Some interesting stats i’m looking at on the CNN website.br /br /As of this post.br /br /While Obama has won by a landslide of electoral votes, the popular vote is only seperated by 3% (51-48).br /br /Arizona, California and Florida had ban on gay marriage amendments up for vote and all seem to have passed.nbsp; br /Arkansas has banned adoption by unmarried couples (which coincidentally occurs for gays especially).br /On the very same night where an old discrimination has taken another big step forward, a new discrimination has taken a step back.br /One interesting note about this is that Obama has said he does not believe in gay marriage himself.br /br /Michigan looks to be passing stem cell research.nbsp; Makes sense in that biomed is building in Ann Arbor.nbsp; I am also very happy to see this.nbsp; Maybe we can get Michigan to be a new technology hub built around biomed.br /br /Nebraska ended Affirmative Action while Colorado did not.nbsp; Looks like Affirmative Action continues to be an issue people are split on.br /br /As of now, Democrats are 56-40 in the Senate.nbsp; There are 4 seats left, so there is sitll a possibility Democrats get theri 60 majority.nbsp; Here’s hoping it doesn’t occur.br /br /br /

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1.5 TB HD for $175.  That’s about $0.12 per gigabyte.

It was only a few years ago I was paying more than that for crappy no name CDs!

I don’t know if people actually know my opinion on these two guys (though I am pretty sure you don’t care.) Still, I wanted to jot down my thoughts so here you go:

1.  It is true, Mccain makes emotional plays better.  He really comes off as the “I am your grandpa vibe”.

2. Obama’s speaking abilities are totally overrated.  I just kept hearing him stutter where as McCain stuttered significantly less.

3. Obama keeps bringing up how Iraq is a bad idea.  Seriously, get over it.  I understand its a bad idea, but we are there now, what do we do from here.

4. Why aren’t our overseas wars fought more economically?  Instead of tanks, let’s build schools, and infrastructure.  Suicide bombers which stop your kids from going to school or prevent water going to your house will probably not get much sympathy.  Recently watched Charlie Wilson’s War, and wonder why we aren’t doing more to build infrastructure instead of bringing in tanks. 

5. Given that we are stuck in Iraq, I don’t thinK Mccain’s ideas are so wrong.  Yes, the initial decision was bad, but now that we are there, what are the next steps.

6. Both keep talking about being world leaders and rallying other countries.  All I can think is that Bush already destroyed any good will we had built up, so not sure what they can do what they say they want to.  Of course, Mccain responds to the Isreal question by saying “Obviously I would not wait for UN security council”.  You know what, that probably isn’t the best way to make friends.  It is also a statement I STRONGLY disagree with.  Iraq was the same problem.  If we are going to play in the world politics, we should listen to others too.  I would say, “its okay to go in and help defend, but absolutely no attacking without UN okay.”

7. I don’t like the attacks on Obama’s terrorist friend.  He’s a professor now and had won Citizen of the Year in Chicago.  Seems like he can’t be that bad anymore.

8. The story about Palin’s husband being part of group which wanted Alaska secession scared me a little.  To be fair, Alaska is close to Russia.

9. I was sent this: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/hongop.shtml.  To me, its similar to the Spain and slanty eye thing, only I think he really should’ve apologized.

The No Votes - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com

I don’t understand any of this Bailout stuff.  The more I read, the more I get confused.  Quite frankly, I still don’t really know how it would affect me (no debt guy).

Still, to look at these graphs, its very interesting to see who says no, and what their leanings are.

Sorry for all the test entries.

Testing Scribefire, feel free to ignore.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20080610/0146101362.shtml

I have been reading about this the last few days. The gist is that with Google, people are now finding it hard to sit down with a book and read.

Taking a completely different read on the situation, I am completely ambivalent to whether this is good or bad for humanity. More interesting is to see our human mind at work. As soon as situations change, our very mind makes the best use it can out of it. It has literally changed its way of thinking to utilize new resources. Any normal animal, this would require evolution, at least a number of years to work through a changing circumstances. In humans, we make such a drastic change within a single lifetime. Absolutely amazing.

Now, I’ve never owned one of those motorola phones. I also have never owned one of those fangled iphones.

Still, from the outside looking it, it would look like the Iphone is quickly becoming the next RAZR.

The question is, if it becomes the next RAZR, is this good or bad for Apple? On the one hand, Apple has shown with the Ipod that they can have mainstream appeal while still maintaining their high brand name. On the other hand, RAZR has shown that phones that have become mainstream do not keep their users interested and dilute what use to be a very strong brand.

It will be interesting to see which is the case for the Iphone.

Just downloaded Firefox3 to try it out.

Good news:
Scribefire and FireFTP both still work. I use scribefire more than fireFTP but both as very useful extensions.
Tamper Data also works. Great for debugging.

Bad news:
Firebug doesn’t work. This is a horrendous killer for me. This extension is critical to my job.

In the 10 minutes I have played with it so far, it seems pretty good. I especially love the smaller shortcut bar, means it fits a lot more links than before.

Test

http://checkoutblog.com/entries/2008/5/29/the_incredible_shrinking_laundry_deterg.aspx

Ever since finding it, I have absolutely loved the Walmart blog, and find how amazing a transformation in how I feel about the company came about because of it.

Prior to the blog, I always thought of Walmart as the big scary store. It is out to pay low and make profits purely based on size. Yet, reading the blog, you can find all the good things they do too (like this particular post about detergent). It is great to see a company use their power (buying power) both for good and evil. The good probably doesn’t come out nearly as often as it should.