How difficult is it to recover from a hardware failure?
How will you know a hardware failure has occurred?
I do a full disk backup to an external drive with Acronis, every day. I exclude the steamapps folder and *.bt! files. Acronis does a full backup, and then differential backups. Every 2 weeks, a new full backup is done.
To restore I stick a USB stick or CD into my PC and boot to it, tell it to restore the latest backup, and then in less than 20 minutes I'm back to 6 PM the previous evening.
I will know a hardware failure has occurred when SMART starts bitching, or, more likely, my system simply doesn't boot from my 2x256 GB Crucial M4 SSDs in RAID 0.
The failure rate for hard drives has been quite well known for some time now: it is precisely 100% +/- 0.0%.
Truly, it is not a matter of IF a given hard drive will fail, it is a matter of WHEN.
That means that having a mirrored pair as a minimum -- even on a home machine -- is not an optional frill, it is a necessity.
Uh, RAID is a very bad idea, unless you need 100% uptime (like on a server with hot swap). Broken drives can introduce data errors into the stream, which are eventually duplicated onto the other drive(s) as well. When the file system breaks due to this or some software bug, the file system on all disks is broken. For home use, the much better option is to use the second drive for frequent backups, ideally automated (so you can't forget to do it). The plus side is that the backup drive can be an external drive connected via USB/FireWire/eSATA/Thunderbolt, further decreasing the chance of blowing up both disks at once.
The entire point of RAID is that when one drive fails, the other drive continues to provide valid data.
The failure of an individual drive is determined by various things, such as SMART and other signalling from the drive itself, as well as CRC checks on the data itself, and comparisons with the data on the other drive(s). When a drive fails, the array goes into degraded mode. Depending on your set up, you'll get alerts, you'll can have an automatic, online rebuild using the failed drive (it is often not a mechanical failure, so this is often fine), you can have an automatic, online rebuild using a hot spare, etc.
You are suggesting that a bad drive will contaminate the entire array. This is stupid and wrong. You are bringing up file systems. File systems are irrelevant to RAID.
I believe the point you are trying (and failing) to make is that RAID is not a backup. Of course, the post you replied to wasn't talking about backups. It was talking about what users should do as a bare minimum.
RAID 1 is generally cheaper and easier than backups. It gives you a read performance boost as well. It is robust enough to outlive the machine, the usefulness of the data to most users, and a backup drive. When RAID 1 fails, 99.99% of the time you're going to be able to buy a second drive and replace the bad one before your other drive fails as well.
So the photographers and designers will be forced to use GIMP from now on? Poor bastards!
Joke post? Photoshop's interface has been a horrid mess for over a decade. It gets away with it because it's the "industry standard".
GIMP's interface isn't much better, but at least it doesn't have 500 pounds of bloat for 50 pounds of features, of which 99.9999% of users will only use 5 pounds.
Commercials in surround sound are just as annoying as loud commercials. They'll intentionally bounce the sound around all over the 5.1/7.1 channels so you can't ignore it.
I don't think the market for illegal prostitution would dry up because it's so entwined with other shit (like drugs and gangs/mobs and business/political bribes). And the legit joints won't let a hooker work there if she's got a disease. The legit joints won't let you play out your sick fetishes. The legit joints won't provide 16 year olds.
But you know what? One link in, I find you too vile to care what you think enough to look for another link. Open google and open your fucking eyes, jackass. Really.
The "sex slave" hysteria is almost as bad as the pedophile hysteria. The fact that you can point to 1 or 2 cherry picked, sensationalized stories doesn't mean that the ridiculous claims of tens of thousands of sex slaves being bussed in for the Olympics are in any way valid. It doesn't mean that politicians and police chiefs and MSNBC aren't drumming up the non-story in order to get votes and viewers. It doesn't mean that hookers aren't "encouraged" to falsely testify against their "pimps" and make bogus claims.
But hey, keep on feeding at the FUD trough, it seems to get you pretty passionate about things. You've only proven it yourself - your "some links" are in fact, one link about one case. Until you can point to tens of thousands of cases in the US as is often claimed, and actually show people were forced into it as opposed to willing participants, you're just wrong.
It is impossible to forfeit your right to free speech in the United States of America. It is an inalienable right.
You are wrong, according to modern US legal theory. The fact that NDAs exist, and confidentiality clauses exist, and that they are regularly enforced supports my position that one can willingly forfeit their right to free speech.
No, you are wrong.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The fact that the government shits on your rights doesn't mean you are correct. It just means that the government is shit.
In the corporate world they also have companies behind those expensive machines that can write a proper driver (when forced to). In the corporate world they also have people who will say "We should not upgrade to X because of Y". In the corporate world they also have bosses who will say "Why upgrade to X? Our Y already works, why spend $Z?".
XP will get security updates until April of 2014. I'm pretty sure there's no one in the world that has anything that meets all of the following criteria:
1) Doesn't have a 64-bit driver 2) Is so complicated/critical/magical that no one can write a 64-bit driver for it 3) Can't be run on a locked-down 32-bit system past April, 2014 because of security FUD 4) Had enough support to make it work on 32-bit Vista/7
The sane option for windows from vista on would have been to deny users the choice and install a 64bit os if the hardware supports it.
Personally I have run 64 bit since xp, although you can only call that a test, vista 64 was ready for all.
Yes I know, the 1 in 16384 people that insist on having some old POC device. Well they can keep an old machine around for it if it is that important.
The better option would have been to deny users the choice and only offer 64-bit builds of Vista and 7. "But it doesn't work with my 14 year old scanner!!!" Then keep using Windows XP?
There were already growing pains with Vista (shitty GPU drivers from AMD and Nvidia, a new audio framework, and users not being administrator by default), so it would have been the perfect time to force everyone to move to x64. They couldn't force people to switch with 7 because they wanted to get people off of Vista ASAP (even though Vista itself was fine). Oh well, hindsight is 20/20 and what not.
It would be cool if there was a solution to properly handle a 32-bit driver in a 64-bit host environment, but there isn't. (Is there? Even if you use a 32-bit VM on a 64-bit host, you can't do shit.)
Make prostitution legal and well regulated. You'll decrease the demand for sex slaves. Anyone who claims to care about sex slavery and doesn't advocate the legalization of prostitution is simply not serious.
In the US, there is basically zero demand for sex slaves. The sex slavery scares are all FUD. Typically, the people whoring people out are seen as heroes by the people being whored out and their families back home. The whores are safer than they would be in their home country, and earn enough money to send a decent chunk home.
The sex "slavery" comes about when a prostitute is picked up, they're "encouraged" (bribed and/or blackmailed) to roll over on their pimps and claim they were forced into it. Roll over on your pimp to avoid jail. Say you were forced into it to get state-funded housing and a social worker who will find you a job.
But a month later they're back on the street by their own choosing because the money is simply better. Prostitution is a dangerous, dirty job, and regulation and legalization would improve that (in the US at least). But it won't improve the sex slave problem because there is no sex slave problem. Even if there were a sex slave problem, making prostitution legal wouldn't inspire a slave owner to let their slaves, and their income stream, go free.
OK, doctor, whatever you say. Now for an actual on-topic comment (why do you guys do that, anyway?)
It's too little, too late, for me anyway. After my eye operation in 2006 I tried for WEEKS to get the CrystaLens I'd had implanted (that was FDA-approved in 2003) included in the articles about cataracts and cataract surgery. They were always immediately excised. Why in the hell should I even bother? You wikipedia guys might want to actually have a glance at edits (maybe even with a quick googling) before you remove stuff.
But again, my wiki editing days were few and are over.
Wikipedia is run by a small cabal of self-important asses who get off on controlling information. They routinely remove anything they disagree with. Beyond that, they rip out shit at random if they feel like swaggering their e-peen around.
To get a restraining order in most states you see a magistrate and fill out some paper work. The restraining order is issued de facto and is a civil order. A person does not have to do anything to "deserve" a restraing order. No proof of anything is required to get one. Just say you fear the other person and get a restraining order. Restraining orders are a wonderful tool to do an illegal eviction and steal the other persons possesions and keep any rent and security depost.
Restraining orders are also a wonderful tool to keep the cops away from your meth lab / crack house. Just have your drugged up girlfriend file a restraining order against Barnaby Jones. Then call the cops when Barnaby Jones comes around again.
Courts don't care or even check to see that Barnaby Jones is in fact the cop investigating your house. You call the cops on the cop and they haul him away and he gets taken off the case. While someone else gets put on it, you have plenty of time to move your operation while they get up to speed.
The only tricky parts are noticing your being scoped out, and finding out who it is. Of course, if you're just a pusher and not a user, it's brain dead simple.
Why bring up the ACLU? Any American who values the Constitution would be concerned.
Except that the guy consented to the restriction not to adversely affect her privacy.
He already willingly forfeited his right to free speech in this case, the court is simply enforcing his word. If this punishment were overturned, then it would be precedent to make NDAs unenforceable as well.
It is impossible to forfeit your right to free speech in the United States of America. It is an inalienable right.
GM drove itself out of business. You take financial risk because you are a gambler; your participation in the economy is for your own benefit alone, and any taxes anyone takes from it are because the government protects you from being knocked down and robbed every time you go to the beach, or otherwise boiled and eaten alive.
In summary, fuck you. Saving lives is a duty we all share, and if you can't be bothered to part with your taxes to support that, and still be left with more money than anyone you're saving with it, then we might as well carve the meat from your bones and slather it with sugary sauce and laugh at the irony of you suddenly calling for the government's police to save you.
GM fucked itself over because they signed UAW contracts. They should have fired the entire represented workforce and hired off the streets a decade ago.
Here in BC, Canada it works like this: Emergencies go NOW. Everyone else goes on the list in FIFO order. If I remember correctly, if you cancel you go back to the end of the line. My Wife was on the Gall Bladder removal list for about 5 months before she had it out. The doctors told here if she wanted it out sooner, have a big greasy meal to trigger an attack and have it done as an emergency. She chose to wait. On the day of her surgery I dropped her off at the hospital in the morning. I picked her up late afternoon. No money exchanged hands. A couple of days later she felt great. I'm an American living in Canada for almost 18 years now. I'll gladly take Canadian health care over US health care. You need to go to a doctor? GO. You don't worry about figuring out how to pay for it. No crappy HMO telling you you can't go to your preferred doctor. The only shortcomings are waiting times, but if it's an emergency you get taken care of NOW.
Too bad it doesn't cover dental.
So suffering with a condition for 5 months (or risking serious injury or death by waiting for it to become an emergency) is good? I'd rather pay and get my problem fixed now.
Yes, it sucks for those who can't pay, but health care is a finite resource and finite quality. So the options are "free" with longer waits and same or reduced quality, or expensive with shorter waits and same or better quality. When it comes to my health, I know which one I'll choose every time.
I'll bitch about it being super expensive when it only needs to be moderately expensive. I'll bitch if my provider tries to deny coverage when I should be covered. I'll bitch when the pharmaceutical companies do shysty shit. But please don't mistake my bitching as a desire to have government run or publicly funded health care. (And don't take this statement to point out Medicare, because that is forced upon me and I don't like it.)
How much more research could you possibly do beyond "Yup, it's a rock."?
Surface structure, chemical composition, searching for embedded items (micrometeorites?), trying to make some sort of concrete out of it to build a moon base from, helping to determine age / history of that moon area, etc, etc, etc.
For some research a surrogate might do, but then you'd still have to compare with the real thing once in a while. Since we have so little actual moon material, of course that is worth its weight in gold (well no, much more actually since only way to obtain more is to go back to the moon - pretty expensive undertaking).
Everything you've listed either has been done with other samples, wouldn't be useful, or would result in the destruction of the sample. So if some scientist had one sitting on his desk for ages and did nothing with it, I'd say he made the right choice. It's most valuable uses are as a paperweight or as a conversation starter with dumb chicks you want to bang.
You can stop arguing with me whenever you want. Having your feelings hurt is probably as good a point as any to stop. It's not like you were "winning" the "argument" anyway - you just flailed on about how you don't see/care how insipid the show and the hosts's antics are.
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What's your backup system like?
How difficult is it to recover from a hardware failure?
How will you know a hardware failure has occurred?
I do a full disk backup to an external drive with Acronis, every day. I exclude the steamapps folder and *.bt! files.
Acronis does a full backup, and then differential backups. Every 2 weeks, a new full backup is done.
To restore I stick a USB stick or CD into my PC and boot to it, tell it to restore the latest backup, and then in less than 20 minutes I'm back to 6 PM the previous evening.
I will know a hardware failure has occurred when SMART starts bitching, or, more likely, my system simply doesn't boot from my 2x256 GB Crucial M4 SSDs in RAID 0.
Any other brain busters?
The failure rate for hard drives has been quite well known for some time now: it is precisely 100% +/- 0.0%.
Truly, it is not a matter of IF a given hard drive will fail, it is a matter of WHEN.
That means that having a mirrored pair as a minimum -- even on a home machine -- is not an optional frill, it is a necessity.
Uh, RAID is a very bad idea, unless you need 100% uptime (like on a server with hot swap). Broken drives can introduce data errors into the stream, which are eventually duplicated onto the other drive(s) as well. When the file system breaks due to this or some software bug, the file system on all disks is broken. For home use, the much better option is to use the second drive for frequent backups, ideally automated (so you can't forget to do it). The plus side is that the backup drive can be an external drive connected via USB/FireWire/eSATA/Thunderbolt, further decreasing the chance of blowing up both disks at once.
The entire point of RAID is that when one drive fails, the other drive continues to provide valid data.
The failure of an individual drive is determined by various things, such as SMART and other signalling from the drive itself, as well as CRC checks on the data itself, and comparisons with the data on the other drive(s). When a drive fails, the array goes into degraded mode. Depending on your set up, you'll get alerts, you'll can have an automatic, online rebuild using the failed drive (it is often not a mechanical failure, so this is often fine), you can have an automatic, online rebuild using a hot spare, etc.
You are suggesting that a bad drive will contaminate the entire array. This is stupid and wrong.
You are bringing up file systems. File systems are irrelevant to RAID.
I believe the point you are trying (and failing) to make is that RAID is not a backup.
Of course, the post you replied to wasn't talking about backups. It was talking about what users should do as a bare minimum.
RAID 1 is generally cheaper and easier than backups. It gives you a read performance boost as well.
It is robust enough to outlive the machine, the usefulness of the data to most users, and a backup drive.
When RAID 1 fails, 99.99% of the time you're going to be able to buy a second drive and replace the bad one before your other drive fails as well.
Yes. Yes it is.
So the photographers and designers will be forced to use GIMP from now on? Poor bastards!
Joke post?
Photoshop's interface has been a horrid mess for over a decade.
It gets away with it because it's the "industry standard".
GIMP's interface isn't much better, but at least it doesn't have 500 pounds of bloat for 50 pounds of features, of which 99.9999% of users will only use 5 pounds.
Again, the fact that the government shits on your rights doesn't mean you are correct. It just means that the government is shit.
Commercials in surround sound are just as annoying as loud commercials.
They'll intentionally bounce the sound around all over the 5.1/7.1 channels so you can't ignore it.
I know this is probably feeding the troll... but you wouldn't put chains on a snow tire. you buy them so you don't need to use chains...
Light snow turns to heavy snow or ice? You better believe I'm putting chains on my snow tires.
I don't think the market for illegal prostitution would dry up because it's so entwined with other shit (like drugs and gangs/mobs and business/political bribes).
And the legit joints won't let a hooker work there if she's got a disease. The legit joints won't let you play out your sick fetishes. The legit joints won't provide 16 year olds.
The market for the seedier shit will still exist.
You're an asshole worthy enough for me to un-mod all the comments I modded here just to post some links proving what a fucking asshole you are.
sold by her mother? Oh wait, it's just FUD, she was really a child whore.
But you know what? One link in, I find you too vile to care what you think enough to look for another link. Open google and open your fucking eyes, jackass. Really.
The "sex slave" hysteria is almost as bad as the pedophile hysteria. The fact that you can point to 1 or 2 cherry picked, sensationalized stories doesn't mean that the ridiculous claims of tens of thousands of sex slaves being bussed in for the Olympics are in any way valid. It doesn't mean that politicians and police chiefs and MSNBC aren't drumming up the non-story in order to get votes and viewers. It doesn't mean that hookers aren't "encouraged" to falsely testify against their "pimps" and make bogus claims.
But hey, keep on feeding at the FUD trough, it seems to get you pretty passionate about things. You've only proven it yourself - your "some links" are in fact, one link about one case. Until you can point to tens of thousands of cases in the US as is often claimed, and actually show people were forced into it as opposed to willing participants, you're just wrong.
It is impossible to forfeit your right to free speech in the United States of America. It is an inalienable right.
You are wrong, according to modern US legal theory. The fact that NDAs exist, and confidentiality clauses exist, and that they are regularly enforced supports my position that one can willingly forfeit their right to free speech.
No, you are wrong.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The fact that the government shits on your rights doesn't mean you are correct. It just means that the government is shit.
In the corporate world they also have companies behind those expensive machines that can write a proper driver (when forced to).
In the corporate world they also have people who will say "We should not upgrade to X because of Y".
In the corporate world they also have bosses who will say "Why upgrade to X? Our Y already works, why spend $Z?".
XP will get security updates until April of 2014.
I'm pretty sure there's no one in the world that has anything that meets all of the following criteria:
1) Doesn't have a 64-bit driver
2) Is so complicated/critical/magical that no one can write a 64-bit driver for it
3) Can't be run on a locked-down 32-bit system past April, 2014 because of security FUD
4) Had enough support to make it work on 32-bit Vista/7
This isn't about RUNNING Firefox, but compiling/linking it. I guarantee Skyrim takes more than 500GB under that context.
However, yes, Firefox has become exceedingly bloated.
500 GB?
Well shit. I thought I was fine when I built my desktop with 16GB. Well, it was 2 months ago, I guess it is time for an upgrade.
Blame MS.
The sane option for windows from vista on would have been to deny users the choice and install a 64bit os if the hardware supports it.
Personally I have run 64 bit since xp, although you can only call that a test, vista 64 was ready for all.
Yes I know, the 1 in 16384 people that insist on having some old POC device. Well they can keep an old machine around for it if it is that important.
The better option would have been to deny users the choice and only offer 64-bit builds of Vista and 7.
"But it doesn't work with my 14 year old scanner!!!" Then keep using Windows XP?
There were already growing pains with Vista (shitty GPU drivers from AMD and Nvidia, a new audio framework, and users not being administrator by default), so it would have been the perfect time to force everyone to move to x64. They couldn't force people to switch with 7 because they wanted to get people off of Vista ASAP (even though Vista itself was fine). Oh well, hindsight is 20/20 and what not.
It would be cool if there was a solution to properly handle a 32-bit driver in a 64-bit host environment, but there isn't. (Is there? Even if you use a 32-bit VM on a 64-bit host, you can't do shit.)
Make prostitution legal and well regulated. You'll decrease the demand for sex slaves. Anyone who claims to care about sex slavery and doesn't advocate the legalization of prostitution is simply not serious.
In the US, there is basically zero demand for sex slaves. The sex slavery scares are all FUD. Typically, the people whoring people out are seen as heroes by the people being whored out and their families back home. The whores are safer than they would be in their home country, and earn enough money to send a decent chunk home.
The sex "slavery" comes about when a prostitute is picked up, they're "encouraged" (bribed and/or blackmailed) to roll over on their pimps and claim they were forced into it. Roll over on your pimp to avoid jail. Say you were forced into it to get state-funded housing and a social worker who will find you a job.
But a month later they're back on the street by their own choosing because the money is simply better. Prostitution is a dangerous, dirty job, and regulation and legalization would improve that (in the US at least). But it won't improve the sex slave problem because there is no sex slave problem. Even if there were a sex slave problem, making prostitution legal wouldn't inspire a slave owner to let their slaves, and their income stream, go free.
You mean that the people who read online won't notice that all of the articles are shorter?
Of course they won't. When an "article" is needlessly spaced out over 10 pages, no one reads past page 2.
OK, doctor, whatever you say. Now for an actual on-topic comment (why do you guys do that, anyway?)
It's too little, too late, for me anyway. After my eye operation in 2006 I tried for WEEKS to get the CrystaLens I'd had implanted (that was FDA-approved in 2003) included in the articles about cataracts and cataract surgery. They were always immediately excised. Why in the hell should I even bother? You wikipedia guys might want to actually have a glance at edits (maybe even with a quick googling) before you remove stuff.
But again, my wiki editing days were few and are over.
Wikipedia is run by a small cabal of self-important asses who get off on controlling information.
They routinely remove anything they disagree with. Beyond that, they rip out shit at random if they feel like swaggering their e-peen around.
To get a restraining order in most states you see a magistrate and fill out some paper work. The restraining order is issued de facto and is a civil order. A person does not have to do anything to "deserve" a restraing order. No proof of anything is required to get one. Just say you fear the other person and get a restraining order.
Restraining orders are a wonderful tool to do an illegal eviction and steal the other persons possesions and keep any rent and security depost.
Restraining orders are also a wonderful tool to keep the cops away from your meth lab / crack house.
Just have your drugged up girlfriend file a restraining order against Barnaby Jones.
Then call the cops when Barnaby Jones comes around again.
Courts don't care or even check to see that Barnaby Jones is in fact the cop investigating your house.
You call the cops on the cop and they haul him away and he gets taken off the case. While someone else gets put on it, you have plenty of time to move your operation while they get up to speed.
The only tricky parts are noticing your being scoped out, and finding out who it is. Of course, if you're just a pusher and not a user, it's brain dead simple.
Why bring up the ACLU? Any American who values the Constitution would be concerned.
Except that the guy consented to the restriction not to adversely affect her privacy.
He already willingly forfeited his right to free speech in this case, the court is simply enforcing his word. If this punishment were overturned, then it would be precedent to make NDAs unenforceable as well.
It is impossible to forfeit your right to free speech in the United States of America. It is an inalienable right.
GM drove itself out of business. You take financial risk because you are a gambler; your participation in the economy is for your own benefit alone, and any taxes anyone takes from it are because the government protects you from being knocked down and robbed every time you go to the beach, or otherwise boiled and eaten alive.
In summary, fuck you. Saving lives is a duty we all share, and if you can't be bothered to part with your taxes to support that, and still be left with more money than anyone you're saving with it, then we might as well carve the meat from your bones and slather it with sugary sauce and laugh at the irony of you suddenly calling for the government's police to save you.
GM fucked itself over because they signed UAW contracts.
They should have fired the entire represented workforce and hired off the streets a decade ago.
As someone who often thinks logically, I must say that the constant crisis in Europe challenges the feasibility of Europe.
Here in BC, Canada it works like this:
Emergencies go NOW.
Everyone else goes on the list in FIFO order. If I remember correctly, if you cancel you go back to the end of the line.
My Wife was on the Gall Bladder removal list for about 5 months before she had it out. The doctors told here if she wanted it out sooner, have a big greasy meal to trigger an attack and have it done as an emergency. She chose to wait. On the day of her surgery I dropped her off at the hospital in the morning. I picked her up late afternoon. No money exchanged hands. A couple of days later she felt great.
I'm an American living in Canada for almost 18 years now. I'll gladly take Canadian health care over US health care. You need to go to a doctor? GO. You don't worry about figuring out how to pay for it. No crappy HMO telling you you can't go to your preferred doctor. The only shortcomings are waiting times, but if it's an emergency you get taken care of NOW.
Too bad it doesn't cover dental.
So suffering with a condition for 5 months (or risking serious injury or death by waiting for it to become an emergency) is good?
I'd rather pay and get my problem fixed now.
Yes, it sucks for those who can't pay, but health care is a finite resource and finite quality. So the options are "free" with longer waits and same or reduced quality, or expensive with shorter waits and same or better quality. When it comes to my health, I know which one I'll choose every time.
I'll bitch about it being super expensive when it only needs to be moderately expensive.
I'll bitch if my provider tries to deny coverage when I should be covered.
I'll bitch when the pharmaceutical companies do shysty shit.
But please don't mistake my bitching as a desire to have government run or publicly funded health care. (And don't take this statement to point out Medicare, because that is forced upon me and I don't like it.)
How much more research could you possibly do beyond "Yup, it's a rock."?
Surface structure, chemical composition, searching for embedded items (micrometeorites?), trying to make some sort of concrete out of it to build a moon base from, helping to determine age / history of that moon area, etc, etc, etc.
For some research a surrogate might do, but then you'd still have to compare with the real thing once in a while. Since we have so little actual moon material, of course that is worth its weight in gold (well no, much more actually since only way to obtain more is to go back to the moon - pretty expensive undertaking).
Everything you've listed either has been done with other samples, wouldn't be useful, or would result in the destruction of the sample.
So if some scientist had one sitting on his desk for ages and did nothing with it, I'd say he made the right choice. It's most valuable uses are as a paperweight or as a conversation starter with dumb chicks you want to bang.
You can stop arguing with me whenever you want. Having your feelings hurt is probably as good a point as any to stop.
It's not like you were "winning" the "argument" anyway - you just flailed on about how you don't see/care how insipid the show and the hosts's antics are.
They loaned out over 26,000 of these, and that's all that's gone missing? That's not bad at all. Maybe they should go into the mortgage business.
The story that really irked me is the scientist who just had it sitting on his desk for years and years, and never bothered to do any research.
How much more research could you possibly do beyond "Yup, it's a rock."?
You want everyone to host the ads themselves? And how would advertisers verify how many views they're getting?
Yes. Who gives a shit?