Remote "Control"
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Remote Control Technology Introduces New
Remote Switch System TM (RSS) Family of
Products.
Remote Control Technology Introduces New
Remote Switch System TM (RSS) Family of
Products.
12/17/2004 06:32 PMThe RSS was designed for customers seeking portable, limited range,
low cost, wireless switch systems to control industrial hardware.
Remote Control Technology (RCT), a leading developer of adaptable
wireless switching systems, today announced the launch of the Remote
Switch System TM (RSS) family of rugged, easy-to-use transmitters and
receivers. [PRWEB Dec 13, 2004]
Resolving Common Remote Site Remote
Control Connection Issues
Resolving Common Remote Site Remote
Control Connection Issues
01/03/2005 02:36 PMRemote control
Remote control
12/15/2003 08:15 AMvnunet.com Dec 15 2003 7:11AM ET
Winamp Remote Control V1
Winamp Remote Control V1
09/10/2004 11:09 AMWinamp Remote Control now a sourceforge project
Whistle Remote Control Fob
Whistle Remote Control Fob
02/05/2005 10:16 PM
Why this is necessary I have no idea, but it appears this
device hooks up to one's remote, allowing you to whistle codes into
it, which are then translated into an infrared signal that then
controls your television (or whatever). Or maybe it calls down a
magical bird that pecks at the buttons with its beak, I don't know.
Does it really matter? You'll look like a knob using this no matter
how it works.
An Electronics
Tag for your remote [RFIDInJapan via WMMNA<
/a>]
Ooh, Engadget says it's
for finding your remote. That makes more sense.
iTunes remote control
iTunes remote control
12/19/2004 03:43 PM back to our regular geek'o'rama: Paul Mison noticed that iTunes 4.7
is advertising a _dacp._tcp service. It looks like they are preparing
to support a remote control type thing. Ed Despard is guessing it's a
"digital audio control protocol.". (This is from the daap-dev
mailinglist, which doesn't have a proper archive -- daap-dev-subscribe
at develooper.com to subscribe) In related completely inconsequential
news I've had great success using the rating feature in iTunes and
with the iPod mini. With auto-syncing...
S55 Remote Control for WinAmp
S55 Remote Control for WinAmp
04/11/2004 09:32 AMFirst Alpha of S55WACtrl out!
SMS Remote Control Guidelines
SMS Remote Control Guidelines
04/09/2005 07:21 AMOn TiVo's remote control
On TiVo's remote control
02/19/2004 11:21 AM Not sure why they're writing about this now (as opposed to three or
four years ago), but today's Circuits section of the New York...
iPod Remote Control
iPod Remote Control
01/04/2004 08:20 PMI often plug my iPod into my Stereo and let it play on Random.
Sometimes I do not like a...
Internet Remote Control v2.6
Internet Remote Control v2.6
04/29/2004 06:24 AMInternet Remote Control enables remote monitoring and control of a
DialUp connection. It also enables message communication between
connected users and remote program execution on the server. Internet
Remote Control consists of two programs: IRServer and IRClient. The
IRServer is installed on the computer that has Internet DialUp
connection, and IRClient is installed on all other computers that need
to monitor and control connection. IRServer monitors DialUp connection
and sends info to all connected clients. Clients can dial, disconnect,
communicate and run programs on server. [Freeware 1.3 MB]
BlackBerry Gets Remote Control
BlackBerry Gets Remote Control
05/24/2004 09:03 AMTaking major strides in manageability, the newest version of Research
In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Enterprise Server features remote
provisioning and control of application installations.
The Set NIC Utility For Remote Control
The Set NIC Utility For Remote Control
09/26/2004 07:08 PMRemote Control frontend
Remote Control frontend
07/06/2004 06:48 AMRemote Control Jammer
Remote Control Jammer
06/10/2004 07:55 AM
It's dirty, tactically, but
if you live in a household where control of the remote has escalated
into a full-blown peacekeeping operation, this Remote Control Jammer
from GirlsStuff UK is cheap enough (at around $8) to buy multiple
units to sprinkle like land mines around the smoking battlefield of
your living room or den. (Also useful: actual land mines.) It works on
regular IR frequencies used by most common remotes, although they
don't make any promises it will work in the US. (Thanks,
Graeme!)
Read
[GirlsStuff]
Remote control model blimp
Remote control model blimp
07/26/2004 12:33 PM
This remote control blimp costs
$60 (not including helium) and has a range of 300 ft.
LinkConnectedTV: TV Guide and Remote Control
in One
ConnectedTV: TV Guide and Remote Control
in One
11/03/2003 01:06 AMFreevo Network Remote Control
Freevo Network Remote Control
03/24/2005 11:18 PMSourceforge Listing
Notes and Tips: Remote Mac Control
Notes and Tips: Remote Mac Control
08/20/2004 12:59 AMThere are several different ways to control a Mac from across the
room.
Remote SNMP Powerswitch Control 0.1
Remote SNMP Powerswitch Control 0.1
12/30/2004 11:55 AMA script that controls an APC PowerSwitch through SNMP.
Trophy hunting by remote control
Trophy hunting by remote control
04/05/2005 05:24 PMInterested in picking off a wild boar or gazelle from the comfort of
your own home office?
Turn Your iPod Into a Remote Control
Turn Your iPod Into a Remote Control
07/28/2004 09:41 PMDirect and Related Links for 'Turn
Your iPod Into a Remote Control'
As if the iPod was not able to do enough already! Phillip Torrone
shows his readers how you can turn an otherwise ordinary iPod into a
universal remote extraordinaire! The funny part is the fact that they
are using a Windows application on an Apple device. To me, it sounds
like too much work, but what the heck. It might be a fun
mini-project….
Sony Navitus remote control
Sony Navitus remote control
07/28/2004 12:45 AMThe
Sony Navitus remote
control looks cool, although
Nevo running on a PDA would be
cheaper.
Sony's tutorial gives an idea of what the GUI
is like.
Notes and Tips: ATI Remote Control
Notes and Tips: ATI Remote Control
06/04/2004 10:56 AMGregory Bond reports good results with ATI's wireless remote control
for the Mac.
Apple updates remote control
Apple updates remote control
06/22/2004 04:04 AMZDNet UK Jun 22 2004 8:23AM GMT
Re: Remote control for computer
presentations
Re: Remote control for computer
presentations
12/03/2002 03:50 PMGreat question. I have used many and loved none. Most have too many
buttons
and I've never had a hane to learn from them
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Sent: Wed Nov 27 05:41:12 2002
Subject: Remote control for computer presentations
Hi Rich,
Do you know anything about remote ...
Web Remote Control Console for SMS 2003
Web Remote Control Console for SMS 2003
06/13/2004 08:44 AMSMS FAQ: Reporting Remote Control Usage
SMS FAQ: Reporting Remote Control Usage
07/15/2004 05:17 PMThieves take brain remote control
Thieves take brain remote control
01/03/2005 01:25 AMThieves have stolen a device which allows a woman to switch off an
implant in her brain so she can sleep.
Remote Control Registry Values
Remote Control Registry Values
05/26/2004 10:43 PMOwn Your Own Remote Control Castle
Today!
Own Your Own Remote Control Castle
Today!
01/03/2005 05:56 AMWired News Jan 3 2005 8:37AM GMT
Farmer's Friend: Remote Control
Farmer's Friend: Remote Control
12/29/2004 08:07 AMCBS News Dec 29 2004 11:24AM GMT
Midas Remote Control Watch
Midas Remote Control Watch
06/24/2005 04:00 PM
So you like TV and you
like telling time. How can you, as a freaky weirdo, meld these two
disparate things? Consider the Midas Remote Control Watch.
Yes, friends, this is a watch with a fully-functional remote
control. It supports almost model of TV and cable receiver imaginable.
Unfortunately, there's only a set of volume and channel buttons, but
don't let that stop you from changing channels in the bar during the
big game. You'll be a favored patron!
Midas
Remote Control Wrist Watch [WristDreams]
Commonor's Remote Control Castle
Commonor's Remote Control Castle
01/03/2005 06:13 AMThe automated life used to be the exclusive realm of the rich. Now
home automation is coming to a subdivision near you. By Tom Vanderbilt
from Wired magazine.
Remote Control Racing Cars Getting Small
Remote Control Racing Cars Getting Small
06/18/2004 07:12 PMAP via Newsday Jun 18 2004 11:32PM GMT
Remote Display Control and Wireless
Connections
Remote Display Control and Wireless
Connections
06/30/2004 02:27 PMSetting Remote Control to No User Input
Setting Remote Control to No User Input
01/01/2004 09:50 PMCredentials Required: Remote Control
Permissions
Credentials Required: Remote Control
Permissions
08/13/2004 09:13 PMStolen: remote control for brain implant
Stolen: remote control for brain implant
01/03/2005 05:21 PMMark Frauenfelder:
A medical device which allows a woman to sleep by switching off an
implant in her brain has been stolen.
Rita Carlisle, 53, from Knaphill, Surrey, suffers from a
condition called essential tremor.
The stolen remote control gadget sends out pulses to calm the
condition and can be switched off so she can rest.
She said: "I'm extremely tired, I'm getting three to four hours'
sleep a night, I can't turn the machine off."
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Anyplace Control v2.2
Anyplace Control v2.2
12/04/2003 10:47 AMAnyplace Control is a remote control program that can display a screen
of another computer (via internet or network) on your screen. The
program allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control the other
PC remotely. It means that you can work on a remote computer, as if
you were sitting in front of it, right from your current location. The
program allows you to work with different remote computers
simultaneously, from anywhere in the world. [Shareware $29.95 1.08
MB]
Terrible timing
Terrible timing
12/27/2004 04:34 AMUSA Today Dec 27 2004 7:02AM GMT
Terrible news
Terrible news
07/08/2004 08:31 AMTed Knight, Chevy Chase and now Will Ferrell have all spoofed TV
news. But it's their real-life counterparts who are really funny.
Terrible hunger
Terrible hunger
03/30/2005 02:47 PMIn plain and poignant language, Judith Moore's new memoir, "Fat Girl,"
chronicles her youth as an obese child starved of love.
The Terrible Teens
The Terrible Teens
06/18/2004 01:01 PMGot any in your household? It's time to have "The Talk" -- the money
talk, that is.
A terrible, buggy, monster.
A terrible, buggy, monster.
03/11/2003 09:43 AM
I found this very interesting read on the history of AWT, Swing, and
SWT fom an undisclosed source via Roller user
Jon Lipsky's blog. Here is a tasty excerpt:
Alan Williamson's mysterious "source close to IBM":
At IBM we hated Swing from day one. Big, buggy, and looks [like]
crap.
Initially our tools such as VisualAge for Java were all written in
Smalltalk ( which
used native widgets ) so when we started to migrate these to a Java
codebase we need a widget set. All of the IBM developers are the same
crowd who used to work with Smalltalk, and we reluctantly under
management
orders built our WebSphere Studio tools using Swing. It was a
terrible,
buggy, monster. In our initial previews when it was demo'd against
Microsoft Visual Studio products all our users hated it just because
of how
it looked, never mind what it let you do. Most shoppers don't like to
get
in car that looks and smells terrible, even if it does have a nice
engine.
UPDATE: Jon Lipsky was contacted by somebody at Sun who claims there are
many and major inaccuracies in the above story.
_vti...Very Terrible Idea?
_vti...Very Terrible Idea?
09/08/2004 12:58 PMVermeer
Technologies Gives Birth To FrontPage: Joe's mention of "FrontPage
crap" in his Cy
gwin post got me remembering the joy of having "_vti" directories
scattered across my hard drive when working with the unabashed sucking
that was early versions of FrontPage. (I was issued FrontPage 1.1 on
five floppies by Microsoft back when I was a beta-tester for MSN.)
Did you ever wonder where the "vti" prefix came from? Why those
letters? Turns out they stood for "Vermeer Technologies Incorporated"
which was the company that built FrontPage originally. They were the
ones who came up with the idea of "WebBots" and "Server
Extensions."
Microsoft bought Vermeer and its "Critically Acclaimed Visual
Client-Server Web Publishing Tool" in January 1996 for $130-some-odd
million. Here's the press release. As near as I can tell, Vermeer dropped off the
face of the Earth after being acquired — they were simply
absorbed into the Borg cube.
And here's a review of FrontPage from November 1995, just before
they were acquired.
Vermeer's FrontPage Editor is an excellent WYSIWYG HTML
editor with a built-in to-do list that keeps track of necessary
changes to your Web pages. The only thing lacking is support for
tables, which is planned for the next version [...]
No table support? We've come so far.
If this story interests you, the guy who founded Vermeer wrote a
book about it: High Stakes, No Prisoners.
Charles Ferguson's hilarious, hard-boiled journey into the
heart of high-tech darkness has become the signal book of the start-up
generation. Ferguson took a good idea, started a company, and sold it
to Microsoft for $133 million — all in less than two years. High
Stakes, No Prisoners is both a blistering inside account of how he did
it and a brilliant tour of the brutally competitive and utterly unique
world of Silicon Valley.
You have to love the title of the first reader review: "If he's so
smart, why isn't he richer?" I can't find any reference to what
Ferguson is doing today.
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A war's terrible legacy
A war's terrible legacy
02/01/2005 10:02 PMSexual violence continues in the Congo -- according to Amnesty
International, at least 40,000 women in the country have been raped in
the past six years.
Insurers Eye Ivan the Terrible
Insurers Eye Ivan the Terrible
09/10/2004 10:54 AMHow will companies and investors fare if the storm spawns moderate
damage?
Tsunami mother's terrible choice
Tsunami mother's terrible choice
12/31/2004 06:41 AMJillian Searle knew she could not hold on to both her children during
Sunday's tsunami - and had to let go of one of them.
Cable Operators Have Terrible Wi-Fi
Plans
Cable Operators Have Terrible Wi-Fi
Plans
04/01/2005 04:57 PM
This
trade-magazine article tries to show how cable operators are tied into
Wi-Fi, but demonstrates their wrong-headed approach: The
article surveys efforts by Comcast, Charter, and Time-Warner to offer
their cable television subscribers some kind of Wi-Fi adjunct. But
it's a lot of spotty, weird plans that don't bring enough locations or
value.
Comcast partners with T-Mobile to discount the T-Mobile service, but
as a Comcast subscriber, I can tell you I received a couple of coupons
and virtually no information since about the partnership, which is
more of a slightly discount off retail. If they wanted to do it right,
they could pursue an SBC DSL/Wi-Fi promotion and offer a $20/month
unlimited service plan--the same rate that T-Mobile only makes
available to its cell subscribers. However, that might undercut
T-Mobile cell market, and Comcast and T-Mobile aren't connected except
through a partnership.
Time-Warner is installing Wi-Fi in a small number of random
venues--the article makes it sound like quite a few, but the scale of
"quite a few" is thousands now, not hundreds. The writer says that
Time-Warner installs the service and sells minutes wholesale to the
venue which then resells them at retail. Time-Warner Roadrunner cable
subscribers get a small amount of free service in some locations.
Finally, Charter is reselling RemotePipes Wi-Fi footprint. They're an
aggregator, but it's extremely difficult to understand their footprint
from their Web site.
Bottom line: if this is the best they can do in response to SBC's DSL
and Wi-Fi bundle, then we can expect the DSL churn rate in SBC
territory to remain quite low.
FastCompany's terrible linking policy
FastCompany's terrible linking policy
06/26/2004 06:15 AMFastCompany -- the tech magazine for the new economy -- has a
spectacularily clueless policy on linking, in which they expect people
who want to
link to their site to
fax a permission
form to their legal department! Imagine if this were enforceable:
the Web that Fast Company has built its business upon would crumble
into a billion individuated and unlinked pages.
Due to the large volume of requests we receive, we do not have a
reciprocal linking program. However, if you like, you may link to us
at no cost. This option requires the execution by you and
Fastcompany.com of a one-page Web-linking agreement. Please download
and sign the agreement and fax it to 617-738-5055, attn: G+J legal,
Fastcompany.com. As soon as you receive back the agreement signed on
behalf of Fastcompany.com, you may begin linking to our content.
Here's some of the spectacularily clueless "linking agreement" Fast
Company thinks it can force linkers to sign off on:
For good and valuable consideration, effective upon the duly
authorized signatures of Owner and G+J below (the "Effective Date"),
G+J hereby grants to Owner a non-exclusive, non-transferable,
royalty-free license to create a hyperlink from the Linking Site to
Inc.com from the Effective Date, unless and until such permission is
terminated by G+J upon notice to Owner, subject to the following terms
and conditions.
Owner hereby represents and warrants that: (i) any content displayed
on the Linking Site shall not infringe upon or misappropriate any
third party intellectual property or other proprietary rights, shall
not invade any third party rights of privacy or publicity, shall be
free from any libelous or obscene material, shall be accurate, and
shall not otherwise violate any applicable law, regulation or
non-proprietary third party right; (ii) the Linking Site does not and
will not contain any harmful software code or viruses; (iii) Owner
has duly registered the domain name of the Linking Site with all
applicable authorities and possesses all rights necessary to use such
domain name; and (iv) Owner shall use its best efforts, including any
and all then-available technology, to prevent Internet users from
downloading any content from Inc.com.
There are a lot of stupid organizations that have policies like this,
but very few of them have the close relationship to the Web that FC
has. The disturbing thing here is that FC's credibity as an authority
on the Web lends credence to this bizarre and damaging idea of needing
permission to link.
Link
(
Thanks, Jordon!)
A Terrible Thing to Waste a Mind
A Terrible Thing to Waste a Mind
07/06/2004 04:55 AMIn Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, you control a special agent who
uses telekinetic powers to kill soldiers with the power of his mind
alone. Unfortunately, your own brain won't get nearly as much of a
workout. By Chris Kohler.
Freescale: Motorola's Terrible Timing
Freescale: Motorola's Terrible Timing
07/15/2004 12:06 AMBusiness Week Jul 15 2004 2:39AM GMT
Terrible affair that General Slocum
explosion...
Terrible affair that General Slocum
explosion...
06/15/2004 09:24 PM
One hundred
years ago today, 1,358 members of the
Kleindeutschland, the German neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan,
boarded a chartered ferry named the
General
Slocum for a picnic excursion to Long Island. A fire broke
out in the ship's hold while it cruised up the East River, the captain
ran the vessel aground on the rocky shores of North Brother Island
amid the swift currents of
Hell
Gate, and when it was all over 1,021 people (mainly women and
children) had perished by drowning or from the fire, and it remained
the worst single-day New York City disaster until 9/11.
documenting a terrible local news story
on bl0gs
documenting a terrible local news story
on bl0gs
05/12/2004 05:35 PM"The Latest Cyber Craze!"
Hamilton Beach Stay or Go makes terrible
coffee
Hamilton Beach Stay or Go makes terrible
coffee
07/30/2004 03:41 PMI’ve been wanting a thermal carafe coffee maker for some
time. The traditional drip coffee maker uses a hotplate to keep the
coffee warm after brewing, but this causes the coffee to continuously
brew in the pot. That results in bad coffee.
Recently when I was in Target, I noticed they had a number of
thermal carafe coffee makers at prices ranging from $40-$60, so I
picked one up. It turned out to be a huge mistake.
The albatross I bought is known as the Hamilton Beach
Stay or Go Coffee Maker and every cup of coffee that comes out of
it has a stale, oily taste. I can’t even bring myself to drink
it.
Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation
Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation
03/19/2005 03:09 AMHere’s an idea: what if when I wrote weblog entries about
General Motors, I included a special tag, a keyword tag, that let
everyone who wanted to read blog entries about General Motors read my
weblog article, without otherwise having to subscribe to my blog?
Makes sense. Now, should it be “gm” or “GM” or
“generalmotors” or “general motors” or
“General Motors” or “GM Corporation” or
… ? Therein lies the fundamental problem with Technorati…
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Chechnya - What drives the separatists
to commit such terrible outrages? By
Masha Gessen
Chechnya - What drives the separatists
to commit such terrible outrages? By
Masha Gessen
09/05/2004 03:04 PMChechnya - What drives the separatists to commit such terrible
outrages? By Masha Gessen .. a history of
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Photonics Control Announces Optical
Control Breakthrough
Photonics Control Announces Optical
Control Breakthrough
06/26/2004 02:40 AMIntelligent Photonics Control Corp. (Photonics Control), the world
leader in providing embedded control solutions for optical devices,
announced today that it has reached a significant milestone. The
Company has integrated its solutions into 50 different customer
platforms including Optical Amplifiers, VMUXes, OPMs, DGEs, and
Tunable Lasers. [PRWEB Jun 26, 2004]
You Control: iTunes puts control in OS X
menu bar (MacCentral)
You Control: iTunes puts control in OS X
menu bar (MacCentral)
08/31/2004 07:26 PMMacCentral - You Software Inc. announced on Tuesday the availability
of You Control: iTunes, a free
download that places iTunes controls in the Mac OS X menu bar. Without
leaving the current application, you can pause, play, rewind or skip
songs,
as well as control iTunes' volume and even browse your entire music
library
by album, artist or genre. Each time a new song plays, You Control:
iTunes
also pops up a window that displays the artist and song name and the
album
artwork, if it's in the library. System requirements call for Mac OS X
v10.2.6 and 10MB free hard drive space. ...
You Control: iTunes puts control in OS X
menu bar
You Control: iTunes puts control in OS X
menu bar
08/31/2004 01:50 PMYou Software Inc. announced on Tuesday the availability of
You Control: iTunes, a
free download that places iTunes controls in the Mac OS X menu bar.
Without leaving the current application, you can pause, play, rewind
or skip songs, as well as control iTunes' volume and even browse your
entire music library by album, artist or genre. Each time a new song
plays, You Control: iTunes also pops up a window that displays the
artist and song name and the album artwork, if it's in the library.
System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.2.6 and 10MB free hard drive
space.
NOVEMBER'S
ELECTIONS: TERRIBLE CHOICES FOR
PROGRESSIVES
NOVEMBER'S
ELECTIONS: TERRIBLE CHOICES FOR
PROGRESSIVES
07/03/2004 01:46 PM
 The choices
of the principled progressive voter in the November US elections are
looking more and more dismal.
I've been reading the damning
reports on Ralph Nader's egomania, which has now led to a falling
out with the US Green Party. Nader's attempt to get on the ballot in
all fifty states has attracted a cynical coalition of nihilistic
leftists and split-the-left-vote rightists. Unlike some of his moving
speeches in the 1990s, Nader's recent diatribes seem spiked with
bitterness, spurious argument and ludicrous idealism. Depite his
plaints to the contrary, there is almost no doubt that in a
first-past-the-post electoral system, the few people who will be
inspired to come out to the polls just to vote for Nader (who
otherwise
would not vote at all, and who might cast votes for other progressives
while they're at it) are miniscule compared to the number that might
vote for Nader instead of Kerry, and risk a repeat of the 2000
disaster. Or for that matter, a repeat of what happened in Canada last
week, where the two progressive choices outside Quebec, the NDP and
the
Greens, split the vote and between them got 20% of the votes but only
6% of the seats, in the lowest-turnout federal election in over a
century.
Meanwhile the US Greens aren't looking any better. They were bitterly
divided on whether to 'endorse' Nader again in 2004, even though
he's running as an Independent whether or not he gets their
endorsation, and even though he refused to attend the nominating
convention. The alternative was to nominate instead David Cobb who
pledged to run only in states where either Bush or Kerry has a large
lead in the polls. They opted to nominate Cobb, but now it appears he
is planning on running, like Nader, in as many states as possible,
including swing states, so there are now two progressive candidates who
could siphon off anti-Bush votes from Kerry. The US Green Party
websites (there are several, which is confusing), are a mess -- badly
laid out, self-contradictory and full of broken links, and unlike the
situation in 2000 where the Platform was a work of art, the party
looks
strictly amateur this year.
And after some promising early missives, the Kerry campaign is looking
more and more right-of-centre, to the point of being almost
indistinguishable in substance from Bush's. Progressives looking for a
clear endorsement of the Kyoto Accord, a repudiation of NAFTA and
other
pro-corporatist legislation, immediate cancellation of the despicable
Patriot Act, serious political campaign finance reform, an end to the
grossly undemocratic and disenfranchising scourge of gerrymandering,
the introduction of proportional representation and instant runoff
voting, or a plan for a swift military exit from Iraq and Afghanistan,
will look in vain on the Kerry
website, that is instead filled with platitudes and vague
homilies.
Progressives have said the Democrats are just as beholden to rich
corporate and military imperialist interests as the Republicans, and
there is nothing in Kerry's messages so far to deflect such criticism.
Such a squandering of the opportunity to unite and rid America of the
worst president in its history and present voters with an unmistakable
choice and contrast in 2004 is inexcusable. To hope and expect Bush to
defeat himself by sheer incompetence may be a viable election
strategy,
but it is a cowardly one, and an insult to the electorate, which
deserves assurances of immediate and unequivocable rollbacks of this
miscreant president's ideological and criminal agenda of the past four
years, and decisive constitutional actions to prevent their
recurrence.
It is almost as if Nader, the Greens, and the Democrats are daring progressives to stay home on
election night.
It is foolish and naive for progressives to ignore the realities of
the
current political system and to run candidates who cannot possibly win
or even get reasonable press and public attention for their causes by
running. Nader and the Greens should be furiously lobbying electable
progressives in the Democratic and Republican parties (yes, there are
a
few progressive Republicans) to vocally support and work towards
specific legislation and regulations that will improve the social and
environmental welfare of America and the world, defeat corporatism,
and
improve the political and electoral system. The power isn't all in the
presidency. Focusing so much time and attention on futile attempts to
get individuals elected diverts energies from broadly-supported
programs to being about legitimate, urgently needed and sustainable
progressive reforms to the social, political, economc, regulatory,
judicial, financial and tax systems of America.
The only responsible approach for progressives to take now, and in
November, is to fight at the grassroots level for better legislation,
and enforcement of legislation, that advances the progressive cause,
and to vote for the most progressive candidate in each contest, from
the presidential race on down, who
has a reasonable chance of winning. Instead of running Quixotic
campaigns, Nader and the Greens should be providing progressive voters
with comprehensive, well-documented lists of recommended candidates in
every race in the country, and then, when a disproportionate number of
those candidates win, getting those candidates to return the favour by
supporting progressive legislation and enforcement of it.
Dennis Kucinich was the only candidate with a clear progressive voice
during
the 2004 campaign. Progressives need to give him their total support,
and
work hard to keep him and his ideas in the limelight. The idea that he
is unelectable is nonsense -- he is far more moderate in his views
than
Bush, and while his views are threatening to the corporatist
establishment, that establishment has no more power than the
grassroots
of American politics. He is certainly more likely to be elected than
an
independent or fringe party candidate in a system rigged to favour
just
two parties. Kucinich can reform the system from the inside, and there
are important precedents for this in American history. Rallying around
Kucinich, giving him a continuing voice in the IndyMedia, encouraging
him to be the spokesman for
the progressive movement, makes far more sense than wasting a precious
vote on a candidate with no chance of winning, and no significant
influence in the halls of power.
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To control or not to control, that is
the question
To control or not to control, that is
the question
06/28/2004 04:51 AMThe application vendors should do a better job of standardizing
default storage locations and names (even as aliases) while still
letting users override those choices and pick their own storage
metaphor. This isn't nuclear physics - everyone has experience
organizing their "stuff" (socks, bills, books, DVDs) so why not a) let
them do it and b) use familiar metaphors for it?
Everything isn't Under Control
Everything isn't Under Control
06/11/2004 01:06 PMDaily Show clip: Stewart, Durbin, and Biden tear Ashcroft a new one ..
Everything Isn't Under Control .. watch it
here
everythingisnt.com/archives/00001564.htm
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You Control 1.0
You Control 1.0
01/09/2004 09:57 PMAllows you to put commonly used items, including files and folders, at
your fingertips.
"Everything Isn?t Under Control"
"Everything Isn?t Under Control"
06/15/2004 10:23 AMSelf Control
Self Control
08/29/2004 03:22 AM
W
as it something in her head? Singer Laura Branigan dead of a brain
anuerysm. Conspiracy theorists note - actress
Sunny Johnson, who
ice-skated to "Gloria" in the film
Flashdance, died
of the same ailment in 1984.
It's all about control
It's all about control
02/18/2004 10:46 PMSunday Times South Africa Feb 19 2004 3:17AM GMT
"MSNBC - A Net of Control"
"MSNBC - A Net of Control"
12/18/2003 04:40 AM Remote "Control"
