Good idea, but from msft perspective maybe better off giving them away for free, and focusing on building up their app store and cloud services for the next go around.

Would it be possible to standardize on unicode as a base have an open source vcs for tracking,searching, browsing? It would be no frills but it would work everywhere and no macro viruses.

I don't know that the sattelite companies fit into this? At any rate this attempted regulation seems unnecessary unless it can be tied to public funds. I think the whole industry is due a major overhaul, esp here in H-town where about 60% can't watch the local sports teams whose stadiums are publicly funded (out of towner taxes do hurt) I don't have cable but go over to someones house maybe once per month if there is something live i ~need~ to watch.

frisbee nut? Sane girls probably wouldn't stick around long. Anyway nothing says true love like getting smacked by an ashtray. Separately, smuggling narcotics for 10 yrs, not really defensible.

"Yeah, we should leave diplomacy to the generals." I wouldn't put nuke heads in charge of diplomacy, but backstabbing politicians not that much better. More like they should have heavy input on actual ground conditions and whether escalation would be ultimately productive.

They always claimed to be scaling it down around election time, but doing just the opposite in reality. Most likely the democrats had little intention of ending it either. The advisers approach is more defensible than the complete escalation from the later presidents. If the advisers couldn't make any headway on propping up the south that should have been enough feedback to abandon the war as a trap and get in on the winning side.

"Humphrey decided it would be too disruptive to the country to accuse the Republicans of treason"
a.k.a. Nixon had worse stuff on the democrats. Putting pure politicians in charge of military decisions (or anything in need of objective reality) is a problem.

Feels like having cayman based corporations selling all your natural resources to other places is the blueprint for 3rd world economics.

How often do people not get elected based on poor city planning? It does seem a bit absurd to sit in traffic year after year when a few simple things could be done to alleviate the congestion:
Dedicated express lanes which prevent the same morons from trying to exit across X lanes of traffic at the last minute every day and stopping the entire freeway
more trains and bus lines :)
As for the automated tickets, a good investigation of the kickback trail could do much to alleviate the above problems as well. In Htown we were slammed with large contract even after the lights were voted down.

Could they just leave a piece of paper with a link to their website like any modern business?

I imagine aka seciton of your unfreecreditreport is extensive.

Wall Street The religion that doesn't r*** you?

Part of the problem of govt is moving large bulky things around. Pure ideas are watered down into large compromises as it needs a mass of people to build momentum and get moving. The 2 basic ideas here are: 1. Group of people want continue making money off of fossil fuels until they are gone regardless of any consequences. 2. Group of people want to try something different and in the process redistribute the power. The sheep in the middle will naturally follow the leader that appears to have the most power. So these stories about C02 need to be countered with equally more powerful stories, but in a way that appeals to the sheep that make things move. FDR tried to make the republicans appear as more complicated, and made some progress but was fairly blockaded in regards to his programs.

So depending on how well the law is enforced, there is certainly a pool of laborers willing to work under the minimum wage by completely bypassing the legal system all together. Raise the wage and that pool becomes larger, lower the wage and maybe receive more federal taxes by introducing more legal labor/companies onto the market. The bad part would be if there were a huge number of legal domestic laborers willing to work for very low wages.

Going to log it as S.E.P. and move on.