My guess is since it's still being reported on, and negatively at that, all is not lost. There will be negative PR consequences for HP above and beyond the fine.
There is a danger the prevalence of corruption in big business and government will inure us all to expect no better from them, but those folks still paying attention should maintain their right to be outraged.
Even if most of the World were truly accepting of this bribery for business model, we are not beholden to lower our own fleeting morality. It is not a okay to rape a man's wife even after he has raped yours.
Odd... to find you so critical, responding to a post with the darkest interpretation possible.
Settle down and enjoy the site. You are clever and a good poster... it wouldn't kill you to be a little more civil, at least every now and then to mix it up.
I maintain the grandparent is onto something here, men. One would have to be paying attention to come to the conclusions the two of you have proffered.
Most folks get the sound bites. Russian's misuse Olympic money. They invade Ukraine. Bastards have spies. We need another pretext for big government surveillance programs because the terrorists are so fucking inept. ( No box office blockbusters since '01 and counting.)
If you don't see Machiavelli in successful modern government, and yes, success = obedient subjects, you're just not looking too good.
See. It's not only the terrorists we're keeping you safe from, those damn evil Russkies are out there with a renewed vengeance fighting to foil your wholesome existence.
You poor devil! How about submariners, who spend months at a time in cramped, crowded conditions?
Some individuals would be better suited to the task of off-planet settlement than others, and if the colony is given a proper chance for survival, they will breed and and nature will select for these characteristics.
Biting flies, like the zebra, certainly do evolve... typically at a much faster rate than large mammals.
That would make the idea of evolving insect repellent coloring even more amazing.
For proof like in the pudding, the biting flies would have to be shown to exert selection pressure on zebras that is not present where equines without stripes flourish.
It could be the striped coat offers an amalgam of advantages. Hindering attacks from predators trying to pick out a single quarry in a sea of seizure-inducing undulating stripes should not be considered mutually exclusive from hindering insect bites.
You've got remember most of these people still think the digital watch is a pretty neat idea:D
There was a niche market for even that.
We were required to pass a basic skills assessment test to advance a grade in school that included telling the time by the hands of the clock.
I don't recall what grade it was, but one year there was a plausibly dyslexic chap who was rescued on the third makeup test by borrowing his grandfathers Pulsar.
There is a segment of the population who will always covet the newest, latest, greatest, but fads are as quick to wane as the companies are to make your prize obsolete with a new model.
I've investigated the possibility of intelligent life on some of alternatives to le site de la ligne verte. Without exception, when they have been weighed and measured, they have been found wanting. It's like work reading through the banal to get to the rare gem. This site is not without it's flaws, but like democracy, it's still the best option available.
And you're a four-digit slash-daddy with a subscription... you not going anywhere.
I infer that means you've never been starving. It's a luxurious age in which men live.
Hell, even our poor people are fat.
Many of us are afforded the amenity of plentiful food and no daily fear for our own survival, but I assure you good poster, the veneer of civilization is a thin one.
After playing the role of plaintiff in multiple patent lawsuits concerning relatively miniscule design innovations, the double-edged sword that is the US patent system is now seemingly also willing to slice the apple.
Perhaps the only hope for reform of the patent system relies on it becoming inconvenient even for it's former proponents?
So what you're saying is the GP is not only quick witted and morally ambivalent, but possibly willing to come to a conclusion first and make the evidence fit later?
Perhaps you're not aware these attributes are occasionally handy outside of politics and law enforcement.
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There is a danger the prevalence of corruption in big business and government will inure us all to expect no better from them, but those folks still paying attention should maintain their right to be outraged.
Even if most of the World were truly accepting of this bribery for business model, we are not beholden to lower our own fleeting morality. It is not a okay to rape a man's wife even after he has raped yours.
Oddly enough, no... they are a wholly-owned superior.
Settle down and enjoy the site. You are clever and a good poster... it wouldn't kill you to be a little more civil, at least every now and then to mix it up.
Most folks get the sound bites. Russian's misuse Olympic money. They invade Ukraine. Bastards have spies. We need another pretext for big government surveillance programs because the terrorists are so fucking inept. ( No box office blockbusters since '01 and counting.)
If you don't see Machiavelli in successful modern government, and yes, success = obedient subjects, you're just not looking too good.
Cue the "What will we do with all the people?" arguments.
Wikipedia: when you want to say you fact checked , but you don't have time to do it properly.
Fudmuckers.
Sounds more like a Quetzalcoatl post.
Even if he's mistaken, there's one less researcher out there trying to figure out how to grow my replacement parts.
It's not as if we're lacking a daily opportunity here to comment on the genuine article.
Some individuals would be better suited to the task of off-planet settlement than others, and if the colony is given a proper chance for survival, they will breed and and nature will select for these characteristics.
And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.
Typical politician... say what you think they want to hear.
That would make the idea of evolving insect repellent coloring even more amazing.
For proof like in the pudding, the biting flies would have to be shown to exert selection pressure on zebras that is not present where equines without stripes flourish.
It could be the striped coat offers an amalgam of advantages. Hindering attacks from predators trying to pick out a single quarry in a sea of seizure-inducing undulating stripes should not be considered mutually exclusive from hindering insect bites.
Deepwoods Off clothing accessories coming soon to an aisle in your sporting & more store.
You've got remember most of these people still think the digital watch is a pretty neat idea :D
There was a niche market for even that.
We were required to pass a basic skills assessment test to advance a grade in school that included telling the time by the hands of the clock.
I don't recall what grade it was, but one year there was a plausibly dyslexic chap who was rescued on the third makeup test by borrowing his grandfathers Pulsar.
There is a segment of the population who will always covet the newest, latest, greatest, but fads are as quick to wane as the companies are to make your prize obsolete with a new model.
Alcohol's value as a social lubricant aside, maybe recreational drugs are what folks do when life becomes too damn easy.
See, every now and then it does pay to get out of bed in the morning!
And you're a four-digit slash-daddy with a subscription... you not going anywhere.
Hog won't eat it, he hates everything.
He likes it! Hey Hoggy!
and even mercifully post on starving threads to get the comment number up.
I would like to apply for an ampersand to be printed after my nom de guerre.
Hell, even our poor people are fat.
Many of us are afforded the amenity of plentiful food and no daily fear for our own survival, but I assure you good poster, the veneer of civilization is a thin one.
After playing the role of plaintiff in multiple patent lawsuits concerning relatively miniscule design innovations, the double-edged sword that is the US patent system is now seemingly also willing to slice the apple.
Perhaps the only hope for reform of the patent system relies on it becoming inconvenient even for it's former proponents?
Perhaps you're not aware these attributes are occasionally handy outside of politics and law enforcement.
That is all.