Well, the Federal Government occasionally steps in when there's a "risk" that it could cross state lines. Drugs, kidnapping, and bank robbery are some examples.
i would assume the current incumbent would stay in office. I think he would be just like any other lame duck in office.
Well, that depends. For example, a "lame duck" president is in office for about 2 months. So assuming we have an election in, say, November and "None of the Above" wins, do we have only two months to decide? Considering that primaries run for about 5 or 6 months (and it takes time to set up primaries), I'd say you're looking at a minimum of one year of "lame duckiness."
If the none of the above is selected his ass is out of office with no chance at reelection.
Unless he's the incumbent, in which case he stays on in a "lame duck" mode for another year.
This always sounds like a neat idea--"None of the above! That'll show those bastards!" But if "None of the Above" wins, what do we do while we pick new candidates? Does the incumbent stay on office until new candidates are picked? Wouldn't this sort of push incumbents into negative campaigning in order to convince voters that you don't like anybody?
There are two kinds of people that post crazy stuff on the internet the people that truly believe it and the trolls [...]
Okay. So let's say he truly believes this stuff.
Here in America, we don't lock up people based on their beliefs. Just because I believe there is a guy who lives up in the clouds and created the universe and is all-powerful doesn't mean I get locked up, no matter how ridiculous that might sound to you. And if I believe that he has told me that he hates women who have abortions and that I should kill any woman who considers having an abortion, I still don't get locked up.
I don't get locked up until I actually make an attempt to kill said woman. We are not judged by our beliefs. We are judged by our actions.
What you're engaging in is "Pre-crime." "Well, he's obviously paranoid. And he's been trained to use weapons and kill people. So he might do that. So we need to lock him up for his own safety as well as ours."
That's right. You're locking him up because he might commit a crime.
The sad part of all of this is that he's right--"The Government" is now officially out to get him and lock him up because of what he's saying. If he wasn't paranoid before, he definitely is now. If I were him, I'd either lock myself in my home with a lot of guns and try to fight them off (which didn't work so well in Waco and Ruby Ridge) or I'd go on the offensive and get them before they get me.
Good thing for Mitt that "Heck of a Job Brownie" doesn't still run FEMA.
RNC Host Committee CEO Ken Jones said, "I have full faith and confident with the state of Florida, with FEMA, the local emergency management that if there is a bad weather incident, we will get people out, we will make sure they're safe and get on their way and out of harms way."
So...wait a second? Is he saying that he's depending on the Federal Government to rescue them? I thought Republicans were all about self-sufficiency...
One potential reason is that FaceTime works right out of the box. That inspires more people to use it.
I don't have a Skype account. So I have to set that up, import addresses, blah, blah, blah. I have an Apple ID--Apple pretty much forced me to get one. It uses my existing contacts so there's nothing to really set up.
So, yeah, I could believe that AT&T is concerned that lots more people will use FaceTime on their iPhones than currently use Skype on their iPhones.
US Navy...hmm..polaris missile launch destroys a major city. Chevron oil refineries start catching fire and economic chaos ensues.
But the Wisconsin Department of Transportation?! Dear God--I could cut off cheese deliveries to North America! Now that's power!!
(Note: I'm sure that I couldn't use this hack to launch a polaris missile. Yes, I'm aware there are tons of failsafes regarding nuclear weapons. This is meant to be humorous.)
Well, keep in mind, that's the press. Not necessarily reality.
Think back to that quote from Sneakers. Apple's problem was that they were going out of business because everybody knew they were going out of business. The press was saying it, the analysts were saying it, so it must be true.
If you're a potential Apple customer, would you buy a computer from a company that everybody knew was going out of business? If you're an Apple supplier, are you going to give good credit terms to Apple? After all, they're going to go out of business any day now you'll be left holding the bag. You may get 10 cents on the dollar in bankruptcy court.
Apple had plenty of cash. Part of the problem was that they were having to spend it. A story I heard was that Motorola wouldn't even give them better than NET30 for CPUs. Don't know if it's true or not, but I wouldn't be surprised. Everybody knew that Apple was doomed and nobody wanted to be left holding the bag.
Apple partisans will be quick to point out that the $150 million in stock that Microsoft bought was a drop in the bucket. They may be right. But the amount wasn't important. It was the perception: Microsoft will bolster Apple in order to keep up the appearance of competition. The suppliers see that Apple isn't going out of business, so they don't have to worry about not getting their money. If all else fails, Microsoft will buy Apple and they'll get paid.
In July of 1997, I was just returning from a vacation in Southeast Asia. I'd pretty much been incommunicado for the previous two weeks. I get on the airplane, pick up my copy of the Asian edition of the Wall Street Journal and the headlines pretty much said just that (as a Mac developer, I almost had a heart attack). As I read the article, I figured out what really happened and breathed a sigh of relief. But if you just read the headline, you'd believe that Microsoft bought Apple for $150 million.
I have a feeling you'll see something similar to Oracle vs. Google.
The jury will be asked to determine whether Samsung copied Apple, assuming that the patent is valid. If the jury comes back and says, "Nope. They didn't," then the whole thing is over. We're done. If the jury comes back and says, "Yup, they did," (and, personally, I agree that they will) then the judge decides whether or not those patents are actually valid. If the judge decides that the patents aren't valid, then the whole thing is over and we're done, regardless of what the jury said. It's okay to copy things that don't have patent protection.
So what you're saying is that Apple should be rewarded for patenting round rectangles with glass on the front?
If the "whole patenting nonsense has gone way overboard," it time to smack those who patent nonsensical things, like round rectangles with glass on the front or a phone receiver with a green background.
It's an American missile. Why would they be talking in weird foreign measurements? I mean, "metre"?! R before E? Who spells like that? Sounds like some kind of cheese-eatin' surrender-monkey socialist kind of measurement. Certainly not the kind of measurement that freedom lovin' people from the Good ol' USA would use.
So there you have it. 1700 miles per second. That'll put the fear of God into those godless commies.
(I was going to mark my original post as sarcasm but I thought, "Nah. People will get it.")
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Well, the Federal Government occasionally steps in when there's a "risk" that it could cross state lines. Drugs, kidnapping, and bank robbery are some examples.
i would assume the current incumbent would stay in office. I think he would be just like any other lame duck in office.
Well, that depends. For example, a "lame duck" president is in office for about 2 months. So assuming we have an election in, say, November and "None of the Above" wins, do we have only two months to decide? Considering that primaries run for about 5 or 6 months (and it takes time to set up primaries), I'd say you're looking at a minimum of one year of "lame duckiness."
If the none of the above is selected his ass is out of office with no chance at reelection.
Unless he's the incumbent, in which case he stays on in a "lame duck" mode for another year.
So...who runs the country in the meantime?
This always sounds like a neat idea--"None of the above! That'll show those bastards!" But if "None of the Above" wins, what do we do while we pick new candidates? Does the incumbent stay on office until new candidates are picked? Wouldn't this sort of push incumbents into negative campaigning in order to convince voters that you don't like anybody?
There are two kinds of people that post crazy stuff on the internet the people that truly believe it and the trolls [...]
Okay. So let's say he truly believes this stuff.
Here in America, we don't lock up people based on their beliefs. Just because I believe there is a guy who lives up in the clouds and created the universe and is all-powerful doesn't mean I get locked up, no matter how ridiculous that might sound to you. And if I believe that he has told me that he hates women who have abortions and that I should kill any woman who considers having an abortion, I still don't get locked up.
I don't get locked up until I actually make an attempt to kill said woman. We are not judged by our beliefs. We are judged by our actions.
What you're engaging in is "Pre-crime." "Well, he's obviously paranoid. And he's been trained to use weapons and kill people. So he might do that. So we need to lock him up for his own safety as well as ours."
That's right. You're locking him up because he might commit a crime.
The sad part of all of this is that he's right--"The Government" is now officially out to get him and lock him up because of what he's saying. If he wasn't paranoid before, he definitely is now. If I were him, I'd either lock myself in my home with a lot of guns and try to fight them off (which didn't work so well in Waco and Ruby Ridge) or I'd go on the offensive and get them before they get me.
Whatever you think of the free speech issues involved, please don't celebrate this dude. He's very sick and needs help.
At the risk of invoking Godwin, the former Soviet Union sent many dissidents off to hospitals because they were "mentally ill."
I mean, one had some pretty crazy ideas. You know, that Khrushchev had betrayed the principles of the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin.
Or perhaps it's just plain ho.
Good thing for Mitt that "Heck of a Job Brownie" doesn't still run FEMA.
RNC Host Committee CEO Ken Jones said, "I have full faith and confident with the state of Florida, with FEMA, the local emergency management that if there is a bad weather incident, we will get people out, we will make sure they're safe and get on their way and out of harms way."
So...wait a second? Is he saying that he's depending on the Federal Government to rescue them? I thought Republicans were all about self-sufficiency...
Citation? Please tell me he actually said this!
One potential reason is that FaceTime works right out of the box. That inspires more people to use it.
I don't have a Skype account. So I have to set that up, import addresses, blah, blah, blah. I have an Apple ID--Apple pretty much forced me to get one. It uses my existing contacts so there's nothing to really set up.
So, yeah, I could believe that AT&T is concerned that lots more people will use FaceTime on their iPhones than currently use Skype on their iPhones.
They just don't want to bother upgrading 3G, it is more profitable to rate limit and jack up prices.
FTFY.
US Navy...hmm..polaris missile launch destroys a major city. Chevron oil refineries start catching fire and economic chaos ensues.
But the Wisconsin Department of Transportation?! Dear God--I could cut off cheese deliveries to North America! Now that's power!!
(Note: I'm sure that I couldn't use this hack to launch a polaris missile. Yes, I'm aware there are tons of failsafes regarding nuclear weapons. This is meant to be humorous.)
Act as if FB is some weird version of usenet [...]
usenet? Speaking English, grampa.
(It's a joke. I know what USENET is.)
Well noted.
The MacBook Air didn't really "take off" until it replaced the MacBook. So how much of that is the $999 price and how much of that is the "airiness"?
If you look at the PC world--where they actually have competition--the answer would seem to be the price.
Well, keep in mind, that's the press. Not necessarily reality.
Think back to that quote from Sneakers. Apple's problem was that they were going out of business because everybody knew they were going out of business. The press was saying it, the analysts were saying it, so it must be true.
If you're a potential Apple customer, would you buy a computer from a company that everybody knew was going out of business? If you're an Apple supplier, are you going to give good credit terms to Apple? After all, they're going to go out of business any day now you'll be left holding the bag. You may get 10 cents on the dollar in bankruptcy court.
Apple had plenty of cash. Part of the problem was that they were having to spend it. A story I heard was that Motorola wouldn't even give them better than NET30 for CPUs. Don't know if it's true or not, but I wouldn't be surprised. Everybody knew that Apple was doomed and nobody wanted to be left holding the bag.
Apple partisans will be quick to point out that the $150 million in stock that Microsoft bought was a drop in the bucket. They may be right. But the amount wasn't important. It was the perception: Microsoft will bolster Apple in order to keep up the appearance of competition. The suppliers see that Apple isn't going out of business, so they don't have to worry about not getting their money. If all else fails, Microsoft will buy Apple and they'll get paid.
In July of 1997, I was just returning from a vacation in Southeast Asia. I'd pretty much been incommunicado for the previous two weeks. I get on the airplane, pick up my copy of the Asian edition of the Wall Street Journal and the headlines pretty much said just that (as a Mac developer, I almost had a heart attack). As I read the article, I figured out what really happened and breathed a sigh of relief. But if you just read the headline, you'd believe that Microsoft bought Apple for $150 million.
I have a feeling you'll see something similar to Oracle vs. Google.
The jury will be asked to determine whether Samsung copied Apple, assuming that the patent is valid. If the jury comes back and says, "Nope. They didn't," then the whole thing is over. We're done. If the jury comes back and says, "Yup, they did," (and, personally, I agree that they will) then the judge decides whether or not those patents are actually valid. If the judge decides that the patents aren't valid, then the whole thing is over and we're done, regardless of what the jury said. It's okay to copy things that don't have patent protection.
At least it didn't end up here.
So what you're saying is that Apple should be rewarded for patenting round rectangles with glass on the front?
If the "whole patenting nonsense has gone way overboard," it time to smack those who patent nonsensical things, like round rectangles with glass on the front or a phone receiver with a green background.
Agreed. $550 an hour is ridiculous. That's, like, twice what I get paid!
[We were evicted from our hole in the ground....]
That's what happens when you shit on the floor.
From the GP:
Really. Gotta read the fine print.
m is metre moron
It's an American missile. Why would they be talking in weird foreign measurements? I mean, "metre"?! R before E? Who spells like that? Sounds like some kind of cheese-eatin' surrender-monkey socialist kind of measurement. Certainly not the kind of measurement that freedom lovin' people from the Good ol' USA would use.
So there you have it. 1700 miles per second. That'll put the fear of God into those godless commies.
(I was going to mark my original post as sarcasm but I thought, "Nah. People will get it.")
Mach 5 = 1,701.45 m / s
Yup. m = miles, s = seconds. That's 1700 miles per second.
I mean, what else could m possibly stand for? There's only one unit of measurement that starts with the letter 'm'...
This isn't a jet-plane. It's a fucking missile.
Okay. So it could blow up London in about an hour.
You should have followed it up with "First Post!"