I'd rather drill on land. So we can monitor it easily and if there is any spill, it is easy to contain, seal, and clean up.
You don't get it. The problems with BP start way before the disaster in the Gulf. They have a history of egregious safety violations which have killed people before. They trade high-risk safety practices for profit. I understand you don't like environmentalists; anyone with extreme viewpoints can be frustrating to deal with, but do not lose sight of why the DH disaster was so damaging. Even if BP is "drilling on land" they cannot be trusted to do so safely and they've demonstrated it for years prior to the DH "spill". Let's not focus the witch-hunt on anyone but BP and the regulatory system that let them keep doing what they do. That's where the fixing needs to happen first.
It's amazing to me that this corporation keeps breaking the law, yet somehow manages to keep getting away with it. How many people will drop AT&T over this? or this?, or this? Nobody.
.....Annnnnd if you believe that, you need to leave now and go kill yourself. When you open domestic drilling, it's more money in the pockets of the people running the country. Simple as that. It's the only reason. Oil money runs the US, and probably a lot of other countries.
More fun reading to see what your funding when you gas up that fat-ass SUV . You may as well be dealing drugs out of mexico.
Were almost past the tipping point where the 'controversy' will simply not matter anymore because it will be too late to do anything about it. If we are destined to be governed by a society of ignorant, narrow minded, dogmatic fools then we will cease to exist by our own lack of ability to change in order to stop the inevitable. This, by definition, is exactly evolution in process.
So, who made these projections? 20% market share in a few years? That's absolutely insane especially when you consider they had the history of Blackberry and Palm to compare to before joining Microsoft.. which, unsurprisingly, is the second red flag they should have seen.
It's intriguing to me that even over the screams of "gawd no!" from Nokia's end-user community, they went ahead and did the microsoft merger anyway. Sorry, Nokia, but you guys got pwned. It's your own fault.
Back around the time XP came out, the windows masses were ready to try something new. A lot of them did try the linux desktop but the problem was there wasn't anybody to call when there was a problem. Normal people's eyes glaze over after 10 minutes of googling an error message.
Those were the days of Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy. Upgrading and installing patches was a friggin nightmare. Entire systems got borked sometimes -- never seen anything like it. People had enough of the problems and just ponied up to XP. Sure the linux desktop has matured since then but "normals" don't want the hassle and usually once burned, means twice shy.
When you continually claim record profits, along with record sales, the people who man the production lines come under the whip to get more done faster. It's the simple law of the production line. Also, with Apple's premium on all their gear, that premium translates into premium status with the supplier (they get their stuff run before everyone else because they pay more). Again, another simple law of production.
Sheesh, this takes fanboism to a whole new level. Stealing is one thing, but being charged with a felony because you picked up the wrong f#cking phone (all iphones look the same) off the bar is just wrong.
If you get robbed/pwned/mugged/beaten it shouldn't matter what was taken. Let's not go making iLaws for christ sakes.
Iranians have been surprisingly open to U.S. diplomacy in the past.
Could be, but Ahmadinejad is the one calling the shots here. He seems to be a bit of a douche; bullheaded on top of it. He's going to be tough to negotiate with (http://news.yahoo.com/irans-parliament-grills-embattled-president-115239861.html). Even Iran's parliament is trying to rein him in.
Reign in Israel and make it clear to them that attacking Iran will NOT be tolerated, and will cost them the friendship of the U.S.
Understand that a good portion of the Middle East is embroiled in a fundamental disagreement based on religious dogma which has historically been an insurmountable stumbling block in which all negotiations have failed. The strife over the Gaza strip has been going on since as long as I can remember and war is practically a hobby there. Negotiations are fine but just be prepared to go into it realizing your negotiating with a belief system where aid such as food, water, money, booze, blow or hookers will not get you anywhere. Furthermore, nobody in the Middle East is going to believe you if you are the US and say "We won't attack you". They are not idiots. Even citizens in the US don't believe that.
So we cut off their banks and hit them with sanctions. Fine. A lot of Iranian people will suffer. And maybe this will lead them to negotiate, maybe not.
Yeah, cutting off the banking to Iran and inciting sanctions is stupid. It never works. It's a typical US corporate power move which will mostly affect, wait for it..... the people. The ones in power will be just fine (example: sanctions on NK). I think negotiations are the only way but if the US tries, it will fail miserably because they are not trusted. Thanks to the former Bush administration and the current Reality TV drama known as the US presidential race. Someone besides the US needs to step up here.
"He quit a job that engineers and technical masterminds throughout the country would give their right arm for. So now, there's another black spot on his record,..."
Most hackers I know don't get their jollies sitting in a cube writing TPS reports. Sure, it pays well but I don't think Facebook would have much need for someone who's used to staring at de-compiled code or messing with JTAG cables . Don't diss him for not following the crowd; the most interesting hackers never do.
The biggest problem facing the reversal of climate change is that everyone needs to make do with less. less gas, less electricity, less energy, less driving, less carbon footprint... And nobody wants to be part of everyone. Figure out how to get everbody on board with less, and you'll lick it.
I never quite understood the stigma against ME. It always worked fine for me. XP was a complete nightmare of bugs at least until SP2 and Vista was basically the same way. Meh.. I run Linux exclusively these days and boot into XP for an occasional game. It's nice to finally have enough usability in Linux that I don't even know what Windows 8 looks like.
No, It's spin. Anonymous looks like a douche and the public will buy the FBI story and never really hear about the real reasons behind the attack.
Pilfering the coffers has never been a primary motive behind Anonymous. Grabbing CC data is a way of gaining proof and leveraging control over the place you cracked. For the FBI however, It's much easier to build a legal case against the crackers by spinning the attack into a monetary motive. What sounds better in the news? "We're charging xxxx with trespassing and criminal damage because they wanted to make a statement about the evils of Strator" or "We're charging xxxx with theft and $700k in credit card fraud".
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like getting off the ship before it totally sinks. I wonder how much cash these big wigs are taking with them.
Add Gawker to the same list the New York Times is on.
Indeed. It's on a perforated list in the bathroom.
You have to find a balance somewhere.
Such a gluttonous appetite for money; they remind me of two sea cucumbers trying to devour each other.
I'd rather drill on land. So we can monitor it easily and if there is any spill, it is easy to contain, seal, and clean up.
You don't get it. The problems with BP start way before the disaster in the Gulf. They have a history of egregious safety violations which have killed people before. They trade high-risk safety practices for profit. I understand you don't like environmentalists; anyone with extreme viewpoints can be frustrating to deal with, but do not lose sight of why the DH disaster was so damaging. Even if BP is "drilling on land" they cannot be trusted to do so safely and they've demonstrated it for years prior to the DH "spill". Let's not focus the witch-hunt on anyone but BP and the regulatory system that let them keep doing what they do. That's where the fixing needs to happen first.
All of the users, who also owned Xboxes, claimed "Microsoft is a dick" for doing this.
The alpha-channel in JPEG sucks.
It's amazing to me that this corporation keeps breaking the law, yet somehow manages to keep getting away with it. How many people will drop AT&T over this? or this?, or this? Nobody.
.....Annnnnd if you believe that, you need to leave now and go kill yourself. When you open domestic drilling, it's more money in the pockets of the people running the country. Simple as that. It's the only reason. Oil money runs the US, and probably a lot of other countries.
More fun reading to see what your funding when you gas up that fat-ass SUV . You may as well be dealing drugs out of mexico.
This is not Commodore, this is not the Amiga. This is a fucking bastard.
I don't really see it that way. Commodore is taking the Apple route.
1) Build your own hardware
2) stick *nix under the hood
3) profit.
Were almost past the tipping point where the 'controversy' will simply not matter anymore because it will be too late to do anything about it. If we are destined to be governed by a society of ignorant, narrow minded, dogmatic fools then we will cease to exist by our own lack of ability to change in order to stop the inevitable. This, by definition, is exactly evolution in process.
So, who made these projections? 20% market share in a few years? That's absolutely insane especially when you consider they had the history of Blackberry and Palm to compare to before joining Microsoft.. which, unsurprisingly, is the second red flag they should have seen.
It's intriguing to me that even over the screams of "gawd no!" from Nokia's end-user community, they went ahead and did the microsoft merger anyway. Sorry, Nokia, but you guys got pwned. It's your own fault.
If you work there, you need to keep even well known facts a secret.
Back around the time XP came out, the windows masses were ready to try something new. A lot of them did try the linux desktop but the problem was there wasn't anybody to call when there was a problem. Normal people's eyes glaze over after 10 minutes of googling an error message.
Those were the days of Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy. Upgrading and installing patches was a friggin nightmare. Entire systems got borked sometimes -- never seen anything like it. People had enough of the problems and just ponied up to XP. Sure the linux desktop has matured since then but "normals" don't want the hassle and usually once burned, means twice shy.
When you continually claim record profits, along with record sales, the people who man the production lines come under the whip to get more done faster. It's the simple law of the production line. Also, with Apple's premium on all their gear, that premium translates into premium status with the supplier (they get their stuff run before everyone else because they pay more). Again, another simple law of production.
That should really read "Adware drains your battery" which is not only more accurate, but makes the article both banal as well as un-surprising.
Why not?
Sheesh, this takes fanboism to a whole new level. Stealing is one thing, but being charged with a felony because you picked up the wrong f#cking phone (all iphones look the same) off the bar is just wrong.
If you get robbed/pwned/mugged/beaten it shouldn't matter what was taken. Let's not go making iLaws for christ sakes.
Iranians have been surprisingly open to U.S. diplomacy in the past.
Could be, but Ahmadinejad is the one calling the shots here. He seems to be a bit of a douche; bullheaded on top of it. He's going to be tough to negotiate with (http://news.yahoo.com/irans-parliament-grills-embattled-president-115239861.html). Even Iran's parliament is trying to rein him in.
Reign in Israel and make it clear to them that attacking Iran will NOT be tolerated, and will cost them the friendship of the U.S.
Understand that a good portion of the Middle East is embroiled in a fundamental disagreement based on religious dogma which has historically been an insurmountable stumbling block in which all negotiations have failed. The strife over the Gaza strip has been going on since as long as I can remember and war is practically a hobby there. Negotiations are fine but just be prepared to go into it realizing your negotiating with a belief system where aid such as food, water, money, booze, blow or hookers will not get you anywhere. Furthermore, nobody in the Middle East is going to believe you if you are the US and say "We won't attack you". They are not idiots. Even citizens in the US don't believe that.
So we cut off their banks and hit them with sanctions. Fine. A lot of Iranian people will suffer. And maybe this will lead them to negotiate, maybe not.
Yeah, cutting off the banking to Iran and inciting sanctions is stupid. It never works. It's a typical US corporate power move which will mostly affect, wait for it..... the people. The ones in power will be just fine (example: sanctions on NK). I think negotiations are the only way but if the US tries, it will fail miserably because they are not trusted. Thanks to the former Bush administration and the current Reality TV drama known as the US presidential race. Someone besides the US needs to step up here.
"He quit a job that engineers and technical masterminds throughout the country would give their right arm for. So now, there's another black spot on his record,..."
Most hackers I know don't get their jollies sitting in a cube writing TPS reports. Sure, it pays well but I don't think Facebook would have much need for someone who's used to staring at de-compiled code or messing with JTAG cables . Don't diss him for not following the crowd; the most interesting hackers never do.
Whether that law is enforced with human eyes or camera eyes really makes no difference
Yes, actually it does. "enforcing the law" with Orwellian bullshit is not really enforcing the law as much as it is eroding your rights to privacy.
Require proof of insurance in order to renew registration every year. There. Fixed. And nobody has to spy on anyone at the gas station.
I only needed to read those three words to realize the whole thing is a sham.
The biggest problem facing the reversal of climate change is that everyone needs to make do with less. less gas, less electricity, less energy, less driving, less carbon footprint... And nobody wants to be part of everyone. Figure out how to get everbody on board with less, and you'll lick it.
I never quite understood the stigma against ME. It always worked fine for me. XP was a complete nightmare of bugs at least until SP2 and Vista was basically the same way. Meh.. I run Linux exclusively these days and boot into XP for an occasional game. It's nice to finally have enough usability in Linux that I don't even know what Windows 8 looks like.
Plain old fashioned credit card fraud.
No, It's spin. Anonymous looks like a douche and the public will buy the FBI story and never really hear about the real reasons behind the attack.
Pilfering the coffers has never been a primary motive behind Anonymous. Grabbing CC data is a way of gaining proof and leveraging control over the place you cracked. For the FBI however, It's much easier to build a legal case against the crackers by spinning the attack into a monetary motive. What sounds better in the news? "We're charging xxxx with trespassing and criminal damage because they wanted to make a statement about the evils of Strator" or "We're charging xxxx with theft and $700k in credit card fraud".
Come on ASUS, you guys used to know what you were doing. Now it's a year late and a processor core short.
Not sure where you're getting your hardware specs from as tfa says the hardware is unconfirmed at this point.