Jesuits are taught how to think. Everyone could use a dose of that. I'm still not sure how they rationalize that with religion, but good on them for still trying.
Some of them. I would think most of them are smart enough to just be pretending to be shocked in order to pander to their voters. who really are that dumb.
Guns are pretty illegal here, but the gang-bangers seem to have no trouble getting them. I'm pretty sure no amount of gun control will keep criminals from getting guns unless you turn into a complete police state and search everyone regularly.
The cloud is not cheaper, unless you're doing things really wrong in the first place, like buying tier 1 servers or running windows.
It does provide economies of scale, can be somewhat cost-competitive with doing it yourself for at least some things, and you don't have to deal with hardware depreciation and the constant refresh cycle.
The big cloud providers also integrate a lot of services that would be a pain to build internally for small and mid-sized clients.
Hype explains the rest. PHBs are always looking for a silver bullet to make things "easy".
Oh, and developers and managers both think that moving to the cloud means they won't need sysadmins. Only to (eventually) find out that running stuff in the cloud needs sysadmins who not only know how to do everything themselves but can also then work around the cloud providers' idiosyncracies to still build things that work.
ELB issues last night did cause problems to services with zone redundancy. We had services with zone redundancy that were experiencing issues because the ELB addresses being served were not functional even though they had working instances connected to them.
Amazon has also had at least one other outage in the last 18 months that affected more than one availability zone.
Region redundancy would be good. But it's quite a bit more complex and costly, what with security groups and ELBs not crossing regions and having to pay external data charges for every byte moved between regions. We do it for important services, but it is a pain.
like MF Global not being prosecuted for stealing funds from customer accounts
MF Global isn't being prosecuted because a) the money mostly went to JP Morgan and b) Corzine is President Obama's bestest bud. Neither has anything to do with corrupt regulators, but everything to do with corrupt politicians.
At least here in BC if you get accused of a hate crime, you do get a trial, but not in the regular courts. You get a hate crimes tribunal. It's a terrible system and it needs to be removed.
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Jesuits are taught how to think. Everyone could use a dose of that. I'm still not sure how they rationalize that with religion, but good on them for still trying.
Some of them. I would think most of them are smart enough to just be pretending to be shocked in order to pander to their voters. who really are that dumb.
It's easy. Only drive in the slow lane. No one else uses it.
Oh so the feds only have to take 100% of the economy and apply it to the debt. So easy. Good luck with that.
You know Greece has less debt per capita than the US, right? How happy are they?
Yeah everyone wants to have bureacrats decide who gets to have kids and who doesn't. Can't see any problems that could result from that.
Or how about we just accept that a lot of things in this world just suck and maybe we can't fix everything.
The limits due to entropy apply only to a closed system. The world is not a closed system.
Handguns are not legal or readily accessible anywhere in Canada.
Guns are pretty illegal here, but the gang-bangers seem to have no trouble getting them. I'm pretty sure no amount of gun control will keep criminals from getting guns unless you turn into a complete police state and search everyone regularly.
The cloud is not cheaper, unless you're doing things really wrong in the first place, like buying tier 1 servers or running windows.
It does provide economies of scale, can be somewhat cost-competitive with doing it yourself for at least some things, and you don't have to deal with hardware depreciation and the constant refresh cycle.
The big cloud providers also integrate a lot of services that would be a pain to build internally for small and mid-sized clients.
Hype explains the rest. PHBs are always looking for a silver bullet to make things "easy".
Oh, and developers and managers both think that moving to the cloud means they won't need sysadmins. Only to (eventually) find out that running stuff in the cloud needs sysadmins who not only know how to do everything themselves but can also then work around the cloud providers' idiosyncracies to still build things that work.
ELB issues last night did cause problems to services with zone redundancy. We had services with zone redundancy that were experiencing issues because the ELB addresses being served were not functional even though they had working instances connected to them.
Amazon has also had at least one other outage in the last 18 months that affected more than one availability zone.
Region redundancy would be good. But it's quite a bit more complex and costly, what with security groups and ELBs not crossing regions and having to pay external data charges for every byte moved between regions. We do it for important services, but it is a pain.
I love KDE. And Kmail is the best email client, ever.
He's welcome to do that but he shouldn't collect EI for doing so. He should charge enough in the busy times to pay for it.
Same with seasonal resource workers.
Currently EI is subsidizing the price of fish. Fish that are nearly extinct so we don't really want them fished anyway. How much sense does that make?
There is no such thing as micro-evolution. The term is only used by creationists.
The same logic then requires that someone create the creator. etc. ie. it isn't logical at all.
Of course he knew. He owns the politicians who are paying for the bailouts.
like MF Global not being prosecuted for stealing funds from customer accounts
MF Global isn't being prosecuted because a) the money mostly went to JP Morgan and b) Corzine is President Obama's bestest bud. Neither has anything to do with corrupt regulators, but everything to do with corrupt politicians.
It's easy. Embed some (horrible insecure) code in a web page, hit refresh on your browser, and away it goes.
Considering the amount of drugs in the prison system, clearly not.
Starting with the countries that actually had a hand in 9/11. Like Saudi Arabia.
As for the Post Office, despite what you may think, they were actually profitable for quite some time.
As the only form of communication to get more expensive every year. Legislated monopolies are not a good example of efficiency.
Javascript is fine in a web browser. It's the people who think it should be a server-side language that are nuts.
Seriously. When did Slashdot attract so many morons? The only worse comments are on global warming.
Go make out with an MRSA-infected patient. You'll get a firsthand example of how evolution is happening right now.
Little Jenny needs to find out her daddy is a dumbass somehow. That would be a good conversation.
At least here in BC if you get accused of a hate crime, you do get a trial, but not in the regular courts. You get a hate crimes tribunal. It's a terrible system and it needs to be removed.