Most of the drinks in question are not the functional equivalent of a rum and coke. We're talking more along the lines of a no-doze with a shot of rum as a chaser.
Bud Extra seems to have 54mg of caffeine in a 10-oz can (CSPI settlement document.)
A No-Doze has 200mg of caffeine.
Coke Classic is 2.8mg/oz, or in a half-can mixed drink 16.8mg, so that's indeed not equivalent.
However, drip coffee is 18.1mg/oz (I know, overly precise for an average).
The top two google recipes for Irish Coffee call for 6 or 8 oz. Taking the conservative 6, that nets 109mg caffeine and one oz whisky, which should be about the same alcohol as a can of beer.
So, Irish coffee is double the concentration of caffeine to alcohol as the Bud product. If you can figure out when coffee beans were first imported to Ireland, you'll know when the first Irish coffee was made (perhaps without the sugar and cream - that appears to be a US thing from the mid 20th century.)
If Apple prevails on the remaining issues, we might find out. If Psystar is forced into bankruptcy, their records would be among the property transferred to the receivers.
Yes, let's see if Apple enters the highest bid for whatever the 'damages' don't cover.
So, who was behind Psystar? Dell perhaps? There's no chance in hell a startup box builder would go to these lengths to test a legal theory. Their vested interest in the supposed business was a pittance compared to the cost to fight this, so where'd they get the money?
Obviously, Psystar was staged for the exclusive purpose of being sued.
The most likely answer seems to be 'Apple'. I have to admit, that's pretty damn clever.
Let's see if they buy up all of PyStar's assets at bankruptcy sale "to really find out" and then never proceed with further action.
Meanwhile, their EULA is mostly court-validated against any potential cloners.
We tried banning cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and a laundry list of other drugs as well. It hasn't worked out any better.
That's simply not true. It's provided tremendous revenue for black ops government entities that don't officially exist, has kept the military industrial complex well fed, the US at a constant state of 'war' and provided cover for a creeping police state.
It's worked out tremendously (unless you care about quaint things like rule-of-law).
This has nothing to do with banning Jack & Coke, Red Bull + Vodka, etc... Well, more specifically, they're asking the makers why they thought they didn't have to clear it with the FDA.
And their answer should probably be, "people have been mixing liquor and caffeine in the form of [rum,whisky,whatever] and Coke for 95 years, and this mixture is generally recognized as safe (for whatever values of 'safe' alcohol permits).
or is this just a "cover our own backs" maneuver to avoid what happened with Galileo, Copernicus and others? Those cases weren't exactly the best publicity they've had.
That and the problems with the Gelgamek Catholics.
You're quite right - Apple is at the top of the proprietary heap.
If iPhone isn't a purposeful implementation of The Innovator's Solution's* description of the proprietary to commodity process I don't know what is. I mean, the authors even have a section on Blackberry and describe how to better it ala iPhone.
Once a reasonable competitor emerges (is it Droid?) Apple will loosen its grip, but until then it commands higher profit by staying as controlling as possible.
* I know, the apostrophe should be after the hyperlink, but slashdot's anti-goat display makes it too confusing.
What Paulson did was explicitly against the ethics rules @ treasury. That's why he got a letter from the Whitehouse counsel saying he was excused from ethics violations in this case before he committed the ethical violations.
I've been selected for Jury duty, and in the written material it said that the Judge would tell us what the law is, and that was the law, not what we knew. It's because the Judge is supposed to interpret the law. The jury is only supposed to determine the facts. i.e. The jury determines that Bob killed Joe. It's up the the judge to say it's illegal for Bob to kill Joe and what the parameters of punishment might be. In some states the Judge then determines the sentence, in others, the jury picks a sentence consistent with what the Judge has determined. Ask a lawyer for clarification in your state.
No, that's what they tell you in jury duty, but it's patently false. The jury's most important job is to judge the law.
The US Supreme Court has held over and over again that the jury is the innocent man's last defence against bad laws, and that jury nullification is a right and necessary function in a free society.
FIJA will have all the materials you need to verify.
I was prevented from serving on a jury when I told the Judge I could not follow the instructions he outlined because they violated the State and US Constitutions and cited the relevant cases. Another strategy is to lie (ascent) and then be a good juror, but the system is set up to keep people who understand their responsibilities as a juror off the jury.
... they also make a DVD player that lasts 1000 years?
Maybe some will be around in 100. To turn marketing speak into 4D space-time, divide claims by 100. My 100-year Kodaks lasted 10, so maybe these will be around in 100. By which time, all of our collective information ought to fit on one USB-key-sized widget. (I'm kidding, but Moore may not be).
Of course, there's a huge amount of information on each disc. It'd take a long time to go over even part of one by hand, but it could be done. After all, even in the 17th century, huge logarithm table [wikipedia.org] books were produced.
Deciphering the MPEG-2 stream might turn out to be the hard part. But if they're human and have some clue it's porn, the grad students will get it done sooner or later.
You know, when CDs and DVDs came out, they claimed they would last 50 years
I've had one music CD fail on me, out of several hundred. My oldest is from 1987.
CD-R's do have high failure rate, in my experience. Most of my "Kodak Gold" discs from 1996 are filled with errors. My newer (post 2002) discs are all Taiyo Yuden, and knock on cyanine they're still all good (but not as old).
Possibly, but my parents have a PPC one, so that doesn't help them at all. Instead, they just cart the camera over to my place every time they need a DVD burned.
Yeah, Apple abandons its own hardware every 10 years. We've got 5 years left on Intel.:)
Really, though, I understand an Intel mini is worth $350 on eBay. If they have a PPC mini they might get $150 for it from a guy wanting to run mythfrontend. Their machine is at least three years old, so maybe a $200 upgrade would be in the mix?
Even worse? It means I have to have the shitty Sony software *on my computer!* Sony somehow managed to make their camera incompatible with Windows Movie Maker. Bastards.
P'shaw, install linux so you can't help them! Really though, installing Sony software on your Windows machine? You're not new here.
It may be noble in goal, but AOL's implementation makes things hell on sysadmins trying to load-balance AOL users' connections. In a given session, even a page load, I can expect connections from n number of (published) AOL proxies, *and* the user's home broadband IP. It's not possible to correlate them at layer 3, so nasty layer-7 checks get used instead, and AOL users wind up getting shoved into non-redundant systems.
I went to school in NJ and several teachers had previously taught in NY. They alway spoke (in terror) of these Regents exams, which were tests students had to pass to move up to the next grade.
Quick googling finds this test from last summer, which on first glance looks like fair coverage of basic algebra.
So, have requirements changed or was the CUNY test absurd?
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Sure, but what are the hypothetical risks? We don't ever revoke corporate charters anymore, so it's purely a cash risk/reward calculation.
bureaucracy is self-perpetuating?
Most of the drinks in question are not the functional equivalent of a rum and coke. We're talking more along the lines of a no-doze with a shot of rum as a chaser.
Thanks, you pushed me to look up the numbers.
Bud Extra seems to have 54mg of caffeine in a 10-oz can (CSPI settlement document.)
A No-Doze has 200mg of caffeine.
Coke Classic is 2.8mg/oz, or in a half-can mixed drink 16.8mg, so that's indeed not equivalent.
However, drip coffee is 18.1mg/oz (I know, overly precise for an average).
The top two google recipes for Irish Coffee call for 6 or 8 oz. Taking the conservative 6, that nets 109mg caffeine and one oz whisky, which should be about the same alcohol as a can of beer.
So, Irish coffee is double the concentration of caffeine to alcohol as the Bud product. If you can figure out when coffee beans were first imported to Ireland, you'll know when the first Irish coffee was made (perhaps without the sugar and cream - that appears to be a US thing from the mid 20th century.)
If Apple prevails on the remaining issues, we might find out. If Psystar is forced into bankruptcy, their records would be among the property transferred to the receivers.
Yes, let's see if Apple enters the highest bid for whatever the 'damages' don't cover.
So, who was behind Psystar? Dell perhaps? There's no chance in hell a startup box builder would go to these lengths to test a legal theory. Their vested interest in the supposed business was a pittance compared to the cost to fight this, so where'd they get the money?
Obviously, Psystar was staged for the exclusive purpose of being sued .
The most likely answer seems to be 'Apple'. I have to admit, that's pretty damn clever.
Let's see if they buy up all of PyStar's assets at bankruptcy sale "to really find out" and then never proceed with further action.
Meanwhile, their EULA is mostly court-validated against any potential cloners.
We tried banning cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and a laundry list of other drugs as well. It hasn't worked out any better.
That's simply not true. It's provided tremendous revenue for black ops government entities that don't officially exist, has kept the military industrial complex well fed, the US at a constant state of 'war' and provided cover for a creeping police state.
It's worked out tremendously (unless you care about quaint things like rule-of-law).
7% use illegal drugs (White House), and that includes marijuana.
yeah, so consider the source. A recent survey here in NH found 11% freely admitting to pollsters that they smoke weed.
This has nothing to do with banning Jack & Coke, Red Bull + Vodka, etc... Well, more specifically, they're asking the makers why they thought they didn't have to clear it with the FDA.
And their answer should probably be, "people have been mixing liquor and caffeine in the form of [rum,whisky,whatever] and Coke for 95 years, and this mixture is generally recognized as safe (for whatever values of 'safe' alcohol permits).
I think that's what this thread is about.
That and the problems with the Gelgamek Catholics.
You're quite right - Apple is at the top of the proprietary heap.
If iPhone isn't a purposeful implementation of The Innovator's Solution's* description of the proprietary to commodity process I don't know what is. I mean, the authors even have a section on Blackberry and describe how to better it ala iPhone.
Once a reasonable competitor emerges (is it Droid?) Apple will loosen its grip, but until then it commands higher profit by staying as controlling as possible.
* I know, the apostrophe should be after the hyperlink, but slashdot's anti-goat display makes it too confusing.
That raises an interesting philosophical question: does the heat death of the universe signal an end to time?
And, in a few decades, move on to somewhere that is no longer underwater.
eh, if you're running from the US government, that ought to be plenty of time.
Then surely the programmers shall hang.
Oh, yeah.
What Paulson did was explicitly against the ethics rules @ treasury. That's why he got a letter from the Whitehouse counsel saying he was excused from ethics violations in this case before he committed the ethical violations.
you've successfully identified Microsoft's target customers.
No, that's what they tell you in jury duty, but it's patently false. The jury's most important job is to judge the law.
The US Supreme Court has held over and over again that the jury is the innocent man's last defence against bad laws, and that jury nullification is a right and necessary function in a free society.
FIJA will have all the materials you need to verify.
I was prevented from serving on a jury when I told the Judge I could not follow the instructions he outlined because they violated the State and US Constitutions and cited the relevant cases. Another strategy is to lie (ascent) and then be a good juror, but the system is set up to keep people who understand their responsibilities as a juror off the jury.
The lightbulb was invented before the physics model of how it works was complete.
Maybe some will be around in 100. To turn marketing speak into 4D space-time, divide claims by 100. My 100-year Kodaks lasted 10, so maybe these will be around in 100. By which time, all of our collective information ought to fit on one USB-key-sized widget. (I'm kidding, but Moore may not be).
Deciphering the MPEG-2 stream might turn out to be the hard part. But if they're human and have some clue it's porn, the grad students will get it done sooner or later.
Possibly, but my parents have a PPC one, so that doesn't help them at all. Instead, they just cart the camera over to my place every time they need a DVD burned.
Yeah, Apple abandons its own hardware every 10 years. We've got 5 years left on Intel. :)
Really, though, I understand an Intel mini is worth $350 on eBay. If they have a PPC mini they might get $150 for it from a guy wanting to run mythfrontend. Their machine is at least three years old, so maybe a $200 upgrade would be in the mix?
Even worse? It means I have to have the shitty Sony software *on my computer!* Sony somehow managed to make their camera incompatible with Windows Movie Maker. Bastards.
P'shaw, install linux so you can't help them! Really though, installing Sony software on your Windows machine? You're not new here.
It may be noble in goal, but AOL's implementation makes things hell on sysadmins trying to load-balance AOL users' connections. In a given session, even a page load, I can expect connections from n number of (published) AOL proxies, *and* the user's home broadband IP. It's not possible to correlate them at layer 3, so nasty layer-7 checks get used instead, and AOL users wind up getting shoved into non-redundant systems.
I went to school in NJ and several teachers had previously taught in NY. They alway spoke (in terror) of these Regents exams, which were tests students had to pass to move up to the next grade.
Quick googling finds this test from last summer, which on first glance looks like fair coverage of basic algebra.
So, have requirements changed or was the CUNY test absurd?
and can't find it already 80% implemented in CPAN modules,
in at least three different ways, no less! Plus ThingToDo::Lite.