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Thank you for your brave work on this issue, you are a true patriot.
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." -- Samuel Adams, Founding Father
A major driver of U.S. costs that isn't discussed in the article is our parasite lawyer class, who drive up the cost of insurance for doctors and lead to widespread over-testing or "defensive medicine". Few Americans are proud of our litigious society.
Tesla are crony capitalists building a car that is worse for the environment (toxic battery, power waste across the grid, majority power from coal powerplants) than traditional combustion engine machines.
Actually, Authorize.net has a lot more to fear from Stripe. Can't wait to switch!
Classic Chris Dodd. Obvious outcomes -- like the 2008 financial crisis, which occurred on his watch as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee-- are "watershed" and heretofore "never seen before." This way, he can escape responsibility for the role his own actions played in creating the mess.
At least two of the legislators on his target list have renounced support for SOPA:
Dennis A. Ross (R-FL) Lee Terry (R-NE)
Traditionally, Hollywood (run by angry liberals) and the Republican Party are hostile, so this shift is more of politics reverting to the mean. The main reason GOP members were on SOPA was the support of Nashville and the NFL.
This shift is a very positive development, it means the bill is becoming impossible to pass in a Republican House (and where GOP Rep. Lamar Smith has discredited himself by leading fellow Republicans into the SOPA morass).
Yeah, MLK's family has been unusually greedy. They even used copyright to demand money during the building of the MLK Memorial!
Everything we need is already in the Constitution, in the First and Fourth Amendments of the Bill of Rights. We just have to defend our freedoms...through protest and through votes.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." --Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4,1777
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This is just a leadership commitment in the Republican House, the U.S. Senate (controlled by Democrats, and where overall support for SOPA/PIPA seems stronger) could still take up the bill. There are ways to pass legislation that circumvent a direct House vote.
It is good news, but I'd wait to see what Senators say this week.
You cannot trademark or copyright a handbag, or other fashion design, in the United States. Your edge case doesn't exist.
The reviews on this are hilarious.
I had your gameplan, but in the late 1990s. Spent a couple years in China, struggled with a number of issues, including significant cultural and language barriers with the local programming team.
My advice: only go to China as a expatriate hire with an established multinational firm.
The cable companies are losing subscribers for the first time in history. Every headwind matters to them. Just as important, getting the idea out there that Comcast is against a free and open internet will undermine their marketing towards those consumers who do have a choice. It matters.
GoDaddy's leadership helped write SOPA, of course they dealt themselves into the bill!
I think Symfony2 may solve this issue for PHP.
The one way to ensure that all Congressmen are millionaires is to take away their pay. Honestly, the salary is already too small, they have to maintain a second residence in DC, which is one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country. In all seriousness, $174,000 is not enough money to support a family in a middle class lifestyle in DC. A townhouse in a safe neighborhood is $5,000/month, most of the public schools are terrible and the private schools expensive, and the local taxes are extremely high.
Also lawmakers can't spend their campaign warchests on personal items.
The real scandal is the long pattern of corrupt political leadership of Birmingham.
Birmingham was once an industrial capital, and in the middle of the last century was bigger than Atlanta, and in many ways better positioned economically to lead the south east. High taxes and a corrupt political culture drove Birmingham into the dirt. A couple generations later, Atlanta has one of the busiest airports in America, world-class universities, and hosted the Olympics, while Birmingham can't provide running water.
Elections matter.
Same problem here. The admin site structure of the typical CMS is an abstraction that makes obvious sense to us developers, but not necessarily to the content managers. Inline is the future.
There are some similar provisions in U.S. law, but they are easily circumvented by "consulting" rather than "lobbying."
Additionally, the U.S. Constitution does not really permit blanket restrictions on employment for individuals. Among other things, this ties in with the 13th Amendment that bans slavery and indentured servitude. You also have a free speech right to lobby.
In fact, the current restrictions are probably unconstitutional.
Anyway, these measures are treating a symptom. The real problem is that the federal government is vastly too large in size and scope. Reduce the power and programs run by the federal government, and radically simplify the tax code, and you'll dry up the opportunities for corruption.
One or two drinks a day is shown to have health benefits in other studies.
I've heard that these drones are designed to land themselves if they lose communications and/or run low on fuel. Bad idea when flying over Iran.
I suspect Heroku is going to add PHP in the near-term as well.
CAFE is particularly interesting because the government recognizes that the standard results in lighter, deadlier cars, killing thousands of additional people on American roads.
The man is most likely an incompetent bureaucrat, rewarded by a unionized education system that values seniority and paper degrees.
America's "decline" is mostly a function of bad government policy the past 15 years or so that lead to massively wasteful over-investment of people and capital into finance and real estate.
Break up the banks, let the market (not the Fed) set interest rates, deregulate health care markets, and balance the budget.
This guy Lee, who fought back, is a hero to me. Everyone benefits when someone takes on systemic abuses of law and power. Bravo!
Auto insurance is regulated, but in most states it is a reasonably competitive market. I have to assume that speeding tickets are an important signal to future crashes, or the insurance companies would compete this penalty down or away completely.
This stuff may not be safe for humans, especially as it degrades and flakes off. I don't really want my kids breathing it in.