I've used this example as one of management overruling the techies. The engineers argued against launching in the cold, And management said, "My God. When do you want me to launch? Next April?"
They launched. The thing failed spectacularly, People died. And they did not launch again for over two years.
Efficiency is generally sufficient. A house's whole roof can generally power it.
Unless the roof is covered with snow, like it is for several months of the year. Unless you live in the tropics.
It *was* cowardly in that they attacked before declaring war.
If you are going to start a fight with a sucker punch, you get no sympathy when the other guy kicks your ass.
Chicago has no borders.
Apparently, the entire country no longer has borders. We can't stop millions of illegal, er.... undocumented, immigrants from crossing the nation's borders each year, so what makes you think that we can stop weapons from crossing the border?
That's good.
Everybody should lose their employee-sponsored plans. Everybody should make their own choices and buy their own insurance Tying health coverage to employment is idiotic, and has become a modern-day form of feudalism.
I would have liked to see the democrats propose this and then listen to the howls from their unions supporters who all have employer provided health insurance.
btw: In the US, the tie between employment and healthcare dates back to WWII. Wages and Prices were frozen, so if I wanted to convince workers to come work at my munitions factory, I couldn't offer them more money. I could offer them healthcare. Back then, the factory had doctors, and occasionally dentists, on site and employees and their families went to the company doctor for health care. After the war, companies opted to pay for insurance rather than on-site, and on-staff, physicians. So, the tie between employment and health coverage is Franklin Delano Roosevelt's fault.
This indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of what the iPhone was at launch.
And what that was, was simply the most FUNCTIONAL smartphone that existed at the time. But a huge margin.
This is revisionist history. The iPhone barely functioned as a phone when it was introduced. Remember: "You're holding it wrong."
Right. But since being overweight has just been re-classified as a disease, any app that lets you track you weight can be interpreted as being one that is involved in the "treatment or prevention of disease." Don't you think they won't.
The other thing I like about this is that they have a scheme for registering and tracking these devices. See http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/UniqueDeviceIdentification/default.htm for details.
This is the Globally Unique Device Identifier (GUDID), which they are pronouncing "Good ID". Who says that the government can't market its stuff.
On a side note it is interesting to note that japan were already under the process of surrender, and were committed to leaving the war roughly two weeks after the bombs dropped. They had their own terms, to be allowed to keep their emperor as the head of Japanese political heirarchy.
Nothing says "I am ready for a peaceful resolution to the conflict" like the slogan "One Hundred Million Die Together."
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
