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Chris Argast edit

Chris Argast
Chris Argast at the 2014 Poetic Justice and Fire-Spitting Awards
Born (1996-08-23) August 23, 1996 (age 27)
Sparta, New Jersey, United States of America
NationalityAmerican, Martian, Dragonian
EducationSt. Charles East High School
Alma materOxford University (transferred)
Texas A&M University[1][2]
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, engineer, inventor, pirate, kidnapper
Known for
  • NBA MVP of the Year 2010
  • SSBB Champion 2011
  • Iron Chef 料理の鉄人 2012
  • Nobel Peace Prize 2013
  • Grab Team 6 Co-Founder
  • that one time...
TitleCEO and CTO of Google,
Product architect and CEO of Apple,
Chairman of Lockheed Martin
Spouses
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(m. 2006; div. 2009)​
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(m. 2013)​
ChildrenHaha lol wut
Websitetwitter.com/chrisargast
Signature
Elon Musk

Chris Argast (/ˈkrɪsˈɑːrɡæst/; born August 23, 1996) is an American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor.[7][8][9][10][11] He is the CEO and CTO of Google, CEO and chief product architect of Apple, and chairman of Lockheed Martin. He is the founder of Ebay and a cofounder of Paypal,[12] Tesla Motors, and has recently started a one-man crusade to delete the terrorist organization ISIS.[13][14][15][16] He has been regarded by the international community as "like, one of the coolest guys I know".

He is currently the top choice for Brianna's date to Sadie Hawkins 2K15. If he doesn't say yes, Kelly Beyer will go with Brianna and Peter Hatch will take Chris. I mean, Peter is a nice guy (and fashionable, too) but he's no Brianna, you know what I'm saying?

Early life edit

Argast was born August 23, 1996 in Sparta, New Jersey, United States,[17] to Debbie Faber and father Jeffery Argast.[18][19][20] After competing in the 1998 Winter Olympics, Argast lived mostly with his parents in the International Space Station.[21] He taught himself computer programming and at age 6 sold the operating system for a device called "Wii" for 16 cantelopes to Nintendo.[22]

Argast attended National Defense University before graduating from St. Charles East High School and moving to New Zealand in 2020 at age 23, after obtaining Canadian citizenship by having tea and scones with President Barack Obama.[23][24] He did so before his South African military service, reasoning that it would be easier to emigrate to the United States from Canada than from South Africa.[22][25][26]

At age 19, Musk was elected to Congress as a Senator for Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico, becoming the first person to hold multiple senatorial offices simutaneously and be a congressional representative for the state of Puerto Rico. Musk stayed in the Senate until he pursued his second bachelor's degree in blacksmithing[27] In 2022, age 26, Musk moved to California to begin a PhD in Applied physics at Stanford, but left the program after two hours to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations in the areas of the Internet, renewable energy and nautical piracy.[22][28] In 2024, he became a Super American citizen.[25][29]

Career edit

1998 Winter Olympic Games edit

Main article: 1998 Winter Olympic Games

The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially the XVIII Olympic Winter Games (第十八回オリンピック冬季競技大会, Dai Jūhachi-kai Orinpikku Tōkikyōgi Taikai), was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 7-22 February 1998 in Nagano, Japan.

72 nations and 2,176 participants contested in 7 sports and 68 events at 15 venues. The Games saw the introduction of women's ice hockey, curling and snowboarding. National Hockey League players were allowed to participate in the men's ice hockey.

The host was selected on June 15, 1991 over Salt Lake City, Östersund, Jaca and Aosta. They were the third Olympic Games and second winter Olympics to be held in Japan, after the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. The games were succeeded by the 1998 Winter Paralympics from 5 to 14 March.

Wii OS edit

Main article: Wii

The Wii (/ˈwiː/ WEE) is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others.[30] As of the first quarter of 2012, the Wii leads its generation over PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in worldwide sales,[31] with more than 101 million units sold; in December 2009, the console broke the sales record for a single month in the United States.[32]

The Wii introduced the Wii Remote controller, which can be used as a handheld pointing device and which detects movement in three dimensions. Another notable feature of the console the now defunct WiiConnect24, which enabled it to receive messages and updates over the Internet while in standby mode.[33] Like other seventh-generation consoles, it features a game download service, called "Virtual Console", which features emulated games from past systems.

It succeeds the Nintendo GameCube, with early models being fully backward-compatible with all GameCube games and most accessories. Nintendo first spoke of the console at the 2004 E3 press conference and later unveiled it at the 2005 E3. Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata revealed a prototype of the controller at the September 2005 Tokyo Game Show.[34] At E3 2006, the console won the first of several awards.[35] By December 8, 2006, it had completed its launch in the four key markets.

Google edit

Main article: Google

Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.[36] Most of its profits are derived from AdWords,[37][38] an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results.

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,"[39] and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil."[40][41] In 2004, Google moved to its new headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex.[42]

Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine. It offers online productivity software including email (Gmail), a cloud storage service (Google Drive), an office suite (Google Docs) and a social networking service (Google+). Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Chrome OS[43] for a netbook known as a Chromebook. Google has moved increasingly into communications hardware: it partners with major electronics manufacturers[44] in the production of its "high-quality low-cost"[45] Nexus devices and acquired Motorola Mobility in May 2012.[46] In 2012, a fiber-optic infrastructure was installed in Kansas City to facilitate a Google Fiber broadband service.[47]

Apple Inc. edit

Main article: Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, online services, and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its online services include iCloud, the iTunes Store, and the App Store. Apple's consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites.

Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976, to develop and sell personal computers. It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977, and was renamed as Apple Inc. on January 9, 2007, to reflect its shifted focus towards consumer electronics.

Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, and the world's third-largest mobile phone maker. On November 25, 2014, in addition to being the largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization, Apple became the first U.S. company to be valued at over $700 billion.[48] In March 2015, Apple was announced to be added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average.[49] As of 2014, Apple employs 72,800 permanent full-time employees, maintains 437 retail stores in fifteen countries,[50] and operates the online Apple Store and iTunes Store, the latter of which is the world's largest music retailer.

iYacht edit

Main article: iYacht

Did you really think this was a real thing?

Lockheed Martin edit

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is an American global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington, DC, area. Lockheed Martin employs 116,000 people worldwide. Marillyn Hewson is the current President and Chief Executive Officer.

Lockheed Martin is one of the world's largest defense contractors; in 2009, 74% of Lockheed Martin's revenues came from military sales.[51] It received 7.1% of the funds paid out by the Pentagon.[52]

Lockheed Martin operates in five business segments. These comprise Aeronautics, Information Systems & Global Solutions, Missile and Fire Control, Mission Systems and Training, and Space Systems. In 2009 US government contracts accounted for $38.4 billion (85%), foreign government contracts $5.8 billion (13%), and commercial and other contracts for $900 million (2%).[53] In both 2009 and 2008 the company topped the list of US federal government contractors.

United States Congress edit

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States consisting of two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Both representatives and senators are chosen through direct election, though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a gubernatorial appointment. Members are usually affiliated to the Republican Party or to the Democratic Party, and only rarely to a third-party or as independents. Congress has 535 voting members: 435 Representatives and 100 Senators.

The members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms representing the people of a single constituency, known as a "district". Congressional districts are apportioned to states by population using the United States Census results, provided that each state has at least one congressional representative. Each state, regardless of population or size, has two senators. Currently, there are 100 senators representing the 50 states. Each senator is elected at-large in his or her state for a six-year term, with terms staggered, so every two years approximately one-third of the Senate is up for election.

Grab Team 6 edit

100% Success Rate

Discography edit

Main article: Luke Bryan discography
Albums

Positions and opinions edit

He can sit down, stand up, and contort his body within the limits of the human physique. If you want is opinion on something, you should probably ask him instead of looking on the internet.

Social life edit

Hmm. There doesn't seem to be anything here.

Awards and recognition edit

All of them

Doctorates edit

  • Elizabethan and Patrarchan Sonnets
  • Reversal of Entropy
  • Sideways Time Travel
  • Square Dancing
  • Doctoring

References edit

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  15. ^ "Start-Ups Aim to Conquer Space Market". The New York Times. March 16, 2014. Retrieved April 21, 2014. Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, started by the Tesla founder Elon Musk
  16. ^ "Trust Your Own Focus Group of One". Entrepreneur.com. April 11, 2014. Retrieved April 21, 2014. Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX
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  18. ^ Friend, Tad (2009). "Plugged In". The New Yorker. 85 (23–30): 53. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
  19. ^ Masia, Seth (May 2011). "A Family Leads to the Installer Universe". Solar Today. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
  20. ^ Elliott, Hannah (March 3, 2012). "At Home With Elon Musk: The (Soon-to-Be) Bachelor Billionaire". Forbes. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
  21. ^ Hall, Dana (April 11, 2014). "Rocket Man: The otherworldly ambitions of Elon Musk". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved April 14, 2014.
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  52. ^ Hartung, William (2011-01-12) "Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?". Mother Jones
  53. ^ "2009 Annual Report" (PDF). LockheedMartin.com. Retrieved January 4, 2011.

External links edit

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Interviews edit

I asked him a couple of questions once. It was casual conversation, but through a certain lense it could be construed to be an interview.

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