Remains of the Day: Death defying

12.07.2012

(Greenpeace)

Well, okay, maybe not . Turns out Greenpeace wants to take Apple to task for its claims about renewable energy being used to power the company's data centers, including the one in North Carolina. Greenpeace says Cupertino hasn't been forthcoming about how it plans to achieve that goal. I think they should just have all the data center workers run on treadmills all day. Problem solved!

(The Atlantic)

An editorial in makes the case that there are just too many gosh-darned patents. But who the heck is this guy to tell us? What does he kn--"Richard Posner is an author and federal appeals court judge. He has written more than 2500 published judicial opinions and continues to teach at the University of Chicago Law School."

Hmm. Maybe we should listen to the smart man.