Analysis of “Obama Citizenship: I Invented The Internet”

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 9:30 PM PDT

2008/10/22 · 21:30

A certain law school classmate of mine sent a message to a bunch of us:

I’m interested to hear your thoughts on these. . . . On what grounds could Obama not answer / refuse to answer? Why wouldn’t he answer just to shut this guy down? . . .

http://www.youtube.com/... [Video arguing that Obama's not American, and forged his birth certificate.] This video has close to 2.5 million hits.

Oy! What what he thinking? Anyhow, I’m a compulsive researcher, so I took a look, and wrote this:

I did some "due diligence", and have found that the video contains many untruths and disingenuous arguments. So much so, that I lost interest in pursuing it. I like to apply the science-investigation ethic — "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." In addition to the distortions, the video fails this test for sure.

Here’s what I found, before I got fed up:

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Friday July 06, 2007 · 11:03 AM PDT

2007/07/06 · 11:03

I can’t freaking believe it - this just happened to me: It started out with my being offended by this post on the Portland, OR Craigslist "Gigs/Computer" section (emphasis mine):

WANTED: Web Developer

Your Skills:

LAMP (if you don’t know what this means, STOP NOW)
Can read and follow directions.
Now here is the big one. Read the rest of this application and send what is requested.

You need to send:

1 resume (or link to)
2 or more links to sites you have worked on (with a description of what was done)
Finally at least a hundred lines or so of actual code you have written...

The position is part-time to full-time
contract hire to start, at $10-12/hour

I always find these amazing (in a horrible way) - looking for people with multiple skills, proven experience, and then expecting to pay them ... nothing.

Well, I'm compelled to respond this, in a creative way, and then it only got better...

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If you're a software developer, or about to graduate and start working, how will you avoid the threat of cheap foreign labor?

40 votes Vote Now!

If you're a software developer, or about to graduate and start working, how will you avoid the threat of cheap foreign labor?

Get a Masters degree and hope that industry appreciates it.

1 vote

Get a PhD and stay in academia

0 votes

Go to law school and do IP law

7 votes

Stay up on the newest languages and platforms

2 votes

Avoid "web programming", and focus on "Enterprise IT"

6 votes

Get a job in government or for a non-profit, from which you won't be outsourced.

13 votes

Haven't made a plan yet

2 votes

Something else not mentioned here

4 votes

No need - outsourcing / cheap foreign labor isn't the risk it's made out to be.

5 votes

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Tuesday October 31, 2006 · 4:03 PM PST

2006/10/31 · 16:03

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