Blue-dog Democrats are Democrats who know they can't get elected from their district if they show their true colors.
The Republican Party has suggested several steps to reform the healthcare system, but the Democratic leadership doesn't like them because they don't expand the power of the federal government.
This ruling probably is a good reading of the law as it currently is written. I can think of several possible problems with this interpretation of the law, but I can see it as correct.
However, it destroys the theory behind the markets. In the ideal market, everybody has perfect knowledge which means they trade accordingly. The information that this ruling says is protected from distribution is important information about the correct pricing of stocks on the market. This ruling therefore insists that the market be imperfect. Imperfections in the market are one of the key reasons for market bubbles.
I can see in my mind exactly why this ruling encourages economic disruptions, but I am tired and every attempt I have made to express those ideas doesn't come out clearly.
You said that the Republican Congress was not more bipartisan than the current Democratic Congress. One is more than zero. So, yes it was more bipartisan. Actually I believe that there were several other major bills with Democrat involvement but it isn't worth my time to research it.
If Obama has accepted Republican contributions to any of his major legislative initiatives please enlighten me. No Child Left Behind was in the first 14 months of the Bush Administration so it is comparable.
You are saying that democracy functions by passing bills that are so large that nobody knows everything that is in them?
I expect my representative to know what is in a bill before he or she votes to make it law. If you don't know everything that is in the bill, how do you know if the clause that is important to you will actually take affect? Maybe some other clause will make it null?
That's because in the U.S. left is currently defined as favoring increased government power. In Europe there are no major political parties that do not openly favor increasing government power in one way or another.
It's over 2,000 pages. That is longer than War & Peace. It isn't finished, that means that nobody knows what will be in it when it is finished, assuming anybody knows what is in it now. With the size of this bill, there is no way that anyone understands how the different parts of it will interact. Why not take it apart and pass it as a bunch of separate bills that are small enough that people can understand what they do?
Obviously, because there are things in there that people would never accept.
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If the government isn't running anything, what is it spending $960 billion on?
Excuse me, when George W. Bush had Teddy Kennedy write the No Child Left Behind fiasco (which Bush at the time considered one of his "signature" pieces of legislature), the Republicans had a majority in both houses of Congress. Which one of Obama's "signature" pieces of legislation did he ask a Republican to write? For that matter, which piece of legislation did Obama ask for Republican input on? Actually ask, not just do so in a press conference but in the actual legislative process.
The problem is there have been far too many overtures to bi-partisanship.
By that I suppose you mean those Democrats who have supported the Republican opposition to health care takeover (which reflects the majority opinion of the American people), since there have been no overtures to bipartisanship from the Democratic leadership.
I had a simple rule in college, any class that had an attendance requirement had little or no actual content. I learned this in my freshman required classes which took a certain percentage off of your grade for every class missed after the first two. Nothing that was covered in lecture/class discussion was needed to ace the tests or to complete the assignments/papers. I took one class after that that did the same. It was completely worthless. After that class, if I signed up for a class and discovered that it had some form of required attendance, I dropped it and signed up for a different class.
I realized that any class where the professor actually taught something, you had to be in class most of the time in order to pass (or at least to get a good grade) because you would miss something you needed to know for a test or to complete an assignment/paper. It was possible to get the information elsewhere, but a lot more work.
Except that if he can't play this game the next time he can't get online and he needs something to do in the meantime, he will remember what you said (even if he doesn't remember when or where he heard it) and realize that Ubisoft did it to him on purpose. The thing is, the next time after that he goes to buy a game he will remember that he can't play Ubisoft games if he loses his Internet connection (even if they have abandoned said DRM by then) and will likely choose not to buy their next game. Of course, he may never have that problem so he will go on buying Ubisoft games, but a significant fraction of game buyers will and Ubisoft will lose customers that it will have trouble getting back.
I do know that I tell my friends that Ubisoft games have "technical" problems (really obtrusive DRM). Those that are tech savvy ask what I mean and decide if that is a show stopper for themselves. Those that aren't keep that in the back of their minds and it influences whether or not they buy Ubisoft games (those that have known me the longest only very rarely buy a computer related product against my advice, they've been burned too often).
So, the manufacturer of your OS and your gaming system (which is the same company and one known for supporting DRM that interferes with the user) suggested that you use a particular software (that they produce) to do something. Oh yeah, this is a manufacturer known for promoting end user lock in as part of their business plan. So, of course, they are surely a reliable, unbiased source on the best way to do something.
Ah, but if they have written the law correctly (I haven't RTA and since these are politicians I think it is a longshot) you would be able to go to court and get the state court to nullify your debt based on the criminal action of the debt collector. A law written in such a manner would go a long way to stopping the practice (and I am pretty sure it would stand up, I know that several states have laws that if you record a telephone conversation without the other person's knowledge you can be fined several thousand dollars, even if you are calling from another state).
No, but structuring the legal immigration process so that it's darned near impossible to immigrate unless you're highly-educated is.
Most people who want to see stronger efforts to prevent illegal immigration agree with you. They want to see the government crack down on illegal immigration and then as a separate process expand opportunities for legal immigration. It can't be done as a single process because if it is Congress will use it slip in immediate amnesty for illegal immigrants already here with all the stuff that fixes the problems to come later (and then they either won't allocate any money to implement those provisions or they will just fail to enforce them).
That is a different (although related) problem. Fixing that problem is the answer to those who say that we need the labor of illegal immigrants (for whatever reason they come up with). If we need the labor of illegal immigrants, then we need to change the law so that those workers can and will enter the country legally. I happen to believe that much stronger efforts should be put into limiting illegal immigration and significant steps should be put into place to allow speed up and simplify the process allowing legal immigration.
One of the annoying things is that (like in so many other areas) efforts implemented in response to demands from the public to reduce illegal immigration have often had minimal impact on illegal immigrants but created significant problems for those immigrants who obeyed the law.
No, the move to lower pwoer lighting is so that the companies that make them can make more profit. The reason that the U.S. Congress essentially outlawed future sales of incandescent light bulbs is because all of the patents on incandescent light bulbs have expired and the big companies couldn't make lots of money on them. While the "energy efficient" bulbs are all patent encumbered so you have to license the technology from the patent holder, which means the companies can get greater profit margins on them.
Whether the use of the Playstation was moderated or not was left up to the parents. What I think this study shows is that a Playstation is more distracting from studying than other leisure activity options and therefore requires greater parental moderation than other behaviors. Although, now that I have written that, it may, also, be that parents are more likely to moderate other behaviors that are as (or more) likely to prove a distraction from study (TV watching comes to mind).
This study is one that is probably not overall terribly useful, but may improve parenting by those parents who care about their kids but have never thought about how much time video games chew up.
She was also a campaign worker for Jim Webb in Virginia. The Coffee Party shares office space with another Democratic Party organization. The founder of the Coffee Party also laid out the proposal for the Coffee Party at a convention for Democratic Party activists before she started the Coffee Party.
The Coffee Party is organized top down. The Tea Parties are generally occurring as local groups decide to hold protests. The Tea Party isn't run by anyone because it is not a single organization. There is no national Tea Party organization (although several people have tried to form one, Dick Armey among them).
All it takes is one malicious kid, who likes credit card numbers, waiting for a haircut and firing up nmap and pull down the customer DB, or fire up Metasploit.
That would only do that kid any good if the salon keeps the customer credit card numbers in their database. What competitive advantage does the salon gain from storing their customers' credit card numbers? I bet it would cost them a lot less than $50 to not store their customers' credit card numbers
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Blue-dog Democrats are Democrats who know they can't get elected from their district if they show their true colors.
The Republican Party has suggested several steps to reform the healthcare system, but the Democratic leadership doesn't like them because they don't expand the power of the federal government.
The Coffee Party is an organization whose sole purpose is to get Democrats elected, preferably Democrats who favor big government.
This ruling probably is a good reading of the law as it currently is written. I can think of several possible problems with this interpretation of the law, but I can see it as correct.
However, it destroys the theory behind the markets. In the ideal market, everybody has perfect knowledge which means they trade accordingly. The information that this ruling says is protected from distribution is important information about the correct pricing of stocks on the market. This ruling therefore insists that the market be imperfect. Imperfections in the market are one of the key reasons for market bubbles.
I can see in my mind exactly why this ruling encourages economic disruptions, but I am tired and every attempt I have made to express those ideas doesn't come out clearly.
Where has the left ever improved the lot of the downtrodden and needy?
You said that the Republican Congress was not more bipartisan than the current Democratic Congress. One is more than zero. So, yes it was more bipartisan. Actually I believe that there were several other major bills with Democrat involvement but it isn't worth my time to research it.
If Obama has accepted Republican contributions to any of his major legislative initiatives please enlighten me. No Child Left Behind was in the first 14 months of the Bush Administration so it is comparable.
You are saying that democracy functions by passing bills that are so large that nobody knows everything that is in them?
I expect my representative to know what is in a bill before he or she votes to make it law. If you don't know everything that is in the bill, how do you know if the clause that is important to you will actually take affect? Maybe some other clause will make it null?
If it is just regulation of insurance companies, what is there to "pay for"?
That's because in the U.S. left is currently defined as favoring increased government power. In Europe there are no major political parties that do not openly favor increasing government power in one way or another.
It's over 2,000 pages. That is longer than War & Peace. It isn't finished, that means that nobody knows what will be in it when it is finished, assuming anybody knows what is in it now. With the size of this bill, there is no way that anyone understands how the different parts of it will interact. Why not take it apart and pass it as a bunch of separate bills that are small enough that people can understand what they do?
Obviously, because there are things in there that people would never accept.
If the government isn't running anything, what is it spending $960 billion on?
How do you get that a bill that is over 2,000 pages is "the minimum that can be done" on any issue?
Really? I haven't seen any reports of support for the bill exceeding 36% or opposition below 46%.
Excuse me, when George W. Bush had Teddy Kennedy write the No Child Left Behind fiasco (which Bush at the time considered one of his "signature" pieces of legislature), the Republicans had a majority in both houses of Congress. Which one of Obama's "signature" pieces of legislation did he ask a Republican to write? For that matter, which piece of legislation did Obama ask for Republican input on? Actually ask, not just do so in a press conference but in the actual legislative process.
The problem is there have been far too many overtures to bi-partisanship.
By that I suppose you mean those Democrats who have supported the Republican opposition to health care takeover (which reflects the majority opinion of the American people), since there have been no overtures to bipartisanship from the Democratic leadership.
The problem is that the Lord of the Rings was the sequel to The Hobbit.
I had a simple rule in college, any class that had an attendance requirement had little or no actual content. I learned this in my freshman required classes which took a certain percentage off of your grade for every class missed after the first two. Nothing that was covered in lecture/class discussion was needed to ace the tests or to complete the assignments/papers. I took one class after that that did the same. It was completely worthless. After that class, if I signed up for a class and discovered that it had some form of required attendance, I dropped it and signed up for a different class.
I realized that any class where the professor actually taught something, you had to be in class most of the time in order to pass (or at least to get a good grade) because you would miss something you needed to know for a test or to complete an assignment/paper. It was possible to get the information elsewhere, but a lot more work.
Except that if he can't play this game the next time he can't get online and he needs something to do in the meantime, he will remember what you said (even if he doesn't remember when or where he heard it) and realize that Ubisoft did it to him on purpose. The thing is, the next time after that he goes to buy a game he will remember that he can't play Ubisoft games if he loses his Internet connection (even if they have abandoned said DRM by then) and will likely choose not to buy their next game. Of course, he may never have that problem so he will go on buying Ubisoft games, but a significant fraction of game buyers will and Ubisoft will lose customers that it will have trouble getting back.
I do know that I tell my friends that Ubisoft games have "technical" problems (really obtrusive DRM). Those that are tech savvy ask what I mean and decide if that is a show stopper for themselves. Those that aren't keep that in the back of their minds and it influences whether or not they buy Ubisoft games (those that have known me the longest only very rarely buy a computer related product against my advice, they've been burned too often).
So, the manufacturer of your OS and your gaming system (which is the same company and one known for supporting DRM that interferes with the user) suggested that you use a particular software (that they produce) to do something. Oh yeah, this is a manufacturer known for promoting end user lock in as part of their business plan. So, of course, they are surely a reliable, unbiased source on the best way to do something.
Ah, but if they have written the law correctly (I haven't RTA and since these are politicians I think it is a longshot) you would be able to go to court and get the state court to nullify your debt based on the criminal action of the debt collector. A law written in such a manner would go a long way to stopping the practice (and I am pretty sure it would stand up, I know that several states have laws that if you record a telephone conversation without the other person's knowledge you can be fined several thousand dollars, even if you are calling from another state).
No, but structuring the legal immigration process so that it's darned near impossible to immigrate unless you're highly-educated is.
Most people who want to see stronger efforts to prevent illegal immigration agree with you. They want to see the government crack down on illegal immigration and then as a separate process expand opportunities for legal immigration. It can't be done as a single process because if it is Congress will use it slip in immediate amnesty for illegal immigrants already here with all the stuff that fixes the problems to come later (and then they either won't allocate any money to implement those provisions or they will just fail to enforce them).
That is a different (although related) problem. Fixing that problem is the answer to those who say that we need the labor of illegal immigrants (for whatever reason they come up with). If we need the labor of illegal immigrants, then we need to change the law so that those workers can and will enter the country legally. I happen to believe that much stronger efforts should be put into limiting illegal immigration and significant steps should be put into place to allow speed up and simplify the process allowing legal immigration.
One of the annoying things is that (like in so many other areas) efforts implemented in response to demands from the public to reduce illegal immigration have often had minimal impact on illegal immigrants but created significant problems for those immigrants who obeyed the law.
No, the move to lower pwoer lighting is so that the companies that make them can make more profit. The reason that the U.S. Congress essentially outlawed future sales of incandescent light bulbs is because all of the patents on incandescent light bulbs have expired and the big companies couldn't make lots of money on them. While the "energy efficient" bulbs are all patent encumbered so you have to license the technology from the patent holder, which means the companies can get greater profit margins on them.
Whether the use of the Playstation was moderated or not was left up to the parents. What I think this study shows is that a Playstation is more distracting from studying than other leisure activity options and therefore requires greater parental moderation than other behaviors. Although, now that I have written that, it may, also, be that parents are more likely to moderate other behaviors that are as (or more) likely to prove a distraction from study (TV watching comes to mind).
This study is one that is probably not overall terribly useful, but may improve parenting by those parents who care about their kids but have never thought about how much time video games chew up.
She was also a campaign worker for Jim Webb in Virginia. The Coffee Party shares office space with another Democratic Party organization. The founder of the Coffee Party also laid out the proposal for the Coffee Party at a convention for Democratic Party activists before she started the Coffee Party.
The Coffee Party is organized top down. The Tea Parties are generally occurring as local groups decide to hold protests. The Tea Party isn't run by anyone because it is not a single organization. There is no national Tea Party organization (although several people have tried to form one, Dick Armey among them).
All it takes is one malicious kid, who likes credit card numbers, waiting for a haircut and firing up nmap and pull down the customer DB, or fire up Metasploit.
That would only do that kid any good if the salon keeps the customer credit card numbers in their database. What competitive advantage does the salon gain from storing their customers' credit card numbers? I bet it would cost them a lot less than $50 to not store their customers' credit card numbers