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Comment Re:Private profits, public costs (Score 0) 61

Everyone ultimately profited from the oil. Shell paid massive amounts for the exploration rights. Every liter of fuel that has been sold has brought many times that in taxes and levies, all in the name of environment and climate. Then use those taxes for what they were intended for, clean up the environment. Shell does not own the fields, it is just extracting the oil and gas.

Comment Re:Java and Python (Score 1) 109

Java was so hip in the 90s, it meant cool hipster programmers with their Macbooks, sitting in a Starbucks all day, sipping their Frappuccino lattes, eating avocado toast, listening to acid jazz, and programming enterprise Java beans for the back-end and applets to dominate the web.

That was the marketing. In reality it was a slow, bloated platform that was insanely complex to properly deploy or develop for, and had all kinds of weird stability and memory usage issues. Those cool hipster programmers turned all out to be HB1s from India and after Oracle took over Java wasn't so free and open after all.

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