1. Gawker Properties, $300 million. This group of blogs which includes Gawker, Deadspin, Gizmodo, and Lifehacker has about 23 million monthly unique visitors and 250 million page views. Owner Nick Denton has pointed out the business is highly profitable and growing and that advertising revenue has performed better than expected. Almost all the advertising at the family of websites is premium marketing from major companies. The average CPM on a page is estimated to be $20. That would drive $60 million in annual revenue. Gawker is not expensive to run. Its writers are paid relatively low wages. Many of the blogs Gawker owns have only five or ten writers and editors. Gawker keeps at least 50% of its revenue as operating income. The valuation is based on 10x operating income.
And they're asking for people to pay for their scoop, so they could make more money from the ads?
What's next? CNN asking viewers to do their journalism for them? Oh... wait...
The 49-page handwritten letter allegedly sent to police by Moat, which was also handed to The Sun newspaper, said: "Last night I called 999 and declared war on Northumbria Police before shooting an officer on the West End A69 roundabout in his T5.
"Rang again and told them they're gonna pay for what they've done to me and Sam.
"I went straight but they couldn't let it go.
"The public need not fear me but the police should as I won't stop till I'm dead."
First off, full quote for "b" is:
(b)the use or threat is designed to influence the government [F1or an international governmental organisation]F1 or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and
... and it's not "radical" but "racial" under "c".
His explanation for "declaring war" covers the ideological cause under "c". "A" being covered, threatening the police covers "b" as intention to influence the government (police being a government organization and a vital part of government's justice system) AND "a section of the public" - police officers and their families being a section of said public.
Not that "b" or "c" really matters because:
(2)Action falls within this subsection if itâ"
(a) involves serious violence against a person, (b) involves serious damage to property, (c) endangers a personâ(TM)s life, other than that of the person committing the action, (d) creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public, or (e) is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.
(3)The use or threat of action falling within subsection (2) which involves the use of firearms or explosives is terrorism whether or not subsection (1)(b) is satisfied.
I.e. You don't have to try to influence the government or public. Simply threatening to endanger lives (or say, disrupting "an electronic system") with guns and/or explosives is good enough to be classified as a terrorist act.
I.e. Moat calling in a threat already made his action a terrorist act, even before killing police officers.
Actually, it is mentioned though there is no "criticism" section. The reason being that "the article as written contains far too much criticism to fit into a single section". I.e. Their efforts to maintain neutrality on the subject are bordering on partiality.
Had the Montgomery city fathers made it into an economic issue, e.g. by providing seat reservation for the white passengers and then covering the cost of the reservation through subsidies, making a "white ticket" theoretically more expensive and practically unavailable to black passengers, Rosa Parks would be simply accused of "stealing the seat she didn't pay for", labeled as a thief and that would be it. Cause who's gonna boycott and walk instead of riding a bus to support a "thief"?
When you consider that USD and most other currencies are backed by nothing more than the governments that print/mint the stuff, suddenly Bitcoin doesn't seem so fake after all.
You really can't see meaning and message in the old Star Trek? No meaning in memes like "Needs of the many...", "What does god need with a starship?" or "Kobayashi Maru" for you? And I'm not even gonna go near anything from all those other serials out there as it would turn into an episode by episode examination.
The movie is targeted at younger audiences.
Only if by younger you mean "with a mind of a small child". Those movies are aimed at a WIDER audience. You know... the audience of Transformers movies. People who would throw money on brand recognition and big-fast-loud action scenes, but who have trouble following plot or dialogue. Make it dumb, make it fast, make it loud, advertize the hell out of it's recognizable name and sit back and watch the money flow.
They made it into a summer ACTION blockbuster. The original stories were SCIENCE FICTION.
Masume Shirow had this same problem with Ghost in the Shell and decided to take a break, or get out of cinema because of that same problem. He griped a lot about Innocence this way.
First off, it's Masamune.
Second, Innocence is Mamoru Oshii's baby that has VERY little to do with Shirow, who had fuck-all to do with it but take money for licensing out the brand and the characters.
Third... I really have no idea WTF are you talking about there. Shirow has decided that it's OK with him to be a millionaire who only occasionally draws porn for fun and profit while licensing out his earlier work and the "Shirow brand". He hasn't published a story since the '90s. All he keeps pushing is art-books and illustrations. Good for him. The guy had only couple of stories in him, so he stopped when he reached his limit, while still doing what he likes to do.
Fourth... What "get out of cinema" problem you're talking about? Are you aware that Oshii has happily "remade" (in Lucas-like fashion) the original GITS and released it as Ghost in the Shell 2.0 in 2008? And it got criticized for having only certain scenes redone - being basically a pointless cash grab and a jarring mix of styles. Not because "the time moved on" on the story or franchise.
If anything, people wanted (and still want) more of the same or similar. That's why the series and the movies were a success - they explored and expanded the GITS universe further, WHILE maintaining a connection to the original manga and films. Heck, they even managed to tie the series together with the original storyline, without succumbing to time-travel and parallel universes.
That's why they can do a new series a decade after the last one - cause they are adding fresh material to the universe. Instead of rebooting it cause they've run out of ideas so they are "burning up" the franchise in a desperate cash grab which will bury the franchise after a few movies. Or force them to do another pointless reboot, like the one that happened to Spiderman franchise.
It's not that the actual Star Trek is that good - it's that Jar Jar and his entourage can't even make a decent copy of THAT.
Star Trek does not need to be deep, though it is at times, for Jar-Jar Trek to be recognized as shallow, dumbed down and superfluous action schlock masquerading as science fiction while riding the coattails of an established "brand". Unoriginal lame copy of that which "Trekkies appear to understand as 'literary'" - sexed up and dumbed down for the greater masses.
Literary? Fuck. Star Trek is fucking Nobel prize material compared to Jar Jar's crap.
Super-strength, uber-endurance, mega-speed, telepathy, telekinesis, magic... Pretty much anytime anyone needs a deus ex machina from now on they can just call on "Superblood!" and be done with it. So, as far as their in-universe role, or their role in the story - it's the same thing.
Though they may have to rename it to something like "megaglobin" or "augmencytes"... Midi-chloriansTM now belonging to Disney and all that.
Augment blood now brings you back after you die from radiation poisoning you got from jumping around inside the warp core. Or if you have a deadly disease that 23rd century medicine can't heal.
As for immortality, that's just my logical conclusion based on them using transwarp beaming Simon Pegg invented in the previous movie - to beam Cumberbatch from inside a falling "jumpship" (helicopter-thingy) all the way to Qo'noS. Yes. Starships are now superfluous as we can beam right across the galaxy with a portable transporter.
And, as all augments were kept alive and in cryogenic tubes (even Cumberbatch), there is plenty of augment blood to go around. Not that we need any, as Urban has "synthesized the serum from his super-blood". So umm... yeah. Nobody has to die anymore. Super-blood.
But you are wrong calling this "Son of Star Trek 90210". This is not Star Trek 90210. That's a TV show. This is kids playing Star Trek in the playground, pretending their fingers are phasers, and arbitrarily giving themselves super-powers whenever they need them.
"You can't kill me! I have shields!" "Yeah? Well I have shield-killer for your shields and I have super-shields and super-phasers and I'm an android so I'm super-strong and super-smart and super-fast! You're dead!" "It doesn't matter if you have shield-killer and super-shields and super-phasers and you're an android and super-strong and super-fast and super-smart! You still can't kill me cause I got super-blood!" "Moooom!! JJ won't let me kill him!"
Wait for the Into Darkness to turn up on TV or for a decent torrent. It's a waste of time and money and a bad copy of The Wrath of Khan. Spoilers from here on.
TWOK's Khan is the big bad from the moment you see him but he manages to come off as tragic by the end. A man drowning in his own hate. Also, quoting Melville helps.
ID's Cumberbatch can't decide if he's Superman, a cunning villain, an ally, the big bad, a tragic hero of another story... He's all over the place and each iteration just makes him come off weaker and unfocused. Shinzon at least revealed to be crazy and kept on being crazy after that. Cumberbatch is cunning, then stoic, then threatening, then tragic, then friendly, then evil, then angry, then practical, then calm under pressure (beating actually), and apparently... happy and peaceful by the end.
Also, the "big reveal" is UTTERLY MEANINGLESS. He goes "I... AM... KHAN..." DUN-DUN-DUN. And everyone is like... Yeah? So? It takes I think an hour or so for Quinto to call up Leonard Nimoy so he could tell him "Oh... That guy is REALLY BAD." By then, they've sent him with Pine on a suicide mission. What could possibly go wrong?
TWOK has the whole theme of friendship and growing old and rebirth... ID barely acknowledges friendship between Pine and Quinto. Instead Pine fucks catgirls and has long talks with Bruce Greenwood - so there'd be something kinda like revenge as motivation for him to chase down Cumberbatch. Except he's busy trying to shoot down Cumberbatch while Bruce Greenwood dies in Quinto's arms. OK... let's say there's maybe guilt there. Guilt leads to anger, anger leads to... So he tries to knock out Cumberbatch when they meet, fails miserably, keeps failing... making what is supposed to be a tragic moment of helplessness look funny.
Remember Joker taking over the control of the interrogation while Batman keeps pounding on him with his fists and achieving nothing? You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength. They missed that by a mile.
When did they remember the whole "I have been, and always shall be, your friend."? At the very end, when they need it to show how they are best buddies - only without the setup it falls flat. To be honest, they kinda tried it with that "Yo Vulcan-man, you know why I saved your life?" but they literally RAN away from that scene. Can't have anything slowing down the movie. It's action non-stop.
Same goes for Pine's "discovery of responsibility". Utter failure. Spock in TWOK takes responsibility. He puts on a radiation suit and carefully and by the book repairs the reactor. The dude is there to do the job no one else can do, and he is the one in command. The one responsible for the ship and its crew.
Spock in TWOK is tearing your heart out, stumbling around blind from radiation, still trying to keep dignity he straightens up the uniform... the whole scene is heart-wrenching. Pine in contrast is just... you know... dying. So Pine tells Quinto he saved him cause they are... buddies, finishes Quinto and a single manly tear rolls down his cheek. And then Pine is dead.
So Quinto could yell out "KHaaaan!"... into the air... And it feels lame. He just does not seem angry enough, there or in the following scenes when he chases after Cumberbatch across San Francisco. Which is a special brand of nonsense when they clearly have working transporters. But the thing is... Chasing a meme (Khaaaan!
They failed to provide a proper control group. Plates close to routers were placed on a wooden surface. Control group was placed on plastic sheets.
They also failed to maintain an undisturbed atmosphere - they were watering them unevenly, spilling water around. Plastic does not soak up the water. It keeps it there, releasing it back in the air around the plants, like a pebble tray would.
Also, from that other PDF linked in the article, there is a row of laptops right in front of the "router group". Laptops tend to blow air out the back. Hot air.
And then there's that bit where they start of the experiment with a forgone conclusion.
See those green bits on the edge of the plate? Yeah, I know... it's kinda small... But it's there. You can't deny it's there.
Also, from the not-so-fine translation:
And the result spoke his clear language: cress seeds next to the router was not grown, and some of them were even mutated or dead.
Mutated? How does something mutate if it does not grow?
Oh! I know! It's sensationalist BULLSHIT. SOME the fucking plants withered cause they were exposed to heat and placed on a different kind of surface (wood instead of plastic sheets - one of those two gathers and condenses loose moisture they where spilling all over). BOTH groups germinated just fine. One was kept hotter and with less moisture.
Those girls should be failed, made to return the money and both them and the so-called journalists making this a slashdot-hitting news should apologize to everyone on at least 5 international TV channels and over the internet FOR LYING! And the news agency should buy everyone a pony!
It would be interesting to compare the reactions of those watching The Wrath of Khan first and THEN Into Darkness to those watching them in the opposite order. I'm just guessing here, but I have a feeling that those watching The Wrath of Khan first (and appreciating it - i.e. not in it for the pretty faces, tits and special effects) would score Into Darkness worse than the others.
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Founded in 2003, Gawker is the flagship blog for Nick Denton's Gawker Media.
http://247wallst.com/2009/11/10/the-twenty-five-most-valuable-blogs-in-america/
1. Gawker Properties, $300 million. This group of blogs which includes Gawker, Deadspin, Gizmodo, and Lifehacker has about 23 million monthly unique visitors and 250 million page views. Owner Nick Denton has pointed out the business is highly profitable and growing and that advertising revenue has performed better than expected. Almost all the advertising at the family of websites is premium marketing from major companies. The average CPM on a page is estimated to be $20. That would drive $60 million in annual revenue. Gawker is not expensive to run. Its writers are paid relatively low wages. Many of the blogs Gawker owns have only five or ten writers and editors. Gawker keeps at least 50% of its revenue as operating income. The valuation is based on 10x operating income.
And they're asking for people to pay for their scoop, so they could make more money from the ads?
What's next? CNN asking viewers to do their journalism for them? Oh... wait...
From TFA:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10519166
The 49-page handwritten letter allegedly sent to police by Moat, which was also handed to The Sun newspaper, said: "Last night I called 999 and declared war on Northumbria Police before shooting an officer on the West End A69 roundabout in his T5.
"Rang again and told them they're gonna pay for what they've done to me and Sam.
"I went straight but they couldn't let it go.
"The public need not fear me but the police should as I won't stop till I'm dead."
First off, full quote for "b" is:
(b)the use or threat is designed to influence the government [F1or an international governmental organisation]F1 or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and
... and it's not "radical" but "racial" under "c".
His explanation for "declaring war" covers the ideological cause under "c".
"A" being covered, threatening the police covers "b" as intention to influence the government (police being a government organization and a vital part of government's justice system) AND "a section of the public" - police officers and their families being a section of said public.
Not that "b" or "c" really matters because:
(2)Action falls within this subsection if itâ"
(a) involves serious violence against a person,
(b) involves serious damage to property,
(c) endangers a personâ(TM)s life, other than that of the person committing the action,
(d) creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public, or
(e) is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.
(3)The use or threat of action falling within subsection (2) which involves the use of firearms or explosives is terrorism whether or not subsection (1)(b) is satisfied.
I.e. You don't have to try to influence the government or public.
Simply threatening to endanger lives (or say, disrupting "an electronic system") with guns and/or explosives is good enough to be classified as a terrorist act.
I.e. Moat calling in a threat already made his action a terrorist act, even before killing police officers.
Hence, teddy bears.
At least it's better than my first impulse to print a vagina.
Someone out there shares your way of thinking.
Actually, it is mentioned though there is no "criticism" section.
The reason being that "the article as written contains far too much criticism to fit into a single section".
I.e. Their efforts to maintain neutrality on the subject are bordering on partiality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_for_the_Ethical_Treatment_of_Animals#Euthanasia_of_shelter_animals
Sorry, thought I was sarcastic enough.
I was joking, while insinuating that whoever it was that needed "Skyfall" as inspiration thought that the gun in "License To Kill" was just a camera.
...an organic shiv instead?
That's a camera, not a gun.
DMCA takedown notice is not brain bleach.
That's what ECT is for.
Had the Montgomery city fathers made it into an economic issue, e.g. by providing seat reservation for the white passengers and then covering the cost of the reservation through subsidies, making a "white ticket" theoretically more expensive and practically unavailable to black passengers, Rosa Parks would be simply accused of "stealing the seat she didn't pay for", labeled as a thief and that would be it.
Cause who's gonna boycott and walk instead of riding a bus to support a "thief"?
When you consider that USD and most other currencies are backed by nothing more than the governments that print/mint the stuff, suddenly Bitcoin doesn't seem so fake after all.
Nothing.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
You really can't see meaning and message in the old Star Trek?
No meaning in memes like "Needs of the many...", "What does god need with a starship?" or "Kobayashi Maru" for you?
And I'm not even gonna go near anything from all those other serials out there as it would turn into an episode by episode examination.
The movie is targeted at younger audiences.
Only if by younger you mean "with a mind of a small child".
Those movies are aimed at a WIDER audience.
You know... the audience of Transformers movies.
People who would throw money on brand recognition and big-fast-loud action scenes, but who have trouble following plot or dialogue.
Make it dumb, make it fast, make it loud, advertize the hell out of it's recognizable name and sit back and watch the money flow.
They made it into a summer ACTION blockbuster.
The original stories were SCIENCE FICTION.
Masume Shirow had this same problem with Ghost in the Shell and decided to take a break, or get out of cinema because of that same problem. He griped a lot about Innocence this way.
First off, it's Masamune.
Second, Innocence is Mamoru Oshii's baby that has VERY little to do with Shirow, who had fuck-all to do with it but take money for licensing out the brand and the characters.
Third... I really have no idea WTF are you talking about there.
Shirow has decided that it's OK with him to be a millionaire who only occasionally draws porn for fun and profit while licensing out his earlier work and the "Shirow brand".
He hasn't published a story since the '90s. All he keeps pushing is art-books and illustrations.
Good for him. The guy had only couple of stories in him, so he stopped when he reached his limit, while still doing what he likes to do.
Fourth... What "get out of cinema" problem you're talking about?
Are you aware that Oshii has happily "remade" (in Lucas-like fashion) the original GITS and released it as Ghost in the Shell 2.0 in 2008?
And it got criticized for having only certain scenes redone - being basically a pointless cash grab and a jarring mix of styles.
Not because "the time moved on" on the story or franchise.
If anything, people wanted (and still want) more of the same or similar.
That's why the series and the movies were a success - they explored and expanded the GITS universe further, WHILE maintaining a connection to the original manga and films.
Heck, they even managed to tie the series together with the original storyline, without succumbing to time-travel and parallel universes.
That's why they can do a new series a decade after the last one - cause they are adding fresh material to the universe.
Instead of rebooting it cause they've run out of ideas so they are "burning up" the franchise in a desperate cash grab which will bury the franchise after a few movies.
Or force them to do another pointless reboot, like the one that happened to Spiderman franchise.
It's not that the actual Star Trek is that good - it's that Jar Jar and his entourage can't even make a decent copy of THAT.
Star Trek does not need to be deep, though it is at times, for Jar-Jar Trek to be recognized as shallow, dumbed down and superfluous action schlock masquerading as science fiction while riding the coattails of an established "brand".
Unoriginal lame copy of that which "Trekkies appear to understand as 'literary'" - sexed up and dumbed down for the greater masses.
Literary? Fuck.
Star Trek is fucking Nobel prize material compared to Jar Jar's crap.
Super-strength, uber-endurance, mega-speed, telepathy, telekinesis, magic...
Pretty much anytime anyone needs a deus ex machina from now on they can just call on "Superblood!" and be done with it.
So, as far as their in-universe role, or their role in the story - it's the same thing.
Though they may have to rename it to something like "megaglobin" or "augmencytes"... Midi-chloriansTM now belonging to Disney and all that.
There haven't been any Viet Cong for decades now. They're all simply Vietnamese now.
Augment blood now brings you back after you die from radiation poisoning you got from jumping around inside the warp core.
Or if you have a deadly disease that 23rd century medicine can't heal.
As for immortality, that's just my logical conclusion based on them using transwarp beaming Simon Pegg invented in the previous movie - to beam Cumberbatch from inside a falling "jumpship" (helicopter-thingy) all the way to Qo'noS.
Yes. Starships are now superfluous as we can beam right across the galaxy with a portable transporter.
And, as all augments were kept alive and in cryogenic tubes (even Cumberbatch), there is plenty of augment blood to go around.
Not that we need any, as Urban has "synthesized the serum from his super-blood".
So umm... yeah. Nobody has to die anymore. Super-blood.
But you are wrong calling this "Son of Star Trek 90210".
This is not Star Trek 90210. That's a TV show.
This is kids playing Star Trek in the playground, pretending their fingers are phasers, and arbitrarily giving themselves super-powers whenever they need them.
"You can't kill me! I have shields!"
"Yeah? Well I have shield-killer for your shields and I have super-shields and super-phasers and I'm an android so I'm super-strong and super-smart and super-fast! You're dead!"
"It doesn't matter if you have shield-killer and super-shields and super-phasers and you're an android and super-strong and super-fast and super-smart! You still can't kill me cause I got super-blood!"
"Moooom!! JJ won't let me kill him!"
What? You haven't seen Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey?
Their final showdown with De Nomolos is one of the few times I've seen someone use time travel properly.
...they revive Pine about 5 action packed minutes after he dies. Filling him up with Cumberbatch juice.
So... Dying?
No biggie. Nobody has to die anymore.
Augment bloodTM baby.
Heals little dying girls AND brings back dead starship captains.
Wait for the Into Darkness to turn up on TV or for a decent torrent.
It's a waste of time and money and a bad copy of The Wrath of Khan.
Spoilers from here on.
TWOK's Khan is the big bad from the moment you see him but he manages to come off as tragic by the end.
A man drowning in his own hate. Also, quoting Melville helps.
ID's Cumberbatch can't decide if he's Superman, a cunning villain, an ally, the big bad, a tragic hero of another story...
He's all over the place and each iteration just makes him come off weaker and unfocused.
Shinzon at least revealed to be crazy and kept on being crazy after that.
Cumberbatch is cunning, then stoic, then threatening, then tragic, then friendly, then evil, then angry, then practical, then calm under pressure (beating actually), and apparently... happy and peaceful by the end.
Also, the "big reveal" is UTTERLY MEANINGLESS. He goes "I... AM... KHAN..." DUN-DUN-DUN.
And everyone is like... Yeah? So?
It takes I think an hour or so for Quinto to call up Leonard Nimoy so he could tell him "Oh... That guy is REALLY BAD."
By then, they've sent him with Pine on a suicide mission. What could possibly go wrong?
TWOK has the whole theme of friendship and growing old and rebirth...
ID barely acknowledges friendship between Pine and Quinto.
Instead Pine fucks catgirls and has long talks with Bruce Greenwood - so there'd be something kinda like revenge as motivation for him to chase down Cumberbatch.
Except he's busy trying to shoot down Cumberbatch while Bruce Greenwood dies in Quinto's arms.
OK... let's say there's maybe guilt there. Guilt leads to anger, anger leads to...
So he tries to knock out Cumberbatch when they meet, fails miserably, keeps failing... making what is supposed to be a tragic moment of helplessness look funny.
Remember Joker taking over the control of the interrogation while Batman keeps pounding on him with his fists and achieving nothing?
You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength.
They missed that by a mile.
When did they remember the whole "I have been, and always shall be, your friend."?
At the very end, when they need it to show how they are best buddies - only without the setup it falls flat.
To be honest, they kinda tried it with that "Yo Vulcan-man, you know why I saved your life?" but they literally RAN away from that scene.
Can't have anything slowing down the movie. It's action non-stop.
Same goes for Pine's "discovery of responsibility". Utter failure.
Spock in TWOK takes responsibility. He puts on a radiation suit and carefully and by the book repairs the reactor.
The dude is there to do the job no one else can do, and he is the one in command. The one responsible for the ship and its crew.
What does Pine do? He rushes in, no protective clothing (See... it's not about him saving the SHIP... It's about HIM saving the ship.) - and then he proceeds to JUMP THE WARP CORE INTO ALIGNMENT.
He's literally jumping on the core.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b169/urda002/jumpingOnTheCore_zps7756a36e.jpg
Again, drama turns into comedy.
Spock in TWOK is tearing your heart out, stumbling around blind from radiation, still trying to keep dignity he straightens up the uniform... the whole scene is heart-wrenching.
Pine in contrast is just... you know... dying.
So Pine tells Quinto he saved him cause they are... buddies, finishes Quinto and a single manly tear rolls down his cheek.
And then Pine is dead.
So Quinto could yell out "KHaaaan!"... into the air... And it feels lame.
He just does not seem angry enough, there or in the following scenes when he chases after Cumberbatch across San Francisco.
Which is a special brand of nonsense when they clearly have working transporters.
But the thing is... Chasing a meme (Khaaaan!
Do note the sarcasm. I aske... DEMANDED a pony.
Thank you.
Having once attended 9th grade in Denmark, I expect they are aware of basic scientific principles ... like control samples, reproducible setups etc..
Then you're gonna love this.
http://www.dr.dk/NR/rdonlyres/075641A4-F4D4-4ECF-834F-C0DAF2B8E1E1/5134835/Finaleposter24apr2013.pdf
They failed to provide a proper control group.
Plates close to routers were placed on a wooden surface. Control group was placed on plastic sheets.
They also failed to maintain an undisturbed atmosphere - they were watering them unevenly, spilling water around.
Plastic does not soak up the water. It keeps it there, releasing it back in the air around the plants, like a pebble tray would.
Also, from that other PDF linked in the article, there is a row of laptops right in front of the "router group".
Laptops tend to blow air out the back. Hot air.
And then there's that bit where they start of the experiment with a forgone conclusion.
So, you see, there is actually no cress for them to measure. It never germinated.
Take a look at the photo:
http://www.dr.dk/imagescaler/?file=%2FNR%2Frdonlyres%2FBE4CAC3A-4A0E-42CF-9ACB-69325246A40F%2F5130743%2Fdb6ac36f2c8248a1b782e25f61f5bfb2_Karse_udsat_for_t.jpeg&w=460&h=259&scaleAfter=crop
See those green bits on the edge of the plate?
Yeah, I know... it's kinda small... But it's there. You can't deny it's there.
Also, from the not-so-fine translation:
And the result spoke his clear language: cress seeds next to the router was not grown, and some of them were even mutated or dead.
Mutated? How does something mutate if it does not grow?
Oh! I know! It's sensationalist BULLSHIT.
SOME the fucking plants withered cause they were exposed to heat and placed on a different kind of surface (wood instead of plastic sheets - one of those two gathers and condenses loose moisture they where spilling all over).
BOTH groups germinated just fine. One was kept hotter and with less moisture.
http://www.dr.dk/NR/rdonlyres/075641A4-F4D4-4ECF-834F-C0DAF2B8E1E1/5134835/Finaleposter24apr2013.pdf
Those girls should be failed, made to return the money and both them and the so-called journalists making this a slashdot-hitting news should apologize to everyone on at least 5 international TV channels and over the internet FOR LYING!
And the news agency should buy everyone a pony!
...as it grows fine on keyboards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cress_keyboard-3_sprouting_other_side.jpg
It would be interesting to compare the reactions of those watching The Wrath of Khan first and THEN Into Darkness to those watching them in the opposite order.
I'm just guessing here, but I have a feeling that those watching The Wrath of Khan first (and appreciating it - i.e. not in it for the pretty faces, tits and special effects) would score Into Darkness worse than the others.
...one way or another.
Even The Final Frontier gets a free pass on account of that "What does God need with a starship?" scene.
Nemesis is just... bad.
So bad in fact that after that they stopped making Star Trek movies.
See "The Wrath of Khan" instead.