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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    01/18/09

    In reply to Obama's Staff Facing Life Without IM
    Why should text of any kind (e-mail, IM, or something else) be on the record and voice be off? I see no reason not to have a public record of all phone calls as well. there should be no distinctions made based on the FORM of the message.


    On the other hand, you have a perceived right of privacy for certain personal communications that have nothing to do with public policy. You have a need for ultra-secrecy in other communications regarding foreign policy etc. And then you have all sorts of things in between those two extremes.


    It's hard to imaging a solution that addresses all these needs simultaneously and at the same time is actually usable. Even if the President is perfect in deciding which category a particular IM fits into, all the people he might be IMing will NOT be perfect and there will be leakage from one type of message to another.


    Of course the Obama administration won't be helped by the left's obsession with Bush, including downright outrage that they carried (gasp) cell phones.


    Gotta roll back all those illegally obtained Presidential powers you know?

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    01/18/09

    @macbeach: This expresses something I've been thinking about for a while. I would go further. All conversations of politicians and the people who work for them to be recorded during working hours. You want the life, you submit to complete transparency. I guess they could still cook up the pork through their wives, but seems like it would cut way down on the corruption.
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    01/18/09

    In reply to Obama's Staff Facing Life Without IM
    um, I have a possibly very stupid question. where I work, we pass thru a log in screen reminding us of the fines for HIPPA violations, every time we log in


    is in inconceivable to create an IM system with a reminder that your IM's are being archived, something which would remain in the header AT ALL TIMES? I'm no tech guy - tell me if this is an incredibly dumb idea, pls.

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    Image of FourInchHeels FourInchHeels
    01/18/09

    @Monsigor Xtravagante D'ouchestache★: Not a dumb idea at all, it makes a lot of sense. My last job had the same thing. It was a civil engineering firm in a large office on many floors, so IM was often the easiest way to bounce a quick idea off of someone three floors away.


    I don't know how often the system would be abused - in my experience, most office gossip happened in person; most people kept the IMs professional.

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    01/18/09

    In reply to Obama's Staff Facing Life Without IM
    Here's the thing about not having 24-hour instant access to everyone you know: you learn to manage your time better at work, you t figure out things for yourself instead of messaging people for the answers, you learn to write down a list of messages or questions to send people and when you roll into the office you do it all in one go. Obama's administration is arleady super-streamlined, the exact opposite of the shambling operation of the last Democratic administration. Shutting off the white noise that IM services provide will make them even more focused.
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    01/18/09

    @18thCFox: That's how I feel, too.
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    01/18/09

    @18thCFox: Are you old? You sound old.
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    01/18/09

    @spitneybeers: I'm 25. Not everyone that is intelligent is old.
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    Image of FourInchHeels FourInchHeels
    01/18/09

    @18thCFox: Interestingly, not everyone who is old is intelligent!


    *pointed glance at the monkey who is mercifully vacating office in TWO DAYS!*

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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    01/19/09

    @18thCFox: Yes. No one can make a decision for themselves anymore.
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    01/18/09

    In reply to Obama's Staff Facing Life Without IM
    Wasn't he on Hill Street Blues?
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    01/18/09

    @Duke: Yep. Officer Leo Benedetti 85-86 season.
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    Image of tunamelt tunamelt
    01/18/09

    In reply to Obama's Staff Facing Life Without IM
    Dude, AIM saves all your AIM convos. I have some from 2005.
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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    01/18/09

    In reply to Obama's Staff Facing Life Without IM
    Looks like Axelrod is gearing up to go to some of those leather parties scheduled in D.C.
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    01/18/09

    In reply to Obama's Staff Facing Life Without IM
    There's always carrier pigeons. They could also hire a young boy from the '40s to deliver messages from a sandwich board
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