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Neat. Too bad it's drupal, rendering it totally useless to people with actual taste or skill.
Do you not find it ironic that people with those qualities would not leave such an ignorant comment in the first place?
Who cares? This is boring code. Save all the "it portends an open government!" handwaving for once the Obama admin does something _actually_ meaningful (in a positive way - starting a new war doesn't count). Seriously. Much ado about a Drupal module that is used for people to petition the government to be patronized and ignored.
That's a pretty cynical way of viewing things. Take a look at the big picture: the highest office in the land (world?) is doing what we here on HN do: push public code, accept feedback, leverage open source etc. It's a fantastic start towards a new paradigm of open source code in public places. This should be celebrated; a new generation of people are running things now. It can only get better.
And, in the spirit of the project, they'll reject all pull requests with a patronizing response about the way things are.[1][2] 1. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/legalize-and-regul... 2. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/abolish-tsa-and-us...
http://rlv.zcache.com/cute_mustache_octopus_sticker-p2177152...
2008: Rag tag, understaffed, throw them into the deep end working on rewarding projects that made small strides toward advancing the infrastructure of technology in politics and bring widespread public attention that gave hope for burgeoning markets and a space for competition. A new frontier! Technological solutions for campaigns and the American people!
2012: Best and the brightest fighting to uphold the principles, ideals, and best practices of all veins of the technology industry but they only actually let them do their jobs in order to give lip service to what got those young talented people so excited and what got them there in the first place, and they only let them do it if there's a blatantly obvious way to save face if it backfires, or in a subtly insulting way.
Its a beat down for uppity youngsters who thought they might be able to, I don't know, start a business, or run for office, or provide solutions in the political realm. Technology in politics is a victim of its own success. Politicos don't see technology as way to connect with people and do their jobs better. They see it as stealing their thunder because they don't know how to control it yet. They don't understand the rules so everyone, down to the president himself seems to be spending more time playing whack-a-potential-political-zuck than doing their own job. The only thing we can hope that that eventually they'll be spending so much time preventing technology workers in politics from doing their job that they won't have enough time to screw over voters as much.
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"you can choose the left or the right lane of the conveyor belt to the butcher house." I am going to use this phrase, thanks.
Feel free. I wish it wasn't true, you know.
I generally use the example of a slave given sudden democracy: now they can vote which of two slave owners they want to be a slave to.
Vote, no vote: they're still a slave.
Sometimes, "choice" doesn't matter at all.
Now if we could just get THOMAS into Github so we can upgrade that beast...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THOMAS So who developed THOMAS?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THOMAS So who developed THOMAS?
I would presume Congressional IT? No idea. Good question.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THOMAS So who developed THOMAS?
Hey I know this is late but I just got an email back from "O'Keeffe, Hope loke@loc.gov" that just says it's based on a commercial system that is "out of support" and not available.
