Who cares? He wasn't writing about genius (or mimicking it), but about creativity and the ability to see relationships or make connections where others haven't.
intelligence without creativity is a dead end, sterile.
... especially since you likely already have a laser printer, and therefore already have the ability to print stamps as needed.
Have you tried to print just ONE label? What a waste of time and labels...
Besides, just because someone has a smartphone doesn't mean they own a laser printer. With less and less need for hard copies to physically mail stuff, many people have to borrow some luddite's printer nowadays.
The last time a TV show mailed 100 letters with obviously fake stamps, 7 got through. Considering the cost of envelopes, paper, and printing, not a very good ROI.
Someone's been lying to you. Drugs, cell phones, alcohol, and tobacco are the top exchange items. I guess you haven't been following the news, or someone's been yanking your chain.
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Requiring someone to buy a laser device to burn "stamps" onto envelopes and packages won't work.
This I fully agree. The idea is so stupid I don't even know how it got here to Slashdot.
You must be new here. (checks uid) Nope. Oh well, welcome to our new DICE overlords:-(
PETA euthanizes 90% of the dogs they get within 24 hours. They've got it down to a science. They're like people who put down their pets because "it's better than maybe going to a home where they're not loved." Maybe if we didn't have laws against them doing that to their offspring, they'd weed themselves out of the gene pool quicker.
I have it in my home dead-trees library, and it's quite the read.
Somewhat contrary to the wikipedia article, it's not anti-male sentiment, but anti-patriarchal. Even one of the men realizes that there's just no way he can leave his learned habits behind completely, and will contaminate the new world. And there's regret among both sides that it's just not possible.
The FDA and ADA won't change their stance. Otherwise, we'd have banned smoking ages ago. People are going to do what they're going to do.
I used to believe the same, because that's what the hospital taught me in the diabetes management courses *mumble* years ago. I was one of the few Type 1s in the class, and I was normal weight. Most, but not all, of the Type 2 were overweight, so it kind of made sense.
I see my endocrinologist several times a year. Everyone should, but most don't. Then again, most don't follow their doctor's orders either. But the only time you'll see me chug down a soft drink is when I'm about to pass out from an insulin reaction.
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You can fax legal documents and keep the fax header as proof of service.
Additionally, home delivery of the mail is being ended to most of the population. It's already stopped for 1/3 of the population, and the other 3rd that don't live in apartment buildings will be stopped over the next few years. Why the exception for apartment buildings? Because it saves Canada Post the cost of building and maintaining public mailbox collection stands.
There are plenty of competitors for parcel delivery - Canada Post already owns one of them - Purolator Courier.
The only things I've mailed this decade are registered mail - which requires a visit to a postal substation anyway. The post office is going to be dead before BSD.
And I say this as a Christian rather than the typical rabid atheist Slashdot poster
I don't have rabies, you insensitive clod!
Don't h8te on rabies or I'll bite you, you insensitive clod!
Q. What is the first thing to do if you get bitten by an animal with rabies?
A. Get a pen and paper.
Q. Why?
A. To make a list of people who deserve to get bit.
Q. How will that help?
A. It won't but it will certainly make you feel better:-)
For years, scientists have said “not exactly.” Eating too much of any food, including sugar, can cause you to gain weight; it’s the resulting obesity that predisposes people to Type 2 diabetes, according to the prevailing theory.
But now the results of a large epidemiological study conducted at UC San Francisco suggest that sugar may also have a direct, independent link to diabetes.
Sanjay Basu, MD. PhD.
Researchers examined data on global sugar availability and diabetes rates from 175 countries over the past decade. After accounting for obesity and a large array of other factors, the researchers found that increased sugar in a population’s food supply was linked to higher Type 2 diabetes rates, independent of obesity rates. Their study was published Feb. 27 in PLOS ONE.
The study provides the first large-scale, population-based evidence for the idea that not all calories are equal from a diabetes-risk standpoint.
“It was quite a surprise,” said Sanjay Basu, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and the study’s lead author. The research was conducted while Basu was a medical resident at UCSF and working with Robert Lustig, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and the paper’s senior author.
“We’re not diminishing the importance of obesity at all, but these data suggest that at a population level there are additional factors that contribute to diabetes risk besides obesity and total calorie intake, and that sugar appears to play a prominent role.”
Specifically, more sugar was correlated with more diabetes: For every additional 150 calories of sugar available per person per day, the prevalence of diabetes in the population rose 1 percent, even after controlling for obesity, physical activity, other types of calories and a number of economic and social variables. A 12-ounce can of soda contains about 150 calories of sugar. In contrast, an additional 150 calories of any type caused only a 0.1 percent increase in the population’s diabetes rate
The mechanism may be unclear, but the risk for type 2 diabetes increases by 1% for every 150 calories of sugar ingested, as opposed to 0.1% for any other form of calories. The smart thing to do is to drop the sweet stuff.
Amazing, you get the wonderful selection of the totally shit OTA channels.
You can't even watch all that TV,
500 channels, none of it free,
Too many reality TV shows to see,
For those who mistake reality,
With the crap they see on TV,
But with OTA advertisers can't be
Using my TV to spy on ME!
Burma Shave
Or it's simply that the existing volunteer(s) don't want to do it any more, and nobody thought to ask the other 1,400 people if some of them would want to take over the task. Especially since each volunteer probably knows half a dozen people, so the potential pool is closer to 10,000.
The best way to guarantee
you don't get help that might be free
is not to ask, 'cuz we forget
them that don't ask, well, they don't get!
Burma Shave
In my experience, the difference between a bad signal and a great signal is sometimes less than 10' in terms of antenna positioning. That being said, not all antennas are equal. I'm using a $70 outdoor antenna zip-tied to the balcony. It works for me, but YMMV.
Well, seeing as I'm in Canada, the editing restrictions are different. And in Quebec, when I watch the french version of a movie, there's not much at all that gets cut. Certainly the language isn't cleaned up. Nor nudity. I guess it's a french thing.
Of course. That's always been the case. Look at religion as the original patriarchal organization that has perpetuated inequality between the sexes, between "us" and "them". Others, whether in business or politics, just jumped on what was proven to work.
It has been done, but should it be done? Especially in a society that believes itself to be intellectually superior to previous societies? I don't accept it as something that should be normalized or "okay because people have been manipulated for thousands of years". I can't argue with what has been, I can only argue my opinion of what should be.
As an atheist, I'm obviously against it as well. And the fact that atheism is now the fastest-growing belief shows that the old ways *are* dying. Thinking for yourself, with all its' faults, is supplanting following tradition, and that's a good thing.
Where I absolutely agree is that financially women are more often than not forced into a workplace to make ends meet, which a feminist would claim makes me sexist. That is the part which is propaganda, and hard to notice at first glance.
What IS sexist is the pay differential between the sexes for equal work based solely on gender. Also, many women *want* to work. They take their year off, then their children go to government-sponsored $7 a day day-care while they return to work. A national subsidized universal day-care program is going to be a key part of next year's federal election here, because women *are* generally the ones who bear the burden, both in time lost and in income over their lifetime, because of their family responsibilities.
That said, even though she is very happy she can not conceive a child nor can she breast feed.
Same as many ggs (genetic girls), and all women past a certain age. There's always adoption, and no shortage of kids in need. Of course, up here it's easier to adopt, since our policies don't discriminate against "alternate lifestyles".
I know, it sounds like paradise in comparison to some places. It's not, but we're working on it, one election at a time:-)
Anyway, thanks for the courteous dialogue so far. I honestly appreciate having my opinions challenged and you raise some good points to evaluate
Nielsen Digital Content Ratings,
Tracking your every video cravings,
ESPN, Sony, Turner, Viacom,
Want to know where, when, and what you've got on,
To try to sell you even more crap,
They say "you're the product" is a bum rap,
They won't sell you just the program you paid for,
Because there's no wh*re like an old wh*re.
Burma Shave
For some reason, people haven't cottoned on to the fact that HD content can be received over the air with an old pair of rabbit ears or a more modern $20 antenna.
Sure, it's not 500 channels, but how many of those 500 channels do you watch anyway? And how many of them are just dupes?
You seem to ignore the basic premise - because men have a higher muscle/body mass ratio for the same mass, they need to consume more food (and breathe more oxygen) than women than women of the same weight. Sure women can increase their muscle mass - just put them on steroids - but why would you want to? That would just increase the amount of food and oxygen they consume, and let's face it, it doesn't take much brute force to use a waldo or flick a switch.
The Mercury astronauts were disqualified if they were taller than average - they wouldn't fit into the capsule. Sometimes pragmatism or physics rules (or as Dolly Parton said about overflowing her bra, you just can't put 10 pounds of mud in a 5-pound bag).
Now, back to this:
Both those lines define women as weak, small and incapable to perform physical work.
No - they acknowledge the fact that generally, women aren't as strong as men for the same body mass, and that women are, on average, smaller than men. If you can get the same critical capabilities (brains) in a smaller, less energy-consuming package, why not? As long as they can do the job, what does strength have to do with it?
And that's the problem - adding support for systemd is like the camel's nose.
Debian's proposal is not workable over the long term, because the long-term goal of systemd is incompatible with non-systemd init systems, and it's not like we don't have enough maintenance headaches already with every distro seeming to have their own scripts, etc.
So what do you do,
drinkypoo?
When it all sucks,
just go boo-hoo?
support systemd
e'en if it's a mistake?
of course not,
but that's just my take.
Burma Shave
In the end, it doesn't matter what any of us think. What will happen will happen, and we'll deal with it when it happens, not before:-)
So to support your anecdotes, you're saying I should go and verify them myself? That's funny.
No, I'm telling you that if you don't want to believe me, just ask the experts. I have (type 1 diabetes here, see my endocrinologist several times a year), and I'm just relaying what they say. Now, you've made a claim:
Fact is, there is no direct causative link showing a causative effect between sugary drinks and Type 2 Diabetes.
that goes directly against what the experts say about excess sugar consumption and insulin resistance. Maybe YOU should offer some proof. I'm sure the world's endocrinologists would welcome proof that there is no relationship between sugar consumption and type two diabetes. Of course, that being an extraordinary claim, you'd need extraordinary proof, but hey, you're the one who says that it is the duty of someone making anecdotal claims (which yours is) to prove them.
You raise interesting points, so I'll try to reply to some of them.
Most of societies problems are due to a very small subset of people who use propaganda to perpetuate bickering among the "common" people
Of course. That's always been the case. Look at religion as the original patriarchal organization that has perpetuated inequality between the sexes, between "us" and "them". Others, whether in business or politics, just jumped on what was proven to work.
Evolutionarily speaking who is best to be a protector/provider vs. nurture figure?
We climbed out of the trees a long time ago. Today (at least here) the 1 year of parental leave after birth can be divided among the two parents as they choose. In the case of someone who is already a stay-at-home mom, the father has the right to take the whole year.
For at least 4 decades we keep hearing that men are abusive if the woman stays at home to raise a kid
There may be some who have expressed that opinion, but I have never encountered it. To the contrary, what I've seen and heard is that women would love to stay at home and raise the kids, but that it's just not financially possible any more. The few who are able to do so appreciate that their significant other is able to pay the bills and give them the opportunity.
How that evolutionary difference in how we think relates to transgender, I'm really not sure. Any theory I have would be completely anecdotal, and based on the few friends I had growing up that were homosexuals
One has nothing to do with the other (gender identity vs. sexual identity). There are transsexuals who are straight, gay, lesbian, bi, whatever... same as the rest of the population. It's a common enough mistake because transsexuals are at the same point today in terms of public understanding and acceptance as gays and lesbians are decades ago, so no offence taken.
RIM were beaten by their own cowardice. Just hours before they were due to win, they caved in and signed a deal with the patent troll.
Then they began giving governments backdoor access. Saudi Arabia (not exactly known for their human rights) was the first. That is when RIM should have said "no." That, and the switch to QNX a few months prior, started the slide down the slippery slope.
With a wounded brand AND an odd-ball os, what could possibly go wrong? Turns out, pretty much everything.
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Who cares? He wasn't writing about genius (or mimicking it), but about creativity and the ability to see relationships or make connections where others haven't.
intelligence without creativity is a dead end, sterile.
... especially since you likely already have a laser printer, and therefore already have the ability to print stamps as needed.
Have you tried to print just ONE label? What a waste of time and labels ...
Besides, just because someone has a smartphone doesn't mean they own a laser printer. With less and less need for hard copies to physically mail stuff, many people have to borrow some luddite's printer nowadays.
The last time a TV show mailed 100 letters with obviously fake stamps, 7 got through. Considering the cost of envelopes, paper, and printing, not a very good ROI.
Someone's been lying to you. Drugs, cell phones, alcohol, and tobacco are the top exchange items. I guess you haven't been following the news, or someone's been yanking your chain.
Requiring someone to buy a laser device to burn "stamps" onto envelopes and packages won't work.
This I fully agree. The idea is so stupid I don't even know how it got here to Slashdot.
You must be new here. (checks uid) Nope. Oh well, welcome to our new DICE overlords :-(
PETA euthanizes 90% of the dogs they get within 24 hours. They've got it down to a science. They're like people who put down their pets because "it's better than maybe going to a home where they're not loved." Maybe if we didn't have laws against them doing that to their offspring, they'd weed themselves out of the gene pool quicker.
For a different take, why not read Houston, Do You Read?
I have it in my home dead-trees library, and it's quite the read.
Somewhat contrary to the wikipedia article, it's not anti-male sentiment, but anti-patriarchal. Even one of the men realizes that there's just no way he can leave his learned habits behind completely, and will contaminate the new world. And there's regret among both sides that it's just not possible.
The FDA and ADA won't change their stance. Otherwise, we'd have banned smoking ages ago. People are going to do what they're going to do.
I used to believe the same, because that's what the hospital taught me in the diabetes management courses *mumble* years ago. I was one of the few Type 1s in the class, and I was normal weight. Most, but not all, of the Type 2 were overweight, so it kind of made sense.
I see my endocrinologist several times a year. Everyone should, but most don't. Then again, most don't follow their doctor's orders either. But the only time you'll see me chug down a soft drink is when I'm about to pass out from an insulin reaction.
You can fax legal documents and keep the fax header as proof of service.
A quick search shows that the state of Utah allows alternate service by email or social media. A judge allowed the FTC to serve notice via facebook. New York allowed email service in 2006, and Australia allows it, and anther New York case of service via facebook was discussed on slashdot last month.
The old ways are dying. Requiring someone to buy a laser device to burn "stamps" onto envelopes and packages won't work.
The envelope or package that’s been sitting there for days, unsent.
The post office already allowed people to print up their own custom stamps for an extra fee. It bombed.
And there's no way that anyone is going to buy a laser etcher when mailing things is becoming obsolete.
The Canadian government has already told people that mailing payments will cease over the next few years.
Additionally, home delivery of the mail is being ended to most of the population. It's already stopped for 1/3 of the population, and the other 3rd that don't live in apartment buildings will be stopped over the next few years. Why the exception for apartment buildings? Because it saves Canada Post the cost of building and maintaining public mailbox collection stands.
There are plenty of competitors for parcel delivery - Canada Post already owns one of them - Purolator Courier.
The only things I've mailed this decade are registered mail - which requires a visit to a postal substation anyway. The post office is going to be dead before BSD.
And I say this as a Christian rather than the typical rabid atheist Slashdot poster
I don't have rabies, you insensitive clod!
Don't h8te on rabies or I'll bite you, you insensitive clod!
Q. What is the first thing to do if you get bitten by an animal with rabies? :-)
A. Get a pen and paper.
Q. Why?
A. To make a list of people who deserve to get bit.
Q. How will that help?
A. It won't but it will certainly make you feel better
And the inevitable s/rabies/ebola/g;
Having seen a lot of almost-all-male environments, there is a LOT of infighting among the guys. They just call it "office politics."
Does eating too much sugar cause diabetes?
For years, scientists have said “not exactly.” Eating too much of any food, including sugar, can cause you to gain weight; it’s the resulting obesity that predisposes people to Type 2 diabetes, according to the prevailing theory.
But now the results of a large epidemiological study conducted at UC San Francisco suggest that sugar may also have a direct, independent link to diabetes. Sanjay Basu, MD. PhD.
Researchers examined data on global sugar availability and diabetes rates from 175 countries over the past decade. After accounting for obesity and a large array of other factors, the researchers found that increased sugar in a population’s food supply was linked to higher Type 2 diabetes rates, independent of obesity rates. Their study was published Feb. 27 in PLOS ONE.
The study provides the first large-scale, population-based evidence for the idea that not all calories are equal from a diabetes-risk standpoint.
“It was quite a surprise,” said Sanjay Basu, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and the study’s lead author. The research was conducted while Basu was a medical resident at UCSF and working with Robert Lustig, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and the paper’s senior author.
“We’re not diminishing the importance of obesity at all, but these data suggest that at a population level there are additional factors that contribute to diabetes risk besides obesity and total calorie intake, and that sugar appears to play a prominent role.”
Specifically, more sugar was correlated with more diabetes: For every additional 150 calories of sugar available per person per day, the prevalence of diabetes in the population rose 1 percent, even after controlling for obesity, physical activity, other types of calories and a number of economic and social variables. A 12-ounce can of soda contains about 150 calories of sugar. In contrast, an additional 150 calories of any type caused only a 0.1 percent increase in the population’s diabetes rate
The mechanism may be unclear, but the risk for type 2 diabetes increases by 1% for every 150 calories of sugar ingested, as opposed to 0.1% for any other form of calories. The smart thing to do is to drop the sweet stuff.
Amazing, you get the wonderful selection of the totally shit OTA channels.
You can't even watch all that TV,
500 channels, none of it free,
Too many reality TV shows to see,
For those who mistake reality,
With the crap they see on TV,
But with OTA advertisers can't be
Using my TV to spy on ME!
Burma Shave
Or it's simply that the existing volunteer(s) don't want to do it any more, and nobody thought to ask the other 1,400 people if some of them would want to take over the task. Especially since each volunteer probably knows half a dozen people, so the potential pool is closer to 10,000.
The best way to guarantee
you don't get help that might be free
is not to ask, 'cuz we forget
them that don't ask, well, they don't get!
Burma Shave
In my experience, the difference between a bad signal and a great signal is sometimes less than 10' in terms of antenna positioning. That being said, not all antennas are equal. I'm using a $70 outdoor antenna zip-tied to the balcony. It works for me, but YMMV.
Well, seeing as I'm in Canada, the editing restrictions are different. And in Quebec, when I watch the french version of a movie, there's not much at all that gets cut. Certainly the language isn't cleaned up. Nor nudity. I guess it's a french thing.
Of course. That's always been the case. Look at religion as the original patriarchal organization that has perpetuated inequality between the sexes, between "us" and "them". Others, whether in business or politics, just jumped on what was proven to work.
It has been done, but should it be done? Especially in a society that believes itself to be intellectually superior to previous societies? I don't accept it as something that should be normalized or "okay because people have been manipulated for thousands of years". I can't argue with what has been, I can only argue my opinion of what should be.
As an atheist, I'm obviously against it as well. And the fact that atheism is now the fastest-growing belief shows that the old ways *are* dying. Thinking for yourself, with all its' faults, is supplanting following tradition, and that's a good thing.
Where I absolutely agree is that financially women are more often than not forced into a workplace to make ends meet, which a feminist would claim makes me sexist. That is the part which is propaganda, and hard to notice at first glance.
What IS sexist is the pay differential between the sexes for equal work based solely on gender. Also, many women *want* to work. They take their year off, then their children go to government-sponsored $7 a day day-care while they return to work. A national subsidized universal day-care program is going to be a key part of next year's federal election here, because women *are* generally the ones who bear the burden, both in time lost and in income over their lifetime, because of their family responsibilities.
That said, even though she is very happy she can not conceive a child nor can she breast feed.
Same as many ggs (genetic girls), and all women past a certain age. There's always adoption, and no shortage of kids in need. Of course, up here it's easier to adopt, since our policies don't discriminate against "alternate lifestyles".
I know, it sounds like paradise in comparison to some places. It's not, but we're working on it, one election at a time :-)
Anyway, thanks for the courteous dialogue so far. I honestly appreciate having my opinions challenged and you raise some good points to evaluate
And thank you. Take care.
Nielsen Digital Content Ratings,
Tracking your every video cravings,
ESPN, Sony, Turner, Viacom,
Want to know where, when, and what you've got on,
To try to sell you even more crap,
They say "you're the product" is a bum rap,
They won't sell you just the program you paid for,
Because there's no wh*re like an old wh*re.
Burma Shave
For some reason, people haven't cottoned on to the fact that HD content can be received over the air with an old pair of rabbit ears or a more modern $20 antenna.
Sure, it's not 500 channels, but how many of those 500 channels do you watch anyway? And how many of them are just dupes?
You seem to ignore the basic premise - because men have a higher muscle/body mass ratio for the same mass, they need to consume more food (and breathe more oxygen) than women than women of the same weight. Sure women can increase their muscle mass - just put them on steroids - but why would you want to? That would just increase the amount of food and oxygen they consume, and let's face it, it doesn't take much brute force to use a waldo or flick a switch.
The Mercury astronauts were disqualified if they were taller than average - they wouldn't fit into the capsule. Sometimes pragmatism or physics rules (or as Dolly Parton said about overflowing her bra, you just can't put 10 pounds of mud in a 5-pound bag).
Now, back to this:
Both those lines define women as weak, small and incapable to perform physical work.
No - they acknowledge the fact that generally, women aren't as strong as men for the same body mass, and that women are, on average, smaller than men. If you can get the same critical capabilities (brains) in a smaller, less energy-consuming package, why not? As long as they can do the job, what does strength have to do with it?
And that's the problem - adding support for systemd is like the camel's nose.
Debian's proposal is not workable over the long term, because the long-term goal of systemd is incompatible with non-systemd init systems, and it's not like we don't have enough maintenance headaches already with every distro seeming to have their own scripts, etc.
So what do you do,
drinkypoo?
When it all sucks,
just go boo-hoo?
support systemd
e'en if it's a mistake?
of course not,
but that's just my take.
Burma Shave
In the end, it doesn't matter what any of us think. What will happen will happen, and we'll deal with it when it happens, not before :-)
So to support your anecdotes, you're saying I should go and verify them myself? That's funny.
No, I'm telling you that if you don't want to believe me, just ask the experts. I have (type 1 diabetes here, see my endocrinologist several times a year), and I'm just relaying what they say. Now, you've made a claim:
Fact is, there is no direct causative link showing a causative effect between sugary drinks and Type 2 Diabetes.
that goes directly against what the experts say about excess sugar consumption and insulin resistance. Maybe YOU should offer some proof. I'm sure the world's endocrinologists would welcome proof that there is no relationship between sugar consumption and type two diabetes. Of course, that being an extraordinary claim, you'd need extraordinary proof, but hey, you're the one who says that it is the duty of someone making anecdotal claims (which yours is) to prove them.
You raise interesting points, so I'll try to reply to some of them.
Most of societies problems are due to a very small subset of people who use propaganda to perpetuate bickering among the "common" people
Of course. That's always been the case. Look at religion as the original patriarchal organization that has perpetuated inequality between the sexes, between "us" and "them". Others, whether in business or politics, just jumped on what was proven to work.
Evolutionarily speaking who is best to be a protector/provider vs. nurture figure?
We climbed out of the trees a long time ago. Today (at least here) the 1 year of parental leave after birth can be divided among the two parents as they choose. In the case of someone who is already a stay-at-home mom, the father has the right to take the whole year.
For at least 4 decades we keep hearing that men are abusive if the woman stays at home to raise a kid
There may be some who have expressed that opinion, but I have never encountered it. To the contrary, what I've seen and heard is that women would love to stay at home and raise the kids, but that it's just not financially possible any more. The few who are able to do so appreciate that their significant other is able to pay the bills and give them the opportunity.
How that evolutionary difference in how we think relates to transgender, I'm really not sure. Any theory I have would be completely anecdotal, and based on the few friends I had growing up that were homosexuals
One has nothing to do with the other (gender identity vs. sexual identity). There are transsexuals who are straight, gay, lesbian, bi, whatever ... same as the rest of the population. It's a common enough mistake because transsexuals are at the same point today in terms of public understanding and acceptance as gays and lesbians are decades ago, so no offence taken.
RIM were beaten by their own cowardice. Just hours before they were due to win, they caved in and signed a deal with the patent troll.
Then they began giving governments backdoor access. Saudi Arabia (not exactly known for their human rights) was the first. That is when RIM should have said "no." That, and the switch to QNX a few months prior, started the slide down the slippery slope.
With a wounded brand AND an odd-ball os, what could possibly go wrong? Turns out, pretty much everything.