Comments on: Our Next President Should be a Hacker http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/07/23/our-next-president-should-be-a-hacker/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:45:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Tino http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/07/23/our-next-president-should-be-a-hacker/#comment-9696 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:44:16 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/07/23/our-next-president-should-be-a-hacker/#comment-9696 "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." // Douglas Adams I gather it is a bigger thing to go for a third party in the US than in the typical multi-party systems present in Europe. However, just <em>maybe</em> you could find something in the "Pirate party" movement. (Started in Sweden; some useful links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party , http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/ , and in the US: http://pirate-party.us/ ) Note: I'm not saying hackers are automatically pirates and all of them support the the core politics of this movement (privacy, rebalance of copyright and patents) but I suspect the 'density of hackers' prepared to engage in politics is higher there than in other political movements/parties. “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” // Douglas Adams

I gather it is a bigger thing to go for a third party in the US than in the typical multi-party systems present in Europe. However, just maybe you could find something in the “Pirate party” movement. (Started in Sweden; some useful links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party , http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/ , and in the US: http://pirate-party.us/ )

Note: I’m not saying hackers are automatically pirates and all of them support the the core politics of this movement (privacy, rebalance of copyright and patents) but I suspect the ‘density of hackers’ prepared to engage in politics is higher there than in other political movements/parties.

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