Wasted depends on if it is or isn't reality.

If global warming is an issue, we've not really 'wasted' anything.

If it is an issue, you could point to many things, carbon credits be the first thing that comes to mind since it seems to be coming up often lately. Though I would argue that curbing CO2 output is good for our lungs regardless of the global warming situation.

All the time spent investigating it, all the scientists spending time working on it, politics related to it, this discussion is an example of possible waste due to global warming ... IF its more than just a natural cycle.

Actually, you do. Thats what makes it science.

In science, to do the methodology properly, you are NEVER EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES supposed to 'believe' you 'know' ANYTHING. Ever.

You seem to think that certain things are supposed to be believed regardless of conflicting evidence and only with substantial proof against what you WANT to believe, then its questionable. Thats exactly the opposite of proper science.

Science is completely centered around questioning the theories and accepted ideas, constantly.

Its trivial to track for a webmaster, Google Adwords + Analytics do 99.9% of the work out of the box with a couple mouse clicks, and it most certainly does work well for the marketing using the ads if done properly.

You can waste money on ads, but figuring out if they are working, how well they are working and how much money you are making as a result of ad clickthroughs has been a solved problem for several years.

I should also point out how he blindly clicked on a link in an email that should have set off red flags the instant he saw it.

Everytime he posts the only thought that comes to mind is ...

OMG I DO NOT FUCKING CARE WHAT THIS IGNORANT MORON THINKS ABOUT THINGS HE UTTERLY FAILS TO UNDERSTAND IN EVERY WAY.

This no different than every other instance. He's a moron who thinks people care what he has to say and thinks he actually knows what he's talking about. He's the worst kind of ignorant, too stupid to realize how ignorant he is.

Actually, its fairly trivial. I'm working on doing it in my back yard workshop actually. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

Fusion is very easy to attain if you know the physics involved.

Net energy surplus is something else entirely. Its the harvesting part that is killing it right at this moment, but much like building a workshop fusor is trivial now that its well understood, in 100 years, building a fusion reactor might not be a whole lot different. Fusion has some really beautiful requirements that make it naturally safe from a 'OMG THE PLANT IS GONNA BLOW CAPTAIN' perspective.

No, not really.

You can't climb a ladder and take pics of some girl sunbathing in her backyard legally if she is behind a privacy fence that you had to go out of your way to see over, that includes using a drone to do so.

If you have to take explicit action to circumvent something providing privacy, you don't magically get a free pass for doing so and more than you get a free pass for robbing a hows because the door was unlocked.

The law will use the word 'consent', not 'knowledge' Don't assume shitty slashdot summaries are ever going to be written into law.

A) it does, since it applies to taking photos. You can't really take a photo without a camera, can you?
B) Depends on how you try to protect it. In most locations, an attempt to be private means its private. I.E. a privacy fence means you have an expectation of privacy. Having sex in a public park doesn't count, but in your hot tub with a fence around that a normal person can't see over and you should be able to assume your actions are private.

The only Major change since Office 98 was Office 2007, and most users picked it up naturally. Only cranky old 'get off my lawn' users really had a problem with it. Power users using keyboard shortcuts didn't notice.

Windows Vista was a bit of a shocker, and as such, we skipped for that any various other reasons.

And I'm guessing you're implying that Linux apps aren't restructured just for the sake of restructuring them ... at which point I'd have to say you've either never used Linux or are intentionally lying out your ass.

There is no version of Google Apps that is hosted on customer premise. Your company does not control the servers.

They update whatever they want, its not on your servers. Your admins can select various options regarding what you see and how it feels and when you get new versions of the software, but its all in a Google data center somewhere.

Google can read all your documents and email in the blink of an eye if its on Google Apps.

Just because your domain is attached to it, doesn't mean you're hosting it. Anyone can do this, even in the free version of Google Apps for Domains. $company.com is DNS CNAME to ghs.google.com. Go ahead, look for yourself.

Reality would disagree with those statements on both accounts.

Its $50/year, same as everyone else who pays for Google Apps for Enterprises, unless you've negotiated a lower rate.

When exactly did it appear 'fair'?

Something is wrong with you.

I'm guessing you spend more time dicking around with your desktop than actually working, and I'd say that would be why Unity is such a big deal for you.

If you spend more than 2 days total over the course of an employees time at a company to convert them from MS Windows and Office to Linux you've lost money, even on the lowest paid employee you have.

Contrary to what you think, the cost of Windows and Office licenses are nothing as far as cost of doing business.

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Right, because he's more than a nobody attention whore who does anything and everything he can to stay in the spotlight, manipulating facts to suit his own personal agenda ...

This is his way to get attention, nothing more.