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Comment Re:A cynic's view (Score 2) 637

The executives power to delay implementation rests in the interpretation of the Administrative Procedure Act (1946).

So the ACA can be delayed through APA. I recognize "agencies" tasked with implementing law creates an extra-Governmental body that bleeds into both the legislative and executive branches, which is problematic.

Comment Re:From the summary: (Score 1) 200

Question: When you say "roughly" as functional as an iPad email app, are you considering that the Surface RT still doesn't support POP3? Can you let us know if that has been fixed yet?

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/surfwinrt-surfusing/windows-rt-surface-to-support-pop3/edcf3be5-53cc-4d24-b0d4-c379cd0bed95

Comment Re:Fairly well known issue (Score 4, Interesting) 567

True story:
A friend of mine and I were at the 9:30 Club in DC circa... July 2006 to see Cracker play. The opening acts finish up and here comes this tall, lanky, scruffy-looking dude who is laying down cable and taping up mics. He's setting up guitars and stuff, roadie jobs. I turn to my friend between sips of beer and say, "You know, that's David Lowrey." At the 9:30 Club you're about 10 feet from the stage once up front, max. We've got a clear view of this guy and sure enough, it's David Lowrey, roadie.

As you'll read in the article, David Lowrey is a math grad. If he's calculated that his band can't pay a roadie to do set-up, then you know they're making next to nothing for these shows. I'm not saying he's supposed to have a designated cape handler like James Brown, but a roadie - sure.

Point is - I'm not sure they were making anything off this show. He was his band's roadie, and they drove Johnny Hickman's microbus to the show from Richmond. This was a harbinger of things to come.

Comment Re:Honest Question (Score 2) 2115

Great idea. Now where were you when Bush Co. went to war in Iraq and decided to lose about 1.5 trillion dollars? 10 billion dollars in cash was stolen off pallets in Iraq. Gone, vanished. No one has any idea where it went. That's just one example. Routinely every years the Pentagon comes out and tells us 40 billion in military spending is completely unaccounted for. The money has been flushed down into a Military Industrial Complex sewer and is gone. For good.

So Obama Co. tries to prop up a green company as he tries to ignite a new driver for the economy. The company fails and goes bankrupt.

Which scenario do you prefer? Losing 20x as much overseas, and likely funding/fueling/creating terrorism, or losing 1/20th to an American company?

Big Oil doesn't pay taxes either. Please.

Comment Re:Epic waste (Score 1) 475

I'd say RTFA, but apparently people don't even read the summaries before playing "let's jump to conclusions":

From the SUMMARY:

"with a molten salt system to store power as heat for times when the sun isn't shining"

And really, nuclear power? Good luck getting the regulatory approval for that. The hoops and hurdles for nuclear are profound. The AP1000 by Westinghouse is attached to six applications before the NRC (12 AP1000 reactors in all). The AP1000 design has been under review since... 2007. Four years later they are still reviewing the design because of "additional technical issues." There is a reason an American nuclear reactor hasn't been built in this country in 30 years. It's called regulatory bottleneck.

Comment Re:Whoops (Score 1) 510

People making below your decent wage pay more proportionally than the rich do for FICA. It's a regressive tax that draws more from the middle class and poor on a percentage basis.

Also, if Warren Buffett is scratching his head over why his tax rate was lower than that of his secretary, then something is wrong with the system. That shouldn't happen.

Comment Re:I actually liked the idea behind courier (Score 1) 203

The folding tablet with two screens has an inherent flaw - it's two screens. Driving that video is going to put a ton of pressure on the battery, and the useful battery life for the Courier would likely be a disaster. They could segment the two screens (one LCD, one OLED), but at that point you're adding more to the bottom line cost.

The Courier was great smelling vapor, but that's it. They only released the mock-ups in an attempt to distract from the gathering thunder of the iPad.

Comment Re:Obama Brought back Jobs and Growth (Score 1) 639

Sorry, that doesn't follow. We are not talking about Pelosi. Obama met with Republicans, and their stage prop reams of paper, at the Blair House. It was an open conversation; it was inclusive. The Republicans didn't care to debate the bill on the merits, they merely wanted the optics of astroturfed outraged to campaign on.

As near as I can tell the bill was posted on opencongress.org in July of '09. You could have read it then.

Comment Re:Obama Brought back Jobs and Growth (Score 1) 639

They couldn't get enough votes to break the filibuster, which is a parliamentary gimmick not found in the Constitution. Filibustering was abused by Republicans during the 111th session of Congress to the point of blatant, naked obstructionism. Obama ran on passing healthcare reform. The political capital he earned from his majority victory was used to propel this reform. None of this was a surprise. He even went so far as to adopt of Republican governors state-wide plan and included 100 Republican amendments to the bill. He debated them publicly. It might have been agonizing, slow-motion sausage making, but that's how bills get passed.

Republicans in the 111th session of Congress filibustered 123 times. Between 1917 and the early 60's you saw 1 filibuster per year on average. The recent Democratic minorities averaged 65 per session. This is an outrageous, extra-Constitutional abuse of the system by 41 Senate Republicans, from smaller population centers, who only want to see Obama fail and have stated so publicly. The fact of the matter is, Democrats had enough votes in both houses to pass the legislation. Deem and pass has been used before by both Republicans and Democrats. Stop parroting the nonsense that this bill was "pushed down our throats" or that a it was passed with a slight of hand. Each is total BS.

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