Letters to the Editor
mattwa33186
Published Letters: 395 Editor's Choice: 41
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Do we really want a President
[Read the article: Obama and Clinton fizzle in Philly]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who doesn't get pissed off when bombarded by idiotic questions in the middle of the greatest crisis this country has faced since World War II?
And Frick and Frack couldn't even muster any really meaty questions in the "your associates" arena. How about "Mrs. Clinton, how do you explain your relationship with Jean Bertrand Aristide and the fact that a not insignificant chunk of the $100 million you made while you were supposed to be serving the people of New York as a US Senator is a direct result of that relationship and proceeds from the Hatian telecom scandal?"
Iraq was equally lightly treated. At least Obama was honest - the military will be tasked with carrying out the mission and given the support they need to accomplish it - while Clinton's answer was ridiculous. A "defense umbrella" encompassing a bunch of countries that have no desire for us to establish a military presence within their borders? So we are going to end the occupation of Iraq and instead occupy the entire Middle East? And she doesn't get called out on this?
Snipergate is over, but apparently Bittergate continues. Ascribing negative emotions to voters is taboo, making shit up is OK.
In the end, the reasons why the media focuses on non-issues instead of policy became very clear. Whenever Clinton opens her mouth and speaks about policy she proves that she is either reciting fiction or a complete and total idiot. It's disturbing that the moderators chose not to let her commit political suicide on the stage by pushing harder in that direction, equally disturbing that one of those moderators is a former employee of her husband - a man who would, in fact, be nobody at all if it weren't for Bill making him the youngest press secretary in history. But he's a neutral party.
Suggestion, in the event that we continue to have debates (or even bother with elections) in the future. Debate on a single topic, with questions compiled by political science students from the university that will serve as the location of the debate and asked by professors instead of talking heads. Make it more like a job interview than a sound bite fest.
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It's not the hardware base
[Read the article: Let's fight: Popular Mechanics says Macs beat PCs in style and speed]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OS X is FreeBSD. Both FreeBSD and Vista have plug and play features, but they work differently. Vista examines all your hardware every time it boots up. FreeBSD lets you compile the kernel (which Apple surely does) so it supports the hardware you have and doesn't waste time trying to re-learn everything on every boot. I have OS X running on a Toshiba laptop (mostly running anyway) so it is capable of recognizing strange hardware. It just doesn't go through the process every time.
Windows also has to load support for applications that were written when i386 was unbelievable new technology. Apple has a policy of not supporting anything that was written prior to last Tuesday. A policy, I might add, which has finally turned out to be supremely smart. The way computers are sold now, the quality of the bundled software, has made data the only thing that has to be portable across upgrades so trying to be compatible with the 1992 version of Label Writer Pro is counterproductive.