Comment Wait a sec (Score 1) 215
Weren't stegosauruses herbivore?
Comment Re:It figures! (Score 1) 456
Several Barilla's competitors expressed support for LGBT equality. Buitoni, an Italian food group owned by Nestle, was probably the first one to post a photo on their company Facebook page with the caption 'At Casa Buitoni, there is room for everyone.'
Buitoni US division also posted a photo on their facebook page as explained on http://www.inquisitr.com/970331/barilla-pasta-boycott-addressed-by-competitors-buitoni-bertolli/
Submission + - Social networks force Barilla chairman to apologize for his anti-gay remarks
ifchairscouldtalk writes: Pasta maker Barilla is in hot water over chairman's anti-gay comments. Guido Barilla said his brand would 'never feature gays in ads' because Barilla does not agree with them adding that 'if gays don't like it, they can choose another pasta.' Vehement protest worldwide calling for a boycott of Barilla products via Twitter and Facebook forced the chairman to apologize with a video on Facebook.
Submission + - Pasta maker Barilla in hot water for anti-gay comments
ifchairscouldtalk writes: Company chairman Guido Barilla provoked outrage when he said his brand would 'never feature gays in ads' adding that 'if gays don't like it, they can choose another pasta.' Barilla's chairman affirmed his support for 'traditional families' where women played a central 'sacred' role. In Barilla's ads women are primarily portrayed as homebound. The comments caused a storm of online outrage with Twitter #boicottabarilla (boycott Barilla) trending. Italy is one of the few states in Western Europe which does not recognize same-sex unions in law and where gays and women have often been vilified by top public figures.
Submission + - Microsoft and Nokia sign partnership (guardian.co.uk) 2
ifchairscouldtalk writes: Mobile phone maker Nokia announced a broad strategic partnership with Microsoft in the effort to rebuild its fortunes, troubled by stiff competition from Apple and Android phones. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said that Windows Mobile 7 will be Nokia's primary smartphone platform. Although Nokia will not immediatly abandon Symbian powered phones and MeeGo is said to be part of a "longer-term market exploration", Alberto Torres, who has led the development of MeeGo, is leaving the company. Shares in Nokia fell by more than 10% in early trading in Helsinki.
Comment Re:Missing option (Score 2, Insightful) 467
Give me *everything* BUT windows.
Comment Misleading news (Score 5, Informative) 391
The video was NOT removed as soon as it was brought to Google's attention.
According to the prosecutors the video remained online for two months even though web users had already asked for it to be taken down.
It is also worth mentioning that Google execs will not serve jail time because in Italy sentences of less than three years are commuted for people without criminal records.
According to the prosecutors the video remained online for two months even though web users had already asked for it to be taken down.
It is also worth mentioning that Google execs will not serve jail time because in Italy sentences of less than three years are commuted for people without criminal records.
Submission + - Google execs convicted in Italy for bullying video (reuters.com)
ifchairscouldtalk writes: A court in Milan found Google Italy employees guilty of privacy violations for allowing the publication of an Internet video showing a handicapped teenager being bullied. The video remained online for two months even when some web users posted comments asking for it to be removed. The three were sentenced to six months in jail but they will not serve jail time because sentences of less than three years are commuted in Italy for people without criminal records.
Comment Re:This is what linguists have been waiting for (Score 1) 197
The funny thing is that I can't really be defined as an American liberal. Mine was intended to be a joke, without any of the political malignancies you and others found in it. To put it blunty: the guy, no matter his political views and decisions, couldn't deliver a proper speech and was frequently involuntarily funny ("Is Our Children Learning?").
I could have joked about the syntax of 13-years-olds online which may turn out to be much less complex than that of any other primates, but I'm not sure it would have been equally funny, especially considering that teenagers are not world leaders addressing respectable audiences...
I could have joked about the syntax of 13-years-olds online which may turn out to be much less complex than that of any other primates, but I'm not sure it would have been equally funny, especially considering that teenagers are not world leaders addressing respectable audiences...
Comment Re:This is what linguists have been waiting for (Score 1) 197
No, I'm sick and tired of the extended partisan hatred: Dems against Nixon, Reagan and W, Republicans against the Clintons (although it all seems to have shifted towards BHO).
The partisan vituperation against most sitting presidents in the past 40 years is also really frickin' old.
Believe it or not, I wasn't expressing a political judgement on the former US President. More simply, one on Bush the public orator whose frequent mistakes were, frankly, rather embarrassing.
Comment Re:This is what linguists have been waiting for (Score 1) 197
The war is over, you won, W is gone. Now GIVE IT A FUCKING REST ALREADY!!!!
A little nervous, eh?
There was no war... As to the war against idiots, well, I like to quote De Gaulle on this: "Vaste programme, en effet."
Comment Re:This is what linguists have been waiting for (Score -1, Flamebait) 197
... a chance to really look at a real proto-syntax, because all human languages have a very strongly developed syntax.
I must assume that you have never heard Dubya speaking.
Comment Re:Kindle killer? (Score 2, Insightful) 260
Personally I'm not so sure that it is the belated international availability which dwarfs the iconic status of the Kindle. The iPhone too was only available for the US market for a long while. Certainly, the unavailability of a product doesn't help its popularity, but many other factors (not all imputable to Amazon itself), contribute to the somewhat limited extent to which people around the world have reacted to the "revolution" which Amazon was hoping to bring with its device.
Comment Clipperz.com (Score 1) 1007
I use clipperz, a free and anonymous online password manager which comes in an offline version too. It is based on open standards, proven encryption technologies, and has no vendor lock-in, and full anonymity.
I like the philosophy behind it and the people who have developed it.
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Submission + - AIDS Vaccine is partially successful
ifchairscouldtalk writes: "Phase III "RV 144" study in Thailand succeeded in reducing HIV infection rate in trial with 31.2% effectiveness. The study was conducted by the Thailand Ministry of Public Health and used strains of HIV common in Thailand. It is not clear whether the vaccine, which combines AIDSVAX with Aventis Pasteur ALVAC-HIV canarypox vector, known as "vCP1521", would work against other strains in the United States, Africa or elsewhere. Strangely, the vaccine had no effect on levels of HIV in the blood of those who did become infected, providing 'one of the most important and intriguing findings' of the trial, according to Dr Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is one of the trial's sponsors."
