Nice reference to persistence hunting. Wolves, in the rare instances where they still have territory free of the blight that is the hairless monkeys, are notoriously successful using this method of prey exhaustion. Humans fare even better, having the only brain in nature (I'm aware of) that engineers the carrying of water during the hunt.

For many, many modern humans, the daily struggle to acquire sustenance is a tad less rigorous.

Walkability (what a focking twat word) becomes a concern in urban areas, as the relative uselessness of a personal auto helps one cope with the higher rents and mortgages.

By bad, you mean a link back to a prior shudder Slashdot story, then yes. Maybe they fixed it.

This smacks of the sort of home movie experience purchased by people who already have the newest hyper-resolution televisions.

For the If it's this or the light bill crowd, market share will be on the order of shoe size.

The Washington Post, historically one of the most respected daily news sources, was hemorrhaging money while attempting to follow demand and make the transition from dead tree news juggernaut to an internet news site.

Major influence peddlers of the past, major newspaper owners were often more interested in the power derived from an ability to shape public opinion than the bottom line...although they were a great deal more profitable before instantaneous news became impossible to compete with.

Bezos is dealing with the challenge of ushering the decaying giant into the new World, and in some fashion, that includes monetizing the operation. A button for Amazon purchases? Were you expecting a Rakuten link?

People fuck up.

Things go unexpectedly wrong as a matter of course in everyday life, let alone in the midst of innovation, since redefining the norm is a process fraught with a high failure rate.

Owning it, and retroactively covering models no longer affected by factory warranty? That's the kind of shit you can easily get behind.

African-American?

While not specifically a cologne, per say, it is the dark (intended) fantasy of many a housewife of European descent.

No sir.

There's a problem and they're handling it immediately and responsibly,

instead of pursuing the GM/Toyota strategy of ignoring it and hoping it goes away.

Revolution is a reference to the Network program where the lights go out preceding the obligatory zombie outbreak.

If the power wielded by your overlord devolves into something essentially unlivable for the masses, and his power is concentrated heavily in electronic surveillance, turning out the lights is a way to level the field.

Just wow.

If you think hyper-Constitutional surveillance is alive and well only in the nations that constitute the communist regimes in business during Orwell's lifetime,

you, sir, are definitely too trusting and optimistic in general to post so hatefully here.

A group of master thieves with no conscience,

who are working round the clock to skim money from a project,

are still unable to run up costs like a government project gone off the rails.

"You could just whoop one of those Sharks ass in front of the others."

-Random Jet

Solid post.

With regards to their goldfish bowl... it doesn't work when the lights go out.

Rebellion? I'm thinking Revolution.

We do have a million,

just not too many of the models come with the brass balls.

Or:

Some of these people were being improperly classified as conspiracy theorists.

I am aware there are some who see conspiracy at every turn, as if no event on the radar could simply be happenstance. Shit does just happen, sometimes.

But, there were many who read Orwell and were convinced government would eventually devolve to this. Whatever they used to be called, it can now be said they appear prophetic.

Sales in foreign markets are plummeting as Cisco suffers the political fallout of being an American-based multinational.