Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: The "Standards" Game Date: 23 Sep 2025 03:03:46 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <10a6nt3$1c65i$1@dont-email.me> <10a9qlq$25h61$1@dont-email.me> <10ac80j$2nuve$1@dont-email.me> <10ac8lq$2nkob$2@dont-email.me> <68d087a6@news.ausics.net> <10ar9d9$2a86g$1@dont-email.me> <10asa68$2je86$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net wxJZeZ7904oSWvbtcMoKvQPYKCI8aGL7eq+4bODQUZxHWknN9R Cancel-Lock: sha1:jVCegTF06+7AyNMKuBdGkzHsOag= sha256:4cBj1GbfC9pxsLz6ZT1//hXcLDubkrIjMtxvGWgei6I= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74911 alt.comp.os.windows-11:24471 On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:07:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > [1] "Omnibus bill" is a term that's been around - at least here in > Canada - for decades. It describes a piece of legislation that's so > loaded up with odds and ends that the author hopes to slip a poison pill > into it without anyone noticing. Today in the USA it's been re-invented > under the name "Big Beautiful Bill". If someone were trying to patent the BBB as a new invention the application would be denied due to all the prior art. It will never change since both parties love hiding their pork in a 'must pass' bill. I'm sort of hoping the Democrats don't lose their balls and shut the government down. That's pure bullshit too but it's always amusing.