Newgy

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by Newgy 15y ago
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.
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by Newgy 15y ago
We used to expand the number of lawmakers as the nation grew. We should have three times as many members of Congress to get back to the representation levels of 1900.
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by Newgy 15y ago
Actually the key is to get rid of government loan subsidies. They just bid up tuition and get capitalized into non-essentials like sparkling student centers. It's no coincidence that college prices have risen as the government has increase
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by Newgy 15y ago
This article completely ignores one of the central reasons for COPPA-- to protect children from personally targeted corporate marketing/ad sales.
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by Newgy 15y ago
Actually I think this is more about a specific ideology in the newsroom at CNN, and pushing that agenda.
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by Newgy 15y ago
No, its about the fact that several billion people will come here if the door is completely open.
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by Newgy 15y ago
Hardly, nothing can become law without the president's signature, and Obama just signed a new patent bill into law. Just as important, the president can use the power of his office as a "bully pulpit" to lead his party and the country on th
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by Newgy 15y ago
Of course, Carthage was teeming with about half a million citizens when he wrote that, and was completely destroyed by Muslim invaders four hundred years later. Minor point: Tertullian was an ethnic Roman born in Roman-rebuilt Carthage.
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by Newgy 15y ago
This is a symptom of government policy. High employment taxes, workplace liability, and an inefficiently high minimum wage, combine to create an artificial demand constraint in the labor market. Businesses substitute technology for workers
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by Newgy 15y ago
By "sensible" you mean "disastrous." Owning Sony Pictures has been a consistent money loser, and the studio IP concerns at Sony Music and Pictures hamstrung their electronics arm from innovating in the face of the iPod threat.
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by Newgy 15y ago
Rocking a vending machine is so obvious that it does not constitute a "hack".
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by Newgy 15y ago
The Gingrich Congress, not Clinton, controlled spending and gets most of the credit for the improved budget situation. That plus tax revenue from a massive tech bubble.
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by Newgy 15y ago
This part of the article got it wrong. SS money is spent, it is not invested. The SS Trust Fund gets an IOU but there's no asset backing it. That's different from a Treasury bond, which is a real financial asset that is tradeable and mark
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by Newgy 15y ago
Former budget staffer here-- this part of the article is factually incorrect. The government borrows SS taxes but spends the money, and provides a Treasury IOU to the Trust Fund. That IOU is not traded and is unrelated to the Treasury bond