You're saying that the Most Powerful Country in the World can't stop one of the most backwater little burgs out there from screwing with our money?
Of course we could. All it would take is restoring the rule of law and limiting our government to coinage of gold and silver as the constitution allows. If the Norks want to mint gold coins that look like American coins, who cares?
Are we supposed to believe that the Norks are printing enough bogus dollars to amount to even a thousandth of a percent of what the Fed conjures out of thin air every day?
I haven't flown on AA for quite a few years because their service is crap and their planes are definitely showing their age, but now they're on my "no fly" list.
Owning a passport is not a privilege, it is a natural right of any person to travel unless they've been convicted or are being held over for trial for a crime.
he found it distasteful and limiting to keep using a competitor's product for the purpose.
Incidentally, he never did use PowerPoint. He used Concurrence (which was a NeXTSTEP app from Lighthouse Designs) until he was able to switch to Keynote.
Help individual employees be more effective at their jobs,'
Really? Gosh, Apple would never think of that! How many other vague, handwaving ideas like that can they come up with?
Didn't Microsoft spend about a decade failing to get any traction with their windows tablet PCs before Apple came along and showed them how to do it right?
They'd just drill the safe. If you'd hidden the safe and they couldn't find it, they can't legally compel you to say anything that might help them convict you.
The threat to india is men on foot or motorbikes with rifles and explosives in their backpacks. Fighter aircraft aren't very useful to counter that kind of an opponent.
.. and how many aircraft fatalities have there been in your country in that year where 290 people died on the road? Even without robotic piloting, QED.
Yes, by quite a large margin. Ground cars are so dangerous that we consider it normal to have fatalities every day in every major city. Send a pizza with a flying robot, and you're not sending a ton of glass and steel along for the ride.
Whoever makes a quad-rotor capable of carrying a pizza and two-liter bottle five miles will make a fortune competing with anyone who still delivers pizza in cars.
More than that, though: when we can switch from ground cars to robotic VTOL transportation for our daily commute, we're going to save a hell of a lot of energy, money, and lives. The hardware and flight control is a solved problem. All we need now is peer-to-peer traffic negotiation, and long-distance navigation.
If Nokia focused on making a few really good phones instead of a hundred average ones they might have retained some customer loyalty.
Focusing on a few products is what saved Apple from oblivion back in the late '90s. I really don't understand why so few other companies have learned that lesson.
we've seen Microsoft try to be cool in the past and it was painful to watch (Zune).
It's true, the Zune was about as dismal as a failure ever gets, but the UI on their new phone is at least a decent bit of work. I don't know if their underlying operating system is any good, and I doubt that I would ever bother to find out, since the iPhone already meets my needs, and I expect it to continue to outpace the competition.
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Taking a quick look around the web, I find that I can buy many different makes and models for under $50. Problem solved.
-jcr
Money laundering became a crime in the US over 25 years ago as an anti-drug strategy.
Nah, that was just the propaganda line, The real purpose was to inhibit capital flight.
-jcr
You're saying that the Most Powerful Country in the World can't stop one of the most backwater little burgs out there from screwing with our money?
Of course we could. All it would take is restoring the rule of law and limiting our government to coinage of gold and silver as the constitution allows. If the Norks want to mint gold coins that look like American coins, who cares?
-jcr
Are we supposed to believe that the Norks are printing enough bogus dollars to amount to even a thousandth of a percent of what the Fed conjures out of thin air every day?
-jcr
Isn't the same teleprompter-in-chief who signed an extension of the PATRIOT act?
-jcr
I haven't flown on AA for quite a few years because their service is crap and their planes are definitely showing their age, but now they're on my "no fly" list.
-jcr
Owning a passport is not a privilege, it is a natural right of any person to travel unless they've been convicted or are being held over for trial for a crime.
-jcr
he found it distasteful and limiting to keep using a competitor's product for the purpose.
Incidentally, he never did use PowerPoint. He used Concurrence (which was a NeXTSTEP app from Lighthouse Designs) until he was able to switch to Keynote.
-jcr
Help individual employees be more effective at their jobs,'
Really? Gosh, Apple would never think of that! How many other vague, handwaving ideas like that can they come up with?
Didn't Microsoft spend about a decade failing to get any traction with their windows tablet PCs before Apple came along and showed them how to do it right?
-jcr
They retain recordings of all the radio traffic and make it public after 24 hours.
-jcr
>her deprivation of life, liberty, and property is by due process of law
Nope. Read the fifth amendment again, you obviously have failed to understand it.
-jcr
The Man can trample all over your rights so long as the judicial branch agrees that the executive is following the intention of the legislative.
Up to a point. After all, even the Soviet Union collapsed once their people decided to quit obeying the party bosses.
-jcr
They'd just drill the safe. If you'd hidden the safe and they couldn't find it, they can't legally compel you to say anything that might help them convict you.
-jcr
The fifth amendment is perfectly clear, and he's violated it.
-jcr
There was an open and thriving gay sub culture in England from at least as early as the 1930's and everyone knew.
Your starting date is off by a couple of millennia.
-jcr
A pardon is for the guilty. What is appropriate in this situation is an apology to the victim of a government that violated his human rights.
-jcr
The threat to india is men on foot or motorbikes with rifles and explosives in their backpacks. Fighter aircraft aren't very useful to counter that kind of an opponent.
-jcr
.. and how many aircraft fatalities have there been in your country in that year where 290 people died on the road? Even without robotic piloting, QED.
-jcr
The vehicle is a solved problem. What's left to do is the software I mentioned above.
-jcr
Yes, by quite a large margin. Ground cars are so dangerous that we consider it normal to have fatalities every day in every major city. Send a pizza with a flying robot, and you're not sending a ton of glass and steel along for the ride.
-jcr
Whoever makes a quad-rotor capable of carrying a pizza and two-liter bottle five miles will make a fortune competing with anyone who still delivers pizza in cars.
More than that, though: when we can switch from ground cars to robotic VTOL transportation for our daily commute, we're going to save a hell of a lot of energy, money, and lives. The hardware and flight control is a solved problem. All we need now is peer-to-peer traffic negotiation, and long-distance navigation.
-jcr
Write it, fix it, learn what you did wrong, lather, rinse, repeat. It's how ALL of us gain proficiency.
-jcr
If Nokia focused on making a few really good phones instead of a hundred average ones they might have retained some customer loyalty.
Focusing on a few products is what saved Apple from oblivion back in the late '90s. I really don't understand why so few other companies have learned that lesson.
-jcr
we've seen Microsoft try to be cool in the past and it was painful to watch (Zune).
It's true, the Zune was about as dismal as a failure ever gets, but the UI on their new phone is at least a decent bit of work. I don't know if their underlying operating system is any good, and I doubt that I would ever bother to find out, since the iPhone already meets my needs, and I expect it to continue to outpace the competition.
-jcr
tend to only show phones they think might sell.
Yeah, no shit! Competent electronics manufacturers deliver products that meet that criterion.
Seriously, if Apple had hired some corporate spy to destroy Nokia, he couldn't have done a better job than this guy.
-jcr