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I'm 38, have been married for 16 years, have four children (6 yr boy, 10 yr boy, 12 yr girl, 14 yr boy) and an American middle class lifestyle, complete with SUV. I'm a professional software engineer of 18 years, currently employed by IBM. My specialties are cryptology, security, networking, embedded systems and OO. I used to be a cop in the USAF Reserves, spent two years living in southern Mexico as a Mormon missionary and have traveled extensively (excessively?) inside and outside the country, to nearly every region of the world. For fun I write software, read and write fiction, camp, hike, water-ski, fish, hunt, shoot, SCUBA dive and snowboard. I use Debian Linux almost exclusively, booting Windows in VMWare when absolutely necessary. Politically, I'm mostly Libertarian. I'm a strong supporter of the 2nd amendment and carry a firearm most of the time.
10 seconds that can help boot Orrin Hatch out of office
I'm sure all of you have seen the many articles about various wacko things Senator Orrin Hatch has done to support the RIAA and MPAA. Among other things, he'd like to empower the media industry to remotely destroy the computers of people they suspect of illegally sharing files.
Wouldn't be great to give him the boot? You can help, by doing nothing more than voting on a web site.
See, for the first time in quite a few years Hatch has a serious contender for his seat. Pete Ashdown is a smart, tech-savvy businessman who's taken a year off to run his campaign. Ashdown is the sort of moderate Democrat who has a chance to win in Utah, and Utahns have expressed their opinion in polls that Hatch has been in office long enough and they'd like a change.
However good Ashdown's chances in theory, though, campaigning is about money, and he needs it.
That's where this vote comes in. Barbara Boxer has some campaign cash she's going to give to one of the Democrats running against a long-term incumbent senator. If Ashdown can win that vote, he'll have a great warchest to start the campaign with. It won't be enough, but it will give him a good start and will hopefully prime the pump for other large democratic contributions.
So go vote, and get all of your friends and neighbors to do the same! Even if they're Republicans, they still have to appreciate that an utterly one-sided race like Hatch has had in the past is not good for democracy. Get them to vote!
