Comment Re:The sad thing is... (Score 1) 267
He is a product of the Chicago Machine, and people are surprised that he behaves like one.
This indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of what the iPhone was at launch.
And what that was, was simply the most FUNCTIONAL smartphone that existed at the time. But a huge margin.
This is revisionist history. The iPhone barely functioned as a phone when it was introduced. Remember: "You're holding it wrong."
Right. But since being overweight has just been re-classified as a disease, any app that lets you track you weight can be interpreted as being one that is involved in the "treatment or prevention of disease." Don't you think they won't.
The other thing I like about this is that they have a scheme for registering and tracking these devices. See http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/UniqueDeviceIdentification/default.htm for details.
This is the Globally Unique Device Identifier (GUDID), which they are pronouncing "Good ID". Who says that the government can't market its stuff.
On a side note it is interesting to note that japan were already under the process of surrender, and were committed to leaving the war roughly two weeks after the bombs dropped. They had their own terms, to be allowed to keep their emperor as the head of Japanese political heirarchy.
Nothing says "I am ready for a peaceful resolution to the conflict" like the slogan "One Hundred Million Die Together."
Yep. This kind of propaganda has been going on for a very long time. In WWI, the British press contained stories of German soldiers parading around Belgian towns with babies on their bayonets.
One learns to be skeptical of these claims.
The first casualty in war is the truth.
Why digitally add the logos. Have them sewn on to their suits. And they should be required to mention their sponsors, like NASCAR drivers do.
Then you can hear the Congressman say: I'd like to thank the United Auto Workers, Service Employee's International Union, National Education Association and the American Dairy Association for making this possible.
Do people really change the way they vote just because of advertising, or lack thereof?
They wouldn't spend the money on advertising if it didn't work. Does the UK have negative political ads? You know, like the one where the Paul Ryan lookalike pushes granny in her wheelchair off of a cliff? Those are very effective in the US, but are almost always paid for by an outside group.
You are assuming that a significant amount of money is needed to "finance" a campaign. If no one has any advertisement money then you have a fair playing field for rich and poor candidates and it may also lower the barrier of entry for third party candidates. You could also have some standard fixed amount paid for by taxpayers to any candidate with a sufficiently large number of signatures to run.
If you limit what the politicians can spend on their campaigns, the money will just be spent by outside groups. Given the First Amendment protection of speech in the US, there is no way to limit what (and how often) outside groups say about a politician. So, you end up disarming the politicians and having all the power be in the hands of outside groups. I fail to see how this is an improvement.
This "one size fits all" approach also fails to take in to account the size difference in congressional districts and states. It takes a lot more to mount a campaign in say Chicago than it does in Montana.
Campaign contributions are not a bribe. People, and groups of people, show support politicians by making contributions to their election campaigns.
How else would you fund political campaigns? Public Financing, aka welfare for politicians??
Great. Taking your rule to its logical conclusion, I look forward to the day when teacher's unions no longer make campaign contributions to local school board members, too.
This notion that we can somehow wall off representatives from their constituents is laughable. And Labor Unions and Teacher's Unions and the NRA are also their constituents.
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