EPTIt's well documented that laws and regulations tend to accumulate because there's not enough effort to clean them out.
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
It's well documented that laws and regulations tend to accumulate because there's not enough effort to clean them out. | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On July 08 2014 18:45 Simberto wrote: Your election system is weird. I know it's hard to do something like that, but you might wanna consider at some point to throw out 200 years of random shit bogging down your systems. It would take 50 years and get messed up, so we'd have a half-assed, only slightly less outdated set of laws. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States24354 Posts
On July 08 2014 18:57 zlefin wrote: That's a fundamental flaw found not just in US, but many systems around the world; the lack of a systematic plan for clearing out old and unnecessary or harmful rules. It's well documented that laws and regulations tend to accumulate because there's not enough effort to clean them out. Yeah no kidding it took Alabama until 2001 to get rid of it's law banning interracial marriage. We definitely need some rule changes, problem is the only rule changes we have been getting are ones that prevent people from voting. Some people still cling to the lie that it has something to do with preventing fraud, but with multiple GOP/Tea Party groups offering cash rewards for evidence of such action we still haven't seen any, let alone enough to influence an election. Rule changes for elections have everything to do with how they impact ones chances to win and almost nothing to do with improving the system. I don't see that getting remedied any time soon. | ||
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
![[image loading]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Brv-9vUCQAE-IQD.jpg) Can't the left see that just because the pose is the same, the pictures aren't analogous? | ||
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tadL
Croatia679 Posts
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JonnyBNoHo
United States6277 Posts
On July 09 2014 07:54 tadL wrote: the left one is more scary because she is brainwashed to believe that her country stands for the good and is the land of the free. the right one has no reason to attack me, the left one will lie and attack my country based on faked "facts" if we would have oil. or america needs again to win a war and needs a weak opponent. You don't need to fear the one on the right because she's already dead. She blew herself and others up in a suicide bombing. The one of the left is just fucking around and isn't going to actually murder anyone. | ||
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
On July 09 2014 08:31 JonnyBNoHo wrote: You don't need to fear the one on the right because she's already dead. She blew herself and others up in a suicide bombing. The one of the left is just fucking around and isn't going to actually murder anyone. It's just her government that will do that. | ||
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JonnyBNoHo
United States6277 Posts
Neither a state nor independent How a territory falls between bankruptcy regimes PUERTO RICO has put on a brave face during its year-long debt crisis. But on June 28th Alejandro García Padilla, the governor, made a belated concession to reality by signing a law establishing a de facto bankruptcy regime for state-owned enterprises. With the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), a cash-strapped utility, teetering on the brink of default, the new system may face its first test soon. Puerto Rico’s woes stem from a mix of structural weaknesses, external shocks and self-inflicted wounds. As an overseas American territory, it uses the dollar and the national minimum wage. That makes labour costly and exports uncompetitive. From 1976-2006 firms on the island were exempt from federal tax on their local profits. But once that carve-out expired, the economy fell into an eight-year recession. And after Detroit went bankrupt, investors fled risky municipal bonds, which raised Puerto Rico’s financing costs. However, the government also bears its own share of the blame. It has spent too little on infrastructure and too much on pensions. And it has grossly mismanaged PREPA, which still generates 65% of its power using expensive fuel oil. Not only did the company cost the state $276m in 2013 but its high prices serve as a tax on most economic activity. Mr García Padilla has tried to compensate with austerity: on July 1st he signed a balanced budget that cut discretionary spending by 8%. But Puerto Rico’s public finances have regularly underperformed official forecasts. + Show Spoiler + The government insists that it “cannot default”, because its constitution gives debt payments first priority. However, this only applies to its general-obligation and guaranteed bonds. The remaining public debt is backed by specific revenues like highway tolls or, in PREPA’s case, electric bills. And the $800m of bank credit lines PREPA uses to buy fuel come due in August. Unless it can renegotiate quickly, it will either default or turn out the lights. No one knows what would happen then. Puerto Rican state agencies fall in a gap in America’s bankruptcy code: they are excluded from the regimes both for local governments and private firms. As a result, missed payments would probably set off a whirlwind of litigation. To forestall this risk, the government instituted a new insolvency system for its companies. It gives them nine months to negotiate a settlement acceptable to holders of 75% of their debt. If the parties cannot agree, local courts would impose a solution. Investors saw the law as evidence that PREPA was set to restructure its $8.6 billion of liabilities, and have dumped its bonds. But PREPA’s two biggest creditors, the mutual-fund firms Franklin Templeton and OppenheimerFunds, have challenged the law, arguing that the constitution gives Congress exclusive control over bankruptcy. If they win, it might boost calls to change Puerto Rico’s status. As the 51st state, its state-owned firms would be covered by the federal bankruptcy code. As an independent country, it could set its own rules. Under the status quo it may be stuck with neither. Source Sucks to be Puerto Rico. If anyone's wondering I haven't heard any legitimate fears that this will cause meaningful harm stateside. | ||
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JonnyBNoHo
United States6277 Posts
Or the liberals sending her death threats. | ||
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Jormundr
United States1678 Posts
On July 09 2014 08:36 JonnyBNoHo wrote: Or the liberals sending her death threats. I'll take your liberal death threats and raise you one abortion clinic bombing! | ||
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JonnyBNoHo
United States6277 Posts
On July 09 2014 08:37 Jormundr wrote: I'll take your liberal death threats and raise you one abortion clinic bombing! I'll take your abortion clinic bombing a raise you a Soviet farm collectivization! Edit: All in good fun  + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://www.tacomaworld.com/gallery/data/500/medium/anchorman-well-that-escalated-quickly.jpg) | ||
Myles
United States5162 Posts
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Wolfstan
Canada605 Posts
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
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Wolfstan
Canada605 Posts
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radscorpion9
Canada2252 Posts
On July 09 2014 07:54 tadL wrote: the left one is more scary because she is brainwashed to believe that her country stands for the good and is the land of the free. the right one has no reason to attack me, the left one will lie and attack my country based on faked "facts" if we would have oil. or america needs again to win a war and needs a weak opponent. No one else mentioned it, but before you make comments like that you should read the description below the picture. The girl is not even close to what you're describing, she added the bible and the flag to make a nice picture that encompasses the stereotypical all-American feeling. | ||
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Introvert
United States5029 Posts
On July 09 2014 09:03 IgnE wrote: We know a lot about her. And nothing that indicates any violent/ terrorist tendencies. Unless I missed something here. One is using her first amendment rights without any harm to anyone else, the other was a terrorist who killed people. Yeah, I'm not seeing it. | ||
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
On July 09 2014 09:14 Introvert wrote: And nothing that indicates any violent/ terrorist tendencies. Unless I missed something here. One is using her first amendment rights without any harm to anyone else, the other was a terrorist who killed people. Yeah, I'm not seeing it. You know less about the girl on the right and now she's a terrorist who killed people? | ||
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Introvert
United States5029 Posts
On July 09 2014 09:16 IgnE wrote: You know less about the girl on the right and now she's a terrorist who killed people? I was going off of what I read from Johnny. From the other stuff I read online, the best guesses are A) a terrorist who is still alive and active, or B) a terrorist who killed herself some years ago. At any rate, unless you can show otherwise, it would seem safe to assume that the two are nothing alike. One picture is not enough. Shamelessly stolen from Holly's twitter: EDIT: link broken. https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/486513179057745921/photo/1 But see? That's a stupid way to judge someone. And, just as with the above photo, the pictures aren't even that similar. Edit again: we may have each been referring to the opposite person? | ||
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