News flash: If you don't want it, you don't have to use it.

Agreed. I'm still firmly of the belief that this was never really a problem and it was just a bunch of stupid people not knowing how to operate a vehicle. Then again, looking at any highway in America and you can spot thousands of people who shouldn't allowed anywhere near a car, let alone be allowed to operate one.

I can picture in my mind the idiots and asshats who saw that Toyota had a rumored problem and then decided to push the blame of their accident (likely caused by their own stupidity) onto Toyota instead. I have several family members who have been buying from Toyota for years and never had anything like this happen.

I'll believe there is an acceleration problem when I see it myself.

And when the bastard tries to take you to court for assault, when you are able to say the floor kicked his ass instead of you, you'll have the upper hand :)

Then you are nothing more than part of the problem, Mr. Cash Cow.

I got into the SC2 beta, and that helped me decide NOT to pre-order SCII. When you get right down to it, its pretty well the same game that SC was, just with a few bells and whistles. I expected WAY more out of Blizzard considering this game has been a long time coming (What, 10 years now?).

The whole "Hey lets release it as 3 games and milk our customers for even more!" is another good reason to vote with your wallet.

No, they don't. Where did this retarded idea come from?

When i bought my Xbox 360 when it first came out, I walked out of the store having it cost me a whopping $800 all in. You throw in the console ($350), plus 3 extra controllers ($50-60 EACH!), plus a warranty (have fun with your RROD otherwise!), plus the additional accessories you need (Want wifi? Accessory. Want actual disk space? Accessory.) you can easily soar past the cost of a decent gaming rig.

Most people have a PC already (~$400 on average). Add on the ~$800+ You would spend on that console and you could have one sexy gaming rig.

Seeing a thread with this many good puns in it is pretty rare.

True enough I'll give you that one. It's pretty rare that news is posted here. I hit a link on the front page this morning that linked to an article from June 2009, so if that's any indication...

So wait, you mean its impossible to post an article and then have people post continuing updates in the thread? The mind reels.

Chances are, he's an American. Enough answer for you?

I never said they needed all that custom built hardware at every well. That would be insanity. They should have had one or two sets of this hardware on standby in the event that something like this happens.

Yea OK, considering BP is still pulling in MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PROFIT. They can certainly afford to put a few million bucks towards NOT destroying the ecosystem, without raising oil prices by a penny.

If the plan was to "immediately" seal the well, then they should have immediately sealed the well, instead of letting it pour millions of gallons of oil into the ocean. God knows they had the money to do it, they just chose not to.

Corporate greed at its finest.

Bottom line: If proper safety procedures were in place and followed, none of this would have ever happened. BP isn't exactly in the poor house, they could easily afford to enforce these procedures, they chose not to. Of course its not BP whose really going to suffer from this, its the ecosystem they destroyed.

I don't think its too much to ask that they had all of this hardware ready to go in the event of a spill is it?

In my view, this entire situation is a huge failure on BP's part. The well being open for more than 1-2 days after the rig went down is completely unacceptable, and anyone settling for less is, well, insane as far as I'm concerned.

Look, if you are going to do drilling 5000 feet down in the ocean, you damn well better be ready with all the equipment you need to seal that well should it decide to pump oil into the ocean.

Actually its more like "we wanted to try and save as much oil as possible so we tried a bunch of bullshit solutions that didn't work and destroyed an ecosystem"

This entire situation boils down to one simple thing: Greed.

What could possibly go wrong?