If he wrote that USB death stick software himself,
It's hardware. Basically a transformer that steps up the voltage, stores the charge in a capacitor then zaps the USB circuit and thus the motherboard with 200V or so.
Usually when you use the word "us", you are including yourself in a group. I was also identifying the group when I said "people like you". Notice I didn't say YOU, I said LIKE you. So no personal attack. I was merely referring to the same hypothetical group you created. A personal attack is saying ceoyoyo you are a dumb @#$@ and I hate your guts, for example.
Well they chose the job, no one forced them. People like that maybe shouldn't be working in a public-facing customer service kind of work, but in some office somewhere. If you hate your job, if the pay is shit and the hours are long, and the boss is an asshole, a mature person would try to find a better job not take it out on the customers.
Air transport in particular is much cheaper than it used to be.
And the quality of service is much worse than it used to be in the 60's and 70's. Now your knees are against the seat in front, you're jammed into your seat with barely any wriggle room, the staff always look pissed off and you're lucky if you get a packet of peanuts.
And people like you who are sensitive only to price and always pick rock bottom pricing end up destroying any attempt at quality or customer service. You complain that you get treated like cattle, but weren't willing to pay that extra $50 to a competitor who treats you better. Therefore you cause an entire industry to race to the bottom providing the cheapest possible transport with the bare minimum of service. Well done.
Some people who care more about quality choose to pay business class. There you don't get treated like animals, staff are always smiling and never grumpy, the food is better, etc. Price is always a conscious choice - but the consumer has to be aware that if they demand rock bottom pricing they get rock bottom quality. After all you get what you pay for.
The fact that Twitter could very likely start a war between two countries
Wtf? Back into your safe space. No war is going to start over tweets. You seem to be suffering from TDS/Orangemanbad. No one would dare attack the US no matter how outrageous one of President Trump's tweets. And the US won't attack any country over a tweet that they weren't going to attack anyway.
So value = advertisers. Or value to advertisers is the important thing. Good to know which side of the fence you're on. A great many people (including some in the advertising industry) believe that advertisers actually destroy value but hey, it's a good paying job so go with it. Value is when a good product is cheap. Then you have great value. Advertising costs money, the cost is passed on to the consumer. So while advertising may increase sales, you get the same product more expensive. Value decreases. But the company doesn't give a shit because their bottom line increases. Net result is the company makes more money at the expense of value to the consumer. Better yet is the case where advertising is used to sell a shit product very expensive. That's really bad value. Get the correlation between advertising and value here? There is no case in which advertising ADDS value to anything on this planet.
Yep, they want to invent the Facebook/Youtube feed. So the makers of Twitter actually have no idea how people use their service at all. Well I wish them luck in destroying it. When it's gone the collective IQ of the planet may actually increase slightly.
Stem cells are stem cells. Since they're not differentiated it doesn't really matter where they came from. The breakthrough was being able to take regular differentiated cells and turn them back into undifferentiated stem cells.
A guy puts wings on a bicycle and it's pretty useless. Until a few months later he decides to put a gasoline engine and a propeller on it too. Science is often done in iterations...
Better still block it at the download level and don't download it. Back before broadband was common and digital downloads didn't exist, an argument could be made for trying to get something you couldn't find elsewhere. Now we're surrounded by cheap digital sources, you can buy and download any software you want, you have a wide variety of services that stream all sorts of movies and shows. There's not much drive for piracy except for the need to "get stuff for free". Well caveat emptor.
You're assuming the worst case. Pretty much all orbits are west to east, so all the stuff will be moving in roughly that direction. It's not going to hit you at 7000 mph. The bigger pieces can be tracked on radar. The smaller stuff, well yeah it's going to hit hard but it's less mass.
Not impossible. Merely challenging. You can engineer a lot of things, design to resist damage from space junk. The problem is it adds cost and mass making it much more expensive. But if you are determined you can always make it.
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Can you name a two dimensional thing in our 3 dimensional world?
A shadow intersecting a surface.
Plus median doesn't mean much - only that 50% serve more than the median and 50% serve less.
If he wrote that USB death stick software himself,
It's hardware. Basically a transformer that steps up the voltage, stores the charge in a capacitor then zaps the USB circuit and thus the motherboard with 200V or so.
Well at least frying a bunch of computers is better than shooting up a building full of people.
Well fuck them, I have no contacts and no friends, so there! Hahahahahaha
for those of us
Usually when you use the word "us", you are including yourself in a group. I was also identifying the group when I said "people like you". Notice I didn't say YOU, I said LIKE you. So no personal attack. I was merely referring to the same hypothetical group you created. A personal attack is saying ceoyoyo you are a dumb @#$@ and I hate your guts, for example.
Well they chose the job, no one forced them. People like that maybe shouldn't be working in a public-facing customer service kind of work, but in some office somewhere. If you hate your job, if the pay is shit and the hours are long, and the boss is an asshole, a mature person would try to find a better job not take it out on the customers.
Yep, that's what I do. KLM is a sweet airline to cross the Atlantic on :)
Air transport in particular is much cheaper than it used to be.
And the quality of service is much worse than it used to be in the 60's and 70's. Now your knees are against the seat in front, you're jammed into your seat with barely any wriggle room, the staff always look pissed off and you're lucky if you get a packet of peanuts.
And people like you who are sensitive only to price and always pick rock bottom pricing end up destroying any attempt at quality or customer service. You complain that you get treated like cattle, but weren't willing to pay that extra $50 to a competitor who treats you better. Therefore you cause an entire industry to race to the bottom providing the cheapest possible transport with the bare minimum of service. Well done.
Some people who care more about quality choose to pay business class. There you don't get treated like animals, staff are always smiling and never grumpy, the food is better, etc. Price is always a conscious choice - but the consumer has to be aware that if they demand rock bottom pricing they get rock bottom quality. After all you get what you pay for.
Who writes or thinks like that? About half of the population.
And assuming a normal distribution of intelligence in the population then half the population is dumber than the other half.
$700 million/year in "R&D" lol
The fact that Twitter could very likely start a war between two countries
Wtf? Back into your safe space. No war is going to start over tweets. You seem to be suffering from TDS/Orangemanbad. No one would dare attack the US no matter how outrageous one of President Trump's tweets. And the US won't attack any country over a tweet that they weren't going to attack anyway.
The people buy him drinks, because he sells their info to advertisers.
You'd think so but the algorithms aren't that smart.
literally destroy value just by merely existing.
So value = advertisers. Or value to advertisers is the important thing. Good to know which side of the fence you're on. A great many people (including some in the advertising industry) believe that advertisers actually destroy value but hey, it's a good paying job so go with it. Value is when a good product is cheap. Then you have great value. Advertising costs money, the cost is passed on to the consumer. So while advertising may increase sales, you get the same product more expensive. Value decreases. But the company doesn't give a shit because their bottom line increases. Net result is the company makes more money at the expense of value to the consumer. Better yet is the case where advertising is used to sell a shit product very expensive. That's really bad value. Get the correlation between advertising and value here? There is no case in which advertising ADDS value to anything on this planet.
Yep, they want to invent the Facebook/Youtube feed. So the makers of Twitter actually have no idea how people use their service at all. Well I wish them luck in destroying it. When it's gone the collective IQ of the planet may actually increase slightly.
Stem cells are stem cells. Since they're not differentiated it doesn't really matter where they came from. The breakthrough was being able to take regular differentiated cells and turn them back into undifferentiated stem cells.
A guy puts wings on a bicycle and it's pretty useless. Until a few months later he decides to put a gasoline engine and a propeller on it too. Science is often done in iterations...
Better still block it at the download level and don't download it. Back before broadband was common and digital downloads didn't exist, an argument could be made for trying to get something you couldn't find elsewhere. Now we're surrounded by cheap digital sources, you can buy and download any software you want, you have a wide variety of services that stream all sorts of movies and shows. There's not much drive for piracy except for the need to "get stuff for free". Well caveat emptor.
That's easy just build it in Cher's back yard.
Competition only drives prices down in economics classrooms. In the real world you get a cartel and price fixing.
You're assuming the worst case. Pretty much all orbits are west to east, so all the stuff will be moving in roughly that direction. It's not going to hit you at 7000 mph. The bigger pieces can be tracked on radar. The smaller stuff, well yeah it's going to hit hard but it's less mass.
getting past low earth orbit would be impossible.
Not impossible. Merely challenging. You can engineer a lot of things, design to resist damage from space junk. The problem is it adds cost and mass making it much more expensive. But if you are determined you can always make it.
Mass murder is not something the typical gun owner can or would do, either.