Comment Re:Raw data, or "adjusted"? (Score 2) 107
The data doesn't need to be massaged to show that
Apple's Game Center Shares Your Real Name 182
dotarray writes "Apple's Game Center has just made itself a few enemies through a simple change to their Terms of Service. Now, whenever you send a friend invitation, your real name will be attached as well as your Apple ID."
Apparently they didn't learn from the poor reaction to Blizzard's similar idea.
Comment Re:Thanks Congressman Ron Paul (R)! (Score 3, Insightful) 741
So what if a corporation dumps waste in the river, exposes workers to a toxic environment, over harvests the ocean or destroys entire species, abuses monopoly powers to destroy competition, or any number of negative externalities?
Cutting corners and not getting caught (or getting caught but the penalty being less than the gain) can be very profitable. Sometimes the damage being done is hidden long enough that a corporation flourishes. It's not hard for permanent damage to be be done on either a personal or a very large scale. Suing the corporation doesn't really fix the problem.
Also, corporations have no conscience, no remorse, and basically act like a sociopath.
Corporations don't have the rights of an individual, they have the privilege of acting as in individual in very specific ways.
Comment Re:Thanks Congressman Ron Paul (R)! (Score 1, Offtopic) 741
Is it just me, or do libertarians seem to believe that it's better to be abused by a corporation than by the government. Maybe they thing they'll be the one in the corporation that gets to do the abusing... I dunno
Comment Re:Ain't freedom a bitch? (Score 1) 321
#ironic
Comment Re:Seattle COL (Score 1) 866
If you own a home and make 200,000 and can afford to keep one partner from working - then you have more than most of the people around you.
The only reason that you "own" anything at all, is because the people around you agree that you do. If enough of them feel that you don't deserve what you have, you're going to have a hard time protecting it.
Comment Re:Le Daily News - 9/15/2060 (Score 1) 389
The burning crater formerly known was France has successfully performed its first and last Fusion reaction.
~FIXED
Comment Re:Nascar??? (Score 1) 286
yea, prolly so
Submission + - HP cutting 3000 jobs (cnn.com)
wolfsdaughter writes: Hewlett-Packard plans to eliminate 3,000 jobs over the next few years as it ramps up its use of automated data centers for business customers
Submission + - Peak Wood: Nature's Revenge (miller-mccune.com)
__aaqpaq9254 writes: http://www.miller-mccune.com/environment/peak-wood-nature-does-impose-limits-16596/: An interesting, insightful look at deforestation and how it relates to oil-security and -dependency. What lessons have we learned?
Comment Re:You say there are two sides. That's the problem (Score 1) 892
+1 Interwesting
Comment Re:Safe... Really? (Score 1) 172
hmmm... well, according to a report from AGC, there is currently a shortage of titanium dioxide
Comment Re:Actually (Score 0, Offtopic) 643
+1 insightful
Comment Re:Hopefully they aren't too effective.. (Score 1) 347
oops - oh well.
Anyway, I just think we have a responsibility as the take care of and preserve the ecosystems - even if it isn't as "efficient" at filling the pockets of the greedy few.
Comment Re:Hopefully they aren't too effective.. (Score 1) 347
I believe that diversity is a good thing. I also believe We have a responsibility to ourselves and to future generations to
Plus I really enjoy watching animals, especially large animals. :) And ya know, it'd be nice if my daughter and hopefully future grandchildren, great grandchildren and so on, could live in a world that still had those.
