That old age must be catching up with you Shaggy.
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That old age must be catching up with you Shaggy.
Your mind is going like that of Michael Faraday.
I learned about him last night, so I needed a reference.
Are you saying I lack the capacity (is that the right Faraday?)?
I know that he built the first motor and generator, but I don't think he built the first capacitor.
It's more like thisQuote:
Originally Posted by dday9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance
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The SI unit of capacitance is the farad (symbol: F), named after the English physicist Michael Faraday
That was what I was refering to. My capacity to remember met with some resistance. Ohm my gawd, I just couldn't remember what was watt.
*Groan*
Didn't michael Faraday also invent RF Shielded enclosures? (The Faraday cage)
Yeah. DDay caused me to waste an hour or two on Wikipedia. Kind of an interesting discussion of Faraday. I knew a bit about him, but he was quite the character. His lectures sound like they would have been pretty entertaining....and then there was the link about The Great Stink, which I just had to read.
Sounds like Faraday got the credit for the cage, but perhaps the original person to report the phenomenon was Ben Franklin. He wasn't just a lecherous old man.
Don't blame me... I voted for Kodos.
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Big night for the GOP last night. Whenever I fell asleep it was net +7.
I didn't even turn on the news until this morning. I knew that people would be talking and talking and talking, even when they had nothing new to say. There would be frequent recaps of what little was known and speculation on that which wasn't known, and only occasionally would anything new get added to the stream of redundancy.
Instead, I listened to music and other things. After all, I was pretty certain that I'd not only hear the results in the morning, but they'd also be more complete and more accurate. Nothing changed in that time, and I seriously doubt that anything really changed in Washington unless you are an insider. A few people gained more power, a few people lost some power, and life will go on about the same as before. The only question I have is whether less will be accomplished in the next two years than in the last two. After all, the senate now has the means to block EVERY appointment by Obama, so perhaps the dysfunction will be able to spread to judiciary (judges won't be appointed, and may not even be nominated). I would expect that the executive branch would largely remain untouched because the political appointments are largely figureheads running agencies that will continue about the same as they have for decades.
On the other hand, the Republicans have good reason to want to get something done, which would require a compromise. The optimistic view is that this congress will be able to get things done because the only way to do so is through compromise....but I'm not feeling optimistic.
I think that more will be done. Think about it, anything Republicans came up with for the past 2 years Harry Reid would shut it down; even if Democrats and their base would benefit more from it than the Republicans.Quote:
The only question I have is whether less will be accomplished in the next two years than in the last two.
I'm very optimistic about the next couple of years.
Oh, you can bet that plenty will get done - all by executive order. Obama has made it clear that laws don't apply to him and the Republicans have made it clear they will do nothing about it.
We're about to see the mother of all lame-duck sessions. That old Chinese saying applies here: "May you live in interesting times."
Thats a bit one sided, both sides have been doing that to each other to be fair. There has been very little working together from what i can see between the parties during the Obama presidencyQuote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I wouldn't be optimistic, basically you have a republican party that is almost allergic to Obama, they are likely to go out of there way to put through partisan bill's which Obama will just veto.
At least that is the impression we get across the pond :)
Homer - Anyone who Quotes George Carlin gets my vote, have you put your self forward for office yet ? :)
If he veto's certain issues, then I'm sure that you could get a congressional override. One that I can think of off the top of my head is the medical device tax.Quote:
they are likely to go out of there way to put through partisan bill's which Obama will just veto.
Now to get rid of something that has the president's name attached to it, you can almost guarantee that the president will veto it!
To override the veto, the Republicans would have to have Democratic support. They lack the votes in the senate to do that. That's why there was gridlock before. Harry Reid would ignore the partisan crap that he didn't want to deal with, and which was DOA anyhow, but he lacked a majority sufficient to bring up partisan crap of his own. The things that moved through the senate were things that got bipartisan support. They were then sent to the house to die, because there isn't any bipartisan support in the house for anything.
There are two senators per state. That makes it mighty hard to gerrymander states to make safe seats, which means that senators can't be quite as partisan. The house is a different story. Those seats are heavily gerrymandered in pretty nearly every state such that most seats are decided in the primary, not in the general election. Those reps don't have to please their constituents, only their partisans, which further polarizes the house.
This situation could be fixed in a variety of ways, but until it is, the house will become increasingly polarized.
Homer also makes a good point. W really got the ball rolling with his signing documents. He wasn't the first to use them, but he was the first to use them to re-write the laws that were handed to him. Obama, for all his talk about undoing some of the things W did, hasn't proved very intererested in undoing executive power in the slightest. It's understandable that it would be a bipartisan issue: Every president has a motivation to not weaken his own power, but it's a bad trend, as it leads to more confrontation and less cooperation.
The best thing that could happen to this nation in regards to congressmen is to add term limits. My proposal would be to allow a maximum of two terms. Once your term limit is up, you may run for re-election after the amount of time that you've been in congress is up. For example:
Code:Dim waitingPeriod As Integer = If(termServed = 1, 1, 2)