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Comment Re:A classic example... (Score 1) 419

That's what I'm thinking - drugs or some sort of psychological issue that recently popped up (I'm assuming that a consistent pattern of similar behavior over any reasonably long period of time will result in that person being removed from the marketing profession).

Kotaku has pretty good evidence that someone with the same email address as this guy openly talked about using steroids on a web forum, so that may be the explanation.

Comment Re:who cares (Score 1) 520

I didn't say the market as a whole was behaving irrationally regarding Steve Jobs' health, only that the people who insist they need to know his private health details to properly value the company are. But, you know, you called me dumb, so I guess that makes you right.

Comment Re:who cares (Score 3, Insightful) 520

Even a healthy Steve Jobs could get hit by a bus tomorrow. If you find yourself needing to know the health details of a particular individual before buying a stock, you shouldn't be looking at that stock in the first place. It is not healthy for a company as large as Apple to be dependent on a single man. Mind you, I bet Apple has plenty of excellent designers, and will actually survive the eventual demise of Steve Jobs, whether it's tonight or 1000 years from now, but the reality distortion field around Jobs seems to make otherwise reasonable people forget very basic rules of investing and value.

Comment Re:Medium is appropriate... (Score 1) 325

Performance: is in regards to phone performance and responsiveness (raw speed), not user-related effectiveness.

I call troll, but I can't help feeding you. If a bug made the phone into a brick that did nothing but execute nop instructions at 1 Ghz when idle, and just flashed random lights when a button was pressed, your definition would not classify this a performance bug.

Comment Re:Fireworks! (Score 4, Insightful) 227

First rule of spaceflight #9: Most of your early attempts end in tears. I hope to see India's space program try, try again until they get it right, and not let the inevitable early failures dampen their spirit. With the United States government bound and determined to cede our #1 status as a spacefaring nation (unless Elon Musk already has designs for a rocket capable of taking us beyond the moon), I can only hope another democracy like India, and not a fascist regime like China, takes the lead.
Science

Submission + - Science turns authoritarian (american.com)

Attila Dimedici writes: This story suggests that one of the reasons that people have less trust in sientific pronouncements is because science reporting has stopped being a nuetral "Science has discovered..." and become more "Science says we must...". They tracked the usage of the following phrases using Lexis Nexis over the last 30 years:: "science says we must," "science says we should," "science tells us we must," "science tells us we should," "science commands," "science requires," "science dictates," and "science compels."
What they discovered was that the phrase "science tells us we must..." has increased in usage dramatically over that time frame. That increase was dramatically greater than that of the other phrases they searched for. The authors suggest that this increased usage of science to tell us what behaviors we should pursue (as opposed to earlier science reporting merely saying that "such and such behavior has this negative consequence" and allowing people to decide what action to take themselves based on that information) has damaged the credibility of science in the minds of the general public. Read the article yourselves and decide what you think of their hypothesis. http://www.american.com/archive/2010/july/science-turns-authoritarian

Comment Re:Wha? (Score 3, Interesting) 409

By the time I read this news item, the site Reid posted, www.therealsharronangle.com, was redirected to a site that is clearly mocking Angle. However, if I understand correctly, Reid's campaign originally reposted her entire website verbatim, with no indication that it was not being hosted by Angle's campaign.

If so, Angle's complaint may not be without merit. She seems to deserve a lot of mockery, but you don't get to pretend you're someone else in a political campaign, especially when you have a functioning mailing list sign-up form on your 'fake' site.

Earth

BP Says "Top Kill" Operation Has Failed 768

MrShaggy sends a quote from a CBC story: "BP has scuttled the 'top kill' procedure of shooting heavy drilling mud into its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico after it failed to plug the leak. BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles told reporters on Saturday that over the last three days, the company has pumped more than 30,000 barrels of mud and other materials down the well but has not been able to stop the flow. 'These repeated pumping[s], we don't believe will likely achieve success, so at this point it's time to move to the next option,' Suttles said."

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