By David Willis.

If enough citizens object strongly enough, the government will be gone. In the words of Joseph de Maistre, Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite - Every nation gets the government it deserves.

The executive branch doesn't control statehood. The states, congress, and people do.

Here's a link: http://constitutionus.com/

The relevant parts are Articles 1-6 and Amendments 9 and 10.

If they are taking actions that result in the most polluted capital city, then yes, in some sense they wish for the most polluted capital city. It may be a side effect of the government they support, not a main effect, but it's still an effect.

https://www.aclunc.org/cases/active_cases/doe_v._harris.shtml

It's really not a good law - it won't accomplish its goal and it has lots of bad possible side effects.

Because he had some perfectionist tendencies. That was one thing that set Apple apart from Microsoft - you might not like what they did, but they usually did it thoroughly. That seems to be falling apart a bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

I don't know why that URL disappeared. http://www.gizmag.com/apple-cost-iphone4/15583/

3% of Apple's profits is still a good chunk of change.

Much of the profit from the iPhone comes from carrier payments to Apple, which are content fees,not hardware fees. See, for example, .

Maybe "Content was the hook to sell hardware" was true at one time, but nowadays it goes both ways.

This is what many people don't understand about big data. Big data does not have a good PR department, and its differences from traditional data processing have not been well explained.

Big data doesn't usually apply to transaction databases. Acid isn't relevant.

It's typically only large corporations and government agencies that have those huge amounts of data, but those who do, really do.

Think of a data point for every item purchased at every Walmart for the last 10 years.

Or a record of every phone call, text message, twitter, or Facebook posting in the United States - if the NSA doesn't have that now, it's only a matter of time.

We need a repeat of SEA vs. PKZip, with Apple as SEA.