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by newbie12 14y ago
Sunset provisions for regulations and programs is a long-time conservative policy plank. A Sunset law to force regulation review was actually part of the Contract With America, and the libertarian-conservative wing of Congress forced a sun
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HN should consider banning links to the Atlantic for a year.
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The don't teach enough constitutional history these days, apparently. Trial by jury and the jury's ability to nullify the prosecution's factually correct case are part of the same, intentional design of the American judicial system.
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This isn't a case of regulation or no regulation-- most of the worst polluters in China are state-owned enterprises. Just cutting off national and local government subsidies for industry would do a great deal to stop the pollution.
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This is good news, in a way. China's pollution is being carried around the world every day-- now that local weather conditions are forcing Beijing to bear the full brunt of their poison, hopefully the Chinese government will take action.
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And the Mars Colony has its first political issue.
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Hardly static, passenger rail has been in collapse in the U.S. The eastern US is dotted with shuttered train stations and the Amtrak monopoly can barely keep its lights on.
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The bigger issue is that power appears to be over-regulated-- there is a single government monopoly provider, so when that provider went offline all was lost.
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The 1920s was a period of extraordinary economic and technological progress. Economic progress, not passing laws or stewing with envy over income distributions, is what has made society wealthy and advanced enough to end child labor.
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Carlos Slim has a govt-enforced monopoly. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57369357-93/telecom-monopol...
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But in some cases, these are just behavior issues, not mental health issues. Indeed, prescribing pharma and telling a kid he's mentally ill might be compounding the behavioral issue.
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Yeah, where is Michael's dad in all of this? I would have had the living hell beaten out of me if I had ever called my mom a bitch.
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That's correct, women from broken homes may work harder at marriage because they know how awful divorce can be.
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In turn, the child poverty problem is related to whether a child has both parents in the household. http://www.heritage.org/childpoverty
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I had the same reaction to the Facebook, Freshbooks, and MailChimp logo placement. Struck me as a little shady. The book sample is excellent though, and I'm considering the $199 package, primarily for the web app .psd.
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That's right, in 1984 I was learning to program on a TRS-80 in a public middle school in a random small town, and dreaming of an Apple.... by this time the "Trash 80" was definitely not state of the art!
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Not just better quality, but an honest product. Waves of toxic toys, rotting drywall, and deadly dog food from China have seriously damaged the Chinese brand in the US.
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The article gets one fact wrong-- George W. Bush called for a manned mission to the moon in 2020 and Mars thereafter, but was widely ridiculed, and unsupported in Congress. http://articles.cnn.com/2004-01-14/tech/bush.space_1_space-e...
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It isn't nonsense. He disclosed material inside information, that apparently moved the stock, to a non-public list of "fans". All investors should have access to this information, not just people who like the company on Facebook.
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"I, Pencil": The Amazing Brilliance of Our Modern World(youtube.com)
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You are being a Luddite. People will shift into cushy service sector jobs. Craft beer, massage parlors, landscape architects, mobile game programming, whatever wealthier societies might want more of.
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You have stumbled into an old fallacy, the idea that there are a fixed number of jobs. More robots increases productivity for society and creates the excess resources for new and better jobs in other sectors, normally the service sector.
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Yet, today more blacks live in New York state than any other, so this pattern isn't unbreakable. The southern black belt's problems can be addressed through regional policy rather than more government racism.
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We are all working on the wrong things. How can society not be spending far greater percentages of GDP on health care research? Yet the medical establishment, supported by Congress, operates as a guild that keeps people/innovation out, an
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Minnesota government bans Coursera online college classes(reason.com)
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This post is partisan and too short on supporting facts. The author claims that a couple of goofy public statements by 3 lawmakers mean they don't "get science". That's 3 members on a committee of 40. Also, the scientific debate over cli
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IRS, Treasury investigating Elon Musk's solar company(washingtonexaminer.com)
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Really? All of that wordsmithing is saying how he is technically defaulting on the loan from U.S. taxpayers. The loan is now "repay us someday, if you have the cash". Total spin.
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Tesla shares tank; here’s one more reason why(blogs.marketwatch.com)
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“Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.” -- V.I. Lenin

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