Microsoft teams up with Animals Asia to fight bear bile farming in China

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Reads headline - ā€œIs this some kind of superstitious ā€˜medicine’ thing?ā€

As it turns out, only sort of. It looks like there is some legitimate medicine behind it, but there’s absolutely no reason not just to synthesize the compound - leaving the bears out of the picture.

It also doesn’t sound like a very effective chemical to begin with. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursodeoxycholic_acid

So are they just deliberately throttling site loading on non-IE browsers, or are we entering a ā€œrennaissanceā€ of over-animated, long-loading flash-like HTML5 websites…

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I dunno, but clicking on Chapter 1 in Safari crashed my Mac pretty hard. Music kept playing but everything else was frozen but the mouse cursor, couldn’t force-quit or nothin.

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It’s far less effective than my preferred alternative: TCM practitioner bile. Unlike these poor bears I put TCM practitioners out of their misery quickly.

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It already happened. We need HTML5 blockers. :frowning:

A week or so ago I half-jokingly suggested M$ must have hired someone who’s good at PR, given they’re boycotting that dodgy security conference…

If I see another good thing about M$ soon, I’ll have to conclude that’s not a joke.

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