Comment Re:Dogfights?! What year is it?! (Score 1) 843
you can't just pretend you don't have to cover certain parts of warfare.
The Air Force is well aware that dogfighting is still a possibility. That's why they built the F-22.
you can't just pretend you don't have to cover certain parts of warfare.
The Air Force is well aware that dogfighting is still a possibility. That's why they built the F-22.
Because it has a sweet gun that makes a cool sound.
What is the name of a store that sells milk and bread and accepts payment in gold?
I was under the impression that the loss of atmosphere was extremely slow, and that any technology that could terraform the planet could easily keep pace with the loss.
I was just talking about keeping the cosmic rays from mutating people and breaking electronics.
But you don't need to shield the whole planet, just the part where humans live.
Why didn't the evil Americans pick him up when he was walking around the streets of London for a year and a half?
You think it took 2 years for the US "credit crisis" to impact Europe?
Either the Board of Directors hired him to "gut things", or they hired him to improve the company, and then sat there doing nothing while he did the opposite. Either way, they're responsible.
That's awesome that you're smarter than everyone on Wall Street. You must have billions.
So the stock price lost 75% of its value in less than 3 years because everyone on Wall Street is a complete idiot?
Adding to my previous comment-
Here's Nokia's stock price over the last 20 years. Stephen Elop became CEO is late 2010, right when the stock price hit 10. Of course it got worse, but you can see that Nokia was on its way out before he showed up.
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NOK+Interactive#{"range":"max","allowChartStacking":true}
So Nokia's board, who hired Elop, and the CEOs before Elop, have absolutely no blame in Nokia's downfall?
It's the first couple minutes of the flight that people are worried about.
he didn't say they were small or poor. Putting words into someone else's mouth and hitting them with it -- I think that is called a strawman.
developing nation
"A nation where the average income is much lower than in industrial nations..."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/developing+nation
China is a developing nation, and they are still relatively new to the way companies play it in the West
Their GDP is twice as big as Japan's, the #3 economy in the world. At what point do they stop getting to play the "we're just a poor developing country, we can't be expected to follow the rules" card?
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