AWS's hosted version of Elasticsearch sort of worked, but was not really "good enough". It has a bunch of annoying little undocumented differences from the real product. And the web UI gave poor visibility into and control over the ES cluster.
We recently switched to Elastic's own hosted version of ES. (Which runs in an Elastic-managed Kubernetes cluster atop AWS, GCE, and/or Azure.) So far we're happy with the change. Performance is better, security is better, administration is easier, and price is very competitive.
Once upon a time advertising was an entirely separate business from snooping, stalking, and compiling secret dossiers.
Most people assume Faceboot makes its money by showing advertisements. Which just doesn't match its observed behavior at all. A small but growing set of people now suspect that most of Faceboot's revenue comes from selling mass surveillance data to Uncle Sam and other repressive governments.
Actually they _are_ normal. Everyone knows that. No one is fooled anymore when corporate progressive nazis abuse their monopoly power over mass media to (try to) redefine well known words.
But hey, keep on believing that toxic propaganda. Redouble your screams for more corporate big brother, more violent intolerance, more police state, more gulag in your vain effort to reshape humanity after the image of Victorian bourgeois spinsters.
Your efforts will fail. Death cults always do. The only question is how much human suffering and misery your policies will cause before the people (or the Chinese army) finally put a stop to the insanity.
"organized groups of white supremacists doing stuff like infiltrating police and military organizations"
There are no "white supremacists". Such cartoonish villains exist only in racist divide-and-conquer propaganda, and in the imaginations of people whipped into a frenzy by said propaganda.
"you DO have a choice. A free market can solve this"
Broham, do you work for Big Brother Google or Creepy Facebook? Or have you just been drinking waaaaaaaaaay too much Kool Aid?
Duh fwee market has obviously, spectacularly FAILED to protect even the tiniest shred of privacy. Instead it delivered a fully privatized, fully automated totalitarian surveillance state.
Well-structured markets can do a pretty spiffy job of allocating capital and rationing goods. However markets do a super shittastic job of protecting ordinary people from predatory capitalists.
I don't trust Rubio one little bit. But I don't trust the Just-Us Democrats one bit more. Whenever so-called Progressives talk about "justice" it's code for fucking over the "deplorable redneck" working class.
Those Just-Us Democrats who care more about economic issues facing working people, and less about promoting racism and feminazism while disarming the masses, should drop that ugly Just-Us label. Maybe they could call themselves Roosevelt Democrats. Like many many people I would have voted for FDR - so I might be interested in what a Roosevelt Democrat has to say.
You make it sound like we live in a Soviet style totalitarian police state. But that can't possibly be true. Because everybody knows the terwwawists hate us for our freedom.
Noooooooo! It's all lies and fake news! $MY_PARTY is composed of intelligent, honorable statesmen who always put the interests of the People first. Only $OTHER_PARTY has dirty rotten scoundrels in the legislature, ready to take bribes from every big money corporate lobbyist who comes along. If you don't support $MY_PARTY then you're literally a Nazi!!
Yup. Toxic insecticides and other crazy chemicals stayed with abandon onto crops are by far the most likely culprit. Why? Because a) they've done this before, many times. And b) killing insects is what those crazy chemicals were _designed_ to do.
But hey, let's blame it on the sky falling. That way people can spend a lot of time shaking their first and shouting at the sky. Rather than, you know, controlling and restricting the usage of dangerous environmental toxins.
Illegally immigration is a red herring. It's fully lawful "guest worker" (unwelcome guest) programs that are driving down wages for American workers while enriching a handful of scumbags.
The single biggest threat to the national security of the United States is all that highly radioactive, hypertoxic, barely contained nuclear waste that's sitting around in spent fuel pools. Thousands of tons spread out across the entire country. Just waiting for an enterprising terrorist, a war, a natural disaster, or our good old friend human error.
When the nuclear industry fixes this godawful horrible situation they have already created... then and only then can we discuss building more nuke plants. Until then - WTF are you thinking? Your existing operations currently today endanger the state itself and every man woman and child therein. No, of course you can't expand.
Tweedle Dee: Oh noez, the sky is falling! Carbon, carbon, carbon! The skyyyyyyy is falling!
Tweedle Dumb: Quick, we must build dangerous, uninsurable, uneconomical, preposterously expensive machines that produce tons of hypertoxic radioactive waste!!
"Social justice warrior", abbreviated "SJW", is deprecated. The new preferred term for villains such as the angry neopuritan who ruined DerbyCon is "social just-us nazi", abbreviated "nazi".
Children's Hospital (like all the Harvard hospitals) is an unholy, completely opaque entanglement of the University, the State of Massachusetts, a hospital foundation, a very profitable "non-profit" insurance company (Harvard Pilgrim Insurance), and a very profitable "non-profit" physician's cartel (Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates / Atrius Health).
Children's is more than the "government". It is _the State_ in the fullest modern sense - incorporating the democratically accountable government, the un-democratic parts of the government (NGOs, non-profits, academia), and the corporate parastate.
Children's Hospital is one of the Harvard hospitals. As you might imagine, the doctors there have VERY big egos. And they are socially VERY well connected.
Presumably that's why Judge Gorton, himself a Dartmouth and Columbia grad, ordered such totally disproportionate punishment. Wouldn't want to upset the old boy's club, you know. Gotta keep those uppity proles in their place.
I like to chat with foreign visitors passing through the city. Based on this small sample I think Bill is right.
There is this basically satanic attitude that says: "woo hoo he he lock them up in a torture camp _forever_!!! ah ha ha ha!!!" Only Americans have that attitude.
Euros, Asians, Africans, South Americans - all of them have far more Christan, forgiving attitudes. All of them are horrified by the Stalinesque kangaroo courts and gulag we've built here.
Fellow Americans, let's ask ourselves some hard questions: How did we become the bad guys? How did a culturally Christian nation come to embrace cruelty, vengeance, torture, and extraction of false confessions - as the cornerstone of our "justice" system? How can we end this evil?
There's no way to make America truly great again until we shut down the gulag and de-Stalinize the courts.
Granted I haven't been back to SF since this scooter trend started. But it's very hard indeed to imagine _anything_ that could somehow make downtown SF an even shittier shithole than it already is.
Makes you wonder why the city administration is putting so many resources into discouraging alternatives to automobile use. Maybe they are getting some bribes from auto industry lobbyists? Or maybe they just love air pollution?
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AWS's hosted version of Elasticsearch sort of worked, but was not really "good enough". It has a bunch of annoying little undocumented differences from the real product. And the web UI gave poor visibility into and control over the ES cluster.
We recently switched to Elastic's own hosted version of ES. (Which runs in an Elastic-managed Kubernetes cluster atop AWS, GCE, and/or Azure.) So far we're happy with the change. Performance is better, security is better, administration is easier, and price is very competitive.
Once upon a time advertising was an entirely separate business from snooping, stalking, and compiling secret dossiers.
Most people assume Faceboot makes its money by showing advertisements. Which just doesn't match its observed behavior at all. A small but growing set of people now suspect that most of Faceboot's revenue comes from selling mass surveillance data to Uncle Sam and other repressive governments.
Actually they _are_ normal. Everyone knows that. No one is fooled anymore when corporate progressive nazis abuse their monopoly power over mass media to (try to) redefine well known words.
But hey, keep on believing that toxic propaganda. Redouble your screams for more corporate big brother, more violent intolerance, more police state, more gulag in your vain effort to reshape humanity after the image of Victorian bourgeois spinsters.
Your efforts will fail. Death cults always do. The only question is how much human suffering and misery your policies will cause before the people (or the Chinese army) finally put a stop to the insanity.
"organized groups of white supremacists doing stuff like infiltrating police and military organizations"
There are no "white supremacists". Such cartoonish villains exist only in racist divide-and-conquer propaganda, and in the imaginations of people whipped into a frenzy by said propaganda.
"you DO have a choice. A free market can solve this"
Broham, do you work for Big Brother Google or Creepy Facebook? Or have you just been drinking waaaaaaaaaay too much Kool Aid?
Duh fwee market has obviously, spectacularly FAILED to protect even the tiniest shred of privacy. Instead it delivered a fully privatized, fully automated totalitarian surveillance state.
Well-structured markets can do a pretty spiffy job of allocating capital and rationing goods. However markets do a super shittastic job of protecting ordinary people from predatory capitalists.
I don't trust Rubio one little bit. But I don't trust the Just-Us Democrats one bit more. Whenever so-called Progressives talk about "justice" it's code for fucking over the "deplorable redneck" working class.
Those Just-Us Democrats who care more about economic issues facing working people, and less about promoting racism and feminazism while disarming the masses, should drop that ugly Just-Us label. Maybe they could call themselves Roosevelt Democrats. Like many many people I would have voted for FDR - so I might be interested in what a Roosevelt Democrat has to say.
You make it sound like we live in a Soviet style totalitarian police state. But that can't possibly be true. Because everybody knows the terwwawists hate us for our freedom.
Noooooooo! It's all lies and fake news! $MY_PARTY is composed of intelligent, honorable statesmen who always put the interests of the People first. Only $OTHER_PARTY has dirty rotten scoundrels in the legislature, ready to take bribes from every big money corporate lobbyist who comes along. If you don't support $MY_PARTY then you're literally a Nazi!!
"1. Remove 2 billion people from the planet."
Progressive nazis sure do lust for the gas chambers and ovens.
Yup. Toxic insecticides and other crazy chemicals stayed with abandon onto crops are by far the most likely culprit. Why? Because a) they've done this before, many times. And b) killing insects is what those crazy chemicals were _designed_ to do.
But hey, let's blame it on the sky falling. That way people can spend a lot of time shaking their first and shouting at the sky. Rather than, you know, controlling and restricting the usage of dangerous environmental toxins.
Illegally immigration is a red herring. It's fully lawful "guest worker" (unwelcome guest) programs that are driving down wages for American workers while enriching a handful of scumbags.
The single biggest threat to the national security of the United States is all that highly radioactive, hypertoxic, barely contained nuclear waste that's sitting around in spent fuel pools. Thousands of tons spread out across the entire country. Just waiting for an enterprising terrorist, a war, a natural disaster, or our good old friend human error.
When the nuclear industry fixes this godawful horrible situation they have already created... then and only then can we discuss building more nuke plants. Until then - WTF are you thinking? Your existing operations currently today endanger the state itself and every man woman and child therein. No, of course you can't expand.
Heretic! The skyyyyyy is faaaaaaalllllling!!
Remember - build the crazy mad science tech we demand, or God will smite you with floods!!
Tweedle Dee: Oh noez, the sky is falling! Carbon, carbon, carbon! The skyyyyyyy is falling!
Tweedle Dumb: Quick, we must build dangerous, uninsurable, uneconomical, preposterously expensive machines that produce tons of hypertoxic radioactive waste!!
Tweedle Dee: OMG you saved the environment!!!
"Social justice warrior", abbreviated "SJW", is deprecated. The new preferred term for villains such as the angry neopuritan who ruined DerbyCon is "social just-us nazi", abbreviated "nazi".
'Was the hospital the "government"?'
Children's Hospital (like all the Harvard hospitals) is an unholy, completely opaque entanglement of the University, the State of Massachusetts, a hospital foundation, a very profitable "non-profit" insurance company (Harvard Pilgrim Insurance), and a very profitable "non-profit" physician's cartel (Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates / Atrius Health).
Children's is more than the "government". It is _the State_ in the fullest modern sense - incorporating the democratically accountable government, the un-democratic parts of the government (NGOs, non-profits, academia), and the corporate parastate.
Children's Hospital is one of the Harvard hospitals. As you might imagine, the doctors there have VERY big egos. And they are socially VERY well connected.
Presumably that's why Judge Gorton, himself a Dartmouth and Columbia grad, ordered such totally disproportionate punishment. Wouldn't want to upset the old boy's club, you know. Gotta keep those uppity proles in their place.
I like to chat with foreign visitors passing through the city. Based on this small sample I think Bill is right.
There is this basically satanic attitude that says: "woo hoo he he lock them up in a torture camp _forever_!!! ah ha ha ha!!!" Only Americans have that attitude.
Euros, Asians, Africans, South Americans - all of them have far more Christan, forgiving attitudes. All of them are horrified by the Stalinesque kangaroo courts and gulag we've built here.
Fellow Americans, let's ask ourselves some hard questions: How did we become the bad guys? How did a culturally Christian nation come to embrace cruelty, vengeance, torture, and extraction of false confessions - as the cornerstone of our "justice" system? How can we end this evil?
There's no way to make America truly great again until we shut down the gulag and de-Stalinize the courts.
Granted I haven't been back to SF since this scooter trend started. But it's very hard indeed to imagine _anything_ that could somehow make downtown SF an even shittier shithole than it already is.
Makes you wonder why the city administration is putting so many resources into discouraging alternatives to automobile use. Maybe they are getting some bribes from auto industry lobbyists? Or maybe they just love air pollution?
Easy solution: ban cars.
"a fairly liberal democrat who voted for Sanders in my state's primary and only reluctantly pivoted to Clinton"
You voted for Clinton. You voted for brazen corruption, racism, continuation of disastrously failed economic policies, and MOAR WAR.
But it's not too late, you can change your ways. In 2020, VOTE TRUMP FOR PEACE.
"the part of Republican philopsophy that believes the applicability of the law is inversely proportional to your net worth."
Unfortunately this philosophy is a bipartisan consensus. And the judiciary really very strongly agrees.
You are the reason there is bad traffic.