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1 year ago
in Desktop vs. Browser? on THEDREAMINACTION.com
The overwhelming majority remains on the desktop. I find that desktop apps tend to have higher throughput.
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1 year ago
in Obama's Smoking Makes Me Just Say No on 4/22 in PA on Gabriel Weinberg's Blog
I also would have loved to have seen a democrat that I could get behind, but am none too thrilled with Hillary and Obama.
That said, I feel like the "do as I say, not as I do" argument against him is weak. We all do stuff we're not proud of. Everyone believes in stuff and then works against it. Some people rationalize that, others stick to their convictions and bring their actions in line. In this case, like most, I'm not disappointed in Obama's character, I just find him a complete political lightweight. (My standard line is that he seems to believe in hope, change and a better future, but not economics or foreign policy.)
That said, I feel like the "do as I say, not as I do" argument against him is weak. We all do stuff we're not proud of. Everyone believes in stuff and then works against it. Some people rationalize that, others stick to their convictions and bring their actions in line. In this case, like most, I'm not disappointed in Obama's character, I just find him a complete political lightweight. (My standard line is that he seems to believe in hope, change and a better future, but not economics or foreign policy.)
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Gabriel Weinberg
Well, like everything, I don't think this is a black and white issue, and I didn't mean to insinuate that it was (if I did). Yes, we all do stuff we're not proud of. But there is a sliding scale of what that stuff that is, how not proud one is about it, and then what you actually do about it thereafter.
In this case, what he did (smoking) is related to a central issue of his campaign (health care). And there were many great opportunities to quit--when he became a community leader, went into politics, went into national politics, or when he actually became a Senator. The fact is he only quit when he decided to run for president, and even then only at the urging of his wife.
Maybe for you, that doesn't add up to much. But for me it adds up to enough not to vote for him *in this primary* (note the general election is a different story). In other words, this isn't just a general "do as I say, not as I do" argument. Instead it is a specific instance of that argument, in my opinion a strong one, that goes something like "Obama thinks health care is one of the most important issues because of rising costs and not enough preventative care but yet he chose to smoke for twenty six years thus contributing to the rising costs even though this was totally preventable. And additionally, he says he has had this strong position for years, and yet only chose to quit last year."
So yes, I agree there will be more important issues in the general election (e.g. economy, foreign policy) and there are probably great reasons on those issues that you may not to vote for him (e.g. he is a political lightweight or whatever). But in this primary, I can choose only to not vote or vote for one of these two Democrats and I'm saying this smoking thing has given me enough reason to not go out and vote for him in the primary. The general election will be a different story.
In this case, what he did (smoking) is related to a central issue of his campaign (health care). And there were many great opportunities to quit--when he became a community leader, went into politics, went into national politics, or when he actually became a Senator. The fact is he only quit when he decided to run for president, and even then only at the urging of his wife.
Maybe for you, that doesn't add up to much. But for me it adds up to enough not to vote for him *in this primary* (note the general election is a different story). In other words, this isn't just a general "do as I say, not as I do" argument. Instead it is a specific instance of that argument, in my opinion a strong one, that goes something like "Obama thinks health care is one of the most important issues because of rising costs and not enough preventative care but yet he chose to smoke for twenty six years thus contributing to the rising costs even though this was totally preventable. And additionally, he says he has had this strong position for years, and yet only chose to quit last year."
So yes, I agree there will be more important issues in the general election (e.g. economy, foreign policy) and there are probably great reasons on those issues that you may not to vote for him (e.g. he is a political lightweight or whatever). But in this primary, I can choose only to not vote or vote for one of these two Democrats and I'm saying this smoking thing has given me enough reason to not go out and vote for him in the primary. The general election will be a different story.
From the desktop apps I use I would only consider to migrate to a browser-only solution for the mail and feed reader. But the thing is that I like to be able to read them off-line. So... In the other cases (text editing, word processing, slides and multimedia) the desktop apps are so much better than the browser ones. And with dropbox I've access to all my documents in almost any computer.