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I've rarely had a lick of trouble with HTC build quality.

If your instincts say to try the Nexus, try the Nexus.

Just like quantum effects - phone success for each owner involves a bit of luck.
 
Ok I tuned you out at easy:)
Plus I'm pretty sure I have proof that I invented the sharpie face draw
Cuz my friend from HS just sent me this
And it was 20 or so:/ yeArs ago!
And as you recall.. My son:) plus I knew you would be all logical
Love u rocket man:)
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Incorrect.

It's easy to teach and learn relative time.

Paper and pencil.

Draw a line down, say, three inches.

At a constant speed, follow that line up, down, up down.

After you have a constant rhythm, pull the paper from the left at a constant speed.

Your line becomes a diagonal to the right and it takes you longer to get it as low as the original vertical line.

And because it takes longer the line is longer, like the hypotenuse on a right triangle.

More time = longer line, and vice versa.

Imagine that you are a gigantic ethereal consciousness in space and you have a clock. It's a long tube with mirrors at the top and bottom. It's so long that it takes the pulse of light trapped inside to take one second going from end to end.

They're stylish clocks and all of you ethereal beings have one and you can all see that each others light clocks are correct.

I take myself and light clock far away.

When you least expect it, I go by you from right to left, at a constant speed.

I am watching my light clock while I go, and it's keeping perfect time - the speed of light never changes.

But you are also watching my light clock and to you it's obvious - while I see the light pulse going straight up and down - you see the light pulse in my clock trace a diagonal as I go by.

I measure the line going from top to bottom and I've got one second.

As you watch, you can see that my line is longer, being a diagonal, and therefore, you're sure that my clock must be running slow - it takes too long for the light pulse to reach the bottom of my clock.

On these scales of speed and space we must conclude that because the speed of light is constant, you and I experience a different version of what one second of time is, relative to one another.

Keep this exercise up until one of us passes by at light speed.

The light pulse becomes a left-right line.

It never reaches the bottom of the tube, in fact, from your point of view it stays at one point inside my tube - so there is no passage of time - and for light itself (not things), that's exactly right - there is no time.

We say that light takes just over four years to reach us from the nearest star.

From our point of view, that's true.

From the light's point of view, it didn't take any time at all - it simply eternally existed instantaneously from that star to our eyes.

Only for light is past, present, and future non-existent and everything is simultaneous.

It has to be. Because the speed of light is constant.

And it's constant because it's not a speed - it's a conversion factor.

1 pint = 16 ounces

If I want to convert 2 pints into ounces, I take the above equation and make a conversion factor -

2 pints * ( 16 ounces / pint) = 32 ounces.

Light doesn't travel 186,000 miles/second - light is timeless.

186,000 miles/second is the conversion factor to convert time into space and space into time.

It's not a party trick and you can't vote on it.

186,000 miles per second isn't just a good idea - it's the law.

Einstein has been proven right. I just now did it again, and if you followed this in your mind's eye, then you just did too.
Thanks for that explanation!

That was, forgive the pun, very illuminating!

Seriously, I actually learned something!
I've rarely had a lick of trouble with HTC build quality.

If your instincts say to try the Nexus, try the Nexus.

Just like quantum effects - phone success for each owner involves a bit of luck.
Thanks for your feedback. Up until recently, I hadn't had any bad experience with HTC devices, it's just recently that I have had my troubles.
 
Speaking of Memorial Day
One of the funerals I attended this week was for my great uncle
He was a pilot in WW2 flew B52 bomber over Germany
Greatest guy!:) he also played pro baseball
He was 95 so it wasn't ... Tragic or unexpected like the one I went to yesterday
Anyway
He was awesome
I loved him very much:)
 
Speaking of Memorial Day
One of the funerals I attended this week was for my great uncle
He was a pilot in WW2 flew B52 bomber over Germany
Greatest guy!:) he also played pro baseball
He was 95 so it wasn't ... Tragic or unexpected like the one I went to yesterday
Anyway
He was awesome
I loved him very much:)

Sorry for your loss. :(

And I think that you'll find it was a B-17 or B-24. He'd want you to remember.
 
How about spending an hour in a dynamic simulator for a Boeing 737-800 today?

Kaat, don't fancy a nice steady reasonably paid job do you?

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Our airlines are recruiting for type trained qualified pilots.

I only ever qualified on Microsoft Flight Simulator, so not quite up to standards required.

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It's the one commercial product that China doesn't really make, medium and large passenger commercial jets. They could do it if they wanted. Reasons being IMO, who the hell wants to fly in a "Made in China" aeroplane, when "Made in USA" sounds much better and safer. Especially in the domestic market. Malaysia Airlines, we don't care what planes you use these days, we're not using you.

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just finished watching last episode of season 4 of American Horror story..skipped around on the seasons so we haven't sat through a marathon session of season 2 yet:) LOVE that show!! funny..my husband and boy's say it's hard to watch Jessica Lang without seeing my mom because they insist they look like identical twins or she is her doppelganger! I do have to agree...too funny
 
They very well could have been together at some point considering their home town locations:) did ur dad continue on in the Air Force? Or continue to fly locally? If so I bet they knew each other!!
 
So this is why I love my husband even though he is a big dork:) he took the boys to ortho because I had a funeral Saturday
This is what he sent me from the waiting room ! Haha
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Shoot :/ I don't think it worked
 
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