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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Spineless Democrats Deserve to Lose JB
From the New York Times: "We want to do this," said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader. "And we want to do it in compliance with the direction from the Supreme Court. We want to do it in compliance with the Constitution." I am puzzled by and ashamed of the Democrats' moral cowardice on this bill. The latest version of the bill blesses detainee abuse and looks the other way on forms of detainee torture; it immunizes terrible acts; it abridges the writ of habeas corpus-- in the last, most egregious draft, it strips the writ for alleged enemy combatants whether proved to be so or not, whether citizens or not, and whether found in the U.S. or overseas. This bill is simply outrageous. I doubt whether many Democratic Senators or staffs have read the bill or understand what is in it. Instead, they seem to be scrambling over themselves to vote for it out of a fear that the American public will think them weak and soft on terror. The reason why the Democrats have not been doing very well on these issues, however, is that the public does not believe that they stand for anything other than echoing what the Republicans have been doing with a bit less conviction. If the Republicans are now the Party of Torture, the Democrats are now the Party of "Torture? Yeah, I guess so." Not exactly the moral high ground from which to seek office. The Democrats may think that if they let this pass, they are guaranteed to pick up more seats in the House and Senate. But they will actually win less seats this way. For they will have proved to the American people that they are spineless and opportunistic-- that, when faced with a genuine choice and a genuine challenge, they can keep neither our country nor our values safe. The current bill, if passed, will give the Executive far more dictatorial powers to detain, prosecute, judge and punish than it ever enjoyed before. Over the last 48 hours, it has been modified in a hundred different ways to increase executive power at the expense of judicial review, due process, and oversight. And what is more, the bill's most outrageous provisions on torture, definition of enemy combatants, secret procedures, and habeas stripping, are completely unnecessary to keep Americans safe. Rather, they are the work of an Executive branch that has proven itself as untrustworthy as it is greedy: always pushing the legal and constitutional envelope, always seeking more power and less accountability. If the Democrats do not stand up to the President on this bill, if they refuse to filibuster it or even threaten to filibuster it, they do not deserve to win any additional seats in the House or in the Senate. They will have delivered a grievous blow to our system of checks and balances, stained America's reputation around the world, and allowed an obscenity to disfigure the American system of law and justice. Far worse than a misguided zealot is the moral coward who says nothing and allows that zealotry to do real harm.
Amen. As much as I am dismayed by this Administration's agenda/tactics I am completely taken aback by the lack of response from the Democratic party. When did it become like this? I'm a young law student and can't remember a time when politicians took a stand for something important - something other than getting re-elected.
I'll just add, maybe the Dems aren't spineless. A few or maybe more may agree with the administration. This may not make it more palatable for you, but I think its unfair not to take it into account.
Your complaints highlight the double bind all of our elected officials are in: Either they are denounced as soft and weak by their opponents for not marching lock-step behind the administration's "war" on terror, or they are called soft and weak by everyone else for going along with the majority party. Such complaints from those of us who oppose PNAC and the national surveillance state do ourselves no great service by buying into this double bind. Better that we look for counter examples, in both parties. Better that we help make the case, build the foundation from which opponents of this administration's fast march to fascism can fight. The main source of this administration's momentum is its brilliantly executed war meme. That is the Gordian knot we must cut. Anything less than a full frontal assault at the root source of the double-bind serves it; any discussion of the various bait issues tacitly accepts and reinforces the underlying fallacy that our rights are somehow suddenly alienable because we are "at war". There can be no legitimizing the "war" on terror; we have let bad rhetoric be elevated into worse legislation, disastrous policy, and a damning zeitgeist. And our representatives, majority and minority, are only that, representatives. It falls to the teachers and preachers and other molders of thought to provide those representatives the tools to see through to the deeper issue and fight the right fight rather than tightening their ideological shackles by vain struggle which accepts the war meme. Take away the war meme and the rest of the administration's unconscionable plans are built on sand. If you don't do it, who will?
A question: the latest draft I have is the one you posted here on 9/26. In it, the habeas-stripping provision applies only to alien enemy combatants (p. 82). Is there a later draft in which all enemy combatants are stripped of habeas rights?
(Not that the bill isn't appalling on any number of other grounds; just wanted to be clear on this one.)
I disagree with the analysis presented in this blog. Sure, I think the torture legislation is absolutely abhorrent (especially the habeus corpus provision). This legislation is likely to be struck down AGAIN by the Supreme Court:
"We believe that this legislation is as unconstitutional as the previous attempts by the administration to abolish habeas corpus, and that, as with previous attempts, it will eventually be overturned by the Supreme Court." (http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/09/26/habeas/index.html) That being said, I also think we need to take the bigger picture into account. Sure, the Dems are backing off this issue because they don't want to look soft on terror. Can you blame them though? Weigh the possibilities here...cost/benefit analysis: ---Dems block the legislation (that would have been overturned anyway by SCOTUS). The GOP calls them "soft on terror" and they loose mid-term elections. We have two more years of a GOP-run congress with unbridled worship of the uber-executive (not to mention all of the other nasty legislation they will pass). The GOP may win the next prez election too, because the Dems are so "soft on terror"... ---Dems do not block the legislation. It is overturned by SCOTUS in a year or so. Dems win mid-term elections. Dems start all sorts of investigations with subpoenas of everything from the Iraq war to violations of FISA, etc. Dems impeach Bush. Dems win the next presidential election. Dems correct some of the nasty legislation passed by the GOP in the last 12 years. The latter is a much better scenario, in my opinion.
One more comment...
Let us not forget that John Paul Stevens is 86 years old. We have four justices on the Supreme Court (Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito) that advocate unbridled executive power (the "unitary executive"). If JPS retires/dies, and is replaced by a Bush-appointed, GOP-stamped 5th justice, leaning very far to the right. Dem-controlled Senate could prevent that. That is the "big picture" we ALL need to be thinking about. Supreme Court justices are around for 30+ years nowdays. 30 years of a far-right Court is a very terrifying thought (Roe v. Wade, unlimited executive power, elimination of FDA, EPA, Clean Air/Water acts, etc.)
"---Dems do not block the legislation. It is overturned by SCOTUS in a year or so. Dems win mid-term elections. (...)" With respect, I'm afraid that's a non sequitur. Not blocking this legislation does not warrant winning mid-term elections. Says who? History. Look at Kerry, who thought he could support the war in Iraq and, simultaneously, be critical of the Administration's policies in this area. Rove and his right-wing noise machine are way too smart and resourceful to let a wishy-washy rival escape alive. And that was two years ago, when half of the money/lives hadn't been wasted and more than half of the evidence confirming Bush Co.'s lies hadn't been made public. But, in any case, I appreciate you introducing this stategic (beyond legal or moral) angle into the debate. In my humble opinion, Dems should take advantage of this blatantly anti-democratic piece of legislation and oppose it, while presenting the nation with an alternative to: - a policy slapped down by two Supreme Court decisions, - dozens (hundreds, thousands) of torture/kidnapping/murder episodes documented, - billions of dollars down the drain, - no Osama, - over 2,000 US soldiers dead, and - the unanimous opinion of all of your own intelligence agencies that Bush Co. has made it worse than it was by acting as it has (ilegally, immorally, stupidly).
Sorry, esoteric, but Democratic control of the Senate isn't going to stop people like Alito being approved. In fact, allowing the Democrats to cast "safe" votes out of fear of being called weak is precisely why the Alito filibuster failed, and why Alito would have been confirmed even in a Democratic controlled Senate.
To stop the detioration of the courts requires either (a) Democratic control of the White House for the 16-20 years, or (b) a fundamental change in our political system. Neither is likely to happen. Kiss your rights, and the Constitution, good bye. The president isn't going to preseve them. The congress isn't going to preserve them. The last bastion of the defense of the Constitution is going to fall. And so we get to watch a long descent into the tyranny of a police state. The unwillingness of Democrats to stand up on the torture issue is both cause and evidence of the descent and its inevitability.
Angry as I am about this legislation, I don't want to fall into the trap of defeatism. I fervently hope there are Democrats who will oppose this bill and oppose it eloquently. The solution, then, is to reward those who do and replace those who don't.
This is going to be a long struggle. It may take years for the prosecutions to begin and justice meted out to the torturers. But only if we make it happen.
It's no doubt a thin hope, but can't a single Senator (say Feingold) run out the clock at this point by using a hold (i.e. withholding consent where unanimous consent is required to bring the bill to the floor). The Senator could very rightly argue s/he needs time to study the language in the bill and to understand for instance what "interrogation techniques" are or are not allowed under it.
People often say that holds are based on Senate tradition (as opposed to rules) and therefore Frist could bulldoze any hold. I'm not so sure. I think the part that is tradition is that the holds may be secret. However the possibility of a single Senator holding up the bill is grounded in the Standing Rules of the Senate. Here are the details from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_hold Sections 2 and 3 of Rule VII (Morning Business) of the Standing Rules of the Senate outline the procedure for bringing motions to the floor of the Senate. Under these rules, "no motion to proceed to the consideration of any bill...shall be entertained...unless by unanimous consent". In practice, this means that a Senator may privately provide notice to their party leadership of their intent to object to a motion. At that point, the motion can not proceed because unanimous consent has not been reached, even though the Senator has not publicly announced their intent to object. This allows a Senator to remain anonymous while preventing the motion to go forward. (I also posted this comment at Glenn Greenwald's Unclaimed Territory.)
Strategizing on this issue is bullshit. The Democrats deserve to lose in November for not standing up to torture. I am ashamed.
Hey, the Dems are being smart here.
They are not going to hand the Republicans a cudgel to beat them with until november. They may have a stealth strategy to stop this or roll it back at a later date... I sure hope so. I blame the american people for being stupid enough to beleive republicans in the last three elections... it's their fault that the Dems can't stand for principle...if they do, they'll lose more seats, which they can hardly afford.
What I don't understand about the Democrats' position is that the polls show that a majority Americans are against torture. To whom, exactly, are the Democrats pandering at this point?
Aside from the moral implications (which are heavy indeed), this seems like a poor strategy. They are being suckered by the Republicans and are clueless that it's happening. I also agree with humblelawstudent's assessment of some of the Dems. The Dems are hardly liberal, and I'm sure you could find more than one authoritarian amongst their ranks. I wouldn't be surprised if a Dianne Feinstein-type would support this bill, with full knowledge of what is in it.
"Neither is likely to happen. Kiss your rights, and the Constitution, good bye. The president isn't going to preseve them. The congress isn't going to preserve them. The last bastion of the defense of the Constitution is going to fall."
I refuse to accept this until it happens. I believe the Court/constitution can still be saved. If the Court descends into far-right madness, then I will part my ways with the USA. I wouldn't want to stick around to see how nasty it gets. "but can't a single Senator (say Feingold) run out the clock at this point by using a hold (i.e. withholding consent where unanimous consent is required to bring the bill to the floor)." I like this idea. Let a single senator hold up the legislation until Congress recesses until after the election (the one senator would take the blunt of the "soft on terror" criticism, at least until after the election. Please Mr. Feingold...)
Free thinker writes: "I blame the american people for being stupid enough to beleive republicans in the last three elections... it's their fault that the Dems can't stand for principle." True in part. But it is also the Democrats' fault that the people are stupid. A leader educates the people. The Democrats teach them why Bush is making them less safe.
Well I suppose I'm reading this blog more after your talk at Drake last week.
Anyhow, there are some positions that need to be taken regardless of the cost. For the good of the country dammit. Even from a political standpoint you don't win fence sitters by being wishy-washy and going to sit on the fence with them. We need to seperate this country into two groups: People who want to torture and people who don't.
How many times do we have to hear that the Dems should duck and cover in order to avoid being called "soft" on terrorism or abortion or activist judges, etc.? They should play along with everything to secure victory at some imaginary point down the road that doesn't exist.
"Don't block Alito! They'll call us names!" "Don't vote against the war in Iraq! We'll lose the next election!" When will these idiots wake up? You lose elections BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO SPINES. You will be attacked by the right wing no matter what you do -- have you figured that out yet? It's as if the Dems calculate every move based on how it will play to the Fox news crowd. Here's a hint: you can't win those people over. Period. So stop trying. And Howard Dean is out there talking about the "war on American families" in the Wall Street Journal! Did he not notice that Kerry lost with this moronic strategy? They lose because they deserve to lose.
100% correct. this is precisely the time (pre-election) and issue (torture) when a bush/rove-esque "with us or against us" would be appropriate, popular with the majority of the people out there, and make the dems look aggressive and with a clear message and make the republicans look petty and legalistic, not to mention totally out of synch with our national values.
One other point: your blog would get a lot more comments if you didn't require commenters to use a blogger account. I've wanted to leave comments many times on this blog, but didn't because I didn't want to go through the hassle of signing up for a blogger account. I hope you will reconsider your set-up.
One would think a Law Professor would be smart enough to recognize that the Democrats do indeed know what is in the McCain "compromise" and its amendments, and that the Democrats are actually in favor of the legislation because it helps them stay in power as one side or the other of the same coin, the coin of totalitarian power under different names, the coin of non-democratic government, the coin of WHERE IS YOUR BRAIN, JACK BALKIN?
Jeezus. "Law professor" now means "blind to the obvious truths"?
@ porter29:
It's as if the Dems calculate every move based on how it will play to the Fox news crowd. Well...sort of. I'm as disgusted with the Democrats as anyone, but I'll give them this: the rightwing echo chamber is a savage, well-oiled machine, and getting sucked into its maw can't be much fun (unless you possess the brains and acumen of a Bill Clinton; few do). Let's be clear: Sean Hannity lies to his devotees, as do Limbaugh, Coulter, et al. Even MSNBC and CNN know that vitriole sells; intellectual honesty is for chumps. How to fight such a thing? What to do when every good deed, every noble impulse, is snatched from your hands, shamelessly distorted, and then used to pummel you? In my perfect world, there will be a special circle of Hell reserved for those who dump poison into the well of public discourse; it's such a scummy, odious thing to do. But again: how to effectively fight it?
esoteric1117 --
I refuse to accept this until it happens. I believe the Court/constitution can still be saved. If the Court descends into far-right madness, then I will part my ways with the USA. I wouldn't want to stick around to see how nasty it gets. Holy hullaballoo. What planet do you live on, Esoteric? Looks to me like Planet Naivete. The Court descended into far-right madness when it decided the opinion in Bush v Gore regarding the 2000 election, and when it countenanced Tony Scalia's staying on the court in matters deciding issues related to Bush/Cheney AFTER Dick Cheney hosted Sweet Tony the Turncoat at a duck hunting lodge. You probably think Bill Clinton was an honorable man, and that Jimmy Carter was a spineless wimp too.
"Holy hullaballoo. What planet do you live on, Esoteric? Looks to me like Planet Naivete."
Ad hominem attacks are unwarranted...and there is a huge difference between leaning right, and far-far right. Btw Feingold's office said that he will do everything to keep this from being crammed in before the recess.
Rule VII governs only the Senate's "Morning Business," which, though it doesn't always take place in the morning, is a specific period during which routine housekeeping is taken care of. After the conclusion of morning business, a motion to proceed is perfectly in order. Of course, such motions are debatable, and therefore subject to filibuster. But that's when you have to come out from behind your "hold" and actually conduct that filibuster if you want to keep a bill off the floor in the face of a motion to proceed.
It's official; the Democrats lack cajones.
A deal has been reached that no filibuster will be made. Debate on the bill is limited to 12 hours, and there will be a vote. I can't believe we're getting to this point.
the rightwing echo chamber is a savage, well-oiled machine, and getting sucked into its maw can't be much fun This is the fear that permeates the Democratic party -- and everyone can smell it. You don't win by being mealy-mouthed and afraid that Hannity and Rush are going to distort what you say. This is really my point: they are going to distort what they say and cudgel them with it no matter what they say or do. Therefore, stop trying to tailor what you say and do based on the fear that it will be distorted and used against you. 30% of the country is in some sort of right-wing religious cult called the Republican party. Bush could peel off his head and reveal that he is Sleestack on live TV and they wouldn't bat an eyelash. So forget them. Ask yourself what would happen if the situation were reversed. The Republicans would filibuster every fucking bill on the planet. They would spend every waking hour trying to get President Hillary impeached. End of story. That is why they win. Punching bags don't win elections. Ok, it's hard to have the zeal of a cult when you aren't actually in a cult, but you at least have to get up off of the mat. Anyway, who cares if the Dems take the House back? They will be too afraid to do anything. Suddenly we will hear that they shouldn't rock the boat because 2008 is just around the corner. It's the same thing over and over and over.
@ porter29:
Therefore, stop trying to tailor what you say and do based on the fear that it will be distorted and used against you. I'm not disagreeing, I'm asking: how do they do that? 30% of the country is in some sort of right-wing religious cult called the Republican party. Very true, and they're a lost cause. Then, there's another 30% or so who slumber through life, lazily casting their vote based on whatever talking points penetrate their noggins. I know these folks; I work with them. Reaching them is where we succeed or fail. Again: how to do that?
>I'm not disagreeing, I'm asking: how do they do that?
They go on national TV and say, "This country will legalize torture over my dead body. And anyone who tries to legalize it should be tried for war crimes. Anyone who supports torture doesn't understand what this country is all about. And if you don't like it, move to North Korea or Cuba." For starters? Then filibuster if they have to. It's not that hard. Do they not understand that Bush is unpopular? That the wrong track numbers are through the roof? This tip-toeing around these issues boggles the mind.
Amen JB.
They have had opportunities like the Arar report DROPPED IN THEIR LAPS during this fiasco and have refused to get a spine or even get a strategy. The Harper's article, the German prosecutor's statements in el-Masri---- if they are this inept and feckless, they do deserve to lose. Anyone who cannot fashion a credible and loud argument against making America a state sponsor of torture, torture of innocent people, torture of our own citizens, torture of children - how thoroughly contemptible.
In the immortal words of Padmé Amidala, "So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause."
Okay. Sorry, that was a rude joke, wasn't it?
Quoting s9:
------ In the immortal words of Padmé Amidala, "So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause." Okay. Sorry, that was a rude joke, wasn't it? ------ That was a joke?
I think a Dem. Senate will matter if Stevens retires. But, there are many other things for which it will matter too. A firm "mandate" to Republicans in '06 would be a travesty overall. Anyway, a betting man says the Dems will lose the Senate ... they need a near perfect storm to win it.
The House is different. They have a shot. Many over there did lash against the bill, something noted on liberal activist leaning blogs as well. They have spoken out repeatedly on various issues, but since the place is run as a plantation (see, e.g., "Broken Branch"), they come out with little. Most Dem House members did vote against the bill. They deserve to win in '06, and should not be punished for Senate timidity.
Glenn Greenwald underlines the point that House Dems served the country pretty well on this issue. The exceptions are telling:
The House voted today to pass the President's interrogation and detention bill. The roll call vote is here. Democrats voted against the bill by a vote of 219-34. Republicans voted in favor of the bill by a vote of 160-7. Of the 34 Democrats voting in favor of the bill, two are currently in close races for the Senate: Rep. Harold Ford in Tennessee and Sherwood Brown in Ohio. Rep. Brown, a generally liberal leaning sort (including on free trade), is a particularly troubling case. It underlines, however, how the Senate appears to be different on this issue. More "reasonable" in a Lieberman sort of way.
Hey, Noah -- the (D)s may deserve to lose, but after this, the (R)s will get their own special circle in Dante's Inferno.
I'd speculate what happens to them there, but why bother when it's all in the newspaper?
I find the Dem leadership often very frustrating, but I think the real problem here is not that Dems are spineless but that they are not monolithic. 38 Dems willing to filibuster would not be enough, even if joined by Chafee and as long as there are red-state Dem Senators (which there must be for Dems to control the Senate), there will often be a problem with filibustering if there are only 45 Dem senators. If Dems controlled the Senate right now, this law would not pass in this form. At least 3 Repubs are apparently joining with Levin on habeas which means that if there were 50 Dems that would be changed. In a democracy, you must win elections. The most likely outcome of the current election it seems to me is a 50-50 Senate which would, of course, be organized by the Repubs with the help of the VP, but a 50-50 Senate will be viewed as a Dem victory and make it much easier to stop a bad Supreme nominee, with real pressure being put on the Mainers and Specter in that event, and further 50 Dem senators are much more likely to have 40 willing to filibuster. Dem Senators are speaking out against this bill and House Dems voted overwhelmingly against it. Unfortunately, the media has somewhat lost interest now that the McCain part is over. Which leads me to another pet peeve, which is the idea of the objective non-partisan media. I think the 19th century had it right with partisan media. How different it might be if people could actually tune in every night to the Democratic Nightly News with Walter Cronkite (oops, its getting late, i must have dozed off into a dream state).
It's truly sad that Alexander Hamilton had more wisdom at age 25 than at least some of the Dems in the Senate. From a letter of September 3, 1780:
"The manner in which a thing is done has more influence than is commonly imagined. Men are governed by opinion; this opinion is as much influenced by appearances as by realities; if a Government appears to be confident of its own powers, it is the surest way to inspire the same confidence in others; if it is diffident, it may be certain, there will be a still greater diffidence in others, and that its authority will not only be distrusted, controverted, but contemned." Dems need to stand up for our principles now that the Republicans are standing down for them.
In my second comment, I cut and pasted a quote that is erroneous. Someone nicely emailed me to point it out -- Glenn Greenwald clearly copied the totals wrong.
Republican 219-7 Democratic 34-160 Independent [against] As to Zathras, I might be wrong, but I recall someone by that name elsewhere noted that he agreed Bush et. al. was not fit for the office, but supported them in '04 out of party loyalty. But, he cites the lack of the guts of Democrats. I don't find this exactly ahem gutsy.
Any of you notice that your repeated meme here, over and over and over again, is to educate us dumb voters so that we'll be smart enough to understand why you're so appalled?
It's evidently not occurred to the Democratic Party -- or at least the ones posting here -- that the MAJORITY of voters have already rejected your "educational superiority" not just once but a couple of times. My guess is that you-all will be rejected again on November 8, and for a lot of the same reasons. You really need to wrap your over-educated and bulging brains around the fact that we are not impressed by your education. We *are* impressed by what we can touch and see and hear and taste ... like two skyscrapers crumbling and bodies plummeting downwards through the air to splat like over-ripe tomatoes on the pavement below. Until you can come up with a counter-balance to those images, your rants about the need to "educate" us to the importance of treating terrorists with the proper amount of empathy and human rights is going to keep on being rejected, and all your efforts wasted. If terrorists have their habeas corpus taken away from them ... good! And if we've been able to slaughter 4,000 terrorists in Iraq (not to mention however many have met their Allah in Afghanistan) then that has been money well spent on warlike activities. Which is more than the Democrats ever proposed doing.
"A society that is willing to sacrifice Liberty for Security deserves neither" (Ben Franklin paraphrase)
If I recall when Clinton appointed his Supreme Court nominees there was no fight. The Republicans, including Gingrich, said, he won the Presidential election he gets to decide the Supreme Court. Yet, Reagan, Bush Sr, and Bush Jr have to fight tooth and nail to get their people in. And yet it is the Republicans who are stong willed and the Democrats who are wishy washy. Please. America as a whole does not want socialism. America as a whole does not want to treat people out of uniform(and therefore not protected by the Geneva Convention that America signed), shooting at their soldiers given the same rights as American citizens. Think about Lieberman, think hard. He is your test case. A true liberal who believes in the War in Iraq. If he does not lose in a Liberal state like Connecticut, do you really want the Democrats to look like they do not believe in this war? Do you? Because that is a recipe for disaster. Hell as a conservative I wish, I wish all Democrats would come out strongly in support of the DNC opinions. That would guarantee a butt-whipping you have not seen since Modale was slaughtered by that "War-Monger", "stupid", and "inept" Reagan. I do not believe any of those things, but they were said of Reagan and all he did was win elections, bring America out of its doldrums and kill the Soviet Union. Not bad for being "stupid". Yes get the Democrats to be strong in their Commitments to all things America does not like. I need a good laugh.
Another conservative point of view, along the lines of what NahnCee said....get your heads out of your overeducated patoots and stop your condesending attitude toward the people you are trying to get on your side.
Speaking from personal experience, I tune out anybody I think is talking down to me as a voter, and the Dhims are great at that....example: John Kerry tarted up as a hunter?? Puleeze, that was as sleazy as they come. Also, quit denigrating our boys in uniform. I remember 9/11 and the impact it had on me as a voter, and I'm darn sure not going to vote for the pansy party of weenies who want to cut and run from Iraq, and I'm tired of being told I'm stupid for believing that ISLAM is a huge problem for us. Just making "nice" with these savages is not going to work, nor is ignoring the problem and hoping they'll go away. Also, I don't want to be a socialist. Socialism DOESN'T WORK. What part of that don't you understand? I'm grown, have been for awhile, and unlike the food nazis at work in NYC (more well-meaning libs, no doubt) I DON'T NEED A NANNY. I don't want the government getting into my life that far. If I want to eat french fries, by God, I'll EAT french fries and if I die of it, oh well. I'm a grown-up and I can do that. Ditto for smoking, drinking, and anything else I choose to do as an adult. James Carville is right. Democrats need to find their spines, but the problem is THEY DON'T HAVE ANY. Evidently bleeding hearts weakens the spine, not to mention that the Dhims have so many factions that they CAN'T come up with a cohesive strategy that brings everybody under the tent, which is why you're on your way into the trash bin of history. This is NOT JFK's Democratic party and if he was still alive, he'd be appalled at all of you. You deserve to lose, and you will.
"Too big for information, is equal to too small for Knowledge,
Too big to learn, is equal to too small to understand. When a man says, "I am beyond that!', it usually means that it is beyond him, not because it must be beyond him, but because if he were beyond it, he would not say so." - Idries Shah Guess I don't have anything worthwhile of my own...yet
I am a registered Democrat (because of closed primaries in a D area) but no party loyalist by any means.
Democrats don't lose elections because voters are dumb and the Supreme Court won't let candidates cherry-pick recounts. (Remember, they didn't tell FL not to have recounts. They said if you're going to do it, you have to recount the whole state. It was the only fair thing to do.) Democrats lose elections because they have no ideas; they have bad ideas; or they have ideas that are unpopular and they know it so they try to hide it but the electorate knows better. Want a spine? Be who you are. Run on your ideas. Don't insult the voters. Then when Dems lose, they will know it's about their IDEAS losing. The party has no chance of saving itself until it has a rendezvous with reality. No Dems for national office in 2006! I'm just not for investigations and impeachments during a time of war. The D spin machine has really lost its mind and its grip on reality. It's ossified and Kossified. Whiny teenagers shouldn't be allowed to run the country.
I'm ready for Republican Party too loose. Just doen't seem like the President is doing his job. Seem like there is no middle clas only the rich and the poor.
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An evening celebrating the great cartoonist, writer, and editor Harvey Kurtzman? Awesome. An evening celebrating Kurtzman with fellow amazing cartoonists Drew Friedman, Al Jaffee, Arnold Roth, and Robert Grossman? Even more awesome!!!
Join these legendary artists tomorrow Tuesday, March 19th as they discuss the life and works of Harvey Kurtzman in a panel moderated by Peter Kuper. The discussion runs from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the Society of Illustrators [ 128 East 63rd Street ].
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Information wants to flow and it wants to flow freely and torrentially. Twitter, SMS, email, and RSS offer unprecedented access to information. With all these channels of communication comes a deluge of overwhelming retweets, cross-chatter, spam, and inaccuracies. How do you distinguish signal from noise without getting overwhelmed? Can we somewhat automate the process of filtering content into more manageable portions without sacrificing accuracy and relevance?
These are the exact questions I attempted to answer during the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. As the Director and System Architect of SwiftRiver at Ushahidi, we're working on an open-source software platform that helps journalists and emergency response organizations sift through real-time information quickly, without sacrificing accuracy. These earthquakes, however unfortunate, offered extreme use-cases for testing ideas internally, as small nonprofits and organizations as large as the U.S. State Department were relying on us for verified information.
The approach SwiftRiver takes is to combine crowdsourced interaction with algorithms that weight, parse, and sort incoming content. But before we get to that, let's explore how real-time content is currently delivered and consumed.
User Experience and Real-Time Content
As we move into the future of the Web, it's clear that real-time content is going to remain an increasingly important part of our online experience. This makes it important to think about the implications these new ways of delivering information have for UI design. We've learned from design for Web 2.0 that less is more. The buzzword simplexity was tossed around for a while to describe applications that did a lot under the hood, while managing to look simple on the frontend.
The layout of google.com is often cited as a good example of simplexity. When you navigate to Google you're presented, front and center, with a box that essentially asks you one question: what are you looking for? You type a phrase, and the application returns the results. That seems like a very simple exchange, but software professionals can tell you there's an incredible amount of work that goes into making such a simple task appear so…ordinary.
Likewise, other websites like mint.com and flickr.com, while not real-time apps, are great examples of making complex sets of processes seem easy. Many other websites have taken completely different approaches to both tasks (Web-based finance tracking and photo sharing, respectively), but I'd propose that these two sites have succeeded because of ease of use and accesibiity as much as because of the services they offer. Arguably, they're more successful in comparison to their former competitors as a result. So the simplicity of user interactions is important; and can have a direct return in increased user engagement.
With real-time apps, the need for simplexity is compounded by the fact that simple needs to be fast, and easy to read. In short, they need to answer the user question, "What am I supposed to pay attention to and when?"
At this year's CHIRP Conference, Twitter revealed that it's attempting to address some of these very issues. They previously only offered a few tools for the curation of user streams. Search is one such mechanism; to find something that's already been said, we can search the backlog of tweets at search.twitter.com. The lists feature is another; to set up filters that continually organize what's being said by people we trust on a given subject, we create lists of people knowledgeable on that subject. It's a list curated by repuation, but it still needs to be created. And, finally, the act of following or unfollowing users is another mechanism of curation. Who's saying the things that we care about enough to listen to at all?
Even still, the information available through Twitter is ephemeral. If we go away from our Twitter accounts for a week, a day, an hour—hell, sometimes even a few seconds—we'll receive content that's very different than the content delivered at any other period of time. This is a relatively new problem, a by-product of technology as we to speed up the means for communication.
But are these mechanisms for curation more useful or are they just more tools? More access to conversations from people whom we may or may not care about in all scenarios is both a gift and a curse. When I do care, the information is there. When I don't, I still have to try to sift through it all to find what I'm looking for. The developers at Twitter recognize this and are now experimenting with algorithmic and manual approaches to drawing user attention to information that they deem relevant with sponsored tweets, popular tweets, and resonance.
The Existing Workflow
Right now emergency response organizations and journalists monitoring real-time news have workflows that involve several independent tools: a Twitter desktop client (like Seesmic, Twhirl, TweetDeck, Tweetie, etc.), email, phone, feed readers, Google Alerts, and so on. The tools are there but they're scattered, offering little (if any) cohesion.
Curating Reputation
If there's a unsolved problem here, I propose it's this: there's no easy way to aggregate the trust that a user has for specific content sources—In other words, a way to carry the reputation I may have for various individuals across the Web with me.
You can make the decision that Blogger X is more reliable than Blogger Y, but just because Blogger X is authoratative most of the time on most subjects doesn't mean he will be all the time. On Wikipedia, for instance, changes to articles need to be approved by a group of peers. Some users (editors) are given the rights to approve, disapprove, and edit the changes of other users, and they only answer to an even smaller group of peers and they hold more authority within that ecosystem than others. However, you'll also notice on Wikipedia that authoratative editors for entries on Steve Jobs aren't the same editors for Rush Limbaugh's profile.
Editors at Wikipedia have to demonstrate they are both knowledgable on a subject and reliable enough that they won't sacrifice accepted truth for personal bias. That's one example. Ranking by influnce or popularity is another. An example of this is Twitter's new feature, Resonance. By measuring retweets, click–throughs, and other interactions, it determines the influence of a tweet.
So that's reputation at its most basic level. Distributed reputation, then, is the aggregate reputation accrued by a person's contributions across the Web. This is hugely important for changing the way we consume content because it helps users focus their attention on other users that have proven to offer the most value. When I'm reading the New York Times online and I look to the comment section of an article, might there one day be a way to see who among the commnetors has previously demonstrated they know what they're talking about within the article's specific context? If so, we could then filter the conversation by reputation rather than popularity.
With a distributed reputation system, the decisions of whether a source is trustworthy can be passed back to applications in ways that adds context to future decisions. Reputation can be applied to users as well as content sources. It can then be used as the basis for a number of filters: authority by subject, authority within an organization, on a social network, or in my feed reader. It becomes a baseline we can use in a lot of ways.
The location of the source of content should also influence reputation. Where an event occurs tells a user as much about why he should care about as when it occurred. Was the person actually in Iran when he tweeted that media in Tehran was shutdown? If so, then we'll probably be more interested in the following messages from that user than the guy in Australia recounting the events as they unfold from BBC World News coverage or even the BBC itself.
Why? If trust can be earned, then it can also be lost, so it needs to be continually maintained. After all, because a source was right once, twice, or even a thousand times, doesn't make it always right—and certainly not on every subject. Even big news organizations are limited in what they cover and how well or quickly they can cover it.
This past year in Kampala, Uganda, there were a series of deadly riots that occured under the radar of international mainstream news for days. Yet it was a situation that affected millions of lives here. My peers and I relied upon Twitter and SMS for information. Later, when the mainstream news picked up on what was going on, they were often wrong or misleading in what they reported.
In such a scenario, the news outlets were either clueless, or useless to people like myself. Conversely, friends of mine who were chased down by military police as they tweeted absolutely earned my trust. In that situation, I followed the information sources that it made sense to monitor for that situation. Every scenario will be different, which is why a good distributed reputation system should be equally nuanced.
Speed of Delivery and Consumption
Another focus is the speed of delivery, as well as how quickly content can be presented or consumed. The real-time workflow is all about speed—staying as close to moments of occurrence as possible. After all, "breaking news" isn't breaking because it's being reported a week after everyone else reported it. It's breaking because it's happening right now. A volcano in Iceland was recently shooting plumes of ash and rock 35,000 feet into the air and causing historic disruptions of air travel. At one point in time that was breaking news. It might very well still be news, but the real-time coverage of that event is no longer important. It has already happened.
Time is the enemy when dealing with real-time content. How long does it take someone to receive the report of a shooting at Fort Hood on Twitter? It could easily be seconds, providing that they have a good Internet connection and Twitter's servers aren't down. However, it could take far longer. If information is only important now, or most important now, there won't ever be a better time to get that content to whomever might be looking for it. A real-time application that's slow in delivering information is obviously self-defeating. Tools like pubsubhubbub, Ajax, and jQuery are are possible parts of the solution here, as is the optimization of databases and other background processes.
Managing Real-Time Information Channels
The newest version of NetVibes offers a unified dashboard that allows users to manage their email, text messages, RSS feeds and other content from around the Web in place. But how can we allow this to happen autonomously without a central server or organization acting as the gatekeeper? With our platform, SwiftRiver, we are attempting to answer these questions.
SwiftRiver is an open source project being developed for aggregating and managing multiple channels of real-time news from the Web, including crowdsourced content from Twitter, SMS, and email. It attempts to streamline the mining fo data in real-time in a number of ways.
Structuring Unstructured Data
The only reason we as content consumers tend to treat data differently is because of the different tools we normally use to receive them. In a scenario like the Haiti earthquakes, we needed to find information that was urgent across many differnt types of media quickly. We quickly realized that it was exceedingly inefficient to monitor hundreds of different information sources from different applications (Twitter, RSS, SMS, and email) so we developed SwiftRiver to centralize similar flows of information.
The flow of data within our application begins with aggregating unstructured (rather, differently structured) datasets, reformatting them through various processes, centralizing them in our database, and then returning one unified feed. Once the data is aggregated, SwiftRiver does three things to optimize it. We filter out duplicate content, structure data into a unified object model, and then use our natural language processing program, SiLCC, to extract keywords and apply them as tags.
When users launch their SwiftRiver instances, they're already dealing with structured data. This allows them to worry about more important things like what the information is telling them and (in the case of emergency response organizations) how they might need to respond.
Persistent Tagging
The automation of the tagging process saves a great deal of time. Many social news sites rely solely upon their users to tag content to varying degrees of success. This approach places this feature at the mercy of user engagement. If user engagement is high, tags are created as desired. If user engagement is less than average, then some content won't get tagged at all. I'm of the opinion that tags are grossly unappreciated as they add the first layer of semantic taxonomy to content on the Web.
We've attempted to solve the problem of lackluster tagging by users with auto-tagging algorithms performed by our SiLCC app, which ensures that all aggregated content (tweets, emails, text messages) are tagged and sorted. This means that there is at least some level of taxonomy available to all aggregated content, regardless of the source. Since user engagement is a variable that we cannot predetermine, we instead use active learning techniques to apply those interactions (where they exist) to the improvement of the algorithm.
Text is parsed, entities are extracted, semantic meaning is deduced, and the program learns from its mistakes through user feedback. SiLCC was specifically built to address the auto-tagging of tweets and text messages, tasks that groups like Open Calais, TagThe.Net, and other semantic Web applications don't currently offer.
We represent trust of sources with what we refer to as the veracity score. This score is the acculmulated authority of a content item's source. For an email, the source would be the sender's email address; for a Tweet, it would be the user's Twitter account name; for blogs and news, it's the website or feed URL; and for an SMS, it's the sender's phone number. As users rate individual items, the source accumulates a score that weights other content from that same source. The allows content producers whom users repeatedly deem authoritative to rise to the top. This speeds up the process of filtering through larger datasets—say, hundreds of feeds—that one might be monitoring.
The user can then deal with trusted content prior to dealing with unknown or less reliable sources. A veracity filter control sets a bracket range (high and low) for the type of content sources aggregated. In crisis situations, it's critical that the user be able to sweep through all the sources deemed to be authoritative (those with high scores) first, before dealing with anything else. This doesn't imply that the rest of the aggregated content doesn't need to be dealt with; it simply prioritizes information from sources that have been reliable in the past. The score itself is also dynamic—because trust is earned, it can also be lost.
This goes back to the idea of an aggregate distributed reptuation. In the case of the earthquakes in Haiti, the people emailing or texting with information about missing friends or people trapped under rubble would be prioritized over the thousands of people talking about sending money to the victims. Both types of conversation will turn up in a search for the hashtag #Haiti but we call the latter cross-chatter—information that's related to the event, but not to the current conversation about that event. Thus, a SwiftRiver instance set up to track earthquakes would calculate different veracity scores than one set up to monitor donations to Haiti. The context is different so the scores are different.
Learning on the Fly
In developing SwiftRiver, we've learned a great deal about mining real-time content. The things we're doing with reputation (our system is called RiverID) were conceived from a scenario exactly like the one described above about inaccurate media sources. We extended the ideas to user interaction because the system is even more powerful when the reputation of a user affects his or her authority to rate sources or other users. Persistent Tagging came about to help users sort aggregated information on the fly. The scoring of content helps users prioritize where they focus their attention. Each feature was rooted in a desired user interaction.
Before I conclude, I'd also like to add that there's an inherent bias in Western nations (where bandwidth and Internet access is plentiful) to assume that the real-time (or near real-time) conversation begins and ends on the Web. This is simply not the case worldwide. The majority of the connected planet still relies on text messages (SMS), phone calls, and radio for news. So, perhaps as a discussion for another day, I'd like to explore the importance of developing systems with multiple points of access. We developed SwiftRiver with this in mind so people in the most remote village without smartphones, without access to the Internet, and without computers can at the very least still act as nodes of information for our Swift.
While SwiftRiver is being developed with a particular use-case in mind (monitoring emergencies) it obviously has a number of other possible applications. A system like this could be used to monitor anything: celebrity scandal, environmental news, political news. The software and ideas behind it are subject-agnostic. The contstant is how we process information to help surface the items that may be more relevant in a given scenario to our users.
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Hey @johngos, I think the point the author was making is that tools like tagthe.net do enable users to manually tag content but what they don't do is automatically tag content.
Hey Kathy, I think your concerns of a noisy net are valid but I also think that this issue is being directly addressed by concepts like Swiftriver.
It is good to allow as much direct publishing as possible weather that is by people with training and skills of simply by people with new ideas or on the spot information.
That's happening already, the next step is to build tools and practices that build knowledge and understanding from the data.
Make meaning from media.
Thanks for a great article Jon, and a good discussion all on thread.
Cheerio, John
I'm not clear how the tagthe.net api cannot be used for tagging tweets and sms messages. Can you clarify?
Very interesting comments on Web 2.0 usability. Democratisation of the web, and users as designers, are challenges and opportunities of Web 2.0. As the user experience is being created by the users, the questions are especially relevant to Human Computer Interaction. "How do we effectively communicate with 10 million end-user designers?"(Dixon). The problem is that Web 2.0 means web content is being created by many authors who have no design or HCI background. As users and usability may not be considered, Web 2.0 could threaten the quality of web content by giving the web publishing tools direct to users. The risk is the Internet may become flooded with content by 10 million end-user designers who are not considering usability, and the quality of the online experience may decline. The risk is Web 2.0 software may result in an increase of web content with poor usability, Jakob Nielsen: "Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous". This in itself is not a problem if those publishing tools enable the users to deliver content which is usable and useful to users. If they don't, the result could be, in Nielsen's words, we're 'polluting the Internet'. I am a postgraduate student running a research project on blogging and blog usability. My question is whether or not there is a link between the usability of blogging tools and the blogs/ content they publish. I have just published a heuristic usability evaluation of blogger.com on my blog as part of this project and will continue to add my work as it develops:
Very interesting and terrifying at the same time. Do I want ALL of the world to know what my brain is just doing? This would be the perfect tool for control. Why do I really need real-time data? At some point in time this only becomes noise.
Jon: Absolutely, you can check out the page on user access levels for more information. You'll notice that the elevated user rights are related mainly to managing the community - banning abusive users, running bots, and deleting spam. The ability to edit changes is universal, and the 'rollback' permission is a convenience - just a special link that does a revert function that's available to anyone.
So, yes, there are certainly levels of users, but they are determined mainly by management abilities, rather than editing abilities.
There is an interesting story to be told of the rift between Jimmy Wales, the Bill Gates of Wikipedia, and Larry Sanger, whose ideas about authority and experts are much closer to the what this article claims about Wikipedia - but whose efforts in Citizendium and other projects are far less successful.
Brilliant article, thank you. As I read the article, I found myself both excited and nervous - the latter because I am African and know how much information is shared off-line. So I was excited to get to the near-last paragraph where you speak about the inherent western bias that thinks that all conversations begin and end on the web, and that Swift is also thinking about those who only have access to SMS and less. The information passed around at this level is so much more difficult to get to, and has huge consequences for our work and lives. I look forward to reading more about Swift's development for these nodes of access.
The point still requires a 'revert' on this article, however, because it is neither literally nor practically true.
The contention that the editing process is based on authority is also weak; in principle, authority on Wikipedia is based on strength of external citations, never 'personal authority.' Uncited original research is the exact opposite of ideal material and is avoided by all experienced users. Of course, other tools, like Twitter and Ushahidi have as their aim original research and therefore have different systems. It's important not to evaluate the workings of one system by the principles of another.
This part of the article about Wikipedia and changes needing to be approved couldn't be any further from the truth. Changes do not need to be approved at all, and you can even edit logged out. Of course if you make unconstructive changes or do "vandalism" to pages, then others will notice and revert your edit. If your edit (regardless of who you are) makes the page better, then it stays.
About reputation, registered users who stick around and contribute constructively may become known around the Wikipedia community and gain reputation. When monitoring edits to articles, I may give less scrutiny to edits I see by users I know and trust, but regardless edits are still ultimately judged on their merit.
If you stick around Wikipedia for long enough and do good work, you may become an "admin". This is merely a "janitorial" role, where you get to delete pages and such, but deletion decisions are guided by community consensus (e.g. articles for deletion process). Admins do not have any additional authority over content decisions or deciding to "approve" edits.


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When I started college, I chose to be an English major because I liked Anne of Green Gables and those 'free writing' exercises in fourth grade.
That was literally the amount of thought I put into the decision.
And I thought even less about what I'd do with my degree - until my first visit home and the 8 million "So, are you going to be a teacher?" conversations. So, when I returned to school I did a variety of things that resulted in me landing a 'real' job - like, with benefits and a (fairly) livable wage and business cards! So I must have done something right. Later, I actually came to hate said job but that's not what we're talking about right now. This is the story of what I did to get a 'real' job, straight out of college, with a liberal arts degree.
I graduated with my BA in 2002, when the economy was very, very different. I know that there are many smart, hard working, qualified people who have done All The Right Things and still can't find a job. And that makes me want to weep and stuff my face with cheese. I don't want anyone to view this post as an affront to your job hunting efforts, I can only tell you what worked for me.
How To Actually Get A Job With A Liberal Arts Degree
Realize that your classes probably aren't preparing you for the workplace.
Liberal arts programs teach you how to make and support arguments/read and write well/be an informed, well-rounded citizen of the world. But they don't necessarily teach you about the software used in your field, how to navigate office politics, how to write grant proposals or any of the super specific skills that you'll probably need. Is it heart breaking that many of us pay $40,000+ for an education that doesn't help us get a job? Yes. Sadly, the only person who's responsible for your employability is you.
Take classes (or learn skills) that will make you employable and set you apart from other job seekers.
You don't have to switch your major to Marketing or Accounting, but no one will ever regret taking a class in social media, basic computer programing or bookkeeping. And these skills will make you approximately a million times more appealing as a job candidate. Work for an arts non-profit? Help manage their Twitter account. Using your Women's Studies degree at a shelter? Manage their mailing list and newsletter. History Majoring it up a museum? Help them balance their monthly budget.
Do internships. Even if they're low-paying. Even if you're broke.
By the time I graduated, I'd completed four internships and every.single.summer I questioned this decision. I was earning minimum wage while my friends made real money waitressing and working in factories. When I graduated, I had a pretty impressive skill set and equally impressive debt. My friends had less debt but fewer skills. I got a job almost immediately and was able to start paying down my debt and working my way towards a career. Suckily, a lot of my friends floundered because they'd never really developed a professional skill set. The financial sacrifices you'll make for those internships will pay off later. Tenfold.
If you want to work in a creative field, start a blog. Like, today.
If you want a job that involves writing/design/art/decor/music, get thee to WordPress. Having a blog will help you develop your voice/aesthetic, connect with people in your field and it'll show potential employers that you're a reliable initiative-taker. Assuming you don't post three times a week for a month and then forget about it.
Make peace with networking.
Puuuuuke. I know. But 'networking' is really just another name for 'making new friends' and 'staying in touch.' If you've done an internship, make sure you stay in touch with the people you met there. Reach out to alumni who work in your field. Ask neighbors or your parents' friends who work in your field if you can buy them dinner and pick their brains.
There's way, way more to job hunting than Monster.com and Craigslist.
Here's how I got my fresh-out-of-school job: I went to Switchboard.com, typed in the word 'creative' and cold-called every.single.business listed and asked if they had an internship program. You could do the same. Check out non-profit specific job sites, Google "museums [city name]," talk to the Careers office at you college. And under the heading of 'I know you already know this,' edit your cover letter and resume to better fit every job you apply to.
Know that you might need two jobs for a while - one that gets your foot in the door and one that pays the bills.
When I was working as an event planner, I got a roommate to help cover all my bills. When I was teaching ESL, I had two other side gigs to help me stay afloat. It's entirely possible that the really awesome job you find coordinating an after school dance program is part-time and low-paying. And you'll have to wait tables/bartend/barista to make ends meet. And it might be tempting to completely fore go the low-paying, part-time job that's actually in your field. Because you could make more money and have more time if you just bartended.
But here's the thing: the only thing that full-time waitressing is going to prepare you for is a career as a waitress. Which is totally okay if that's what you want! But if you really want to work in the field you studied, try to view that part time job as your golden ticket and the waitressing job as a necessary evil. If you're patient and hard working and take initiative, something good will happen. Eventually.
Do any of you have job-finding advice? How many of you are currently looking for work?


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I'm still annoyed that I don't they the linux and windows version for $20. I don't want to have to buy them both.
Phoronix: Giving Away Linux Copies Of The New Unigine Game
Unigine's OilRush game was made available for pre-order earlier this month. The initial pre-order figures are somewhat disappointing for this game that's available right now as beta for Microsoft Windows and Linux (and a Mac OS X build coming soon) in a run-up to its formal release in June. If you don't have a copy yet, we're giving away a few copies of this oil-themed real-time strategy game that offers impressive graphics...
I'm still annoyed that I don't they the linux and windows version for $20. I don't want to have to buy them both.
Similar titles from larger companies usually cost $50 at retail, so paying $40 for two separate platforms is not that bad in comparison. While it would be nice to be able to receive both, it would be hard to determine which purchase is dedicated to which platform because at least some people would then grab the first one that their mouse can click.
One thing is sure, one cannot say (anymore) that Linux users are the ones who do not pay for games, when you compoare with the Windows figures. To be fair, the mainstream PC games media has not covered this game at all! I hope this will change when the final release is available.
On the other hands, I am not sure this RTS as the first game for their engine was a very good idea. The game looks good, this is certain, but a RTS may not appeal everyone. Especially considering the theme. They may have been better to create a FPS, or a 3rd person RPG that would appeal to a wider audience in my opinion, and would have allowed to show more textures, more various scenery.
Best wishes to them, that is nice to have a company that supports Linux, some 3D engine competition and I hope they will be able to license their engine to many third parties.
I've tried a few times over the last few days, but after clicking "Continue" on the register page I always just get the http://openbenchmarking.org/register page again, with the text "An unknown error occurred." at the top.
i guess nobody likes oil rigs these days...
Damn, my system can't run the test suite and I'd sooner die than register on Twitter. But I can't run the game anyway so never mind. I will be keeping an eye out for reports of it working on r600g though.


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For the last ten minutes or so i have been looking at my phone. Truly there isn't much to look at because it's a flip phone but it got me thinking. Thinking about how cell phones changed how we interact with others, go about our daily lives and how much time people spend on their phones. There are a few reasons why i don't have an iPhone or an android:
1) I simply do not care enough to get one. For some people they might not understand why i don't care so i am going to tell you (i was going to anyway but figured i just make sure). To have a smartphone doesn't interest me. I have twitter and facebook but i feel that i don't need a phone to check it or use snapchat and instagram because i would post pictures neither i or the people who follow me actually like. I don't need to have all these apps that in ten years won't even be around.
2) I like being different whether it may get me laughed at or not. For most people who find out i still have a flip phone they tend to laugh then ask me questions on why i don't have one and why i should get one. People who i guess do not know me whether or not they grill me on not being "up to date" or "girls are going to laugh at you because of that" then that is fine with me. It's not going to change anything. If it bothers people that much that i have a flip phone then buy me a iPhone or an android and pay for my bill and i will gladly use that phone. If not then keep your two cents because those my friend i have a enough of thank you very much.
3) I personally feel it is a waste of money. Now i am not saying it is a complete waste of money i just think phones of that caliber are a lot of money. You may be thinking "oh you must not have money to pay for those phones" i have money for a nice smartphone. Do not worry about that it is just the fact that i don't want to spend a few hundred bucks for a phone that isn't going to be around in a few years. I rather just keep my shitty phone for now and wait till a price drop or a phone that really intrigues me to spend that amount of money. Until that day my flip phone will be around for as long as it is still working.
Last but not least 4) Fuck what you think. Whether or not you like the fact i do have a flip phone or ask me a million and one questions to why i don't have a better phone or just wanna good laugh go for it. Truly i have zero cares for your opinion, because at the end of the day i am still gonna call the same people, text the same people and use social media and other apps on my computer that i love very dearly as long as i can. I am happy with what technologies i have or do not have. People may have problems with it but sorry you entered the store where we are all out of fucks, sorry try again next time.
This may sound like i am complaining about other people and their opinions. Honestly it is not that, all it is me stating my opinion on others opinions and actions. If i was complaining i have others forms of doing that and i wouldn't put those concerns on the internet for everyone who has access can see. It is just (as i said before) me stating my opinion on a certain topic some people have different opinions on.
Well its almost 8:30 and i am going to finish texting all my cool friends with my flip phone. YEAH MY PHONE FLIPS OPEN! WHAT DOES YOUR PHONE DO???!!! NOTHING BESIDES HAVE A CASE AROUND IT AND YOU CAN TOUCH THE SCREEN!!! OH YOU ARE SOOOOOOOO COOL!!! Sorry about that it had to be done. I will be in my tree fort if anyone needs me. I do apologize for the screaming that was not intended for you unless you fall into any of these four reasons. You were just being nice enough to read this and got yelled at i am sorry and one day will make it up to you by buying you a nice ice cream of your choice.


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lol This fight was gonna happen at UFC 43 but I guess majority of you were still watching Brock Lesnar and the Rock in WWE back then huh?
most knew it was due to happen which is why there may be so much beef now. Personally I have no interest in seeing it.
If you didn't see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth!
Who cares? It's never gonna happen and it's a boring, pointless fight anyway.
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Surely it would have been the NCAA we'd have been watching Brock in?
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How much did Silva pick up at cage rage does anyone know just interested.
There was a lot of hype on Anderson Silva when he fought in Japan, (when he was at welterweight ) tipped to be the next big thing at that time (when he was a welterweight) after beating Carlos Newton. I wouldn't say he was a nobody while he was a welterweight earlier in his career. I'm pretty sure he was paid well...


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