Yo douche bag, RTFA: "For several months, Amazon has been quietly discouraging the sales of Hachette’s physical books by several techniques — cutting the customer’s discount so the book approaches list price; taking weeks to ship the book; suggesting prospective customers buy other books instead; and increasing the discount for the Kindle version."
Stupid people should not post: "Amazon, which is under immense pressure from Wall Street to improve its profit margins, is trying to get better terms on e-books out of Hachette, the smallest of the top five New York publishers, as well as Bonnier. For several months, Amazon has been quietly discouraging the sales of Hachette’s physical books by several techniques — cutting the customer’s discount so the book approaches list price; taking weeks to ship the book; suggesting prospective customers buy other books instead; and increasing the discount for the Kindle version."
RTA: " The paperback edition of Brad Stone's The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon — a book Amazon disliked so much it denounced it — is suddenly listed as 'unavailable.' "
"The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission found the nuclear disaster was "manmade" and that its direct causes were all foreseeable. The report also found that the plant was incapable of withstanding the earthquake and tsunami. TEPCO, regulators Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) and NSC and the government body promoting the nuclear power industry (METI), all failed to meet the most basic safety requirements, such as assessing the probability of damage, preparing for containing collateral damage from such a disaster, and developing evacuation plans.[21][22] A separate study by Stanford researchers found that Japanese plants operated by the largest utility companies were particularly unprotected against potential tsunamis.[7]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
The earthquake took the plant off-line not the Tsunami. That model of nuclear reactor had a known safety defect which the manufacturer was too cheap to fix. Stop bullshitting for an industry with a horrible safety track record.
"nuclear can desalinate tons of seawater by the minute" by what magical beans? a nuclear power plant is not a desalination plant. stupid people should not post...
Bullshit. Spoken like a true luddite. Solar and wind can produce the energy needs for the planet. But morons like you haven't read the research and get your facts from foxnews. We were warned 40 years ago during the first oil embargo and did nothing about it. Time to stop listen to idiots and start moving away from oil. This is not a technological limitation. Politics is preventing us from moving forward.
I think the point was even with Intel's massive cash and infrastructure they couldn't bring 64 bit to the desktop - hell they couldn't do it on the server end either; thet Itanium chips were huge flops. And what killed Itanium was AMD's chip!
" Itanium failed to make significant inroads against IA-32 or RISC, and then suffered from the successful introduction of x86-64 based systems into the high-end server market, systems which were more compatible with the older x86 applications."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
So the point is that AMD was more than capable of producing a chip to beat Intel.
No what doesn't help here is people too stupid to make a PHONE CALL. But yeah keep believing that you need to text in order to communicate with someone.
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Yo douche bag, RTFA: "For several months, Amazon has been quietly discouraging the sales of Hachette’s physical books by several techniques — cutting the customer’s discount so the book approaches list price; taking weeks to ship the book; suggesting prospective customers buy other books instead; and increasing the discount for the Kindle version."
Stupid people should not post: "Amazon, which is under immense pressure from Wall Street to improve its profit margins, is trying to get better terms on e-books out of Hachette, the smallest of the top five New York publishers, as well as Bonnier. For several months, Amazon has been quietly discouraging the sales of Hachette’s physical books by several techniques — cutting the customer’s discount so the book approaches list price; taking weeks to ship the book; suggesting prospective customers buy other books instead; and increasing the discount for the Kindle version."
Isn't Amazon the middle man - why not sell direct to the consumer :o
RTA: " The paperback edition of Brad Stone's The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon — a book Amazon disliked so much it denounced it — is suddenly listed as 'unavailable.' "
If you didn't teach them to read how were they able to read what was on the computer screen? Think Potsy, think.
Like Stephen Hawking....good think they didn't listen to you...
"BPA polycarbonate is roughly harmless. "
Define roughly harmless? Want to ask an Endocrinologist? The idiot is you who tries to defend these actions as "roughly harmless."
Clearly people never read:
"The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission found the nuclear disaster was "manmade" and that its direct causes were all foreseeable. The report also found that the plant was incapable of withstanding the earthquake and tsunami. TEPCO, regulators Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) and NSC and the government body promoting the nuclear power industry (METI), all failed to meet the most basic safety requirements, such as assessing the probability of damage, preparing for containing collateral damage from such a disaster, and developing evacuation plans.[21][22] A separate study by Stanford researchers found that Japanese plants operated by the largest utility companies were particularly unprotected against potential tsunamis.[7]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
The earthquake took the plant off-line not the Tsunami. That model of nuclear reactor had a known safety defect which the manufacturer was too cheap to fix. Stop bullshitting for an industry with a horrible safety track record.
"nuclear can desalinate tons of seawater by the minute" by what magical beans? a nuclear power plant is not a desalination plant. stupid people should not post...
Bullshit. Spoken like a true luddite. Solar and wind can produce the energy needs for the planet. But morons like you haven't read the research and get your facts from foxnews. We were warned 40 years ago during the first oil embargo and did nothing about it. Time to stop listen to idiots and start moving away from oil. This is not a technological limitation. Politics is preventing us from moving forward.
Actually it's blocked by bankers. Banks do not want to lend money to build nuclear power plants. It has nothing to do with environmentalists. Moron.
Neither are government subsidies to oil companies.
So you support government subsidies to oil companies that make quarterly NET profits in the billions of dollars rage. Nice one Zippy.
Why, XL pipeline does nothing for the USA. That's oil headed to China.
Oil companies get government subsidies. That's why we are not paying the TCO.
A luddite is someone who sticks with 18th century technology. Think about it zippy.
LMOL - yeah can't add electronics to mechanical things: Airplanes, cars, washing machines....yeah it's a real bitch.....
Yeah douche bags learn to post.
Not anymore :)
That a Microsoft dragging it's heels with a 64 bit OS.
You mean like Windows phones.
I think the point was even with Intel's massive cash and infrastructure they couldn't bring 64 bit to the desktop - hell they couldn't do it on the server end either; thet Itanium chips were huge flops. And what killed Itanium was AMD's chip!
" Itanium failed to make significant inroads against IA-32 or RISC, and then suffered from the successful introduction of x86-64 based systems into the high-end server market, systems which were more compatible with the older x86 applications." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
So the point is that AMD was more than capable of producing a chip to beat Intel.
No what doesn't help here is people too stupid to make a PHONE CALL. But yeah keep believing that you need to text in order to communicate with someone.
FARSCAPE! Suck on that Ronald Moore.