...Because the McCain-Feingold Law (aka BiPartisan Campaign Reform Act) LIMITS the amount of money an individual doner can give to a candidate (legally, at least). Individuals are allowed to give $2k before a primary and then $2k more after the primary. Corporations get something like a $5k limit.
Of course, where there's a will, there's a way.....
The NRA, for instance, gets around this by getting almost every single one of it's memebers to donate money to candidates in trouble. These donations quickly add up, and are quite influential to candidates. I suspect that this is likely what will happen soon with RIAA. They'll get artists and labels that are mad to donate to candidates.
Just kind of to put this information out there....
Most of those people are incumbents, and the one that got the most money doesn't even chair a committee remotely related to RIAA.
Also, those 'opponents' aren't very likely to get much money, considering the rate of re-election these days. (90% incumbency rate in house, something like 75% in senate). That means that 90% of the time, a house memeber can win an election in his district again if he's the current guy in the seat. This also means that this money isn't likely to swway them one way or the other. (That's what whips are for).
If someone manages to publish their research in a scientific journal, it means that other scientists have already replicated the results of this study.
Of course, one could always question the journal itself....
Current traffic reports just aren't cut out for "real time" traffic updates. Most of the services that provide traffic data just grab their stuff off of police reports on accidents, which provides TREMENDOUS uncertainty about when an accident will be "posted".
When state/local governments get traffic sensors throughout major highways and have decent detours, that is the day when I will want to have that info on me while I am driving (otherwise it's just another accident that will increase my chances of wrecking, and thus, producing a traffic jam).
I can just see this on the committee floor.
*Some rep passes on an Amendment form over to the chairman*
*Chairman recieves form*
Chair: We have an amendment proposed before us. Will the clerk please read the amendment?
Clerk: Amendment #17 proposed by -
Rep: Mr. Chairman, I propose we dispense with any further reading. I just made this bill apply only to spam, defined as a source of email sent to over 2,000 email addresses daily.
*30 minutes later*....
Chair: The clerk will read the results of the motion to report the bill.
Clerk: Ayes: All - Nays: 0
Well, I might not know much about radioactive decay, but what I do know is that radiation emits Hydrogen atoms (might be helium, I kinda forgot). Now, if these 'shrooms really do eat up radiation, that would imply that they have some sort of chemical process to "eat" hydrogen (or possibly combine said atoms into other elements). The odds of said reaction are pretty slim, I believe.
If anything, the shrooms might (although unlikely) be able to combine two hydrogen atoms with an Oxygen atom to form, you guessed it, Water. But even that would be a bit of a stretch I think.
I believe that executives (especially those that have worked their way to the top) would not have a very short attention span. To the contrary, they can see the big picture and work their way towards their ultimate goal.
However, I also believe that people who work would be much more productive if they felt they got some form of enjoyment out of what they're doing. Isn't that why Ben Franklin (I think) said something along the lines of 'The day you get a job that you really like is the day you get your last paycheck'?
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Of course, where there's a will, there's a way.....
The NRA, for instance, gets around this by getting almost every single one of it's memebers to donate money to candidates in trouble. These donations quickly add up, and are quite influential to candidates. I suspect that this is likely what will happen soon with RIAA. They'll get artists and labels that are mad to donate to candidates.
I just hope that that day will never come....
Most of those people are incumbents, and the one that got the most money doesn't even chair a committee remotely related to RIAA.
Also, those 'opponents' aren't very likely to get much money, considering the rate of re-election these days. (90% incumbency rate in house, something like 75% in senate). That means that 90% of the time, a house memeber can win an election in his district again if he's the current guy in the seat. This also means that this money isn't likely to swway them one way or the other. (That's what whips are for).
Of course, one could always question the journal itself....
Current traffic reports just aren't cut out for "real time" traffic updates. Most of the services that provide traffic data just grab their stuff off of police reports on accidents, which provides TREMENDOUS uncertainty about when an accident will be "posted".
When state/local governments get traffic sensors throughout major highways and have decent detours, that is the day when I will want to have that info on me while I am driving (otherwise it's just another accident that will increase my chances of wrecking, and thus, producing a traffic jam).
I can just see this on the committee floor. *Some rep passes on an Amendment form over to the chairman* *Chairman recieves form* Chair: We have an amendment proposed before us. Will the clerk please read the amendment? Clerk: Amendment #17 proposed by - Rep: Mr. Chairman, I propose we dispense with any further reading. I just made this bill apply only to spam, defined as a source of email sent to over 2,000 email addresses daily. *30 minutes later* ....
Chair: The clerk will read the results of the motion to report the bill.
Clerk: Ayes: All - Nays: 0
Well, I might not know much about radioactive decay, but what I do know is that radiation emits Hydrogen atoms (might be helium, I kinda forgot). Now, if these 'shrooms really do eat up radiation, that would imply that they have some sort of chemical process to "eat" hydrogen (or possibly combine said atoms into other elements). The odds of said reaction are pretty slim, I believe. If anything, the shrooms might (although unlikely) be able to combine two hydrogen atoms with an Oxygen atom to form, you guessed it, Water. But even that would be a bit of a stretch I think.
I believe that executives (especially those that have worked their way to the top) would not have a very short attention span. To the contrary, they can see the big picture and work their way towards their ultimate goal. However, I also believe that people who work would be much more productive if they felt they got some form of enjoyment out of what they're doing. Isn't that why Ben Franklin (I think) said something along the lines of 'The day you get a job that you really like is the day you get your last paycheck'?