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(I've tried looking around the internets, but I couldn't find a good answer.) 
OK, so I do a posting about current affairs and get a lively thread going on, but then some troll starts trolling. I can delete his posts individually, but I'd like to stop him cold. I don't see any menu item that would easily do this, and it seems that the only thing I could do in general is delete my thread, which of course is what I don't want to do.  Perhaps a Facebook programmer that hangs around The Lounge here can give the answer.
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It's Facebook.
Delete the account (yours, not his) and move on with your life.
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What makes you think you own the thread? 
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It was posted on my timeline, ergo I own it.
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You can either block the said user completely and then delete whatever he had posted manually or set up a custom security group which will only allow or deny certain people from viewing the post. This[^] might help.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I have been playing with a Minecraft mod called Refraction, which is all about light and lasers, and one of the items is a laser pen. The only description of it in the mod's in-game guide is 'KAT LAZORS', so I tried it with an Ocelot, and said Ocelot started chasing it all around. Tamed cats do so as well.
I just found that rather funny and quite cute. The cats even pounce on the red dot!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I'll have to tell my kid.
Which platform?
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Admittedly, I haven't played Minecraft in probably two years (and I hear the changes have been rather grand,) but...
Isn't the only platform that supports mods, PC?
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Possibly. Hadn't thought of that.
We did get the kid to take a couple of classes in Java for Minecraft a while back.
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Minecraft: Pocket Edition has a rather new Addon system as well. I don't know much else about it.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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PC 1.10.2.
Here's the mod page[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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@OriginalGrifff
Needed to clone a hard drive on an old XP machine, I remember you extolling the virtues of AOMEI at some point, tried it, very nice indeed, simple, free, and fast. No muss, no fuss it just worked, thanks!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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It's good isn't it?
Wish they paid me for everytime I said that though... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, couldn't get any simpler and did what I needed it to do.
OriginalGriff wrote: Wish they paid me for everytime I said that though..
I'll say, I wouldn't have heard of them otherwise.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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TO THE STARS
There is a rope tied around the equator. We add one meter to that rope and lift the rope by a single point until it stretched.
Can one of us walk under the rope?
Look at the image here to understand better: [^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 21-Mar-17 15:08pm.
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If the point and I are at the beach, go into the ocean a few feet and viola. Or am I misunderstanding something?
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The water will allow the rope to "stretch" anyway, so I don't see the point in adding length.
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Well, I can't.
The Equator is far to far away to walk to, and anyway, I live on an island - Britain - so walking there is right out of the question.
But yes, in theory loads could: The highest point on the Equator is at the elevation of 4,690 m in Ecuador (thanks Google!), so if you raised it by a meter, there will be loads of points around that where a 2m gap exists.
And of course, anyone with access to a submarine...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'll presume that the Earth is a perfect spheroid (i.e., circle at the equator).
The rope will go around the equator for most of the way, and then will diverge at some point along the tangent of that circle, and then bend and do the reverse. Thus, the length of that tangent line is 1/2 meter longer than the circle arc that is subtended.
X = extra length up to bend
= 0.5 m
R = Earth's radius
= 6371000 m
θ = subtended angle (radians)
s = length of rope from leaving tangent to hitting the bend
h = height of rope at bend
s = R tan( θ ) = R θ + X
h = [ R / cos( θ ) ] - R = R ( 1 - [ 1 / cos( ( θ ) ]
tan( θ ) - θ = ( X / R ) ~= θ^3 / 3
θ = .0043
h = 58 m
modified 22-Mar-17 3:38am.
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What does the meter measure?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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No. The height of the rope will be far too small.
Assuming Earth to be sphere and assuming we lift the rope such that both lifted ends are of same length (1/2 m), we can basically create a right angled triangle with right angle between lifted rope (1/2 m), Earth's radius (tangents are at 90, right?) and hypotenuse from Earth's center to highest point. We can then find peak height using:
(1/2)^2 + (6371000)^2 = (6371000 + x)^2
Earth's radius = 6371000m
here we end up with, x^2 + 12742000x - 1/4 = 0.
x has to be really really small.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Think again... The lifted rope will create a triangle-like shape, but its sides are longer than 1/2 meter...
The actual answers is yes - the point will be at a height of about 90 meters...
See this image [^]...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So the side comes out to be 3.5 KM assuming answer to be 90 meter. This is confusing. I will have to think again with a different approach.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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