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Posted on 08/13/2014 1:30:56 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Sometimes when I see just how ignorant many American politicians are of the Constitution of the United States, I get the urge to send them a copy along with some annotations. Perhaps now that more of those in the federal government are using Macs, we might begin to see them paying more attention to this document that outlines the supreme law of the land. Why? Well, there's a copy of the U.S. Constitution on each and every Mac in the Dictionary app.
To see this information from The New Oxford American Dictionary, just launch the Dictionary app from your Applications folder. Once it's up and running, go up to the menu bar and select Go > Front/Back Matter. There you'll not only find such exciting information as who was on the editorial staff and advisory board for the Dictionary, but also a bunch of useful references.
In addition to the aforementioned Constitution of the United States of America, there's also a complete Language Guide, a history of the English language, a list of the fifty states and each state capital, a list of every President of the U.S. from George Washington to George W. Bush (not sure what happened to the current incumbent...), the Declaration of Independence, a list of countries of the world, a list of chemical elements from hydrogen to meitnerium, a cross-reference of standard to metric measure conversions, and the Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Russian alphabets.
Sure, it's not exactly Wikipedia, but it's sure nice to know that if you're offline and just happen to need to know what the 21st Amendment to the Constitution did (it repealed Prohibition), you've got it at your fingertips.
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According to the DOJ and DHS and FBI, that makes Apple a terrorist organization!
I suppose the Common Core Manifesto is similarly present on every installation of Windows... Lol, j/k
Learned something new today thanks
Let’s see if Rush mentions this today.
Show prep and all...
Very nice tip!
Fantastic tip, thanks! Never realized it was there, but will be used greatly now.
Thanks for the info. I’ll check it out.
“The copy of the U.S. Constitution that’s installed on every Mac”
Can you edit it? I’m sure every liberal mac owner would like to have that feature.
“Can you edit it? I’m sure every liberal mac owner would like to have that feature.”
Hmmm, I thought Search and Seizure was the 4th Amendment, not the third (after freedom of Press and Quartering). I guess this version is different.
The 4th Amendment is illegal search and seizure.
Maybe they’ve already started editing it.
Well I’ll be damned. There it is.
Was just looking at Clause 7:
“The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.”
Seems to me there are a lot of ‘Emoluments” - like hugely expensive vacations.
Okay thx :)
Pretty nifty. here’s the full TOC from the Front/Back Matter section:
Editorial staff
Advisory board
Specialist subject consultants
Preface
Preface to the first edition
Introduction
How to use this dictionary
Key to pronunciations
Key to abbreviations
Ready Reference
Language Guide
Rules of English: Understanding Grammar
Guide to Spelling
Guide to Capitalization and Punctuation
Words: Making the Right Choices
Clichés
Proofreader’s Marks
The History of English
Timeline
States of the United States of America
Presidents of the United States of America
Declaration of Independence
Constitution of the United States of America
Countries of the World
Chemical Elements
Standard Weights and Measures with Metric Equivalents and Conversions
Metric Weights and Measures with Standard Equivalents and Conversions
Alphabets
So cool. Thanks for the ping.
Is it installed on IPad?
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