I had a pitbull that would flip out when it was time to pull me around on a bicycle. Her favorite activity.
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The ones that scare me are the twos and threes, hard to play defense against a pack attack.
Hard to say about the steriods. He looks to be pulling against a pretty heavy load there if just his owner. I have seen the dogs that ripped on the natch. A friend had one that looked just like the one on the hood of a Mack truck.
Sounds like a tall tale but the most ripped dog I have ever seen was a Chihuahua! Cut and ripped like no dog I had ever seen. My uncle had beef cattle and his main pasture was about two miles from his house. When he wanted the Chihuahua with him he would load it in his truck cab, if not he ignored it. He had three or four cattle dogs and he would drive to the pasture about twenty miles an hour to accommodate them running behind.
The Chihuahua would try to follow and eventually got to where he would catch up by the time my uncle got out and opened the pasture gate. I had to see this so I went to the pasture with him that day. Sure enough, the Chihuahua was only a couple hundred feet away when I opened the gate. A bit more active than my uncle, I opened the gate faster but it took only seconds for the little dog to catch up! He did ride the few miles to the back of the pasture and back home. He looked like some kind of freak. Some of the freakishly muscular animals you see pictures of are mutants, they have a condition known as double muscles in layman's terms, they have roughly twice the normal muscle mass from birth. This had been an entirely normal Chihuahua until close to a year old when he started running behind the truck. This was a pure bred typical tiny Chihuahua, not a crossbreed.
I would be and was skeptical of this story until I saw it for myself. I wish I had pictures of the little stinker but this was close to forty years ago and both the dog and my uncle are long gone.
Hu
I worked around some 1800 and 2000 degree pipe. It looked incandescent, like you could almost see through it. When the lines were turned off to strip the old insulation and steel they were corroded badly enough to be scary how much they had weakened, huge flakes and sheets of rust fell off with the old insulation. I asked why they didn't use stainless pipe and was told this was stainless!
I saw a few burns from that pipe, it didn't even look like a burn. Skin and flesh just evaporated and what was left looked like the cutaways in a science book. No blister or scab and the wound didn't bleed. Accidentally brush against that pipe, flesh just disappeared! One Christmas eve the bosses said they needed about forty feet of pipe ran then we would have a drink across the road in the parking lot and call it a day. Jackasses meant about forty feet of that twelve inch pipe straight out of the boilers. About two dozen of us to do the work and the first little stretch went fast. The second was only about ten or twelve feet but it came straight up out of a tapered hogshead, like an eccentric cone or reducer. It would have been necessary to stand on that cone to insulate that pipe and if a man lost his balance he would have just evaporated!
I told the other men we had to have scaffold. Several of them pointed out that the carpenters weren't working on Christmas eve. I said, "I know, lets go get that drink!" No way I was getting on that hogshead or letting anyone else. I wasn't anything but a journeyman on that job but I often led the way due to common sense and experience.
Hu
I was jogging one day and turned a corner to see a woman walking two dogs not on a leash. One was a mutt. The other a pit bull. Mutt started barking and ran straight at me. He called out for it to stop and it turned around. Pit bull wasn't barking but kept coming at me. She said "Don't worry he won't bite. Come here Killer".
Pit bull named Killer that doesn't bite.
Their advantage there ended after the amd Intel wars led to risc architecture becoming obsolete and Apple switching to Intel (cisc)64 bit instead of risc based 64 bit.
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Apple has come close to going under several times. I could get into the specifics of why but it's not necessary. They've always had Steve jobs come back in and use gimmicky product and good marketing to save them, the three or four times they were about to fail.
The I Mac, the I pod, the I phone and the I pad are the only reason they're still around. That and lazy, imbecillic end users like I already stated.
Jaden
They don't run autodesk inventor or ANY AutoCad very well either...
Years ago, Apple had about 5% of the PC market, and was under threat enough that Microsoft invested in them to avoid monopoly complications.
I remember when Apple went up to about 12% of the PC market, but last I heard they were back down in the 7% range again.
They do have a loyal following, but they haven't been able to get a lot of traction.
As others have pointed out, Apple seems to be primarily a phone/tablet manufacturer now.
The software issue has more to do with developer strategy. Developers aren't going to invest the time and money to develop on a platform that's not easily ported to and that is less than 5 percent of the market share..
Jaden
When Mac started using Intel architecture andswitched to Linux as their core os, they made the same mistake they did against of, and the same mistake Sony made with beta Max.
You have to license out.
I gave my mom a chow-chow puppy for home defense. When it was just a little ball of fluff mom named her Killer. She said that way if she heard somebody trying to break in she could say, "Get'm Killer!" A year or so later the dog needs to go to the vet for the usual yearly tests. A chow can be a handful around people or other dogs so she asked me to take Killer to the vet. I hadn't thought about the paperwork. "What is the dog's name?"
"Um, er, ah, LADY!"
Hu
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The most dangerous thing about apple is that they make so much money selling inferior products at inflated prices that they threaten the legitimate tools necessary for STEM careers.
They are gimmicky. They have had some innovations, tho. Unfortunately they killed many better products. Like the Zune. I miss the Zune HD. Great sound, great build quality, excellent UI.
Honestly, I wish I could enjoy their garbage. Life would be easier. I wouldn't have to look at specifications, I wouldn't have to compare products vs. price. I could just go get the new junk and fit in with every thirteen y/o girl, every blue hair on Facebook, and every man-bunning hipster.
let's see now...
Jobs has been dead for over a decade, when Jobs was CEO APPL market cap was less than $340 Billion, today it is $2.5 Trillion... your claim is not accurate
as far as "gimmicky" products are concerned I think APPL's track record of change management and innovation speaks for itself
disrupted the personal computer industry, remain an industry leader
disrupted the cell phone industry, remain an industry leader
disrupted the music industry, remain an industry leader
disrupted the camera industry, remain an industry leader
disrupted the wrist watch industry, remain an industry leader
I get it, lot's of haters out there that like to knock success and you can knock all you want but you can't hide from the fact that their products and management have created the largest company the world has ever seen. It is also considered to be one of the the best managed companies in the world. That would be called success by definition.