Newgy

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by Newgy 15y ago
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
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by Newgy 15y ago
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 litig
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by Newgy 15y ago
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.
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by Newgy 15y ago
Actually, Authorize.net has a lot more to fear from Stripe. Can't wait to switch!
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by Newgy 15y ago
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 f
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by Newgy 15y ago
At least two of the legislators on his target list have renounced support for SOPA: Dennis A. Ross (R-FL) Lee Terry (R-NE)
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by Newgy 15y ago
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 i
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by Newgy 15y ago
Yeah, MLK's family has been unusually greedy. They even used copyright to demand money during the building of the MLK Memorial! http://savannahnow.com/stories/102501/LOCmlkmemory.shtml
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by Newgy 15y ago
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,
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by Newgy 15y ago
Also scroll down to check out the photos on the bottom of the page, awesome!
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by Newgy 15y ago
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 circumven
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by Newgy 15y ago
You cannot trademark or copyright a handbag, or other fashion design, in the United States. Your edge case doesn't exist.
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by Newgy 15y ago
The reviews on this are hilarious.
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by Newgy 15y ago
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
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by Newgy 15y ago
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 toward
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GoDaddy's PAC Donations Focused on SOPA Cosponsors(opensecrets.org)
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by Newgy 15y ago
GoDaddy's leadership helped write SOPA, of course they dealt themselves into the bill!
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by Newgy 15y ago
I think Symfony2 may solve this issue for PHP.
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by Newgy 15y ago
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
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by Newgy 15y ago
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
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by Newgy 15y ago
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.
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by Newgy 15y ago
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 oth
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by Newgy 15y ago
One or two drinks a day is shown to have health benefits in other studies.
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by Newgy 15y ago
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.
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by Newgy 15y ago
I suspect Heroku is going to add PHP in the near-term as well.
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by Newgy 15y ago
CAFE is particularly interesting because the government recognizes that the standard results in lighter, deadlier cars, killing thousands of additional people on American roads.
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by Newgy 15y ago
The man is most likely an incompetent bureaucrat, rewarded by a unionized education system that values seniority and paper degrees.
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by Newgy 15y ago
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) s
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by Newgy 15y ago
This guy Lee, who fought back, is a hero to me. Everyone benefits when someone takes on systemic abuses of law and power. Bravo!
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by Newgy 15y ago
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 com

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