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One way you can see that's the case: the same rubber-stamping Congress would have been rubber-stamping away had the negotiations been completely open.

A fresh college student might well consider writing genocide apps if the alternative is a boot stamping on their face forever in the form of tuition debt.

That's why they're stamping down on free speech everywhere, and that's why they monitor everything they possibly can.

> One way you can see that's the case: the same rubber-stamping Congress would have been rubber-stamping away had the negotiations been completely open.

Although I'm less civil about it - I'll start giving people shit for rubber stamping my code reviews.

You can't get the same results from machine stamping, and yeah, centuries of experience is not to be sneezed at in any profession.

An office processing paperwork has different standards than a metal stamping plant.

If I understand correctly, if I mail you more than you send me (us being countries), I thus collect more money on stamping.

I didn't see anything about the ease of copying data by stamping it.

(Sheet metal stamping had really taken off, and vast amounts of cheap decorative crap stamped out of thin sheet steel were everywhere.

Law enforcement can use a variety of methods to reveal the serial number due to the changes that the original stamping makes in the metal underneath the actual surface impression.

So while the costs upfront were/are high, in the end once we start stamping them out in bulk the price per place will be much lower.

You're using emotional words like "rubber-stamping" and "farcical" to describe the same phenomenon I just did.

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - Orwell.

You're confirming my comment: the appeal to "rubber-stamping" is really just the concession that, put to a Congressional vote, people who oppose some provisions of the TPP would still rather have a flawed TPP than no TPP.

> You're using emotional words like "rubber-stamping" I'm just rephrasing what you said yourself: > they realize that once the treaty is put to a "it's this treaty or no treaty" vote, it will inevitably pass.

Stamping, progressive stamping, the automatic screw machine, the four-slide machine, and lots of other techniques were developed for making vast numbers of identical parts.

Stamping our feet and threatening people hasn't made them stop.

Stamping dies are hugely expensive, and this will give them lower costs in the long run -- the dies wear out after a certain number of machine operations and have to be replaced.