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May
5
Yes, the race for the White House has hit new lows, even for this race. It appears that we haven’t learned from the past two races and it’s starting to scare me. Both in 2000 and 2004 one of the biggest reasons stated for George W Bush winning was that both Al Gore and John Kerry seemed too “elite” and “aloof”. George Bush seemed a little more down to earth, someone you could invite to a BBQ. Well look where that got us!!
The whole idea of a presidential candidate being too elite is the most ridiculous thing I have EVER heard. It defies logic. We Americans like to think of our country as the best country in the whole world. So shouldn’t we have the best, smartest man (or woman) in the job? I don’t want just anyone to be president! It’s a special and unique post. We need the best and the brightest guiding our foreign policy, setting the agenda for the country, and controlling the executive functions.
This is not a wholly new complaint of mine, but what set me off was this article. In this article Clinton says:
Clinton … while dismissing economists who have said her plan to suspend gas taxes over the summer would do little good.
“I’m not going to put my lot in with economists,” Clinton said when asked to name an economist who backed her proposal.
“We’ve got to get out of this mind-set where somehow elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantage the vast majority of Americans,” said Clinton, a former first lady who would be the first woman president.
So she’s saying that she, who has no training in economics is a better person to decide what’s best for the country than someone who’s studied economics. She doesn’t want to listen to their opinion because it’s too elite. What kind of absurdity is that? Look, econ is hard and I’ll be the first to admit that it’s SO HARD that even the economists barely know what they’re doing. But I’d still trust them over someone with no training any day.
Let’s wrap this up with a great mind exercise. When you are sick are you going to not go to a doctor because that’s too elitist? Surely you should just ask a random coworker what you should do. And why hire construction workers to build new buildings, that sounds pretty elitist to me! Are you saying that he’s better qualified to determine how to build a building than the average joe? And when my car breaks down, why take it to a mechanic when I could just pick some random person off the street and have them replace the engine block. Do you now see how silly all this elitist talk is?
I just hope that this doesn’t become a huge trend because I see America going down the toilet if we keep this up. It may just be the case that my children will have to be immigrants in some other country - one that hasn’t elected some yokel to office just because he looks like someone you can have a beer with.
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May
5
Feliz Cinco De Mayo!
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Which is not Mexican Independence Day.
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5
Written Friday, 2 May 2008
Today I decided to upgrade my Mythdora to the latest verison, 5.0. I downloaded the CD media and booted into the install. I had to do a text install to be able to watch it on my TV. Then I just needed to yum install the kmod-nvidia drivers. (Although, first I had to uninstall the previous nvidia drivers - they were neither automatically upgraded nor uninstalled) I started at about 1930 and was able to be completely up and running by 2055, just in time so that I didn’t have to missmy 2100 recording of “Best Week Ever”.
The only major issue was that my current theme didn’t work, it was missing all of the words. But by using the keyboard and scrolling down and remembering where setup was, I was able to get to the setup menu and change the theme and then it works. I think it was just a problem of the prevoius theme being cached and there have been some changes to the included themes.
One of the most noticable changes to the themes is that (where the author has coded it in), a date and time stamp are now supported. So from your “Home” menu you can see what time it is - pretty convenient. The weather forecast now works - it was broken in 0.20. They’ve also added in a new “Movie Times” plugin which tells you when movies in your zip code are playing. The system status page now gives better, and more relevant information. Under the Mythdora Tools they’ve added “Mythdora Cron Jobs” to help out with certain tasks you might want to set cron to automatically run for you.
One great new feature is the ability to mark recordings as having been watched. I was able to do this manually and I hope it also does so automatically. Sometimes we’re left wondering if we’ve seen an episode before (especially if we didn’t delete it) so this would be especially helpful. Another feature I’m looking forward to learning how to use is the Watch List that lets you know in which order to watch episodes.
There are other great features, some of which I have yet to figure out how to take advantage of. To see them, see the release notes. I wish I had taken some before and after screenshots of Mythweb, the plugin that lets you manage most of MythTV’s features over the web. It has REALLY been improved. Here’s a really good example of how it looks now. Before for the videos your recorded, it would just show a small thumbnail, now, if you click on the recorded show, you get a plethora of information (and it looks neat too!)
Overall I was VERY happy with the great job the Mythdora team did on this release. The upgrade went very smoothly and the new features are working very well.
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