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Greenpeace Admits Targeting Apple Grabs Headlines
An anonymous reader writes "Gizmodo published this morning allegations by the bromine industry claiming that Greenpeace's report on the iPhone was inaccurate and alarmist. They got an official rebuttal to the bromine industry by Greenpeace, but the most interesting part is their acknowledgment that their targeting of Apple, even while they have similar reports on every manufacturer, is a deliberate attempt to grab headlines. While it's logical and not surprising, I find it quite shocking to see them be so cavalier, and even hypocritical, about it."
a good old fashioned hippie ass whoopin'
no. the top five photographs of all time is the absolute truth about those pictures. the top five reasons to vote for Ron Paul are real, reasonable reasons. the funniest clip of colbert ever on youtube, is well, the funniest ever. that's not offensive or sensationalist - it's the honest to Dawkins truth.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Well they first release a series of "green" soylent products.
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I just hate to see such a humble, unassuming company as Apple, content to attend modestly to their own private matters, dragged out into public scrutiny. This kind of thing can ruin a quiet little family company like Apple Computer.
Admitting targeting Apple to grab headlines grabs headlines too :)
Now, how long until this recursion dies with out of memory error...
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> Apple needs hit them where it hurts, the wallet.
We're talking about Greenpeace here. Hitting them where it hurts means pulling Phish from iTunes.
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I believe that dirty hippy playing the guitar is Mr. Jobs
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them
Ah, but Bromine is in Group VIIb, one down from Chlorine. Therefore it must be evil!
Watch out Iodine, you're next!
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Evidence? We don't have to give you no stinking evidence! (Well, maybe we'll have some next week. We loaned ours to SCO, and all we get lately is an answering machine...)
That's a little improbable. Dell generally doesn't do well in the consumer market, and their products are usually frowned upon by the computer literate; their main sales are corporate, and the few consumer sales they manage are generally via corporate discount programs. And while many Dells run GNU/Linux, the vast majority of these are servers, not desktops; they certainly aren't running Ubuntu.
I don't know of anyone outside of the Mac community who immediately think of Dell when they're trying to name a PC brand. They're unlikely to come across a Dell in a retail outlet (it was big news when one of the major Office* chains announced a contract to sell the things - generally you'll not find anything outside of Lenovo/IBM, Gateway, HP, and a few like Toshiba and Sony bringing up the rear, in actual brick-and-mortar stores.)
You picked the most unlikely brand/OS combination, something designed to look as un-Mac like as possible, but only from the point of view of a Mac zealot. It's slightly possible it's true, in that you might have ordered through a corporate discount program and put Ubuntu on it yourself, but then, why? Why would you, a Slashdotter, have willingly purchased some of the most over-priced, uninteresting, ugly hardware in the industry? The chances are at least 100:1 against.
I believe the chances are more than 99% that you made up that combination to further the pretense that you're not a Mac user, when, in fact, you are.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.