Re: Linux.com's guide to the 2008 US presidential candidates
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 24.128.125.104]
on September 29, 2008 04:28 AM
Really. Way to bring out a reductionist view of things that makes no goddamn sense if you actually look at, say, the facts.
First of all: Christianity doesn't actually impact significantly with the political parties' relationships to the RIAA and MPAA. Where you actually would look if you weren't trying to draw attention away from the facts, is at the corporate connections of the parties. Neither of them are particular enemies of the RIAA and MPAA; with these issues, you actually have to vote by the candidate. In this particular election, Obama seems like a win in terms of net neutrality, and about even with McCain elsewhere. I know for a fact that the democrat position on H1B visas is friendlier to the average IT worker stateside.
Second: The RIAA and MPAA also produce patriotic and religious music. It also deals with sappy, patriotic, religious, and all sorts of other music. In fact, a great deal of the raunchier or shocking programming is coming out of independent studios and labels, who don't have ties to the RIAA.
Third: I can't actually tell if you're an idiot or a deliberate liar. But please, either get better informed and educated on the actual situation, or else shut up with your lies, whichever applies to you.
And to general folks: Honestly, the two candidates have very similar statements on technology issues. This is partly because mainstream consensus is pretty close amongst the parties on this, with the notable difference in net neutrality issues. This is also partly because 99% of people WILL NOT BE VOTING BASED ON THESE ISSUES. And, in this case, they're RIGHT. There are actually unequivocally bigger and more important issues here. Net neutral or not net neutral: It doesn't matter if we don't have the economic strength to pay for our internet connections, or to anyone we send overseas to die in unjust and unnecessary wars. Does it really matter if we have free access to broadband, if we don't have habeus corpus? No. It does not.
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Re: Linux.com's guide to the 2008 US presidential candidates
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 24.128.125.104] on September 29, 2008 04:28 AMFirst of all: Christianity doesn't actually impact significantly with the political parties' relationships to the RIAA and MPAA. Where you actually would look if you weren't trying to draw attention away from the facts, is at the corporate connections of the parties. Neither of them are particular enemies of the RIAA and MPAA; with these issues, you actually have to vote by the candidate. In this particular election, Obama seems like a win in terms of net neutrality, and about even with McCain elsewhere. I know for a fact that the democrat position on H1B visas is friendlier to the average IT worker stateside.
Second: The RIAA and MPAA also produce patriotic and religious music. It also deals with sappy, patriotic, religious, and all sorts of other music. In fact, a great deal of the raunchier or shocking programming is coming out of independent studios and labels, who don't have ties to the RIAA.
Third: I can't actually tell if you're an idiot or a deliberate liar. But please, either get better informed and educated on the actual situation, or else shut up with your lies, whichever applies to you.
And to general folks: Honestly, the two candidates have very similar statements on technology issues. This is partly because mainstream consensus is pretty close amongst the parties on this, with the notable difference in net neutrality issues. This is also partly because 99% of people WILL NOT BE VOTING BASED ON THESE ISSUES. And, in this case, they're RIGHT. There are actually unequivocally bigger and more important issues here. Net neutral or not net neutral: It doesn't matter if we don't have the economic strength to pay for our internet connections, or to anyone we send overseas to die in unjust and unnecessary wars. Does it really matter if we have free access to broadband, if we don't have habeus corpus? No. It does not.
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