Reconciliation was used a few times during the Bush administration to pass tax cuts. The ACA was not the first use of reconciliation to pass something other than a budget, not by a long shot.
Ten years ago the comments to this story would have been riddled with crude, misogynistic jokes. In fact, I wonder if the story was meant to elicit such a response from Slashdot. Congrats on rising above, everyone.
The online poker industry is young yet and has not had time to establish a strong lobby in Washington, DC. Once they do, it will become a respectable, job-creating industry run by innovators that make this economy strong... and these sorts of stories will disappear.
what if they're home on youtube because there simply aren't jobs available? Not sure what industry you're in, but in mine, if you're over 50 and unemployed right now, you are screwed.
IBM is entitled to all the handouts they want - it's only the unemployed and welfare mothers that aren't entitled to handouts. Christ are you some kind of socialist?
are they actually brute forcing it, though? I always figured they had different, secret means of attacking the ciphertext. Possible ways that were designed into the algorithm to begin with... so it isn't so much a matter of brute computing power.
that is a good question - it seems like prosecutors are also complicit in the "circling of the wagons" - they also seem to make an effort to protect bad or dishonest cops, and I don't understand why.
wouldn't any signed treaty also have to be made law in each respective country?
I've never understood how countries can be bound by a treaty through ratification (Kyoto protocol?) without it going through a country's law-making body...
Commercials give me a break to go pee, make a phone call, or grab another brew. I still need that break when I'm watching a DVR'd show. I'm not actually watching the commercials.
Amen to this - why are they assuming that we're all going to keep working even though we've got H1N1?
If I stay home sick, I feel like shit and I'm not doing any work. Or has the state of labor affairs gotten so bad that we're still expected to work when we're sick?
Look, if you read celebrity gossip sites and such, yes, you're going to be able to read the latest vampire romance that you bought at the google ebook store on your iPhone.
But if you're an educated person of culture and refinement, you don't like reading on a computer screen. You enjoy the tactile sensation of turning pages and reading real books. In a pinch, you'll use your Kindle.
Amen. I bought the Storm. What a complete piece of shit. Sluggish OS (in a touch screen OS, absolutely intolerable), graphical glitches abound... it just sucks.
I think the OP has the same issue I do - when I think of "LP" I think of a vinyl record. Since videos aren't coming out on vinyl, I'm guessing that the meaning of LP has changed.
No, police do NOT deserve our thanks. They are immoral bullies enforcing ridiculous laws, and they usually enforce them with an excess amount of force. Any person with an ounce of integrity would refuse to do the job that police do.
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Reconciliation was used a few times during the Bush administration to pass tax cuts. The ACA was not the first use of reconciliation to pass something other than a budget, not by a long shot.
Ten years ago the comments to this story would have been riddled with crude, misogynistic jokes. In fact, I wonder if the story was meant to elicit such a response from Slashdot. Congrats on rising above, everyone.
But EA is a "job creator", so those tax breaks "trickle down" to the hoi polloi in the form of jobs.
Didn't Paul Vixie write cron? Well, if he did, then he has no credibility in my book, because cron is a flaming piece of shit.
Give me Microsoft Task Scheduler any day of the week, Paul Vixie.
"Vixie" doesn't even sound like his real name.
The online poker industry is young yet and has not had time to establish a strong lobby in Washington, DC. Once they do, it will become a respectable, job-creating industry run by innovators that make this economy strong... and these sorts of stories will disappear.
You know, that's all true. The only people who do believe that the parties are equally bad (geminidomino) don't actually pay attention to politics.
what if they're home on youtube because there simply aren't jobs available? Not sure what industry you're in, but in mine, if you're over 50 and unemployed right now, you are screwed.
IBM is entitled to all the handouts they want - it's only the unemployed and welfare mothers that aren't entitled to handouts. Christ are you some kind of socialist?
are they actually brute forcing it, though? I always figured they had different, secret means of attacking the ciphertext. Possible ways that were designed into the algorithm to begin with... so it isn't so much a matter of brute computing power.
that is a good question - it seems like prosecutors are also complicit in the "circling of the wagons" - they also seem to make an effort to protect bad or dishonest cops, and I don't understand why.
A few bad apples making the other 1% look bad...
seriously, why do cops always circle the wagons to protect dishonest cops?
List of all open source iconoclasts --
Miguel de Icaza
Theo de Raadt
notice any similarities between the names?
A link to an old slashdot article, and 2 links to legal documents - one of which is 32-pages long!
Now THAT makes for some interesting reading... well, this is definitely one time that I will RTFA!
Can we waive the Constitution and give these brave law enforcement folks a billion trillion dollars to buy PS3's? This is about fighting CHILD PORN.
Child porn is almost as big a threat as terrorism. ALMOST.
wouldn't any signed treaty also have to be made law in each respective country?
I've never understood how countries can be bound by a treaty through ratification (Kyoto protocol?) without it going through a country's law-making body...
Commercials give me a break to go pee, make a phone call, or grab another brew. I still need that break when I'm watching a DVR'd show. I'm not actually watching the commercials.
But in the end, he says, the team thought it was riskier to pry apart the telescope's electronic guts than to deal with the problem after launch.
Can someone explain to me why this was the case?
aren't math people supposed to use pencil?
Amen to this - why are they assuming that we're all going to keep working even though we've got H1N1?
If I stay home sick, I feel like shit and I'm not doing any work. Or has the state of labor affairs gotten so bad that we're still expected to work when we're sick?
it doesn't matter how productive I am, my employer doesn't think I'm working unless he can see me working.
Look, if you read celebrity gossip sites and such, yes, you're going to be able to read the latest vampire romance that you bought at the google ebook store on your iPhone.
But if you're an educated person of culture and refinement, you don't like reading on a computer screen. You enjoy the tactile sensation of turning pages and reading real books. In a pinch, you'll use your Kindle.
Amen. I bought the Storm. What a complete piece of shit. Sluggish OS (in a touch screen OS, absolutely intolerable), graphical glitches abound... it just sucks.
are those wings on the sides for ultra-absorbency during "heavy flow" days?
I think the OP has the same issue I do - when I think of "LP" I think of a vinyl record. Since videos aren't coming out on vinyl, I'm guessing that the meaning of LP has changed.
No, police do NOT deserve our thanks. They are immoral bullies enforcing ridiculous laws, and they usually enforce them with an excess amount of force. Any person with an ounce of integrity would refuse to do the job that police do.