Its a different world view. Most effective . I think the thing we did really well in 2012 in particular was applying best practices from large scale ecommerce to making donation process as efficient as possible. Its not super sexy but its things like speed kills. The faster the system is, the more people donate. If at any point in the process there is any kind of lag, you are just introducing an opportunity for people to get bored. Speed matters a lot. We used to joke about making the process as easy so easy that if people tripped and hit their head on the computer they would give us money by mistake. Preferably more money. Ideally. And doing things like amazon and large ecommerce retailers have allowed you to save Payment Information for a long time. You can buy with you go on. I want to buy that. Shipped before you even had a chance to say maybe i dont need that. We like that idea. When people get inspired about something, we dont want to introduce barriers to participation. So thing
My job here on the judiciary , you know, ato these hearings, is to raise my mr. Cohen, he seems like a really smart guy and a really great guy. He earns i can say about him, he earned, sort of, what he gets. To ask the tough questions. You see, they have 107 lobbyists on capitol hill. They are swarming capitol hill, their lobbyists. But i have wondered thousand people write me their objections. The first thing i would do is stop this deal. But it is not up to me. It is up to the sec and the doj. Senator franken weighs in on the proposed comcasttime warner cable merger. Monday on the communicators. On tuesday, attorney general eric holder testified before the house Judiciary Committee. He discussed the Justice Department to use of forecutorial processions marijuana and the nsa surveillance program. This is three hours and 45 minutes. Good morning. The Judiciary Committee will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. We
People are keeping track of you, let alone every time you use an email on massive accounts. To make an informed judgment about the nsa programs, we have to know what they are. I want to spend a lot of the time during our our talking about what those particular programs are, how they work, etc. But first, since we are hosting this at a political theory institute, i would like to start by asking a few normative questions around which i think all the others will revolve. So what i want to do, i will ask my first question to each of you now, so you will have a few seconds to think while im asking the other. First, what right do you have to publish secrets determined to be such by our duly constituted political authorities . How can you justify supplanting your own judgment for that of the peoples government . And for general hayden, there is a parallel question. What right does the nsa or any other governmental body have to keep secrets in the first place . Democracy is based on consent an
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