It does not take much sunlight for enough Vitamin D to be created. IIRC over here, 3-5 minutes of non-direct sunlight is enough to produce enough VitaminD.
If you are in the US, chences are that you'll have much more sun than we do.
A Constitutional example is balance of power. Congress critters are power hungry. So are presidents. So they set it up where one of the best ways for a president to gain power is by taking it from Congress, and Congress can get power by taking it from the president. Each politician's quest for power takes it from other politicians, so it keeps them balanced, avoids dictatorship.
And then we undermins said system by creating entities whose powers can't be controlled because the extent of their powers is classified as top secret.
That was my point. I AM worried about that. And I noticed that, however, for some reason, people are not worried about having that happen to their suitcase.
Yes. My car isn't going on a plane. That's why I'm not worried about some winimum wage, no security check baggage handler depositing something in my car that he wants to go across a border.
If you have never heard of car bombs, you should start watching international news. Or remember Oklahoma city. Blowing up that car pretty much effected safety for those people inside the building.
If that is the case, what exactly are your emergency plans for any non-cloud related incidents like your office burning down?
OK.. Let me check my desk here at the office:
Desktop-PC with keyboard, mouse two monitors. My home PC only has conencted 1 monitor, that would slow me down, but not keep me from working
Phone: VOIP-Phone. Better than a software client, but a software client is much better than the scorching remains of a phone that burnt down along with the rest of the office.
A few notes and printouts. Yes, that would be a drawback if I had to work without them. But it would be far from impossible to get along without them.
If you have anything non-digital that is so vital to your service, you should consider replacing it with something digital. You would have to keep a backup of it anyway as a part of an emergency plan.
If the problem takes down multiple ISP, it would break your datacenter too if you connected to those ISPs. Even if you plan redundant ISP connections for your datacenter, you'll probably pick 2-4 different ones. Chances are much higher, that the ISPs in your employees homes are much more diverse and it would take a much larger outage to take down ALL of the ISPs your people subscribed to, than it takes to take out those 2 that connect your datacenter.
The same is true for the regional extent. It is unlikely that all of your employees live so close to your datacenter, that everyone would be effected even if a local event disconnects customers across all providers.
And don't forget that we're talking about temporary emergencys here. Keeping up 50% service quality after a deasaster might keep your losses to a minimum, so have those 3 people who don't have internet fast enough to use a webapp in their homes cleaning up the debris of your office. Someone has to do that too.
A well planned, bigger emergency plan of course will help you to keep up 100% of your services, but will cost you much more than subsidizing your employees internet connection - just in case of.
"The cloud" allows you to spread out your operations geographically in case of an emergency. That is included in the cloud concept and the most efficient emergency plan you can get.
What is your action plan if your leased-line WAN goes down, and your internet service provider tells you that it will be 48 to 72 hours to resolve? May be a fiber cut, or worse. Drunk drivers can take down networks and POPs too.
When your complete IT is based on SaaS, just send everyone home and let them work from home. All the tools they need are "in the cloud" (or however plain old internet is called today)
The standard solution to this sort of problem is that you have a backup system that sits off site ready to take the load should something happen to primary. This backup system should be located in another data center, with a different ISP etc.
Which is the right thing to do, but very costly. There is a wide range of businesses that are way to small for their own datacenter, let alone two of them, but too big to keep all their business documents on the boss' PC and backup on a USB-HD in his home.
Inbetween these, this is where such services makes sense.
I worked in a real agile shop once. Sometimes we were agile to a customer feature wish in the morning and shipping him the update in the afternoon.
Of course this borders the realm of chaos but worked surprisingly well. But you need a small team with very good communications and customers who understand that it's them who are doing the testing.
And the funny thing: This never has been called "agile". It was way before it became a buzzword. We just called it "normal".
Whatever. Gun control could keep that angry guy with the baseball bat from becoming the angryguy with the whatfuckingever other type of gun is responsible for the other 97% of gun crimes.
I kind of wonder why everyone fixates on weapons, when the problem is people...
Because there's not much you can do against people. (Unless it's to late)
Gun control at least tries to keep getting an angry guy to become a guy with a deadly assault rifle. Which may be a really big difference when he is running towards you.
But I'm quite sure that if I ever will catch one, it won't be from pressing my cellphone display against my ear. I'd me worried much more worried about those earbuds on my mp3-player or touching my keyboard before scratching my ear.
But it might still be a valid point for ATM-Touchscreens.
But always keep in mind that exposure to microorganisms is vital to develop a healthy immune system. sanitizing everything is bad for your long-term health. Anyone still thinks long-term at all nowadays?.
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"import" may be the keyword here...
It does not take much sunlight for enough Vitamin D to be created. IIRC over here, 3-5 minutes of non-direct sunlight is enough to produce enough VitaminD.
If you are in the US, chences are that you'll have much more sun than we do.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/08/germany-has-five-times-as-much-solar-power-as-the-u-s-despite-alaska-levels-of-sun/
Hint: If it is not dark outside, you're having sunlight. It's not only scorching sun that counts as sunlight.
There's a very good reason why multivitamins exist
There is lots of monexy to be made in selling them.
There may or may not be other good reasons why they exist, but the one above alone is enough for something to exist.
The intresting questions start when something exists despite you can't make money with it.
A Constitutional example is balance of power.
Congress critters are power hungry. So are presidents. So they set it up where one of the best ways for a president to gain power is by taking it from Congress, and Congress can get power by taking it from the president. Each politician's quest for power takes it from other politicians, so it keeps them balanced, avoids dictatorship.
And then we undermins said system by creating entities whose powers can't be controlled because the extent of their powers is classified as top secret.
Please note that you are making assumptions on the security of US nukes.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lost+nuclear+bombs
That was my point. I AM worried about that. And I noticed that, however, for some reason, people are not worried about having that happen to their suitcase.
How many people do you think we could kill/maim in that event?
That doesn't even matter. The question is how many people would be terrified. Killing people isn't a goal. It is nothing but a means.
You can't hide a car bomb big enough to cause serious damage to anything outside the car.
And that is why they're worried about exploding suitcases?
Yes. My car isn't going on a plane. That's why I'm not worried about some winimum wage, no security check baggage handler depositing something in my car that he wants to go across a border.
Does it matter if your valuables are stolen from something that is supposed to go on a plane?
And as my car is NOT going to go on a plane, there is at least less incentive for someone to use my suitcase as a drug mule.
If you have never heard of car bombs, you should start watching international news. Or remember Oklahoma city. Blowing up that car pretty much effected safety for those people inside the building.
So your point is that my suitcase won't be subject to searching if I'm not taking it with me on a plane?
Well, if you want to keep your car safe from searching, don't take it to the airport.
That's pretty much the same logic. For the sake of the argument, I don't see why an airport should be a less secure zone than a plane.
And that's different from what happens to you luggage in WHAT way ??
May I remind you that you are not allowed to use locks that are not easy to open (read. useless) on your suitcase?
If that is the case, what exactly are your emergency plans for any non-cloud related incidents like your office burning down?
OK.. Let me check my desk here at the office:
Desktop-PC with keyboard, mouse two monitors. My home PC only has conencted 1 monitor, that would slow me down, but not keep me from working
Phone: VOIP-Phone. Better than a software client, but a software client is much better than the scorching remains of a phone that burnt down along with the rest of the office.
A few notes and printouts. Yes, that would be a drawback if I had to work without them. But it would be far from impossible to get along without them.
If you have anything non-digital that is so vital to your service, you should consider replacing it with something digital. You would have to keep a backup of it anyway as a part of an emergency plan.
Yes, but how likely is that?
If the problem takes down multiple ISP, it would break your datacenter too if you connected to those ISPs. Even if you plan redundant ISP connections for your datacenter, you'll probably pick 2-4 different ones. Chances are much higher, that the ISPs in your employees homes are much more diverse and it would take a much larger outage to take down ALL of the ISPs your people subscribed to, than it takes to take out those 2 that connect your datacenter.
The same is true for the regional extent. It is unlikely that all of your employees live so close to your datacenter, that everyone would be effected even if a local event disconnects customers across all providers.
And don't forget that we're talking about temporary emergencys here. Keeping up 50% service quality after a deasaster might keep your losses to a minimum, so have those 3 people who don't have internet fast enough to use a webapp in their homes cleaning up the debris of your office. Someone has to do that too.
A well planned, bigger emergency plan of course will help you to keep up 100% of your services, but will cost you much more than subsidizing your employees internet connection - just in case of.
"The cloud" allows you to spread out your operations geographically in case of an emergency. That is included in the cloud concept and the most efficient emergency plan you can get.
What is your action plan if your leased-line WAN goes down, and your internet service provider tells you that it will be 48 to 72 hours to resolve? May be a fiber cut, or worse. Drunk drivers can take down networks and POPs too.
When your complete IT is based on SaaS, just send everyone home and let them work from home. All the tools they need are "in the cloud" (or however plain old internet is called today)
The standard solution to this sort of problem is that you have a backup system that sits off site ready to take the load should something happen to primary. This backup system should be located in another data center, with a different ISP etc.
Which is the right thing to do, but very costly. There is a wide range of businesses that are way to small for their own datacenter, let alone two of them, but too big to keep all their business documents on the boss' PC and backup on a USB-HD in his home.
Inbetween these, this is where such services makes sense.
To me, it was like watching someone jerk of while insulting everyone around as idiot.
(Really, the first 5 bullet points were nothing but "all mere mortal users are just stupid" ranting)
Layer8-error
ID-Ten-T error (ID10T) ...
I worked in a real agile shop once. Sometimes we were agile to a customer feature wish in the morning and shipping him the update in the afternoon.
Of course this borders the realm of chaos but worked surprisingly well. But you need a small team with very good communications and customers who understand that it's them who are doing the testing.
And the funny thing: This never has been called "agile". It was way before it became a buzzword. We just called it "normal".
That's why provoking a mass panic by faking a deasaster could be even more evil that the deasaster itself....
Whatever. Gun control could keep that angry guy with the baseball bat from becoming the angryguy with the whatfuckingever other type of gun is responsible for the other 97% of gun crimes.
Yes. That's what I meant.
I kind of wonder why everyone fixates on weapons, when the problem is people...
Because there's not much you can do against people. (Unless it's to late)
Gun control at least tries to keep getting an angry guy to become a guy with a deadly assault rifle. Which may be a really big difference when he is running towards you.
No. I've had luck here so far.
But I'm quite sure that if I ever will catch one, it won't be from pressing my cellphone display against my ear. I'd me worried much more worried about those earbuds on my mp3-player or touching my keyboard before scratching my ear.
But it might still be a valid point for ATM-Touchscreens.
But always keep in mind that exposure to microorganisms is vital to develop a healthy immune system. sanitizing everything is bad for your long-term health. Anyone still thinks long-term at all nowadays?.