Yes, it is a tax on you. You will be paying for vouchers to support those who fall into a broad category of people who can't (or "can't") afford it.
Actually, you'll be paying for me. I'm a volunteer abroad living well below the poverty federal level. I carry a high deductible low premium policy that covers me abroad and in the states and I have set aside money to cover the deductible. I take care of basic healthcare our of pocket and will only rely on my insurance in case of a health disaster.
But unfortunately my current policy will soon be illegal. I will be forced into a plan that provides more coverage at a higher cost that I can not afford, but everyone else will pick up the cost of the premium (I will use a voucher).
In the end it means that instead of me paying a doctor for basic care, you will be paying an insurance company, via the government, for nothing, especially since my geographic location prevents me from using most preventative and maintenance benefits.
So I have two things to say, I'm sorry for being such a terrible waste of your money and thank you for paying my premiums, I would have never asked.
Even if we did care, here in Northern Mozambique there is no place to buy genuine original discs of anything. All DVD are pirated, all music is pirated and there is no store to buy a copy that supports either the industry or the artist.
Also, I called Microsoft to see about bulk licensing of office and I could not get anyone to tell me where I could pay. Supposedly the office that covers Mozambique is in Namibia but none of the emails or phone number work. The South African office refuses to license for companies in Mozambique. So what option do people have? In our lab we just used other software but if you buy MS Office in a store here, you get a pirated copy.
It appears no one is interested in selling to people in a country where average income is less than a few hundred USD per month, save the pirates. And they seem to make money just fine, even at a dollar a copy for multi-movie (crap quality) DVDs. So, industry, if you're not providing a legitimate alternative, you may stop complaining.
3rd world nations pirate windows, even where you can pay for it, it's pirated. I live in Northern Mozambique and have yet to see Linux preloaded on anything and every Ubuntu install I've done comes back a week later erased and reinstalled with Windows, including viruses.
Yup. And backing you up is the claim that the only thing that tastes good is the Ice Cream . . . which is prepackaged by not_the_airline. That and the peanuts.
Airplane food isn't good because they don't make it well. They don't make it well because it cuts into profits. Just that.
At least in the Mac lab we just hold N at startup or the startup volume en-masse from Apple Remote Desktop. Maybe it's harder on PCs.
Creating netboot image is as simple as start a preconfigured machine via netboot and saving a copy of it's local drive as an image on whatever fileserver.
All of this is automated with a GUI using DeployStudio. Not hard stuff, should be IT 101, but yeah, I get it.
Or, if you don't have a bunch of USB sticks, NetBoot! I promise, netboot is your friend in any situation involving running a common system on more than 3 computers.
I know there's no 3TB HDD/512GB SSD Hybrid on the consumer market, but you pretty much just described an inefficient hybrid (requires manual organization and has drives on separate controller).
I'm all for getting rid of spinning disks as well but if anything your post legitimizes hybrids.
You've never heard of NetBoot.
My most recent MacBook Pros support NetBoot over WiFi. You can boot the full OS without an local drive, at all. NetBoot over the internet is just a matter of loading the bootloader image over the internet rather than the local network.
So the only issue to handle is discovery, so if you have the URL burned into firmware, that's done. Not hard.
We use Ubiquiti APs. Unifi Outdoor and NanoStation's. Very low cost, much easier to manage than Mikrotik although less flexible. We use Ubiquiti for all our APs and bridges and then a 450G for routing etc. Next year Ubiquiti will be releasing a Vyatta based embedded board that I expect will replace the MT gear.
Give half the password to each person. Write a script that if not delayed (monthly, by you) automatically sends the second part of the password with instruction. The combination can unlock whatever encryption you use.
That way only people who have the first half can use the second half to do anything.
It's simple enough that your kids could handle it.
I don't care if they add ginger and thyme or manually put their link as #1, this is purely political, not unethical. It's their index and they're not owned by the government.
Yup. But google doesn't have a monopoly in search. So should be able exclude Microsoft from their index if they want and leave to users to decide if they want to search and customers if they want to advertise.
And also please continue charging them too much for advertising. If you don't like it, return the favor.
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They can tax my absence_of_healthcare but I'll never let them tax my tea.
I was under the impression that high deductible plans shifted cost to me, namely that I pay deductible for most healthcare.
Wow, yes.
Actually, you'll be paying for me. I'm a volunteer abroad living well below the poverty federal level. I carry a high deductible low premium policy that covers me abroad and in the states and I have set aside money to cover the deductible. I take care of basic healthcare our of pocket and will only rely on my insurance in case of a health disaster.
But unfortunately my current policy will soon be illegal. I will be forced into a plan that provides more coverage at a higher cost that I can not afford, but everyone else will pick up the cost of the premium (I will use a voucher).
In the end it means that instead of me paying a doctor for basic care, you will be paying an insurance company, via the government, for nothing, especially since my geographic location prevents me from using most preventative and maintenance benefits.
So I have two things to say, I'm sorry for being such a terrible waste of your money and thank you for paying my premiums, I would have never asked.
(but StatCounter didn't count you)
Cost?
Also, I called Microsoft to see about bulk licensing of office and I could not get anyone to tell me where I could pay. Supposedly the office that covers Mozambique is in Namibia but none of the emails or phone number work. The South African office refuses to license for companies in Mozambique. So what option do people have? In our lab we just used other software but if you buy MS Office in a store here, you get a pirated copy.
It appears no one is interested in selling to people in a country where average income is less than a few hundred USD per month, save the pirates. And they seem to make money just fine, even at a dollar a copy for multi-movie (crap quality) DVDs. So, industry, if you're not providing a legitimate alternative, you may stop complaining.
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3rd world nations pirate windows, even where you can pay for it, it's pirated. I live in Northern Mozambique and have yet to see Linux preloaded on anything and every Ubuntu install I've done comes back a week later erased and reinstalled with Windows, including viruses.
Knowledge is power, we can't even get sufficient 10th, 11th and 12th grade school books this year. (Pemba, Mozambique).
Disclaimer: I live in Mozambique
Yup. And backing you up is the claim that the only thing that tastes good is the Ice Cream . . . which is prepackaged by not_the_airline. That and the peanuts. Airplane food isn't good because they don't make it well. They don't make it well because it cuts into profits. Just that.
Diebold has always been incompetent.
Creating netboot image is as simple as start a preconfigured machine via netboot and saving a copy of it's local drive as an image on whatever fileserver.
All of this is automated with a GUI using DeployStudio. Not hard stuff, should be IT 101, but yeah, I get it.
Proxy. Tada!
Or, if you don't have a bunch of USB sticks, NetBoot! I promise, netboot is your friend in any situation involving running a common system on more than 3 computers.
I'm all for getting rid of spinning disks as well but if anything your post legitimizes hybrids.
You've never heard of NetBoot. My most recent MacBook Pros support NetBoot over WiFi. You can boot the full OS without an local drive, at all. NetBoot over the internet is just a matter of loading the bootloader image over the internet rather than the local network. So the only issue to handle is discovery, so if you have the URL burned into firmware, that's done. Not hard.
We use Ubiquiti APs. Unifi Outdoor and NanoStation's. Very low cost, much easier to manage than Mikrotik although less flexible. We use Ubiquiti for all our APs and bridges and then a 450G for routing etc. Next year Ubiquiti will be releasing a Vyatta based embedded board that I expect will replace the MT gear.
Um. Seeds?
Give half the password to each person. Write a script that if not delayed (monthly, by you) automatically sends the second part of the password with instruction. The combination can unlock whatever encryption you use. That way only people who have the first half can use the second half to do anything. It's simple enough that your kids could handle it.
Five hours radius by Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy or Dragon?
They said they we're saving Penguin for the year of Linux on the desktop. Should come within your lifetime.
I don't care if they add ginger and thyme or manually put their link as #1, this is purely political, not unethical. It's their index and they're not owned by the government.
Yup. But google doesn't have a monopoly in search. So should be able exclude Microsoft from their index if they want and leave to users to decide if they want to search and customers if they want to advertise. And also please continue charging them too much for advertising. If you don't like it, return the favor.