So much for all those "There oughta be a law!" after-the-fact cries from folks who suffer injustice.;-)
The problem with laws is that they too can be used for good or ill. A law, any law, restricts freedom.. no matter it's intent.
That's a bit over-broad, doncha think? Assuming you mean "freedom" in a non-legal handwavy sense, I think you'd agree that laws against murder, theft, prohibitions against race discrimination, or consumer protection legislation protecting the public from unsafe foods or products don't restrict freedom.
Either way, I'd suggest your caught in a uniquely American and mostly mythical notion of frontier freedom. Governments in modern societies need to set some sort of public policy. That policy, in turn, is typically implemented by... wait for it... passing laws.
I do agree with your general sentiment about there being too many laws. The problem, I think, is that people are generally selfish or are otherwise assholes. They don't just refuse norms of good or common sense behaviour, they often go to great lengths to find loopholes in or ways around existing laws. That applies to the driver of a car who doesn't think it's worth his time to signal a lane change or slow down for a pedestrian, or a company discovering that bad behaviour can increase profits for its shareholders.
I can understand basic inalienable rights like food, shelter, clothing, and adequate healthcare. But a right to have internet access?
The way I see it is that if you take your list of inalienable rights and classify them as "human rights", you can classify health care, internet access, etc. as "societal rights" (those rights granted by the state for their citizens).
internet access being a right is an example of liberalism gone horribly wrong
Do you mean liberalism as defined by the various political parties and interest groups in the US, or Liberalism, generally? Either way, I don't think that term is useful or productive, especially when the context here is Finland.
In the US, the crowds shout "We insist on being free so don't dare try and give us any stuff", while in Europe, it's "Keep giving us free stuff or we'll bring you down!" Left-wing? Perhaps. But I suspect one side is getting a good deal, while the other... well, what's the state of broadband in the US?;-)
the idiotic idea of solving a made-up scientific problem with made-up technology
As opposed to the more traditional approach (to the extent that term is meaningful) that typically relies on made-up characters engaged in made-up conflicts using made-up approaches to achieve made-up ends?
You might want to consider expanding your notions of drama.
I once got threatening letters from the state of Iowa claiming I didn't pay my taxes. They didn't stop until I sent them a copy of my check that they had cashed.
True story.
I once received a speeding ticket for $120 (going 65 in a 55 while trying to get away from a tractor trailer who was speeding and swerving into my lane). Paid the fine, and called it a day.
A few months pass and I receive a Failure to Appear notice. Not wanting to be arrested, I show up in court at 9:00 am as instructed with my bank statement and a copy of the cancelled check. Around 11:00 am I get to present my documentation to the bailiff and am told that I must wait while the matter is investigated. Around 4:00 pm, the judge calls on me and proceeds to tell me that the Court has no record of my payment, and that a cancelled check is not proof of anything. I'm fined $350.
Sitting the entire day in court I listened to people (many of whom were repeat offenders) lie their asses off and get reduced fines (typically in the $100-200 range) or nothing at all. Me, I've never been arrested and it was the only moving violation I'd received during 20 years of driving, yet I received one of the largest fines of the day.
Moral of the story? There isn't one. Moral issues have no relevance to people concerned with the functioning of the bureaucracies.
When I worked as a spaghetti cook and eating spaghetti every night for three years, I didn't eat spaghetti for the next seven years.
LOL. Instead of a car analogy, a cooking analogy? I'll bite.
Most professional chefs work hard and for long hours. They also continue to cook at home to varying degrees for their entire lives. Why? They enjoy food, cooking, and eating. That one of them has grown tired of spaghetti says nothing.
There's two perspectives here. The first is that the love or enjoyment of something implies related "recreational" activities. The second is that a balanced life requires a mix of activities. There is no inherent contradiction between those two views. On the other hand, if one or the other becomes a fixed mindset, or is elevated to a pseudo idealogy, then all bets are off, and both sides are left arguing in the abstract.
to being able to implement this at home and at work to word towards replacing Windows Server 2003.
For home or small office use, this might be an interesting read. It's the slideshow from Kai Blin's Samba ARMed and Ready: Running an Active Directory DC on 2 Watts talk on an embedded Samba4 DC.
We'd like to put that software onto a router and have been looking at Single Board Computers, but have yet to find anything that we like. All it has to run is Linux/BSD with an AMP stack.
Anyone have a recommendation that would be low power. I've looked at beagleboard and wall wart, but really we need 3 Ethernet ports and a wireless card.
A Soekris should meet your requirements and then some.
Everyone that has converted a router to OSS, raise their hand... Everyone else leave the room.
Why? I build my own using Soekris hardware and call it a day. That's not to say I'm not interested in what other folks are doing, or perhaps more accurately, what they're trying to do and what they're up against.
Has anyone considered that requiring a minimum length for an essay does not improve the quality of the essay?
Probably not, but who would expect it would?
Garrison Keillor once wrote "It is more worthy in the eyes of God... if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people." How many people (high school students included) do you think there are that, if required to write something worth reading, would or could write anything other than "three hundred fat and flabby pages"? Or if brevity is indeed the soul of wit, how many of us can write or deliver a punch line sufficiently funny that an audience would laugh?
I figure 500 words is a fair compromise. If you can write as effectively as the next applicant using half of those 500 words, you're probably wasting your talents at MIT.
I'd suggest replacing Lessons Nos. 1-3, with One Lesson To Rule Them All:
Buy quality hardware.
In your case, what you should have been looking for is a "server board". The cheapest offering (often marketed as "entry level server board") would probably have been more than fine, and represented a substantial step up from consumer-grade hardware. Support for ECC RAM, among other things, is assumed.
Agreed. Stupid choice of a source as the study is covered in more detail on a number of other sites. A random quote that better summarises the study:
The percentage of households owning both Windows PCs and Macs has been increasing faster than Mac-only, faster than Windows-only," said Baker. "That was a little surprising," he admitted.
Suprising? Hardly.
That facts cited aren't much more interesting: that the Mac presence in households is up 33%, that Mac owners typically make make more than $100K/year, and that Mac owners own lots of consumer electronics.
What would be interesting, useful, and possibly entertaining, is knowing why "mixed households" are mixed.
If I'm understanding this correctly, your fingers should be hovering slightly above or lightly resting on the buttons, right? If that's the case (and you add in the implicit pre-requisites that your wrists are straight, hands and fingers are relaxed, etc.), then what you're describing is proper keyboard technique.
The only way I see that as being possible for a mouse is if the mouse is two-dimensional, and sits on the surface of your desk.
They can charge for publicly available IP addresses with IPv4. In IPv6, every address would be public.
All IP addresses issued by an ISP for its customers are "public".
I think what you're referring to is non-dynamic (static) IP addresses. For that ISPs do charge more, but then they give you extra addresses (typically a/29 block instead of a single address), and remove certain "restrictions" applicable to most other customers.
Granted, for that kind of setup, an increased monthly fee vs. a one-time provisioning charge does equate to pure profit for the ISP, though most such packages are packaged up and marketed as "business" or "super-whatever" accounts to make the extra monthly fees more palatable. Whatever your opinion of the business practices, and given the workarounds and hoops folks routinely jump through to deal with the shortcomings of a dynamic address, the benefit of static IPs for the customer aren't without value each and every month.
It's the job of politicians to get their facts straight when formulating the laws of the land.
A noble sentiment for an ideal world.
In the real world, regrettably, democracies tend to have constitutents (known in the world of software development and systems administration as "lusers"), who expect their elected leaders to deliver. Shortsighted and selfish, to be sure, but that's another subject. The salient point is most don't care how they deliver or what the facts really are, so long as they get what they want.
As for the correctness of facts, it's the job of the press to inform us, which means checking the facts as stated and reporting accordingly. For whatever reason, the press isn't doing their job, and the responsibility has fallen to an enterprising University professor and his blog.
Both the politican the press should be taken to task for their failings, but kudos to Michael Geist for his efforts.
Perhaps not, but that's not to say Exchange is without problems of its own.
The infamous case of lost Whitehouse emails during the term of GWB, for example, occurred after the IT folks successfully transitioned from Notes to Exchange. During the subcommittee hearings on the foulups (and continuing problems resurrecting the lost emails), the head of IT authoritatively pronounced Notes as "obsolete technology" when asked about the reason for the transition. The senators nodded approvingly.
Granted, Exchange has a bullet-list of features that exceeds most other solutions, but for those who are responsible for making things work, and fixing them when things fall apart (not uncommon), it's the implementation that matters.
Gmail threads top-post emails into a coherent conversation just fine.
Bah. The concept of threading is as old as dirt, and despite people "discovering" it, or otherwise implementing it as a "new feature", there's plenty of people using email that still don't grasp the fundamentals. Either way, there's far more to coherency than how a given list of emails is visually sorted.
As for Google's Wave, what I remember from the videos was that replies (at least those shown being made) were made "in-line". If that's how things will work, then there's hope we'll be done with TOFU-style posting, and Exchange users will be dragged kicking and screaming into the future. Or more correctly, back into the past before Microsoft and the generations that grew up with that nonsense screwed things up for everyone.
My concern is the with interface. While average folks seem to enjoy living in their browser, there's plenty of us (myself, included) that cringe that the thought. In the videos, there was what seemed to be an ncurses interface (it garnered the loudest applause), but few details were offered, and the discussions I've read since made no mention of it.
If you accept public money, you have to accept public obligations.
A noble concept and certainly valid, but consider the corollary.
We have in the US a political campaign system that's awash in money from private interests. If a politician want to be elected, he needs to raise vast sums of money (mostly to pay for the television commercials). Does that mean a politician should, as a condition of receiving that money, accept those "private obligations"?
In the real world, public money is routinely provided to private interests, just as private money is routinely funneled into the public realm. The obligations, then, are little more than competing interests, and resolving those interests becomes a matter of politics and negotation. So much for noble precepts.
That's not to say that defining public policy so that it actually favours the public doesn't work (it certainly does in many areas), just that the fundamental question that needs to be answered is will it work, and if so, how?
Handy list for the language-impaired, but I'm afraid it's far too short to accomodate the errors typically found on the pages of Slashdot. That said, one of the commonly confused words on the AskOxford page reminds me of a joke I came across recently:
I bought a tool to unblock my sink pipes yesterday. When I placed it into the drain and rotated it, it slid easily into the pipe.
Putting aside the fact that the TGV doesn't run on batteries, are you suggesting that because the Tesla roadster has enough "muscle" to do 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, a tractor trailer, cargo van, or heavy-duty pickup equipped with a comparable number of lithium-ion batteries will perform similarly?
Half of that 1/6th make over 50 grand a year and 1/4 of that 1/6th are foreign nationals.
You think an insurance plan purchased on the open market by an individual is affordable? Here's a hint: most small business owners make similar amounts and simply can't afford insurance for themselves, their spouses, or their families, and most definitely not for their employees.
I, along with many Americans, do not believe in forcing insurance on people who can afford it but don't want it.
So who cares? Similar knee-jerk reactions are found by people objecting to property taxes, income taxes, and public schools. If you're so short-sighted as to not understand that pooled efforts (aside from being the epitome of fairness), reduce costs for everyone, then there's no hope for you. Go live somewhere where the public doesn't subsidise much of your day-to-day existence.
I also don't see why we should pay for citizens of other countries.
Yeah, I don't have kids, and my house hasn't caught fire, so why the fuck do I have to pay taxes to pay for the fire deparment and public schools for all those snot nosed kids trampling my lawn?
You seem to blissfully oblivious to the fact that it's not uncommon in foreign countries that foreigners (selfish Americans included) are covered for free. By that standard, your views could be characterised as those of a selfish asshole.
Sounds like we need to expand state and federal aid to include these people rather than turn over the entire apple cart and force socialized medicine down everyones throats.
You use the term "socialised medicine", but obiously have no understanding what that means. Didja know that the Canadian, British, Japanese and French systems, for example, are all dramatically different? To the extent "socialised" is some vague, hand-wavy term that the government is involved, then we already have it. The Veterans Administration and Medicare. People screamed "Socialism!" when Medicare was enacted and Ronald Reagan predicted the demise of the US. Now, those Americans scream just as loudly at those who try and take it away or make changes to it.
Another fun fact is 80% of Americans are happy with the health care they currently have.
Fun and useless. 80% of those declaring bankruptcy due to health care costs have health insurance. You'd think those groups would be aware of each other. Either way, I'm sure that if polled, more than 80% of Microsoft Windows users would state they are similarly satisfied. Tells you absolutely nothing, but does suggest most people simply don't know what they they're talking about.
[O]f all the case designs I've seen come, go, and be claimed to be the next coming, the only one to ever be a perfect blend of form and function is the Mac Pro cases by Apple.
My next system will be a Mac Pro for that very reason.
I sat down and calculated the costs of building something similar and compared that to the standard but comparable server offerings from Dell, among others. The first was cheaper, but simply wasn't worth the effort, and there was no guarantee I'd end up with something as good, or as quiet. The second, well, who really wants to run something that sounds like multiple hairdryers if you don't have a server room?
2. Varies, FreeBSD doesn't have perfect docs either and other distros do have better docs
Sorry, but FreeBSD's documentation is without par. Perhaps you're confusing the combination of info pages (mostly unwritten), non-existent manpages, Google searches, user forums and third-party wikis with "perfect documentation"? To the extent that "perfect documentation" actually means anything.
4. Yes, it does, there's a 10MB barebones installer for the dedicated and if you need less, pick another distro, even FreeBSD will probably be tons of tweaking at this point.
An installer? Tons of tweaking? LOL. You really don't know what you're talking about.
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Until there are abuses, don't make laws.
So much for all those "There oughta be a law!" after-the-fact cries from folks who suffer injustice. ;-)
The problem with laws is that they too can be used for good or ill. A law, any law, restricts freedom.. no matter it's intent.
That's a bit over-broad, doncha think? Assuming you mean "freedom" in a non-legal handwavy sense, I think you'd agree that laws against murder, theft, prohibitions against race discrimination, or consumer protection legislation protecting the public from unsafe foods or products don't restrict freedom.
Either way, I'd suggest your caught in a uniquely American and mostly mythical notion of frontier freedom. Governments in modern societies need to set some sort of public policy. That policy, in turn, is typically implemented by ... wait for it ... passing laws.
I do agree with your general sentiment about there being too many laws. The problem, I think, is that people are generally selfish or are otherwise assholes. They don't just refuse norms of good or common sense behaviour, they often go to great lengths to find loopholes in or ways around existing laws. That applies to the driver of a car who doesn't think it's worth his time to signal a lane change or slow down for a pedestrian, or a company discovering that bad behaviour can increase profits for its shareholders.
I can understand basic inalienable rights like food, shelter, clothing, and adequate healthcare. But a right to have internet access?
The way I see it is that if you take your list of inalienable rights and classify them as "human rights", you can classify health care, internet access, etc. as "societal rights" (those rights granted by the state for their citizens).
internet access being a right is an example of liberalism gone horribly wrong
Do you mean liberalism as defined by the various political parties and interest groups in the US, or Liberalism, generally? Either way, I don't think that term is useful or productive, especially when the context here is Finland.
In the US, the crowds shout "We insist on being free so don't dare try and give us any stuff", while in Europe, it's "Keep giving us free stuff or we'll bring you down!" Left-wing? Perhaps. But I suspect one side is getting a good deal, while the other ... well, what's the state of broadband in the US? ;-)
the idiotic idea of solving a made-up scientific problem with made-up technology
As opposed to the more traditional approach (to the extent that term is meaningful) that typically relies on made-up characters engaged in made-up conflicts using made-up approaches to achieve made-up ends?
You might want to consider expanding your notions of drama.
I once got threatening letters from the state of Iowa claiming I didn't pay my taxes. They didn't stop until I sent them a copy of my check that they had cashed.
True story.
I once received a speeding ticket for $120 (going 65 in a 55 while trying to get away from a tractor trailer who was speeding and swerving into my lane). Paid the fine, and called it a day.
A few months pass and I receive a Failure to Appear notice. Not wanting to be arrested, I show up in court at 9:00 am as instructed with my bank statement and a copy of the cancelled check. Around 11:00 am I get to present my documentation to the bailiff and am told that I must wait while the matter is investigated. Around 4:00 pm, the judge calls on me and proceeds to tell me that the Court has no record of my payment, and that a cancelled check is not proof of anything. I'm fined $350.
Sitting the entire day in court I listened to people (many of whom were repeat offenders) lie their asses off and get reduced fines (typically in the $100-200 range) or nothing at all. Me, I've never been arrested and it was the only moving violation I'd received during 20 years of driving, yet I received one of the largest fines of the day.
Moral of the story? There isn't one. Moral issues have no relevance to people concerned with the functioning of the bureaucracies.
When I worked as a spaghetti cook and eating spaghetti every night for three years, I didn't eat spaghetti for the next seven years.
LOL. Instead of a car analogy, a cooking analogy? I'll bite.
Most professional chefs work hard and for long hours. They also continue to cook at home to varying degrees for their entire lives. Why? They enjoy food, cooking, and eating. That one of them has grown tired of spaghetti says nothing.
There's two perspectives here. The first is that the love or enjoyment of something implies related "recreational" activities. The second is that a balanced life requires a mix of activities. There is no inherent contradiction between those two views. On the other hand, if one or the other becomes a fixed mindset, or is elevated to a pseudo idealogy, then all bets are off, and both sides are left arguing in the abstract.
to being able to implement this at home and at work to word towards replacing Windows Server 2003.
For home or small office use, this might be an interesting read. It's the slideshow from Kai Blin's Samba ARMed and Ready: Running an Active Directory DC on 2 Watts talk on an embedded Samba4 DC.
We'd like to put that software onto a router and have been looking at Single Board Computers, but have yet to find anything that we like. All it has to run is Linux/BSD with an AMP stack.
Anyone have a recommendation that would be low power. I've looked at beagleboard and wall wart, but really we need 3 Ethernet ports and a wireless card.
A Soekris should meet your requirements and then some.
A pop up notice in the user's malware-infected browser is not the way to notify customers.
Notifying anyone of anything was easy when the Windows Messenger service was enabled by default. ;-)
Everyone that has converted a router to OSS, raise their hand ... Everyone else leave the room.
Why? I build my own using Soekris hardware and call it a day. That's not to say I'm not interested in what other folks are doing, or perhaps more accurately, what they're trying to do and what they're up against.
Has anyone considered that requiring a minimum length for an essay does not improve the quality of the essay?
Probably not, but who would expect it would?
Garrison Keillor once wrote "It is more worthy in the eyes of God ... if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people." How many people (high school students included) do you think there are that, if required to write something worth reading, would or could write anything other than "three hundred fat and flabby pages"? Or if brevity is indeed the soul of wit, how many of us can write or deliver a punch line sufficiently funny that an audience would laugh?
I figure 500 words is a fair compromise. If you can write as effectively as the next applicant using half of those 500 words, you're probably wasting your talents at MIT.
Lessons learned: ...
I'd suggest replacing Lessons Nos. 1-3, with One Lesson To Rule Them All:
Buy quality hardware.
In your case, what you should have been looking for is a "server board". The cheapest offering (often marketed as "entry level server board") would probably have been more than fine, and represented a substantial step up from consumer-grade hardware. Support for ECC RAM, among other things, is assumed.
Agreed. Stupid choice of a source as the study is covered in more detail on a number of other sites. A random quote that better summarises the study:
Suprising? Hardly.
That facts cited aren't much more interesting: that the Mac presence in households is up 33%, that Mac owners typically make make more than $100K/year, and that Mac owners own lots of consumer electronics.
What would be interesting, useful, and possibly entertaining, is knowing why "mixed households" are mixed.
Interesting.
If I'm understanding this correctly, your fingers should be hovering slightly above or lightly resting on the buttons, right? If that's the case (and you add in the implicit pre-requisites that your wrists are straight, hands and fingers are relaxed, etc.), then what you're describing is proper keyboard technique.
The only way I see that as being possible for a mouse is if the mouse is two-dimensional, and sits on the surface of your desk.
They can charge for publicly available IP addresses with IPv4. In IPv6, every address would be public.
All IP addresses issued by an ISP for its customers are "public".
I think what you're referring to is non-dynamic (static) IP addresses. For that ISPs do charge more, but then they give you extra addresses (typically a /29 block instead of a single address), and remove certain "restrictions" applicable to most other customers.
Granted, for that kind of setup, an increased monthly fee vs. a one-time provisioning charge does equate to pure profit for the ISP, though most such packages are packaged up and marketed as "business" or "super-whatever" accounts to make the extra monthly fees more palatable. Whatever your opinion of the business practices, and given the workarounds and hoops folks routinely jump through to deal with the shortcomings of a dynamic address, the benefit of static IPs for the customer aren't without value each and every month.
It's the job of politicians to get their facts straight when formulating the laws of the land.
A noble sentiment for an ideal world.
In the real world, regrettably, democracies tend to have constitutents (known in the world of software development and systems administration as "lusers"), who expect their elected leaders to deliver. Shortsighted and selfish, to be sure, but that's another subject. The salient point is most don't care how they deliver or what the facts really are, so long as they get what they want.
As for the correctness of facts, it's the job of the press to inform us, which means checking the facts as stated and reporting accordingly. For whatever reason, the press isn't doing their job, and the responsibility has fallen to an enterprising University professor and his blog.
Both the politican the press should be taken to task for their failings, but kudos to Michael Geist for his efforts.
This will not take over the role of Exchange ...
Perhaps not, but that's not to say Exchange is without problems of its own.
The infamous case of lost Whitehouse emails during the term of GWB, for example, occurred after the IT folks successfully transitioned from Notes to Exchange. During the subcommittee hearings on the foulups (and continuing problems resurrecting the lost emails), the head of IT authoritatively pronounced Notes as "obsolete technology" when asked about the reason for the transition. The senators nodded approvingly.
Granted, Exchange has a bullet-list of features that exceeds most other solutions, but for those who are responsible for making things work, and fixing them when things fall apart (not uncommon), it's the implementation that matters.
Gmail threads top-post emails into a coherent conversation just fine.
Bah. The concept of threading is as old as dirt, and despite people "discovering" it, or otherwise implementing it as a "new feature", there's plenty of people using email that still don't grasp the fundamentals. Either way, there's far more to coherency than how a given list of emails is visually sorted.
As for Google's Wave, what I remember from the videos was that replies (at least those shown being made) were made "in-line". If that's how things will work, then there's hope we'll be done with TOFU-style posting, and Exchange users will be dragged kicking and screaming into the future. Or more correctly, back into the past before Microsoft and the generations that grew up with that nonsense screwed things up for everyone.
My concern is the with interface. While average folks seem to enjoy living in their browser, there's plenty of us (myself, included) that cringe that the thought. In the videos, there was what seemed to be an ncurses interface (it garnered the loudest applause), but few details were offered, and the discussions I've read since made no mention of it.
Americans want advertisement? What sort of a psychotic, delusional dream world must whoever this quote was mined from live in?
The same world where the majority of the population identifies themselves as "consumers"?
If you accept public money, you have to accept public obligations.
A noble concept and certainly valid, but consider the corollary.
We have in the US a political campaign system that's awash in money from private interests. If a politician want to be elected, he needs to raise vast sums of money (mostly to pay for the television commercials). Does that mean a politician should, as a condition of receiving that money, accept those "private obligations"?
In the real world, public money is routinely provided to private interests, just as private money is routinely funneled into the public realm. The obligations, then, are little more than competing interests, and resolving those interests becomes a matter of politics and negotation. So much for noble precepts.
That's not to say that defining public policy so that it actually favours the public doesn't work (it certainly does in many areas), just that the fundamental question that needs to be answered is will it work, and if so, how?
Slashdot has editors?
Handy list for the language-impaired, but I'm afraid it's far too short to accomodate the errors typically found on the pages of Slashdot. That said, one of the commonly confused words on the AskOxford page reminds me of a joke I came across recently:
Putting aside the fact that the TGV doesn't run on batteries, are you suggesting that because the Tesla roadster has enough "muscle" to do 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, a tractor trailer, cargo van, or heavy-duty pickup equipped with a comparable number of lithium-ion batteries will perform similarly?
Half of that 1/6th make over 50 grand a year and 1/4 of that 1/6th are foreign nationals.
You think an insurance plan purchased on the open market by an individual is affordable? Here's a hint: most small business owners make similar amounts and simply can't afford insurance for themselves, their spouses, or their families, and most definitely not for their employees.
I, along with many Americans, do not believe in forcing insurance on people who can afford it but don't want it.
So who cares? Similar knee-jerk reactions are found by people objecting to property taxes, income taxes, and public schools. If you're so short-sighted as to not understand that pooled efforts (aside from being the epitome of fairness), reduce costs for everyone, then there's no hope for you. Go live somewhere where the public doesn't subsidise much of your day-to-day existence.
I also don't see why we should pay for citizens of other countries.
Yeah, I don't have kids, and my house hasn't caught fire, so why the fuck do I have to pay taxes to pay for the fire deparment and public schools for all those snot nosed kids trampling my lawn?
You seem to blissfully oblivious to the fact that it's not uncommon in foreign countries that foreigners (selfish Americans included) are covered for free. By that standard, your views could be characterised as those of a selfish asshole.
Sounds like we need to expand state and federal aid to include these people rather than turn over the entire apple cart and force socialized medicine down everyones throats.
You use the term "socialised medicine", but obiously have no understanding what that means. Didja know that the Canadian, British, Japanese and French systems, for example, are all dramatically different? To the extent "socialised" is some vague, hand-wavy term that the government is involved, then we already have it. The Veterans Administration and Medicare. People screamed "Socialism!" when Medicare was enacted and Ronald Reagan predicted the demise of the US. Now, those Americans scream just as loudly at those who try and take it away or make changes to it.
Another fun fact is 80% of Americans are happy with the health care they currently have.
Fun and useless. 80% of those declaring bankruptcy due to health care costs have health insurance. You'd think those groups would be aware of each other. Either way, I'm sure that if polled, more than 80% of Microsoft Windows users would state they are similarly satisfied. Tells you absolutely nothing, but does suggest most people simply don't know what they they're talking about.
Like you.
Yes - the solution is to be lucky enough to find a lawyer that's willing allow their bill to get up to $400,000 but settle for $240,000
Or instead of a lawyer, hire this guy.
[O]f all the case designs I've seen come, go, and be claimed to be the next coming, the only one to ever be a perfect blend of form and function is the Mac Pro cases by Apple.
My next system will be a Mac Pro for that very reason.
I sat down and calculated the costs of building something similar and compared that to the standard but comparable server offerings from Dell, among others. The first was cheaper, but simply wasn't worth the effort, and there was no guarantee I'd end up with something as good, or as quiet. The second, well, who really wants to run something that sounds like multiple hairdryers if you don't have a server room?
The irony, of course, is I won't be running OS X.
2. Varies, FreeBSD doesn't have perfect docs either and other distros do have better docs
Sorry, but FreeBSD's documentation is without par. Perhaps you're confusing the combination of info pages (mostly unwritten), non-existent manpages, Google searches, user forums and third-party wikis with "perfect documentation"? To the extent that "perfect documentation" actually means anything.
4. Yes, it does, there's a 10MB barebones installer for the dedicated and if you need less, pick another distro, even FreeBSD will probably be tons of tweaking at this point.
An installer? Tons of tweaking? LOL. You really don't know what you're talking about.