However, there is not a lot of reliable research regarding the chances of suffering those side-effects under reasonable dosing and cycling schedules. There are also positives to using steroids in the right doses, such as: increased fertility, increased well-being, increased libido, lower heartrate, better insulin tolerance, and improved lipid profile. Given, all of the above can be reversed depending on length of cycle, dosage, and personal tolerance.
I really think that the Olympics should be a free-for-all because the politics of the Olympics only ensure that the unpopular athletes or governments lose or are declared 'unclean'. I have trained with Olympic sprinters, shot-putters, cyclists, and weighlifters and I can tell you that most use. The cyclists and sprinters were provided with the means to use by their coaches and handlers. Most weightlifters have the same problem.
For those that claim testing has not been effective, I submit that no pre-1988 (steroid-ban) weightlifting record has been broken in weightlifting except for by Halil Mutlu. Halil last time I heard was looking at a lifetime ban for his third positive. As for the politics of testing? First off, the accepted measure of test to epitest ratio in Olympic testing is 2.5/1. In nature, it very rarely varies from 1/1.
Generally, as for the history of Olympic weightlifting you can follow the money to the great dynasties of weightlifting. When a regime decides to spend more money on the sport including on drugs that are extremely difficult to detect they suddenly become a weightlifting powerhouse.
I love certain coaches and ways of training (Ivan Abajiev) but you have to look at the facts regarding the changes in the lifters and their techniques. Abajiev was great at spotting the little things that made a huge difference in a lifter's performance, but he wasn't as good as his record shows. Bulgaria just happened to get the jump on some designer hormones that circumvented testing.
As a person who doesn't even take narcotic pain meds, even after a horrendous tonsillectomy, having four wisdom teeth removed, and having an umbilical hernia (congenital) repaired, I really wish that people had some sense of honesty with regard to drug use. That was the only draw in powerlifting, they have 'tested' and 'open' brackets. However, people and governments cannot be trusted. So stop the lying and let 'em juice. In professional athletics we expect the improbable and unbelievable anyway.
From personal experience... Not much harder than calling the Microshaft hinderdesk and holding for an eon or two.
It sucks, but at least the laptop will be usable in the interim. I really hate it when my sister bugs me about her brand new laptop and the fact that Vista has questions about the veracity of the sticker on the bottom of the laptop.
Yeah, I guess I must be stupid because I only fill out three forms a year to get all of my health care from my physician, and another three to five forms to get my dental care. Hardly burdensome.
Last time I went to the emergency rooom, 2 yrs ago, I had to fill out three forms.
You're not really making a case. I wasn't making a case either. I was just listing points. I didn't really have the time to stoop to ad hominems or name calling. Sorry to disappoint. In case you're English reading impaired the subtle arguments were all there.
There will be more bureaucracy than there is now. My family physician already turns away Medicare/Medicaid customers because of the paperwork problem. He has stated that he will practice law rather than medicine given a gov't care system.
I will definitely pay more (also tacitly explained via reading comprehension and reading the links provided.)
Please don't resort to name-calling to illustrate your ignorance. Your lack of comprehension and ability to understand the tone of an argument already exposes your reluctance to put forth the effort required to understand a situation.
If you have a pre-existing condition, depending on the condition there almost always is a way to find coverage in the US. (Having dealt with asthma, diabetes, cancer, hbp, and smoking in one family member or another.) If the gov't turns you away? You have to fly to another country to get help. This was popular in London when I lived there.
The HMO's have a vested interest in providing better, more efficient service than gov't care. I don't know about where you live, but competition is alive and well here in Oklahoma between various healthcare providers. I have seen gov't care first hand as a Marine, and later as a expat in the UK. I was not impressed on either occasion.
Also, HMO's are not the only plans or services available. PPO's, EPO's, HDHP's, and plain ol' cash also work for the gainfully employed. For those who are not, Medicaid, and the various state run programs pick up the slack. Do people fall through the cracks? Sure, but would I rather have the ability to pull myself out of the crack without the gov't workers unions and medical workers associations stepping on my head by decrying the use of private physicians? You bet your ass I would.
Universal healthcare is a sucker's bet. Just as sure as Social Security and perpetual motion are sucker's bets. The only difference is that a lot of us will be able to have our suck at the teat before it runs dry, our children will not be so lucky.
Look at the reforms in the Euro nations regarding healthcare. They are finding the burden is too much for the tax system to bear. Over time they have to cut costs (by cutting benefits) or raise taxes.
As for positives? I can pick and choose my doctor without anyone's approval. I pay a pittance more for the privilege. The emergency room shortage due to flooding caused by low income/no income populace? I can get around that by going to an urgent care facility, of which there are 7 within a 3 mile radius. I don't have to win a lottery to get cutting-edge treatment, I can pay, or I can appeal to many avenues of assistance, including test trials for treatments. (One of which saved my father-in-law in the sixties from a near-death asthma attack, his family had no running water at the time and lived 14 people to a two room farmhouse.)
In socialized medical systems they are suffering from shortages in doctor availability because of the low-rates mandated by the gov't. In the US? We have glut of physicians to choose from. Dentistry? Why do Europeans sing about wanting American teeth? (Quite literally, a phrase to that effect was heard by myself in a little pop-club in London.)
By using a bureaucracy to disseminate treatment you are taking the power of choice away from the individual. That mind set is antithetical to the liberal concept of more freedom an
Or when the treatment stinks, guess what Canadians do?
" In Ontario, new drugs have become bogged down in paperwork and a slow review process, the report says. Private cancer clinics have sprung up to offer the drugs to patients who can afford to pay for them." Quoted from the first link above.
"The United Kingdom in particular comes out badly in the tables, showing cancer survival rates that are among the worst in Europe." Quoted from the article below.
Essentially you're saying that we should scrap the entire US system that has it's ups and downs but has covered the essential needs of all fairly well. For instance, all of Europe lags behind the US in detection and treatment of cancer, therefore survival rates are lower. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/561737 Reg required (sorry) interesting bits below. colon and rectum (56.2% in Europe vs 65.5% in the United States) breast (79.0% vs 90.1%) prostate cancer (77.5% vs 99.3%)
The above statistics were compiled in a study by an Italian doctor.
Thanks, but no thanks. As the government has been shown to be incompetent at everything it attempts to do, I would rather it do less, so that I can do more. Your inability to cope with responsibility casts a shadow on your parents and educators, who should have taught you more about the ideology behind the USA's governmental system.
Perhaps the greasemonkey didn't want to spend his time sitting at a desk?
Perhaps he didn't want the hassle of being an engineer?
I work two jobs, I am a Global Network Security wonk for a Fortune 10 company... after I get done sitting on my ass for 10hrs, it feels good to go out and load a truck with bags of cement and sand...
Don't judge someone pointing out the reality that a college education is often overvalued. I personally pull down a low six figure income, in a state where that actually amounts to a respectable sum, at my day job. Zero college education, I just paid very close attention to the technology and the security practices of the Marines while I was in.
I don't have time to reply to all of your points, but I think you'll find that your mileage varies... Sometimes even within the same company.
For instance, I deal with Cisco on a very regular basis. We have spent a lot of money on Cisco product and support. When I want a throat to choak because the documentation is wrong (LDAP mapping to RADIUS attributes in the ASA) or there is a stupid bug (MARS cannot use the 'Test Connectivity' function in ver 5.3.1 to connect to IPS 6.x) I get a throat. Fortunately, my account team trusts me when I say that something very wrong and very unacceptable so they get the BU team lead on the phone with me, which allows me to show a developer where the product went awry. Then we work out a schedule for the fix. This allows the other customers within the stream to benefit from my persistence and hard work documenting every aspect of the problem. It's not optimal, if you don't have a global team you wouldn't get the same access unless you started to build a relationship with one of the developers (which I have done in the past).
Checkpoint seems to be a little less responsive with their dev team, but at the same time they don't seem to have the same problems with bugs in the first layer of the software. (However there is an interesting bug in the NAT state table).
So far for me it's been a matter of relationship management. Support contracts can be worth it.
Regarding management's denigration of the technical people using the support contracts as leverage. That's BS. If the technical people kept management informed and correctly managed their expectations then there wouldn't be any misunderstanding. If your management isn't reasonable in this regard, please circulate your resume, there are plenty of other places to work.
That's funny. My last major gig had the same sort of numbers using RHEL (render farms for major motion pictures) and we were able to swing a discount.
Not questioning your tale, just wondering what the difference was.
Were you a high-cost user? Did you require a lot of support? If that was the cost, then perhaps the RHEL enterprise support team was trying to centralize the cost of your support to your account rather than spread it out over other accounts. if their margins are running very slim, it might be hard to cover the overages caused by one customer with another customer's underuse of the support team.
Certainly... That's where the value of experimental evidence compares against the value of empirical.
Saying that a particular substance has the ability to accelerate, contribute to, or cause a particular reaction doesn't guarantee that it will always do so. My Great Grandfather is an excellent example: He smoke 2 cigars a day for 70+ yrs, in addition from the 30's to the 70's he smoked a pack a day, he also had 6 eggs, bacon, fried potatoes, and fried calf-brains (when he could get them) for breakfast washed down with a large glass of whole un-pasteurized milk until he was hospitalized. Cause of death? Unknown, his blood pressure (although always very healthy) just continued in a downward spiral until he passed. Poor ticker probably got bored after 90-odd years and fell asleep.
He lived to be somewhere between 95-100 yrs old (He was born on a reservation in the late 1800's and apparently had two conflicting birth certs.) I don't think we should use him as a benchmark for behavior that should be encouraged. Do you?
Recommendations to people regarding their behavior should be made with their best interests in mind. If they go ahead and take the risk, at least they were somewhat forewarned.
You totally missed the point. Coffee is a food item best served at the temperature given as the temperature that caused the injury.
According to you, and the jury in this case, the food should not be served at the optimal temperature for brewing and serving but at the temperature least likely to cause injury. Considering that every person in their right mind knows that coffee is hot and can burn you, don't you find that odd? Or are you the sort of person that would insist that pizza should also be served cold, so that you don't scald the roof of your mouth?
If you really think hot beverages are that dangerous and you can't handle it, please don't ever pump your own gas ever again, and when you order a coffee, ask for it over ice.
Whoa. Way to bring in an off-topic subject and attempt to push an agenda.
Hate to tell you this but it isn't only zealots trying to figure out how badly ecstasy fries your neural apparatus. It's also a bunch of people trying to figure out how to mitigate and/or treat subsequent damage. It's a fairly accepted conclusion that MDMA wreaks havoc on your brain. The questions are: is this reversible? How is related to the dosing schedule? Are there other mitigating factors? Are there exacerbating factors?
I did a lot of volunteer work with people affected by various drugs, and MDMA users were just as bad as any other group, just in different ways.
Perhaps you're empirical evidence of the conclusion drawn in the second study listed below.
Accumulation of Neurotoxic Thioether Metabolites of 3,4-({+/-})-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine in Rat Brain.2007 Sep 28 The data indicate that neurotoxic metabolites of MDMA may accumulate in brain following multiple dosing.
The neuropsychology of ecstasy (MDMA) use: a quantitative review.2007 Oct;22(7):427-35 We found that cognitive impairment secondary to recreational drug use may result in what might be described as small-to-medium effects across all cognitive domains with learning and memory being most impaired. We also found that total lifetime ingestion of MDMA appears to be negatively associated with performance on tasks ranging from attention and concentration to learning and memory. Implications and limitations of these findings are discussed.
Meh, I love how people comment on the heat of the coffee without actually thinking about how coffee is made... I'll give the short form, you pass extremely _hot_ water (optimally somewhere between 195F and 204F) through ground coffee beans. This generally results in a very hot beverage that some people find very enjoyable. Of course this assumes that the beans are of a reasonable quantity relative to the amount of water, and not some extremely low temperature themselves.
So, the case was ridiculous period. I have enjoyed Extra-Hot coffee (intentionally served at 205+) on many a road trip and managed not to spill it because I am very cautious with an extremely hot liquid that could boil my balls...
I imagine one of the key components is the MDS9000/MDS9500 or a switching device like that. One of the features that was supposed to become part of the switch (I was a beta tester for a very large storage company) was disk virtualization. FC connected disk could be presented via FC-IP, ISCSI, or CIFS/NFS from the switch. If the volume was CIFS/NFS this could be presented from a small scale special purpose server built into a slot in the chassis.
Take the above piece of hardware and add a FWSM (Firewall Services Module) and an MSFC (Router daughter card to the Supervisor) you can control your entire IP and storage network from end to end by creating VLANs, VRFs, FW contexts, and VSANs.
Now all you add is a VMWare headend to create the application platform and a large scale data storage device at the backend for actual disk or tape storage. There you go. You could build an entire data center that allows all of the customers to use the same cable plant and system racks without having to change out any hardware except in case of failure or upgrade.
Hate to point it out to you, but Congress is actually slightly worse. Bush is currently at 34.2% average while Congress is still lower at 24.8%. (All the while that people have been jacking with GWB's approval rating, Congress has consistently been lower.)
Personally, I think the American voter is fairly fatigued and pissed off at the moment. Don't know which way that'll fall though, guess whoever manages to sway the voter more persuasively. The D's with the hand-outs for votes or the R's with tough-talk and anti-tax legislation.
Although the way the R vs D policy has been going, if the D's presidential candidate does win your prediction will likely be spot on.
Not really. If those systems hadn't existed, some other medium that would have been used or adapted. The inertia of a good idea is difficult to overcome. The telephone system showed that communications over long distance was possible... It just had to be adapted to a particular purpose.
There are lots of things that Americans were not the first to conceive... don't be infantile.
Would you care to contrast that with the other media outlets who are currently run by major contributors and/or political beneficiaries of the DNC?
Media is the currency by which political capital is exchanged in this country. If you want an informed opinion you have to form your own.
FoxNews was founded to fill an entertainment gap. A news channel with a fundamentally conservative outlook, in contrast to the liberal outlook promulgated by most other outlets.
I don't know about you, but I'm for closing _all_ tax loopholes. I would like to see a simplified tax code that makes it usable to the common man. If you plan to make money, esp while operating a business, you should consult an accountant for taxes at least. If not for other issues such as payroll, account management, etc.
Why should there be an industry that does nothing but keep you out of trouble with overly complex laws? Would we tolerate such complexity in vehicle codes?
It would take some getting used to, but I think the Fair Tax looks better every time I think about it.
I wouldn't move to Canada unless Hillary gets a elected and the US gets a universal health-care system. For the same reason that I will never join a union. I don't believe in tying myself to the lowest common denominator. For instance, please see the quote below regarding cancer treatment in Canada, taken from the Globe and Mail.
"There is an unofficial postal-code lottery, in which patients in less populous, poorer areas of the country, like the Atlantic region and the Far North, get short shrift," André Picard
Sure, the student went to the book store to find out what the ISBN's were. I have had to do this often, as the instructor was too lazy to include the ISBN or enough info to be certain of the ISBN within the syllabus. I was even referred to the campus book store without getting so much as a book title. Then I was presented with a basket of books to purchase based on the class that I was taking.
Obvious collusion between the faculty and the bookstore to drive revenue. Rather than fall prey to such a scheme I took digital photographs of the books in question and proceeded directly to amazon and some other academic book site to purchase my texts. In one case I had to resort to being behind an edition, which didn't hurt much, it was an art history text, rather than pay the exorbitant prices that were being asked at the campus store.
So, as adept as you were at potentially skewering the GP's argument... you ignore the potential reality of the situation. The schools are trying to drive revenue by creating an artificial monopoly.
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However, there is not a lot of reliable research regarding the chances of suffering those side-effects under reasonable dosing and cycling schedules. There are also positives to using steroids in the right doses, such as: increased fertility, increased well-being, increased libido, lower heartrate, better insulin tolerance, and improved lipid profile. Given, all of the above can be reversed depending on length of cycle, dosage, and personal tolerance.
I really think that the Olympics should be a free-for-all because the politics of the Olympics only ensure that the unpopular athletes or governments lose or are declared 'unclean'. I have trained with Olympic sprinters, shot-putters, cyclists, and weighlifters and I can tell you that most use. The cyclists and sprinters were provided with the means to use by their coaches and handlers. Most weightlifters have the same problem.
For those that claim testing has not been effective, I submit that no pre-1988 (steroid-ban) weightlifting record has been broken in weightlifting except for by Halil Mutlu. Halil last time I heard was looking at a lifetime ban for his third positive. As for the politics of testing? First off, the accepted measure of test to epitest ratio in Olympic testing is 2.5/1. In nature, it very rarely varies from 1/1.
Generally, as for the history of Olympic weightlifting you can follow the money to the great dynasties of weightlifting. When a regime decides to spend more money on the sport including on drugs that are extremely difficult to detect they suddenly become a weightlifting powerhouse.
I love certain coaches and ways of training (Ivan Abajiev) but you have to look at the facts regarding the changes in the lifters and their techniques. Abajiev was great at spotting the little things that made a huge difference in a lifter's performance, but he wasn't as good as his record shows. Bulgaria just happened to get the jump on some designer hormones that circumvented testing.
As a person who doesn't even take narcotic pain meds, even after a horrendous tonsillectomy, having four wisdom teeth removed, and having an umbilical hernia (congenital) repaired, I really wish that people had some sense of honesty with regard to drug use. That was the only draw in powerlifting, they have 'tested' and 'open' brackets. However, people and governments cannot be trusted. So stop the lying and let 'em juice. In professional athletics we expect the improbable and unbelievable anyway.
I would think that he's referencing the messed up implementation of a Java VM that MS tried to stuff down everyone's throats...
From personal experience... Not much harder than calling the Microshaft hinderdesk and holding for an eon or two.
It sucks, but at least the laptop will be usable in the interim. I really hate it when my sister bugs me about her brand new laptop and the fact that Vista has questions about the veracity of the sticker on the bottom of the laptop.
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But he's really smart, this serial crusher, so he takes out the guy with the head wound first figuring that the other guy's going no where.
Norton AV. Rinbot owned Norton AV machines.
Reputable AV used as an attack vector. Genius.
Yeah, I guess I must be stupid because I only fill out three forms a year to get all of my health care from my physician, and another three to five forms to get my dental care. Hardly burdensome.
Last time I went to the emergency rooom, 2 yrs ago, I had to fill out three forms.
You're not really making a case. I wasn't making a case either. I was just listing points. I didn't really have the time to stoop to ad hominems or name calling. Sorry to disappoint.
In case you're English reading impaired the subtle arguments were all there.
There will be more bureaucracy than there is now. My family physician already turns away Medicare/Medicaid customers because of the paperwork problem. He has stated that he will practice law rather than medicine given a gov't care system.
I will definitely pay more (also tacitly explained via reading comprehension and reading the links provided.)
Please don't resort to name-calling to illustrate your ignorance. Your lack of comprehension and ability to understand the tone of an argument already exposes your reluctance to put forth the effort required to understand a situation.
If you have a pre-existing condition, depending on the condition there almost always is a way to find coverage in the US. (Having dealt with asthma, diabetes, cancer, hbp, and smoking in one family member or another.) If the gov't turns you away? You have to fly to another country to get help. This was popular in London when I lived there.
The efficiency of HMO's have already shown us a way... Prevention costs them less money therefore they pay more willingly for preventative care, which is believed to be the driving force behind the better survivability rates in the US. They also ask for increased rates for certain risky behavior i.e., scuba diving, rock-climbing, competitive athletics, smoking, and obesity, but they still provide care, whereas smokers are often refused care for conditions in socialized medical systems. The medical system dares to refuse them care even though they pay more into the system than the average tax-payer.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2859623.ece
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=20771
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:T02b2uvFa7AJ:www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/clydebank/documents/8_-_Impact_of_Tax.pdf+compare+NHS+cost+of+smoker+to+taxes&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us
The HMO's have a vested interest in providing better, more efficient service than gov't care. I don't know about where you live, but competition is alive and well here in Oklahoma between various healthcare providers. I have seen gov't care first hand as a Marine, and later as a expat in the UK. I was not impressed on either occasion.
Also, HMO's are not the only plans or services available. PPO's, EPO's, HDHP's, and plain ol' cash also work for the gainfully employed. For those who are not, Medicaid, and the various state run programs pick up the slack. Do people fall through the cracks? Sure, but would I rather have the ability to pull myself out of the crack without the gov't workers unions and medical workers associations stepping on my head by decrying the use of private physicians? You bet your ass I would.
Universal healthcare is a sucker's bet. Just as sure as Social Security and perpetual motion are sucker's bets. The only difference is that a lot of us will be able to have our suck at the teat before it runs dry, our children will not be so lucky.
Look at the reforms in the Euro nations regarding healthcare. They are finding the burden is too much for the tax system to bear. Over time they have to cut costs (by cutting benefits) or raise taxes.
As for positives? I can pick and choose my doctor without anyone's approval. I pay a pittance more for the privilege. The emergency room shortage due to flooding caused by low income/no income populace? I can get around that by going to an urgent care facility, of which there are 7 within a 3 mile radius. I don't have to win a lottery to get cutting-edge treatment, I can pay, or I can appeal to many avenues of assistance, including test trials for treatments. (One of which saved my father-in-law in the sixties from a near-death asthma attack, his family had no running water at the time and lived 14 people to a two room farmhouse.)
In socialized medical systems they are suffering from shortages in doctor availability because of the low-rates mandated by the gov't. In the US? We have glut of physicians to choose from. Dentistry? Why do Europeans sing about wanting American teeth? (Quite literally, a phrase to that effect was heard by myself in a little pop-club in London.)
By using a bureaucracy to disseminate treatment you are taking the power of choice away from the individual. That mind set is antithetical to the liberal concept of more freedom an
Yeah, that's great.
I tell you what, I'll vote for a socialized health-care system if you volunteer you and yours to always lose the treatment lotto for cancer patients.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=5720758a-c427-45b0-96f1-0960771f6278&k=85427&p=1
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061120.wxcancerdrugs20/BNStory/cancer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5413132.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/politics_show/regions/east_midlands/7012406.stm
Or when the treatment stinks, guess what Canadians do?
" In Ontario, new drugs have become bogged down in paperwork and a slow review process, the report says. Private cancer clinics have sprung up to offer the drugs to patients who can afford to pay for them." Quoted from the first link above.
"The United Kingdom in particular comes out badly in the tables, showing cancer survival rates that are among the worst in Europe." Quoted from the article below.
Essentially you're saying that we should scrap the entire US system that has it's ups and downs but has covered the essential needs of all fairly well. For instance, all of Europe lags behind the US in detection and treatment of cancer, therefore survival rates are lower.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/561737 Reg required (sorry) interesting bits below.
colon and rectum (56.2% in Europe vs 65.5% in the United States)
breast (79.0% vs 90.1%)
prostate cancer (77.5% vs 99.3%)
The above statistics were compiled in a study by an Italian doctor.
Thanks, but no thanks. As the government has been shown to be incompetent at everything it attempts to do, I would rather it do less, so that I can do more. Your inability to cope with responsibility casts a shadow on your parents and educators, who should have taught you more about the ideology behind the USA's governmental system.
Perhaps the greasemonkey didn't want to spend his time sitting at a desk?
Perhaps he didn't want the hassle of being an engineer?
I work two jobs, I am a Global Network Security wonk for a Fortune 10 company... after I get done sitting on my ass for 10hrs, it feels good to go out and load a truck with bags of cement and sand...
Don't judge someone pointing out the reality that a college education is often overvalued. I personally pull down a low six figure income, in a state where that actually amounts to a respectable sum, at my day job. Zero college education, I just paid very close attention to the technology and the security practices of the Marines while I was in.
I don't have time to reply to all of your points, but I think you'll find that your mileage varies... Sometimes even within the same company.
For instance, I deal with Cisco on a very regular basis. We have spent a lot of money on Cisco product and support. When I want a throat to choak because the documentation is wrong (LDAP mapping to RADIUS attributes in the ASA) or there is a stupid bug (MARS cannot use the 'Test Connectivity' function in ver 5.3.1 to connect to IPS 6.x) I get a throat. Fortunately, my account team trusts me when I say that something very wrong and very unacceptable so they get the BU team lead on the phone with me, which allows me to show a developer where the product went awry. Then we work out a schedule for the fix. This allows the other customers within the stream to benefit from my persistence and hard work documenting every aspect of the problem. It's not optimal, if you don't have a global team you wouldn't get the same access unless you started to build a relationship with one of the developers (which I have done in the past).
Checkpoint seems to be a little less responsive with their dev team, but at the same time they don't seem to have the same problems with bugs in the first layer of the software. (However there is an interesting bug in the NAT state table).
So far for me it's been a matter of relationship management. Support contracts can be worth it.
Regarding management's denigration of the technical people using the support contracts as leverage. That's BS. If the technical people kept management informed and correctly managed their expectations then there wouldn't be any misunderstanding. If your management isn't reasonable in this regard, please circulate your resume, there are plenty of other places to work.
That's funny. My last major gig had the same sort of numbers using RHEL (render farms for major motion pictures) and we were able to swing a discount.
Not questioning your tale, just wondering what the difference was.
Were you a high-cost user? Did you require a lot of support? If that was the cost, then perhaps the RHEL enterprise support team was trying to centralize the cost of your support to your account rather than spread it out over other accounts. if their margins are running very slim, it might be hard to cover the overages caused by one customer with another customer's underuse of the support team.
Nah, he probably meant Will Rogers. ;-)
Certainly... That's where the value of experimental evidence compares against the value of empirical.
Saying that a particular substance has the ability to accelerate, contribute to, or cause a particular reaction doesn't guarantee that it will always do so. My Great Grandfather is an excellent example: He smoke 2 cigars a day for 70+ yrs, in addition from the 30's to the 70's he smoked a pack a day, he also had 6 eggs, bacon, fried potatoes, and fried calf-brains (when he could get them) for breakfast washed down with a large glass of whole un-pasteurized milk until he was hospitalized. Cause of death? Unknown, his blood pressure (although always very healthy) just continued in a downward spiral until he passed. Poor ticker probably got bored after 90-odd years and fell asleep.
He lived to be somewhere between 95-100 yrs old (He was born on a reservation in the late 1800's and apparently had two conflicting birth certs.) I don't think we should use him as a benchmark for behavior that should be encouraged. Do you?
Recommendations to people regarding their behavior should be made with their best interests in mind. If they go ahead and take the risk, at least they were somewhat forewarned.
You totally missed the point. Coffee is a food item best served at the temperature given as the temperature that caused the injury.
According to you, and the jury in this case, the food should not be served at the optimal temperature for brewing and serving but at the temperature least likely to cause injury. Considering that every person in their right mind knows that coffee is hot and can burn you, don't you find that odd? Or are you the sort of person that would insist that pizza should also be served cold, so that you don't scald the roof of your mouth?
If you really think hot beverages are that dangerous and you can't handle it, please don't ever pump your own gas ever again, and when you order a coffee, ask for it over ice.
Whoa. Way to bring in an off-topic subject and attempt to push an agenda.
Hate to tell you this but it isn't only zealots trying to figure out how badly ecstasy fries your neural apparatus. It's also a bunch of people trying to figure out how to mitigate and/or treat subsequent damage. It's a fairly accepted conclusion that MDMA wreaks havoc on your brain. The questions are: is this reversible? How is related to the dosing schedule? Are there other mitigating factors? Are there exacerbating factors?
I did a lot of volunteer work with people affected by various drugs, and MDMA users were just as bad as any other group, just in different ways.
Perhaps you're empirical evidence of the conclusion drawn in the second study listed below.
Accumulation of Neurotoxic Thioether Metabolites of 3,4-({+/-})-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine in Rat Brain.2007 Sep 28
The data indicate that neurotoxic metabolites of MDMA may accumulate in brain following multiple dosing.
The neuropsychology of ecstasy (MDMA) use: a quantitative review.2007 Oct;22(7):427-35
We found that cognitive impairment secondary to recreational drug use may result in what might be described as small-to-medium effects across all cognitive domains with learning and memory being most impaired. We also found that total lifetime ingestion of MDMA appears to be negatively associated with performance on tasks ranging from attention and concentration to learning and memory. Implications and limitations of these findings are discussed.
Meh, I love how people comment on the heat of the coffee without actually thinking about how coffee is made... I'll give the short form, you pass extremely _hot_ water (optimally somewhere between 195F and 204F) through ground coffee beans. This generally results in a very hot beverage that some people find very enjoyable. Of course this assumes that the beans are of a reasonable quantity relative to the amount of water, and not some extremely low temperature themselves.
So, the case was ridiculous period. I have enjoyed Extra-Hot coffee (intentionally served at 205+) on many a road trip and managed not to spill it because I am very cautious with an extremely hot liquid that could boil my balls...
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I imagine one of the key components is the MDS9000/MDS9500 or a switching device like that. One of the features that was supposed to become part of the switch (I was a beta tester for a very large storage company) was disk virtualization. FC connected disk could be presented via FC-IP, ISCSI, or CIFS/NFS from the switch. If the volume was CIFS/NFS this could be presented from a small scale special purpose server built into a slot in the chassis.
Take the above piece of hardware and add a FWSM (Firewall Services Module) and an MSFC (Router daughter card to the Supervisor) you can control your entire IP and storage network from end to end by creating VLANs, VRFs, FW contexts, and VSANs.
Now all you add is a VMWare headend to create the application platform and a large scale data storage device at the backend for actual disk or tape storage. There you go. You could build an entire data center that allows all of the customers to use the same cable plant and system racks without having to change out any hardware except in case of failure or upgrade.
Actually, they just were ignored, and outplayed by MS.
Sad but true.
Hate to point it out to you, but Congress is actually slightly worse. Bush is currently at 34.2% average while Congress is still lower at 24.8%. (All the while that people have been jacking with GWB's approval rating, Congress has consistently been lower.)
Personally, I think the American voter is fairly fatigued and pissed off at the moment. Don't know which way that'll fall though, guess whoever manages to sway the voter more persuasively. The D's with the hand-outs for votes or the R's with tough-talk and anti-tax legislation.
Although the way the R vs D policy has been going, if the D's presidential candidate does win your prediction will likely be spot on.
Not really. If those systems hadn't existed, some other medium that would have been used or adapted. The inertia of a good idea is difficult to overcome. The telephone system showed that communications over long distance was possible... It just had to be adapted to a particular purpose.
There are lots of things that Americans were not the first to conceive... don't be infantile.
Would you care to contrast that with the other media outlets who are currently run by major contributors and/or political beneficiaries of the DNC?
Media is the currency by which political capital is exchanged in this country. If you want an informed opinion you have to form your own.
FoxNews was founded to fill an entertainment gap. A news channel with a fundamentally conservative outlook, in contrast to the liberal outlook promulgated by most other outlets.
I don't know about you, but I'm for closing _all_ tax loopholes. I would like to see a simplified tax code that makes it usable to the common man. If you plan to make money, esp while operating a business, you should consult an accountant for taxes at least. If not for other issues such as payroll, account management, etc.
Why should there be an industry that does nothing but keep you out of trouble with overly complex laws? Would we tolerate such complexity in vehicle codes?
It would take some getting used to, but I think the Fair Tax looks better every time I think about it.
True of at least some companies. I helped set up a SONET network for Calpine at that is precisely the infrastructure used.
Yeah, right.
I wouldn't move to Canada unless Hillary gets a elected and the US gets a universal health-care system. For the same reason that I will never join a union. I don't believe in tying myself to the lowest common denominator. For instance, please see the quote below regarding cancer treatment in Canada, taken from the Globe and Mail.
"There is an unofficial postal-code lottery, in which patients in less populous, poorer areas of the country, like the Atlantic region and the Far North, get short shrift," André Picard
Sure, the student went to the book store to find out what the ISBN's were. I have had to do this often, as the instructor was too lazy to include the ISBN or enough info to be certain of the ISBN within the syllabus. I was even referred to the campus book store without getting so much as a book title. Then I was presented with a basket of books to purchase based on the class that I was taking.
Obvious collusion between the faculty and the bookstore to drive revenue. Rather than fall prey to such a scheme I took digital photographs of the books in question and proceeded directly to amazon and some other academic book site to purchase my texts. In one case I had to resort to being behind an edition, which didn't hurt much, it was an art history text, rather than pay the exorbitant prices that were being asked at the campus store.
So, as adept as you were at potentially skewering the GP's argument... you ignore the potential reality of the situation. The schools are trying to drive revenue by creating an artificial monopoly.