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Hey, I may have missed something -- do you have a cite for the claim that he wants to dissolve the border?
Here one: https://www.dailywire.com/news/43514/tear-it-down-beto-orour... google it, there's a video.
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Though some Presidents have served as house representatives in their past, none of them made the Presidency without doing something else in between their house service and winning the presidency. https://history.house.gov/People/Other-Office/Member-Preside...
Still satisfies the stated refrain of "having political experience", but an interesting historical factoid nonetheless.
It's not just a factoid. It shows that more experience has been generally required.
He 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 gui…
This feels like someone trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill and link connections that really don't exist. According to the article O'Rourke left the CDC boards turned 18 and went to college. He's 46, so we are talking 1989 or 1990. The article then talks up all the Back Orifice/Hacktavism stuff which was a solid decade after he left. It's not like Beto's helping Virus and Sir Dystic write SMBRelay...
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Unfortunately, he doesn't appear to have any actual policy platform related to the presidential run; at least, the other day when I visited the site I saw only merchandising.
To be fair, this is true of many of the candidates. Bernie's got a store, a donate button, and a big animated gif of Bernie looking cheerful. Gillibrand explains what she cares about, but doesn't have any serious policy platform. Etc.
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> ~80/90s hackers aren't really the same thing as most post 00 hackers. Yeah, no hackers from the 80s and 90s ever had any bad intents. /sarcasm
The meaning of the word has changed somewhat; it was mostly about curiosity and exploration in the 80s/90s. Less of the economy was reliant on computers so there wasn't much crime to commit beyond mere unauthorized access. Heck, "2600: The Hacker Quarterly" could be found on the magazine rack at Barnes & Noble back then.
(I was a part of that scene as well).
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What if he had the digital copy, stored on floppy disk?
Then he is some compression wizard too! Edit: I guess that could be read as plural...
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~80/90s hackers aren't really the same thing as most post 00 hackers. A lot of people were in it because they were curious about this new thing and the opportunities to explore something and express themselves. The same way you would in other emerging cultures. Those aren't bad qualities.
> ~80/90s hackers aren't really the same thing as most post 00 hackers. Yeah, no hackers from the 80s and 90s ever had any bad intents. /sarcasm
What a monster!
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Then he is some compression wizard too! Edit: I guess that could be read as plural...
It was both a book and a series of tfiles. Most HPAV boards had copies. They would not have come close to filling a floppy.