I own a tiny shop, I require everyone to read slashdot 3 times a day for 20 minutes each. ( 1 hour total ).
Why, real simple, knowledge equals growth. I spend 2 years lurking, just learning. I got to say slashdot gives the best education for every stupid line you write.
Plus the shared knowledge of the community gives me the edge up on others. So, yes, slashdot should be a required reading at all firms that are in the tech field.
Ahh it's good to see the old great habit's still alive. I had a c-64 and would rewrite part's of Ea's graphic routines to increase the spead of them. then I would work on cool stuff for the c-64.
To the outside viewer, code optimizing is most likely to be viewed as magic than anything else. Very few people I know could reduce code on the 6502 like myself. And those few I met back then ( 1983 (84 maybe ) onwards were highly gifted and they made optimizing code seem like magic.
your thinking incorrectly, since it is already know that my P.O. Box is avalible without the paid services, it's safe to use your credit card that goes to the same P.O. box.
the thing I am looking for is the home address. the less of that is out thier the less of a chance I will be fully known.
that's not the point, the data of a corrilating name, with address, with/or po box, to IP addresss and age is perfect for marketers.
the data is worth $20+ or more. because they will be able to say IP# 24.123.256.21 is cable modem in new england, human person with the age of XY, then if they can then cookie you, you'll be tagged for life.
no that's not true, I make it a habit of checking to see how much of my identitity is on the internet via search engines and the payable search companies. With search engines:
average you can only get my name and po box. no SS# yet, no physical address yet, and not tel#
with paid services: name, po box, sometimes address if it's correct.
I called my credit card sompany and told the guy I want to have my card checked for signature with a passport or Drivers liscense, then I want the phone calls I make to them to confirm a few things, I ask for a list of things they coudl ask 1) date of birth 2) if a po box then the real address 3) telephone Number matching 4) LAST 4 digit's of your SS number 5) e-mail address if you have one for your CC
and the list went on.
Something is not right when someone ask you for the last 4 digit's of your SS#. I hope it's not a con.
Rather good question. Let me best state that this question was asked of me 27 years ago, I had to answer the question.
When Braille was designed, it was a lone project of a determined young adult. raised typing and ink used was not as good as it is now. Punched holes in the manner that he designed was a rather upgraded idea from another inventor. the other inventor idea did not have enough "vision" into the problem. I believe the other idea was the Morse code idea, but I can not recall.
What gave this young adult his advantage is that when he lost his sight at a relitive older age, he had gained some knowledge of leatherworking and shoe making. Both craft require rather touch sensitive work ( try crafting a shoe w/o feeling the edges and the conformity of the stich )
Also it did not hurt that he was a driven person that had a desire to success at making something that was cheap and easy to work with. From what I recall, the developement of the Braille system was mocked by the people whom where his teachers and took a small while for acceptance. but when it caught on it gave great hope to many blind people.
true the surrender of the Dutch was done to save the lives of many and to keep the fight for another day.
another note, most people don't understand why Switzerland was never invaded. let me make a quick point.
prior and durring WWII the average men of Switzerland can outshoot at long distances more than most folks. They are a nation of sharpshooters. Estimations of death ratios for an invation were pegged at 8 to 1 to 15 to 1 ( Nazi's killed before they got to the shooter ) by the top commaders, it was that fear, along with other thoughts that the Nazi's said nope.
If you ever get a chance to hike the mountains and villages of switzerland you'll notice that the country leads itself to being on hell of a fortress. cross fire kill zones abound everywhere where a six man team could keep 3 KM of roads stopped for almost all the time if they really wanted to. not a place that I would enjoy trying to break the defenses.
That really does not matter. Using current US law in transportation, forbids the trans-shipment of illegal goods in US ports. So a legal medical treatment in Britain, bound for Canada ( where it's also legal ) can not be routed via a port in the USA ( which many carriers would like to do).
a Nation can, for all reasons, demand that traffic passing within thier boarders, behave in the manner they deam suitable.
Also Panama is a huge hub in the scope of the internet ( given it's not as big as miami, but it's huge just the same )
the big hum for central and south america is Maimi FL. and Houston TX. Miami has pipes directly to Panama, Sau Pualo Brazil, Columbia ( east coast ), Venezuala, Argentina. any carrier that needs links to those coutries from the pacific route needs to route from Hawaii or LA to Panama hub then spoke to the above nations.
>>Red dots appearing out of nowhere can also spook people into thinking that they're being targeted with a laser gun sight. And if you're a police officer (or the Maryland-DC area with the recent plague of random sniper attacks) that might not be an entirely unreasonable fear.)
A not so funny insident happened with me last year in a bar full of cops in Newark. An officer flashed a red laser beam into the bar from outside the window and had it pointed to one of the police officers chest. The beam was passing from behind my ear to the officer. I found myself at the mercy of 2 guns ( looked like a million of them ) pointed in my direction and about 5 other police officers moving towards me, thank god they notice something and did not shoot me. as it turned out, it was some higher ranking officer making a joke.
It got funnier, when I asked for the bar survalence tape and the bar became rather hushed.
Thier is nothing worst than looking down the barrels of guns wondering if you are going to make it to have the next sip of beer.
Don't know about boston, but in New York City it is illegal to take photographs inside of the subway cars or on subway platforms.
As for the photos you did for the RHPS, if they are not for retail sales then you don't have to get the consent of the audience. but like the famous photographer that does nubes of people in large masses, he get's every one to sign a consent form.
if you take a picture of someone on the street and they get hot, just give them the film. In NYC it's easy to get a hostile person.
> 50kw AM stations from Chicago, which is about 800 miles away.
No offense, but that is a rare location you are at. I bet if you moved 10 miles from where you are at you could not pick it up.
the signal bounce off the sky has to be just right for that to happen. Search the dial a bit I bet you might find more that one station that is off the transmitter in chicago.
I sometimes pick up radio station from very far away ( I'm in NJ ), on real empty spaces of the dial.
you should try to find the transmitter and then plot the days that you get chicago and the days you don't.
yes desired color, but I saved a small bit becasue I called in a favor from a third party that gave me a formal introduction to the firm HW.
Graff is a good firm also and have many nice items but you can not ( atleast up to 2 year ago, request that stones come from the USA and they will not deal in synthetics even for custom made orders )
Also, depending on whom you know or where you associate would advise that you have a custom duplicate of the jewlery you bought your wife ( using CZ's of course ) so as not to have the risk of theft happen. you would be surprised how this will protect you if you are ever carjacked or your house is robbed ( the fakes are the ones you leave in the dresser jewel box )
you can safely estimate that the CZ / glass imitations will cost you:
original true jewlery = 25K cost custom duplicate = 7% of the true, + material, + craftmanship labor ( about 5% of the true items cost )
also report that you do this with the insurance company and you get an extra 10% to 30% savings.
>>Note: Go to a flower shop across campus (assuming you are in college), and walk back to her room with a rose in your hand. You will attract more women than you ever thought possible. And think, they know that you are taken, and they are still interested.
Oh how true that is, but it's better in an office, I would give my assistant flowers every Tuseday morning for her desk, but I would have to pass about 200 feet of open space to get to her. gave her the flowers with a smile and she would always return the smile back. we never let onto the gag with anybody else, and I always had some woman in my building free to take me to lunch ( what me pay? )
Well the problem is that when you want a specific type of diamond it becomes harder to buy in north america. I just recently bought a 6.5 carret yellow diamond for my wife ( 7 year aniversy and we know each other for 19 years ). she always wanted one. She made alot of sacrafices for the family and has been always at my side. so I ended up going to HW in NY to buy it. cost a fortune but the smile she has when she places it on her finger remind me of our first time we met in high school. So for me it was well worth it and I was willing to buy a diamond that did not come from North america.
Also in north america we can get opals and saphires of rather good quality. In maryland, there is a company that makes synthetic rubies of the highest grade.
Not only are you correct, but the USA and Canada had to institute some major changes in ballast water changing.
For those not following, Ballast water is used to stablize the vessel by providing dead weight at key points. when a vessel enters a different density water they swap the water out for the new density.
currently what the government of the USA and Canada are requesting is that all ballast water be filtered, and that the first change of water should be 6 to 12 miles off shore. And changing water in the seas is a high risk because the vessel will be slightly unstable.
FORTH, come on that one I still here about, how about Prolog ( bordland or delphi made some compliers for is back in the late 80's or 90's
Modula-2 or Ada or Logo I have not seen a wisper about in years. from what I recall Logo was to be the teaching lauguage of the future ( back in the mid 80's ), Ada was to be the next big thing is the 80's, and modula-2 was to replace C
Go right ahead, drop the bomb on our heads. we would think it's just another fireworks display.
I guess you never been to NJ, home of the Toxic Avenger, home of some of the best superfund sites, and yes Jimmy Hoffa is under Giant Stadium somewhere.
Nobody in NJ would even notice that you dropped it, If anything the large hole you would make would be converted into a rather large public pool or roman hot bath.
Funny and sad, If this come true ( which I doubt ), you will then see the formation of network content peering groups, then if you want to join that group you will have to pay for the right to access there content.
then only AOL clients will see AOL content ( indepenent sites will be shut out because they have to pay to get the peering ) MSN Earthlink... All private data exchanges.
I happen to disagree with your point #2 "The "overseas outsourcing" threat is nothing more than that -- a threat. The majority of companies who've tried it will readily admit that the outsource projects were exercises in headaches and fuck-ups. The language barrier is a huge problem, as is the need for geographical proximity to ensure the project is managed well. Most companies will outsource bits and pieces, but NOT entire projects "
I use off shore labor for e-mail tech support, Why? it only cost me $200 per month for a person to work a 6 day week 9 hours per day, at that rate, I have a full staff covering e-mail's almost 24/7/365 for less than $1000 per month. if I did that local, it would cost me close to $ 6000.
Now the best part is that they answer the question well and rarely has an e-mail been fowarded to us here in the states. Currently I think the rate is 1 in every 290.
Now I also used off shore labor for my web designs, database designs and a few other things. cost savings alone were 80% or more.
yes I do recall some problems, Like you mentioned the communication problems are sometimes bad when you are talking web site designs but when you set enough time in a project and take into account these things, then you don't have to worry about it.
the only time I use american labor is when I need something done on the overnight. Then I have to pay tons and, I have found that the quality of those that I have contracted here in the states to be average or equal to the oversea's quality.
Amen brother. My father had forbidden me to drive ( even thou I bought My own car ) untill he could teach me how to drive in the snow and ice. for 3 days straight at the age of 16 in the middle of a cold snap my father took me down to the warehouse district and made me learn controlled spins and slides fast braking and double clutching ( this is before antilock brakes )
to this day I can thank my dad, I have had too toss the car into a slide once to get out of the way of a stop light runner, Drive on grass when a pileup happened infront of me. forced my car sideways when a truck was overtaking me (legally ) on a turn and he overturned ( another truck was overtaking him and nipped him ).
Oh yes I drive in NJ, where the worst drivers are at.
No Atlanta drivers are arather normal, Try driving on the NJ turnpike or try driving on the Long Island Expressway. No that's insanity. Heck even manhatten drives are sane in comparision to NJ turnpike drivers.
I use to do a run from the GW bridge to Newark everyday. started at 8 am got to the office at 9 am. Now I leave at 11am and get in the office at 11:22 and I don't even get upset. I've asked all my employee to change there times as well and they are happy with less stress commute.
That is if all goes well, but the truth get's weird about BGP. Last month, with the Mae-East part of Genuity going down ( for about 3 hours ) our BGP kicked in and had packet loss of about 12% to 20%, Why? Weird peering agreements.
During those 3 hours I had the joy of running traceroutes all over the nation and watching the interaction of different carriers. it was weird to watch traffic start with one carrier go on then hit genuity then jump off to another carrier and then make it to the web servers. ( sometimes from the other side of the world LOL )
I'm just a bill, yes, I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill, Well, it's a long, long journey to the Capitol City, It's a long, long wait while I'm sitting in committee, But I know I'll be a law someday, At least I hope and pray that I will, But today I'm still just a bill. I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I got as far as Capitol Hill. Well now I'm stuck in committee and I sit here and wait While a few key congressmen discuss and debate whether they should let me be a law, how I hope and pray that they will, but today I am still just a bill.
I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and if they vote for me on Capitol Hill, well then I'm off to the White House Where I'll wait in a line with a lot of other bills For the president to sign. And if he signs me then I'll be a law. How I hope and pray that he will, but today I am still just a bill.
(Spoken): Congressman: He signed you, Bill! Now you're a law!
Slashdot Mirror
I own a tiny shop, I require everyone to read slashdot 3 times a day for 20 minutes each. ( 1 hour total ).
Why, real simple, knowledge equals growth. I spend 2 years lurking, just learning. I got to say slashdot gives the best education for every stupid line you write.
Plus the shared knowledge of the community gives me the edge up on others. So, yes, slashdot should be a required reading at all firms that are in the tech field.
Onepoint
Ahh it's good to see the old great habit's still alive. I had a c-64 and would rewrite part's of Ea's graphic routines to increase the spead of them. then I would work on cool stuff for the c-64.
To the outside viewer, code optimizing is most likely to be viewed as magic than anything else. Very few people I know could reduce code on the 6502 like myself. And those few I met back then ( 1983 (84 maybe ) onwards were highly gifted and they made optimizing code seem like magic.
Onepoint
your thinking incorrectly,
since it is already know that my P.O. Box is avalible without the paid services, it's safe to use your credit card that goes to the same P.O. box.
the thing I am looking for is the home address. the less of that is out thier the less of a chance I will be fully known.
that's not the point, the data of a corrilating name, with address, with/or po box, to IP addresss and age is perfect for marketers.
the data is worth $20+ or more. because they will be able to say IP# 24.123.256.21 is cable modem in new england, human person with the age of XY, then if they can then cookie you, you'll be tagged for life.
no that's not true, I make it a habit of checking to see how much of my identitity is on the internet via search engines and the payable search companies. :
:
With search engines
average you can only get my name and po box. no SS# yet, no physical address yet, and not tel#
with paid services
name, po box, sometimes address if it's correct.
me
well to wonder or not, this is what I did,
I called my credit card sompany and told the guy I want to have my card checked for signature with a passport or Drivers liscense, then I want the phone calls I make to them to confirm a few things, I ask for a list of things they coudl ask
1) date of birth
2) if a po box then the real address
3) telephone Number matching
4) LAST 4 digit's of your SS number
5) e-mail address if you have one for your CC
and the list went on.
Something is not right when someone ask you for the last 4 digit's of your SS#. I hope it's not a con.
Mike
Rather good question. Let me best state that this question was asked of me 27 years ago, I had to answer the question.
When Braille was designed, it was a lone project of a determined young adult. raised typing and ink used was not as good as it is now. Punched holes in the manner that he designed was a rather upgraded idea from another inventor. the other inventor idea did not have enough "vision" into the problem. I believe the other idea was the Morse code idea, but I can not recall.
What gave this young adult his advantage is that when he lost his sight at a relitive older age, he had gained some knowledge of leatherworking and shoe making. Both craft require rather touch sensitive work ( try crafting a shoe w/o feeling the edges and the conformity of the stich )
Also it did not hurt that he was a driven person that had a desire to success at making something that was cheap and easy to work with. From what I recall, the developement of the Braille system was mocked by the people whom where his teachers and took a small while for acceptance. but when it caught on it gave great hope to many blind people.
true the surrender of the Dutch was done to save the lives of many and to keep the fight for another day.
another note, most people don't understand why Switzerland was never invaded. let me make a quick point.
prior and durring WWII the average men of Switzerland can outshoot at long distances more than most folks. They are a nation of sharpshooters. Estimations of death ratios for an invation were pegged at 8 to 1 to 15 to 1 ( Nazi's killed before they got to the shooter ) by the top commaders, it was that fear, along with other thoughts that the Nazi's said nope.
If you ever get a chance to hike the mountains and villages of switzerland you'll notice that the country leads itself to being on hell of a fortress. cross fire kill zones abound everywhere where a six man team could keep 3 KM of roads stopped for almost all the time if they really wanted to. not a place that I would enjoy trying to break the defenses.
Mike
That really does not matter. Using current US law in transportation, forbids the trans-shipment of illegal goods in US ports. So a legal medical treatment in Britain, bound for Canada ( where it's also legal ) can not be routed via a port in the USA ( which many carriers would like to do).
a Nation can, for all reasons, demand that traffic passing within thier boarders, behave in the manner they deam suitable.
Also Panama is a huge hub in the scope of the internet ( given it's not as big as miami, but it's huge just the same )
the big hum for central and south america is Maimi FL. and Houston TX. Miami has pipes directly to Panama, Sau Pualo Brazil, Columbia ( east coast ), Venezuala, Argentina. any carrier that needs links to those coutries from the pacific route needs to route from Hawaii or LA to Panama hub then spoke to the above nations.
>>Red dots appearing out of nowhere can also spook people into thinking that they're being targeted with a laser gun sight. And if you're a police officer (or the Maryland-DC area with the recent plague of random sniper attacks) that might not be an entirely unreasonable fear.)
A not so funny insident happened with me last year in a bar full of cops in Newark. An officer flashed a red laser beam into the bar from outside the window and had it pointed to one of the police officers chest. The beam was passing from behind my ear to the officer. I found myself at the mercy of 2 guns ( looked like a million of them ) pointed in my direction and about 5 other police officers moving towards me, thank god they notice something and did not shoot me. as it turned out, it was some higher ranking officer making a joke.
It got funnier, when I asked for the bar survalence tape and the bar became rather hushed.
Thier is nothing worst than looking down the barrels of guns wondering if you are going to make it to have the next sip of beer.
Don't know about boston, but in New York City it is illegal to take photographs inside of the subway cars or on subway platforms.
As for the photos you did for the RHPS, if they are not for retail sales then you don't have to get the consent of the audience. but like the famous photographer that does nubes of people in large masses, he get's every one to sign a consent form.
if you take a picture of someone on the street and they get hot, just give them the film. In NYC it's easy to get a hostile person.
> 50kw AM stations from Chicago, which is about 800 miles away.
No offense, but that is a rare location you are at. I bet if you moved 10 miles from where you are at you could not pick it up.
the signal bounce off the sky has to be just right for that to happen. Search the dial a bit I bet you might find more that one station that is off the transmitter in chicago.
I sometimes pick up radio station from very far away ( I'm in NJ ), on real empty spaces of the dial.
you should try to find the transmitter and then plot the days that you get chicago and the days you don't.
onepoint
yes desired color, but I saved a small bit becasue I called in a favor from a third party that gave me a formal introduction to the firm HW.
Graff is a good firm also and have many nice items but you can not ( atleast up to 2 year ago, request that stones come from the USA and they will not deal in synthetics even for custom made orders )
Also, depending on whom you know or where you associate would advise that you have a custom duplicate of the jewlery you bought your wife ( using CZ's of course ) so as not to have the risk of theft happen. you would be surprised how this will protect you if you are ever carjacked or your house is robbed ( the fakes are the ones you leave in the dresser jewel box )
you can safely estimate that the CZ / glass imitations will cost you:
original true jewlery = 25K cost
custom duplicate = 7% of the true, + material, + craftmanship labor ( about 5% of the true items cost )
also report that you do this with the insurance company and you get an extra 10% to 30% savings.
Mike
>>Note: Go to a flower shop across campus (assuming you are in college), and walk back to her room with a rose in your hand. You will attract more women than you ever thought possible. And think, they know that you are taken, and they are still interested.
Oh how true that is, but it's better in an office, I would give my assistant flowers every Tuseday morning for her desk, but I would have to pass about 200 feet of open space to get to her. gave her the flowers with a smile and she would always return the smile back. we never let onto the gag with anybody else, and I always had some woman in my building free to take me to lunch ( what me pay? )
ONEPOINT
Well the problem is that when you want a specific type of diamond it becomes harder to buy in north america. I just recently bought a 6.5 carret yellow diamond for my wife ( 7 year aniversy and we know each other for 19 years ). she always wanted one. She made alot of sacrafices for the family and has been always at my side. so I ended up going to HW in NY to buy it. cost a fortune but the smile she has when she places it on her finger remind me of our first time we met in high school. So for me it was well worth it and I was willing to buy a diamond that did not come from North america.
Also in north america we can get opals and saphires of rather good quality. In maryland, there is a company that makes synthetic rubies of the highest grade.
ONEPOINT
Not only are you correct, but the USA and Canada had to institute some major changes in ballast water changing.
For those not following, Ballast water is used to stablize the vessel by providing dead weight at key points. when a vessel enters a different density water they swap the water out for the new density.
currently what the government of the USA and Canada are requesting is that all ballast water be filtered, and that the first change of water should be 6 to 12 miles off shore. And changing water in the seas is a high risk because the vessel will be slightly unstable.
ONEPOINT
FORTH, come on that one I still here about, how about Prolog ( bordland or delphi made some compliers for is back in the late 80's or 90's
Modula-2 or Ada or Logo I have not seen a wisper about in years. from what I recall Logo was to be the teaching lauguage of the future ( back in the mid 80's ), Ada was to be the next big thing is the 80's, and modula-2 was to replace C
well I guess that never happened
thank you for the memories
ONEPOINT
Go right ahead, drop the bomb on our heads. we would think it's just another fireworks display.
I guess you never been to NJ, home of the Toxic Avenger, home of some of the best superfund sites, and yes Jimmy Hoffa is under Giant Stadium somewhere.
Nobody in NJ would even notice that you dropped it, If anything the large hole you would make would be converted into a rather large public pool or roman hot bath.
what a wonderful read. brings back great memories. What i found interesting was that every message was edited and that there were very few signatures .
ONEPOINT
Funny and sad, If this come true ( which I doubt ), you will then see the formation of network content peering groups, then if you want to join that group you will have to pay for the right to access there content.
... All private data exchanges.
then only AOL clients will see AOL content ( indepenent sites will be shut out because they have to pay to get the peering ) MSN Earthlink
this is really going to be fun.
ONEPOINT
I happen to disagree with your point #2 "The "overseas outsourcing" threat is nothing more than that -- a threat. The majority of companies who've tried it will readily admit that the outsource projects were exercises in headaches and fuck-ups. The language barrier is a huge problem, as is the need for geographical proximity to ensure the project is managed well. Most companies will outsource bits and pieces, but NOT entire projects "
I use off shore labor for e-mail tech support, Why? it only cost me $200 per month for a person to work a 6 day week 9 hours per day, at that rate, I have a full staff covering e-mail's almost 24/7/365 for less than $1000 per month.
if I did that local, it would cost me close to $ 6000.
Now the best part is that they answer the question well and rarely has an e-mail been fowarded to us here in the states. Currently I think the rate is 1 in every 290.
Now I also used off shore labor for my web designs, database designs and a few other things. cost savings alone were 80% or more.
yes I do recall some problems, Like you mentioned the communication problems are sometimes bad when you are talking web site designs but when you set enough time in a project and take into account these things, then you don't have to worry about it.
the only time I use american labor is when I need something done on the overnight. Then I have to pay tons and, I have found that the quality of those that I have contracted here in the states to be average or equal to the oversea's quality.
Mike
Amen brother. My father had forbidden me to drive ( even thou I bought My own car ) untill he could teach me how to drive in the snow and ice. for 3 days straight at the age of 16 in the middle of a cold snap my father took me down to the warehouse district and made me learn controlled spins and slides fast braking and double clutching ( this is before antilock brakes )
to this day I can thank my dad, I have had too toss the car into a slide once to get out of the way of a stop light runner, Drive on grass when a pileup happened infront of me. forced my car sideways when a truck was overtaking me (legally ) on a turn and he overturned ( another truck was overtaking him and nipped him ).
Oh yes I drive in NJ, where the worst drivers are at.
-onepoint
No Atlanta drivers are arather normal, Try driving on the NJ turnpike or try driving on the Long Island Expressway. No that's insanity. Heck even manhatten drives are sane in comparision to NJ turnpike drivers.
I use to do a run from the GW bridge to Newark everyday. started at 8 am got to the office at 9 am. Now I leave at 11am and get in the office at 11:22 and I don't even get upset. I've asked all my employee to change there times as well and they are happy with less stress commute.
Onepoint
That is if all goes well, but the truth get's weird about BGP. Last month, with the Mae-East part of Genuity going down ( for about 3 hours ) our BGP kicked in and had packet loss of about 12% to 20%, Why? Weird peering agreements.
During those 3 hours I had the joy of running traceroutes all over the nation and watching the interaction of different carriers. it was weird to watch traffic start with one carrier go on then hit genuity then jump off to another carrier and then make it to the web servers. ( sometimes from the other side of the world LOL )
-Onepoint
Here are the words to the tune "I'm Just a BiLL
I'm just a bill,
yes, I'm only a bill,
and I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill,
Well, it's a long, long journey
to the Capitol City,
It's a long, long wait
while I'm sitting in committee,
But I know I'll be a law someday,
At least I hope and pray that I will,
But today I'm still just a bill.
I'm just a bill,
yes I'm only a bill,
and I got as far as Capitol Hill.
Well now I'm stuck in committee
and I sit here and wait
While a few key congressmen
discuss and debate
whether they should
let me be a law,
how I hope and pray that they will,
but today I am still just a bill.
I'm just a bill,
yes I'm only a bill,
and if they vote for me on Capitol Hill,
well then I'm off to the White House
Where I'll wait in a line
with a lot of other bills
For the president to sign.
And if he signs me then I'll be a law.
How I hope and pray that he will,
but today I am still just a bill.
(Spoken): Congressman: He signed you, Bill! Now you're a law!