FYI, this person you responded to is the same guy who calls anyone trying to advance the state of the art in space, "space nutters".
He is a troll that honestly believes that the laws of physics are all known and exactly perfect, and that there is no chance of any human ever traveling to Mars or farther. Trying to have a civil discussion about these things will just get him calling you a space nutter for not giving up on ever improving the state of the art.
In fact, every post I have seen him make in response to this article has been of a mocking sarcastic type meant to make people who try to improve on science look like fools, because he thinks that there are people who honestly think we are right around the corner from "antimatter drives" and "EMdrive powered rockets".
Um, it would take one hell of an explosion to destroy a launch pad. It will be fixed, likely with only replacing the grating that sits under the rocket and the tower that fuels the rockets. The pads are designed to deal with exploding rockets.
Clearly, from following your advice it is quite obvious it was caused by that bird. The bird shot at the rocket and caused the LOX to explode.
In all seriousness, how did you zoom in enough to see the sparks you are mentioning, I don't see anything in the frame before the conflagration obscures everything. By how fast that bird moves between frames, I am guessing that the video has an extremely low frame rate. That bird looked like it flew 100ft or so in the span of a frame.
They tried that, for the whole history of Windows, and you know what they found out of it? Most users never update. They just ignore the update prompts and leave their computers completely unpatched from the day they buy them.
If you are a technical person (which most of us are) you can turn off the auto update without much issue, you already know how to do it. Why all this hate, I don't get, just set it up the way you want if you don't want immediate updates.
As far as I understand it, none of those went back to prior tax years. This is going back to prior years, and requiring a SINGLE company to pay back taxes. Apple is not the only incorporated entity in Ireland that was subject to the lower taxes, so why are they being singled out? It is because they have the huge cash reserve which has been previously reported.
If this is the case, shouldn't the EU be setting a EU wide tax rate for all corporations? Ireland isn't the only country giving companies tax breaks, there are other ones occuring all over. Also, if the EU is going to change the tax rate retroactively, why is only Apple being asked to pay up, when there are many more corporations that paid the lower rate?
Um, except no, they broke no tax laws. Taxes are based on profits, if you move profits by "buying" something from another company, you no longer have those profits to be taxed on. This is the way all taxes based on profit work. Utilizing something that nearly every company uses isn't illegal, as there is no law against it. If they are going to make a huge deal out of this, why don't they do the same to all corporations that use these methods? They are using Apple because Apple is holding onto more cash than many governments in the EU have.
I don't like Apple, but when every other company does this, you have to look at why Apple specifically is being targetted for something that has been happening for 100s of years.
I can't say I have ever seen people doing that in the US. Perhaps you just have a different perspective, but generally when I hear other US citizens speak about the US, it is about our freedoms, not about democracy as if it is something we have. Considering that the US isn't even a democracy, it would take some serious delusions to praise the country for it.
The US is a representative republic, not a direct democracy. Expecting the US to change its system of government because you don't like it is frankly silly.
I doubt the pad is FUBAR (fucked up beyond all recognition/any repair/all reason), This isn't the first time a rocket blew up on the pad, and repairing a pad designed for this type of failure isn't a terribly big deal.
No, some far-flung descendant COULD NOT go there. It isn't possible. There are basic laws of Physics. They are immutable. The problem with you space nutters is that you are narcissists and are intellectually lazy. You just spout science fiction and ignore basic science with handwaving. You think that the basic foundation of Physics and science is going to change, because you watched Star Trek. It isn't. You would be much better off stop being so narcissistic and contribute to society. You aren't going anywhere, you might as well do something useful while you are here on Earth.
The guy with a binary name is saying we will never ever in the life of the human race be able to even go as far as alpha centauri. This is not a valid statement, as there are ways that it could be done, it would just be a slow trip with current technology. There are no physical laws that say we can't do it. It is a financial issue preventing the possibility. If the human race put forth the effort, it is perfectly doable.
The ship of course would have to be built in orbit, you couldn't lift something that large. This would allow building rockets to move the material, or you would have to do some kind of asteroid capture mission and use that for material to build from.
and the US will hold a fair election with sensible, honest, and trustworthy candidates...
Calling out just the US for this issue is pretty short sighted. Can you think of any country that has fair elections of sensible, honest and trustworthy candidates currently?
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Don't get me started on the fact that the FBI conveniently released all this damaging information as a Friday-Before-Holiday news avoidance dump.
Personally, I look at that as giving the media all the time it needs to go through the information before Tuesday.
I wonder when the State Department is going to release Hillary's training records to show she took the training.
There have been studies done, and what they found is that new drivers are at high risk of accidents, it doesn't matter what age they are.
The only thing that reduces about fatalities is the age group being excluded, not the new drivers.
Such as driving to an after school job (or work study program)?
Perhaps you don't know any 16 year olds, but it is hardly uncommon for 16 year olds in the US to go out and binge drink even while it is illegal.
Are you saying that XXongo works for the New York Times?
Also, "no Americans with the appropriate level of experience would accept entry level pay rates" so we must go foreign!
Actually, it is about Intel and AMD only producing drivers for the latest version of Windows, and not the older version.
But yes, it is not about excluding Linux or BSD, but excluding Win 7 and Win 8.
FYI, this person you responded to is the same guy who calls anyone trying to advance the state of the art in space, "space nutters".
He is a troll that honestly believes that the laws of physics are all known and exactly perfect, and that there is no chance of any human ever traveling to Mars or farther. Trying to have a civil discussion about these things will just get him calling you a space nutter for not giving up on ever improving the state of the art.
In fact, every post I have seen him make in response to this article has been of a mocking sarcastic type meant to make people who try to improve on science look like fools, because he thinks that there are people who honestly think we are right around the corner from "antimatter drives" and "EMdrive powered rockets".
Um, it would take one hell of an explosion to destroy a launch pad. It will be fixed, likely with only replacing the grating that sits under the rocket and the tower that fuels the rockets. The pads are designed to deal with exploding rockets.
Clearly, from following your advice it is quite obvious it was caused by that bird. The bird shot at the rocket and caused the LOX to explode.
In all seriousness, how did you zoom in enough to see the sparks you are mentioning, I don't see anything in the frame before the conflagration obscures everything. By how fast that bird moves between frames, I am guessing that the video has an extremely low frame rate. That bird looked like it flew 100ft or so in the span of a frame.
The service even only costs 85.95! What a bargain! /s
They tried that, for the whole history of Windows, and you know what they found out of it? Most users never update. They just ignore the update prompts and leave their computers completely unpatched from the day they buy them.
If you are a technical person (which most of us are) you can turn off the auto update without much issue, you already know how to do it. Why all this hate, I don't get, just set it up the way you want if you don't want immediate updates.
MS gets so much grief about the forced updates, but what is the better solution for their customers who NEVER update?
Maybe forced updates a month after live date instead of as soon as they hit the computer?
OMG! They might have to increase the size of the phone .01mm to accommodate the increased size of packaging. What will we do!?
As far as I understand it, none of those went back to prior tax years. This is going back to prior years, and requiring a SINGLE company to pay back taxes. Apple is not the only incorporated entity in Ireland that was subject to the lower taxes, so why are they being singled out? It is because they have the huge cash reserve which has been previously reported.
If this is the case, shouldn't the EU be setting a EU wide tax rate for all corporations? Ireland isn't the only country giving companies tax breaks, there are other ones occuring all over. Also, if the EU is going to change the tax rate retroactively, why is only Apple being asked to pay up, when there are many more corporations that paid the lower rate?
Exactly, and the national level tax agency says Apple paid exactly what they owed.
Um, except no, they broke no tax laws. Taxes are based on profits, if you move profits by "buying" something from another company, you no longer have those profits to be taxed on. This is the way all taxes based on profit work. Utilizing something that nearly every company uses isn't illegal, as there is no law against it. If they are going to make a huge deal out of this, why don't they do the same to all corporations that use these methods? They are using Apple because Apple is holding onto more cash than many governments in the EU have.
I don't like Apple, but when every other company does this, you have to look at why Apple specifically is being targetted for something that has been happening for 100s of years.
I can't say I have ever seen people doing that in the US. Perhaps you just have a different perspective, but generally when I hear other US citizens speak about the US, it is about our freedoms, not about democracy as if it is something we have. Considering that the US isn't even a democracy, it would take some serious delusions to praise the country for it.
The US is a representative republic, not a direct democracy. Expecting the US to change its system of government because you don't like it is frankly silly.
I doubt the pad is FUBAR (fucked up beyond all recognition/any repair/all reason), This isn't the first time a rocket blew up on the pad, and repairing a pad designed for this type of failure isn't a terribly big deal.
I read this, and I have to ask; does it hurt to be this stupid?
I was asking in response to this comment:
No, some far-flung descendant COULD NOT go there. It isn't possible. There are basic laws of Physics. They are immutable. The problem with you space nutters is that you are narcissists and are intellectually lazy. You just spout science fiction and ignore basic science with handwaving. You think that the basic foundation of Physics and science is going to change, because you watched Star Trek. It isn't. You would be much better off stop being so narcissistic and contribute to society. You aren't going anywhere, you might as well do something useful while you are here on Earth.
The guy with a binary name is saying we will never ever in the life of the human race be able to even go as far as alpha centauri. This is not a valid statement, as there are ways that it could be done, it would just be a slow trip with current technology. There are no physical laws that say we can't do it. It is a financial issue preventing the possibility. If the human race put forth the effort, it is perfectly doable.
The ship of course would have to be built in orbit, you couldn't lift something that large. This would allow building rockets to move the material, or you would have to do some kind of asteroid capture mission and use that for material to build from.
Ahh, ok, that is what I was missing.
and the US will hold a fair election with sensible, honest, and trustworthy candidates...
Calling out just the US for this issue is pretty short sighted. Can you think of any country that has fair elections of sensible, honest and trustworthy candidates currently?
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Not sure what you mean by CAR, but I would download a Car in a heartbeat if the technology was there to print it.