> The wording of this amendment is intentionally vague. If it was overly strict, the constitution would quickly become irrelevant as the times changed.

Ye gods man! Have you never heard of contract law?

The Constitution is a contract between the people of the US and the Federal Government. It was intentionally written so that the common man could understand it. Indeed, many of the phrases, such as "general welfare", were well accepted and understood common-law phrases. If every contract you signed could be interpreted "according to the times", how is it that any contract could be enforced?

The US Constitution includes within it the mechanism whereby it may be altered -- it's called amendments. Amendments are supposed to be difficult to pass because they affect the whole country as opposed to some portion thereof. Just because it is hard to modify the Constitution, though, does not mean that it should simply be reinterpreted to suit ones needs. THAT is tyranny.

Computation is communication. It's communication between the CPU and memory.

The problem with multicore is that, as you add more cores, the increased bus contention causes the cores to stall making so they cannot compute. This is why many real supercomputers have memory local to each CPU. Cache memory can help, but just adding more cache per core yields diminishing returns. SMP will only get you so far in the supercomputer world. You have to go NUMA for performance, which means custom code and algorithms.