If you give them too much leeway they might abuse it, not enough leeway and they are forced to do nonsensical things (insert favorite mandatory minimum story here).
The legal system has been trying to find the right balance for a long time, the system we have in English speaking countries is a bastardized mongrel that has been evolving since the Norman Conquest.
If it's really old kit you might be able to underclock the CPU and still have enough balls to do what you need. Newer stuff will self-throttle at higher temps.
If I was building one today I'd be highly tempted to boot it from a USB thumb drive instead of a mechanical HD anyway, you're only writing a few KB a day to/var.
I understand that... Though, that's certainly not a typical slashdot attitude... It seems most here know exactly what the problems with others' countries are...
Exactly.
Predictably, I think you foreigners are doing it all wrong and you'd benefit from doing things more like we do. Predictably, foreigners find this opinion annoying.
There was a thread a few months ago about quality of cell phone service in the US or something, and dozens and dozens of Yanks were defending the good ol' US of A's poor numbers. People who normally HATE their cell phone providers were patriotically explaining how it really wasn't that bad, and it was all a plot to make the Fatherland look bad.
Why bother having that conversation on Slashdot of all places? I reply to you because you took the time to write a reasonable reply.
Or does the Canadian system not take any costs into consideration when providing care? Would your system spend billions to treat a single individual for cancer? And, if not, where is the line and who determines it?
The line is generally determined by doctors, although there are cases of such-and-such expensive cancer drug not being covered by the healthcare system, and people suffering from whatever kind of cancer will organize and lobby gov't to cover the drug.
I just looked up "death panels" on the government web site, oddly enough they're not listed.
What kind of downtime are we talking? There's a big difference between a 5 hour total outage or 5 hour loss of connectivity to a small town DMV office.
But I thought the magic pixie dust of free enterprise would make outsourcing something to the private sector cheaper, more efficient, and better in every possible way?
It's been years, I don't remember if the import worked that first time or if I had permissions to the data or not. I was blindly typing in commands from a crib sheet, I'm far from a mainframe expert.
My point is that some places log everything, and more importantly they have someone who actually bothers to read the logs and follow up on them.
In this way, the same effects as regions and LPARs and mainframe access rights are re-achieved in the modern age with virtual desktops and VPN.
A couple of jobs ago, one of the tasks was a monthly data update to a tool our users had, basicly download a certain file from the mainframe and do some tweaks before importing it into a GUI front-end.
The first time I did it without help (i.e. logged into my own account), the next day I got a phone call asking why the hell I was looking at such-and-such business data, as an IT guy you have no need for that. Turns out my boss didn't sign the right form or something, got him on the phone and all was resolved.
I guess my point is that this level of scrutiny has been around for decades, at least in some shops.
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Isn't Guild Wars like that, you can learn lots of skills but can only have a few in your toolbar at any one time?
Underpowered? It's an 800Mhz ARM CPU, surely to fuck it can do a little text processing on 150 character tweets.
I'm guessing top-end mainframes didn't achieve that kind of CPU power until the late 80s.
Back in the day, ftp.cdrom.com pushed ~1TB a day from one 200-MHz P6 Pentium Pro.
Now get of my lawn.
Thx for the link, that was really cool.
Multiply that small number by the insanely huge number of gallons of gasoline consumed.
I'll bite, where are all the old missile silos in Canada?
Even worse, it's a French Canadian death ray.
Speaking anything other then English is a little suspicious, if you ask me those guys are up to no good.
The legal system constrains judges by design.
If you give them too much leeway they might abuse it, not enough leeway and they are forced to do nonsensical things (insert favorite mandatory minimum story here).
The legal system has been trying to find the right balance for a long time, the system we have in English speaking countries is a bastardized mongrel that has been evolving since the Norman Conquest.
In the short term, we are losing public domain. In the long, we are losing our identity.
Until you find a way to make that show up on next quarter's balance sheet... no-one making the decisions gives a rat's ass.
If it's really old kit you might be able to underclock the CPU and still have enough balls to do what you need. Newer stuff will self-throttle at higher temps.
If I was building one today I'd be highly tempted to boot it from a USB thumb drive instead of a mechanical HD anyway, you're only writing a few KB a day to /var.
Your closet must have newer junk then mine...
For me, nothing beats the Flintstones cigarette ads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c
I guess the positive thing to draw out of that is that it's great that so many people are happy with where they live. :)
They don't know any better, they're foreigners!
Seriously tho, nice to have a civil discussion online.
I understand that... Though, that's certainly not a typical slashdot attitude... It seems most here know exactly what the problems with others' countries are...
Exactly.
Predictably, I think you foreigners are doing it all wrong and you'd benefit from doing things more like we do. Predictably, foreigners find this opinion annoying.
There was a thread a few months ago about quality of cell phone service in the US or something, and dozens and dozens of Yanks were defending the good ol' US of A's poor numbers. People who normally HATE their cell phone providers were patriotically explaining how it really wasn't that bad, and it was all a plot to make the Fatherland look bad.
Why bother having that conversation on Slashdot of all places? I reply to you because you took the time to write a reasonable reply.
Or does the Canadian system not take any costs into consideration when providing care? Would your system spend billions to treat a single individual for cancer? And, if not, where is the line and who determines it?
The line is generally determined by doctors, although there are cases of such-and-such expensive cancer drug not being covered by the healthcare system, and people suffering from whatever kind of cancer will organize and lobby gov't to cover the drug.
I just looked up "death panels" on the government web site, oddly enough they're not listed.
What kind of downtime are we talking? There's a big difference between a 5 hour total outage or 5 hour loss of connectivity to a small town DMV office.
But I thought the magic pixie dust of free enterprise would make outsourcing something to the private sector cheaper, more efficient, and better in every possible way?
It's been years, I don't remember if the import worked that first time or if I had permissions to the data or not. I was blindly typing in commands from a crib sheet, I'm far from a mainframe expert.
My point is that some places log everything, and more importantly they have someone who actually bothers to read the logs and follow up on them.
In this way, the same effects as regions and LPARs and mainframe access rights are re-achieved in the modern age with virtual desktops and VPN.
A couple of jobs ago, one of the tasks was a monthly data update to a tool our users had, basicly download a certain file from the mainframe and do some tweaks before importing it into a GUI front-end.
The first time I did it without help (i.e. logged into my own account), the next day I got a phone call asking why the hell I was looking at such-and-such business data, as an IT guy you have no need for that. Turns out my boss didn't sign the right form or something, got him on the phone and all was resolved.
I guess my point is that this level of scrutiny has been around for decades, at least in some shops.
As a Canadian, I'll resist the urge to get drawn into a conversation about the US health care system.
This thread is useless without pictures!
Or at least links to these better looking girls.
It isn't a "duck sound", she's got the guy's cock so far down her throat that she triggers her gag reflex.
As far as the annoying dirty talk, Sasha Grey videos are best enjoyed with the sound off. (Or so I've heard.)
I'll bite, who's a top tier porn star?
TFA says the insurer was Manulife, but don't let that get in the way of your Randroid fantasies.
What if I like my family?
There are lots of state programs for the disabled, which this person will presumably now be eligible for.
In the US, is it unusual for employees to be covered by an insurance policy paid by the employer?
From the insurance company POV it's probably more profitable for sickly people to die quickly, because their premiums don't cover the payouts.