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Name: Arthur
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Birthday: 11/14/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: Seeking peace. Listening and talking to friends. Kung fu. Theoretical computer science / computer vision. Getting my B.S. in Computational Basketweaving.
Expertise: Bytes, opcodes, smoke and mirrors.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message me
Member Since:
2/8/2003
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| So I know I said I wouldn't use this xanga, but I read some posts by people who wished that this country would go to hell, and I thought this'd be the most expedient way to voice a counteropinion.
Friends, you need not wish that this country will go to hell in the next four years. I strongly discourage you from doing so, because it adds to the extreme right's arguments that we hate them just for the sake of hating them. It's known they hate us just for the fun of it, but *now* is not a good time for this sort of attitude. To top it off, I thought we were voting for Kerry, so that this country *does NOT* goto hell. How many times have I argued with u people that this election DOES matter because little things add up, and we DO NOT want to have to emigrate *out* of this country. Moreover, you might just get what you wish for.
If you look at the voter turnout, and what people are saying at the exit polls, you will realize that Bush won because 4 million people thought that issues like gay marriage were more important to them than the Iraq conflict and the economy. This election wasn't just about Bush and Kerry. This election was about whether someone could screw up royally but win reelection anyway, if and only if they press to dissolve the barriers between the church and the state. This has implications beyond the secular vs. religious battle, because pretty much *no one* was making issue of civil rights, and none of the politicians who won made the economy the focus of their campaign. Say what you like about church and state, but economics and civil rights have been the cornerstone of growth in this country for the last 300 years. And apparently, the majority of the American people just don't care too much about them anymore.
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| What a lousy week...
Anyway... I think I should leave the past behind.
"napalmstrike" is a holdover from the stuy days, back when I played
with a lot of flammable stuff, when I was a crazy little bastard who
was gonna blow up everyone's house, when I knew where everyone lived
and all that hell. It's been so long since then, and it makes no
sense to use this handle anymore. So this will be the last post I
make w/ this login.
In fact, there are just some ppl who will never see me for anyone other
than wild maniac I was four years ago, or even the arrogant, angsty
coder I was two years ago. So I'm taking a bit of a leave.
Let time settle things. I need to focus anyhow. I'm on the
edge. At this point, everything in my life can take off, or it
can go straight to hell, and I've been spending waay too much time
bitching on xanga instead of taking some time off to seriously think about things.
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| That was disappointing... Edwards should've been able to
rip Cheney to bits. I didn't see the whole thing, but from what I
saw, it was a pretty evenly matched debate, at least from a forensics
standpoint. Geez... are they really debating or just trying
to cover for their boss? Meh. Minus points for both =P. I wanna see the two big
bosses go at it again.
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| OS to the right of me. Networks to the left of me...
Part of me feels left out... that little bit of a CMU CS major in
me that thrives in the whole pissing contest culture. And yknow
what? Somehow, I'm quite happy not be involved...
Oh wells...
In other news, I'm very probably not going back to New York after
graduation. It's hard enough to get a good CS job (that's CS, not
IT), without having family issues to top it off. I'm going to
miss hiking at Breakneck. I wonder how I'm going to pull this
upcoming trip off...
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| Yknow... sometimes I get the impression I'm too nice to people... =P
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