Freedom

Tuesday May 17, 2005 - 12:38PM EDT

Dude, I am turbo bored. I have to make a brief call soon but that is about it for the day. How weird is this? When I read about the computer work done in the 70's 80's that created the foundation of the computers we know today I get excited. Like I wish I was alive then to be a part of that. Instead of being relegated to crap stash pea-brained computer work for companies that don't even know what a computer is. And being chastised or handcuffed when you try to tell them.

Maybe I'm not old enough to be politically jaded but I really tire of congress and their compromises sometimes. I get the feeling that their compromises are never really compromises but a never-ending process of back sractching designed solely for the purpose of fulfilling their own personal needs and not that of the general public. For sure there are some decent politicians out there but they too are roped into the game and are forced to contend with the rigamarole. A side note: I've always had trouble matching verbs with nouns, but I think I have gotten better at it. I think people abhor government mainly because of the rampant inefficiency of it. A lot of policy decisions can in my opinion be unaffectual or nuetral when you look back over them. It is the inefficieny of coming to those decisions that piss people off. A more efficient system would probably help to make better policy decions as you would not have the specter of laborious processes haunting simple decisions. Some bureaucratic assholes find the slowness of the process to be advantageous in halting poor decions. People who think like that are ignorant fools. Somewhere in their twisted logic inefficieny or slowness equals correctness of result. Some things are slow for sure but don't ever apply such overarching ideals to everything. If it is slow it will be slow don't fuck it up even more with ineffeciency and waste. Our voting system being a prime example of horrible ineffeciency. I love to hear people over argue the merit of the electoral college. They sound like fools ingrained with ideals that haven't applied logically since the 1800's. I read on article about how the electoral college makes candidates listen to the problems of smaller groups who would other wise be ignored in a straight popular election. I was gobsmacked to read that. I've never heard anything so blind with absolutely no regard for what actually happens. That arguement is a load of crap, it just makes candidates spend more money to visit these places to talk themselves up and never do anything for these people anyway. You see this all the time though. Someone ignores what really happens in favor of what they think should happen in order to continue to support their idea. I think they do it so they don't feel that they are wrong. Damn fools. Also why is it that India a country of over 1 billion can hold national election with more advanced technology than the United States. Electronic elections are not that hard to implement but for some odd reason people seem to think it is exceedingly difficult. How in the hell can you not nationally standardize the way you vote. It is such a basic proccess. The various grotesque variations of voting in each state and even each district are senesless. They serve only to convolute the process and inflate the egos of small entities which subscribe to the illusion of self-centered importance. It is appaling that there is no standard for voting in the United States. Then again, women and blacks couldn't even vote for a long period so it is not surprising that voting is still being used as a method of control when it should stand for just the opposite, freedom.