Tag: government
REPRESENTATIVES DERAIL EXPECTED FREE MARKET INTERFERENCE! BAILOUT ACTION CANCELED! [BREAKING]
pO157.
Posted to Business on Mon Sep 29, 2008 at 03:03:28 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
A bloodbath on Wall Street is taking shape as the Dow dropped 700 points upon news that the $700B bailout package was stalled in the House amid massive opposition. The markets soon took a recovery bounce, but remain down about 5% at midday after news that the House of Representatives killed the bill by a 228 to 205 vote (view the roll call here).
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Prepared for the digital TV conversion?
skeeter1.
Posted to Media on Sat Jan 26, 2008 at 10:31:00 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Unless you've been living in a box, you probably already know that come February, 2009, the FCC is shutting down regular analog TV broadcasts in the US.
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Mandatory HIV Testing Coming to the Garden State?
pO157.
Posted to Politics on Mon May 14, 2007 at 12:37:38 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Ma'am, you'll have to take the test.
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The US Government -- Still A Black Hole For Online Records.
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 12:43:34 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
An open and transparent government is another of those motherhood goals -- just like freedom and democracy. One way of ensuring openness and transparency in government operations is to require federal agencies to make available to the public as much of the information and records these agencies hold in their files. For over 40 years, the public has been guaranteed access to most government records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). But, the FOIA has always been a paper-laden process and this is the computer age. So, Congress thought the internet could be leveraged to ensure records would be posted and accessible to the public. It did this by passing a set of amendments to the FOIA called the Electronic Freedom of Information Act (E-FOIA) directing federal agencies to post as many unclassified records to their agency web sites. Ten years later, the effort directed by E-FOIA can only be termed a failure.
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Diamonds Are Forever. How About Postage Rates?
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Thu Mar 01, 2007 at 10:33:55 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Just like death and taxes, in the US we can be sure that postage rates will continue to increase. And postage for most classes of mail are going to be on the rise within the next few months, with a first class stamp increasing 2 cents to 41 cents. At least that's the finding of an independent panel which regulates postage rates. But, to ease the pain and heartburn associated with a 2-cent increase the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) recommends that the USPS begin selling "forever" stamps.
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Privacy is For Sissies
Thalia.
Posted to Legal on Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 10:07:10 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The 7th Circuit recently held (9 page PDF) that using GPS devices to track cars does not have any 4th Amendment (search & seizure) implications. There hasn't been much media reporting, although some blogs have addressed the implications.
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Keep Your ID Handy to Fly
Thalia.
Posted to Legal on Fri Jan 12, 2007 at 01:15:34 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The US Supreme Court, without comment, just denied John Gilmore's request for cert. Just to refresh your memory, John Gilmore challenged the requirement for showing ID at the airport, and the bus, for travel on multiple grounds. In particular, he objected to having to follow a regulation that he could not actually view (the Security Directive specifying this regulation is secret), and claimed that it implicated his right to travel.
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