Latin naming is a Western scientific convention and perceived as having gravitas. Stop playing the victim.
I was trying to make point. I don't use Latin for place names here, why should I do it for the moon?
Tranquility Base serves the purpose, just like "New York" or "London" does. Changing it to Latin sounds like a bit of a wank to me.
Exchange/Outlook isn't just email though, it's a messaging and collaboration solution. And people who use it do so because they want more than just email, they want to be able to book meetings, share calendars, see when colleagues are online or available, and all that stuff. In all my years I've never once heard a user say "I only want to use a product that conforms strictly to RFC822". Maybe this is where you are going wrong?
You are the only person I have ever seen/heard claim that Exchange is simple to install and administer. Again, I get that you are new here
Sorry to ruin you routine, but I change my username every few years for privacy reasons. I've been here since the beginning.
I've also spent quite a few years administering Exchange since it was created, and without any training I've never had too many problems with it.
I understand that you have an astronomically large SlashID number, but that is no excuse for not knowing about Linux (and Red Hat and their ilk.)
I understand you've made a huge error of judgement with my UID, so I anything else you say can't really be taken on face value.
I also have DECADES of Linux experience (yes more than 20 years), so fill your boots friend, tell me your alternate solution for messaging/collab that is better for most organisations than Exchange and I will happily pick your argument to pieces.
If you don't take a taxi to the airport, how do you get there? Just curious. I know my family normally tries to have somebody drop them off, but if that isn't available, a taxi seems to be a good backup.
In most developed cities, they have trains from the CBD to the airports. The best example I've had is Hong Kong, where you can check-in to your flight at the train station in the city, hang out in town all day, then get on the express train to the Airport and jump straight on your plane.
Once you've experienced first rate infrastructure, it makes you angry that we have to put up with such shit back home. The concept of car focussed transport was a massive strategic error for town planning.
But what if the answers aren't actually good enough?
My take on this exchange, is that the GP asked legitimate questions, you responded with speculation and assumptions, none of which answered those questions, he called you out for it, and you got all rationalwiki on him as if that's some sort of get out of jail free card.
Uh...Ok? This is a government study using some pretty sound statistical methods, and unlike you I actually cited my source. So...your words are rather meaningless.
Didn't even bother reading the link, but having a wife as a public school teacher I know the drill. Private schools pick and choose who they accept, public schools can't. If you are in zone, the school has to take you. So if you have a special needs child, or an IQ of 25, the public school has to take them. Same goes for the poor, the ratbags, children of murders or drug dealers etc.
So results are biased towards private schools, only because they don't have the ratbags (and can kick them out if they aren't meeting expectation), not because of any special teaching skills.
Here, we also have 'selective' public schools, where gifted kids can go to a gifted public school for free (based on merit). These schools top our results every year, beating the most expensive and best privates. So take any results private schools give with a grain of salt.
oddly, that this was most drastically seen in the US. More study needs to be done but, for some reason,
From memory it was to do with the definition of poverty. In socialist countries like the UK, Canada, Australia etc someone in poverty still has access to free medical, govt housing, welfare payments etc etc so poverty is a lot higher standard than the US where the poor get nothing
Pound for pound, they were probably more effective for the amount of resources and time they spent on them.
The point of all three of those attacks was to show the impunity which terrorists could act with and to get us to do things to turn this into a religious war.
I disagree. 9/11 will go down like Pearl Harbour as a pivotal moment that changed history. Many places were bombed in WW2, but Pearl Harbour sent the conflict in a whole new direction. As tragic as the Paris and Ca events were, they haven't really changed the game at all.
I just got back from a European holiday, 9 countries over 4 weeks. I organised and booked everything myself and can only remember taking a taxi once when we first arrived because I hadn't yet grasped the lay of the land. After that it was train or walking everywhere.
Back home I'm Uber'ing every week because I live in the the suburbs and it's the only way to get home after a few drinks.
Such as? You left a glaring omission in your post, ie the suggested alternative (and please don't say gmail, or Zimbra - they are lightweight by comparison)
I also really hate the relentless level of user interface churn for the sake of style and visual design in almost everything.
Relentless? There has been one major UI change in its history, from the original File/Edit/View Menus to the Ribbon in 2007. That was quite jarring I admit, but the ribbon is an improvement (once you got used to it) IMO.
So, to those that say "no other single thing can replace MS Exchange"? MS Exchange itself is a suite of applications so why insist on replacing many with one?
Because one "Suite" that can be installed by clicking next, next, finish (and maybe some checkboxes), and is supported as a unit by the publisher, is whole lot different from 'Hey I cobbled together 50 different things that sort of do something similar but not quite, and good luck getting enterprise support for it, and pray that upgrading one package in that mix doesn't break the entire thing'.
That's why.
Biassed much? This has jack shit to do with the "remorseless competition of the US tech industry and the locals' respect for tradition and deference to established interests".
It has to do by following the rules.
Actually it's probably less about that too. European cities are a lot more public transport/pedestrian friendly, so there is probably not as lucrative taxi industries to disrupt as say the US, where it's cars or nothing.
... and yeah, the old methods work the best there. Same as modern military training.
Clearly they don't since the janitor couldn't handle the heat of a real battle. Had Fin been burning babies from a toddler instead of cleaning up poo, he would have no such issues.
And since robots do all menial tasks in Ep1-6, at what point did someone in the First Order say, hey let's get the men to clean the toilets instead of those robots that have been doing it our whole lives? It was a stupid plot device that threw me completely out of the story (yet again).
As for flamethrowers being 'clumsy, old fashioned weaponry,' how ELSE are you going to put an entire village to the flame?
Any one of the myriad of laser weapons found in this universe. If you have "Star Destroyers", "Death Stars" and "Star Killers", I'm sure that demolishing a small village isn't too much of a problem.
Hey, if you're going to count private property, which the US govt has no claim to...
The government are merely representatives of the people. If for whatever reason they screw up, you better believe it is you who are on the hook for it.
you'll also need to count private debt. So now you're over $60 trillion
Not sure where you get you're numbers from, but the figures I found say closer to $15T, much less than the assets in private property. So we're all good there.
Long term, if your debt is growing faster than GDP, you're going to eventually be screwed, regardless of the interest rate.
Only if it is constant, which I'm assuming the people charge don't plan for it to be that way. I remember reading somewhere that Republican Administrations have a pattern of blowing out debt, and Democrats get it back under control ( found it).
Obama has been the exception because Bush left the economy in such a shambles that the recovery will take much longer than this administration or the next.
When did you need your car's airbag the most? When did you need your first-aid kit or fire extinguisher the most?
I've never needed any of those things
Well, I sincerely hope that if you ever do need any of those things, that you have them, because when you do need them it's usually too late to go out and get them.
Leveraging all of your capital into collateral for debt works great until the debt faucet turns off and people expect to get their money. That's how banks collapse, they don't have any assets to cover the debts when people come calling.
Yes but that's why you should have regulations controlling what types of debts that public institutions should be allowed to take on. In freedom loving, capitalistic fuck yeah USA, there weren't any, so the banks gambled and failed. In Australia, where there are some of the strictest banking regulations, they survived the GFC intact and making profits.
Debt as a concept is not the problem.
Sounds like a housing bubble to me. That didn't work out so hot a few years ago.
It did in countries that have sensible economic policy.
Ep4-6, I think it was good enough to get people excited about the next movie.
The problem with Ep7 is that it has burnt a few major conventions which limit the opportunity for Ep8 success.
Putting all else aside, Rey being awesome at everything ruins any possible build-up or personal journey(apart from the obvious family connection which we can all see a mile off, and has been done to death already), and Ren being such a whiny dud means no cares about him as a real threat.
All good movies need the hero to be against the odds, and the villain to appear unbeatable. Neither of those things can happen now without stupid plot devices that will ruin any future story.
If you have a mortgage of $200,000 on a property with a value of $2 million, it still matters if you can't afford to make the mortgage payment.
No it doesn't. I can go to my Bank Manager and tell him I'd like a line of credit for $1M and sign the house up as collateral. I can then use that credit to pay Interest on the debt.
Even if I earn no more money, and spend all of my credit, I still own $800k in assets.
The national debt IS a big deal. Regardless of whatever value we can sell off government assets to cover the debt (or just print money)
You don't have to sell it. Debt is an offset against assets or potential earnings. As long as you have those there is no reason to ever pay off your debt.
we are spending money that a future generation will have to pay back.
No they don't, that is the misconception a lot of lay people have about debt.
That is worse than spending yourself into debt, it's spending the next generation into debt. The government is spending money it never intends to cover, that's for their successors to deal with. Kicking the can down the road.
No, because inflation has a nice way of trivialising debt. Back to the house example, a $200k mortgage in the 1980's (on say a $250k house) would be unachievable for your average family. Had you got a mortgage in the 80's for $200k, and only paid the Interest, you'd still have a $200k mortgage now, except a $200k mortgage is now peanuts. And your $250k asset is now worth $3Mil.
You could in theory now sell your house, and pocket $2.8M without ever paying a cent off your debt (but the smart thing would be to leverage that asset and buy another house, rinse and repeat, and get rich).
For some reason a lot of people think debt is bad. Rich people have debt, it's how you get the most value from money.
You mean you have an air bag installed in your car just in case you have an accident?
I have an airbag in my car because they built it like that. If my next car has no airbag, I'll have no problem with that.
I've never heard of anyone installing an airbag into a car that doesn't already have one.
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Latin naming is a Western scientific convention and perceived as having gravitas. Stop playing the victim.
I was trying to make point. I don't use Latin for place names here, why should I do it for the moon?
Tranquility Base serves the purpose, just like "New York" or "London" does. Changing it to Latin sounds like a bit of a wank to me.
Exchange/Outlook isn't just email though, it's a messaging and collaboration solution. And people who use it do so because they want more than just email, they want to be able to book meetings, share calendars, see when colleagues are online or available, and all that stuff. In all my years I've never once heard a user say "I only want to use a product that conforms strictly to RFC822". Maybe this is where you are going wrong?
You are the only person I have ever seen/heard claim that Exchange is simple to install and administer. Again, I get that you are new here
Sorry to ruin you routine, but I change my username every few years for privacy reasons. I've been here since the beginning.
I've also spent quite a few years administering Exchange since it was created, and without any training I've never had too many problems with it.
I understand that you have an astronomically large SlashID number, but that is no excuse for not knowing about Linux (and Red Hat and their ilk.)
I understand you've made a huge error of judgement with my UID, so I anything else you say can't really be taken on face value.
I also have DECADES of Linux experience (yes more than 20 years), so fill your boots friend, tell me your alternate solution for messaging/collab that is better for most organisations than Exchange and I will happily pick your argument to pieces.
If you don't take a taxi to the airport, how do you get there? Just curious. I know my family normally tries to have somebody drop them off, but if that isn't available, a taxi seems to be a good backup.
In most developed cities, they have trains from the CBD to the airports. The best example I've had is Hong Kong, where you can check-in to your flight at the train station in the city, hang out in town all day, then get on the express train to the Airport and jump straight on your plane.
Once you've experienced first rate infrastructure, it makes you angry that we have to put up with such shit back home. The concept of car focussed transport was a massive strategic error for town planning.
But what if the answers aren't actually good enough?
My take on this exchange, is that the GP asked legitimate questions, you responded with speculation and assumptions, none of which answered those questions, he called you out for it, and you got all rationalwiki on him as if that's some sort of get out of jail free card.
Uh...Ok? This is a government study using some pretty sound statistical methods, and unlike you I actually cited my source. So...your words are rather meaningless.
Didn't even bother reading the link, but having a wife as a public school teacher I know the drill. Private schools pick and choose who they accept, public schools can't. If you are in zone, the school has to take you. So if you have a special needs child, or an IQ of 25, the public school has to take them. Same goes for the poor, the ratbags, children of murders or drug dealers etc.
So results are biased towards private schools, only because they don't have the ratbags (and can kick them out if they aren't meeting expectation), not because of any special teaching skills.
Here, we also have 'selective' public schools, where gifted kids can go to a gifted public school for free (based on merit). These schools top our results every year, beating the most expensive and best privates. So take any results private schools give with a grain of salt.
oddly, that this was most drastically seen in the US. More study needs to be done but, for some reason,
From memory it was to do with the definition of poverty. In socialist countries like the UK, Canada, Australia etc someone in poverty still has access to free medical, govt housing, welfare payments etc etc so poverty is a lot higher standard than the US where the poor get nothing
seismic activity was confirmed by usgs (a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of a known Pyongyang nuclear site) before nk announcement actually .
generally speaking while nk uses grandiloquent propagandist language, they don't lie about actual events like this.
Or, maybe the US bombed Pyongyang and this is a cover story? How would anyone know?
Pound for pound, they were probably more effective for the amount of resources and time they spent on them.
The point of all three of those attacks was to show the impunity which terrorists could act with and to get us to do things to turn this into a religious war.
I disagree. 9/11 will go down like Pearl Harbour as a pivotal moment that changed history. Many places were bombed in WW2, but Pearl Harbour sent the conflict in a whole new direction. As tragic as the Paris and Ca events were, they haven't really changed the game at all.
10 people who did exactly what Ghandi did in the several hundred years before, were all taken outside and shot.
Exactly this.
I just got back from a European holiday, 9 countries over 4 weeks. I organised and booked everything myself and can only remember taking a taxi once when we first arrived because I hadn't yet grasped the lay of the land. After that it was train or walking everywhere.
Back home I'm Uber'ing every week because I live in the the suburbs and it's the only way to get home after a few drinks.
How do you differentiate between people who are asking questions, and people who are "Just asking questions"?
And Latinizing an English name isn't? For any English speaker born in the last 500 years, what is the point of Latin?
Such as? You left a glaring omission in your post, ie the suggested alternative (and please don't say gmail, or Zimbra - they are lightweight by comparison)
I also really hate the relentless level of user interface churn for the sake of style and visual design in almost everything.
Relentless? There has been one major UI change in its history, from the original File/Edit/View Menus to the Ribbon in 2007. That was quite jarring I admit, but the ribbon is an improvement (once you got used to it) IMO.
So, to those that say "no other single thing can replace MS Exchange"? MS Exchange itself is a suite of applications so why insist on replacing many with one?
Because one "Suite" that can be installed by clicking next, next, finish (and maybe some checkboxes), and is supported as a unit by the publisher, is whole lot different from 'Hey I cobbled together 50 different things that sort of do something similar but not quite, and good luck getting enterprise support for it, and pray that upgrading one package in that mix doesn't break the entire thing'.
That's why.
Biassed much? This has jack shit to do with the "remorseless competition of the US tech industry and the locals' respect for tradition and deference to established interests".
It has to do by following the rules.
Actually it's probably less about that too. European cities are a lot more public transport/pedestrian friendly, so there is probably not as lucrative taxi industries to disrupt as say the US, where it's cars or nothing.
... and yeah, the old methods work the best there. Same as modern military training.
Clearly they don't since the janitor couldn't handle the heat of a real battle. Had Fin been burning babies from a toddler instead of cleaning up poo, he would have no such issues.
And since robots do all menial tasks in Ep1-6, at what point did someone in the First Order say, hey let's get the men to clean the toilets instead of those robots that have been doing it our whole lives? It was a stupid plot device that threw me completely out of the story (yet again).
As for flamethrowers being 'clumsy, old fashioned weaponry,' how ELSE are you going to put an entire village to the flame?
Any one of the myriad of laser weapons found in this universe. If you have "Star Destroyers", "Death Stars" and "Star Killers", I'm sure that demolishing a small village isn't too much of a problem.
Hey, if you're going to count private property, which the US govt has no claim to...
The government are merely representatives of the people. If for whatever reason they screw up, you better believe it is you who are on the hook for it.
you'll also need to count private debt. So now you're over $60 trillion
Not sure where you get you're numbers from, but the figures I found say closer to $15T, much less than the assets in private property. So we're all good there.
Long term, if your debt is growing faster than GDP, you're going to eventually be screwed, regardless of the interest rate.
Only if it is constant, which I'm assuming the people charge don't plan for it to be that way. I remember reading somewhere that Republican Administrations have a pattern of blowing out debt, and Democrats get it back under control ( found it).
Obama has been the exception because Bush left the economy in such a shambles that the recovery will take much longer than this administration or the next.
When did you need your car's airbag the most? When did you need your first-aid kit or fire extinguisher the most?
I've never needed any of those things
Well, I sincerely hope that if you ever do need any of those things, that you have them, because when you do need them it's usually too late to go out and get them.
I try not to make decisions based on fear...
Leveraging all of your capital into collateral for debt works great until the debt faucet turns off and people expect to get their money. That's how banks collapse, they don't have any assets to cover the debts when people come calling.
Yes but that's why you should have regulations controlling what types of debts that public institutions should be allowed to take on. In freedom loving, capitalistic fuck yeah USA, there weren't any, so the banks gambled and failed. In Australia, where there are some of the strictest banking regulations, they survived the GFC intact and making profits.
Debt as a concept is not the problem.
Sounds like a housing bubble to me. That didn't work out so hot a few years ago.
It did in countries that have sensible economic policy.
Ep4-6, I think it was good enough to get people excited about the next movie.
The problem with Ep7 is that it has burnt a few major conventions which limit the opportunity for Ep8 success.
Putting all else aside, Rey being awesome at everything ruins any possible build-up or personal journey(apart from the obvious family connection which we can all see a mile off, and has been done to death already), and Ren being such a whiny dud means no cares about him as a real threat.
All good movies need the hero to be against the odds, and the villain to appear unbeatable. Neither of those things can happen now without stupid plot devices that will ruin any future story.
If you have a mortgage of $200,000 on a property with a value of $2 million, it still matters if you can't afford to make the mortgage payment.
No it doesn't. I can go to my Bank Manager and tell him I'd like a line of credit for $1M and sign the house up as collateral. I can then use that credit to pay Interest on the debt.
Even if I earn no more money, and spend all of my credit, I still own $800k in assets.
The national debt IS a big deal. Regardless of whatever value we can sell off government assets to cover the debt (or just print money)
You don't have to sell it. Debt is an offset against assets or potential earnings. As long as you have those there is no reason to ever pay off your debt.
we are spending money that a future generation will have to pay back.
No they don't, that is the misconception a lot of lay people have about debt.
That is worse than spending yourself into debt, it's spending the next generation into debt. The government is spending money it never intends to cover, that's for their successors to deal with. Kicking the can down the road.
No, because inflation has a nice way of trivialising debt. Back to the house example, a $200k mortgage in the 1980's (on say a $250k house) would be unachievable for your average family. Had you got a mortgage in the 80's for $200k, and only paid the Interest, you'd still have a $200k mortgage now, except a $200k mortgage is now peanuts. And your $250k asset is now worth $3Mil.
You could in theory now sell your house, and pocket $2.8M without ever paying a cent off your debt (but the smart thing would be to leverage that asset and buy another house, rinse and repeat, and get rich). For some reason a lot of people think debt is bad. Rich people have debt, it's how you get the most value from money.
You mean you have an air bag installed in your car just in case you have an accident?
I have an airbag in my car because they built it like that. If my next car has no airbag, I'll have no problem with that.
I've never heard of anyone installing an airbag into a car that doesn't already have one.
Every time I carry it I need it most.
When did you need your car's airbag the most? When did you need your first-aid kit or fire extinguisher the most?
I've never needed any of those things, and from the sounds of it you haven't needed your gun either...