Laws define how long a driver can drive between mandatory breaks - basically making sure they get their sleep. Truckers keep log books that are legally required to be accurate and will be inspected if they get stopped by police. Falsifying logs is a criminal offense.

Some folks do what's called "team driving" where two people in one truck take "shifts" and drive non-stop (this with a sleeper in the cab). Often it's husband/wife teams. I've honestly considered doing it with my wife after the kids are out of the house and everything's paid off. Get paid to see the country with my wife - pretty cool, actually. Hemorrhoids, not so much.

You know, I keep telling people that if they had only elected that "hope and change" fellow for President we wouldn't have shit like this to deal with.

Given that she owns the entire country it's kind of a moot point. If they piss her off she'll just kick them out.

Yes, but there's no enforcement mechanism and no penalties - criminal or civil - for breaking this "law". It's a literal farce.

Imagine we had speed limits with no penalties. An officer pulls you over, says "you're going over the speed limit". You say "Yeah, so what?" His response: "you're not supposed to go over the speed limit. Other than that, have a nice day."

Right, except for stuff that actually matters. All of them voted for the Patriot Act, bailing out billionaires on Wall Street, etc. The stuff that they supposedly fight over (abortion, whatever) doesn't affect the day to day lives of most people.

Yeah, and that's the point. You know there are people who fill that requirement, just not a lot of them in the US.

While simultaneously supporting policies that turn our country into a caste system. Something like 80% of the "Obama recovery" has went to the top 10%.

It's mind-boggling to me that anybody would use the word "Progressive" in any manner other than derogatory, anyway, given what the Progressives stood for 100 years ago.

Well, it's pretty likely that trying to run an iOS app under Android would result in the application not even starting....

The scary thing about Microsoft is that they have at least 10s of billions of dollars in the bank. They will likely never go bankrupt, but I'm not sure they'll ever make money in computers again if the Windows/Office gravy train ever comes to a halt.

The difference is that we still have really strong clients now and use the back end mainly for storage and some computation. It's not very comparable.

The other difference is that the technologies in use today make the "cloud" pretty much infinitely expandable, unlike a mainframe. Amazon has petabytes of storage and adds more continuously.

I wish I could mod this up.

But did anyone ask Jenny McCarthy about it?

Yeah, badly. I mean, they only presold 1,000,000 of them with an average price of around $400. That's $400,000,000 in one single day.

This is version 1.0, which in the open source world would really be version 0.8 or so. It's a beta. Totally new product for Apple, and the people who are lining up to buy them know this.

Give it a few versions and it'll likely be faster and have longer battery life, as well as some very reasonable native apps.

Not to mention faster...

Most of what you say is true, but irrelevant. There are other ways that compensation happens, particularly in a church setting. If you look at the truly rich preachers they tend to have everything owned by the company - house, cars, etc. There are really few rules for limitations on that sort of stuff. Even the executive compensation isn't capped as you think. The IRS rules (which they rely on a court to enforce) looks at comparable compensation in the same general area of business and may try to get a court to declare some "salary" as "dividends" which are then taxed at the corporate level as well as the individual level.

Little of that would matter to huge "churches" any more than it matters to huge corporations. They'll find ways to get rid of any "profits" before the tax man comes.