Parties changed during a time when the nation was young and the parties were relatively weak and had less of an identity. Regardless, it was mostly a two party system the entire time, it's just that the two major parties realigned somewhat.
If the Republican Party were to die out, being replaced by the Tea Party, would you really say that America is not a two-party system? Because that's pretty much the same thing as your claim.
You are missing frank_adrian314159's point. Our voting system, first-past-the-post, inevitably causes the two party system we have, and there's no practical way to fix it without changing the voting system.
CGP Grey has a wonderful set of short videos explaining why first-past-the-post is bad and what alternatives exist.
Exactly! I mean, just imagine what might happen if say Google decided to make an OS that was pretty much just a web browser. Like that would sell!
Due to the so-called "blue dogs", it barely had enough votes to pass.
Does it not bother you that the bill was so unpopular as to necessitate such a strategy?
The long history of failed health-care bills shows that passing such is a very difficult task such that you have to leap on the opportunity when it presents itself or risk getting nothing.
Because, perhaps, those bills are unpopular? Because they only succeed in fixing a little while making other things worse for most people?
But now, we can't bring any improvements to the table. Democrats have their victory and will push back against any changes to their wonderful law. Republicans will not vote for a bill that is anything short of completely repealing the ACA.
Congratulations Obama, you have managed to ruin the hopes of real healthcare improvement for a long time.
Except it is not that way. Apple Pay uses the same CC number for every transaction, it's just a different number from your physical CC number.
Apple Pay supposedly responds to authorizations by supplying a one-time token for merchants to store in their systems. That is a positive step and should prevent accounts from being compromised if hackers get access to the merchant's database. But, if the card machines are compromised (such as the Target hack) then the Apple Pay CC number can be read prior to authorization.
frank_adrian314159:
until the time that third parties can actually win with the amount of time and effort you can put into them
tmosley, quoting:
until everyone else is already voting third party
Those aren't the same thing. Please go back and read.
What specifically would you do different if you were O?
For one, I would not have pushed such a thing so hard through so much opposition just to get my name on something that would become historic.
Oh, you didn't realize that was what Obama was doing? I am not convinced that he cares much about healthcare at all. He wanted the name Obama to be remembered forever.
And--let's be clear on something--the President's job is not to create legislation. So he was clearly acting outside of his role.
Nevertheless, Obama could have reached out to the Republican side first as well as state and local governments, in order to 1) build relationships across the aisle and 2) to build grassroots support. Maybe during all of that, he would have seen some of the problems with his proposal (which there are still many) and could have fixed those before it became an ordeal.
Another thing, Apple Pay provides a different card number to merchants than your regular card. That way if something looks fishy, you can disable that card number on Apple Pay and re-enroll with a new number, rather than having to deal with canceling your main card.
That said, I wish they took it one step further and provided a one-time-use CC number for every transaction. This way anyone who manages to steal that information would not be able to use it again.
In the states, we current use magnetic stripe for physical transactions. The "security" offered is in signature. I hate it, it's dumb, it's getting fixed supposedly, but it is what it is for now.
For us, Apple Pay means not having to extract a card, and with Touch ID it offers a somewhat real level of physical security as well.
Bullshit. All fines generate revenue
Fine, they all generate revenue AND they are a means of punishment.
Perhaps the ideal, then, is to keep the punishment and change how revenue generation works.
Some law enforcement agencies do not see a dime of that money directly, but it gets pooled at the state level into general funding (along with tax revenue). Law enforcement, along with all other government activities, is then funded from that general fund. This indirect funding reduces the correlation of enforcement zones (aka speed traps) to revenue.
Another possibility is to have that money go into a designated account for traffic education programs.
Let's also not forget, good competition is a good thing. That's true even if part of that competition is a company you dislike, because it forces innovation and cost reduction across the market.
Yep. Polarizing party politics causes large numbers of citizens to align with parties even when it means shedding their own morals and desires.
Just to keep this in perspective, this is largely how the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazi party) gained power. Of course, that's not to say it has anything to do with what was done with that power. But that's the beauty of power... all it takes is allowing a true lunatic to gain that power and we might be in for another world war.
Justice? Even if his claim is legit, his involvement has been nonexistent and he has done nothing to build the company.
It's quite difficult to describe as "just" anything resulting in a person gaining billions of dollars for such a small effort.
I believe I speak for all of Slashdot
Or not.
Glad you figured that out.
Windows are a horrible magnet because they're glass.
FTFY
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
