With oil. So what? If you think using existing revenue streams to pay for R&D to create better revenue streams is a poor idea, then you fail at business 101.
It's not so much that. If a lawyer, witness, or judge is talking, the jurors should be paying attention. That sort of thing may be important to the trial, even if it's dull.
But if there's some drawn-out procedural issues taking place, most of the courtroom is going to be bored out of their minds and rightfully so.
...this kind of dick-ish move is the same sort of thing we've come to expect from EA. Remember the takedowns sent from Fox to Simpons fans in the 90's? This seems fairly similar.
Being anal about the distribution rights of a 14 year old video game seems like it's an issue of screwing your most dedicated fans, the very people that the company should be catering to.
If by "hard-hitting" you mean they repost everything the White House says as fact and refuse to call waterboarding "torture" when it's done by the US, then yes. The NYT is very "hard-hitting" indeed.
Does this have ANYTHING to do with green energy? Granted, I couldn't read the article that was linked to (thanks, NY Times!) but from everything else I've read, this is just a standard offshore tax scam.
So unless you can produce something that shows how GE was using a green energy tax credit/subsidy of some kind to avoid taxes, please be quiet.
So on Slashdot we have to tell people who Alan Turing was, but we can just randomly spout off the names of (what I'm assuming to be) little known software packages?
That's just what the GOVERNMENT wants you to THINK! The REAL reason I wear my tinfoil HAT is to stop the RADIATION from leaving my BRAIN, which happens because of the THOUGHT-SCATTERING computer implanted into my cerebellum by Renee ZELLWEGER.
From what I've seen, Chernobyl was in an area with a lower population density. I mean sure, the Soviets had a different type of reactor, worse response, etc. But Japan's situation could still be pretty bad in the long run, if things don't go as planned.
Sure, the media is being panic-y. And sure, more people died in the tsunami than would die in the worst case of a reactor meltdown. But sometimes there ARE reasons to be scared that are perfectly valid, and those shouldn't be discounted just because the press does well when they incite panic.
There are other ambiguities with the headline that makes it confusing.
The site isn't what did the pushing. It was the discovery of it. The headline would have made a lot more sense if it had said: "Discovery of Texas site pushes back known settlement date for North America."
"Known settlement date" could be today. There is a settlement in North America today, right? So it needs to specify that it was the FIRST known settlement. You could argue that since we're pushing it back, that must mean it's the first, but I don't think that's a good assumption.
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But... but... if you make a bunch of incitement statements without backing them up in any way whatsoever, your audience is guaranteed to grow!
I mean, it works for Rush Limbaugh! You're not being fair. Why shouldn't this Ron Miller guy get to do the same thing!
That's because Facebook doesn't have a "Dislike" button.
With oil. So what? If you think using existing revenue streams to pay for R&D to create better revenue streams is a poor idea, then you fail at business 101.
It's not so much that. If a lawyer, witness, or judge is talking, the jurors should be paying attention. That sort of thing may be important to the trial, even if it's dull.
But if there's some drawn-out procedural issues taking place, most of the courtroom is going to be bored out of their minds and rightfully so.
39 years away is a LONG time. Many politicians will have a chance to overturn this during that time.
Or if you're an optimist, perhaps the free market will have beat them to the punch by then. Or you might point out that there already is a modern city without petrol cars.
...this kind of dick-ish move is the same sort of thing we've come to expect from EA. Remember the takedowns sent from Fox to Simpons fans in the 90's? This seems fairly similar.
Being anal about the distribution rights of a 14 year old video game seems like it's an issue of screwing your most dedicated fans, the very people that the company should be catering to.
It's that low? Damn, I guess Mother Nature must not have completed her engineering degree.
Yes, and if you didn't notice, my comment addressed that and only that issue.
WHOOOSH.
Because Angry Birds requires so much concentration?
50% of the time jurors are just forced to sit there while nothing is happening. They're not allowed to do much, so why not let them play Angry Birds?
...developing Gopher sites, you insensitive clod.
If by "hard-hitting" you mean they repost everything the White House says as fact and refuse to call waterboarding "torture" when it's done by the US, then yes. The NYT is very "hard-hitting" indeed.
...is a lot longer than 140 characters.
Does this have ANYTHING to do with green energy? Granted, I couldn't read the article that was linked to (thanks, NY Times!) but from everything else I've read, this is just a standard offshore tax scam.
So unless you can produce something that shows how GE was using a green energy tax credit/subsidy of some kind to avoid taxes, please be quiet.
Time to make an update version of Steal This Book.
You can't win or lose? So it's like World of Warcraft?
So on Slashdot we have to tell people who Alan Turing was, but we can just randomly spout off the names of (what I'm assuming to be) little known software packages?
Come on, guys.
And now, copying Twitter's idea, Zynga is threatening to move the company if they don't get special tax breaks from San Francisco.
Even their political moves are copied from other companies.
AngryBirdsVille? CatPhysicsVille? CubeRunnerVille?
That's just what the GOVERNMENT wants you to THINK! The REAL reason I wear my tinfoil HAT is to stop the RADIATION from leaving my BRAIN, which happens because of the THOUGHT-SCATTERING computer implanted into my cerebellum by Renee ZELLWEGER.
From what I've seen, Chernobyl was in an area with a lower population density. I mean sure, the Soviets had a different type of reactor, worse response, etc. But Japan's situation could still be pretty bad in the long run, if things don't go as planned.
Sure, the media is being panic-y. And sure, more people died in the tsunami than would die in the worst case of a reactor meltdown. But sometimes there ARE reasons to be scared that are perfectly valid, and those shouldn't be discounted just because the press does well when they incite panic.
...telling someone to die in a thread about life!
I mean there's life.com, life.net, life.org, life.co.uk...
So does this mean they're downloading songs off KaZaA, Grokster, and iMesh?
There are other ambiguities with the headline that makes it confusing.
The site isn't what did the pushing. It was the discovery of it. The headline would have made a lot more sense if it had said:
"Discovery of Texas site pushes back known settlement date for North America."
"Known settlement date" could be today. There is a settlement in North America today, right? So it needs to specify that it was the FIRST known settlement. You could argue that since we're pushing it back, that must mean it's the first, but I don't think that's a good assumption.