Help me catch badguys without infringing on their liberties.
It's called "getting a warrant". If you have probable cause to believe a crime has been or is being committed, then talk to a judge and follow the law.
Like hell it is. Nullification is the entire purpose of our right to trial by jury, among other things. When the government exceeds its constitutional authority, it's our right and duty to nullify that action.
Apple's earnings ratio (20.6) is reasonable given their earnings growth of the last few years. ...Especially when you consider the additional revenue on the way from iAds, which is announced but not yet released.
Since the Apple/NeXT merger, Apple has 1) pulled back from the brink of oblivion with the iMac product line, 2) taken over the music player market with the iPod, 3) become the largest music retailer in the world, 4) set a new standard for smart phones that has everyone else playing catch-up, and 5) launched the fastest-growing application platform ever.
I'm expecting Apple to pull ahead of Exxon/Mobil by the end of this year. In this economy, there's only two things I'll buy to protect my net worth: AAPL and bullion coins.
It's also the people who are proud of memorizing volumes of minutia about how to cope with Windows' myriad failures. It's like the C++ weenies who are smug about mastering needless complexity.
You raise a good point. Stanislaw Lem pointed out that if you postulate that there's a god, nothing at all follows from that assumption. If an omnipotent will exists, then by definition everything is already as it wants.
Oh, for crying out loud.. Apple sold a lot more 3G phones than the previous model. Why would you imagine that they would want to delay shipping a 3G version? When the original iPhone shipped, they had to make some trade-offs, and a year later there was another generation of parts available.
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There have been off shore transaction processors for years.
Yep. The effect of this IRS action will be primarily to damage eBay's business.
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It's also worth noting that the IRS is prohibited by law from sharing information with other government departments,
That doesn't stop them, of course.
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Help me catch badguys without infringing on their liberties.
It's called "getting a warrant". If you have probable cause to believe a crime has been or is being committed, then talk to a judge and follow the law.
-jcr
Nullification is unconstitutional.
Like hell it is. Nullification is the entire purpose of our right to trial by jury, among other things. When the government exceeds its constitutional authority, it's our right and duty to nullify that action.
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It will be justified under the 'interstate commerce' clause
Rationalized, not justified.
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Apple's earnings ratio (20.6) is reasonable given their earnings growth of the last few years. ...Especially when you consider the additional revenue on the way from iAds, which is announced but not yet released.
Since the Apple/NeXT merger, Apple has 1) pulled back from the brink of oblivion with the iMac product line, 2) taken over the music player market with the iPod, 3) become the largest music retailer in the world, 4) set a new standard for smart phones that has everyone else playing catch-up, and 5) launched the fastest-growing application platform ever.
I'm expecting Apple to pull ahead of Exxon/Mobil by the end of this year. In this economy, there's only two things I'll buy to protect my net worth: AAPL and bullion coins.
-jcr
Apple's Price/Earnings ratio is 20.7. Adobe's is 46. I know which one I'd consider overpriced. ;-)
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Avoiding a product because you don't like one of the millions of people who've bought it? Who the hell modded that "insightful"?
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It's also the people who are proud of memorizing volumes of minutia about how to cope with Windows' myriad failures. It's like the C++ weenies who are smug about mastering needless complexity.
Yes, but we all know what socialists really want.
What they really want is power over other people.
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Hope I make it to 95.
Gardner will be missed.
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Wikipedia has a pretty good rundown of our school funding situation here.
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More per child. Mostly, it gets wasted on bureaucrats who never see the inside of a classroom.
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> education needs a whole hell of a lot more money;
Nope. We spend more than Germany or Japan, and we don't get what we pay for. Adding funding to a broken system doesn't fix the system.
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Was the monster obliged to obey Frankenstein?
You raise a good point. Stanislaw Lem pointed out that if you postulate that there's a god, nothing at all follows from that assumption. If an omnipotent will exists, then by definition everything is already as it wants.
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"Not without a warrant, motherfucker."
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There is no such thing as a reasonable theocracy.
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When you "blow the tubes" you're using compressed air to force the water out. The water is the ballast.
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If it had the ability to liquify air, that would be far more interesting.
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Ballast is weight that counteracts buoyancy. By introducing air into its shell, the animal is adding buoyancy.
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Not quite. We're heading that way, but I think it's still possible to turn around.
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Rome is the canonical example of a Republic that degenerated into an Empire. I hope we can avoid following them.
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there were plenty of good 3G chipsets around at the time where battery life would have been fine
Fine for vendors with lesser expectations, sure. Apple set a higher bar.
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Oh, for crying out loud.. Apple sold a lot more 3G phones than the previous model. Why would you imagine that they would want to delay shipping a 3G version? When the original iPhone shipped, they had to make some trade-offs, and a year later there was another generation of parts available.
-jcr
Interesting. I've never cared at all about Microsoft's mobile products, so I wasn't aware of that. Thanks.
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