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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by Retric on Thursday December 28, 2017 @08:51PM (#16026889)
99+% of all laws by content are not going to enter the public's awareness. Aka, if a tax bill is 1000 pages people may notice 10 pages worth of changes at the very high end, but that's about it. The average is far worse with many bills especially at the state or local level simply ignored in their entirety.

In practice this basically rounds to zero on most issues, especially over time.

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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by zdragnar on Thursday December 28, 2017 @09:55PM (#16027157)
That's why people largely vote on lines of ideology and hot-button issues; they're (ostensibly) voting on character and judgement, leaving the minutiae to Congress and bureaucrats to figure out.

Otherwise, what's the point of Congress if we aren't going to leave it to them to figure things out?

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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by pishpash on Thursday December 28, 2017 @11:40PM (#16027575)
The point is there should not be a far-away Congress with such large powers. It worked when there were 13 states clustered along one coast. Now it's its own empire-building entity with little practical oversight.
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Re:A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Per... by rootw0rm on Friday December 29, 2017 @03:55AM (#16028464)
Truth.
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