That's what he's probably hoping for. Then he can whine about he's being suppressed and attacked by the big boys, and maybe get some UN Funding for reparations. Best thing to do is to wait. Either he'll realize his bluff failed, and put it away, or he'll actually launch in an act of pure stupidity. If he launches, assuming it doesn't quickly fail, ready your antimissile defenses if you have any, and it's sort of heading your way. (Their targeting has NOT impressed anyone so far.) Now if it reaches a target and either gets shot down or hits something, then drop a dozen or so cruise missiles on his military sites. If he runs his military over the border to anyone, stomp him into the ground with more forces than he has populace.
Even that jumped up little troll knows it's unwise to wake the slumbering dragon.
They've found numerous stellar objects of various sizes that conform to the preditions of black holes. (Mass, diameter, etc) Though none have been directly observed, their 'feeding' does generate a lot of energy that is detected when something falls in. Just recently one that had been relatively quiet for some time gave of a nice 'burp' of radiation as it apparently 'ate' a planet.
Have we been to a black hole? No. Have we taken photos of an actual black hole? No. Have we seen gravitational effects that look exactly like what a black hole should have? Yes. Do those gravitational effects calculate out as something of several to millions of solar masses in a tiny volume that can't exist in any non-black hole way that we are aware of? Yes. Have we seen the radiation from an accretion disk falling into and being destroyed by a black hole as predicted? Yes. Is a black hole what astrophysicists think it is? Probably. Is a black hole what non-scientists (hollywood, general public, dentists, etc) think it is? Probably not. Do you really exist? This is about black holes, but your existence is only a bit less theoretical than that of a black holes, though some of the specifics of either may not be what is generally thought about them.
And no, a black hole is not god dividing by zero. It's more likely an alien mad scientist multiplying by the square root of negative zero.:D
Considering the fossil record of hominids that has been found already, "somewhat prove" is a rather large understatement. When placed in context with the rest of the fossil record, it would be absurd to think somehow humans magically appeared and all the other hominids had nothing to do with modern man.
However, there's no use taking up that fools challenge, as he won't accept losing.
Apple develops their own CPUs? Do you mean the Motorolas, the PowerPCs (a consortium of apple, ibm, and motorola. That's two experienced chip designers and apple.), or do you mean the current Intel CPUs?
Well, that's it for their computers. I actually have no idea what their portable istuff uses, but I'm rather doubtful it's something they developed. Considering their standard method of obtaining 'cutting edge tech' they either bought and exclusive contract with the developer/manufacturer, or they bought the company itself.
Apple designers have always been great, their engineers don't fall into that category.
I know, the apple fanboys are going to go ballistic over this criticism of their god and savior, and honestly, I don't care.
They have lots of samples, so they have a pretty good idea of what can be found. It's possible there are unexpected pockets of concentrations, but it's rather unlikely as those big rocks weren't formed in significant gravity wells that could cause the density based separations. Nor does it appear that they were formed with the same kind of thermal convection type actions that affected Earths geology either.
No, I'm not a geologist, but come on, don't people stay awake during the high school science classes? Or ever catch one of the various educational channels shows on the formation of the solar system?
Not to mention two more things about that. First, since when is a cop qualified to make such and unsubstantiated psychological conclusion and it be seriously considered? Second, video gamers, hard core or otherwise, don't make spreadsheets of kills with weapons. That's far more like something a dev does to fine tune popularity and effectiveness of their games arsenal. Sure, there's a few ocd types that'll do something as pointless and unfun as that, but then again, I bet you'll find more government employees making those exact same things right now.
How about the little fact that companies need it's economy ratings BEFORE they market the vehicle. That pretty much makes purchasing one on the market and then testing it to set it's ratings rather difficult unless you have a TARDIS.
The CEO is the one insisting they do this bullshit. It's not going to change until the stockholders oust him, and maybe not even then if they ensconce another neanderthal.
Though I shouldn't say things like that. Neanderthals are shown to care far more for others than he does.
"Vote with your wallet" does NOT work unless you can get a massive portion of the entire market to participate. (Or more accurately, refuse to participate.) All the retailer sees is a slight dip in sales for campaigns that start after something has been on the market for a while. If it's a new product, sales just aren't as high as they could be, but the retailers have no idea what it could have been. Not buying the product is INVISIBLE TO THE RETAILER. Unless, as I stated earlier, you can virtually wipe out all sales, something that is virtually impossible. (Ebola plague juice being an exception.)
Here's the best way to get it through their thick adamantium plated marketing spin enhanced skulls. COMMUNICATE! Email, in large enough quantities, can get their attention. However, some companies kind of ignore or filter that stuff, and besides, they are wary of scriptbots spamming them. Dead Tree Format Snail Mail may be old fashioned, but companies will pay a LOT more attention to it. I've seen email campaigns that got thousands of responses that got ignored, when a letter writing campaign of 60-80 letters got an immediate and positive response for the same issue.
Here's another hint. Don't attack, insult, or threaten them. That's another fast way to get you attempt neutralized, and maybe even get some cops knocking on your door. That doesn't mean you can't tell them what you don't like, how you feel about it, and what you think is a better idea, just be polite and civil about it. You see, the person reading the mail, usually isn't the person in charge. Though they may forward your mail up the chain of command. Attacking that person is NOT going to help you, in fact, that kind of stuff usually makes them roundfile your letter. (Yes, that means throw it away, or if that's illegal, throw it into the dusty box in the backroom that nobody ever looks in.) You being an impolite thug with lots of profanity and the like will get a similar response to attacking people. And I wish I didn't happen to mention it, but don't make threats. Either physical or legal. Physical threats will get you in a permanent troublemaker file where you will be ignored by everyone except the police. And yes, they do occasionally respond to these kinds of threats with investigations and arrests. As to legal threats, they are a different problem. You may get ignored, depending on the details, but most likely you will get sent to the legal department that will decide how valid your threats are, and proceed from there. As to proceeding from there, nothing will ever happen until the legal paperwork for a court date or whatever shows up. You can't bluff a lawyer with legal threats, you actually have to follow through, and of course, taking legal action against a company is not what writing to them is for. Legal threats will get even less attention from a company than physical threats, and neither one will advance your cause.
One final note for everyone. A well written letter is good, but a thousand identical letters isn't a thousand times better. Have a skilled writer make a template or example for people to use, but everyone should personalize it to make each letter unique, but clear and to the point. After all, the same exact letter over and over will just be treated as spam.
That's about all I can say, other than I'm as sick of hearing people say vote with your wallet, because it just doesn't work.
Little too intense for me. Just keep it under your tongue, it's not like it'll melt, and so long as you don't cough, it'll be fine. Heck, you can even talk with a microsd under your tongue.
I've rather been of the opinion that if someone was too stupid to use IE to download a better browser, they didn't have enough computer literacy to use the other browser anyway.
I say using IE to get the other browser because I really don't expect a non-techie to know how to use terminal (or another non-browser method) to obtain one.
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That's what he's probably hoping for.
Then he can whine about he's being suppressed and attacked by the big boys, and maybe get some UN Funding for reparations.
Best thing to do is to wait. Either he'll realize his bluff failed, and put it away, or he'll actually launch in an act of pure stupidity.
If he launches, assuming it doesn't quickly fail, ready your antimissile defenses if you have any, and it's sort of heading your way.
(Their targeting has NOT impressed anyone so far.)
Now if it reaches a target and either gets shot down or hits something, then drop a dozen or so cruise missiles on his military sites.
If he runs his military over the border to anyone, stomp him into the ground with more forces than he has populace.
Even that jumped up little troll knows it's unwise to wake the slumbering dragon.
Probably the Mousketeers. We already know an entire platoon of Stormtroopers can hit the broadside of a Deathstar even if they're standing in it.
They've found numerous stellar objects of various sizes that conform to the preditions of black holes. (Mass, diameter, etc) Though none have been directly observed, their 'feeding' does generate a lot of energy that is detected when something falls in. Just recently one that had been relatively quiet for some time gave of a nice 'burp' of radiation as it apparently 'ate' a planet.
:D
Have we been to a black hole? No.
Have we taken photos of an actual black hole? No.
Have we seen gravitational effects that look exactly like what a black hole should have? Yes.
Do those gravitational effects calculate out as something of several to millions of solar masses in a tiny volume that can't exist in any non-black hole way that we are aware of? Yes.
Have we seen the radiation from an accretion disk falling into and being destroyed by a black hole as predicted? Yes.
Is a black hole what astrophysicists think it is? Probably.
Is a black hole what non-scientists (hollywood, general public, dentists, etc) think it is? Probably not.
Do you really exist? This is about black holes, but your existence is only a bit less theoretical than that of a black holes, though some of the specifics of either may not be what is generally thought about them.
And no, a black hole is not god dividing by zero. It's more likely an alien mad scientist multiplying by the square root of negative zero.
The First Three Rules of Computing
1 - Backup
2 - Backup
3 - See Rules 1 & 2
Of course, I have no idea how to backup a world. What kind of media would you use, cosmic string recorders?
Considering the fossil record of hominids that has been found already, "somewhat prove" is a rather large understatement. When placed in context with the rest of the fossil record, it would be absurd to think somehow humans magically appeared and all the other hominids had nothing to do with modern man.
However, there's no use taking up that fools challenge, as he won't accept losing.
Sounds like something that can be handled by petty cash.
I saw it, and liked it. It's not high art, but then again, when was the last time anybody that wasn't a snob actually liked high art?
As to the falling quality of Hollywood, that goes without saying.
the guy killed in the chariot race that was actually killed in the chariot race...
(They got permission to leave it in from his widow)
You have to use fire, otherwise they just regenerate :p
Hmm... Like the Wii U tablet?
I'm not impressed, I sure hope the patent people don't fall for this one.
Apple develops their own CPUs?
Do you mean the Motorolas, the PowerPCs (a consortium of apple, ibm, and motorola. That's two experienced chip designers and apple.), or do you mean the current Intel CPUs?
Well, that's it for their computers. I actually have no idea what their portable istuff uses, but I'm rather doubtful it's something they developed. Considering their standard method of obtaining 'cutting edge tech' they either bought and exclusive contract with the developer/manufacturer, or they bought the company itself.
Apple designers have always been great, their engineers don't fall into that category.
I know, the apple fanboys are going to go ballistic over this criticism of their god and savior, and honestly, I don't care.
They have lots of samples, so they have a pretty good idea of what can be found.
It's possible there are unexpected pockets of concentrations, but it's rather unlikely as those big rocks weren't formed in significant gravity wells that could cause the density based separations. Nor does it appear that they were formed with the same kind of thermal convection type actions that affected Earths geology either.
No, I'm not a geologist, but come on, don't people stay awake during the high school science classes? Or ever catch one of the various educational channels shows on the formation of the solar system?
So which weighs more, a pound of lead or a pound of aerogel?
Who cares, my question is how did you fit an entire pound of aerogel in that room?
Not to mention two more things about that.
First, since when is a cop qualified to make such and unsubstantiated psychological conclusion and it be seriously considered?
Second, video gamers, hard core or otherwise, don't make spreadsheets of kills with weapons. That's far more like something a dev does to fine tune popularity and effectiveness of their games arsenal. Sure, there's a few ocd types that'll do something as pointless and unfun as that, but then again, I bet you'll find more government employees making those exact same things right now.
How about the little fact that companies need it's economy ratings BEFORE they market the vehicle. That pretty much makes purchasing one on the market and then testing it to set it's ratings rather difficult unless you have a TARDIS.
I'm probably going to regret this question, but why do you drive so many different cars?
The CEO is the one insisting they do this bullshit. It's not going to change until the stockholders oust him, and maybe not even then if they ensconce another neanderthal.
Though I shouldn't say things like that. Neanderthals are shown to care far more for others than he does.
"Vote with your wallet" does NOT work unless you can get a massive portion of the entire market to participate. (Or more accurately, refuse to participate.)
All the retailer sees is a slight dip in sales for campaigns that start after something has been on the market for a while. If it's a new product, sales just aren't as high as they could be, but the retailers have no idea what it could have been.
Not buying the product is INVISIBLE TO THE RETAILER. Unless, as I stated earlier, you can virtually wipe out all sales, something that is virtually impossible. (Ebola plague juice being an exception.)
Here's the best way to get it through their thick adamantium plated marketing spin enhanced skulls. COMMUNICATE!
Email, in large enough quantities, can get their attention. However, some companies kind of ignore or filter that stuff, and besides, they are wary of scriptbots spamming them.
Dead Tree Format Snail Mail may be old fashioned, but companies will pay a LOT more attention to it. I've seen email campaigns that got thousands of responses that got ignored, when a letter writing campaign of 60-80 letters got an immediate and positive response for the same issue.
Here's another hint. Don't attack, insult, or threaten them. That's another fast way to get you attempt neutralized, and maybe even get some cops knocking on your door. That doesn't mean you can't tell them what you don't like, how you feel about it, and what you think is a better idea, just be polite and civil about it.
You see, the person reading the mail, usually isn't the person in charge. Though they may forward your mail up the chain of command. Attacking that person is NOT going to help you, in fact, that kind of stuff usually makes them roundfile your letter. (Yes, that means throw it away, or if that's illegal, throw it into the dusty box in the backroom that nobody ever looks in.)
You being an impolite thug with lots of profanity and the like will get a similar response to attacking people.
And I wish I didn't happen to mention it, but don't make threats. Either physical or legal. Physical threats will get you in a permanent troublemaker file where you will be ignored by everyone except the police. And yes, they do occasionally respond to these kinds of threats with investigations and arrests.
As to legal threats, they are a different problem. You may get ignored, depending on the details, but most likely you will get sent to the legal department that will decide how valid your threats are, and proceed from there. As to proceeding from there, nothing will ever happen until the legal paperwork for a court date or whatever shows up. You can't bluff a lawyer with legal threats, you actually have to follow through, and of course, taking legal action against a company is not what writing to them is for. Legal threats will get even less attention from a company than physical threats, and neither one will advance your cause.
One final note for everyone. A well written letter is good, but a thousand identical letters isn't a thousand times better. Have a skilled writer make a template or example for people to use, but everyone should personalize it to make each letter unique, but clear and to the point. After all, the same exact letter over and over will just be treated as spam.
That's about all I can say, other than I'm as sick of hearing people say vote with your wallet, because it just doesn't work.
Actually you can see Russia from there. Well, specific parts of course, it's not like you get ultravision or anything. :)
These days it seems they have declared breathing suspicious.
And holding your breath for that matter.
As there was no declaration of war, and it's of limited scope, it's probably just going to be declared a police action. :p
What does that have to do with modern politics?
Little too intense for me. Just keep it under your tongue, it's not like it'll melt, and so long as you don't cough, it'll be fine. Heck, you can even talk with a microsd under your tongue.
I've rather been of the opinion that if someone was too stupid to use IE to download a better browser, they didn't have enough computer literacy to use the other browser anyway.
I say using IE to get the other browser because I really don't expect a non-techie to know how to use terminal (or another non-browser method) to obtain one.
Maybe he became a Saint. After all, he was dead and holy by that time.