- State of the Lambda: Collections (Nov 2012 update) http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/lambda/sotc3.html 4 comments java
- Now Hillary wants the delegates restored to Michigan, so she can collect them for her "win" in the state. http://ap.google.com/article/aleqm5gr3wqjgtzfbq71e5a1z5jnp24o_gd8ud68i00 2 comments reddit.com
- State legislatures push bills requiring government to collect reasons for abortion https://www.wabe.org/state-legislatures-push-bills-requiring-government-to-collect-reasons-for-abortion/ 13 comments politics
- Medical Debt in Collections - Agency will not send me a written statement as I am no longer living in that state. https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/9w8vgx/medical_debt_in_collections_agency_will_not_send/ 19 comments personalfinance
- A large collection of zoomable dialect maps showing word usage/dialect in the United States and British Isles http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/cambridge_survey/maps 9 comments linguistics
- Apple's 15" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for $1,799 ($600 off) with free expedited shipping and no tax collected in 48 states [09/10/17] http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/09/03/lowest-price-ever-apples-15-macbook-pro-with-touch-bar-for-1799-600-off-with-no-tax-in-48-states 11 comments apple
- In Defiance Of A State Order, California Republicans Say They Plan To Keep Collecting Ballots Via Unauthorized Boxes https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/california-republican-unauthorized-ballot-boxes 113 comments politics
- In Defiance Of A State Order, California Republicans Say They Plan To Keep Collecting Ballots Via Unauthorized Boxes https://www.n8my.com/2020/10/in-defiance-of-state-order-california.html 8 comments nottheonion
- Phantom Debt Scam Alert: Received convincing letter stating that I owed $19,000 to a collection agency https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/affhs9/phantom_debt_scam_alert_received_convincing/ 19 comments personalfinance
- Supreme Court rules states can force online retailers to collect sales tax http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/21/technology/wayfair-vs-south-dakota/index.html 3 comments politics
- Supreme Court says states may collect sales tax from retailers that do not have a physical presence there https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/06/21/supreme-court-says-states-may-collect-sales-tax-from-retailers-that-do-not-have-a-physical-presence-there/?utm_term=.23d77afa7108 47 comments politics
- When did the Holy Roman Empire go from being a unified state (like under Charlemagne) to a collection of small states? https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/5ggb67/when_did_the_holy_roman_empire_go_from_being_a/ 17 comments history
- Pioneer Pot States Have Collected More Than $200 Million In Marijuana Taxes: "It turns out government can be pretty good at this." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/washington-colorado-marijuana-taxes_55d6133be4b07addcb45e65d 1593 comments politics
- [Sankofa] Pistons announce a Malcolm X- inspired retail collection. Funds will help support the Detroit Pistons Malcolm X Leadership Award at Wayne State https://bsky.app/profile/omarisankofa.bsky.social/post/3lhbwo6fev223 11 comments nba
- [Wojnarowski] ESPN Sources: The NBA has fined Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob $500,000 for his recent comments on the Point Forward Podcast discussing the league’s collective bargaining talks, which included Lacob describing the league’s luxury tax system as “very unfair.” http://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1549913630426161154 22 comments nba
- [Passan] I’d like to believe the guttural noise I made at the start of this video about MLB’s potential return represents the collective feeling of fans right now. After it, I broke down the state of play in negotiations and how the players’ insistence on full pro rata pay is no bluff. https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1270783887191560192?s=21 18 comments baseball
- 16 men from Tamil Nadu held, NIA says they were collecting funds for terror attacks in India. While 14 men were deported from UAE and accused of collecting funds for terrorist activities, two others from the state have been accused of being part of the plot. https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/16-men-tn-held-nia-says-they-were-collecting-funds-terror-attacks-india-105562 26 comments india
- 'Massive Win for Working People': Nevada Governor Signs Bill Giving Over 20,000 State Employees Collective Bargaining Rights https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/13/massive-win-working-people-nevada-governor-signs-bill-giving-over-20000-state 10 comments politics
- Researchers discovered a remarkably long-lived new state of matter in an iron pnictide superconductor, which reveals a laser-induced formation of collective behaviors that compete with superconductivity https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/physrevlett.121.267001 6 comments science
- Tort Reform Advocate State Rep Scott Schwab, Collected a $20 Million settlement, largest in state history. http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article148513129.html 5 comments politics
- Collections agent said debt will be completely removed from report after I pay in full, but refused to send a letter (before I pay) stating that. Are there any laws in place requiring them to do this? https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6luums/collections_agent_said_debt_will_be_completely/ 14 comments personalfinance
- DNA Dragnet: In Some Cities, Police Go From Stop-and-Frisk to Stop-and-Spit -- "Police in Florida and other states are building up private DNA databases, in part by collecting voluntary samples from people not charged with -- or even suspected of -- any particular crime." https://www.propublica.org/article/dna-dragnet-in-some-cities-police-go-from-stop-and-frisk-to-stop-and-spit 37 comments privacy
- The EFF provided evidence in two of its cases that it was not just AT&T that helped the NSA collect phone records for millions of Americans, but also Verizon Wireless and Sprint. This information was not previously given by the government, which claimed that it was a state secret. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/eff-att-verizon-sprint-nsa,30074.html 533 comments technology
- The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/ 39 comments politics
- "The U.S. National Security Agency [NSA] should have an unlimited ability to collect digital information in the name of protecting the country against terrorism and other threats, an influential [United States Court of Appeals] federal judge said during a debate on privacy." http://www.pcworld.com/article/2855776/judge-give-nsa-unlimited-access-to-digital-data.html 12 comments law
- The Original NSA Whistleblower: "'Where I see it going is toward a totalitarian state,' William Binney says of the National Security Agency (NSA)...'You've got the NSA doing all this collecting of material on all of its citizens-that's what the SS, the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB, and the NKVD did'" http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/17/the-original-nsa-whistleblower/print 5 comments privacy
- "Let's not forget that a mere 40 years ago we had a president of the United States who completely disregarded the law in an effort to destroy his political opponents. The information collected by the NSA has the potential to give an unscrupulous administration enormous power over elected officials." http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/nsa-surveillance 979 comments politics
- Chase Made Errors in 9% of Credit-Card Collection Lawsuits - Turns out the bank's own survey found that huge numbers of lawsuits it'd filed contained errors. 13 states are investigating Chase's insanely sloppy practices in the area of credit-card collections. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/chase-made-errors-in-nine-percent-of-credit-card-collection-lawsuits-internal-survey-finds-20130711 12 comments politics
- Unions to banks: Pay up. Instead of raising taxes, labor leaders in collective-bargaining talks has a proposal for closing state budget gaps: Go after financial institutions that ripped off governments via LIBOR manipulation. http://prospect.org/article/sticking-it-banks?utm_source=daily+digest&utm_campaign=1aca816a25-dd_5_10_135_10_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e4428ba350-1aca816a25-10889049 363 comments politics
- Prostitution for the Price of a Happy Meal - 32 states in the country ban anyone convicted of a drug felony from collecting food stamps. Punishing people by denying access to food is terrible policy; threatens overall public health. It does not fight drug use, nor does it save taxpayers money. http://prospect.org/article/prostitution-price-happy-meal 313 comments politics
- “Our strategy is to make this wind up in the United States Supreme Court and have this a settled issue for all time.” - Gay Marriage advocates (David Geffen, Rob Reiner, others) have collected close to $3 million to fight for same-sex marriage to be a Constitutional Right. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/24/us/gay-marriage-effort-is-attracting-a-novel-group-of-donors.html?partner=rss&emc=rss 32 comments politics
- Indiana is poised to become the first right-to-work state in more than a decade after the Republican-controlled House passed legislation on Wednesday banning from collecting mandatory fees from workers. Where is the out rage? http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-01-25/indiana-right-to-work-vote/52792100/1 5 comments politics
- All Your Rick Perry Gay Sex Rumors Collected in One Handy Book - Glen Maxey, the first openly gay Texas State Rep, outs Perry as a hypocrite and homosexual. http://gawker.com/5868489/ 6 comments politics
- Tax incentives — a collection of deductions, write-offs and credits mostly devised for other industries in other eras — now make video game production one of the most highly subsidized businesses in the United States http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/technology/rich-tax-breaks-bolster-video-game-makers.html?src=me&ref=general 7 comments business
- Microsoft’s Dennis Durkin has stated that Kinect's camera could be used to collect information on players for the purpose of advertising. http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/kinects-camera-could-record-data-for-advertisers/ 5 comments technology
- Sniffer dog Tucker uses his nose to help researchers find out why a killer whale population off the northwest coast of the United States is in decline. He searches for whale faeces floating on the surface of the water, which are then collected for examination. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11523469 3 comments science
- The state of North Carolina has demanded that Amazon hand over the names and addresses of every state resident who purchased items on the site since 2003 in order to collect income taxes. http://www.pcworld.com/article/194586/its_amazon_versus_the_taxman_in_north_carolina.html 4 comments politics
- If the parent of a child has not disowned the child and the parent dies before collecting the child's death certificate, the child is sent to the state orphanage. (BEST UNIX MAN PAGE EVER!) http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/unix_concepts/concepts.zombies.txt 3 comments reddit.com
- Amazon.com is fighting back with a lawsuit trying to strike down New York state’s new law forcing the online retailer to collect sales taxes on the state’s behalf. http://www.nysun.com/news/amazoncom-sues-stop-ny-tax 15 comments business
- Our State Collects More Data Than The Stasi (Official Secret Police of East Germany) Ever Did. We Need To Fight Back http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2249473,00.html?sid13 40 comments politics