Nintendo has historically HATED R their greatest success in their minds was the original Game Boy, because they were able to make money on that for 10+ years. There's a reason they've had to be dragged kicking and screaming to release a new generation console when their competitors did.
It can be, but then what? You get a bunch of salts (and not just sodium chloride) that tend to be highly reactive, and you'll get a lot more than you actually need for culinary and industrial uses. Best thing is to stick them in deep mines (e.g., salt mines), but eventually you can run out of room.
Desalination is a problem for large-scale use; it's highly energy intensive, and you're left with hypersaline brine, which is environmentally destructive.
Was leaking the memo to the media a fireable offense? Certainly leaking confidential company information is, but this? Why are you assuming it was a fireable offense?
Skimming the complaint, it looks pretty ridiculous. He admits that Google never disciplined him or terminated him for expressing the views before; it was only when they started causing significant disruption that they took the easiest step to stop that disruption, which was firing him.
"No need for an American behemoth muscling in on the Australian market and destroying local businesses. Keep out."
No. Americans could put every Australian company out of business, set fire to their crops, and salt the earth, and it still wouldn't be nearly enough payback for Rupert Murdoch.
Yes, I have a Surface Pro 4 and I like it a lot, but the battery does suck. A friend who works at MS used to keep telling me it would be fixed soon by a firmware update, but finally conceded that the first generation of the SP4 just couldn't hold a charge.
The Xbox One controller doesn't seem that bad to me, though. I'm at a year+ and it still charges for me.
"They've been giving their high income people a discount on their federal taxes by passing those costs along to some guy installing mufflers who lives in a state that doesn't hit their residents so hard."
Blue states subsidize red states. I know that fact is upsetting to "hard-working" red staters who get welfare from people in blue states, but they'll just have to deal with the fact they're moochers.
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"They were shoveled out at a rate of five per year. That was the much-protested maximum that Nintendo would allow licensees to release."
There was more than one licensee, so they really were shoveled out by the dozens.
Nintendo has historically HATED R their greatest success in their minds was the original Game Boy, because they were able to make money on that for 10+ years. There's a reason they've had to be dragged kicking and screaming to release a new generation console when their competitors did.
It can be, but then what? You get a bunch of salts (and not just sodium chloride) that tend to be highly reactive, and you'll get a lot more than you actually need for culinary and industrial uses. Best thing is to stick them in deep mines (e.g., salt mines), but eventually you can run out of room.
Diluted with what? The whole point is you're taking fresh water out of it. You're not going to add it back in.
The environmental destructiveness COMES from discharging it into coastal ecosystems. The more the technology is used, the worse it is.
Desalination is a problem for large-scale use; it's highly energy intensive, and you're left with hypersaline brine, which is environmentally destructive.
Doesn't matter if he caused it or not; companies have wide discretion to fire people, with very narrow exceptions.
Political views are protected in California, but even by the complaint it doesn't sound like he was fired for his views.
"you guys are now legitimately advocating physical assault and violence against opinions"
Ok, I confess. I punched an opinion that made me mad.
It's not a great question.
Was leaking the memo to the media a fireable offense? Certainly leaking confidential company information is, but this? Why are you assuming it was a fireable offense?
Skimming the complaint, it looks pretty ridiculous. He admits that Google never disciplined him or terminated him for expressing the views before; it was only when they started causing significant disruption that they took the easiest step to stop that disruption, which was firing him.
Being involved in a "scandal/crisis" isn't necessarily a crime. A lot of what they did was immoral, but it wasn't illegal.
Obviously you're holding the building wrong.
They're regulated by a first-world country.
"By that I mean we're seeing Apple do more and more things that they want to do, rather than giving customers what the customers desire."
Apple's always done that, though. I mean, even more than most companies. See, e.g., Steve "You're Holding it Wrong" Jobs.
Plenty of idiotic ideas came out of Steve Jobs; iTunes still sucked when he was alive.
"No need for an American behemoth muscling in on the Australian market and destroying local businesses. Keep out."
No. Americans could put every Australian company out of business, set fire to their crops, and salt the earth, and it still wouldn't be nearly enough payback for Rupert Murdoch.
While I'm not sure whether I'd use Kaspersky before, paranoia on the part of its founder is not assuaging my concerns over it.
"I'm pretty sure that ESR has written more mission-critical code in more programming languages than you will write in your lifetime."
He couldn't name those programs. Well, they're important but you wouldn't know them. They all live in Canada, that's why you never see them.
ESR is kind of famous for not being, on a technical level, a very good programmer.
Yes, I have a Surface Pro 4 and I like it a lot, but the battery does suck. A friend who works at MS used to keep telling me it would be fixed soon by a firmware update, but finally conceded that the first generation of the SP4 just couldn't hold a charge.
The Xbox One controller doesn't seem that bad to me, though. I'm at a year+ and it still charges for me.
Not just the chargers; the charging port also handles video/USB/etc. etc.. I would suspect they also don't want their docking ports to become useless.
"They've been giving their high income people a discount on their federal taxes by passing those costs along to some guy installing mufflers who lives in a state that doesn't hit their residents so hard."
Blue states subsidize red states. I know that fact is upsetting to "hard-working" red staters who get welfare from people in blue states, but they'll just have to deal with the fact they're moochers.
False.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/12/...
New York City English is the best English.