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Silicon Valley cops arrested two Greenpeace activists who sealed themselves into a huge (i)Pod outside Apple HQ today, but chose not to cuff another bunch of activists who were dressed as giant iPhones. Greenpeace has been chastising the Mac and iOS firm for the last few years for not exactly being the freewheeling, earth- …

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  1. John A Blackley

    'Brandy Palm, blogging from inside the eight-feet tall pod, declared: "This is an incredibly important issue for me personally.'

    Get a life, Brandy.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      amusing

      Noticed on the video Greenpeace activist using an iPhone to make a call.

      Is that the definition of irony?

      1. Paul Westerman
        Facepalm

        No

        RTFA

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        No, not "irony".

        The fact that they are Apple-using consumers is EXACTLY WHY they want Apple to change its manufacturing processes. Like the other guy said, RTFA.

    2. AndrueC Silver badge
      Joke

      Maybe she should offer to change her name to Brandy Apple :)

  2. Quatroux
    Stop

    Vote with your feet... put your money where your mouth is.. and such

    Blogging about how bad Apple is on your iPad is like complaining about mistreated cattle while eating a burger at McDonald's.

    1. Jeebus

      Re: Vote with your feet... put your money where your mouth is.. and such

      I hope you're not implying McDonalds uses beef in any of their products.

      1. disgruntled yank

        Re: Vote with your feet... put your money where your mouth is.. and such

        You might want to ask some U.S. Hindus about that one--apparently a bit of tallow in the fat makes (or made) the fries all the tastier.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Vote with your feet... put your money where your mouth is.. and such

      >complaining about mistreated cattle while eating a burger at McDonald's.

      Why do they keep winning RSPCA Good Business Awards for services to animal welfare in their supply chain then?

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        >"Why do they keep winning RSPCA Good Business Awards"?

        Probably for outsourcing their animal cruelty to Argentina.

  3. Jeebus
    FAIL

    Hipsters Vs. Hipsters

    Old generation hipster worthless movement meet the new generation hipster worthless movement.

    Each is as irrelevant as the next.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Mushroom

    Is the pod air tight?

    Is the pod air tight?

    If not, can we make it air tight?

    I'm just trying to help the Greenpeace-ers here - I'm sure they don't want to pollute the atmosphere with their horrible greenhouse gas emissions of CO2 and CH4.

    Nuke, because were they serious about the environment they'd be for it.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Wrong author

    For better entertainment value (watching the resulting flame wars -- what did you think I meant?), you really need to have Andrew and Lewis writing these Greenpeace articles...

    1. ElReg!comments!Pierre

      Re: Wrong author

      > you really need to have Andrew and Lewis writing these Greenpeace articles...

      Andrew I would say, in that case: it also involves Apple...

  6. Captain DaFt

    Greenpeace makes a fuss...

    And nobody really pays any attention to the attention whores.

    (outside of arresting a couple for blocking foot traffic with a Fischer Price Teletubby playhouse.)

    Seriously, going after Apple for using nasty-nasty coal genenerated power? I suppose all the protesters have monitors on all their outlets to block it from their homes, since after all, some of the electricity coming off the grid and into their homes is coal generated.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Greenpeace makes a fuss...

      Greenpeace accused Apple of using dirty coal power for its new datacenter, Apple put out a press release stating the entire 20 megawatts it used would be generated via solar panels and biogas (from a nearby landfill, turned into electricity with Bloom fuel cells) Greenpeace then accused Apple of lying about the amount of power its datacenter used, saying a datacenter that size would consume 100 megawats.

      I must have missed the part where Greenpeace are such experts they are able to determine the amount of power a building will use, when they only fact they know about it is its size and that it is a datacenter.

      I have a feeling that even if Apple produced the utility bills showing $0 in utility electric usage, Greenpeace would still claim they are lying. If Greenpeace really cared about dirty coal power they'd go picket in China where the coal power is much much dirtier than it is anywhere in the US.

      Instead they camp on Apple's front lawn because:

      1) Anything involving Apple will get them in the news

      2) They feel guilty using iPhones knowing they aren't as green as the alternative of two cans connected by twine (but they are fine with Foxconn employees committing suicide, fewer people on the planet consuming resources is a good thing in their eyes)

      3) Camping on Apple's lawn is a much cushier protest than camping out in Antarctica to protest something involving penguins

      4) Sunnyvale's jail is a lot nicer than the Chinese prison they'd get tossed in if they tried protesting like this in front of a business using dirty Chinese coal power

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Greenpeace makes a fuss...

      Any dedicated Greenpeace member is self sufficient in energy using the renewable sources of hot air and methane only a true lentil eating earth lover can produce.

      And you thought they ate all those lentils because they were scared to look their food in the eye.

  7. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Damaging actions...

    If only Greenpeace would consider their actions more carefully...

    Because IMO they do have a point; it is important to try and limit the use of energy so that we'll last longer. But actions like these are not the way to do it. Worse: they'll most likely have the exact opposite effect as can be seen above.

    Trying to force people or companies into doing something has never worked, and will only come to bite you in the behinds. Laser beaming messages; and in the end you'll only hinder people who only want to do their job and actually /earn/ a living for themselves. Job nicely done indeed.

    Making people and governments aware will have much more effect. And trying not to overdo stuff and pulling into ridiculous scenario's helps too.

    Example: In Holland there was a speedway all build and ready; approx. 15km of asphalt sitting ready to be used and help take traffic loads away from another busy (and because of that dangerous) highway.

    Yet it couldn't be used. Because environmentalist groups (subsidized by the government no less) had filed complaints and managed to postpone the official opening of the road for at least 1.5 years. And to what end? Everything was done, all was ready and approved. No, IIRC they demanded another investigation.

    Finally everything was put in place and the road has been used ever since. But actions like that do not help people understand nor appreciate, quite the opposite.

    IMO this is no different. Quite a shame too because as mentioned above; I do agree that we need to work on conserving energy. Every little bit can help, but not with (IMO) idiotic actions like these.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Attention whores

    Who think this will help them get laid.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Interesting to see how good Greenpeace is at shooting themselves in the foot for publicity. I guess they want more free money from suckers.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Greenpeace will see this as a win. They'll be patting each other on the back saying "Look at all the publicity we've got, now everyone will hear our message!".

      It's true, this article brought their complaint to my attention, but I'm more annoyed at their bullshit stunts than the issue they're complaining about. Especially since they're using iDevices.

      It's the same old retards who have nothing to do in life, don't fit in with normal society and want to get some attention.

  10. Daren Nestor

    Did anyone else think that Brandy Palm sounds like a stripper name?

    I mean, seriously! Do parents not say the names they want for their kids out loud?

    1. John A Blackley

      Re: Did anyone else think that Brandy Palm sounds like a stripper name?

      Brandy is only one of Mrs. Palm's five lovely daughters.

  11. FreeBrad
    Thumb Up

    Apple are going up in my estimations

    I like many others believed that Apple was as socialist loony lefty company that had ideals so far removed from my own that I found it difficult to support them.

    The fact that Apple don't pander to the ridiculous loony left and the anthropogenic climate change goons just improves their standing as far as I am concerned.

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