Except that the same type of big pocket media companies have tried this exact tactic on more than one occasion and each time, the companies that dug their heels in and refused to change with the times were crushed no matter how much money or influence they threw at the problem. All they can do is slow their demise in exchange for guaranteeing their demise.

Time to join the dinosaurs and buggy whip makers.

Only on Facebook and Fox.

I must admit that I'm torn on this one. Who to cheer for? A corrupt politician or Oracle? Can we have a no-holds-barred cage match and shoot the winner in the head?

Yea, they could but, what company wants to spend 2-5 times the staff, time and money just to get the same result as your competitors. By doing it this way, their costs should be on par for development of Chrome and Safari. Mozilla is a strange duck in this arena as far as development so comparing them isn't quite right.

I agree; as long as they continue to play nice with the rest of the vendors, I'm all for them being in the race.

We're here to mourn one of our fallen heroes. Fuck you for dragging this bullshit in! I will now count you in the same category as the Westboro Baptist Church.

Are you going for a funny mod? I'm all for their current track but, that doesn't mean for a second that I trust them, just that I'll give them a chance.

When it's the next generation of them, yes. That doesn't mean they will, though. We'll have to wait and see and be wary.

All of us who know Microsoft's history in this area need to watch them carefully and make sure that none of the people we advise are caught unaware. That being said, as long as they don't pull their old behavior, I'm all for their current track.

I'm getting the impression that is why they are shipping the Spartan web browser. I've been getting the feeling that they've been having troubles coding IE to support many HTML5 features without breaking a their legacy crap. Add to that the browser is heavily integrated into the win32s code and you're in for a coding nightmare. They were never going to be able to develop for changes as fast as competing browsers with that model and they knew it. As such, this move makes the most sense given their options. As long as they stay dedicated to working with web standards, I'm all for it. I'm just going to be very wary given their history with the web.

Thanks for that... X-(

Why should we limit it to East Texas?

Actually, from what I have read, the environmental impact study is complete and the project was approved on that basis. The holdup now is that because this project has foreign governments involved there is a review that has to be done by the U.S. State Department to see if the project is in the national interests of the United States. This is the process the oil companies and Republicans are trying to bypass. The environmental issue is a smokescreen at this point to avoid answering why they want to bypass the national interest question.

I agree. I just wanted to point out the difference of trying to accurately portray the actual life cost of LSD. It gets really hard to track once you count in behavior while on the drug. But, even with that factored in, its death rate is no where near the level its current drug classification implies.

Funneling billions upon billions of dollars a year into criminal gangs and militarized police forces to combat them over drugs is one of the stupidest things we have done in the last century.

And, thank you, by the way. I think that is the nicest complement I have ever received online.