There are people that think the two parties are equivalent.
They do not know that actual policy differences occur between parties. A good example of policy differences between parties is health care.
We call these people "idiots", because they do not understand the full system. They make equivalence based on one or two data points. They are incapable of analyzing large data sets, and mistakenly form conclusions based on limited data.
Now, are there anybody that still thinks Obama and Bush are the same, given their enormous differences in health-care and environmental and labor policy?
What OTHER data points would you like to point out that show the differences between the two parties?
Don't you freedom-loving libertarians love this kind of shit?
Who cares about socialization, right? It's all about "me! Me! Me!" and whatever I can get away with.
Remember, you are a precious snowflake, and should be allowed to do what you want, because you are a precious snowflake.
yah.. sooo.. and this is why you don't vote Republican-lite libertarianism kids. Grown-ups with socialization skills know this already. Nerdy unsocialized people like the ones that infest this site do not know this.
Rare that you see a genuine, bona-fide traitor these days.
Glad that people are starting to come around to this conclusions, and away from the hero that the self-centered libertarian narcissist precious snowflake that infests Slashdot thinks of him as.
Sorry you idiots, but in the real world, you're not the center of the universe. Your life doesn't revolve around you and your "me! me! me!" views. You actually have limits on your power in life, and the best you can do with your limits in life is to live for others, not for yourself.
You actually have to pay to play in life. Life isn't free, regardless of what you were incorrectly taught by your mistaken idealist parents.
The reason you have to pay to play in life is because there is no power interested in allowing you to live for free. You need to do stuff for others, all the time, to get by in life. This is the minimum.
The Snowdens of the world think of life as being about them, mistakenly thinking you can do "whatever you want" since it's a "free country". We adults know this is an incorrect view, which is why we are strong socialists and work to improve on the power of a central governmental authority.
If this system can automate driving, then we should be for it.
The worst system are ones that rely on the public for its reliability and safety.
Systems should be engineered so that the public can do whatever the fuck they want, because they will, and it will still be safe.
I don't want my safety to be based upon somebody else's responsibility, because I know the public is irresponsible.
We need our systems architects to assume such.
This is why we liberals prefer a socialized government, because we assume the worst in people, and design our systems around that, whereas conservatives place their responsibility on the public, because they assume people are good and responsible and hard working and careful, which they obviously are not.
Personal responsibility is equivalent to government irresponsibility.
Libertarian narcissist precious snowflake, of which 100% of Snowden supporters are.
We get it, your parents taught you that you were special and important and you can do anything you want when you grew up, so gubmint needs to stop getting in the way of how awesome you are!
Sorry kids, but you were taught incorrectly. Government will remain the central power in any society, not individuals. Your best bet as an individual is to figure out how you can derive your own strength from that power.
Remember, the central meaning of life is to gain power, of which everyone does in ever little thing they do.
And the biggest mistake libertarian narcissist precious snowflakes make is to think they have power over government. That is why they amusingly think their guns are going to protect them from a nuclear-armed federal government. (So funny.)
So, rather than make government weaker, which us socialists have no intentions of allowing anyways, your best response is to try and figure out how a strong, powerful government makes you more capable.
Once you figure that out, you'll figure out why government needs to be expanded, rather than limited. I would recommend you get on that program quick, as those in power have already figured out your fate for you.
In any case, one must never consider a high-school-dropout weasel to be a personal hero. He's the hero to the ignorant, not the intelligent. It's telling that no actual NSA employees support him, and these are the absolute smartest people in the world, doing far more insane innovative things than anything in private industry.
Another important tell that people are overlooking is how every single document release only confirms that the NSA is actively working hard to protect the privacy rights of Americans. Metadata is perfectly fine for government to collect. The Supereme Court has already stated so, in Smith vs. Maryland case, that metadata isn't private communications. And once it is established that metadata isn't private, government can do whatever it wants with that data. And for the actual private communications of US citizens (not metadata, which isn't private, and not foreigners, because fuck em), the NSA has filters to eliminate this data.
Think about it - if the NSA were actively trying to violate the privacy rights of Americans, why would they maintain a SECRET program to filter their data out?
Of course, the libertarian narcissist precious snowflake thinks too much of himself to think this through, so they continue to scream about how the NSA is bad.
The issue that programmatic auto-flow systems like CSS regions try to solve is that the layout/text-flow changes with viewport dimension changes.
Honestly at this point, HTML should be obsoleted and everyone use an XML standard like RSS, or something semantic, and lay that out directly with CSS, since the entire web is converging on an blog-post/article-like data model.
Wordpress itself should be the equivalent data-model standard. Most CMSs revolve around that core data structure anyways. No need to build HTML from Wordpress, then lay that out with CSS. Might as well lay out the Wordpress-like data structure directly, without an intermediate HTML step.
With the web finally hitting magazine-quality typography, there's definitely a need for a proper layout engine that's flexible and can achieve exactly what graphic designers want.
CSS regions might not be it (or it might), but Google needs to offer something to replace it, because that's the closest thing the web had to offer magazine-quality layout. The web needs the equivalent to inDesign.
If they do not, everyone will just layout for iPad (Safari), and that will be considered standard, while other other layout engines like Chrome remain unsupported.
Apple is very good at pushing typography, and had Google offered something that can replace CSS Regions, Apple would have considered it.
OK we get it. We understand your beloved Linux/Windows/Android sucks compared to Mac OS X & iOS. You are angry at the world because of that, and at how terrible the Linux/Windows/Android designers are compared to the more talented Apple designers. That is fine, you can remedy your fail by switching to Apple's systems. Also, you don't have to cry EVERY time someone mentions Steve Jobs.
My recommendation to you is to drop your silly Linux/Windows/Android system, and get a real Unix system like Mac OS X. It won't be cheap, but in the real world, no one wants to work with cheap people anyways, so you're gonna have to spend money regardless.
Also, get a Mac because it's a closed source system, which is much higher-quality than an open-source system.That is because design-by-committee is always worse than design-by-responsible-individual.
In general, if a person recommends Linux/Android/Windows in a professional environment, they should immediately be fired.
Over 75% of the people I spoke with out of over 3000 said the number one thing they want is to cut spending, cut taxes, and reduce the reach of the federal government.
Which is the exact opposite of what they should work for. All of the above is a good way to make an economy worse.
You actually need to increase spending, raise taxes, and increase the reach of federal government to get out of a recession.
Tell them you need to spend money to make money, and that economic growth doesn't happen by itself.
Economists generally agree to this, which is why Bush & Obama pushed for stimulus spending, and that's how we got out of the horrible recession in the first place.
Really, where did people get the completely fucking stupid idea that cutting government spending and taxes was supposed to help an economy? I get that they don't want to spend their hard-earned tax dollars, but that's such a low-level thinking. Your money is the least of your problems. You're better off having government spend your money on socialized projects to improve the economy in general.
And government is the ONLY institution capable of improving an economy. Individuals and corporations cannot do that by themselves, since they do not have full control of aggregate spending. Once an individual/corporation spends money, that money is no longer their concern. They don't care about causing further spending & economic growth to happen, because that's not their problem.
Only government is the solution.
We really need to get people off the teat of private corporations and increase social spending. Corporations and individuals are just not capable of growing an economy by themselves.
Somewhere somehow these idiots were taught that "small government = good".
We need to get them to stop thinking around such horrible ideas. Maybe school failed them or something, but they need to be educated on what actually works in an economy, not what they think works in an economy.
Yes but the mouth-breathing freedom loving 12 year olds that infest this site wants to scream about the NSA whenever possible.
These poor people.. they know not of power and the limits to their own powers, as they suffer from narcissism because these precious snowflakes were incorrectly taught they could do whatever they want because 'murica is a free country.
After all, these are the same dumbasses that think their handgun is going to defend them against a nuclear-armed federal government.
Sorry kids, but the NSA is going to do what it will, because we liberal socialists approve of it, and we have the power in government to make sure of that.
You will have to go back to worshipping your high-school dropout Dell repairman hero.
If it includes 2 large Skylake type cores (for GUI responsiveness), in addition to the many smaller compute cores, you might end up seeing this in the Mac Pros or other workstations.
Right now Apple is making the most innovative computers in the market. Nothing else comes close. All of these other vendors are basically the equivalent to home-brew junk.
It's amazing that no one else in the world can make an uncompromised workstation-class product that uses only 1 fan. THAT in itself is some amazing engineering right there.
It will be a long time before anyone else even comes close, perhaps another 10 years if at all. I suspect PC vendors are going to die off while still clinging to the AT case design from 30 years ago.
Until then, we will be stuck with the whining from the Windows/Linux fanboys always trying to explain how their 12-fan monstrosity is somehow superior.
It seems more like the arrogance of the freedom-loving libertarian.
The problem with freedom-loving libertarians is that you define society in terms of "me me me!"
Unfortunately, the last thing the rest of society cares about is you.
The freedom-loving libertarians have never explained why freedom is a good thing.
Who cares how I get my things, whether it be through the state or myself, as long as I get everything I want out of life. I am not interested in the theory of loving freedom, I am only interested in practice of getting the things I want.
This ties into the net surveillance - what privacy am I losing if the state knows my communications metadata? The courts have routinely stated that metadata collection by the state is perfectly fine, since that is not private communications, but public communications.
What practical benefit am I actually losing when the NSA collects metadata? Again, I do not care about theory. I only care about practice. The freedom-loving libertarians could never explain that part.
Of course metadata should never be treated as private communications, since metadata is never secret as your IP headers needs to be readable by any router it travels through on the internet. In fact, treating metadata as private is a security flaw in the first place, since you started off with the wrong assumptions. Besides, how the hell do you expect routers to communicate if the IP headers are supposed to be private? .
This all comes down to the narcissism of the all the freedom-loving libertarians. Freedom-loving libertarians LOVE doing whatever they want for themselves. They can never socialize with other members of society. Freedom-loving libertarians never figured out that you actually are supposed to think about others before yourself in society if you want to gain any power. They never got the memo that they actually aren't supposed to do whatever they want in life, which means they never knew that they can only do whatever the state allows them to do. (some libertarians even think they own personal property.. LOL!)
Sucks that individuals actually don't have any power over the state, but that has how life has always been: the state will always rule over the individual. We statists know this, and we attach our strength to the state, which gains us more power.
That is why we get things for free, like health care, because we make freedom-loving libertarians pay for it with the power of the state. If you don't like it you will have to find another state to go to, as our state is not interested in your own desires.
Again, I cannot emphasize enough how little power you actually have in society. That is because freedom-loving individuals are always fighting against us statists, which will obviously cause the individual to lose.
It is not even theoretically possible for the freedom-loving individual to win against us statists.
Of course, every now and then we statists might give you freedom-loving libertarians a few breadcrumbs to give you the illusion that you have freedom, such as the right to bear arms (lol, so cute, so sweet, so innocent =^D ), but we all know who actually controls who in society.
Why are you comparing unprofessional junk systems to professional workstations?
You know those Xeons? The reason they're 10x the cost of i7's is because they support ECC memory AND ECC Cache.
Xeon's don't crash as much as i7's do.
They're used in professional jobs where they might be computing for a week straight. Having them crash in the middle of that would be the height of N00b systems.
Then you have the PCI SSD, which is far cheaper here than anywhere else, where you'd probably pay $4k for a 1TB PCI-SSD.
And then you have the dual GPUs, which are normally $3.5k each.
Sorry, but this is a pro systems, designed for pros, not for gamers. Gamers don't mind if their CPUs crash.
NEVER compare typical desktops to a workstation. The kind of n00b user that does that gets fired.
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There are people that think the two parties are equivalent.
They do not know that actual policy differences occur between parties. A good example of policy differences between parties is health care.
We call these people "idiots", because they do not understand the full system. They make equivalence based on one or two data points. They are incapable of analyzing large data sets, and mistakenly form conclusions based on limited data.
Now, are there anybody that still thinks Obama and Bush are the same, given their enormous differences in health-care and environmental and labor policy?
What OTHER data points would you like to point out that show the differences between the two parties?
Don't you freedom-loving libertarians love this kind of shit?
Who cares about socialization, right? It's all about "me! Me! Me!" and whatever I can get away with.
Remember, you are a precious snowflake, and should be allowed to do what you want, because you are a precious snowflake.
yah.. sooo..
and this is why you don't vote Republican-lite libertarianism kids.
Grown-ups with socialization skills know this already.
Nerdy unsocialized people like the ones that infest this site do not know this.
Rare that you see a genuine, bona-fide traitor these days.
Glad that people are starting to come around to this conclusions, and away from the hero that the self-centered libertarian narcissist precious snowflake that infests Slashdot thinks of him as.
Sorry you idiots, but in the real world, you're not the center of the universe. Your life doesn't revolve around you and your "me! me! me!" views. You actually have limits on your power in life, and the best you can do with your limits in life is to live for others, not for yourself.
You actually have to pay to play in life. Life isn't free, regardless of what you were incorrectly taught by your mistaken idealist parents.
The reason you have to pay to play in life is because there is no power interested in allowing you to live for free. You need to do stuff for others, all the time, to get by in life. This is the minimum.
The Snowdens of the world think of life as being about them, mistakenly thinking you can do "whatever you want" since it's a "free country". We adults know this is an incorrect view, which is why we are strong socialists and work to improve on the power of a central governmental authority.
You're making the n00b mistake of thinking competition causes service quality to go up.
The only thing competition does is to create monopolies, since the whole point of competition is to eliminate competitors.
That is something all you freedom-loving libertarians seem to conveniently ignore.
I guess if you love monopolies, and the profit it brings to your company, then a free-market is a good thing.
Otherwise, we socialists would prefer more government intervention to prevent competition from happening.
Either that, or completely nationalize that service and take it away from private shareholders, who have no interest in providing a better services.
Remember, capitalism is the LEAST profitable way to run a business, and monopolies are the most profitable.
If this system can automate driving, then we should be for it.
The worst system are ones that rely on the public for its reliability and safety.
Systems should be engineered so that the public can do whatever the fuck they want, because they will, and it will still be safe.
I don't want my safety to be based upon somebody else's responsibility, because I know the public is irresponsible.
We need our systems architects to assume such.
This is why we liberals prefer a socialized government, because we assume the worst in people, and design our systems around that, whereas conservatives place their responsibility on the public, because they assume people are good and responsible and hard working and careful, which they obviously are not.
Personal responsibility is equivalent to government irresponsibility.
Anything you store in Microsoft's cloud is subject to the PATRIOT Act and can be demanded with a secret warrant.
This is not a concern for enterprise corporations, which is the target audience for Cloud services.
If a corporation is doing illegal activities, they have much larger problems than privacy rights.
Libertarian narcissist precious snowflake, of which 100% of Snowden supporters are.
We get it, your parents taught you that you were special and important and you can do anything you want when you grew up, so gubmint needs to stop getting in the way of how awesome you are!
Sorry kids, but you were taught incorrectly. Government will remain the central power in any society, not individuals. Your best bet as an individual is to figure out how you can derive your own strength from that power.
Remember, the central meaning of life is to gain power, of which everyone does in ever little thing they do.
And the biggest mistake libertarian narcissist precious snowflakes make is to think they have power over government. That is why they amusingly think their guns are going to protect them from a nuclear-armed federal government. (So funny.)
So, rather than make government weaker, which us socialists have no intentions of allowing anyways, your best response is to try and figure out how a strong, powerful government makes you more capable.
Once you figure that out, you'll figure out why government needs to be expanded, rather than limited. I would recommend you get on that program quick, as those in power have already figured out your fate for you.
In any case, one must never consider a high-school-dropout weasel to be a personal hero. He's the hero to the ignorant, not the intelligent. It's telling that no actual NSA employees support him, and these are the absolute smartest people in the world, doing far more insane innovative things than anything in private industry.
Another important tell that people are overlooking is how every single document release only confirms that the NSA is actively working hard to protect the privacy rights of Americans. Metadata is perfectly fine for government to collect. The Supereme Court has already stated so, in Smith vs. Maryland case, that metadata isn't private communications. And once it is established that metadata isn't private, government can do whatever it wants with that data. And for the actual private communications of US citizens (not metadata, which isn't private, and not foreigners, because fuck em), the NSA has filters to eliminate this data.
Think about it - if the NSA were actively trying to violate the privacy rights of Americans, why would they maintain a SECRET program to filter their data out?
Of course, the libertarian narcissist precious snowflake thinks too much of himself to think this through, so they continue to scream about how the NSA is bad.
It's because of graphic design that people use the web.
The layout is half the content.
Postscript is for fixed devices.
The issue that programmatic auto-flow systems like CSS regions try to solve is that the layout/text-flow changes with viewport dimension changes.
Honestly at this point, HTML should be obsoleted and everyone use an XML standard like RSS, or something semantic, and lay that out directly with CSS, since the entire web is converging on an blog-post/article-like data model.
Wordpress itself should be the equivalent data-model standard. Most CMSs revolve around that core data structure anyways. No need to build HTML from Wordpress, then lay that out with CSS. Might as well lay out the Wordpress-like data structure directly, without an intermediate HTML step.
With the web finally hitting magazine-quality typography, there's definitely a need for a proper layout engine that's flexible and can achieve exactly what graphic designers want.
CSS regions might not be it (or it might), but Google needs to offer something to replace it, because that's the closest thing the web had to offer magazine-quality layout. The web needs the equivalent to inDesign.
If they do not, everyone will just layout for iPad (Safari), and that will be considered standard, while other other layout engines like Chrome remain unsupported.
Apple is very good at pushing typography, and had Google offered something that can replace CSS Regions, Apple would have considered it.
Because no one buys Starcraft to play the single-player game?
OK we get it. We understand your beloved Linux/Windows/Android sucks compared to Mac OS X & iOS. You are angry at the world because of that, and at how terrible the Linux/Windows/Android designers are compared to the more talented Apple designers. That is fine, you can remedy your fail by switching to Apple's systems. Also, you don't have to cry EVERY time someone mentions Steve Jobs.
My recommendation to you is to drop your silly Linux/Windows/Android system, and get a real Unix system like Mac OS X. It won't be cheap, but in the real world, no one wants to work with cheap people anyways, so you're gonna have to spend money regardless.
Also, get a Mac because it's a closed source system, which is much higher-quality than an open-source system.That is because design-by-committee is always worse than design-by-responsible-individual.
In general, if a person recommends Linux/Android/Windows in a professional environment, they should immediately be fired.
Over 75% of the people I spoke with out of over 3000 said the number one thing they want is to cut spending, cut taxes, and reduce the reach of the federal government.
Which is the exact opposite of what they should work for. All of the above is a good way to make an economy worse.
You actually need to increase spending, raise taxes, and increase the reach of federal government to get out of a recession.
Tell them you need to spend money to make money, and that economic growth doesn't happen by itself.
Economists generally agree to this, which is why Bush & Obama pushed for stimulus spending, and that's how we got out of the horrible recession in the first place.
Really, where did people get the completely fucking stupid idea that cutting government spending and taxes was supposed to help an economy? I get that they don't want to spend their hard-earned tax dollars, but that's such a low-level thinking. Your money is the least of your problems. You're better off having government spend your money on socialized projects to improve the economy in general.
And government is the ONLY institution capable of improving an economy. Individuals and corporations cannot do that by themselves, since they do not have full control of aggregate spending. Once an individual/corporation spends money, that money is no longer their concern. They don't care about causing further spending & economic growth to happen, because that's not their problem.
Only government is the solution.
We really need to get people off the teat of private corporations and increase social spending. Corporations and individuals are just not capable of growing an economy by themselves.
Somewhere somehow these idiots were taught that "small government = good".
We need to get them to stop thinking around such horrible ideas. Maybe school failed them or something, but they need to be educated on what actually works in an economy, not what they think works in an economy.
Javascript/jquery front ends, php/python/ruby/sql backends.
Objective-C for iOS.
Those will keep you employed for the next 10 years.
Shouldn't you be fighting for freedom or something?
They should stand their ground and consider design usability first and support H.264.
Users don't care about moronic preachy libertarian ideals like open format.
Usability > Idealism.
Don't preach. Just do.
These Russian hackers know their shit.. almost as good as the NSA.
There's a good case to be made for the NSA to go after them at this point.
Who's against the NSA now??
Yes but the mouth-breathing freedom loving 12 year olds that infest this site wants to scream about the NSA whenever possible.
These poor people.. they know not of power and the limits to their own powers, as they suffer from narcissism because these precious snowflakes were incorrectly taught they could do whatever they want because 'murica is a free country.
After all, these are the same dumbasses that think their handgun is going to defend them against a nuclear-armed federal government.
Sorry kids, but the NSA is going to do what it will, because we liberal socialists approve of it, and we have the power in government to make sure of that.
You will have to go back to worshipping your high-school dropout Dell repairman hero.
lol @ windows/linux/android fanboys.
Sucks that you guys don't even have real Unix on your desktops.
You'll have to get a real operating system.
It's supposed to be bootable.
If it includes 2 large Skylake type cores (for GUI responsiveness), in addition to the many smaller compute cores, you might end up seeing this in the Mac Pros or other workstations.
Right now Apple is making the most innovative computers in the market. Nothing else comes close. All of these other vendors are basically the equivalent to home-brew junk.
It's amazing that no one else in the world can make an uncompromised workstation-class product that uses only 1 fan. THAT in itself is some amazing engineering right there.
It will be a long time before anyone else even comes close, perhaps another 10 years if at all. I suspect PC vendors are going to die off while still clinging to the AT case design from 30 years ago.
Until then, we will be stuck with the whining from the Windows/Linux fanboys always trying to explain how their 12-fan monstrosity is somehow superior.
It seems more like the arrogance of the freedom-loving libertarian.
The problem with freedom-loving libertarians is that you define society in terms of "me me me!"
Unfortunately, the last thing the rest of society cares about is you.
The freedom-loving libertarians have never explained why freedom is a good thing.
Who cares how I get my things, whether it be through the state or myself, as long as I get everything I want out of life. I am not interested in the theory of loving freedom, I am only interested in practice of getting the things I want.
This ties into the net surveillance - what privacy am I losing if the state knows my communications metadata? The courts have routinely stated that metadata collection by the state is perfectly fine, since that is not private communications, but public communications.
What practical benefit am I actually losing when the NSA collects metadata? Again, I do not care about theory. I only care about practice. The freedom-loving libertarians could never explain that part.
Of course metadata should never be treated as private communications, since metadata is never secret as your IP headers needs to be readable by any router it travels through on the internet. In fact, treating metadata as private is a security flaw in the first place, since you started off with the wrong assumptions. Besides, how the hell do you expect routers to communicate if the IP headers are supposed to be private? .
This all comes down to the narcissism of the all the freedom-loving libertarians. Freedom-loving libertarians LOVE doing whatever they want for themselves. They can never socialize with other members of society. Freedom-loving libertarians never figured out that you actually are supposed to think about others before yourself in society if you want to gain any power. They never got the memo that they actually aren't supposed to do whatever they want in life, which means they never knew that they can only do whatever the state allows them to do. (some libertarians even think they own personal property.. LOL!)
Sucks that individuals actually don't have any power over the state, but that has how life has always been: the state will always rule over the individual. We statists know this, and we attach our strength to the state, which gains us more power.
That is why we get things for free, like health care, because we make freedom-loving libertarians pay for it with the power of the state. If you don't like it you will have to find another state to go to, as our state is not interested in your own desires.
Again, I cannot emphasize enough how little power you actually have in society. That is because freedom-loving individuals are always fighting against us statists, which will obviously cause the individual to lose.
It is not even theoretically possible for the freedom-loving individual to win against us statists.
Of course, every now and then we statists might give you freedom-loving libertarians a few breadcrumbs to give you the illusion that you have freedom, such as the right to bear arms (lol, so cute, so sweet, so innocent =^D ), but we all know who actually controls who in society.
No adult should ever make their own computer.
That's something high-school dropouts do for fun.
Anyone that proposes to build workstations for their job should immediately be fired.
Right now Apple makes the finest workstations in the world, nothing else even comes close. Everything else is broken and unreliable.
A good way to determine who's hirable in IT, is if they pick Apple workstations.
Why are you comparing unprofessional junk systems to professional workstations?
You know those Xeons? The reason they're 10x the cost of i7's is because they support ECC memory AND ECC Cache.
Xeon's don't crash as much as i7's do.
They're used in professional jobs where they might be computing for a week straight. Having them crash in the middle of that would be the height of N00b systems.
Then you have the PCI SSD, which is far cheaper here than anywhere else, where you'd probably pay $4k for a 1TB PCI-SSD.
And then you have the dual GPUs, which are normally $3.5k each.
Sorry, but this is a pro systems, designed for pros, not for gamers. Gamers don't mind if their CPUs crash.
NEVER compare typical desktops to a workstation. The kind of n00b user that does that gets fired.
Not just ECC RAM, but ECC Cache.
Xeons are far more reliable than i7's.
They're often used for compute tasks that might take a week, and having them crash in the middle of that would be unacceptable.