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• Why Does It Take Two Days for an E-Payment to Move Between Two Big US Banks?

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  When I use online banking to instruct Very Major National Bank #1 to send a payment to my credit card run by Very Major National Bank #2 at a future date, the website at VMNB#1 tells me it will be sent by “electronic payment”. Yet it takes two days for [...]

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• And the Winner Is Boring

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  The Buzz has the story on
  the new Florida License plate. While it’s nice that they asked the public to vote on the four finalists, an online vote is too easily manipulated. In any case it would have been even better if they’d crowdsourced the design choices. Let’s [...]

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• Public Participation in State Rate Setting

  Eye on Miami has a great letter from a citizen who tried to participate in state electric power rate-setting. Putting FPL on the spot should be required reading for anyone interested in energy law, state administrative law, or more general questions of public participation in government.

  Here is just a [...]

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• Really Something

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  The gizoogle version of Jotwell is really quite something. The gizzogle version of Discourse.net has its own virtues.

  Is this another sign of Ali G’s comeback?

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• Counter-Cyclical Law School Application Strategies

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  Every couple of years David Bernstein writes a blog post I agree with:

  the best time to buy real estate, or really any investment, is when “everyone” is saying it’s a terrible investment. …

  If we’re not as this stage with regard to demand for law school, we are damn close, [...]

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• Citizens Insurance Won’t Be Making Sweetheart Loans to Dodgy Insurance Companies After All

  Some time ago, I got upset that Citizens Insurance planned to use our premiums to make GIFTS to private insurance companies. Well, it seems the bright boyos at Citizens paid Goldman Sachs a great deal of money to explain how it would work, and they explained that it wouldn’t [...]

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• What the Government is Doing for Us Today

  Ban on loud TV commercials takes effect today. A rule that only the hardest-core libertarian or a heartless marketer could hate.

  Does this mean that America’s naps in front of the TV will be longer now?

  (via Slashdot)

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• Upgrade to WordPress 3.5 Far Too Exciting

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  I’m not finding the upgrade to the new version 3.5 of WordPress to be an easy matter on any of the blogs I run or maintain. This one is no exception. So far, however, the problems here seem mostly relating to comments. Please email me if you have troubles, quoting [...]

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• There Ought to Be a Law

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  How can it be that there is no remedy for this sort of theft? Hostess took workers' pension money to fund itself:

  Of all the outrages Hostess has committed against its workers, this may take the cake. In August, 2011, the company just stopped contributing to its workers’ pensions, and [...]

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• In Which I Engage in a Pointless Farce

  Today President Obama unleashed the kraken: he emailed everyone on his email list encouraging them to contact their elected representatives to ask them to sign the discharge petition about extending the Bush tax cut earnings less than the top 2%. I decided to make a call, even though I knew, [...]

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