"general Welfare of the United States" is pretty much "whatever you think is good".
No. "General Welfare" is a term from contract law, and in the constitution it's a limit on the taxing power: it requires all appropriations to be made for the benefit of the people as a whole, not favoring any region or group at the expense of another.
Someone wake me up when I can get a non-volatile petabyte storage device that operates at today's DRAM speeds. Also, I want it to sell for under a hundred bucks, draw less than a watt of power in use, and fit in a one-centimeter cube.
I've heard of putting sugar on a cut with some antibiotic ointment, supposedly to promote faster healing. I hadn't heard that it was supposed to improve the effectiveness of the antibiotic, though. I thought it was to promote cell growth.
Back around the time the Mac II came out, I took one into Sears for repairs. They called me a couple of days later and told me it was ready, and when I got there, I found out that they had cannibalized it for parts, and they said they couldn't get it to me for another week.
I sent Apple a letter about it, and got an apology signed by John Sculley. I don't know if there were any repercussions for Sears.
Getting high enough yields is the hard part. The chances of a dead pixel are proportional to the area of the display, and inversely proportional to the pixel size. Also, with feature sizes this small, there's much higher chance of a whole line being bad. Making a high DPI display for a phone is a lot easier than making one for a tablet.
I hope they're able to get this on the market soon, but I'd be surprised if I can buy a 300+ DPI iPad in less than two years.
I don't think people would be willing to fly on an airplane without a pilot
Maybe not yet, but after there's a record of a couple of years and thousands of flight hours where you can show that the autopilots have a lower rate of failure than human pilots, I would expect that to change.
>Something intended for cargo is going to be large and expensive.
That depends on the cargo. It may be sacks of flour (really heavy), or it may be medicine (not heavy at all). Also, if you're not paying for a pilot, you're saving the weight and the expense of carrying a man wherever that payload needs to go. Not to mention, since computers don't need to sleep, you can fly the UAV 24/7 if you want, and only stop it for refueling, loading and unloading the cargo.
I know that one particular development group at Apple found considerable gains in productivity from using unit tests consistently, where every time they fixed a bug, they wrote a test to confirm the fix. The upshot was that they spent far less time chasing down regressions than they did before they adopted the policy.
>Only a moron wouldn't see the difference between Bush policies and Obama's.
Obama promised an end to federal harassment of medical marijuana users. What he actually delivered was a one-week hiatus between taking office and the DEA ransacking a dispensary in California.
>Barack Obama's policies of government intervention into the economy have brought us from a near depression to an economic recovery.
Guess again. Obama's following the Bush/Hoover/FDR playbook, which is preventing the recovery.
>Democrats pushed health care reform, and got it passed into law by 1 fucking vote against 100% Republican opposition.
"Reform", my ass. Making it mandatory to buy insurance from Obama's campaign contributors isn't reform, it's usurpation.
> Try not to be such a fucking brain-dead moron in the future.
This issue will remain for as long as it is possible for anyone to dictate to anyone else what their children will be taught in schools. It's not just science versus superstition, it's also history versus propaganda.
the primary target for harassment and hate of the KKK was the Roman Catholic Church.
No, the RC church was a fair bit down on the list. The first targets were the union occupation troops, then the freed slaves, then the "carpetbaggers". The KKK started out as the terrorist wing of the Democratic party in the southern states, like the Sinn Fein/IRA relationship in the early 20th century.
The only motive Apple needs, is their fiduciary duty to protect the value of the design work they've done. As a shareholder, I expect Apple to go after cloners with both barrels.
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"general Welfare of the United States" is pretty much "whatever you think is good".
No. "General Welfare" is a term from contract law, and in the constitution it's a limit on the taxing power: it requires all appropriations to be made for the benefit of the people as a whole, not favoring any region or group at the expense of another.
-jcr
Und warum glaubt deise Leute daß Hamburger Hackfleisch besonders Amerikanisch ist? Meine deutschen Vorfahren würden etwas über das zu sagen.
-jcr
Someone wake me up when I can get a non-volatile petabyte storage device that operates at today's DRAM speeds. Also, I want it to sell for under a hundred bucks, draw less than a watt of power in use, and fit in a one-centimeter cube.
-jcr
I've heard of putting sugar on a cut with some antibiotic ointment, supposedly to promote faster healing. I hadn't heard that it was supposed to improve the effectiveness of the antibiotic, though. I thought it was to promote cell growth.
-jcr
Yeah, but that happened many years later.
-jcr
Back around the time the Mac II came out, I took one into Sears for repairs. They called me a couple of days later and told me it was ready, and when I got there, I found out that they had cannibalized it for parts, and they said they couldn't get it to me for another week.
I sent Apple a letter about it, and got an apology signed by John Sculley. I don't know if there were any repercussions for Sears.
-jcr
Getting high enough yields is the hard part. The chances of a dead pixel are proportional to the area of the display, and inversely proportional to the pixel size. Also, with feature sizes this small, there's much higher chance of a whole line being bad. Making a high DPI display for a phone is a lot easier than making one for a tablet.
I hope they're able to get this on the market soon, but I'd be surprised if I can buy a 300+ DPI iPad in less than two years.
-jcr
I don't think people would be willing to fly on an airplane without a pilot
Maybe not yet, but after there's a record of a couple of years and thousands of flight hours where you can show that the autopilots have a lower rate of failure than human pilots, I would expect that to change.
-jcr
>Something intended for cargo is going to be large and expensive.
That depends on the cargo. It may be sacks of flour (really heavy), or it may be medicine (not heavy at all). Also, if you're not paying for a pilot, you're saving the weight and the expense of carrying a man wherever that payload needs to go. Not to mention, since computers don't need to sleep, you can fly the UAV 24/7 if you want, and only stop it for refueling, loading and unloading the cargo.
-jcr
Seems to me that there must be a market in Canada and Alaska for aerial supply where you can fly in weather that's too dangerous to risk a pilot.
-jcr
I know that one particular development group at Apple found considerable gains in productivity from using unit tests consistently, where every time they fixed a bug, they wrote a test to confirm the fix. The upshot was that they spent far less time chasing down regressions than they did before they adopted the policy.
-jcr
>Only a moron wouldn't see the difference between Bush policies and Obama's.
Obama promised an end to federal harassment of medical marijuana users. What he actually delivered was a one-week hiatus between taking office and the DEA ransacking a dispensary in California.
>Barack Obama's policies of government intervention into the economy have brought us from a near depression to an economic recovery.
Guess again. Obama's following the Bush/Hoover/FDR playbook, which is preventing the recovery.
>Democrats pushed health care reform, and got it passed into law by 1 fucking vote against 100% Republican opposition.
"Reform", my ass. Making it mandatory to buy insurance from Obama's campaign contributors isn't reform, it's usurpation.
> Try not to be such a fucking brain-dead moron in the future.
That's advice you would do well to take, kid.
-jcr
>We are still recovering from retarded Republican policies.
I wish!
No, the Democrats haven't deviated from Bush's policies, they've only accelerated them.
-jcr
It will do far more damage to Tokyo, when it wakes up Godzilla.
-jcr
This issue will remain for as long as it is possible for anyone to dictate to anyone else what their children will be taught in schools. It's not just science versus superstition, it's also history versus propaganda.
-jcr
Not to mention, there's no trees to hug up there.
-jcr
the primary target for harassment and hate of the KKK was the Roman Catholic Church.
No, the RC church was a fair bit down on the list. The first targets were the union occupation troops, then the freed slaves, then the "carpetbaggers". The KKK started out as the terrorist wing of the Democratic party in the southern states, like the Sinn Fein/IRA relationship in the early 20th century.
-jcr
The only motive Apple needs, is their fiduciary duty to protect the value of the design work they've done. As a shareholder, I expect Apple to go after cloners with both barrels.
-jcr
If they want to get people to quit using the net, they should lead by example.
-jcr
Dude, if you're really sure AAPL's going to be under $340 in a month, then buy some puts. Shorting AAPL is just begging for pain.
-jcr
If you're short at $340, you're a bit over ten bucks out of the money as of today's close: AAPL 350.7 +8.29
-jcr
What I want to know is how much of that 50% is from hardware sales and what is from app store revenue.
Not that much. See here.
-jcr
I concur. I've got a Wi-Fi iPad, and most of the places I go, (airports, hotels, many restaurants) I'm covered.
-jcr
With your newfangled "printing press", you put all those scribes out of work! Damn you!
-jcr
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain.
-jcr