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Regardless of how it pans out in Virginia, several US states — South Dakota and Missouri for example — recently passed laws defining the beginning of human life as occurring at conception. Being ratified as a state law makes it so [at least within state boundaries].

Since corporations are legally human beings in all 50 of these United States, I hereby propose that one of the states currently deficient in beginning of human life [aka ‘personhood’] statutes enact legislation defining human life as beginning at incorporation.

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The iPad does not support common programming keys on its virtual keyboard. For instance, there is no way to type the backtick character above. This is a problem when you need to use this character.

A simple but annoying way to deal with this is to do a web search for that character, find it on some website and use good old copy/paste. For our convenience I posted this character on a separate line at the top of this post. This cheap trick only works for printable characters, alas.

Note that some iPad apps add additional keys on another bar at the top of the keyboard. I have yet to find an app which provides the entire comprehensive keyboard known and loved by coders and sysadmins… opportunity!

What do I want? An app which performs peer-to-peer file transfers between android devices and iPads. When do I want it? Now!