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Here comes the new bossFWIW, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and his campaign contributors.
Sadly, the industries that give to a politician are impacted the most by the committee(s) the Senator sits on.
It's the bit about H-1B visas that the tech companies were most rallying for. The idea is for companies to be able to attract more of the world's brightest minds in engineering and technology and allow these workers to stay in the U.S. (2013 Bill) The bill was written by a bipartisan group of senators called the "Gang of Eight," which included Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). In the lead up to Senate debate on the bill, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched a political action group called FWD.us to focus on immigration reform. As a result, a deep roster of tech executives banded to together to push the bipartisan policy agenda and change how the U.S. approaches immigration.
The group vowed to work with members of Congress from both parties, the administration, and state and local officials. It has used both online and offline advocacy tools to build support for policy changes. FWD.us' list of heavy hitters includes Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, and many more.
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Re:Unintended consequences
Last I saw, Apple and it's leadership are heavily Democratic, not Republican.
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IBM execs are Dems, gave Obama ~million dollars
These cocksuckers are actually Democrats who gave Obama almost a million dollars to help him get reelected.
http://influenceexplorer.com/o...
How has six or seven years of Obama worked out for the workers at IBM?
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Re:Lobby = Corruption
You don't think the $4,734,809 spent on lobbying and the $32,811,424 in campaign contributions by the ACLU has influence?
You know who doesn't promise politicians lucrative jobs after they leave government? The ACLU.
Citation needed or it is just conjecture. By the way, the ACLU can and does "drive campaign donations".
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Re:Lobby = Corruption
How can one compete
A single person can not compete but groups can and do. Groups like ACLU and AFL-CIO lobby and contribute to campaign on behalf of there members all the time. Tesla does it too.
The thing is that lobbying is necessary as it is the only way to put alternate positions in front of the politicians.
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Re:Lobby = Corruption
How can one compete
A single person can not compete but groups can and do. Groups like ACLU and AFL-CIO lobby and contribute to campaign on behalf of there members all the time. Tesla does it too.
The thing is that lobbying is necessary as it is the only way to put alternate positions in front of the politicians.
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Re:Lobby = Corruption
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Re:Lobby = Corruption
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Re:Hypocrites"Their "competition" for the best video about the effect of big money was such an enormous debacle and a clear showing that their true goal was not to get money out of politics, but to get Conservative (and even libertarian) money out of politics"
And worth mentioning. If you look at the top 10 spending SuperPACs in the last cycle, you'll find that the left-leaning PACs outspent the right-leaning PACs by more than double.The top 3 super pac disbursements this cycle were from the left: NextGen Climate, Senate Majority, House Majority. They spent over $160 Million combined The next 3 were from the right: American Crossroads, Freedom Partners, Ending Spending Action. They spent less than half of what the left spent at $76 million combined Rounding out the top 10 we have: NEA Advocacy (left leaning) $18 Milllion Congressional Leadership Fund (right leaning) $16 Million Americans for Responsible Solutions (left leaning) $16 Million Independence USA (left leaning) $15 Million Which totals another $49 Million on the left, and $16 Million on the right The grand total for the top 10 equals $209 Million for the left and $92 Million for the right.
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Retail numbers create false tech diversity
These numbers likely include the retail employees at Apple stores. This is why Apple's diversity numbers are so much less skewed than any of the other tech companies, which are reporting based on a much different employee mixture (i.e. Engineers + Sales and Marketing, vs. Apples Engineers + Sales and Marketing + Retail store employees.. Much easier to pump up the numbers this way.
As to why publish a report saying, look at me, I'm so diverse (at least compared to Twitter, FB, et al.) I would think it's obvious. Risk management from "corrective" action by government, i.e. discrimination lawsuits, regulatory action, etc. Particularly when one's company is so tightly aligned with the democratic party .
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Re:Changing IMEI is NOT illegal
Under a 2002 law it was made illegal to change the IMEI unless you're the manufacturer.
It's a Chuck Schumer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... bill that he introduces every couple of years, it gets thrown to the Judiciary committee, and then it dies in committee. Like clockwork. Here's the text of the current bill, which is presently dying in the Judiciary committee right now: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/...:
The people who care about this are the people who traffic in stolen phones, and the people who want to buy a handset and use the same SIM in a different GSM phone, or who want to change the MEID on a new phone so that they don't have to re-up their Verizon contract once they are paying month-to-month for their CDMA phone. And the phone companies, that want you to have to re-up your contract to get a new phone. It's the same reason there's about zero incentive to update the OS in Android phones, since if they never update the OS, in order to get the new +0.0.1 version number bump, you have to get a new phone, and the manufacturer gets to sell another phone, and the phone company gets to lock you into a new 2 year contract every 18 months when the new shiny object becomes available.
Since it's a PITA to get a phone unlocked for international roaming, since it has to be listed by ID with the cell network in the country you are traveling to, and it can take many weeks to get them to actually unlock the thing, and do the registration, most times it's just easier to clone the IMEI to your old phone, and then either destroy the old phone, or do an IMEI swap. This is a common "repair/refurbish" technique, and you'll notice that it's allowed under the Schumer bill.
You might also see both NASDAQ OMX Group and TeleCommunication Systems Inc. campaign contributions, and you'll notice contributions from Facebook in 2012, the year the bill was introduced, when Facebook was going big into the mobile market. http://influenceexplorer.com/p...
Little bit of vested interest there.
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Re:so uh why they'd support it?
It's not always about money. It could also be blind party loyalty. GoDaddy has an strong track record of donating to republican candidates including Ted Stevens who was a long time friend of Big Media. It would not surprise me to find that leadership of GoDaddy doesn't understand the technical flaws of SOPA.