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by mayneack 13y ago
Things like "Medical Device Manufacturers Association" probably count in that list as they exist solely as a lobbying group. http://www.medicaldevices.org/
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by mayneack 13y ago
Apparently decently hard
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by mayneack 13y ago
For the time being that is.
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by mayneack 13y ago
Obama is pretty stingy on pardons: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2013/08/15/barack-th...
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by mayneack 13y ago
Seems to me that it's helping the anti-spam algorithms by marking spam as spam
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by mayneack 13y ago
Linux Mint also uses Mate. http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2366 Cinnamon is listed first, but Mate is much more of an equal player here than something like xubuntu is compared to ubuntu.
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With ‘Alpha House,’ Amazon Makes Bid for Living Room Screens and Beyond(nytimes.com)
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by mayneack 13y ago
Anyone got a link to where one might check for the presence of their own email in this list?
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by mayneack 13y ago
What's the cause of the consistent disparity between exchanges? Is it just the slow speed of transactions?
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by mayneack 13y ago
Being wrong rarely stops people from predicting things
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by mayneack 13y ago
Under the correct assumption that there was some effort to increase readership by this move, commenting that the design was not their biggest problem seems relevant enough for an internet comment.
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by mayneack 13y ago
It was a downgrade in over all picture taking from my galaxy s2. In a large part about the focusing ability.
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by mayneack 13y ago
It's not so much a rule as it is that Boehner needs to keep a majority of his party behind him in order to remain speaker. If he goes against them, they just vote for someone else. Everyone assumes that there won't be any defector
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by mayneack 13y ago
I remember a couple years back reading somewhere (I tried and failed to find the article) that the Treasury Department's software wasn't actually prepared to stop the automatic generation of checks and payments if the debt ceiling
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by mayneack 13y ago
Political scientists have long said that there's not a lot of evidence for a change in macro outcomes due to gerrymandering. In most scenarios, if anything, gerrymandering makes sitting politicians on both sides more safe. It's re
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by mayneack 13y ago
Well, fundraising is a full time job. Can't expect them to do two jobs, can you?
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by mayneack 13y ago
I don't see what that has to do with noticing the shut down over the next hours/days/etc
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by mayneack 13y ago
Some needs functions include more than just the product at hand. Somewhere in the utility calculation, it's conceivable that by purchasing a marginally worse object there is marginally less unemployment in my town and thus I can partak
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by mayneack 13y ago
That is quite the map. Off the top of my head, it appears that the leadership on both sides was against it (Pelosi, Cantor, Boehner) If I had more time on my hands, I'd go check to see if tea party/progressive caucus/cbc&#x2F
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by mayneack 13y ago
If you build it, they will come
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by mayneack 13y ago
Wyden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Wyden
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by mayneack 13y ago
In fact, many interest groups and other NGOs make said plans in advance so that they can mobilize during a controversy instead of having to throw together a several hundred page document before people get bored.
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by mayneack 13y ago
Looks like you can pay $5/month to do it on their servers. No idea on the purely local solution
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by mayneack 13y ago
Just because everyone "knew" doesn't make this less useful to be released. Last month if you went on CNN and claimed that the NSA had free reign to access whatever they wanted, you'd be considered a conspiracy theorist.
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by mayneack 13y ago
As opposed to all that they gained from their treatment of Bradley Manning.
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by mayneack 13y ago
This will be followed in 2 months by "why does the US have such a short attention span? Our news cycle is too short for anything to every happen." I'm very happy to have my sacred tech news site "cluttered" with Sno
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by mayneack 13y ago
Why not both?
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by mayneack 13y ago
Well, at least my embarrassing things that I wrote in high school are gone now...
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by mayneack 13y ago
Some sort of discussion got us the 4th amendment.
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by mayneack 13y ago
Accepted by who?

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