Getting nit-picky about the page count is silly though, since obviously font size matters. I think the comment on redundancy is a good point though, so maybe its not *that* big, assuming nobody snuck anything in the sections that were supposed to just be redundant modifications to existing legislature.
Feminists groups are a special interest group. They vote for democrats. Thus any bill that forces men to pay for women while still keeping intact the laws that allow women to not pay for men is pandering to feminists groups.
Still, the context of a lot of these modifications don't make any sense without the original document side-by-side.
SEC. 1601. INCREASED FUNDING AND FLEXIBILITY TO FIGHT FRAUD AND ABUSE.
(a) In General- Section 1817(k) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i(k)) is amended
(1) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
'(7) ADDITIONAL FUNDING- In addition to the funds otherwise appropriated to the Account from the Trust Fund under paragraphs (3) and (4) and for purposes described in paragraphs (3)(C) and (4)(A), there are hereby appropriated an additional $100,000,000 to such Account from such Trust Fund for each fiscal year beginning with 2011. The funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be allocated in the same proportion as the total funding appropriated with respect to paragraphs (3)(A) and (4)(A) was allocated with respect to fiscal year 2010, and shall be available without further appropriation until expended.'.
(2) in paragraph (4)(A)
(A) by inserting 'for activities described in paragraph (3)(C) and' after 'necessary'; and
(B) by inserting 'until expended' after 'appropriation'.
People of the financial industry
People of the legal industry
Businessmen (or women of course)
Engineers know how to look at a problem, do the math, and fix it (and its not necessarily a math problem). These people on the other hand *might* know how, but they do not have to know how in order to be successful at what they do. This is especially true for any candidate who "made his money in the stock market" or has a job title that ends in "banker". Lawyers are just experts of existing law, not experts at writing them (some top RTS game experts are terrible at making suggestions for improving gameplay).
Also, when you make bill this long and give this short time notice, nobody is going to read the whole thing. Your mind just falls asleep after a while. Its just not humanly possible.
An abortion isn't going to break the bank. Yes it is expensive, but it's cost is also relatively fixed. So here's a thought, if your poor and can't afford one nor can't afford a baby, then don't be unsafely whoring around. It makes sense. Stupid people will whore around anyways, but at least the public won't be paying for their idiocy to destroy a fetus, only to raise the fetus into a child that hopefully learns not to be an idiot like their mom. This isn't like out-lawing abortions, nobody sane is going to stab themselves with a coat hanger and put their life at risk just to save $8 thousand dollars or whatever it costs.
That 4% number are the remaining republicans after this is enacted (page 1,673, paragraph 4, sentence 2: "no person of the republican party is allowed health insurance").
Lets all run for political office ASAP. We're engineers, we know concepts like coupling, modularity, KISS, and all that other stuff that an mortgage broker, investment banker, and lawyer wouldn't understand. I would be totally for this bill if I didn't have the (most likely correct) suspicion that there is a lot wrong with it that could had been avoided if it was a lot smaller and to the point, and most of all, FAIR!!!!!
So surely this bill, which makes it illegal to charge more for being a woman, also makes it illegal to charge more for being a man with car insurance and life insurance. Right? I mean, god forbid the democrats come up with a good idea and poorly execute it or create unfair exceptions that favor special interest groups that voted them in like they always do. So who read more than 100 of the 1,990 pages of this thing before voting? How do you even summarize something so simply in a matter of a few paragraphs, then someone manage to bloat that to 1,990 pages? Obviously there is a LOT more to this bill than what has hit the press releases.
Well, countdown until this article gets over a 1,000 comments and only the top few become the ones actually read...
Yes and no, it would be considered a module of the engine if you will. If programmed correctly, the interfaces should be such that you can swap out one method of networking with another and the game wouldn't know the difference. You should be able to completely spoof being networked at all and have no issues. If programmed incorrectly (like gears of war and gears of war 2), then the core engine and network could be coupled together in a way that it is not easy to modify the netcode without breaking something fundamental to the game engine.
Yes, I'm pretty sure that knowing that someone is going to murder someone and not doing something about it is in itself a crime. Realistically though, you wouldn't know, but I think if someone walks into a gun shop and says they're going to buy a gun so they can shoot some body, then you cannot sell them the weapon even if they appear to be just joking.
Your one of those people who shakes their fist angrily at every driver who passes them because you're going 54 in a 55 mph zone and the flow of traffic is 62, aren't you?
Bingo, and don't forget the organized crime known as BAR exams designed to cut into the supply of doctors and nurses available (as well as lawyers and other professions as well). Imagine how much us Computer Scientists would be earning out of college if we had to take a BAR exam after graduating that would pass only 50% of the test takers regardless of how well they actually performed?
Odd, that describes the stomach flu I got earlier in the week. Woke up with a fever and nausia, had it the whole day. Woke up the next day and no fever nor symptoms other than being really tired that morning probably from the medicine I took the prior night. The only reason I didn't go to work that morning (I did the afternoon) was because I was skeptical I was actually that much better.
Nah, the instructions are missing a reference to an obscure library somewhere that the user was some how already supposed to have with no link as to where to download it.
The fees to review your case is minuscule compared to the medical costs right? Many lawyers will review this kind of thing for free because they view a patient walking up to their door and saying "an insurance company is screwing me can you help?" as a multimillion dollar opportunity they don't want to pass up. They might ask for a fee at first, but give them your number and say, "Give me a call if you have the free time to review my case". My advice is to at least call around.
My advice after interning for a consultant is to not hire consultants. Its no coincidence that Dilbert makes fun of them. Imagine someone who sits on their ass and schemes up things to specialize in, and takes projects they have no experience in (at least not enough that any employer would count as "experienced" when looking for people to hire). Imagine an individual whom picks high priced products just because they get more when they resell it with a 25 - 75% mark-up. Now imagine someone who is honest, and imagine how you could possibly tell the difference.
Oh yeah, and most of their business? From the government.
The obvious question will be: once we have a matter-antimatter reactor, how long till we have warp drive, and will the Vulcans show up for a sneak-peak?"
A domain registrar has no excuse for failing. All of their transactions are virtual, require no man power, and always bring in profit. Their overhead is renting out the cheapest building in town (or paying the mortgage on the home they live in) and paying a modest ISP fee that can easily be scaled with the amount of business they get.
My only experience with domain registration is with namecheap (and I highly recommend them). It (for free) has a tool called whoisguard which puts all your personal information as a random string of numbers and letters @whoisguard.com (it also has a free dynamic DNS client so people with non-fixed IPs can update as needed). The e-mail itself still forwards to your real e-mail address, but that random string can get updated weekly to prevent it being sold. Simple to say, I never got a single bit of spam.
Funny thing is, I called up namecheap to verify they were legitimate before registering with them and their answering machine gave me the impression that it was a one-man operation. I'm curious if they really are.
In contrast, I used to intern for a business that did register with their real contact information. Besides getting fax spam and e-mail spam, we also got a scammer who used Sprint TTY to try to get us to order 6 laptops through Dell and mail them to New Jersey.
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Very good point, you wonder why the media doesn't clarify that page count number...
Nope, that wasn't it. Here it is:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3962/text
Getting nit-picky about the page count is silly though, since obviously font size matters. I think the comment on redundancy is a good point though, so maybe its not *that* big, assuming nobody snuck anything in the sections that were supposed to just be redundant modifications to existing legislature.
Feminists groups are a special interest group. They vote for democrats. Thus any bill that forces men to pay for women while still keeping intact the laws that allow women to not pay for men is pandering to feminists groups.
You forgot the huge bonuses for execs for signing so many people up.
Is this HR3200? Then you would be correct, it is not 1,990 pages long. Here I am counting ~730 something pages long:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/text
Still, the context of a lot of these modifications don't make any sense without the original document side-by-side.
SEC. 1601. INCREASED FUNDING AND FLEXIBILITY TO FIGHT FRAUD AND ABUSE.
(a) In General- Section 1817(k) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395i(k)) is amended
(1) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
'(7) ADDITIONAL FUNDING- In addition to the funds otherwise appropriated to the Account from the Trust Fund under paragraphs (3) and (4) and for purposes described in paragraphs (3)(C) and (4)(A), there are hereby appropriated an additional $100,000,000 to such Account from such Trust Fund for each fiscal year beginning with 2011. The funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be allocated in the same proportion as the total funding appropriated with respect to paragraphs (3)(A) and (4)(A) was allocated with respect to fiscal year 2010, and shall be available without further appropriation until expended.'.
(2) in paragraph (4)(A)
(A) by inserting 'for activities described in paragraph (3)(C) and' after 'necessary'; and
(B) by inserting 'until expended' after 'appropriation'.
There aren't any. Most candidates are:
People of the financial industry
People of the legal industry
Businessmen (or women of course)
Engineers know how to look at a problem, do the math, and fix it (and its not necessarily a math problem). These people on the other hand *might* know how, but they do not have to know how in order to be successful at what they do. This is especially true for any candidate who "made his money in the stock market" or has a job title that ends in "banker". Lawyers are just experts of existing law, not experts at writing them (some top RTS game experts are terrible at making suggestions for improving gameplay).
Also, when you make bill this long and give this short time notice, nobody is going to read the whole thing. Your mind just falls asleep after a while. Its just not humanly possible.
An abortion isn't going to break the bank. Yes it is expensive, but it's cost is also relatively fixed. So here's a thought, if your poor and can't afford one nor can't afford a baby, then don't be unsafely whoring around. It makes sense. Stupid people will whore around anyways, but at least the public won't be paying for their idiocy to destroy a fetus, only to raise the fetus into a child that hopefully learns not to be an idiot like their mom. This isn't like out-lawing abortions, nobody sane is going to stab themselves with a coat hanger and put their life at risk just to save $8 thousand dollars or whatever it costs.
"then *somehow manage to bloat that to 1,990 pages"
is what I meant to say.
The factory workers in Detroit had it pretty swank actually.
Crap, you just created an awesome running gag.
That 4% number are the remaining republicans after this is enacted (page 1,673, paragraph 4, sentence 2: "no person of the republican party is allowed health insurance").
Lets all run for political office ASAP. We're engineers, we know concepts like coupling, modularity, KISS, and all that other stuff that an mortgage broker, investment banker, and lawyer wouldn't understand. I would be totally for this bill if I didn't have the (most likely correct) suspicion that there is a lot wrong with it that could had been avoided if it was a lot smaller and to the point, and most of all, FAIR!!!!!
So surely this bill, which makes it illegal to charge more for being a woman, also makes it illegal to charge more for being a man with car insurance and life insurance. Right? I mean, god forbid the democrats come up with a good idea and poorly execute it or create unfair exceptions that favor special interest groups that voted them in like they always do. So who read more than 100 of the 1,990 pages of this thing before voting? How do you even summarize something so simply in a matter of a few paragraphs, then someone manage to bloat that to 1,990 pages? Obviously there is a LOT more to this bill than what has hit the press releases.
Well, countdown until this article gets over a 1,000 comments and only the top few become the ones actually read...
Yes and no, it would be considered a module of the engine if you will. If programmed correctly, the interfaces should be such that you can swap out one method of networking with another and the game wouldn't know the difference. You should be able to completely spoof being networked at all and have no issues. If programmed incorrectly (like gears of war and gears of war 2), then the core engine and network could be coupled together in a way that it is not easy to modify the netcode without breaking something fundamental to the game engine.
Oh hey, I must be the other guy! Nice to finally meet you!
Yes, I'm pretty sure that knowing that someone is going to murder someone and not doing something about it is in itself a crime. Realistically though, you wouldn't know, but I think if someone walks into a gun shop and says they're going to buy a gun so they can shoot some body, then you cannot sell them the weapon even if they appear to be just joking.
Your one of those people who shakes their fist angrily at every driver who passes them because you're going 54 in a 55 mph zone and the flow of traffic is 62, aren't you?
Bingo, and don't forget the organized crime known as BAR exams designed to cut into the supply of doctors and nurses available (as well as lawyers and other professions as well). Imagine how much us Computer Scientists would be earning out of college if we had to take a BAR exam after graduating that would pass only 50% of the test takers regardless of how well they actually performed?
Odd, that describes the stomach flu I got earlier in the week. Woke up with a fever and nausia, had it the whole day. Woke up the next day and no fever nor symptoms other than being really tired that morning probably from the medicine I took the prior night. The only reason I didn't go to work that morning (I did the afternoon) was because I was skeptical I was actually that much better.
Nah, the instructions are missing a reference to an obscure library somewhere that the user was some how already supposed to have with no link as to where to download it.
I really wanted to spend my mod points here but was disappointed nobody pointed this out:
*ahem*
How many other Playboy models feature hideous bug-eyes, a monstrous overbite, chimp-like ears, and freakish bee-hive hair?
And to throw in my own opinion: Remember folks, the picture was drawn by someone who probably resembles comic-book guy! Yeah!
The fees to review your case is minuscule compared to the medical costs right? Many lawyers will review this kind of thing for free because they view a patient walking up to their door and saying "an insurance company is screwing me can you help?" as a multimillion dollar opportunity they don't want to pass up. They might ask for a fee at first, but give them your number and say, "Give me a call if you have the free time to review my case". My advice is to at least call around.
My advice after interning for a consultant is to not hire consultants. Its no coincidence that Dilbert makes fun of them. Imagine someone who sits on their ass and schemes up things to specialize in, and takes projects they have no experience in (at least not enough that any employer would count as "experienced" when looking for people to hire). Imagine an individual whom picks high priced products just because they get more when they resell it with a 25 - 75% mark-up. Now imagine someone who is honest, and imagine how you could possibly tell the difference.
Oh yeah, and most of their business? From the government.
so sue them.
The obvious question will be: once we have a matter-antimatter reactor, how long till we have warp drive, and will the Vulcans show up for a sneak-peak?"
Maybe in a Star Trek convention...
A domain registrar has no excuse for failing. All of their transactions are virtual, require no man power, and always bring in profit. Their overhead is renting out the cheapest building in town (or paying the mortgage on the home they live in) and paying a modest ISP fee that can easily be scaled with the amount of business they get.
My only experience with domain registration is with namecheap (and I highly recommend them). It (for free) has a tool called whoisguard which puts all your personal information as a random string of numbers and letters @whoisguard.com (it also has a free dynamic DNS client so people with non-fixed IPs can update as needed). The e-mail itself still forwards to your real e-mail address, but that random string can get updated weekly to prevent it being sold. Simple to say, I never got a single bit of spam.
Funny thing is, I called up namecheap to verify they were legitimate before registering with them and their answering machine gave me the impression that it was a one-man operation. I'm curious if they really are.
In contrast, I used to intern for a business that did register with their real contact information. Besides getting fax spam and e-mail spam, we also got a scammer who used Sprint TTY to try to get us to order 6 laptops through Dell and mail them to New Jersey.