Apple could do it, but it's a very expensive bet.

TSMC spent $9.4 billion on their latest 300mm fab, and it will be running pretty much 24/7/365 for many, many years. And if Apple broke ground tomorrow, it's still likely to be 3 years before the fab is fully built, equipped, staffed, qualified, and running at full speed. Unless Apple is sure it can get chip volume high enough to achieve real cost savings, it's probably not worth doing.

And by then the industry might have started transitioning to 450mm.

Apple is one of the few companies in the world who could drop that much out of actual cash-on-hand without blinking, but it's a very risky bet with potentially a lot more risk than reward.

I'd think that too, but previous seasons had plenty of homosexuality, and in fact, bisexuality was a central part of the character of Captain Jack/ the Face of Boe (complete with a pregnancy!) - and that didn't bother me one bit.

No, I think it started with the gay horse and went on from there.

How are two right wing dictatorships (and they were conservative, even if communist) leftist politics?

No, only in the fake worlds of Hollywood (where apparently 95% of the fictional population is gay) and the Supreme Court (which has always been more fictional than reality based- on anything).

I wish getting out of jury duty was that easy here!

Zimmerman used a direct defense of self-defense, not Stand Your Ground.

"And if these markets no longer work, then perhaps it's time to rethink the wisdom of the 30-year fixed rate mortgage (which most other countries don't have) and come up with a way for lenders to retain the risk while still protecting themselves against catastrophe."

I strongly suspect the reason the 30 year fixed rate mortgage no longer works, is because the 30 year fixed location job no longer exists.

Or perhaps I've just been homosexual blind for many, many, many decades. And they've just started making it more explicit.

To me, leftist politics ruined the last two seasons of Dr. Who. The utterly unnecessary multiple militant homosexual and cross species relationships and homosexual characters ruined it for me.

He worries that social media encourages us to create "surrogate versions" or "celebrity versions" of ourselves.

Creating a surrogate or celebrity version of oneself is precisely the point of Facebook. It is a version of the self that can be exchanged through a social medium with others. That "surrogate" self can be be cited, exalted, devalued, and circulated. It's "celebrity" for people who don't necessarily have access to major media channels and networks of people to promote a traditional media celebrity self.

Everyone's gonna get their 15 minutes.

The question, to my mind, is why Matt Smith believe this is any different than the media that have made a surrogate version of him.

I wouldn't know...I've never corned.

What country is this you speak of? AFAIK broccoli is on the shelves of my local stores pretty much all year. Sure, it's imported from somewhere insanely far away like China or Africa or Tierra del Fuego half the time, but it's there.

Not that I eat it, mind you. It's on the banned list, like Brussels sprouts. As Nicholas Freeling said about British peas, all I can suggest is that it be put into concrete barrels with radioactive waste and the Mafia, and sunk in the ocean.

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