No, you are the one who is being misleading. The article refers to an ammendment to HR 1, the FY 2011 appropriations bill. It's an earmark plain and simple. They know this is the only chance they will get with the current senate/president to pass this. I'll note that the last time repubs tried this, the pres vetoed the CR and made the repubs look bad.

-- SS was designed as a trust fund that congress subsequently made vulnerable to federal spending.

-- The SSA has increased the retirement age to account for increased life expectancy.

-- You left out 25% of the federal budget for corporate welfare, which they should cut completely before they even think about threatening the trust fund.

Premature not because the rules haven't been published, but because the FCC probably has no intention of enforcing them, and even if they attempted to, they would probably fail in the courts, again. Despite what the FCC says publicly, there is now certainty in the market, which is why we're now seeing more companies than just Comcast jump on the bandwagon to stovepipe the net.

Comcast has a large presence in the DC area and they are the largest cable provider in the country. Now the people that get internet service from a company that has a worse customer service reputation than the IRS can look forward to all the liberal media bias they can handle. There's more incentive for the republocrats to become even more homogeneous.

Yeah, apparently "Cheated on his wife and lie to everyone about it." would have worked much better!

As for the pope, he admitted the problem and gave pedophile priests the smack down. He also addressed the root of the problem at the seminary level.

As for the top 3 on that list, only one is physically capable of admitting fault, and I don't think any of them honestly do anything to fix the messes they create.

At least the pope didn't preside over an institution that sunk the world into a multinational crisis; the pope's constituency is still quite healthy. Did they restrict this poll to members of wall street, or is this country really becoming a mental institution?

You see, the game really can transform women into macho masculine action figures!

I find myself rolling my eyes at these partisan political posts. The modern democratic party is slyly vacuous. To prove that every administration is equally capable of rewarding its own economic beneficiaries in short order, watch as Slick barack and julius genouchie sell out the public with smiles on their faces by refusing to regulate the internet by pulling what slim foundation that still exists out from under themselves and blaming someone other than themselves (the courts or republicans, whatever, it doesn't matter) for the resulting disaster.

People need to realize that politics in this country is all about money vs money where competitive interests are at work. When it comes to money vs the people, there is no competition, the people don't have any money.

Probably because the FCC doesn't want to have to regulate the internet under the net neutrality rules it adopts. The FCC has to at least appear to make an effort to regulate the net in fullfillment of it's responsibility to protect consumers. However, the latest (and probably last) proposal the chairman has drawn up is weaker than what was promised by both the chairman and the president. Among other glaring problems, the latest proposal rests ambiguously on the same basis that the court has already ruled against and ignores the court's advice on how to go about creating rules that the FCC can legally enforce: ammori.org/2010/12/01/fcc-chairman-proposes-garbage-calls-it-net-neutrality.

The point is it has the potential to become a person, and should be considered as a person, and not a means to profit.

You don't have to look far, a google search would have provided multiple hits. From the wiki, read the section on adult stem cells: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell

Agreed. I also suspect that the AC is not in fact a doctor, or they would know about the lax requirements in other countries for obtaining a medical degree and certificate, and particularly, the unscrupulous work that some 'clinics' do WRT stem cell treatment. There is a reason it's labeled "stem cell tourism". In fact IIRC, CBS recently did a documentary on the problem of snake oil stem cell clinics operating in South/Central America that lure desperate unknowning individuals to their clinics without any intention of providing them a cure, but sell their treatment as such anyway. The article certainly didn't seem like FUD to me.

I can't believe you would say something like this and imply that the poster you replied to was irrational. Sperm and egg individually will never become a person, but an embryo will be (and should be considered as) a person.

The fact is that you can derive pluripotent stem cells from sources other than embryo's (like the lining of an umbillical cord). The poster you replied to was correct, support for research using human embryos would drive an industry for their harvesting, just as there is a market for sperm and eggs. It should be noted that abortion is bad both physically and emotionally for a woman, which is why manyt physicians refuse to perform the procedure. We already are finding it difficult to keep those who worship money from killing babies that are partially born, and you don't think there is reason for concern?

I would think that quantum dots might be ideal for use in a grid array of something like the dye-sensitized collectors that have recently been developed. I don't think that current saturation would be an issue, as the leads will be distributed evenly at each quantum dot. The problem I see is that increasing the area used for contact wiring will mean increased non-radiative losses. The article states that the wire contacts will be made of semi-conductor material as well, and semi-conductors typically have lower conductivity/higher loss than conductors. Supposedly they are trying to overcome those losses by using a partially generative material as an intermediate between the conducting leads and PbSe cells?

When I was in college, my buddies and I would frequently bet our money on the dog races. They published detailed stats for every race and you could compile a statistical profile of each performer. In fact, I wrote a program that attempted to predict the position of each dog in the race as the race progressed. However, what was not provided and could not be predicted is what dog would lose it's footing and go tumbling to the far rail and which part of the pack he would take with him.

According to the SCOTUS Brand X descision, the FCC does indeed have the authority to make this classification. So, yeah, the FCC should tell those pol's to stuff it were the sun don't shine. I can't believe those pol's would be so stupid as to actually put their names to these letters.

Quoting from the republican letter:
"And tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars have been invested in broadband networks in reliance on the classification of broadband services as information services [as opposed to a telecommunications service]"

I couldn't figure out if these congresscritters were trying to say they gave industry all this money in return for promising they could work in a regulatory environment favorable to the industry, or wether the industry gave the pol's all this money in return for the same assurance!!!

The letter was signed with a bunch of scribbled signatures with no associated typed names.

Is this letter just a bad joke?