This is copy of an email I sent just now.
My concern about the libertarian candidate, besides the fact that he cannot win,
That's no reason not to vote for him. A well-functioning democracy requires a choice of more than the people who are "obviously" going to win. Otherwise, it isn't democracy so much as a decree by the political parties who will be the next president.
Like any virtuous person, I use Emacs for everything, and so tried out using
Emacs key bindings for all GTK applications generally. After a year or so of
working like this, I have decided to go back. The main problem is that other
applications can't handle the awesome power of Emacs. Firefox, for example, uses
C-k to jump to the search box, but if you are in the location bar,
C-k will run the equivalent of kill-line which means
that in order to get to the search bar, you have to remove focus from the
location bar. Not convenient.
This is an older idea which had been floating around in my head, half-finished for a few years.
I was inspired by this Ars Technica article to think about the relationship between network operators — both cellular and landline — and consumers. The key quote from the article is by "one mobile operator" and is:
