He was also vegan, made it on Times' cover and was indeed considered charismatic back then.

So, can someone explain to me why whaling is such a very bad thing the whole Western world has to get in an uproar - yet destroying huge portions of the rain forest and endangering species living in it to breed cattle or grow soy is ok? It's not like our culinary preferences are not endangering other species and destroying their natural habitats.
But when it's whales, all of a sudden it matters?

Oh and he has been the victim of investigations since the 90s. First for telephone fraud, then for (you guessed it) copyright violation by running a BBS to distribute "warez" and he promptly ratted on everyone in the scene just to get a better deal for himself.

Then he went on to swindle the German "TÜV" out of money by selling them a company he had "built" which turned out to be a complete lemon.

Then he was found guilty for fraud and insider trading concerning "letsbuyit.com".

He has a long history of dirt and selling people close to him out.

Entertaining? Maybe. An egotistical, megalomaniac criminal? Definitely. Do not let the current news coverage of him blind you like that. He has been doing basically the same kind of scams for more than two decades now and it was nothing but a PR stunt to appear as the "internet savior" when people mostly have forgotten about his criminal activities.

Let's not focus on the website layout, the unnecessarily long article, her looks or what you might think you know about "sociopaths" and all managers clearly being manipulative swindlers.
She is not teaching people to "mind fuck" others, she is not some "NLP" pushing sociopath. Essentially she is offering a pragmatic approach to overcoming your own anxieties or to calm down a competitive temper. She helps to make certain situations more pleasant for the client and is not pushing tools how to "one-up" conversation partners.
So she suggests meditation and a mental exercise of focusing on a relaxing situation (the puppy, or kayaking) and she successfully sells that to some people? Well, good for her! You might think there is little information or "skill" there and you might be right, the point is it can still be damn hard to make a transformation of habits and ways you might have had for a long time and what a good coach does is help you along the way.

I really do not understand the negative responses in here. Yes her message might be pretty simple and "duh!" but at least she has some interesting connections to scientific theories and like I said above, transformations like that are not only about identifying and then "simply" fixing what's wrong.

I would much rather be coached by someone like her instead of some bullshit NLP training where you are taught how to mind-fuck your victim into scratching his left ear with his right hand, literally.

Go post your latest frags directly to facebook!

Especially in that case this isn't a very smart move at all. Once you tell a lie like that, your best bet is to stick with it until the bitter end.
"Suddenly" discovering a couple of million in hope of folks then looking the other way sounds so absolutely ridiculous of a plan, I honestly doubt that is what they were trying to do. Even if the noose is getting tighter around their necks. They simply cannot be so very delusional.

Why do gigantic oil companies like that get government money to clean up the mess these companies themselves carelessly created in the first place? It is their fault these spills happened, they should be held fully responsible for what they did.

Simple: just upgrade to the IntelliLink Centurion package!

EVE is generally the coolest on the "meta level" of the game. The interface is not great, most people who seriously play it use a lot of tools outside of EVE anyway and practically all organization and communication happens outside of EVE as well. Playing a fleet battle in EVE is mind-numbing boring even when it is just a few hundred ships and unless you are in a titan, you are more or less cannon fodder and won't have very glorious stories to tell. And 90% of the time you have no idea what is going on until later because restricting information flow is one of the key concepts of EVE. So, yes, it is WAY cooler to be reading about what was ACTUALLY going on instead of being one more or less tiny little grunt on the front line.

And in order not to be one of those tiny grunts, it takes a lot of learning the game and the universe inside out and crawling the ranks... EVE is so cool in so many ways but it is much too close to real life and real life jobs and being forced to do certain things to actually make it a fun distraction. Seriously playing EVE is more like having a second job with lots of rules, caveats and social climbing.

Also, Zuckerberg is the only user on facebook whom you CANNOT block. Try it. The site will give you some error and tell you to "try later" but it has not worked in the one or two years I have been trying.

You are referring to an article he wrote about an "old version" of his mix. Several issues have been fixed in the mean time, fiber was one of those things, lack of sulfur was the other. Those are the two I am aware of but it seems there were additional tweaks. TFA essentially links to an old entry.

Because from the point of view of a bank these are not technical challenges and the decisions are not made by people who really understand all the technical details nor do these technical details matter that much. No, really. In banking you have some "standards" and ways how things "always worked" and many of those hark back to the "good ol' days" and the reason nobody changes any of that is because the whole recertification, documentation and roll-out processes involved in doing that could easily cost more than the actual technical project for doing it. So if there is no painful reason to do it, they will happily pay a bit to keep what they have instead of doing a full-blown replacement of everything.

There are a ton of regulations you have to be compliant to and all these old, crappy machines running old software were once modern when they got certified and ever since then everybody still sticks with them because of that and I don't think there are many competitor offering more technologically "sexy" solutions anyway since there does not seem to be a market for it. Just look at how many banking systems are still running on mainframes and were written in COBOL by the retiring breed of mainframe-gurus.

He IS doing something, he brought it to wider attention by getting it on the /. frontpage; if we were serious-business and this was the news, he would be getting paid as a PR guy. Raising public awareness like that can be a good way of putting a bit of pressure on gigantic corporations.

Saying "because labor is so important to a person's identity and dignity" is not only not true it is also quite backwards thinking in the face of talking about a "second machine age". It is not a job that actually matters to people, it is their pay to sustain their lifestyle. Without the need for that, people do not need "a job" but they desire something "to do" which is quite different from "a job" you do for the pay and maybe, maybe because you are one of the lucky ones who actually enjoy what they are doing.

A "second machine age" should free people up from having to work for a living and allow everyone a stable life so you can focus on doing what you actually enjoy and what really matters to you.

This is spot-on and the main reason and explanation why so much management training just completely fails by teaching people "KISS" and "SMART" 4-bullet-point tools so solve absolutely-every-situation-ever(tm). A lot of things can make and break your role as a good manager but nothing will do it faster than blindly following 4 steps without having a single "managerial" bone in your body.

And TFA is clearly nothing but a publicity stunt.