Re: From Library Of Congress: Advisory: Possible Federal Shutdown
It only remains to be seen whether we'll avoid another shutdown in three or four months when this temporar fix expires.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=152238#p152238
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Today, NLS bard added some new content. It looks like they are up and running again, at least in the capacity of adding content.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=152203#p152203
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Well if that was true it's back up again. I just checked.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151348#p151348
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hi,seems that the site has been taken down againnot unexpected of courseit was a miracle for it to be up in the first case during a gov shutdownURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151212#p151212
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Congress is just lucky I'm not and never will be President. Because if I were I would immediately declare myselfEmperor and just tell them how it's gonna be. There would be no more of this bickering and fighting they love so much,
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nod, the only thing is they aren't adding new content. Though perhaps we should just be lucky that it's up and people can download stuff. It reopened thursday, they normally add books on friday, though they don't on weekends.URL:
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Bard's back up as well.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=150500#p150500
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Well, I wouldn't be totally upset, since:http://log.gov, is back up. Though, certainly not all .Gov sites.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=150498#p150498
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LOL. I bet there'd be riots if Netflix got shut down.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=150442#p150442
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Well, just think about it for a minute, to a lot of blind people, books are like TV for the sighted. If Netflicks were shut down tomorrow, you'd better believe there'd be people on the streets. it is pretty sad though, that the
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I think the most disturbing thing I've noticd since the shutdown went into effect is that most of my blind acquaintances seem primarily concerned with the fact that the BARD web site is down. One girl even went so far as to claim
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@Joseph: you're right, there's clearly a lot of political grandstanding on both sides. From here, it appears quite absurd, of course, but it'll take until October 17 (or whenever) to find out whether or not it's just bluff and gam
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At themadviolinist: I think the term "debt ceiling" is confusing and misleading, so thanks for the correction :-/ One way or another, the only way we can avoid defaulting on our debts is to (A) borrow more money in order to pay th
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Then again we are talking about a government here, so my guess is that'll never happen. I've heard nothing in my 33 years and least of all in the last few to make me believe the US government is worth putting my faith in.URL: http
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I noted, with faint amusement, that the National Reserve was not among those institutions that were shut down. It's times like this that BitCoin seems especially relevant.I don't think we can definitely say who's in the right unti
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they're all to fault, republicans and democrats equally. One side is working for companies that don't want to pay their employees more than they feel they should, the other works for the healthcare industry. One side works for t
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Joseph, you deserve credit for presenting a moderate version of the argument some Republicans are making. I will stipulate that I vehemently disagree with you about the effects of Obamacare as stated in your most recent post, but
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Hey guys...I appreciate the responses since my post. Anytime I try to strike the path of moderation, which is frankly pretty unpopular in the days when it's much easier to make one party the boogieman, I'm afraid I'll get a lot of
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I shall shamelessly promote my unimportant writings by stating that if you want all the goodies on the government shutdown without having to dig too deep you can head on over to this here post.Kind of funny to find that I sort of
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You are correct. Ah, Find more info about the health care Act at:http://healthcare.govBTW, the government is only parshally shut down, and the NLS site for now,http://nlsbard.loc.gov, is still up.Ah, almost forgot! You can also vi
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You are correct. Ah, Find more info about the health care Act at:http://healthcare.govBTW, the government is only parshally shut down, and the NLS site for now,http://nlsbard.loc.gov, is still up.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/v
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Dark: Thanks for explaining in post 27. I'm sorry I totally missed the point here, lol!The government shutdown was in the news this morning, but they didn't told much. Well, they pointed out a few things which helped a lot. the fu
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And boom goes the dynamite. Compromise apparently refused to happen by midnight. It turns out the national debt was shrinking faster than expected back in the spring, to the extent that economists were worried it would be too fast
Re: From Library Of Congress: Advisory: Possible Federal Shutdown
And boom goes the dynamite. Compromise apparently refused to happen by midnight. It turns out the national debt was shrinking faster than expected back in the spring, to the extent that economists were worried it would be too fast
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Certainly it's not just one party's fault anymore than the recession was the result of just one politician's actions over the last few years. I remember reading somewhere that the makings for the recession and the housing market c
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S...I'm going to tread very carefully, because I recognize that saying anything other than "Republicans are the spawn of Satan" is pretty unpopular...but may I suggest that the issue is significantly more complicated than "The
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American news media is stupid.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=150213#p150213
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Well Bryan I agree with you on that one myself, indeed it was a recent controversy in the British parliament as well albeit they did what they usually did, ie ignore the problem until something else got in the way.Then again at le
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Garrett nowhere in my post did I say I loved Obama. I suggest you look more closely at said post. All I meant is that he and I agree on the gay marriage issue. In fact I think he's just as much of an idiot as every other politicia
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@Slj, I'm afraid you might have got the wrong end of the stick here. The question wasn't about Websites in America being accessible (I think we all know who've tried some American websites that there are just as many inaccessible
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Hi.[[wow]] people, just [[wow]]! I give many of you credit for writing such long posts which must have taken a lot of time.Well, now I really feel my english is bad, because I find it difficult to understand all which have been sa
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Hi.[[wow]] people, just [[wow]]! I give many of you credit for writing such long posts which must have taken a lot of time.Well, now I really feel my english is bad, because I find it difficult to understand all which have been sa
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Ouch, Violinist, I didn't realize the culture of the almighty prophet margin had got so entrenched in America, a little weerd for a nation who's first constitution tlks about the Government serving the people. It does however
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To those asking why a single-payer system is impossible to achieve in the states at present, simply follow the money. An entire industry, (spam?) would be rendered obsolete with the stroke of the Presidential pen that signed such
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Well Cae, as at least partly a filthy comy, or at least someone who believes in restricting the power of individual corporations and having a check on things like wage limits or competition, I confess I do find some of the America
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Okay, just for the record, according t the human colour wheel, human skin is NEVER BLACK OR WHITE. Human skins range from very light ROY to very dark ROY. Yet we see it as either very light and pale that goes as white, and very da
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Re: HealthcareWhat's wrong with it?Nothing. All one need do is look at the facts, the numbers, the other countries having successfully pulled off the same thing, and it's clear that it will work just fine.I think the main trouble
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[[wow]], this is quite a read. I agree with sebby largely, American politics has always somewhat confused me, particularly with the way that so much political campaigning seems motivated to appeal to either special interests or pe
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hi,i'll say thisif the NSA eliminated all it's global spying programs and encryption hacking programs, there probably wouldn't be much of a debt problemURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=149923#p149923
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A few thoughts.As I stated in post 5, the majority of the ideas for Obamacare are ones formerly put forward by Republicans, including the individual mandate that everyone have health spam? or pay a penalty. It was only when these
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To add to post 13, I present this to you with the following quote: "We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed by great men, men who were revered."Today, students will go through most of e
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To add to post 13, I present this to you with the following quote: "We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed by great men, men who were revered."URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopi
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@TheMadViolinist: thank you, kind sir. A superb piece of oratory, indeed.As to the conclusion: as a non-US citizen, I'm afraid your correct. American politics has always seemed a bit iffy, but I think it's just possible that we no
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@TheMadViolinist: thank you, kind sir. A superb piece of oratory, indeed.As to the conclusion: as a non-US citizen, I'm afraid your correct. American politics has always seemed a bit iffy, but I think it's just possible that we no
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H'h'h'h'h'h'h'h'h'h! I don't see how the government operates. Plus, what you said sounds like, for example, we say something, like, games, and the government would cencer it. Government, if you found this, I have 1 question? Are y
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At Zack93: A lot of government-run pocess, services, etc will be closd, such as the library of congress, or anyone needing a Visa or passport to leave/enter the country, etc. The LoC is probably the most relevant one to us, unless
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Right on, Arq.What would happen today, even today, if the US population found out that the attack on Pearl Harbor was an event instigated by members of our government back then? All those grandfathers and husbands and sons and in
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I'm not sure I understand, what exactly does a government shutdown entail? How does it affect the public?URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=149899#p149899
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I totally agree with you bryan. I'm 25, and i'v never voted in my life. And you know what, i don't feel guilty in the slightest. Why, because i don't think simple voting will save this country. Neither will emailing your local gov
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And people wonder why I have no faith in the American government. The only real reason I vote is because it's the expected thing. But nowadays it's about choosing the lesser of two evils than about voting for who'll be best to get
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(Whoa, Synthesizer posted while I was typing mine, and added evidence to my "two year terms are bad for the government" hypothesis! Now to find more evidence...)(Also, I think the "Republicans hate Obama because he's black" thing
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My quick googling tells me that people aren't expecting the shutdown to happen, because the republicans remember what happened when they pulled the same thing in 1995/1996. In summary, Bill Clinton (then the President) took a slig
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(Whoa, Synthesizer posted while I was typing mine, and added evidence to my "two year terms are bad for the government" hypothesis! Now to find more evidence...)URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=149889#p149889
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My quick googling tells me that people aren't expecting the shutdown to happen, because the republicans remember what happened when they pulled the same thing in 1995/1996. In summary, Bill Clinton (then the President) took a slig
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From a more moderate standpoint...The government may be shutting down, and all the facts in previous posts are correct. However, the view appears to be very contrary to the Republican party, only some of which is deserved (yes, a
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I do not mean to sound so inhuman, but if worst comes to worst, we might have to turn towards H+ measures to modify hormone production to change people's personalities. I canot believe repubicans are totally selfish and only want
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Let's see if I can keep my homicidal urges under control long enough to 'splain.On October 1, the current budget stopgap measure expires, thus removing discretionary spending authority from the federal government. What is suppose
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[[wow]], I never realized in America national services could be shut down just because one party throws a hissythit, that seems pretty loopy to me, not to say a little childish particularly if it is! just because the President's s
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[[wow]], I never realized in America national services could be shut down just because one party throws a hissythit, that seems pretty loopy to me, not to say a little childish."well if you don't give us what we want nobody can pl
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Well hopefully, our prez, as he stated extremely well this afternoon at around 3:30 eastern, that he wants an agreement with the republicans. Its because they want Obama Care cut, and because he's a black president. That's the onl
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Why in the heck is the government shutting down? They did it already last year. I hate our government!URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=149873#p149873
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From Library Of Congress: Advisory: Possible Federal Shutdown
Advisory: Possible Federal ShutdownIn the event of a temporary shutdown of the federal government, beginning Tuesday, October 1, all Library of Congress buildings will close to the public and researchers. All public events will be can
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