What's wrong with that? We are both consenting adults. Society just has some arbitrary rules about incest.
You know the same rule that deals with Homosexuality and Bestiality.
All that's happened is that back in the 70s Homosexuality stopped being listed among mental disorders of a sexual nature. Even the Scichiatric textbooks were adjusted in the newer editions to reflect that fact.
Funny thing though. Homosexuals, even in the most liberal societies (Like western Europe) still seek mental help on at more than twice the rate of the general population.
You see being a homosexual isn't like being black or being disabled. It's not a matter of genetics (Gays who live gay should have no children and hence not pass on the gene). No. It's more like being a republican or being a Rastafarian. You chose to accept certain values as your own and to associate with a specific group of people.
When one of those values conflicts with the laws of your society screaming "discrimination" is just annoying.
Yes. In Jamaica Rastas are still being convicted for illegal possession of Marijuana.
You get a lot more performance per dolar on small X86 PC hardware than on any kind of big iron. I.e. SMP costs a premium. That premium multiplies as your CPU count goes up.
$1,000 for single CPU box
$5,000 for dual box
$30,000 for quad CPU box
$150,000 for 8 CPU box
This asumes same amount of RAM per CPU. Looking at this list you should see that you can get 8 chips for $8,000 or $150,000. Depending on how you virtualise.
I know a man (Dr. Lechim Semaj) who liked polygamy. Problem is, in Jamaica you aren't allowed to have 2 wives. He solved the problem by creating a limited liability company with himself and each wife as shareholders. All communal assets (Family home etc...) were transferred to this company. This means that the usual problems of inheritance that even children have are removed.
In Jamaica there are taxes to be paid when you transfer real estate from a dead parent. No taxes apply for transferring stock in a company however.
In Jamaica where we have a high rate of common law unions hospitals will consider anyone next of kin if they convince the MD of such. A shared address is usually enough.
As for the tax breaks. You pay a 1 time charge of around $50 (u$) to register the marriage. There are no special tax breaks of any kind. I think this is partially responsible for the high rate of common law unions mentioned above.
Funny thing is we have a gay lobby in Jamaica and they haven't bothered to mention marriage. Lot's of other complaints, but no need to wed.
Seams like my guess about "free stuff" was close to the mark.
The Biological foundation of marriage is to identify the father in advance.
The social function of marriage is to identify who is mated to who. Marriage isn't the only way to achieve this. It has been done with tattoos, rings ceremonies of various types. None of which are legally binding but all of which have the full social impact of a marriage.
Legally. That's where it get's interesting. Over the years the US government and it's many state and municipal authorities have built up various programs, and legal structures that amount to an incentive to have people in long term relationships get married and then even more structures to make exiting a marriage time consuming and awkward.
Marriage started out as a religious institution. The government actions mentioned above were mostly in response to this. Those structures have remained in the more secular society of today because research shows that on average children with 2 parents do better academically and socially. (See point 1 above)
So the question for me is WHY do homosexuals want to marry?
Seriously. It doesn't make sense to me. The same mindset that invented marriage also defined heterosexuality and celibacy as the only normal sexual expressions. Is it that gays want to marry just to get in on the free stuff (tm) ?
This reminds me of Seventh Day Adventists who demand to be employed in a supermarket. A bit of clarification SDA followers are not permitted to work on Saturday. Supermarkets are busiest on Saturday so it's the one day NOBODY gets off except in the most dire circumstances.
BTW: WoWC is just a game. If you don't like the rules play something else. I became a bowler instead of a wide reciver because I aplied the same logic.
"... I have sent a friendly letter using the postal service. I wrote a letter to a local police department commending the officer who helped me when I got a flat tire..."
Other people have admited to writing friendly letters. This letter dose not count as such. It's actualy a letter of comendation from a customer (seriusly) that will go on the cop's personel file along with any complaints.
I should know. My boss has shown me some that came in from customers about me. I'm in tech support so most come via EMail thogh:)
Email and Faxes killed the Telegram. That's because a telegram serves the simple purpose convey information to a person. That means if someone wants to know when your passport expires or the personal details in that document. A simple fax or emailed scan or telegram of that info is sufficient.
If however you need to get a Visa put in by a country that doesn't have an embassy near your home you have to send the actual document by overnight mail or currier service.
So yes. While Email will eventually kill of faxes too. It won't bother snail mail much more than it already has.
In other news, has anyone on Slashdot EVER written a friendly letter (attempted seduction counts) and sent it by snail mail?
To keep the game interesting and the developers busy you should do it that way. I.e. Basic options to start then more as the game grows.
You could also tackle in this game some of the sticky issues not handled in SG1 or Atlantis.
I.e. Pay $1M, Sign an NDA and carry a Tocra around for a year. Get your Aids cure right here. And speaking of Aids. Remember those armbands that SG1 became immune to?
-: I can fire up my NES and play Super Mario Bros. III just fine:-
More importantly. SMB3 is such a great game that I want to. I have an emulator so I can play SMB3 on My PC and Laptop. I own a USB game paddle for the exclusive use of SMB3. All my other games are keyboard or mouse centric.
We need Nuclear power plants. How I picture them really impacting the environment is like this.
1. Produce Electricity at Nuclear plant.
2. Transmit Electricity to gas stations in the usual manner (power lines).
3. Run Hydrogen extraction equipment at gas station to fill up Hydrogen powered cars.
Note this means gas stations will need more pumps until we faze out Gasoline. I.e. Diesel, Unleaded, regular, Biodiesel, Ethanol, Hydrogen. Electricity (For battery operated vehicles).
Of those listed only the Hydrogen and raw Electricity pumps will not involve transporting a volatile chemical over long distances. That has to be a benefit ?
And in last weaks episode an SG1 member from a paralel universe anounced that she was on Maternity leave. Another said she was on Honeymoon. With Teal'k.
"-Why they celebrate birthdays and not conception days?-"
Because, in a normal marriage "conception day" is just a guess. My Wife is pregnant now and from the last couple of ultrasounds our original conception day estimate might be off by as much as a month.
We also know full well that Jesus wasn't born in late December but we celebrate that date anyway since we don't know when he was born.
"-Why they believe one ascends to heaven immediately upon a man saying they are dead?-"
Because they never read the Bible or didn't understand it. I won't quote exact scripture but the Bible is pretty clear that the dead are "sleeping" and "know nothing" of what's happening now and that there is a future sequence of Resurrection -> Judgment -> assignment to an eternal home, New Earth, Heaven or Hell. there were a few individuals who skipped that process however. Jesus who rose from the dead a mere 3 days after dying then "ascended" and Enoc, who ascended without bothering to die.
"-Why they believe that one who has no brain activity but body life might still be considered alive on this earth?-"
You have me there. Christians are heavily divided on that one. As are the members of most other religions, including Atheists. (yes. "Atheist" is a religion. "Agnostic" is the one that isn't and I can explain why if you're interested). Could it be that layman reasoning has not caught up to medical knowledge? I.e. Until farley recently life and death were separated by Heart/Lung activity. Even now Doctors still pronounce you dead if there is no pulse and CPR doesn't produce one. They only check for brain activity in certain special circumstances.
I was raised Christian by fundamentalist Parents. BOTH my father and mother are pastors in the "Church of God". Largest Christian denomination in Jamaica. The country with the most churches per capita on earth. So I do know what I'm talking about.
To answer the question asked earlier about "Christian burial".
Christians do believe that on resurrection (At the end of days) you will be provided with a body not dissimilar to your original body in general appearance. this new body will be fundamentally different however. I.e.It will at least be more durable.
Why do Christians bury the dead?
Because corpses smell bad and provide a breading ground for disease.
Also there is the symbolism of man being made from "the dust of the earth" and being returned. That symbolism is way up there with the communion.
I know of Christian *funerals* where the body is not being buried but rather cremated.
BTW: What's a funeral ? An opportunity for the pastor to preach to people who would ordinarily not attend church
I'll look into those Chaparral and Dot Hill controllers. Anything significantly more robust than a PERC 3/DC might well be worth investigating in.
As to the so called Strawman. The experiment I described would actually simulate the incident the original poster described.
I do have some experience doing Lab setups prior to deploying enterprise system (I hate that buzzword too). I have also had to simulate failures that happened for real in the field.
Just to stray a little, I once had a PERC 3/DC with 19 disks connected. 2 RAID 5s of 9 disks each that were then mirrored with the 19th disk as a hot spare. The disks were 144 GB each. When the customer had a disk failure the machine did not properly recover. We set up a Lab and went to work. Turns out that the PERC controller was timing out when rebuilding the large disks. The eventual solution was that Dell created an updated firmware with a longer timeout on disk rebuilds.
Back on topic. The Main topic.
I live in Jamaica and the way to get something critical delivered in less than 2 days guaranteed is to send an employee to the vendors office in Miami to pick up the item and then board a plane with it in hand luggage with the applicable duties in cash in her purse. We had to do that for a customer 3 Christmases ago. We sent the CEO's Secretary. The whole trip took 15 hours. She arrived on the midnight flight and the installation was completed before dawn giving the customer enough horsepower to survive Christmas shopping.
The problem should have been anticipated and upgrades ordered before December but alas. Geeks and university graduate secretarys exist to rescue 2nd rate managers.
1. Pull a disk from a RAID 5 on your "enterprise controller". 2. Wait for the machine to recognize this failure. 3. Initiate some activity on the array. Something with lots of reads and writes. 4. Randomly reshuffle drives.
If you can do that without any data loss or downtime. Consistently.
I want to know the make and model of the RAID controller you use to do this. It would be worth a hell of a lot more than the stupid cards from Dell and SUN I have been playing with.
The RAID already had a failed disk which means that if it was a RAID 5 it would be operating as RAID 0. The disk shuffle was started in that scenario with the machine running. Pull a disk from an active RAID 0 and game over.
That "New Guy" was employed as an accounting cleark right?
Some things are below "any" minimum competence standards.
And for the goy mentioned an Onsite response contract. I work for a company that provides that service. We have 2 goys employed full time with the sole porpose of keeping track of the warehouse of spare parts we keap for our contract customers.
We also have full spare machines.
Simple rule. If you need to have something deliverd within 2 days of ordering it, you made a serius blunder before and are now engaged in damage control.
Free Tips for IT shops on a tight budget ?
1. Similar servers. Chuse a couple of "default servers". Something solid simple and reliable that can handle most of the odd jobs that come up. Helps with #2.
2. Spare server for each make and model machine in your data centre. These machines can be a lot cheaper than you might think if you know how to manage the overlaps. I.e. It makes sence for this spare machine to have little or no Hard drives. Less memory etc.. Basicaly just enogh that you can boot and test it ruteanly.
3. Spare parts. To make this cheaper creat some uniformity in your server configs. I.e. If you are buying SMP machines with 3GH 1MB Zeons, then keap doing that ontil the next procesor you chuse is a big step up. I.e. 4GH. Also. Large SCSI drives work as spares for smaler drives in a RAID. (You can replace you failed 36GB drive with a 300GB drive.)
4. Backup, Backup, Backup ontil you hit the wall. Tape backups are for storage offsite in case the data centre burns down. For recovering after a server crash you should have a dedicated backup server with oodles of internal storage. That's why they invented SATA:)
5. My favorite thogh and this isn't mentioned in ANY service manual or CS course. Put the OS, applications and configuration information on a dedicated RAID 1. Then breack the RAID. I.e. remove 1 of the disks and replace it with a blank drive which will be prumpltly remirorred. That original drive can then be filed away with your backup tapes for instant recovery.
Just to clarify for all those who ask about how much the luser pays.
the rates are set in advance according to a formula which includes, experience of lawyer (years at the bar) type of case and court level. I.e. Cheaper at RM and more money at Supream or Circuit.
When the desision is dificult in the actual case, That's when they turn down the legal fees claim.
The US system is broken. I'm not sure exactly how but you have more frivulos lawsuites than comonwealth contries and people tend to get paid off dispite "contributery negligence". I'e. If you were not invited onto my premises then your broken leg is not my concern.
"In the USA you can sue anyone for anything;"... Including legal fees and harasment over them filing frivulos lawsuites against you.
In this instance I prefer British common law as practiced in most former colonies.
1. If you sue and luse you can be called on to pay the other guys legal fees.
2. Judges are more conversant with the concept of "equity". I.e. Once they get it streight that you are trying to use the legal system to screw over someone who is at worst at fault to the same level you are the case is dead.
Cases like this show the wisdom of the "Looser pays" philosophy of British common law.
In essence if you are in a lawsuit and the court rules against you then the other goy can ask the court to make you pay his lawyer. The courts usually accept those requests.
In the case of the fiasco sco has been carrying on, those rules would immediately double the cost to them. It also reduces the likelihood of someone settling a frivolous lawsuit.
SCO has also filed suite in contries that require you to support your original claim. Those casses are over. In Ostralia they are under warning to not try it again. (Public mischife is a crime)
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"I demand the right to marry my sister."
What's wrong with that? We are both consenting adults. Society just has some arbitrary rules about incest.
You know the same rule that deals with Homosexuality and Bestiality.
All that's happened is that back in the 70s Homosexuality stopped being listed among mental disorders of a sexual nature. Even the Scichiatric textbooks were adjusted in the newer editions to reflect that fact.
Funny thing though. Homosexuals, even in the most liberal societies (Like western Europe) still seek mental help on at more than twice the rate of the general population.
You see being a homosexual isn't like being black or being disabled. It's not a matter of genetics (Gays who live gay should have no children and hence not pass on the gene). No. It's more like being a republican or being a Rastafarian. You chose to accept certain values as your own and to associate with a specific group of people.
When one of those values conflicts with the laws of your society screaming "discrimination" is just annoying.
Yes. In Jamaica Rastas are still being convicted for illegal possession of Marijuana.
-:"You want a good invention that is environmental: Invent something that no one will use - thus you don't spend any sort of resources.":- AC
This quote is going into my hot list.
You get a lot more performance per dolar on small X86 PC hardware than on any kind of big iron. I.e. SMP costs a premium. That premium multiplies as your CPU count goes up.
$1,000 for single CPU box
$5,000 for dual box
$30,000 for quad CPU box
$150,000 for 8 CPU box
This asumes same amount of RAM per CPU. Looking at this list you should see that you can get 8 chips for $8,000 or $150,000. Depending on how you virtualise.
Funny story for you.
I know a man (Dr. Lechim Semaj) who liked polygamy. Problem is, in Jamaica you aren't allowed to have 2 wives. He solved the problem by creating a limited liability company with himself and each wife as shareholders. All communal assets (Family home etc...) were transferred to this company. This means that the usual problems of inheritance that even children have are removed.
In Jamaica there are taxes to be paid when you transfer real estate from a dead parent. No taxes apply for transferring stock in a company however.
In Jamaica where we have a high rate of common law unions hospitals will consider anyone next of kin if they convince the MD of such. A shared address is usually enough.
As for the tax breaks. You pay a 1 time charge of around $50 (u$) to register the marriage. There are no special tax breaks of any kind. I think this is partially responsible for the high rate of common law unions mentioned above.
Funny thing is we have a gay lobby in Jamaica and they haven't bothered to mention marriage. Lot's of other complaints, but no need to wed.
Seams like my guess about "free stuff" was close to the mark.
Ever herd the term "have your cake and eat it?"
The Biological foundation of marriage is to identify the father in advance.
The social function of marriage is to identify who is mated to who. Marriage isn't the only way to achieve this. It has been done with tattoos, rings ceremonies of various types. None of which are legally binding but all of which have the full social impact of a marriage.
Legally. That's where it get's interesting. Over the years the US government and it's many state and municipal authorities have built up various programs, and legal structures that amount to an incentive to have people in long term relationships get married and then even more structures to make exiting a marriage time consuming and awkward.
Marriage started out as a religious institution. The government actions mentioned above were mostly in response to this. Those structures have remained in the more secular society of today because research shows that on average children with 2 parents do better academically and socially. (See point 1 above)
So the question for me is WHY do homosexuals want to marry?
Seriously. It doesn't make sense to me. The same mindset that invented marriage also defined heterosexuality and celibacy as the only normal sexual expressions. Is it that gays want to marry just to get in on the free stuff (tm) ?
This reminds me of Seventh Day Adventists who demand to be employed in a supermarket. A bit of clarification SDA followers are not permitted to work on Saturday. Supermarkets are busiest on Saturday so it's the one day NOBODY gets off except in the most dire circumstances.
BTW: WoWC is just a game. If you don't like the rules play something else. I became a bowler instead of a wide reciver because I aplied the same logic.
"... I have sent a friendly letter using the postal service. I wrote a letter to a local police department commending the officer who helped me when I got a flat tire..."
:)
Other people have admited to writing friendly letters. This letter dose not count as such. It's actualy a letter of comendation from a customer (seriusly) that will go on the cop's personel file along with any complaints.
I should know. My boss has shown me some that came in from customers about me. I'm in tech support so most come via EMail thogh
Information vs. proof.
Email and Faxes killed the Telegram. That's because a telegram serves the simple purpose convey information to a person. That means if someone wants to know when your passport expires or the personal details in that document. A simple fax or emailed scan or telegram of that info is sufficient.
If however you need to get a Visa put in by a country that doesn't have an embassy near your home you have to send the actual document by overnight mail or currier service.
So yes. While Email will eventually kill of faxes too. It won't bother snail mail much more than it already has.
In other news, has anyone on Slashdot EVER written a friendly letter (attempted seduction counts) and sent it by snail mail?
When your enciclopedia has a major section dedicated to a scifi show. You KNOW your dealing with hard core fans.
To keep the game interesting and the developers busy you should do it that way. I.e. Basic options to start then more as the game grows.
You could also tackle in this game some of the sticky issues not handled in SG1 or Atlantis.
I.e. Pay $1M, Sign an NDA and carry a Tocra around for a year. Get your Aids cure right here. And speaking of Aids. Remember those armbands that SG1 became immune to?
BTW: What's the gate address for earth ?
-: I can fire up my NES and play Super Mario Bros. III just fine :-
More importantly. SMB3 is such a great game that I want to. I have an emulator so I can play SMB3 on My PC and Laptop. I own a USB game paddle for the exclusive use of SMB3. All my other games are keyboard or mouse centric.
You make 1 very valid point amid all the noise.
We need Nuclear power plants. How I picture them really impacting the environment is like this.
1. Produce Electricity at Nuclear plant.
2. Transmit Electricity to gas stations in the usual manner (power lines).
3. Run Hydrogen extraction equipment at gas station to fill up Hydrogen powered cars.
Note this means gas stations will need more pumps until we faze out Gasoline. I.e. Diesel, Unleaded, regular, Biodiesel, Ethanol, Hydrogen. Electricity (For battery operated vehicles).
Of those listed only the Hydrogen and raw Electricity pumps will not involve transporting a volatile chemical over long distances. That has to be a benefit ?
Actualy SUN has been using that term for some time.
Maybe MS is just folowing it's new pal?
And in last weaks episode an SG1 member from a paralel universe anounced that she was on Maternity leave. Another said she was on Honeymoon. With Teal'k.
"-Why they celebrate birthdays and not conception days?-"
Because, in a normal marriage "conception day" is just a guess. My Wife is pregnant now and from the last couple of ultrasounds our original conception day estimate might be off by as much as a month.
We also know full well that Jesus wasn't born in late December but we celebrate that date anyway since we don't know when he was born.
"-Why they believe one ascends to heaven immediately upon a man saying they are dead?-"
Because they never read the Bible or didn't understand it. I won't quote exact scripture but the Bible is pretty clear that the dead are "sleeping" and "know nothing" of what's happening now and that there is a future sequence of Resurrection -> Judgment -> assignment to an eternal home, New Earth, Heaven or Hell. there were a few individuals who skipped that process however. Jesus who rose from the dead a mere 3 days after dying then "ascended" and Enoc, who ascended without bothering to die.
"-Why they believe that one who has no brain activity but body life might still be considered alive on this earth?-"
You have me there. Christians are heavily divided on that one. As are the members of most other religions, including Atheists. (yes. "Atheist" is a religion. "Agnostic" is the one that isn't and I can explain why if you're interested). Could it be that layman reasoning has not caught up to medical knowledge? I.e. Until farley recently life and death were separated by Heart/Lung activity. Even now Doctors still pronounce you dead if there is no pulse and CPR doesn't produce one. They only check for brain activity in certain special circumstances.
I was raised Christian by fundamentalist Parents. BOTH my father and mother are pastors in the "Church of God". Largest Christian denomination in Jamaica. The country with the most churches per capita on earth. So I do know what I'm talking about.
To answer the question asked earlier about "Christian burial".
Christians do believe that on resurrection (At the end of days) you will be provided with a body not dissimilar to your original body in general appearance. this new body will be fundamentally different however. I.e.It will at least be more durable.
Why do Christians bury the dead?
Because corpses smell bad and provide a breading ground for disease.
Also there is the symbolism of man being made from "the dust of the earth" and being returned. That symbolism is way up there with the communion.
I know of Christian *funerals* where the body is not being buried but rather cremated.
BTW: What's a funeral ? An opportunity for the pastor to preach to people who would ordinarily not attend church
I don't really mind people raging on me over spelling problems. See my .sig
However, Unlike the 1st poster you were both decent and witty. That helps.
Dyslexia is my excuse. What's yours ?
Do you really expect anyone to take grammatical advise from someone who needs expletives to make the simplest point ?
Ok.
Now we are getting somewhere.
I'll look into those Chaparral and Dot Hill controllers. Anything significantly more robust than a PERC 3/DC might well be worth investigating in.
As to the so called Strawman. The experiment I described would actually simulate the incident the original poster described.
I do have some experience doing Lab setups prior to deploying enterprise system (I hate that buzzword too). I have also had to simulate failures that happened for real in the field.
Just to stray a little, I once had a PERC 3/DC with 19 disks connected. 2 RAID 5s of 9 disks each that were then mirrored with the 19th disk as a hot spare. The disks were 144 GB each. When the customer had a disk failure the machine did not properly recover. We set up a Lab and went to work. Turns out that the PERC controller was timing out when rebuilding the large disks. The eventual solution was that Dell created an updated firmware with a longer timeout on disk rebuilds.
Back on topic. The Main topic.
I live in Jamaica and the way to get something critical delivered in less than 2 days guaranteed is to send an employee to the vendors office in Miami to pick up the item and then board a plane with it in hand luggage with the applicable duties in cash in her purse. We had to do that for a customer 3 Christmases ago. We sent the CEO's Secretary. The whole trip took 15 hours. She arrived on the midnight flight and the installation was completed before dawn giving the customer enough horsepower to survive Christmas shopping.
The problem should have been anticipated and upgrades ordered before December but alas. Geeks and university graduate secretarys exist to rescue 2nd rate managers.
OK. Try this experiment.
1. Pull a disk from a RAID 5 on your "enterprise controller".
2. Wait for the machine to recognize this failure.
3. Initiate some activity on the array. Something with lots of reads and writes.
4. Randomly reshuffle drives.
If you can do that without any data loss or downtime. Consistently.
I want to know the make and model of the RAID controller you use to do this. It would be worth a hell of a lot more than the stupid cards from Dell and SUN I have been playing with.
Did you read the original post ?
The RAID already had a failed disk which means that if it was a RAID 5 it would be operating as RAID 0. The disk shuffle was started in that scenario with the machine running. Pull a disk from an active RAID 0 and game over.
That "New Guy" was employed as an accounting cleark right?
:)
Some things are below "any" minimum competence standards.
And for the goy mentioned an Onsite response contract. I work for a company that provides that service. We have 2 goys employed full time with the sole porpose of keeping track of the warehouse of spare parts we keap for our contract customers.
We also have full spare machines.
Simple rule. If you need to have something deliverd within 2 days of ordering it, you made a serius blunder before and are now engaged in damage control.
Free Tips for IT shops on a tight budget ?
1. Similar servers. Chuse a couple of "default servers". Something solid simple and reliable that can handle most of the odd jobs that come up. Helps with #2.
2. Spare server for each make and model machine in your data centre. These machines can be a lot cheaper than you might think if you know how to manage the overlaps. I.e. It makes sence for this spare machine to have little or no Hard drives. Less memory etc.. Basicaly just enogh that you can boot and test it ruteanly.
3. Spare parts. To make this cheaper creat some uniformity in your server configs. I.e. If you are buying SMP machines with 3GH 1MB Zeons, then keap doing that ontil the next procesor you chuse is a big step up. I.e. 4GH. Also. Large SCSI drives work as spares for smaler drives in a RAID. (You can replace you failed 36GB drive with a 300GB drive.)
4. Backup, Backup, Backup ontil you hit the wall. Tape backups are for storage offsite in case the data centre burns down. For
recovering after a server crash you should have a dedicated backup server with oodles of internal storage. That's why they invented SATA
5. My favorite thogh and this isn't mentioned in ANY service manual or CS course. Put the OS, applications and configuration information on a dedicated RAID 1. Then breack the RAID. I.e. remove 1 of the disks and replace it with a blank drive which will be prumpltly remirorred. That original drive can then be filed away with your backup tapes for instant recovery.
Just to clarify for all those who ask about how much the luser pays.
the rates are set in advance according to a formula which includes, experience of lawyer (years at the bar) type of case and court level. I.e. Cheaper at RM and more money at Supream or Circuit.
When the desision is dificult in the actual case, That's when they turn down the legal fees claim.
The US system is broken. I'm not sure exactly how but you have more frivulos lawsuites than comonwealth contries and people tend to get paid off dispite "contributery negligence". I'e. If you were not invited onto my premises then your broken leg is not my concern.
"In the USA you can sue anyone for anything;" ... Including legal fees and harasment over them filing frivulos lawsuites against you.
In this instance I prefer British common law as practiced in most former colonies.
1. If you sue and luse you can be called on to pay the other guys legal fees.
2. Judges are more conversant with the concept of "equity". I.e. Once they get it streight that you are trying to use the legal system to screw over someone who is at worst at fault to the same level you are the case is dead.
So let's get this streight.
Some goy spends all his days submiting stories to Slashdot and manages to get a lot of them published.
these are stories we find interesting (If not then avoid Slashdot) and people are complaining ?
Taco. Get over it. If the complaints get too noisy you have my permision to mass moderate, admin mod and even an ocasional bitchslap.
Cases like this show the wisdom of the "Looser pays" philosophy of British common law.
In essence if you are in a lawsuit and the court rules against you then the other goy can ask the court to make you pay his lawyer. The courts usually accept those requests.
In the case of the fiasco sco has been carrying on, those rules would immediately double the cost to them. It also reduces the likelihood of someone settling a frivolous lawsuit.
SCO has also filed suite in contries that require you to support your original claim. Those casses are over. In Ostralia they are under warning to not try it again. (Public mischife is a crime)