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These are the sorts of comments which destroy my karma...because nobody wants to hear the voice of reason, nobody has any memory, or is able to do a simple google search.

These reefs have been "in danger" and scientists have been "caught by surprise" every 2-3 years for the last 20 years. Just do a simply google search and you'll see when the greenies were worried about dredging in 2014:

http://www.ibtimes.com/great-b...

Then, UNESCO took the reefs off the endangered list in 2015:

http://www.ibtimes.com.au/unes...

And that was after the reef supposedly lost "half it's coral" in 2012:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/03/...

And that was after the other "wakeup call" in 2011:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/03/...

And so on, and so on, and so on.

In truth, the reefs are growing and shrinking, as they always have, for hundreds of thousands of years. All this is is more fearmongering for the green religion, because they have "demands" they want met. Just like we've been hearing about the "thousands of acres" of rainforest being destroyed since the early 90s - which has far exceeded the actual acres of total rainforests twice over - yet there seems to still be quite a bit of rainforest left. It's all just fearmongering. It's really that simple.

Jim Butcher: The Skin Game, yep Harry Dresden is crap, best selling crap,

A few months ago, Kim Kardashian's book of selfies was on a best seller list.

Selling well doesn't mean it's good.

ahem. Roughly 1.5 million units in Q3 2009 is not untested and suffering from weak adoption for a new product.

You want to talk about weak adoption? Windows Mobile lost 28% in Q3 over a year before. In order to lose 28% share year-over-year in a market where your customers are typically locked into a two or three year contract you have to sell essentially none .

And that's just smartphones. Android also powers the hottest eBook reader this holiday season. They're sold out. If you order now you might get one in February.

WinMo held less than 15% of the smartphone market last year. That's not "extremely popular". In tech-savvy Japan iPhone share has reached almost half. WiMo has negative growth. In fact one Gartner (we can trust Microsoft's friend Gartner not to skew the numbers away from Redmond, right?) analyst has WiMo share at a meek 7.9% in 3Q 2009, off 28% from a year before.

"From one side, the market is going open source," Cozza said. "We expect that, by 2012, around 62 percent of the whole smart phone market will be open source with Symbian, Android and other Linux flavours. On the other side, they have more closed environments like Apple and RIM. Microsoft is caught in the middle. They have to think hard what they can do."

"All their licensees - HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson - are developing on Android," Cozza said, adding that previous licensees Palm and Motorola have both abandoned Windows Mobile.

I'll agree about the ringtones thing, though - they're idiots. The thing is, there are a lot of idiots. Ringtones made up $500M in sales last year. It's shrinking fast, but to most people half a billion dollars is still a lot of money.

An important thing to note is that two or three year contracts are the norm in cell phones, so if you lose 28% of customers year over year, that's essentially everybody who could ditch your product for free. I'll say it again: that's not popular.

Now show me how I can't back my shit up.