Public companies can also have a mechanism to halt a hostile takeover, it's called a poison pill. Generally it involves some kind of massive payoff to the current staff, but it can also be the automatic issuance of new stock which dilutes the holdings of the company attempting to do the acquisition. The first known use of the latter technique that I'm aware of was the Westinghouse corporation which issued massive amounts of stock when JP Morgan tried to take them over, ultimately providing them with enough money to complete the Niagara power station project.

Completely correct. Current cellphone networks often no longer support the older digital cellular standards used by older smartphones, and you're better off with a lower-end smartphone like the Lumia 530 you mentioned.

Because the moon is smaller than the Earth.

The trackball was the weakness of the 8820, any of the later bold models with the optical trackball would be vastly superior from a reliability standpoint.

If it were in existence ~1400 years ago, perhaps we would have nipped Islam in the bud.

If it were in existence ~2000 years ago, perhaps we would have nipped Christianity in the bud.

And I wonder how many readers agreed with my first line, then threw a shit-fit when they got to my second line.

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You assume that the Earth is a perfect sphere. Please see my other posts for the counter argument.

You assume that the Earth is a perfect sphere. See my other posts for the counter argument.

I'm not sure why you replied to me, the context is out place. Perhaps you are working for Elon Musk and are testing me for more info. Please, if this is the case, I am open for employment with Elon Musk and his team.

I'll make/re-itterate another point to my post at this stage though. My point relates to the common answer with regards to the South Pole answer. As I have stated, the Earth is not a perfect sphere. The shape of the Earth is known as the Geoid. If the non-spherical nature of the Earth is not taken into account, then it entirely feasible that the 1+1/2pi answer will return you to a location that is only at close proximity to your starting point. This may only be a matter of meters or fractions of meters. This sort of small error has the potential to cause an expensive rocket to explode when calculating trajectories for space flight if it is not accounted for. There are a few other factors that need to be accounted for, however, I'll let you work them out from here on in.

The German grid more stable in 2013? Relative to the years before it, maybe. Mostly because there's a big new market springing up here for people to sell grid stabilization services, which involves buffering energy somehow. It's all a response to the utter unsuitability of wind/solar to provide reliable power output.

But feel free to believe in your propaganda... fact of the matter is that the German Energiewende is on its last legs. Subsidies are being cut, projects are being scaled back and politicians are desperately trying to figure out ways to break the bad news to the populace.

They should have finished the crust. People who don't eat the crust go to jail.

Just clear the path. Nobody likes Phobos anyway.

Your weight is higher at the poles than on Everest because the earth is not a sphere, but an oblate spheroid. And the mountain would raise you away from the central mass of the earth even more.

Because the mass beneath your feet would be lower.

A mountain at 42,164bkm would have the peak in geosynchronous orbit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

But if someone built a tower 384,000 km high, it would travel faster than the moon. And if you jumped off that tower, you'd also never reach the ground.

If you have a "login" without security, like SMTP, if you were to hook up 12 SMTP servers like this, the simple replay of logging into one and sending an email would work fine. EHLO, and all that, assuming no dropped packets, would send a perfect copy of the one email through all the others.