Occupy Wall Street was a George Soros funded dirty trick to besmirch Mitt Romney. As soon as the election was over Soros stopped funding OWS and it went away. One could argue that it had the planned impact though - generating ill feelings toward a certain successful investor.

Ask three thousand people to predict what sequence of heads and tails will come up when you flip a coin 30 times. A few of them will appear to have the ability to predict it correctly, at least in that sample.

But they're not. People are omnivores with big energy and protein requirements, especially when young and growing. Calorie and protein rich foods like meat and seafood are highly desirable components of a human's diet. Deal with it.

It's replacing wild caught fish that are ground up and used for feed with farm raised plankton that are compressed into pellets.

Two obvious benefits are 1) raising the plankton is much more sustainable than catching wild fish, and 2) the plankton is apparently a better diet for the shrimp.

It wouldn't surprise me if that plankton also makes a good protein supplement for non-marine animals like chickens. Maybe even cut out the middleman/shrimp/chicken and feed it directly to people.

The NTIS was established before the internet made information easy to find and download. Back in the day it made sense to provide that service; NTIS was self-funded by the modest fees it charged. But times have changed; today it's a dinosaur agency that provides no value, loses money and should be sunset. Here's a better summary of what's going on.

Yes, what they did was wrong according to US law. But it says more about how business is conducted in the other countries. HP had to choose between abandoning those markets or trying to get away with playing by the local rules. Now the SEC is slapping them with a ritual fine to show how shocked, yes shocked they are to learn this kind of thing is going on.

In the end the shareholders might come out ahead, depending on how much HP "profiteered" in the first place.

I doubt "diversity" in this case is a good idea. Instead of one bug in one package you would end up playing bop-a-mole with many bugs in a few packages.

That happened to Europeans many times. Plague, yellow fever, malaria, maybe HIV, etc. It's unlikely another disease is lurking out there that modern medicine can't handle.

Nope, the bacteria ate most of it.

Did you even read the article? It appears they found the leak and contained most of it, not much was actually spilled. One backhoe digging a hole to fix the leak; cleanup will take a few days. Wouldn't effect the water supply or sewers.

That's a red herring. They could avoid sending money to Microsoft by foregoing computers and doing all their work with pencil and paper.

The question is how much does it cost to use some other standard versus ODF? It's hard to tell because so much FUD is being spread on both sides (including this article). But if there were significant savings the switch would likely have been made a long time ago.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against the idea. I use Apache Open Office and I'm quite happy with it.