Word: programming
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When it comes to government experience and knowledge, Vice President Gore is, hands-down, the more qualified candidate. He has been in Washington since 1977 and spent a combined 16 years in the House and Senate before his two terms with the Clinton Administration. Through his "Reinventing Government" program, he was intimately involved with the functioning of all aspects of the executive branch. Texas Gov. George W. Bush, by contrast, is currently in the second term of his first elected office...
Both candidates' tax plans have focused concern on middle-class and wealthy Americans rather than the poor, and neither plan contains an adequate proposal for general reform. But whereas Bush's plan shamelessly benefits the very wealthy, Gore's proposal supports a number of admirable programs. Gore has proposed to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit, a program that rewards the working poor and softens the blow of welfare reform. Furthermore, the Gore's plan won't blow a hole in the budget; the Bush plan would cause deficits even if the budget surpluses materializes as expected. Still, neither plan...
...Social Security, Bush's large-scale reforms, which partially privatize the program, are fraught with hidden risks and dangers. Although the lure of high returns from private investing might seem attractive, such promises assume an unreasonably bullish market and do not account for obligations to our current retirees--essentially spending the same money twice. In fact, the best estimates of Bush's plan show that it would cause a 20-year period of Social Security bankruptcy. The recent volatility of the stock market should make voters wary of such drastic privatization. Not to mention the fact that Bush's social...
Gore's plan, by contrast, is more modest, and would prolong the program through 2050 with general revenues. As a promising alternative to privatizing social security, Gore has argued in favor of a separate program that would match savings of lower- and middle-income Americans with tax credits...
Part of the reason for the underwhelming array of games, gamemakers say, is that PS2 is hard to program for. "The PS2 is definitely more powerful than Dreamcast," says John Carmack, the multimillionaire, ponytailed master gamer behind legendary shooters like Doom and Quake. "But it's less convenient to extract performance from it." This is, however, a predictable stage in the gaming cycle: it's hard for gamemakers to do their best work on a platform that isn't available yet. The best PlayStation2 games are yet to come...