Well, this time he's right, but not for the right reason. The real extinction event is occurring in the pacific ocean, first , and then on land..in 30 years the level of radioactivity from Fukushima, in large sections of the Pacific will match that inside the reactors.. althogh it doesn't need that much to extinguish all but algael and bacterial life. Or us. with huge concentrations of CO2 in the ocean, a strong atmospheric pressure change could cause a Carbon Dioxide release that would suffocate hundreds of millions overnight. And of course there's no fish then either.. possibly only the southern hemisphere near antarctica would be left for fishing.. . Roast penguin, anyone?

Years ago, american retailers discovered a company called Muzak, which delivered. on a super cheap suscription (I believe), insipid retail music that sidestepped any royalties b computer analysis of the tune to make sure no bars of music matched anything currently published, as well as psychologivcally tweaked to create precisely the mood the store wantedf to induce it's patrons. soon after that the stores discovered they could pay a studio to create insipid music for next to nothing, and no writer credits or copyrights ever. Generic audio soup. Welcome to shopper's paradise ... Not! Yet,unbelievably, this style of music now has it's very OWN fan base! Generically called muzak.. I don't know if the company's term ran out, or if they surrendered the name at all, but everywhere you go it's called Muxsk now, and it's immediately identifiable. The very definition of insipid !

THe news agencies decrypted NOTHING. They received them unencrypted,that was how the info was released in the first place. He wouldn't be much use as a whistleblower if he released totally encrypted files. ;-) And if you really think the typical newspaper has the tools to decrypt a CIA cypher, wow.. Wanna buy some swamp for a million bux?

OK, so no proof that he did.. but also no proof that he DIDN'T. "So let's just go right ahead and charge him with having leaked files to China and Russia, since if there's no proof he didn't, he must be guilty".. Screw the constitution" He MUST have leaked secrets to Russia, especially if there's no evidence , let's make it up". Let's be just like the people he tried to expose"... That attitude all that is wrong with the country today, where people feel that violating constitutional liberties is OK to catch someone exposing violators of constitutional rights.. Sheesh... In rebuttal you agree he likely didn't actually intentionally do so, but how is Russia or China sending spooks to access his laptop while he's away, his doing, any more than a foreign agent stealing files from a diplomat's compter when they're away. You don't call the diplomat a traitor because his files were stolen. And I'm sure he's not only capable of noticing the incongruity of a chinese following him everywhere in Russa (!) but surely Snowden has the chops to encrypt his stuff a lot better than "martini sloshed" foreign diplomats..

Actually, it's nice to read a straight up comment about Blackberry.. Not only is it true, but I also developed a keen interest in any company that would purchase QNX and then fully intergrate their OS software in their products.I have subbed to QNX's mailings for over 12 years now, and always have been iompressed with the high level of their software that is used in life critical hospital equipment. I mean, did you ever wonder who makes the OS for that heart lung machine keeping you alive? Or that MMRI machine? Somebody has to.. Want it to be Windows? Or , heaven forbid, Apple .. Like "Oops your heart lung machine 's software is incompatible with the newest OSX upgrade. Mind holding your breath for a few days?"

I would just BET the major labels have paid BIG time into this. Perhaps into the local coppers (coffee?) coffers too, by paying off the spying equipment. See, once this is done, the labels will have a face to attach to "suspected downloaders". So will the cops. "Mobile phone thieves"? Yeah, right.. last time I read a summary, it was for "European 'terrists' ". Time before that, it was to "Help interpol".. or something to that effect. In reality, the majors want a face to attach to any future IP addy..So a defense like "Yer honor sir.. this person claims it wasn't him that downloaded 365 copies of Miley 'twerking' , that it could have likely been the old biddies in the seniors facility using that IP address" might not work, if the prosecution points out "Mr Justice, we have a clear facial shot of the defendant at the 'downloading' festival, holding up a sign saying 'Steal everything' " ;-)

No, not a good idea. Artists do need to get paid. If they do that and suddenly a cover of one of their songs breaks through, they won't see a penny of it. What artists ARE doing, is abandoning ASCAP and BMI, and instead using nothing. Mechanical royalties, and live performance earnings are absolutely the only payouts almost ALL musicians will EVER see. Studio musician? Forget it. Live gigs? Fawgettaboutit ..Selling your records orr CDs at the gigs or regionally in music stores? Forget it. No publishing royalties, after all, in any of the last 3 mentioned. All you need is reserved copyright, in case,, say some "twerking babe" decides to cover your song... Bottom line is that musicians unions, PRO collecting organizations, and other media related financial collecting orgsanizations, were all either directly started by, or associated with the mob. They exist so the labels can skim off the top of musician's earnings. IF , as I mentioned, one of your songs breaks through, you at least have a chance of seeing something from it. Those organizations aren't there for the artists, anymore. Odds are the Stones, or Elton receive $10 for every C note the PROs collect , but they've got tons of old material that gets played. It's all about retro material that would have expired in an honest world, if it hadn't been renewed with ludicrous terms. So want to listen to music when you eat? Use headphones! They've scared all the business owners out of it.. they all feel they don't need the hassle, after this judgement. So they'll all take their cue from this incident, and forgo that dubious pleasure. The artists , (big names, most of them, because retro always tends to be,), don't notice, or need any addition to their bottom line, and the PROs don't care.. it's not their work their losing out on from people not playing these tunes anymore. They're just "enforcers" of payments that are due..they didn't write the music. But, hey, they can always go after people singing "HAppy B*day" at public birthday parties of 6 year olds..

Here's a good link from a great music producer. I can't recommend this site enough..

http://www.mosesavalon.com/why-you-should-wait-to-join-ascap-bmi-sesac/

What power? Now congress will still going to be snowballed with corporate pressure to pass the TPP, and no public protest, because the majoriyty of illiterate plebes think they won, so will go back to watching Kim Kardashian trim her bunions..

I can see into the lottery future just FINE, thank you. Not only will there be hundreds of winers each week, but it's always someone else!

What they SHOULD have said, instead, was that the models were CORRECT, and there was NO failure, rather than that they overestimated it. If they say the models were correct based on no intervention, and the intervention simply prevented the worst case scenario, then the future is safer. It's not too late to change their tune, but if they don't stop apologizing for bad models, the point i mentioned in the previous comment will come to pass.

It was a TERRIBLE failure. NEXT time, and there is always a next time, the response maay be insufficient because the prevailing "wisdom" will be that it is over-hyped via needlessly dire models. ANd THAT could be the one that wipes us out. The idiots tnat are calling it a "success" are either trying to put a good spin on it, at the future's expense, or they really are idiots and don't realize the terrible price that will be paid due to the previous modeling, during the next epidemic...

Well, yes.. in the event of a default the *government* (that's the taxpayer) shoulders the debt. You don't REALLY think the banks would let something like that go, do you?

I agree it should be free. I don't agree you should steal it, though. Pay what you commited to, and use your degree to make sure nobody else has to bear crippling debt in future. He was perfectlly capable of following those simple rules if he authored 5 successful books.

It wasn't an "error".. They fudged the numbers by artificially raising the pre-"pause" temps..

OK , for those that don't know, all the netflix content offered for free on Youtube is blocked to Canadians ..Is that B**ch seriously saying that VPNing something that is offered for FREE is stealing? Obviously she's not talking about the paid content because we have to pay for it whether we access it from Canada or the US, so it must be the free content she's referring to... Apparently she "like, um don't want us Canadians drinking Lucky and watching free Netflix duiring the snowed in 3/4 of the year.. eh?"