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Comment Re:What's the carbon cost of this "initiative"? (Score 1) 60

Cost vs. benefit... You and GP deem it as pointless, but educating people about climate change and getting governments to align is worth the net cost. The only way you can get world governments on track with the program is to fly delegates out to these places. Simply existing contributes to GW and environmental impact, but that's a cost I think we should all be willing to accept. Pointing out hypocrisy where none exists makes you and the OP look foolish. That's why you you got downvoted.

Comment Re:Why shop at Walmart (Score 2) 467

I bought a pair of New Balance brand trail sneakers and found the quality I got at Amazon to be disappointing, so I returned and went to a brick and mortar store instead. This being New Balance every shoe has its own number so I knew I didn't want that same version of the shoe. I went back to Amazon with the numbers that I thought were well made shoes and not one was available on Amazon.

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Verizon Employees End Strike 591

An anonymous reader writes "Verizon today announced that the approximately 45,000 wireline employees represented by the CWA and IBEW that have been on strike will return to work beginning Monday night, August 22nd, without new collective bargaining agreements. Since the strike began two weeks ago, Verizon has been battling criminal acts of sabotage against its network facilities and union picketers intimidating non-union replacement workers and illegally blocking garage and work center entrances. One union picketer even went as far as to instruct his young daughter to stand in front of a Verizon truck to illegally block it from coming back to a Verizon work center in New Jersey. Verizon said the wireline employees now on strike would be working under the terms of the contracts that expired on Saturday, August 6th. The contracts will be extended with no specific deadline for achieving new collective bargaining agreements so that the parties can take the time required to resolve the critical issues, the company said."
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Google To Discontinue Google Labs 165

kai_hiwatari writes "Today, Google has announced that they are closing down Google Labs. They say this will help them prioritize their product effort. Google says closing Google Labs means ending many of their experiments. However, not every experiment will be gone. Google will be incorporating the Labs experiments they have decided to continue in other product areas. Android apps such as Google Goggles, Google Listen etc. will continue to be available in the Android Market."

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