And she did. Unfortunately, traffic laws existed for a reason, and one of those reasons was 'if you suddenly turn in the middle of the road, someone might be going the other way and slam into you'.
Both vehicles were big, heavy ones, travelling fairly slowly, so the collision wasn't really a major one. No one went flying, they both just sort of ground to a stop next to one another, probably some dings in the body but they should still be drivable.
War of Kings Chapter One, by Pale Wolf
http://www.fukufics.com/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=6991
Apple is probably very close to Bolshevism anyway, as American Corporations go. It certainly isn't Anti-Communist to any notable degree. The true reason most likely has to do with export controls and restrictions. Probably someone just wrote one of the contracts somewhere for sales in America. Why stick closely to it? Apple sells a lot of hardware in America that they import from PRC and elsewhere, and they would want to stay on the good side of Customs and related organizations. That, and they probably don't want to get sued, and selling in markets you don't have the contract for opens you to that. Legal not ideological. Insofar as I can discern ideology, Apple is hard left or left compared to the American center.
If you are talking about currency transactions, there is an alternative to weakness of a non-dollar currency. This is crazy talk, pulled out of nowhere with no basis in any real world evidence. Suppose Apple pays its bills in dollars, and that it anticipates potential for great weakness in the dollar. It might decide that mechanisms for transactions in other currencies pose too much of a risk. Otherwise unexpected weakness in the dollar might alter all of the other exchange rates, which might be especially bad in a misimplementation. Assume it has been implemented properly, including something for the correct exchange rate. At a rate of 1 Yen per Dollar, or 200 Dollars per Pound, purchases would get very attractive for buyers with that currency. One says, well, it can't be a bad deal for Apple, because the stock is digital, and hence has minimal transactions costs, and one doesn't have the opportunity cost of physical inventory. Suppose that Apple has contracts specifying that they pay in dollars per unit sold. Suppose that for extreme currency rates, potential sellers of dollars decide to halt or limit selling them, in case things turn around. Then Apple could potentially find itself in default on a contract, despite having money on hand, because it can't get enough of it in dollars. Actuarial science might be able to estimate this chance.
I'm also a bit weak on finance, and haven't looked at what Apple has shown of their books, so I can't say how good of a shape they are in. (Apple is, IIRC, a publicly traded company, so you should be able to look up their filings with the FEC.)
Maybe I'm full of it. Maybe the poster on EqD was wanting to pay in Zimbabwe* money.
Both vehicles were big, heavy ones, travelling fairly slowly, so the collision wasn't really a major one. No one went flying, they both just sort of ground to a stop next to one another, probably some dings in the body but they should still be drivable.
War of Kings Chapter One, by Pale Wolf
http://www.fukufics.com/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=6991
Apple is probably very close to Bolshevism anyway, as American Corporations go. It certainly isn't Anti-Communist to any notable degree. The true reason most likely has to do with export controls and restrictions. Probably someone just wrote one of the contracts somewhere for sales in America. Why stick closely to it? Apple sells a lot of hardware in America that they import from PRC and elsewhere, and they would want to stay on the good side of Customs and related organizations. That, and they probably don't want to get sued, and selling in markets you don't have the contract for opens you to that. Legal not ideological. Insofar as I can discern ideology, Apple is hard left or left compared to the American center.
If you are talking about currency transactions, there is an alternative to weakness of a non-dollar currency. This is crazy talk, pulled out of nowhere with no basis in any real world evidence. Suppose Apple pays its bills in dollars, and that it anticipates potential for great weakness in the dollar. It might decide that mechanisms for transactions in other currencies pose too much of a risk. Otherwise unexpected weakness in the dollar might alter all of the other exchange rates, which might be especially bad in a misimplementation. Assume it has been implemented properly, including something for the correct exchange rate. At a rate of 1 Yen per Dollar, or 200 Dollars per Pound, purchases would get very attractive for buyers with that currency. One says, well, it can't be a bad deal for Apple, because the stock is digital, and hence has minimal transactions costs, and one doesn't have the opportunity cost of physical inventory. Suppose that Apple has contracts specifying that they pay in dollars per unit sold. Suppose that for extreme currency rates, potential sellers of dollars decide to halt or limit selling them, in case things turn around. Then Apple could potentially find itself in default on a contract, despite having money on hand, because it can't get enough of it in dollars. Actuarial science might be able to estimate this chance.
I'm also a bit weak on finance, and haven't looked at what Apple has shown of their books, so I can't say how good of a shape they are in. (Apple is, IIRC, a publicly traded company, so you should be able to look up their filings with the FEC.)
Maybe I'm full of it. Maybe the poster on EqD was wanting to pay in Zimbabwe* money.