If you haven't chopped wood in 20 years, then suddenly need to do so, you might find that there's more to it than finding and swinging an axe.
Umm... no. That really is all there is to it. Your muscles may need a few weeks to build back up if you haven't been exercising them, but chopping wood with an axe isn't a hotbed of technological innovation. It's pretty much worked the same way since the stone age, even though the tools have gotten a bit better.
There is no such thing as pre-purchasing a product without being entitled to the product OR a refund.
You don't understand how bankruptcy works. When a company goes bankrupt, they cannot offer refunds to one group of creditors (customers who pre-purchased) while not paying other creditors. The court decides how all assets are divided up. Customers who pre-purchased should be able to get something back eventually, but it's very doubtful that they'll get anywhere near what they paid.
That's not true. Professional investors provided $11 million in funding after the Skully's initial crowdfunding generated several million dollars in pre-sales.
You didn't ask for evidence. You literally said that the lack of evidence that temperatures were below boiling on Venus means that the theory is wrong and water was always in gaseous form. Your meaning was clear despite your attempt to rephrase it in this post.
"If you can't prove your theory, then my theory must be true even though I have no proof either!"
Yeah, that's not how science works.
Unless you have evidence that proves that the surface temperatures weren't ever below the boiling point of water, the question of whether Venus had oceans remains open for debate.
How the hell did this get marked as insightful? It's well known that the sun will gradually get hotter and brighter over the next few billion years. The increased solar output will eventually burn the Earth to crisp. Then the sun will expand and become a red giant, engulfing the planet in it's outer layers.
Earth becoming Venus-like not only can happen, it absolutely will happen. We have about a billion years, tops, before earth is uninhabitable by life as we know it. The only question is how much we'll end up hurrying the process along.
It seems like you overlooked this part of the poster's comment; "multiplying by the miles driven based on the odometer between this and the previous E-check."
A vehicle that's driven only a few hundred miles per year would already pay an order of magnitude less than a vehicle doing over 10,000 miles per year. Why would they need further benefits?
By the end of the Olympics, how many of those spies will have been... 1) mugged 2) murdered 3) raped 4) infected with Zika 5) infected with an STI/STD 6) infected with something that comes from fecal matter
The NSA can tap every phone in the country, but they can't find Rachel from cardholder services.
Not true. The FTC has shut down over a dozen companies over this. The problem is that there are many scammers running copycat scams and it's nearly impossible to catch them all.
There's never been a true, randomized large-scale trial of people being deprived of oxygen. Maybe AP national writer Jeff Donn should try going against conventional wisdom and tie a plastic bags firmly in place over his head.
Or maybe... just maybe, the obvious benefits of scraping out the shit that's stuck between your teeth doesn't need to be proven by a large scale trial any more than the benefits of not suffocating.
"first to Red Flag exercises, then as a "theater security package" to Europe and the Asia-Pacific. "
They transposed "security theater."
You wish. The truth is that the MPAA has bribed Congress into authorizing military air strikes against anyone who dares to carry a cell phone capable of recording video into a theater. Gotta stop them pirates at all cost, after all.
Even more crimes go unsolved for lack of a cell phone being involved. Just think of how much safer we'd all feel if the police were just allowed to round up anyone who looks even remotely suspicious and make use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" to get confessions!
Trump's father left an estate valued somewhere between $100 and $300 million when he died. Trump won't say how much he inherited (and he sure as hell isn't releasing his tax forms, despite demanding them from Obama), but he took over his father's business and most likely got the majority of the inheritance along with it. Trump is exactly the opposite of a "self made millionaire."
"A century ago, there would be a battle that wiped out the next village, you'd never even hear about it."
Huh? Maybe in the remote parts of Africa or some other place that was still stuck in the stone age. Maybe. In the parts of the worlds actually living in the (early) 20th century not so much.
Just to add to that, a century ago, about 30% of the people in the US had telephones and the first coast to cost long distance call was made. Intercontinental telegraph lines already connected North America, South America and Europe. In many cities, theaters showed hour-long newsreels during the day (commercial TV stations wouldn't show up for another 15 years or so). Newspapers and radio were everyday sources of information for everyone.
Also, a century ago was 1916. WWI was in full swing. There were millions of refugees trying to escape the war and 17 milllion people died before it was over. Because of the scale and horror of it all, people were extremely attentive to things like the next village over being wiped out.
Since you failed to actually read my comment and took one phrase out of context, I shall explain it in detail to you:
I didn't say that either of those phones were low-end.
I started by posting the quote from the reviewer who said that Motorola should concentrate on value rather than features (i.e. make cheap, low-end phones).
I then used sarcasm to bring up the fact that the market is already flooded with cheap, low-end phones. It would be impossible for Motorola to make one and capture any significant portion of the low-end market. That race to the bottom has already taken place in that market and the profit margins are razor thin, so there is no big success to be had.
""this company is competing in the global smartphone market, not a high school science fair, and its success will depend on presenting better value than the competition, not cleverer design."
Because there just aren't enough cheap, low-end Android phones with minimal features on the market, right? Surely introducing another of those is the path to financial success!/s
Either way, what about the story seems so implausible?
The part where someone working in customer support claimed to have knowledge about confidential deals that their management was making, for one.
And the phrasing, too. "We've been hired for jobs by a very important company. We can't tell you which one, but trust us... you are impressed." Yeah, sure.
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If you haven't chopped wood in 20 years, then suddenly need to do so, you might find that there's more to it than finding and swinging an axe.
Umm... no. That really is all there is to it. Your muscles may need a few weeks to build back up if you haven't been exercising them, but chopping wood with an axe isn't a hotbed of technological innovation. It's pretty much worked the same way since the stone age, even though the tools have gotten a bit better.
There is no such thing as pre-purchasing a product without being entitled to the product OR a refund.
You don't understand how bankruptcy works. When a company goes bankrupt, they cannot offer refunds to one group of creditors (customers who pre-purchased) while not paying other creditors. The court decides how all assets are divided up. Customers who pre-purchased should be able to get something back eventually, but it's very doubtful that they'll get anywhere near what they paid.
That's not true. Professional investors provided $11 million in funding after the Skully's initial crowdfunding generated several million dollars in pre-sales.
Bullshit.
You didn't ask for evidence. You literally said that the lack of evidence that temperatures were below boiling on Venus means that the theory is wrong and water was always in gaseous form. Your meaning was clear despite your attempt to rephrase it in this post.
"If you can't prove your theory, then my theory must be true even though I have no proof either!"
Yeah, that's not how science works.
Unless you have evidence that proves that the surface temperatures weren't ever below the boiling point of water, the question of whether Venus had oceans remains open for debate.
How the hell did this get marked as insightful? It's well known that the sun will gradually get hotter and brighter over the next few billion years. The increased solar output will eventually burn the Earth to crisp. Then the sun will expand and become a red giant, engulfing the planet in it's outer layers.
Earth becoming Venus-like not only can happen, it absolutely will happen. We have about a billion years, tops, before earth is uninhabitable by life as we know it. The only question is how much we'll end up hurrying the process along.
There are clouds in the background, but the pictures focus primarily on the surface of the planet.
It seems like you overlooked this part of the poster's comment; "multiplying by the miles driven based on the odometer between this and the previous E-check."
A vehicle that's driven only a few hundred miles per year would already pay an order of magnitude less than a vehicle doing over 10,000 miles per year. Why would they need further benefits?
By the end of the Olympics, how many of those spies will have been...
1) mugged
2) murdered
3) raped
4) infected with Zika
5) infected with an STI/STD
6) infected with something that comes from fecal matter
The NSA can tap every phone in the country, but they can't find Rachel from cardholder services.
Not true. The FTC has shut down over a dozen companies over this. The problem is that there are many scammers running copycat scams and it's nearly impossible to catch them all.
Because there's no chance at all that TV manufacturers would screw up the security on a web based configuration interface, right?
The next wave of malware extortion would be "pay us x bitcoins to remove the password-locked goatse screensaver from your TV."
There's never been a true, randomized large-scale trial of people being deprived of oxygen. Maybe AP national writer Jeff Donn should try going against conventional wisdom and tie a plastic bags firmly in place over his head.
Or maybe... just maybe, the obvious benefits of scraping out the shit that's stuck between your teeth doesn't need to be proven by a large scale trial any more than the benefits of not suffocating.
"first to Red Flag exercises, then as a "theater security package" to Europe and the Asia-Pacific. "
They transposed "security theater."
You wish. The truth is that the MPAA has bribed Congress into authorizing military air strikes against anyone who dares to carry a cell phone capable of recording video into a theater. Gotta stop them pirates at all cost, after all.
Charges were filed against at least 11 people and some have been found guilty already, so... yeah.
Pick it up; punch 999 (UK)
I think you meant 0118 999 881 999 119 7253. Here's a handy song to help you remember!
it was in a situation that was trivial for a human to avoid.
And yet the human in the truck not only did not avoid it, he caused it by pulling out in front of oncoming traffic.
Even more crimes go unsolved for lack of a cell phone being involved. Just think of how much safer we'd all feel if the police were just allowed to round up anyone who looks even remotely suspicious and make use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" to get confessions!
The UK has determined that there aren't enough CCTV cameras. No word on how they intend to rectify this terrible shortcoming.
consistent, self-made millionaire
ROFLMFAO
Trump's father left an estate valued somewhere between $100 and $300 million when he died. Trump won't say how much he inherited (and he sure as hell isn't releasing his tax forms, despite demanding them from Obama), but he took over his father's business and most likely got the majority of the inheritance along with it. Trump is exactly the opposite of a "self made millionaire."
"A century ago, there would be a battle that wiped out the next village, you'd never even hear about it."
Huh? Maybe in the remote parts of Africa or some other place that was still stuck in the stone age. Maybe. In the parts of the worlds actually living in the (early) 20th century not so much.
Just to add to that, a century ago, about 30% of the people in the US had telephones and the first coast to cost long distance call was made. Intercontinental telegraph lines already connected North America, South America and Europe. In many cities, theaters showed hour-long newsreels during the day (commercial TV stations wouldn't show up for another 15 years or so). Newspapers and radio were everyday sources of information for everyone.
Also, a century ago was 1916. WWI was in full swing. There were millions of refugees trying to escape the war and 17 milllion people died before it was over. Because of the scale and horror of it all, people were extremely attentive to things like the next village over being wiped out.
1) Fiorina has not declared bankruptcy.
2) HP did not declare bankruptcy under Fiorina.
3) Hillary Clinton has not had to declare bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, Trump has had four bankruptcies and is the subject of multiple class action suits over the scam that was Trump University.
If the only choice is between a disaster that doesn't bankrupt the country and an apocalypse that does, I'll take the disaster.
Found Joe the Plumber!
Since you failed to actually read my comment and took one phrase out of context, I shall explain it in detail to you:
I didn't say that either of those phones were low-end.
I started by posting the quote from the reviewer who said that Motorola should concentrate on value rather than features (i.e. make cheap, low-end phones).
I then used sarcasm to bring up the fact that the market is already flooded with cheap, low-end phones. It would be impossible for Motorola to make one and capture any significant portion of the low-end market. That race to the bottom has already taken place in that market and the profit margins are razor thin, so there is no big success to be had.
There, see? Reading comprehension is your friend.
""this company is competing in the global smartphone market, not a high school science fair, and its success will depend on presenting better value than the competition, not cleverer design."
Because there just aren't enough cheap, low-end Android phones with minimal features on the market, right? Surely introducing another of those is the path to financial success! /s
Either way, what about the story seems so implausible?
The part where someone working in customer support claimed to have knowledge about confidential deals that their management was making, for one.
And the phrasing, too. "We've been hired for jobs by a very important company. We can't tell you which one, but trust us... you are impressed." Yeah, sure.