http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/30/republicans-decide-not-to-introduce-grayson-resolution/

Why not? What he did was no different than Joe Wilson. What is good for the goose …

Sorry if this comes off like a rant, but I have a pet peeve against people calling Usenet ‘Google Groups’. Sure, Google may have become the most common way to access Usenet via Google Groups, but Google didn’t invent Usenet, Usenet existed long before Google or the web. Back before there was even TCP/IP (which is what gave us all IP addresses and made everything from ftp to the web possible), there were two applications on the ‘net: email, and Usenet (also called news or netnews), which were mainly delivered by UUCP links back then. All Google did was slap a web interface on it and open it up to everyone.

Media Matters is dancing with glee right now: A blogger for NewsMax called John Perry, who used to be a bureaucrat in the Carter Administration (?), apparently wrote a column about the possibility of a military coup booting NObama out of office a la the Honduras and Zelaya for crimes against the Constitution.

Perry in the first paragraph said he was not in favor of the idea, but was postulating what might be the scenario.

Media Matters is positive this is representative of conservatives, in fact is claiming that as a fact, and is happy that in embarrassment NewsMax pulled the essay off its website.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909300012

More than a decade ago I worked for an outfit that was trying to establish a system whereby all of your appliances, manage your energy consumption, provide whole house switching from your television reception system to any tv in your house, handle the alarm system, manage your lights, and provide an easily programmable switches through out the house. Your VCR would literally been able to talk to the gas stove. It sounds cool when you look at the gee-whiz factor, but when you start getting into the nitty gritty details it falls apart quickly. That company eventually filed for bankruptcy for multiple reasons including not providing a workable price point for the gizmos. But I’ve always thought there was the more fundamental problem that nobody was ever able to answer the question of why appliances needed to talk to each other. If you can’t answer that question, any price point is too high.

I expect the unified light based connector will encounter similar problems of people not thinking about the practical matters of the proposed standard. Admittedly in the purely computer industry the barrier is a bit lower since we need the connectors anyway. But I expect other issues to pop up. Like USB is required to provide a minimum dc current to any connected device. Certain device manufacturers depend on that requirement for power to their devices. I still recall a scanner that worked fine on desktop PCs but wouldn’t work on one particular laptop because the laptop wasn’t providing sufficient power to run the scanner. After I added a powered USB hub for the client it worked fine. Assuming a workable optical protocol is developed, that puts a new design requirement on the device manufacturers. Also, for reasons I freely admit I don’t understand, the industry avoids fiber optics from the server room to the desktops. They are great with it between the telco and the switches as well as between the mass storage units and the servers, but even the server to server connections still seem to be more copper than fiber. I’ll be the first one to grant that to me it would make more sense for these connections to be fiber (glass being made from a somewhat more abundant resource) but it isn’t happening. Then you get into the whole patent/monopoly issues thing (remember the Rambus spat before the current DDR spec came online?) and it’s pretty much food fight with no resolution.

Still, I wish them the best of luck if for no other reason than reducing the number of expensive copper components in the computer.

Hey, because it’s an open thread, I was just thinking of those Blue Dogs in the House, and those purple-state Dems in the Senate who hope they can get away with voting Yes on cloture and NO on Health Care Theft.

As Dem leadership continues to veto GOP amendments and push the bill further leftward, the Blue Dogs have less and less chance of surviving the next election. To you guys, I dedicate this:

“Fred Thompson was the first big name to endorse Doug Hoffman. Where are Pawlenty, Romney, Pailn, Huckabee and the rest of the 2012 gang?”

Your joking about Huckabee right ? Hes a BIG TIME lib. Only difference between him & a dem is that hes pro-life………..

“Fred Thompson was the first big name to endorse Doug Hoffman. Where are Pawlenty, Romney, Pailn, Huckabee and the rest of the 2012 gang?”

Your joking about Huckabee right ? Hes a BIG TIME lib. Only difference between him & a dem is that hes pro-life………..

I heard about this at noon on AFR. AFR attorney said it was legal for the cheerleaders to make their banners and display them. Apparently it was ONE parent that lodged a complaint and now the cheerleaders are getting a lot of support. And it’s gratifying when people push back and don’t let just one person get their way. Just sayin’.

If they are, we should examine him/her, see if it’s a worthy candidate, then just flood the heck out of them with campaign donations, esp if the district is even remotely in play.

Apologize *this*, Grayson.

…because of his stance on ethanol.

But anyone know the exact date on that quote? Several anti-Pawlenty bloggers claim he said it in the Star Tribune. But when? Until I see the actual article, I’m skeptical that he’d say something so stupid.

this question exposes both the structural difference beteen liberals and conservatives and our own apparent weakness.

conservatives have a vision, but liberals have a goal, an actual place the want to drag us cavemen, kicking and screaming every step of the way. it’s a land of nanny-state milk and honey where eveyone is absolutely safe and no one is any better-off than anyone else (except, of course, for the intelligencia, who are, after all, more equal than the rest of us).

opposing the creation of this fairyland utopia, conservatives are armed with nothing more than a vision. we want a world where each person is free to act in his own self- interest, and to practice compassion and charity in accordance with his own beleifs. in the conservative view, the role of government isn’t to help you pay your mortgage, just to ensure that you aren’t forced to pay anyone elses mortgage.

so, how do you create a strategy of ‘leave me alone’? its a lot easier to create a roadmap when you want to go someplace than when all you want is to be left in peace.

I think we call it the Constitution of the United States.