She's not the loon that the submitter tries to make her out to be.
So, she's demanding fifty-four million bucks because she's so calm and collected?
Sorry, this is asinine. The purpose of tort litigation is supposed to be to make someone whole after a loss due to someone's negligence or malfeasance, not to be a lottery where you file to get rich if you get lucky on jury selection. This woman should have the case dismissed, and she and her attorney should be sanctioned for filing it.
The iPhone and the iPod touch are both excellent devices for controlling a house. Now we need USB or Wi-Fi enabled thermostats, garage door openers, door locks, etc. X-10 was a cool idea for its time, but it's showing its age.
That may not matter, if you have a steady supply. The win would be that detection would be difficult due to the size, and interception at sea wouldn't risk the capture of the smugglers.
I'd say it depends on the temperature gradient more than the depth. Even 50' lakes can have a pretty significant temperature difference from the surface to the bottom.
Our system is a final check on government power, and that's come in handy on many occasions. A jury's conviction can be overturned, but an acquittal can not.
The Federal government can make chickens legal tender if it wants to.
Nope. The federal government's powers are only those explicitly given to it in the constitution. It's given the power to coin money, not to create a central bank, nor issue bills of credit, nor to do many of the things that it does today.
I remember Ross Perot's proposal of simple reciprocity: any trading partner would get the very same terms for their exports to the USA that American exports got to their country. That went over like a lead balloon in DC.
The federal reserve made the great depression worse (but did not cause it as you seem to almost imply), but it made it worse by tightening the money supply after the depression hit rather than expanding it.
Don't forget that the fed caused it in the first place, with the massive inflation that drove the stock bubble in the 1920's.
According to keynesian theory
According to Keynsian theory, it's not possible to have high inflation and high unemployment at the same time. Ever hear of the "stagflation" of the 1970s?
Keynes has been proven wrong, and Von Mises has been proven right, over and over again.
Free trade is just that: trade between private parties in different countries without government interference. Ideally with no tariffs at all, not a patchwork of tariffs to reward some players and punish others according to who can best lobby the congress and the bureaucrats.
That's a rather blatant lie. Paul has consistently supported free trade (even with Cuba). This is why he's opposed to organizations like the GTO and treaties like NAFTA, which extensively regulate international trade.
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Java which was the most popular development language for MAC aside from Objective C.
Nope. Java was a rather distant fourth, after C and C++.
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they were getting alot of people developing apps in java
Not exactly. There wasn't a lot of uptake of the Cocoa Java library, so Apple decided to quit spending the money to maintain it.
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You're off by a factor of 2000, sunshine.
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Apple's development tools have been available free of charge since the Apple/NeXT merger.
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Good answer, Bill.
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What part of "I tried to give it back, but they wouldn't take it" constitutes "acceptance"..?
The part where she took the money.
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She's not the loon that the submitter tries to make her out to be.
So, she's demanding fifty-four million bucks because she's so calm and collected?
Sorry, this is asinine. The purpose of tort litigation is supposed to be to make someone whole after a loss due to someone's negligence or malfeasance, not to be a lottery where you file to get rich if you get lucky on jury selection. This woman should have the case dismissed, and she and her attorney should be sanctioned for filing it.
-jcr
The iPhone and the iPod touch are both excellent devices for controlling a house. Now we need USB or Wi-Fi enabled thermostats, garage door openers, door locks, etc. X-10 was a cool idea for its time, but it's showing its age.
-jcr
(upward) price adjustment is the definition of inflation.
Guess again.
Rising prices are the result of inflation, they are not inflation itself.
-jcr
That may not matter, if you have a steady supply. The win would be that detection would be difficult due to the size, and interception at sea wouldn't risk the capture of the smugglers.
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. Then again, why should they make money for someone elses work that they didn't make themselves?
Because the author chose to give it to them.
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Jackson himself only got paid after he sued New Line
Not exactly. He had already been paid quite a bit, but not nearly as much as they owed him.
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I can't see it working well in shallow waters.
I'd say it depends on the temperature gradient more than the depth. Even 50' lakes can have a pretty significant temperature difference from the surface to the bottom.
-jcr
Just sayin'...
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It is a scary system you have.
Our system is a final check on government power, and that's come in handy on many occasions. A jury's conviction can be overturned, but an acquittal can not.
-jcr
Shatner! speaks! with! exclamation! points! Not! commas!
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The Federal government can make chickens legal tender if it wants to.
Nope. The federal government's powers are only those explicitly given to it in the constitution. It's given the power to coin money, not to create a central bank, nor issue bills of credit, nor to do many of the things that it does today.
-jcr
FTA: "A-4 Skyhawk plane is about 720 degrees per second. The roll rate of a barn swallow exceeds 5,000 degrees per second. "
Duh!
I'll bet that if I made a model of the A-4 the size and weight of a barn swallow, I could make it roll that fast, too.
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NAFTA and WTO are attempts to work, imperfectly, toward free trade.
Not even close. That's just the rhetoric that was used to sell them to the voters.
-jcr
Your graph is of the CPI, not the money supply. It takes time for prices to adjust to inflation, but they always do.
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As for NAFTA, it was not free trade
I remember Ross Perot's proposal of simple reciprocity: any trading partner would get the very same terms for their exports to the USA that American exports got to their country. That went over like a lead balloon in DC.
-jcr
Here you go.
He's also written extensively on economics, monetary and foreign policy, and there's a large archive of his speeches in congress here.
-jcr
The federal reserve made the great depression worse (but did not cause it as you seem to almost imply), but it made it worse by tightening the money supply after the depression hit rather than expanding it.
Don't forget that the fed caused it in the first place, with the massive inflation that drove the stock bubble in the 1920's.
According to keynesian theory
According to Keynsian theory, it's not possible to have high inflation and high unemployment at the same time. Ever hear of the "stagflation" of the 1970s?
Keynes has been proven wrong, and Von Mises has been proven right, over and over again.
-jcr
Do believe that NAFTA is a free trade agreement?
Free trade is just that: trade between private parties in different countries without government interference. Ideally with no tariffs at all, not a patchwork of tariffs to reward some players and punish others according to who can best lobby the congress and the bureaucrats.
-jcr
He's also protectionist as hell.
That's a rather blatant lie. Paul has consistently supported free trade (even with Cuba). This is why he's opposed to organizations like the GTO and treaties like NAFTA, which extensively regulate international trade.
-jcr