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Sure it is. But it was also about time they got rid of the penalties, which restricted the earning power of older Americans by taking portions of their Social Security checks after they'd passed an annual earnings limit. The repeal was something of a no-brainer, says TIME financial writer Daniel Kadlec, both economically and politically. "This archaic regulation was particularly helpful in postwar periods, when GIs were coming home and looking for work," says Kadlec. "The government didn't want the jobs taken up by 'old' people." But now that the nation is rife with jobs, there...
...seems like a no-brainer: Police in Vancouver are charging a man for assaulting a colleague with a stick - an attack that rendered the victim unconscious. In this case, though, the circumstances are interestingly skewed: The attacker, National Hockey League defenseman Marty McSorley, works in a profession where violence is part of the performance - and is even promoted as an enticement to customers. Why should he be prosecuted when thousands of similar on-ice incidents - brawls that would have the man in the street locked up in an instant - are ignored...
...break and where a given horse will fall in and bet accordingly; others scan the tote board for good odds or good numbers and convince themselves that they're investing their rent money wisely. The deadest of the deadbeats stick to Keno and scratch-off lotto tickets--the no-brainer slot machine--pullers at the track...
...hard to find a hacker last week who wasn't in full sneer about the so-called script kiddies--newcomers who would dare commit such ignoble attacks with prefab software. "A lot of us hackers feel insulted, because it's a no-brainer," says Val Koseroski, 32, a self-confessed "old-school" hacker with a wife, a child and a mortgage. "When I was growing up, hacking was about learning how a computer operates. You always tried to push it to the edge. Kids these days, they just want to do any damage they...
...seems like a no-brainer: requiring credit dodgers with considerable assets to pay off their debts. So it should come as no surprise that the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to clamp down on the growing number of people taking advantage of America's somewhat liberal bankruptcy laws. Under the bill, defaulters capable of paying off some, if not all, of their debts would be required to do so after all of their assets have been liquidated...