tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post2189788256622822473..comments2024-03-28T23:39:08.616-07:00Comments on CONTRARY BRIN: Why the Candidates Should (But Won’t) StipulateDavid Brinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-63245697558232050022012-10-01T02:35:19.305-07:002012-10-01T02:35:19.305-07:00I enjoyed the Romney article, but it underlined fo...I enjoyed the Romney article, but it underlined for me a fundamental: Mitt is well suited to a role as an unelected executive, perhaps Secretary of Commerce.<br /><br />But if the article is correct, he's not willing to tell people what he wants to do, and in a democracy, that is a complete disqualification for elected office.<br /><br />Unfortunate perhaps, but there it is. It's bad enough that once a guy gets into office, we can't be sure what he'll do; but if he won't even talk about which tax deductions he'll eliminate to make his planned 20% tax cut work, then We The People have no rational basis on which to vote for him. The article's reference to executive orders being prepared in secret should be disturbing; if they are good ideas, let Mitt trumpet them proudly!<br /><br />All irrelevant now, I suppose, but I would hope this experience would enlighten future candidates as to where their interests lie.rewinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14008105385364113371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-8380739320041847632012-09-30T17:50:04.935-07:002012-09-30T17:50:04.935-07:00David, what I would like to see most in the upcomi...David, what I would like to see most in the upcoming debates is one simple question with moderator firm on getting a clear answer.<br /><br />How if you are our President in the coming months, will you more than just maintain freedom for United States citizens, <b>but actually increase our overall freedoms across the country</b>? <br /><br />The framework for that question is that increased freedom equates to a better economy with more money in our pockets. Less freedom is the most horrible tax of all.<br /><br />All of the major party players ought to be called out on this and a clear answer should be demanded.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05675781921906678898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-40717859953321668372012-09-29T20:01:22.168-07:002012-09-29T20:01:22.168-07:00As I said, I'm not going to vote for him becau...As I said, I'm not going to vote for him because of the baggage he brings. If he had the guts to stand up for his beliefs, that would be one thing. But he's no Huntsman. But then, Huntsman was unelectable because he could stand up for what he believed in... and the Republican base no longer believes in that. Instead, they are poisoned. :/<br /><br />Rob H.Acacia H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07678539067303911329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-18326873850377734402012-09-29T11:49:42.568-07:002012-09-29T11:49:42.568-07:00onward
onward<br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-77445502212119813212012-09-28T20:57:50.063-07:002012-09-28T20:57:50.063-07:00That article struggles hard to humanize Mitt... an...That article struggles hard to humanize Mitt... and I started reading it willing to learn good things. After all, he might become president and I WANT to think we nominate reasonable people.<br /><br />And I read on and on and saw nothing but really bad turning worse. <br /><br /><br />"These flaws have left him struggling to defend himself against and rebut the relentless Obama campaign attack — an attack designed to overcome the weaknesses in the incumbent’s own record by rendering his opponent an unacceptable alternative."<br /><br />Say what? Who is running away from the record? Cite for me one time that Romney has ever, even obliquely, referred to the Republican Party's record at governing the United States of America. One time. ever.<br /><br />Sure, the GOP wants us looking at Romney and not at the party or at the 10,000 GOP guns from the Bush administration he'd bring with him, slipping most of them right back into positions they held four years ago. (He's never denied this.) They talk as if he's the issue. But it is the whole apparatus. The record he never mentions.<br /><br />And now, Mitt himself is disappointing as a campaigner? And we're told to overlook that and perceive... what instead?<br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-67167401087429388282012-09-28T18:15:30.588-07:002012-09-28T18:15:30.588-07:00Still not going to vote for him because of a numbe...Still not going to vote for him because of a number of reasons including the diseased nature of the Republican Party but... <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81772.html" rel="nofollow">I must wonder if we're being too hard on Mitt Romney</a>.<br /><br />Rob H.Acacia H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07678539067303911329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-62140385983683970082012-09-28T13:44:23.858-07:002012-09-28T13:44:23.858-07:00Is the git stuff in reference to Clay Shirky's...Is the git stuff in reference to Clay Shirky's recently posted TED talk?Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-23612634195689232872012-09-28T11:08:17.057-07:002012-09-28T11:08:17.057-07:00I sigh. Microsoft's ecosystem is no longer all...I sigh. Microsoft's ecosystem is no longer all that closed. That its target is Windows is by definition, but the MS-PL license is not in any sense a closed license, refuting your notion.<br /><br />I am, for example, relying on a freely developed and distributed 3d support library for WPF which makes it laughably easy to drop a geometry in a scene graph. It comes with all the things you need for a scene graph which MS never included in WPF. The entire set of sourcecode was free-as-in-beer without the constraints of GNU's inbred activism. <br /><br />As I said, the things it spawned. MS has been agile in that respect; the devtools extension and addin catalogs are full of free stuff, source code included.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541997928359883625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-72950492963633114662012-09-28T11:02:00.706-07:002012-09-28T11:02:00.706-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541997928359883625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-39549736210693468612012-09-28T08:42:46.675-07:002012-09-28T08:42:46.675-07:00In line with such a notion (or, at least, vaguely ...In line with such a notion (or, at least, vaguely in support of it), in my secondary position as a union functionary dealing with Government Affairs, I recently had a conversation with a congressman who stated off-handedly that since his district was "safe," he could focus more on policy since he really wasn't ideological... This contrasted disturbingly with another interview I'd done with a congressional candidate from the same party who could mouth the Heritage Foundation's talking points, but couldn't (literally "couldn't" not "wouldn't") answer a follow-up question.<br /><br />Such is the reality of the current political climate - a situation that has evolved far past the rise of the "Know-nothings" of a hundred years ago. And when modern journalism spends 4 times as much time reporting on a VP's exercise program as on the accelerated receding of Arctic ice, we have both the cause and the problem laid out before us.reformed touristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09723408582168455365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-54527050772405558032012-09-28T06:44:34.163-07:002012-09-28T06:44:34.163-07:00It's quite ironic, Rob, to embrace *closed* (i...It's quite ironic, Rob, to embrace *closed* (in all senses from license to extendability) MS's ecosystem and follow (to some degree, of course) David with his opinion on openness.Dmitry Groshevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01265527640482779266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-74437361059432521552012-09-28T06:27:46.635-07:002012-09-28T06:27:46.635-07:00I dislike github. I also dislike git and LInus'...I dislike github. I also dislike git and LInus' Frankensteins-monster, Linux. Although, the things it spawned for my own work in the Microsoft ecosystem (public share licensing, NuGet, etc) have been very positive. Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541997928359883625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-63793142076426852182012-09-28T04:18:42.047-07:002012-09-28T04:18:42.047-07:00Linus has nothing to do with GitHub. He created gi...Linus has nothing to do with GitHub. He created git. Moreover, he dislikes GitHub.Dmitry Groshevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01265527640482779266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-67998127328052652822012-09-28T00:49:59.897-07:002012-09-28T00:49:59.897-07:00Both groups operate largely as gift economies.Both groups operate largely as gift economies.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-48255255052360745762012-09-27T22:41:36.753-07:002012-09-27T22:41:36.753-07:00Can the open source science movement be extended t...Can the open source science movement be extended to programming?<br /><br />Software engineer Linus Torvalds saw a solution to this problem—“git,” a system that allows for collaborative development. He created GitHub.com, a hosting site that allows multiple programmers to work on the same source code at the same time, with changes getting unique signatures.<br /><br />http://blog.ted.com/2012/09/25/further-reading-in-github/David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-11291510349382353762012-09-27T21:21:10.609-07:002012-09-27T21:21:10.609-07:00The reaction I'm getting from friends regardin...The reaction I'm getting from friends regarding stipulations is that it sounds like that tax pledge litmus test for GOP candidates. I know it isn't so I guess I didn't explain it well enough to them, but that was their initial interpretation and it got followed with a quick 'No... we don't want that.'Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-5127258010547943322012-09-27T20:55:28.031-07:002012-09-27T20:55:28.031-07:00Rewinn...
Scudder in 2012.
People say huh? Then...Rewinn...<br /><br />Scudder in 2012.<br /><br />People say huh? Then 5% go home and look it up and go... "oh!"David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-88204952862734812712012-09-27T20:48:33.839-07:002012-09-27T20:48:33.839-07:00The concept of stipulation seems rational and help...The concept of stipulation seems rational and helpful, but to be really persuasive, the idea needs to fit on a bumpersticker or an image. There just aren't that many people who change their minds based on text alone, in my experience.<br /><br />What might be such an image?rewinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14008105385364113371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-22927938255606033782012-09-27T17:48:32.035-07:002012-09-27T17:48:32.035-07:00Carl:
Is the GOP still a national party?
Ian Gou...Carl:<br /><i><br />Is the GOP still a national party?<br /></i><br />Ian Gould said:<br /><i><br />I sometimes think of it as the Mississippi Basin Party.<br /></i><br /><br />And yet, they continue to hold the House and the Supreme Court, might as well hold the Senate, and aren't out of the running for the White House yet. As recently as six years ago, they controlled all branches of government.<br /><br />I'll give them credit for sheer tenacity. As their policies alienate more and more Americans, they double down on the strategy of using state government to restrict the voting rights of all but the like-minded. <br /><br />They're like those bad movie monster/villains who just keep coming no matter what ordinance is thrown at them. And nothing this evil ever dies.LarryHartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-21344131148484091372012-09-27T09:55:08.941-07:002012-09-27T09:55:08.941-07:00nice blognice blogmorocco tourshttp://www.topmoroccotours.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-67582935524524803782012-09-27T07:55:59.223-07:002012-09-27T07:55:59.223-07:00An obvious place for an FDR/Wilkie concord.
Iran....An obvious place for an FDR/Wilkie concord.<br /><br />Iran.<br /><br />The response of both candidates to any question regards the Iranian nuke program should be:<br /><br />"If you had been to the briefings I have had you would agree that we can't play politics with this issue. There are too many lives at stake to play for political points. Suffice it to say that my opponent and I are in agreement that a sustained, resolute policy to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of irresponsible regimes is and will be in the next administration, an unwavering goal."<br /><br />No doubt this would be attacked as a weasel answer but too bad.<br /><br />TacitusTacitushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17007086196578740689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-84421743074341618152012-09-27T06:03:44.473-07:002012-09-27T06:03:44.473-07:00I sometimes think of it as the Mississippi Basin P...I sometimes think of it as the Mississippi Basin Party.Ian Gouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07666385933765478081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-10743613844670498252012-09-27T05:21:52.151-07:002012-09-27T05:21:52.151-07:00Is the GOP still a national party?
http://www.thea...Is the GOP still a national party?<br />http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-the-gop-still-a-national-party/<br />Carlhttp://www.nationaldebtsolutions.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-66040156395470483642012-09-27T04:20:23.873-07:002012-09-27T04:20:23.873-07:00There's nothing especially "conservative&...There's nothing especially "conservative" about inglis' policy propositions.<br /><br />Most of them could have come straight from here:<br /><br />http://www.acfonline.org.au/be-informed/climate-change-energy<br /><br />This is why I get so frustrated by the extreme political polarization of the climate change issue in the US.Ian Gouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07666385933765478081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-67243436279348802792012-09-26T21:27:34.285-07:002012-09-26T21:27:34.285-07:00Here is an article about republicans who are willi...Here is an article about republicans who are willing to admit climate change is real and offer market-based solutions. The species of sane conservatives is NOT extinct! And if Romney were what he claimed to be, years ago, he would be leading them now. Alas.<br /><br />http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/26/161824667/new-groups-argue-a-conservative-take-on-climate-change<br /><br />http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/<br />2012/09/26/161824667/new-groups-<br />argue-a-conservative-take-on-climate-changeDavid Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.com