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tolerate the attacks on science, whether they come from politicians, religious zealots, New Age gurus, or regular old folks. And I will speak out. Update: Coincidentally, PZ Myers at Pharyngula just wrote a similar post (his is about religion), as did Chris Pirillo (about politics). Make of this what you will. [IMG] * And why don’t these same people complain when I post about cartoons I like, or some funny website I found? After all, those are “off-topic

Simultaneously, and without apparent coordination, Phil Plait, PZ Myers, and Chris Pirillo put up posts that say basically the same thing: “I like to blog about stuff I am interested in, which includes more than one thing. If your interests do not precisely coincide with mine (which should hardly be surprising), you are welcome to skip

Simultaneously, and without apparent coordination, Phil Plait, PZ Myers, and Chris Pirillo put up posts that say basically the same thing: “I like to blog about stuff I am interested in, which includes more than one thing. If your interests do not precisely coincide with mine (which should hardly be surprising), you are welcome to skip

s career through the years so I think that while I may never have met the man I have a pretty good gist of what he is about. Now before you start stamping your feet Chris should you read this just take a pill and hear me out. Yes I know you have written that what gets posted to Chris.Pirillo.com is strictly your personal thoughts and that you have every right to parade them before the world as you see fit. Well that might be so but you of all people seem to have forgotten brand marketing 101.

… you should never assume that all information for any candidate might be surfaced through their official Web sitePolitics is Personal - but Important ~ Chris Pirillo I have to take issue with this. This is your official website. If the issues you’re running on and your views are not to be found here, that says more than a little about you as a candidate. You should be on top of this. Or have a campaign manager

I liked your previous post. I perceive you, the author, as a person, who is actually using his mind, not just holding it as a dormant organ and watching mindless media pulp, like most of today’s societies (those, that have tv sets that it). keep on thinking, keep on writing.
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Damn right. In my dreamworld Ron Paul and Mike Gravel go head-to-head simply because they are the most interesting and honest candidates.

OMG! This is politics, not computers!

Doesn’t bother me, though I guess it doesn’t hurt that my political views are close to yours.

Time in.

As a fellow geek, I know for a fact that there is nothing more that will continue to hold back and damage the incentive to create new technology and innovate than the way the current government is run, tied in with the way that capitalism is currently exercised from big business owners’ special interests who are running it. In fact, it has been building up to this near breaking point for years. If something doesn’t change now, the bough WILL break and everyone WILL fall who follows the current meme that all too many have followed to basically just be good sheeple. Black, or White. 1 or 2, With us or not with us, etc.

Back to 1912 when the modern industrial age was in full swing and the incentive, work, and business ethics of the nation began to change, something else quickly changed too. For years our grandparents and great grandparents have been groomed to believe what they are told, stemming from the way they were brought up to to trust “daddy”. Rather, I should say, where it once may have been safer to believe what you are told back in the time of the birth of our nation. Due to the fact that the motivation wasn’t just money, but survival. The select few who were quickly gaining massive amounts of money and power politically because of the growing size of their business (which is the initial and our ongoing downfall right there) were taking advantage of this naivety and turned that more into a believe us, or else situation. For far too many Uncle Sam became “daddy”.

This is why, outside of some parts of Russia and communist China, we are about the only nation in the world who has a majority who truly fears our government and what they might do if we don’t follow along quietly. The only difference is that who runs this country it isn’t just simply a tyrannical fascist, or tyrant in control who would just summarily kill you and end your “disloyalty” right there. They can be easily overthrown. No, it’s by near immortal industrial business entities. They give us the guise of freedom while making policy in law to corral us into financial bondage all the while draining our tax dollars creating things to only give them more business such as War (Which, for them, is how this smorgie began. Always stick with what works, right?).

This brainwashing of trusting “daddy” was then reinforced only 2 years later starting with world war 1 and onto world war 2, then Korean war. What happened? Big businesses only got bigger, and more powerful and more tied in with government corrupting the system even further and forcing even the few who may disagree to agree somehow. Only the “flower children” started to ask questions by the time the Vietnam war came. Except the majority of them were the wrong questions. It wasn’t just a governmental conspiracy. Man. It was much deeper than that. They almost had it, but not quite. A revolution needed to be made, but it wasn’t of the sexual drug induced kind.

I could write volumes on the history of this. I do believe you are on the right track Chris, and especially about what you are posting to your blog. Personal or not, I am one technology junky (who is of like mind, age, and interests as you Chris, scarily similar in fact, if you only knew me you’d think we were related) that is tired of the same regurgitated **** companies who are not only strong in the consumer market but do indeed have the largest of them with very deep influence in the government, keep spitting up. Almost to an entirety (Halliburton anyone?).

The time is soon coming when the majority will be asking the RIGHT questions. It just starts with us Chris. Keep posting my friend. If anything, talking about this is more about technology and the future than even talking about the latest and greatest cell-phone of the present. Thats really the bottom line.

hey chris i have a question i’m thinking about buying a laptop but i was wondering do you have any suggestions for a laptop at all and i can’t afford macs so mac i out of the question i was thinking acer dell or toshiba maby hp idk i want a good doulcore processor and the best wifi connection what should i do sign a confused viewer

I have flat out LOVED your writing and video work of the last few months. You are flat out breaking the fishbowl of the same old geek talk with the same old geeks. Thank you for that. I’ve been stewing on this for a month or two, and seeing your posts and watching your videos (still dying over the web 2.0 on your Vista), I’ve felt that you’re really making a fascinating move lately. Something new, and genuine.

And the other thing I like: you DO something. You’re not just blathering. You’re bringing up information, learning, sharing, re-educating.

It’s be really good stuff, Chris. Rock on (or whatever the kids says these days).

Ok, Chris. Here is a challenge to you. Why dont you figure out when you could pull a scoble and go spend a week hanging out with Ron Paul. Do your thing like only you can. by the end of that week you would have produced some amazing content. I know you are busy with gnomedex, but maybe after. What if someone could get Ron Paul to attend the entire gnomedex, as an atendee. That would just be too good to be true though.

Well said Chris. I’ve been skewered by my readers in the same fashion. I’ve even had a lawyer show up at my home and threaten me, sent by a reader of course. Ugh. Keep fighting the good fight. In my opinion, the two greatest threats we face is education and over-population. Both are interrelated.

Please DO continue being yourself and writing about WHATEVER you are passionate about at a given moment. Your recent string of topics were a breath of fresh air, and those embedded videos needed to be shared. If anyone isn’t interested they can skip over those posts instead of giving you grief about them

I agree, but my readers have an expectation to hear about my views of the tech industry. Bringing politics into that mix usually isn’t good.

And I can tell you that most of the people commenting on that post are NOT my readers. They showed up for the first time. A lot of this is total spin, not based in reality.

What I don’t like is you are trying to speak for me. Having “huge” success online? Please. Over on Facebook one university arranged a Barack Obama rally with 4,000 people. Has anything like that happened with Ron Paul? I haven’t seen it.

Also, the media picks two or three candidates from each party to focus on because they are the most likely to go the distance.

I sat with Dan Balz for hours — he’s been covering politics for the Washington Post since the 1970s. He explained that they were going to throw more resources into covering Clinton and Obama than they were in covering Edwards. Why? Because in their experience the story was Clinton and Obama.

The entire political system works this way and it’s up to an outsider candidate (Edwards is one on the Democratic side of the fence) to get through that problem and get the support anyway.

That’s why the Internet is so potentially disruptive.

But with all the supposed “success” that Ron Paul is having he’s still only pulling 1% poll numbers (USA Today, see my comments for a link).

With Howard Dean I learned that what the “nutroots” support is probably not going to be what the average everyday person supports.

Beware of putting your entire faith into a little hype on the Internet.

Ron Paul isn’t going to go anywhere. I’ll bet you $100 on that.

Hey Chris, I read your blog primarily for technical info, but I really appreciate your posts on other subjects. In particular, thank you for the info about Ron Paul. If someone does not like political or other non-technical posts, they are not required to read them. Please do not pay attention to stupid comments and keep posting.

The information is out there but you have to go beyond page one if you are going to get to the truth… You can’t rely on others to prioritize for you what the important facts are.

I personally think Ron Paul is naive and dangerous when it comes to national security. He has absolutely no chance of winning the election so in my opinion he has gotten more publicity than he deserves.

I am interested in your opinions on technology and enjoy your fun, quirky way of presenting knowledge in an easy-to-understand manner (isn’t that what’s made you “famous” to begin with?). The personal, “folksy” posts regarding your pets, your house, your travels, etc. is usually enjoyable or otherwise interesting.

I do not find your political posts (or point-of-view) fun, quirky, folksy, enjoyable, educational OR entertaining. Personally, I’d keep the things “on mission” and post political opinion elsewhere, but it’s your call.

Since you’ve made that call, I’ll have to move on.

Isn’t it weird how we’ve assigned the role of celebrity to bloggers too? The instant celebrities step out of our idea of what they whould be we go APESHIT which I think is already crazy. An example to show that I’m not being condescending, and mean “me too” when I say this:

When I thought Brad Pitt cheated with Angelina Jolie I was personally offended. Then I realized that *they don’t give a **** what I think*, lol. Not only that but they’re people - Not Gods. Whether that means they are flawed like anyone else, or just that what they believe/want/do is not of my affair, at the end of the day, I don’t have to look at them in the mirror when I go to bed at night.

Which leads me to think that we are so harsh with other people we admire because we’re secretly harsh with ourselves. We judge people by what we *perceive* to be their worst actions because that’s how we judge ourselves.

I have no idea what the Ron Paul post was about because I’ve been on a self-imposed technology vacation, but I do know that whatever you said I’ll respect as your opinion on your own personal blog and continue to respect your opinion on other things. If other people don’t do the same, well, that’s okay too. Cuz at the end of the day….

@ Robert

“That’s why the Internet is so potentially disruptive.”

So your saying it would be bad for unknown names to get involved with a presidential race through the internet? I don’t see the internet as disruptive to politics but rather an equalizer. So your saying only the front runners with the most money should be covered by the mainstream media and it’s bad that the internet might disrupt that? You don’t see the potential dangers and corruption that could take place? You don’t see any problems with a two party system?

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