weekends. So, with a 4-day week,
does gas use increase or decrease?
\_ Uh, you reduce your commutes-per-week from 5 to 4.
\_ Uh, you missed the point, which is that I drive less
on a commute day than a non-commute day. If that
is true for most people, then gas use increases
with a 4 day workweek. Get it now?
\_ I got that. You going to drive more on the 3 days now
then you did on the two days before?
\_ Yes, most likely.
\_ You're weird though.
\_ I'm not the PP, but I drive more on off days
also. I dont think it's that odd. I don't
know if I'm in the majority or not, but
it's worth considering. If people use the
off day to take the Sea Doos out to the
river then it will actually increase gas
consumption.
\_ If that's true, a work-from-home day is still a good alternative.
\_ Yer supposed to be working at home on the 5th day, idiot, not
driving to Yosemite.
\_ Yes, I think work-from-home would work. |
| 2008/7/1-14 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:50445 Activity:nil |
7/1 This is funny. Tim Mahoney, D. Rep from Florida, sends out mailpiece
about honoring the troops, but includes Soviet vet on the cover.
http://csua.org/u/luc (blog Link to pdf included) |
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