salvo

>Why should Bob at home with his five year old Dell care that this MS' salvo in the Tablet Wars?

> Mattel, the worlds largest toymaker, fired the first salvo, suing MGA in 2004 .

I suspect we haven't heard the last salvo fired in this whole brouhaha, but if these claims are on the mark, I'd say reputation hit deserved.

The stats could be really interesting, but the whole opening salvo against sports fandom turned me off to much to continue reading.

Rather just an extreme first salvo to make the next set of oppressive measures seem like a reasonable compromise in comparison.

In the event of real demonstrators, it would just be the opening salvo of damage control, but it's too hard to predicate how a crowd of angry people would react past the first move.

I guess anyone with half a brain would hire a really good legal team that would probably arrive at the optimum initial salvo in a lawsuit defense:* No direct access.

That's one way of looking at it. Another is that there's about to be a big fight over royalties to the labels with Apple entering with a huge salvo today[1], and Pandora likely needs a new face in order to join the battle differently than they had in the past.

Its long half life makes it less dangerous rather than more dangerous, as is often implied; each radioactive atom can shoot off only one salvo of radiation, so, for example, if half of them do so within 25 years, as for a material with a 25-year half life, there is a thousand times more radiation per minute than emissions spread over 25,000 years, as in the case of plutonium.