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Really? The poster above posted these facts. http://archive.is/vAWQa Will you look at those too or just conveniently ignore them like the other posters who downvoted the FactCheck link above?
Will you use your normal account or just conveniently hide behind fake accounts to say things you know are stupid?
I'm more outraged by Condi's appointment than Brendan Eich's appointment to Mozilla. Condi preached death and torture, Eich supported bigotry. I'm sure however that nobody really give a f and the status quo will be maintained.
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You elected a president who selected a vice president who voted for the war (Joe Biden). Why are you speaking up now? Because she's a Republican?
Agreed. It's hard to understand HN sometimes. Posts about women and minorities in tech get overwhelmingly positive comments..."we have to do anything and everything possible to get more of minority X involved in tech"...then a popular company hires a double minority and everyone loses their mind.
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Are you serious? Al Gore is on various boards, including Apple. He also supported the war. Will you stop using Apple products now? You're not a hypocrite, are you?
Al Gore was appointed to the board of Apple prior to the Iraq war. Here is the Slashdot thread from when he joined, there wasn't much controversial about him at the time other than 'huh, he invented the internet': http://apple-beta.slashdot.org/story/03/03/19/2246212/al-gor... He wasn't in congress during the Iraq war vote. There is a very wide bridge between having a personal opinion as a private citizen in agreeing…
Well, that's the end of my usage of Dropbox, effective immediately. I'll make sure to mention Condi's association with them in every conversation involving Dropbox, in hope of spreading knowledge about their profane selection of board members. It's a shame that they had to pick a Bush crony. These people should be in prison for malevolently misleading the public in order to start a for-profit war which killed hundred…
So I've been wanting to migrate away from Dropbox and onto a self-hosted solution for a while anyway, and I guess this would be a good opportunity to do so. Unfortunately, there don't appear to be any good open-source solutions at the moment. I'm not looking for a fancy web interface or anything, just a simple sync between devices, with a usable API for building apps. In particular, rsync etc. doesn't really offer th…
[1] http://git-annex.branchable.com/
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Chelsea Clinton has never even stood for office, much less been part of the senior leadership of an administration that led the US into two wars of aggression and endorsed torture. I really don't see how a vaguely rational person could even begin to compare the two, regardless of political beliefs. I haven't seen anyone arguing that Bush was worse than Obama in this thread, so I don't see how that comparison has anyt…
I'm sure none of this is relevant but (a) her dad is ex POTUS of a global superpower; and/or (b) her mom was Secretary of state of that global superpower. They also have the son of the wife of the CEO but that's a little different, she was a fashion designer. Condi was (b) so they are basically the same relation to the US gov't. I think the generalization that US foreign policy has radically changed its ethics or its…
Well, that's the end of my usage of Dropbox, effective immediately. I'll make sure to mention Condi's association with them in every conversation involving Dropbox, in hope of spreading knowledge about their profane selection of board members. It's a shame that they had to pick a Bush crony. These people should be in prison for malevolently misleading the public in order to start a for-profit war which killed hundred…
Another great example of how partisanship and shitty double standards have ruined our country. The fact is, the vote to invade Iraq was a bi-partisan vote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Resolution_to_Authorize_t...
"Introduced in Congress on October 2, 2002, in conjunction with the Administration's proposals,[2][7] H.J.Res. 114 passed the House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon at 3:05 p.m. EDT on October 10, 2002, by a vote of 296-133,[8] and passed the Senate after midnight early Friday morning, at 12:50 a.m. EDT on October 11, 2002, by a vote of 77-23.[9] It was signed into law as Pub.L. 107–243 by President Bush on October 16, 2002."
82 Democrats in the house and 29 in the Senate voted for the resolution. If you're against Rice for her actions leading up the war, then maybe you should take some action against the prominent Democrats who voted for the resolution as well:
Chuck Schumer
Joe Biden
Hilary Clinton
John Kerry
Harry Reid
The fact is, BOTH parties are to blame for Iraq. Too bad most Liberals just like to point the finger at Bush and his administration, when in fact there were plenty of Democrats to blame as well. Pretty sure you're not going to boycott any company if one of the democrats listed above lands on a board somewhere are you?