Oh noez, insults on the internet? Whatever shall I do?

Oh that's right, ignore them.

Carry on, then...

I assume the people who deny this fall into three groups:

1) The naive/stupid/hopelessly optimistic
2) Those too afraid to imagine a world where this is a possibility
3) Those who'd rather not awaken groups 1 and 2

Again, in this particular case I have no information to add. Only vague questions. But there probably should be questions due, if not for the general loss of human life, to the billions at stake.

Is this real enough for you?

http://www.who.int/trade/gloss...

lol ...or, that makes a fine and handy cover story, doesn't it? :D

Did the disgrace shut him up?

Not rhetorical, I genuinely don't know.

But it stands to reason, in a truth stranger than fiction way, that first you'd discredit, then you'd eliminate. Sort of like how you don't mix bleach and ammonia, but you clean, rinse, clean, rinse until you get it all gone.

0) Labs around the world are researching patentable stem-cell cures at their own expense.
1) Group finds (comparatively) trivial way to produce them and releases said on the internet, encouraging others to try.
2) [Insert unknown]
3) Research is discredited, careers ruined, and dude is dead.

Is '2' something like "research is totally false and harms science itself by its very existence so the villains must be crushed" or more like "research is close enough to scare the shit out of some heavily-invested peers"?

Whichever one it winds up being, the response to 'crappy scientific paper' is NOT typically burning at the stake, so some unknown must be at work here.

I was thinking competitors in the global medical service industry myself.

Because nobody could have possibly wanted this guy dead. Right? Guys?

I wonder if there's a map of the devastation to structures in Gaza? The news makes it look pretty extensive, but is it really? I wonder...

I do find it interesting how the onus is on the native to adapt to the foreigner ONLY in your outsourcing situation.

Or would you likewise expect Chinese natives buying services from an American company to adapt?

So, Microsoft is moving off-shore, then?

Because if for some reason they decide to remain in the jurisdiction, it might reveal a flaw in the analogy. Namely, a person has less at stake in expatriating to Amsterdam than a massive corporation.

Then let the Russian people either praise Putin twice a day or fix their law.

They are adults, too, you know. Perfectly capable of running their own affairs.

The most likely thing to lead us to 'global war' is comparing Putin to Hitler without any sane reason to do so.

I can see every app requiring a password and approval for all purchases.

That alone will hurt the model.

This seems to have implications in that whole free-to-play space. I wonder if anyone is worried about that angle?