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mpantone said:

jfc1138 said:

Cash is a useful thing. 

It is, however this is likely more about portfolio diversification.

And it's not just Apple execs who think about this sort of stuff.

For Eddy, a $5 drop in AAPL (like what happened this week) resulted in a $1.675M loss in paper value. You really don't want all/most of your investment in one issue. 

Moreover, AAPL has underperformed the S&P 500 over the past year. Eddy would have had a better rate of return if he had that $37.4M in SPY. Or even better had he invested in NTDOY (Nintendo ADR), BABA (Alibaba) and even YHOO a year ago.

tallest skil said:

thedba said:

Way to open up a dialogue. 

There is no dialogue to be had. You’ve already incorrectly answered the fundamental question: Is innocent life worth protecting? You’ve revoked any stake you had in the argument.

I'm not a US citizen.

No fucking wonder you don’t understand why guns exist. And so, again, you have no stake in the argument.

What you guys call liberalism (the Clintons?) is what most of the rest of the world would call the right, maybe even the far right. 

No shit. The rest of the world is a goddamn shithole. We know that. We’re trying to PREVENT that. That’s why the Constitution exists. That you don’t have your natural rights protected by the foundation of your government is your problem, not ours. And it’s also your problem of COMPREHENSION.

But go on thinking any Democrat is going to take away your guns.

The National Firearms Act of 1934 DEMOCRATS
Gun Control Act of 1968 DEMOCRATS
Clinton Executive Orders DEMOCRATS
Lautenberg Act DEMOCRATS
Brady Law DEMOCRATS

Either shut up about things you don’t understand or educate yourself.

And keep on holding on to antiquated concepts like the 2nd amendment. You know it was written when muskets was the sophisticated arm of the day. 

As passed by the Congress and preserved in the National Archives, with the rest of the original handwritten copy of the Bill of Rights prepared by scribe William Lambert:
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of the state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Well-Regulated: The following is taken from the Oxford English Dictionary and bracket in time of the writing of the second amendment.
1709: If a liberal education has formed in us well-regulated appetites and worthy inclinations.
1714: The practice of all well-regulated courts of justice in the world.
1812: The equation of time is the adjustment of the difference of time as shown by a well-regulated clock and a true sundial.
1848: A remissness for which I am sure every well-regulated person will blame the Mayor.
1862: It appeared to her well-regulated mind, like a clandestine proceeding.
1894: The newspaper, a never wanting adjunct to every well-regulated American embryo city.

The phrase ‘well-regulated’ was in common use long before 1789 and remained so for a century thereafter. It referred to the property of something being in proper working order. Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly, functioning as expected. Establishing government oversight of the people’s arms was not only not the intent in using the phrase in the 2nd amendment, it was precisely to render the government powerless to do so that the Founders wrote it.

Militia: The militia refers to the entire pool of citizens–no longer just men–capable of military service. Some uneducated people will claim that the National Guard “replaced” the militia. This was clearly spelled out as false in the Militia Act of 1903. This act clarified that the National Guard is the organized militia while all able-bodied men between the ages of 17 and 45 were part of the reserve militia. The Militia Act of 1903 repealed the Militia Act of 1792, which had required all able-bodied men to be able to provide their own firearm.

To Keep And Bear: To keep means to have. To bear, in this context, means to carry and to hold. The phrase, very simply, means that you can have the item in your possession.

Shall Not Be Infringed: The last part acts on the previous phrase, “to keep and to bear.” Infringe means to wrongly limit or restrict. The language is as plain as possible. 

Written in more modern terms, the Second Amendment might read something like this: A properly armed people is necessary for a state to be free and secure. People can have weapons in their possession and you can’t do anything about it.


Get fucking wrecked, foreigner.


crowley said:

As part of a well-regulated militia.

You’ve already been proven wrong, kid. I will continue to remind you that you cannot read or comprehend the English language until such time as you can.