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My intelligence has officially been offended beyond recognition
I just can not believe that something like this video has created by someone who is running for President of the United States. What are we being told here? Am I supposed to believe that Britney Spears and Paris Hilton are of the same class of people as a former student of both Columbia AND Harvard University? Do they have the insight and knowledge to become a Senior Lecturer in Law at University of Chicago Law School?
I don’t think so….
Why would I want to support offshore drilling instead of investment into the development of alternative energy? We are told day in and day out that education is everything. We are told that in order to succeed in this century that we will need to be able to compete in the high tech sector. Is investing in training engineers to develop alternative energy not one of these goals? Why would we spend money to drill off shore for a finite resource when we can spend the same money in research to develop better solar cells, wind and hydro-electric generators, cleaner nuclear facilities, and most of all more fuel efficient cars. Even if gas is $5.00 per gallon, what would it matter if your car could efficiently utilize potential to kinetic energy transfer as well as solar in addition to hybrid engine technology?
If John McCain wants me to vote for him, he had better tell me how he is going to support our economy by developing reasonable paying jobs that train people to do something that a Chinese worker can not do for 1/10th the cost. I do not want to exist in the previous millennium any longer. IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON.
Senator McCain — Please I ask you — BELIEVE in us, the American People to use the investment in our education to develop new technology, not to rely on antiquated ideas from yester-year and if you approve messages, try to at least tell us something positive that you plan to do.
An At&T Cellular Broadband Story
Since Starbucks is now offering free WiFi to users of At&T Cellular Broadband, I thought I would try to take advantage. I was particularly interested in the option as 3G does not always work as advertised when I want to use the internet at Starbucks in New York City. There are a number of reasons for this, but mostly I think its due to the nature of the large buildings.
Anyway, I have a Dell XPS m1330 laptop with an integrated cellular modem. It is very nice. There is nothing ugly sticking out of the computer which means there is nothing to break as well (I have broke a number of these add on cards in the past). When I heard the news of the free WiFi, I decided to give it a try. To my dismay, it didnt work at all. Rather, when I tried to login, I was presented with the typical login screen any user would receive. I gave up and decided to call AT&T a few days later.
I called the 1-800 number for customer service, and after being transferred 3 times, I was connected to a laptop/notebook specialist. Along the way, my story must have been mangled, because the tech just thought I wanted to know how to use WiFi, not how to connect to the hot spot service for free. I explained to him what I wanted to do, and I was quickly told that I could not do that as the AT&T communication software was not compatible with my computer. I found this hard to believe as there is an AT&T sim card in my laptop that works just fine already, but I took his word for it. I did try to argue that since I am paying the same as other customers for the same service that I should be entitled to the same free modem the other customers get which allows them to use the service at Starbucks. He told me this was not an option with no explanation as to why. I pay the same and get less because I provide my own hardware which they give for free (I even signed the same 1 year contract)….
During the conversation, I was told the reason my hardware would not work was that the AT&T communication software would not work with my computer. As I stated above, I didnt totally believe this, so I gave it a try. It works fine. There seem to be no issues at all connecting to 3G. In fact, the software is quite a bit better than the software provided by Dell. I have not yet been to Starbucks to test the free WiFi, but I can see no reason why it will not work. I will post more regarding my experience this evening when I goto Starbucks to work on some motion analysis data.