I saw an interesting video on immigration, some of the issues he brings up I never thought about. Most of my concerns with immigration have been along the lines of illegal immigration and the benefits the tax payers are providing the illegal aliens. Some of the concepts he brings up are tremendously interesting and thought provoking. I’m definitely going to have to do some more research on it.
So I had an opportunity to fiddle with a Zune today at office max while I was getting a new computer chair. It’s an interesting player but in all honesty I’d rather have an iPod or Zen. The Zune just has a lot of restrictions that don’t make any sense if they’re honestly trying to gain market share with this player… I choose to look at this player like most Microsoft early releases… horrible and will get better in revisions. Think about it… 98 was bad… 98SE wasn’t to bad comparatively. IE3/4 was *horrible*, IE5 was a Netscape killer. The XBOX was pretty lackluster but the 360 is truly a beast. I expect the Zune will be a similar product… right now it’s weak but in the future it has some potential. They really need to get some marketing people and techies working on that project pronto though.
Edit: Aszurom sent me this picture for this post… rofl.
Well it looks like the Democrats are going to take the House this Election and the Senate is going to be close regardless of who wins. I think this is a GREAT development for one reason… our government works better when both parties have control of at least one of the 3 (President, House, Senate). It promotes compromise by the party in power which tends to benefit the American people.
The Democrats really didn’t do anything to win the election this year, it’s more just a large backlash against the Republicans… they’ve really managed to anger the voters. They’ve become exactly what they campaigned against when the Democrats had power… not that the Democrats have done any better really.
Hopefully this election will knock some sense into BOTH parties and result in the clean up of some of the corruption in Washington. The American people are speaking and they’re not happy one bit… with either party really.
As of right now CNN is reporting 46 Republican, 48 Democrat for Senate (+3D), 142 Republican, 178 Democrat for the House (+19D), and 16 Republican, 27 Democrat for Governor (+6D).
Incumbents getting the boot on both sides. Fresh blood should do Washington some good.
Edit: Democrats took both House and Senate. Be interesting to see how the President and Congress manage to get along, when Clinton was in office it seemed to do our Government good when the Republicans took both, be interesting to see how willing to cooperate Bush is and how this drives the direction of our country.