The following is a guest post written by Bill Gurley, a general partner at Benchmark Capital who has led investments in OpenTable, Zillow and Uber (and many other successful startups).
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If you mail a payment, drop the bill off at the post office or a secured mail box rather than tossing it in the outgoing office mail.
The New York Times and The Washington Post have both editorialized about a bill in Uganda that would impose a death penalty for certain acts of homosexuality.
Still, the Washington Post does make a point in noticing that the bill contains open-ended language.
As I noted in a post yesterday, Legg Mason fund manager Bill Miller has suggested that the company can keep the current cash, but pay out all future free cash flow to holders.
Details are a little hazy at the moment, but apparently Dean Takahashi over at San Jose Mercury News posted and then quickly pulled a post from his blog about how Robbie Bach and Bill Gates were going to announce that the Xbox 360 will soon be able to double as a set-top box for Internet Protocol Television.
As the Washington Post reports, advisors like Christina Romer, who favored a much bigger stimulus bill to create jobs in 2009, are long gone.
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His tactical streetsmarts could add to the government's woes, but Labour peers didn't need him in post to bring consideration of the Parliamentary Voting and Constituencies Bill almost to a halt in January, and the government is clearly worried at the prospect of a repeat performance.
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Principals from a number of Scottish universities were giving evidence on the Post-16 Education Bill.
Under the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, a referendum on whether to replace first past the post with the AV system would be held on 5 May 2011 next year.
The bill provides for a referendum on changing the Westminster voting system from first past the post to the alternative vote (AV), making constituencies more equal in population size and cutting the number of MPs from 650 to 600.
The bill would release up to 55, 000 green cards for immigrants completing post-graduate degrees in a STEM field at U.S. research universities.
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The Hyde bill also permits judges to appoint counsel for indigents, and it eliminates the requirement that owners post a 10% bond to challenge a seizure.
Today teachers at half of all the public schools in the nation have had at least one teacher post a project to DonorsChoose.org, whose supporters include board member Stephen Colbert, Oprah Winfrey and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Then peers get their teeth into some of the new bills announced in the Queen's Speech - first is the Offender Rehabilitation Bill which deals with the release and post-release supervision of offenders, including the plan for a year's guaranteed supervision.
The Washington Post reported on Sunday that Senate Majority leader Bill Frist (R-TN) is not likely to schedule a vote this year on the ratification of the Law of the Sea Convention, better known as the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
Incidentally, one of Mr Grayling's first acts in his new post was to commission a report on current knife crime laws - perhaps the fruits of that report may appear when the bill moves over to the Commons.
And at the White House, Nancy-Ann DeParle worked with Secretary Sebelius and so many others to help pass health reform, the bill that is a groundbreaking piece of legislation that includes really important provisions like requiring chain restaurants to post the calories in their food, and businesses to provide opportunities for working mothers to continue to breastfeed.
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