If I wasn't already political, this would be enough reason for me to vote for Obama (http://www.barackobama.com/index.php):
Obama-Google Interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4RRi_ntQc8)
I think that this clip needs to show up in at least one of the classes, perhaps during the discussion of the bubblesort...
QuoteCS150 Professor: Hey, if the bubblesort is important enough for (President?) Obama (http://www.barackobama.com/index.php) to know it, you should know it!
... and/or when teaching complexity...
QuoteCS340 Professor: As (President?) Obama (http://www.barackobama.com/index.php) says, the bubblesort would not be appropriate here.
Ehh,... just a thought... :-p
(Special thanks to Justin Camerer (http://caos.cs.siue.edu/index.php?action=profile;u=473), who brought this video to my attention! :D)
Also, I would like to take this opportunity to encourage everyone to vote. Though my choice is blatantly clear in this post, I'm honestly not trying to sway anyone one way or another; I don't care who you vote for, just so long as you do, indeed,
make a choice and
vote! You can register (or check to see if you are registered) for your location here (http://www.voteforchange.com/).
Well, not voting is also a respectable choice if that's what they want. Indifference, however, is not encouraged.
I wonder if someone prompted him on that term so he would use it?
:wavetowel: Obama '08!
Quote from: raptor on 2008-10-01T14:10:04-05:00 (Wednesday)
I wonder if someone prompted him on that term so he would use it?
Umm, yeah lol. He said "We have our spies".
Does anyone know where the closest voting registration office is? I never changed my address when I moved so I have to do it now and it needs to be done by the 7th.
You can look up the forms and everything online and it will give you an address to mail them. Not that Illinois is ever really contested.
Yeah, the forms said that it had to be at their office by the 7th if you mail it. Which is weird because it says if you deliver it in person, to the same place, that you can have it there by the 23rd or something like that. Weird. Anyways, just FYI, you can go up to the Court House and turn it in there.
Just an add to this, Obama just referenced the Mark I in his debate tonight.
Who is Mark I.?
Harvard Mark 1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I
Quote from: arcdrag on 2008-10-07T20:39:09-05:00 (Tuesday)
Just an add to this, Obama just referenced the Mark I in his debate tonight.
Are you talking about when he said, "Government scientist invented the first computer that....". I am not so sure he really referenced it, he just acknowledged that Bill Gates didn't event the computer lol.
Government domination party candidate A has been fed computer related buzzwords by his handlers and government domination party candidate B has not. I suspect we will still see the inexorable march of intellectual property enforcement further and further into extra-constitutional territory. The recent PRO-IP act, which was a bipartisan effort, nearly snuck through with provisions to create a new war against copyright violators, much like the drug war, the war on poverty, the war on obesity, or the war on terror. The DOJ had that taken out at the last minute because they refused(amazingly and to their credit) to criminalize an area of law that had been entirely civil up to this point.
Do you all trust Obama with the levers of power? He and his minions will appoint the directors of all the executive agencies.
America has traditionally had a comparative advantage over other countries in intellectual freedom. A vote for Obama OR McCain threatens that. I don't know what the solution is, but I know what it's not.
Meh...Wake me up when the Tar & Feather committee/mob is approaching the federal reserve.
<removed a picture of a british tax collector being tarred & feathered to avoid further controversy & possible misunderstandings...>
Welcome, robespierre way to make a hell of a first impression. Feel free to NOT POST AGAIN*
*This is my opinion, and not necessarily that of CAOS, though I'm sure some of them just won't voice it.
Quote from: Bryan on 2008-10-24T13:08:35-05:00 (Friday)
Welcome, robespierre way to make a hell of a first impression. Feel free to NOT POST AGAIN*
*This is my opinion, and not necessarily that of CAOS, though I'm sure some of them just won't voice it.
What? You don't like my opinion? Is there some unwritten rule about openly disagreeing with the prevailing opinion in a thread?
I've got to be missing some subtext here. I don't understand the hostility... Please explain.
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Okay, I think I see what set you off. The picture <was> of a british tax collector being tarred & feathered during the revolutionary war.
This thread was meant for nothing more than laughs, and people that post inflammatory messages in a thread obviously meant for laughs, as their first post, tend to erk me. If you want a debate about the voting merits of the candidates, then start a thread. Don't try to turn a thread about a funny video into it.