so... which country was testing some grid controlling malware....

Secret meeting of other shows:

So far your star count is barely ahead of the score. 

Ah, well. This article’s headline is certainly some type of prescient.

I crop dusted an entire plane on the way back from the bathroom.

If it was a fledgling startup, I think you’d have a point. But Google is probably playing this the exact same way that Microsoft did Xbox — a loss-leader for the first five or six years, and then turn a profit. And by 2024, 5G will probably have finished deployment, and high-speed internet available to millions more.

Last year, competing automakers paid Tesla $420 million to buy absolution because they were unable to meet the emissions mandate,”.

I feel like we need to talk more about how the NYPD has a bee unit.  (I’m not criticizing them for it; I just find it very interesting.)

“In honor of all the brave men and women that don’t charge for minor dents and lingering smells.”

So you think they’d hack Wikipedia to insert product placement but they don’t have anyone scanning major news articles about the company? You don’t know much about this topic.

Yeah they are, especially at a time like this. A company that big has someone in their marketing department who is responsible for reading google alerts. Now that this is blowing up in their faces, they probably have several people on google alert duty, trying to assess the damage

North Face has nearly 2700 employees, do you think that absolutely no one from that organization checks out Gizmodo, ever?

Most big companies like these have people in their marketing departments that are hired to browse social media and the internet to gather what people are saying about them. It’s safe to assume that the Mom and Pop shop on the corner or your street isn’t, but most companies like these that have an international scope…

Ok, thanks for letting me know. I appreciate you checking the IDs of everyone who has visited this article.

Honestly they might. Most large companies have marketing research people who’s duties now include collecting data from the internet. 

Oh there’s no way North Face could afford that. They probably barely make a profit off those jackets they sell for $500 apiece.

Yup. This or STFU. 

Agreed. Maybe donate the advertising budget you normally give to these types of ads instead of giving it as bonuses to some marketing execs.

There’s no way I want someone to find my corpse in something like that.

I don’t have to pee, I just get drunk on the power of inconveniencing so many people at once.