Are you implying that this was a publicity stunt planned by Sony?

The idea that Sony would be willing to accept the liability massive costs with disclosing private information of its employees really beggars belief; what money they could have made from the film would really not be worth the potential risk here.

What people seem to ignore here is that classical liberalism and fascism are significantly dissimilar; conservatism in the US is more along the classical liberal vein while fascism is more along the monarchist/statist vein.

Indeed weather is a large problem. I think the GP here is being a bit disingenuous when considering the circumstances people need to consider when bicycling in tougher conditions.

It's basically a case of the US courts showing to the world that countries may not want to work within the US system to deal with bonds as it fair serious hindrance to sovereignty. The council on foreign relations stated it was probably one of the worst decisions in recent court history and could potentially move a great deal of finance from New York to other hubs.

Which is why the post was actually a troll that flew under most peoples' radar. Well done! ;)

Our limited education tax dollars have no business funding something so useless to modern society as darkroom photography.

Hear, hear!

Same with all this poetry and painting nonsense. Why should our kids learn about that kind of worthless trash?

Seems you didn't see the one below where the last decade drop in violent crime was clearly correlated with the increase in private gun ownership.

Wasn't this already shown to be an error? Most respondents confused astronomy with astrology (anecdotally, I've been asking others in their 20s and many don't even really know what astrology even is)

there is nothing evil about getting free clicks out of people to dumb or lazy to read the entire link before they click it.

Just like there is nothing evil about throwing mountains of legalese inside a EULA before you are able to use a piece of software?

Pump storage is a well-known answer for large-scale power storage but generally unpopular because of perceived negative environmental consequences (damming up regions to create reservoirs, impacting ecosystems).

It saddens me how Slashdot used to have a great more discussion on articles of this type, detailing studies, theories, hypothesizing experiments, and thought-provoking anecdotes.

Now it seems it's just a mire of bitcoin spam and pro/anti government flames.

Actually, fun fact: the Haredi, the sect described in the article, are a growing proportion of the population of Israel simply because of their large fertility rate -- and an increasingly important demographic politically (hence a reason why there has been an uptick of conservatism in Israel). So it can be argued that they are indeed winning evolutionarily.

I assume it's so because it is a waste of economic value.

Instead of wasting precious cycles mining bitcoins one could have used them for protein folding or increasing social welfare rather than harvesting some arbitrary commodity for self-enrichment.

FB is the new cigarettes, I'd say. It used to be cool, but now everyone who started when it was cool wishes they hadn't.

So, like cigarettes, people are starting to pick it up again for the image that it offers? ;)

The "Green Mountain" in their company names refers to the piles of green dollars that they are making with this crap.

Or it could be a reference to the Green Mountains of Vermont near to where they were founded.

So much hate for really rather an insignificant and mundane product...