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Change.gov
- makecheck 18y agoTwo lines of text, guess how much source code Microsoft Word generated to render it.
- tc7 18y agohttp://www.smartcard.gov/thurston_bio.cfm http://www.smartcard.gov/thurston_bio.cfm This guy did it. :) Saw his name as Author in the Word HTML that used to be there ("Keith Thurston GSA"). Glad Word does that, so we know who to blame.
- makecheck 18y agoLooks like they changed it already, now it just says "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request.".
- tc7 18y ago"Create a National Network of Public-Private Business Incubators: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will support entrepreneurship and spur job growth by creating a national network of public-private business incubators. Business incubators facilitate the critical work of entrepreneurs in creating start-up companies. Obama and Biden will invest $250 million per year to increase the number and size of incubators in disadvantaged communities throughout the country." Does this mean incubators like yc? Obviously it isn't limited to hightech, but is that the sort of thing they speak of?
- kirubakaran 18y agoObama & Biden create YC clone? I wonder if there will be news.change.gov for entrepreneurs to post links and hang out.
- davidw 18y agoI hope it doesn't get overrun by politics articles.
- fallentimes 18y agoFree market YC would absolutely destroy bureaucrat YC ...unless massive subsidies were involved :).
- kirubakaran 18y ago> ...unless massive subsidies were involved ...unless they tax you to death ...unless they regulate your industry ...unless they make misguided statements in press conferences Actually, they got you by the balls. It is up to them to not crush them.
- fallentimes 18y agoWe'll move.
- kirubakaran 18y agoThey'll invade :-)
- fallentimes 18y agoBlast! You win.
- gruseom 18y agoThat reminds me of Barry Crimmins' reply to the question, "If you don't like how things are in this country why don't you just leave?" "Because I don't want to be victimized by its foreign policy." Heh.
- kirubakaran 18y agoYeah, thats the quote I was thinking of when I wrote that ;)
- corentin 18y agoCan someone here who happens to be enthusiastic about this idea enlighten us and explain why the federal government would be a better investor than private entities?
- dangoldin 18y agoWell for one the government can take a longer term view than a typical VC. As an example, imagine if the government focused on alternate energy years ago. Then when oil increased in price we'd be in better shape to make a transition. Also, a lot of technology comes as a by product of working on something for the long term. Just my 2 cents.
- corentin 18y ago> As an example, imagine if the government focused on alternate energy years ago. You mean, things like biofuel subsidies? > Also, a lot of technology comes as a by product of working on something for the long term. Yes, whether it's funded by the government or not.
- Prrometheus 18y agoIt should be noted that pharmaceuticals being researched today by private corporations will not see market in the United States for 10 years.
- wumi 18y agoSeeing as JG is part of Obama's tech team, it probably does. He's part of the crew behind launchbox digital.
- palish 18y agoYC is not an incubator, or at least not a traditional one. On a tangent... "Obama and Biden will invest $250 million per year". That's $250 million of our dollars, not theirs. Maybe it's just me, but that type of behavior makes me extremely nervous. I did vote for him, but we should all be wary of him going forward. I'd pesonally like to see the whitehouse take a hands-off approach to governing. At least one time.
- Retric 18y agoThat's like 1/12000th the current federal budget and something a lot of state and local governments are already doing through the SBA. If you don't want government investments what level of spending are you comfortable with? Edit: I think we could cut 80% of the federal budget (over time) and keep 95% of I what I want but I don't see that happening. Let's cut the DoD to 100 billion a year and see if anything bad happens. (That should pay for around 500,000 people and a lot of tech.)
- rms 18y agoIt means incubators more in the style of Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh, most of the seed money is supplied by the state of Pennsylvania and invested via organizations like http://www.pittsburghlifesciences.com/ http://www.pittsburghlifesciences.com/ and http://www.innovationworks.org/ http://www.innovationworks.org/. These organizations effectively provide due diligence for the entire (small) VC community. What we will get is more available investment money in cities that need it. It is certainly arguable whether this is good for the overall entrepreneurship environment. I take the position that it is good.
- kirubakaran 18y agoI hope they change that soon.
- ph0rque 18y agoDid they just change the website? It looks nice and modern to me.
- kirubakaran 18y agoIt was big bright yellow "www.change.com / Coming Soon" text on bright blue background. The website seems to be down now.
- ph0rque 18y agoYeah, it took half an hour to load, and none of the links worked, but it looks pretty good.
- bk 18y agoLoad balancer fail: "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request."
- wensing 18y agoObama is already doing things I didn't know the President could do.
- jobeirne 18y agoLike mandating community service hours.
- ObieJazz 18y ago($4,000 / 100 hours == $40 / hour) tax credit for college students for community service != bad news
- hugh 18y agoThat depends whether you're the one getting paid, or the one paying for it.
- hugh 18y agoAlso, let's just do the maths here: there's 10 million college students in the US. Give each of them $4000 a year to pick up trash from the projects, and that's $40 billion a year, or about 1.5% of the size of the Federal budget, or 4% the size of the deficit. That's a helluva lot of money to spend in the middle of a budget crisis on paying people to do work, the nature of which is so far undecided.
- rwebb 18y agohttp://www.mediazine.net/iraq/ http://www.mediazine.net/iraq/
- hugh 18y agoRight, so year-by-year, it'll be the same order of magnitude of cost as the Iraq war, except the war was always planned to end eventually whereas the "community service" plan is planned to go on forever. Justifying one enormous waste of money by saying "Oh well, at least it's not as big a waste of money as that other waste of money" isn't a good way to run a budget. Would you run your personal budget that way? "Aw geez, well I bought a $300,000 boat last month, so I guess it's okay to buy a $100,000 car now."
- ardit33 18y agoGreat step, but still mostly fluff. Very light on specifics. Hopefully they will keep updating it as they go.
- jcdreads 18y agoVery interesting to note some of the links you can see commented out when viewing source, including: /newsroom/blog/ /newsroom/events/ /newsroom/press/ /learn/inauguration And, within a comment block labelled "comment out america serves": /americaserves/plan ("Service Plan") /americaserves/serve ("Find a Way to Serve") Probably gonna need to get that new CTO to clamp down on accidental leaks by the IT staff. (Edited for formatting.)
- jcdreads 18y agoAlas, now the Service Plan and Find a Way to Serve links are visible...and link to pages that read, "Need Content". Launched early, I guess.
- lackbeard 18y ago"They will work to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers, so workers can stand up for themselves without worrying about losing their livelihoods." Does this scare anyone else? I can't articulate exactly why this scares me, but it seems rather... un-free. If workers are free to unionize, shouldn't employers be free to choose who they employ and when?
- raheemm 18y agoAs long as they find a happy medium - it's not going to be "scary"
- unalone 18y agoYeah. Either side taken to the extreme is slightly scary. Absolute freedom could easily lead to very evil corporations. No freedom leads to Atlas Shrugged. Some place in the middle, where we learn from things that go wrong and try to make a good equilibrium, is potentially the best for both sides.
- drewcrawford 18y agoI disagree. It's true that "absolute freedom" and "no freedom" are polar opposites. It's a non-sequiter that their oppositeness prevents either of them from being true, somehow forcing us to find some utilitarian compromise. There are well-written defenses of both lasseiz-faire and marxist economics (although I think the former is vastly more defendable than the latter). I've yet to read a thorough, consistent defense of some "middle way".
- palish 18y agoYes, that's a little nerve-wracking. We'll see what happens.
- mynameishere 18y agoDon't worry about that. Worry about the removal of secret votes following card check procedures at businesses. That will allow union organizers to "organize" unions by way of muscle. But don't worry about that either.
- raheemm 18y agoWhat CMS do you think this is built on?
- pstinnett 18y agoobama's campaign site as expression engine. Guessing this is too?
- r7000 18y agobuiltwith.com agrees: expression engine
- palish 18y agoLove, Unity, The American Way, and Change, of course.
- sachinag 18y agoIt's a mix of EE, MovableType, with a dash of Blue State Digital's interal code. http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/hey-the-president-elect-has-a-blog http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/hey-the-president-elect-...
- arthurk 18y agoSomeone forgot to replace the "Lorem Ipsum" text on the signup page: http://change.gov/page/signup http://change.gov/page/signup and the "Plan" page needs content: http://change.gov/americaserves/plan http://change.gov/americaserves/plan ;-)
- kolya3 18y agoLorem Ipsum? Nah, that's just that fancy soundin latino elitist talk ;)
- technoguyrob 18y agoWow. http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2008_government_manual&docid=214669tx_xxx-3.pdf http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=20...
- jbyers 18y agoCan't resist pointing out the joys of wildcard DNS: http://spare.some.change.gov http://spare.some.change.gov (Best read in a cockney accent.)
- corentin 18y agoActually, that's more or less the purpose of government.
- patrickg-zill 18y agoObama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start. (from http://change.gov/americaserves http://change.gov/americaserves) Compulsory volunteerism?
- PieSquared 18y agoAck... That makes me cringe. In my school district (in MD) you are required to have 75 hours of community service hours to graduate high school. It's also nearly impossible to earn them doing something interesting - most people resort to sorting books or working at a library or something. 100 hours of community service in college every year? That'd really sucks. It may not seem like a lot, but it is if they're spent on drudgery...
- auston 18y agoI understand where you are coming from, we had a 40 hour requirement at my high school. But I can't help but feel you aren't being creative enough or looking hard enough. I mean I'm sure homeless shelter's need volunteers, as do toy donations for under privileged children, political campaigns need volunteers (see Louie Mantia's contribution to the Obama campaign here: http://louiemantia.com/blog/?p=31 http://louiemantia.com/blog/?p=31), and so do Boys & Girls clubs. Not to mention taking 1-2 weeks off and helping people in other countries.
- PieSquared 18y ago1 or 2 weeks off from high school isn't really an option, if you're the type that cares about grades. A friend of mine got stuck in India after a vacation (passport troubles) for nearly 2 weeks, and had a rather difficult time afterwards. However, I'm one of the lucky few here. :) I'll manage to get the community service hours by being a sysop for my school, i.e. managing the Ubuntu server that runs a significant part of the school technology infrastructure.
- frisco 18y agohttp://change.gov/americaserves/plan http://change.gov/americaserves/plan The Obama National Service Plan NEED CONTENT nice.
- siculars 18y agocompulsory national service, eh? my ma grew up in communist russia. and when she hears obama speak all she can think of is the 1917 revolution and the Khrushchev speaking at the 20th congress of the communist party. is she right, i dont know. did i grow up in a communist country, no. i was born and grew up in nyc. but i do know that every russian i've talked to thinks obamas 'change' sounds like the hammer and they all waitin for the sickle.
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- ojbyrne 18y agoNowhere in there does it say "we will stop the use of torture." And that just sucks.