Whatever it is, we have been dealing with this and a host of other issues from them for years.

Absolutely love the boards, and some of the staff is really cool, but the company really is abusive when it comes to this sort of stuff.

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

As far as the phone stuff is concerned, essentially yes.

The first digit being a "1" for long distance is only true in the US. When you come up with the phone system, of course you give your country the first country code.

This is idiocy. The article is talking about Q3 sales numbers, not "in use" not "deployed" not anything other than Q3.

Why are people extrapolating that to installed/user base numbers?

When I read comments from people talking about ditching Netflix in exchange for Blockbuster, because they have better prices, I always assume that you are all under the age of 25 or so, maybe younger. Anyone who was ever a Blockbuster customer prior to them having any kind of competition, knows what kind of epic overcharging assholes they were.

From the article.

"Apple does this by regularly conducting audits and working with suppliers to correct violations, according to the company's 2011 supplier responsibility progress report. In 2010, the company audited 127 facilities and found that 89% of them had waste water management practices in compliance with Apple's requirements.

The same audits, however, found that only 69% of the facilities were in compliance with air emission management standards. Only 70% of the facilities were in compliance for environmental permits and reporting. When violations are found, Apple requires the supplier to complete plans to resolve the problem 90 days after the audit."

Do we have 100% compliance in the states? How does this compare to US rates?

Automatic speeding tickets issued if you get pulled over and your GPS coordinates indicate you traveled from point A to point B in less time than the speed limit would allow.

Given they can strip all the data off of your phone in seconds now, would be an easy to to add some cash after you got pulled over for a broken tail light etc.

Dunno, I currently don't actually own any gold. Might be kind of cool to have a few weight units of gold around the house.

You'd really pass up the opportunity to own some actual gold bullion? I don't think I could. :)

Were they ever going to be your customers? If not, who gives a crap?