If they aren't going to tell me how these wells cause cancer and kill children then I don't want to hear about them.

How do you think the dolphins paid all the whales to pose as the island?

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I think that you are missing the point. For many people if you say "mp3 player" they hear "iPod". The same may have been true for "smartphone" and "iPhone" at one point, but the numbers suggest that it isn't true anymore.

They had that. It was poorly labeled as the Media stream.

It sounds like you didn't heed the warning about your remaining eye...

Right, because when environmental standards become inconvenient for big companies to adhere to then the standards need to change. We certainly can't expect companies to lessen their impact on the environment in order to meet these standards, can we?
What exactly is the point of having these standards if we just change them every time some big company decides it will be profitable?

Try 'wget slashdot.org && grep Apple *' in your home directory.

Looks like we are losing that last one...

So, what is the alternative then? I'm sure that you are aware that Java has its own vague patent cloud these days. The market has shown that there is a need for a JIT compiled platform for architecture neutral binaries. If Java and .net are out then what can we use?

Wait, Apple has other departments?

The summary specifically mentions web development. I'm a big fan of using visual studio for developing compiled software, but I'll take vim over visual studio any day of the week for web development.

I'm afraid your analogy does not meet the Current Analogy Requirements for analogies on slashdot. A more correct response would have been:

We take standards seriously here at slashdot and would like you to please be more careful in the future.

This is exactly correct. Oil and coal are finite. So long as they remain the cheapest source of energy someone, somewhere will continue to burn them. If you aren't operating under the assumption that the vast majority of the world's oil and coal reserves will be burned regardless of politics then you are being naive.
If burning oil and coal changes the climate, then the climate will change. All resources spent on slowing that change are ultimately wasted. The only real options left are devising a power source that is cheaper and as convienant as oil or investing in adapting to the inevitable. The odds of a revolutionary new energy source coming to market before we run out of carbon-based resources approach nil so the only thing left to do is get ready.

You can't martial arts a big company, and nobody cares about individuals unless they are children.