Valid assumption, wrong conclusion.

Corporations are in the business of making money... and they have long realised one way of doing that was betting on upper-middle-class consumer guilt to pay a premium in exchange for some sort of vaguely-enforced "ethical business" seal-of-approval. It's a niche market, but a market nonetheless.

Just look at Whole Foods' CEO: not exactly the hippy-dippy type, just a guy who realised there was a market to tap, and tap he did. Call it cynical (it definitely is), but some corporations will behave ethically, just as long as they can make a profit out of it.

Look for the one that costs 3 times the price of those other $100-a-month-Chinese-factory-produced gadgets...

Funny thing is: you (and most other people living in Western countries) would probably not mind so much paying that difference, had their wages not stagnated or downright sunk (relative to inflation and overall cost of life), in part due to all manufacturing jobs getting outsourced to low-paying countries. OK, nevermind: it's not particularly funny.

> Without the crusades, france and eventually the rest of europe might have fallen and been ruled under sharia law

Seriously?

And to think I thought the first part of your comment was the most outlandishly ill-informed bit of historical revisionism I'd read today.

Thanks for making it clearer with that thinly veiled conservative soundbite that you are not, as I first thought, a frightening proof of the failure of the school system, but just another bigoted idiot.

oh, and just so you know: Middle age-era Ottoman empire was one of the most enlightened and progressive society on the face of Earth at the time. I bet those thousands burnt by the Spanish inquisition during and after the Reconquista sure were glad they no longer lived under "sharia law".

"Sounds like the excuse what the French and British agreed to as a cover story. What's reported to the press is often what you're supposed to think."

Have you actually even glanced at the source before making this blanket statement?

This (and many other comments that would be embarrassing for all parties involved) came to light, 20 years later, when the French president's very own shrink decided to publish his former patient's confidences in a book.

Sure: it might have been an incredibly elaborate long game con by Mitterrand to retroactively exonerate himself 10 years after his death, when his psychoanalyst would decide to break doctor-patient confidentiality and publish a book... Personally, I'll go with Occam's razor.

And it will work so much better than facial recognition, because no two people wear the same shoes. And people always wear the same pair of shoes to play games.

What happened? Taking a rest from hyping up stale BitCoin stories in order to sell us glorified corporate loyalty program points instead?

Meanwhile, scientists and the population at large on Kepler-22b are celebrating the discovery of Sol-3a: a planet that exhibits the same livable properties as Kepler-22b and offers the promise of an alternative to their resource-abused, irreversibly-climate-warming, short-term-doomed home world.