McCain Releases Technology Platform 479
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "John McCain has finally released a technology platform. Most of it is the same old stuff; lower corporate taxes, protect children from porn, and avoid Internet regulation unless 'necessary.' Alas, in his view, helping the RIAA's War on Sharing is necessary to stop the 'global epidemic' of piracy, while Net Neutrality is something he 'does not believe in.' Ars Technica has a review of McCain's platform."
A brief analysis is also available from Federal Computer Week. In addition to the technology policy, McCain has also released a paper describing his stance on security and privacy. We've previously contrasted his views with those of Barack Obama. Obama's technology policies are also available online.
RE: McCain Releases Technology Platform (Score:5, Funny)
Oh great. Yet another Linux distribution that www.distrowatch.org is going to have to track. "McCain-ix"
Probably needs 1GB just to load. I'll stick with Obama-mama-ix thanks.
Re:Protect children from porn (Score:5, Funny)
The problem is that adults forget what it was like being a kid, and try to hoard all the porn for themselves. This is totally misguided, and kids need porn just as much as the rest of us.
Re:John McCain on blogs (Score:5, Funny)
"I was so much more eloquent, well-informed, and wiser than anyone else I knew" ... "With my superior qualities so obvious..."
I knew it from the start! John McCain is a secret elitist!
By the way, too bad he's not quite sooo eloquent anymore. It could have been useful, for stuff like, making people want to vote for him.
Re:Protect children from porn (Score:5, Funny)
The problem is that adults forget what it was like being a kid, and try to hoard all the porn for themselves. This is totally misguided, and kids need porn just as much as the rest of us.
But yet more alarmingly, children from unfavoured homes who don't have access to the Internet at home have no means to educate themselves with pornography, causing a dramatic gap in sexual education. Trust me, these days, you don't want to be the only kid on the playground who thinks that "golden showers" have anything to do with Scourge McDuck.
Re:Protect children from porn (Score:5, Funny)
Trust me, these days, you don't want to be the only kid on the playground who thinks that "golden showers" have anything to do with Scourge McDuck.
Crap, neither do you want to sound like you read a BDSM version of Scrooge McDuck comics.
Re:John McCain on blogs (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, but you just quoted McCain being facetious as though he were serious, meaning you didn't get the joke. It's funny. Laugh.
His technological platform, however... Not so funny.
Re: McCain Releases Technology Platform (Score:3, Funny)
Oh great. Yet another Linux distribution that www.distrowatch.org is going to have to track. "McCain-ix"
Probably needs 1GB just to load. I'll stick with Obama-mama-ix thanks.
I can't wait for the Barack Software Distribution. There's no way in hell McCain-ix can beat BSD.
Re: McCain Releases Technology Platform (Score:5, Funny)
I'll stick with Obama-mama-ix thanks.
That's still vaporware. :)
Re:Protect children from porn (Score:3, Funny)
They work to the opposites.
Teach your kid computers and you don't have to worry about STD's.
Teach your kid about condoms and you don't have to worry about him messing around with computers.
jk.
Re:John McCain on blogs (Score:1, Funny)
100% of what McCain has said since winning the nomination is crap.
Then why has Obama adopted so many of McCain's positions, including on Iraq?
Re:Did he ever have your vote? (Score:4, Funny)
Re: McCain Releases Technology Platform (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Really? (Score:4, Funny)
If you were going to do this properly, you could at least pick the correct logical fallacy than just selecting the one that everyone knows about.
Re:grr. (Score:5, Funny)
I actually get my MP3s off the intarwebs for free and then mail the artists the 10 cents per album they would have gotten if I bought the CD.
*Obama is Dying (Score:3, Funny)
I can't wait for the Barack Software Distribution. There's no way in hell McCain-ix can beat BSD.
Sorry to disappoint you, but Netcraft confirms it- Barack's campaign is dying!
Re: McCain Releases Technology Platform (Score:2, Funny)
But Obama reversed his position on booting being a necessary step for PC operation, for booting pc's is bad for global warming, therefore Obamanix will not have the option of creating a bootsector, nor will it come with one.
When I enquired about exactly how he used this empty black screen of his, I was called a racist, beat up, and thrown out of the building (from the third floor window).
Fortunately the massive quantities of hot air in the head of one of his former fans broke my fall. To those who weren't there it might seem that it'd be very hard for mere hot air to break a fall from a third floor window, however to those I would say that that depends on the quantity. Think big.
The rest of his fans don't care, after all, Obama promised Obamanix would come with Duke Nukem Forever pre-installed.
The distributions release date is said to coincide with Duke Nukem Forever's release date : the day after installing Obama in the white house and giving him the power of preventing a single word about the curious absense of said distribution being published, with laws that would let less bytes pass on *any* router than "prophets suck" articles can be found in this year's "taliban chronicles".