Exactly. You can put every policy in place, but there comes a point where you simply have to trust your employees. If an employee breaks that trust you fire them (and call the authorities depending on the offense) and move on. It doesn't necessarily mean that the company is now evil or condoned the behavior or can even put more policies in place to prevent it in the future.

Yes, pair that up with a 'nifty 50mm' and you've just blown away nearly every point and shoot out there. If you don't mind manual focusing (the D40 doesn't have it's own focus motor) then you can get the 50mm lens for $200. The AF one iirc, is right around $400 or less.

If there is any company that is driven from the CEO down it's Apple. So while you're right that the he of course didn't do it by himself, he is likely a huge driving force behind what the rest of the company accomplished.

I thought having the right clothing would go without saying, but as you point out that's also not true. But yeah, I pack a light pair of hiking pants, rain coat, and some sort of long sleeve warm shirt when doing summer hikes. While hiking it's easy to get lured in that it's very warm because your body is working hard and keeping itself warm. Stop for just a few minutes and you realize how quickly you can get cold when it's in the 50s and the wind starts blowing.

On a side note, I'm heading to Oregon next week to do Jefferson Park, South Sister and Crater lake. South Sister has a couple of the guys worried because it's an 11 mile round trip with ~4900 feet of elevation change. Should be fun :)

20 and 55 14ers is great! I've only done 5 so far, and would like to get 1-2 more before the summer season ends.

But yeah, shit can happen to anyone at any time. That's why I try to be prepared at all times to spend the night if needed and carry extra water. It always comes back to the standard saying "people do not know enough to know what they don't know." I haven't been climbing mountains my whole like because I lived on the coast until recently. What I do know is to respect nature and especially the weather.

Even though 14er means 14,000 ft of elevation you still make a good point. Most are around 6-11 mile round trip hikes and take 6-10 hours depending on how much shape the person is in. And yes, hiking on a empty stomach is not much fun :)

You're right the food you need is zero, but that energy helps you stay warm through the night and have energy to either hike out or find help the next day. Additionally, if you've already been hiking for 6-8 hours then you are likely in a caloric deficit at that point which can make having to spend the night it even worse. So while you can make it without the extra food, why risk it when throwing a few more things in your pack isn't that big of deal.

Yeah, the most common one here is I have 4wd so I can drive like an idiot even when the road is an ice rink. My last ski trip last year, i70 was a complete mess. I watched 4 separate cars speed by the line of cars driving safely in the slow lane. All 4 of those cars ended up in snow banks off the side of the road. One almost hit me as he lost control and slid across my lane of traffic and off the road into a snow bank. Fun times!

The is the number 1 problem I see while hiking. Most people are completely unprepared with respect to the amount of water needed. I hike 14ers on a regular basis and even though they are generally day hikes I always pack enough food and water that I could spend the night if needed. I hope I never get into a situation where I'm forced to spend the night in the high country with only minimal provisions, but accidents happen and it's best to be prepared.

I also buy the yearly CO state park pass which should also end up helping fund Search and Rescue.

I do see a lot of idiots on the mountains though. I've lost count how many people have been hit by lightening this year or just plain fallen off the mountain. When on trails I've attempted to give people information but no one wants to listen. It's usually pretty basic stuff too. If you see black clouds heading your way, you don't want to be going up the mountain :)

While what you're saying is true, I think we're about to see a showdown between the states and the federal government with the current economic climate being the driving force. Many states have already passed state amendments re-affirming their states rights and I'm thinking we're going to see either pot or immigration reform (or lack of from a federal level) be the battlefield where states start really pushing back.

I was about to say the same thing. I live in Denver and there is a nightly talk radio show for pot smokers. It's hard to listen to because the content is so bad, but I've heard them say that getting a prescription from a doctor takes all of 5 minutes. At one point the 'dispensaries' had doctors located inside of them and you could show up, pay to get a card, and buy your weed at the same place. Apparently they recently changed the law to add a waiting period so that had the guys on the show really up in arms....well I guess as angry as full time pot smokers could actually get.

Second: CO2 can be absorbed easily and is not toxic. What about persistent, toxic, mass produced, untaxed and uncapped pollutants? While our generation looks at 1C difference in south patagonia since the 1866, next ones will increasingly have trouble eating fish, breathing, reproducing.

Bingo! GW/AGW to me is simply hype both to both extremes at this point. I don't really care so much about global warming that may raise sea a bit some 100 years from now when we already can't eat the fish because of the levels of mercury. GW/AGW has taken up so much energy and science that we are ignoring the real poisons that are out there right NOW as in TODAY. It's also much easier to get people onboard with being clean (who can argue that high levels of mercury in our sea water is a good thing or natural?!), rather than try to beat them into GW submission with people who clearly are in it for themselves even if the science is true.

And I agree with you. The biggest SNAFU from Apple in this whole thing has been how they have handled the PR. From SJs use of 'magical' (although I thought he only said that about the iPad, I'm not sure) to his arrogant quips and finally to Apples deafening silence.

I hope they take a look at how quickly this thing blew up and learn that next time 3 weeks of silence is a mistake.

I found it for you:

http://support.sprint.com/global/pdf/user_guides/htc/evo/htc_evo_ug.pdf

Page 169. No sticker, but in the manual.

From my personal anecdotal experience with my i4 all the websites claiming doom and gloom were the ones spinning to me. Ars did a pretty good test showing that the new phone can lose ~20db of signal when held a certain way. That's enough to lose 1-2 bars and if that's all you have then it's definitely a problem. The most I can get to happen is 1 bar and it generally then bounces back up.

Apple brought the issue to light that has been a problem since phones started moving their antennas internal to the phone. A friend with a BB just IMed me laughing that he can do the same thing on his phone because of the weak signal he has in his office building.

I think Apple did all they could here. There is no way they have time to engineer, test, and possibly get FCC approval for some new phone in such a short amount of time. If the bumper isn't enough for people then return it. My i4 works fine with my usage and is much better reception wise than my 3GS was. Not that the 3GS was a stellar performer, but in places where I would drop calls on the 3GS (I live near the mountains) the i4 hasn't dropped yet.