Isnt 2600 older than CDC?
Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Voting twice seems like some kind of vote stuffing scheme. Probably best not to telegraph such intentions.
> Voting twice seems like some kind of vote stuffing scheme Sounds like a commitment to do so in the primary and general election both, which is quite legal.
Ah, good point!
As an independent I don't participate in primaries typically.
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#43Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
#44He's nice and all, but can we go back to electing Presidents who have had lots of executive and political experience ?
What, was being an elected congressman not enough?
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#45I don’t believe this. The GOP is desperate to discredit him because he puts Texas into play a couple years early. This smells like a weak hit job.
I’m not sold as Beto as the candidate but this is a weak meme. 2/10 be best.
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#46He named his BBS "TacoLand". He should definitely play up this angle...maybe campaign on a taco cart on every corner. I know people who will vote for him for that alone.
This piece is a disaster. It's an excerpt from a soon to be released book, it's light on facts about O'Rourke and is at least equally about Cult of the Dead Cow, it's trying to make things sound more nefarious than they were, and it's playing the guilt by association card. The only questionable activities by O'Rourke are:
- he dialed long distance without paying for it.
- he used pirated software.
(Not that I'm defending this behavior, but so did I.)
And he wrote fiction that barely rises to the level of a really bad Stephen King'esque short story.
That's it.
Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
#47He's nice and all, but can we go back to electing Presidents who have had lots of executive and political experience ?
And with an open and thought through policy platform deeper than platitudes.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
You joke about it, but it is kind of scary that some obscure tweet or facebook post one did in their teens might be used against them when running for (whatever) public office...
It's probably a lot like having a diary you wrote when you were a dumb kid in high school being picked apart by the media and senate as a measure of your ability to do a job as 50+ yr old.
Conversely, his supporters will use this as a measure of how "in touch" he is with "tech culture."
So, on the one hand the stupid stuff will be touted as him being just a dumb kid, but the non-stupid stuff will be touted as revolutionary and ahead of his time.
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#49Wow, I used to read the Cult of the Dead Cow's stuff when I was a kid, mid-to-late-90s. Still won't be voting for Beto, but that is cool.