Nope. MS put in $150M as a token investment. The main point of that deal was that MS promised to keep shipping Office on the Mac for five years, and Apple let them off the hook for stealing Quicktime code for Windows.
That's what juries are for. What any juror should do in this case is refuse to convict, period. No matter how routinely the government violates the constitution, it is nevertheless the entirety of the legal basis for the government's very existence, and if a judge chooses to ignore it he is no longer exercising a legally granted power from the people.
Most hijackers just want to negotiate and definitely don't want to kill themselves.
9/11 put an end to that kind of hijacking, probably for all time. Now that people know that "just do what the bad man says" isn't a winning survival strategy, the only perps who would attempt an attack in the air are those who intend to die doing it, like shoe bomber and the underpants bomber. (Both of whom were defeated by passengers, and not the TSA, FWIW.)
I can't imagine any sane person thinks preventing guns on plans is a bad thing.
Then your imagination is lacking. I'd feel a great deal safer if I knew that there was at least one trustworthy person on every airplane who was armed and prepared to fight a hijacker.
Ideally, I'd like to see a double-digit percentage of my fellow passengers armed. Attempting to disarm everyone discards the natural advantage of good people outnumbering bad people.
The Second American Revolution will be started in response to the TSA
I wish Americans cared enough about our civil rights for that to be true, but I fear that it's far more likely that the TSA and the rest of multitude of officers sent forth to harass our people and eat out their substance will eventually be defeated by bankruptcy rather than revolution.
Edison was working on re-usable steel formwork, which didn't offer much flexibility in design, and required quite a lot of labor to assemble, pour and strip. The contour crafting system could potentially be run by a single operator.
I hope he gets the funding he needs to get it on the market soon. Construction is one of the most dangerous jobs there is, and the more of it we can automate, the better. Plus, I love the incredible flexibility that this technology makes possible.
The supreme court often fails to defend our rights, and this is just one more example. Go read what Daniel Webster had to say about conscription, you pompous ass.
If the government does it, it's legal "conscription."
Technically, conscription is a crime. There's no authority in the constitution to force people into the military. The fifth amendment prohibits depriving anyone of life, liberty or property without due process of law, and the thirteenth amendment abolishes involuntary servitude except for anyone who's been convicted of a crime.
That's exactly what's happening. There are too many vendors trying to sell solar panels and not enough customers to keep them in business, so they're going belly-up. Profit and loss is how you know whether people want you to keep doing what you're doing.
When a better term is provided for people who don't believe in a god or gods but feel the need to go around telling themselves of the fact is invented we will use that term.
Science isn't a god, it's knowledge combined a method for increasing knowledge. Believers try to claim that it's a god, so that they can oppose it the way they oppose competitors for whatever god they adhere to.
The whole U.S. is established on the idea of God and religion.
Nope. Read the Declaration of Independence. Our country is founded on rebellion against royal authority, which was purportedly granted by god.
In 1789, we ratified a constitution which prohibits the establishment of an official religion, and bars the government from prohibiting us from practicing religion freely.
The idea that our country was founded on religion started gathering force during the civil war, when propagandists on either side claimed biblical justification for the war. In the aftermath of the war, northern bible-thumpers claimed that god endorsed their genocidal intentions towards the plains indians, since they weren't christians. Even if they converted, the "progressives" still did all they could to try to wipe out their culture.
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had to be rescued by Microsoft.
Nope. MS put in $150M as a token investment. The main point of that deal was that MS promised to keep shipping Office on the Mac for five years, and Apple let them off the hook for stealing Quicktime code for Windows.
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Yes they did, and unlike Apple, they failed to adapt to changing technology.
-jcr
That's what juries are for. What any juror should do in this case is refuse to convict, period. No matter how routinely the government violates the constitution, it is nevertheless the entirety of the legal basis for the government's very existence, and if a judge chooses to ignore it he is no longer exercising a legally granted power from the people.
-jcr
He needs a remedial course on the fifth amendment, and the people of the United States need to have him impeached, removed from office, and disbarred.
-jcr
Most hijackers just want to negotiate and definitely don't want to kill themselves.
9/11 put an end to that kind of hijacking, probably for all time. Now that people know that "just do what the bad man says" isn't a winning survival strategy, the only perps who would attempt an attack in the air are those who intend to die doing it, like shoe bomber and the underpants bomber. (Both of whom were defeated by passengers, and not the TSA, FWIW.)
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They are performing random stops and searches on highways and public roads.
There's a legal term for that. It's called a Fourth Amendment Violation.
-jcr
I can't imagine any sane person thinks preventing guns on plans is a bad thing.
Then your imagination is lacking. I'd feel a great deal safer if I knew that there was at least one trustworthy person on every airplane who was armed and prepared to fight a hijacker.
Ideally, I'd like to see a double-digit percentage of my fellow passengers armed. Attempting to disarm everyone discards the natural advantage of good people outnumbering bad people.
-jcr
The Second American Revolution will be started in response to the TSA
I wish Americans cared enough about our civil rights for that to be true, but I fear that it's far more likely that the TSA and the rest of multitude of officers sent forth to harass our people and eat out their substance will eventually be defeated by bankruptcy rather than revolution.
-jcr
Edison was working on re-usable steel formwork, which didn't offer much flexibility in design, and required quite a lot of labor to assemble, pour and strip. The contour crafting system could potentially be run by a single operator.
-jcr
I hope he gets the funding he needs to get it on the market soon. Construction is one of the most dangerous jobs there is, and the more of it we can automate, the better. Plus, I love the incredible flexibility that this technology makes possible.
-jcr
The supreme court often fails to defend our rights, and this is just one more example. Go read what Daniel Webster had to say about conscription, you pompous ass.
-jcr
If the government does it, it's legal "conscription."
Technically, conscription is a crime. There's no authority in the constitution to force people into the military. The fifth amendment prohibits depriving anyone of life, liberty or property without due process of law, and the thirteenth amendment abolishes involuntary servitude except for anyone who's been convicted of a crime.
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he is economically illiterate.
At the risk of damning with faint praise, he's far better educated than you are.
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A hundred and fifty grand doesn't sound like a whole lot of money for medical equipment.
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Except the Constitution expressly gives the Supreme Court the power to interpret the Constitution.
Nope. The Constitution doesn't even use the word "interpret" at all.
The Constitution is written in English, not Sanskrit. It doesn't require interpretation.
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That's four out of four you got wrong. Thanks for playing, you lying anonymous troll.
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If the viewers can't find what they want on the tube, they'll get it somewhere else.
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So far, Facebook has seemed content to grow their core business rather than branch out into other offerings.
Seems like Zuckerberg learned something in the time he spent talking to Steve Jobs.
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Well, you can't blame HP for trying.
After all, Schwartz managed to sell Sun to Oracle for vastly more than it was worth.
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That's exactly what's happening. There are too many vendors trying to sell solar panels and not enough customers to keep them in business, so they're going belly-up. Profit and loss is how you know whether people want you to keep doing what you're doing.
-jcr
When a better term is provided for people who don't believe in a god or gods but feel the need to go around telling themselves of the fact is invented we will use that term.
I propose "antitheist", or "debunker".
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Maybe because murderers are acting just like the catholic god, albeit on a much smaller scale?
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their God, Science
Science isn't a god, it's knowledge combined a method for increasing knowledge. Believers try to claim that it's a god, so that they can oppose it the way they oppose competitors for whatever god they adhere to.
The whole U.S. is established on the idea of God and religion.
Nope. Read the Declaration of Independence. Our country is founded on rebellion against royal authority, which was purportedly granted by god.
In 1789, we ratified a constitution which prohibits the establishment of an official religion, and bars the government from prohibiting us from practicing religion freely.
The idea that our country was founded on religion started gathering force during the civil war, when propagandists on either side claimed biblical justification for the war. In the aftermath of the war, northern bible-thumpers claimed that god endorsed their genocidal intentions towards the plains indians, since they weren't christians. Even if they converted, the "progressives" still did all they could to try to wipe out their culture.
I'd imagine he could auction it off for enough to repair the roof.
-jcr