Re: Thanks, Trump
Jobs like mine were already being outsourced to India long before this. Long before Obama even. My first personal experience with it was right before 9/11.
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I have my own copy of old Trek episodes because Netflix mutilates them much like those cut rate independent broadcast channels we have over here that just show re-runs.
Providers and publishers can't seem to avoid screwing around with the aspect ratio of old content. Wide screen stuff gets panned and scanned and 4/3 stuff gets mangled into wide screen.
I recently got some old UK TV reruns because they have a classic Doctor in them. They were a cheap crap product that didn't include any subtitles. You would accuse me, A PAYING CUSTOMER, of being a "freetard" for using 3rd party subs to deal with a shoddy product.
This is why the use of "freetard" is a pretty good "douche detector".
A couple of years ago I bought a huge monstrosity of a laptop so that I could have 2.5TB storage space. That included standard "large" form factor drives both SSD & HDD.
Now a mere 2 years later for the same price I can buy from the same vendor a similarly equipped machine that looks more like a MacBook than an 80s luggable. It's all smaller form factor SSD.
Storage capacity on consumer desktops goes underused in general. I would not expect a switch to SSD to alter this.
The bigger drive will always be chosen by the consumer PC vendor. They want to sell a bigger number. The cheapest way to achieve that will be chosen. Because the consumer market is all about pushing the cheapest piece of crap they can manage.
The only people that would care to pick the smaller SSD are also those more likely to need more capacity than SSD can handle.
Not only would they come under the heading of "anti-bullying" law but they have squat to do with the kind of attempts at censorship that characterize any attempt to address "hate crimes".
Things like assault, battery, sexual assault are all real crimes that have their roots in ancient common law. You don't need a special new class of laws to address those things.
You don't need to define something new like "double plus murder".
My main Linux machines are not cheap. They're overpowered monsters. I actually do stuff with my computers.
I have a number of Linux based appliances that use cheap kit because the task allows it. I wouldn't put much power in a device that's a glorified terminal either.
Something should be no more or less expensive than the task requires. Quality should win out over cheapness. Many of us dumped other options not because Linux is cheap but because the other options were crap.
>> and yes, the backup media is stored off site.
> Yes; In the boot of a car, parked on a <shady> street. I have seen this done :(
Yeah. On the other hand I've seen Iron Mountain destroy backups before. All you can really do is ensure that you've got more than one backup. Even the most robust DR plan using "reputable vendors" can run into problems.
My favorite bit of statistical nonsense is a study that went out of it's way to obscure any relevant information that might be meaningful to a normal person seeking information on the topic in question. They basically cooked the numbers in order to make any useful distinctions disappear.
I file this under "fake news". Numbers meant to create a result and further an agenda.
The funny thing here is that you're citing numbers that also put the UK on the bottom.
You shouldn't be snickering. According to that propaganda, you're in the basement with us Yanks.
> So why does healthcare in the US cost so much? Could it be that someone is being ripped off?
It doesn't really. The media just have a certain narrative they like to push.
My "big procedure" cost the same as it would have in London. The number that the news media would give you for that procedure is a fiction.
You can't add a bunch of under served sick people to the rolls without it costing money. Insurance companies aren't going to do that for free. Do you work for free? Why do you expect anyone else to?
As far as our public options go... those suck. They don't pay well enough to keep hospitals in business.
Americans in general think they can get something for nothing. Democrats are just right of Tories when it comes to this stuff. Don't be taken in by their rhetoric. They would run the NHS on one third of it's current budget.
Obamacare is set to implode on it's own. Trump doesn't have to touch it. Saddling people who can't get employer based insurance with the highest risk patients was never a bright idea. It's the ultimate regressive tax but liberals everywhere insist on pretending that it's a good thing.
He actually has public policy positions. Some of them are funny in subtle and not so subtle ways, but he does have them. He's not quite the caricature the media has portrayed him to be.
Actually the American media reminds me a lot of Internet trolls. Take something, distort it, then pretend that distortion is the truth.
He's much more of a mundane Republican than he's made out to be.
I can rubbish their products just fine. I can examine them myself. Stuff like this is nonsense, rumours, and hearsay. I'm as willing as the next guy (or 10) to bash Microsoft, but I am going to make any assumptions here or put stock in anyone that does.
Guys like champions. We respond well to them. We raise them on our shoulders. We are socialized to admire those that achieve greatness. This works well with genuine egalitarian female professionals. They get treated like another professional and actually get less grief from men than from other women.
In practice, it's often lower ranked females that would seek to sabotage a female professional.
Back when I still had Macs, they were terribly unreliable when it came to network shares. They would tend to stop working for no reason. It was avoidable but you had to mount things with command line tools. This included all manner of connections including Mac <-> Mac.
I am here to contradict your dimwitted nonsense because of one of those drugs you're trying to scoff at.
Cancer is a tough nut to crack. It's our own bodies betraying us. It's not something that will be sorted with some quackery you found in a chain letter. It's something that we've put a lot of effort into for a long time now (probably since before you were born).
Spot on. Everyone loves a handout but no one likes to pay.
Americas public healthcare options suffer from the same problem. Everyone is stingy and everyone has a different excuse for not properly funding things. The problem with the government being in charge of things is not the inherent problems with large systems or civil servants. It's the fact that someone will always want to cut the budget.
Star Trek is a space western. The "physics" of the show serve the plot and the budget. It's nominally sci-fi because of the "tech getting us new places" angle but it's pretty thin really. Without a few good brawls and space battles Trek would have died a long time ago. If anything, the pretense gets in the way.
Lawyers have to deal with nasty shits that think they are above the law and can get away with breaking contracts and crippling people. They exist because people are scum and courts are less harmful than duels and rampaging vigilante mobs. They have to be jackasses because they are dealing with jackasses. If you're nice, people will eat you alive. Clients will take advantage and corporations will walk all over you.
As an actual, experienced, full time, production DBA, I hate the idea of depending on the database vendor for disk access code. It's a layer of obfuscation and something outside the scope of what ANY of the database vendors are actually good at. It completely breaks the Unix idea of well functioning, limited, highly specialized tools. It also ensures that the host of tools that can be employed against a regular file system are now WORTHLESS.
It's also going to be a terrible bother for the shallow end of the talent pool (which is the vast majority).
I would only deal with an RDBMS disk access layer if I absolutely had no choice.
Yeah, that's the real solution. Just turn stuff off when you don't use it. Even go so far as to disconnect it from wall power so it doesn't draw power while "idle". Surge strips are great for that. I had to do that with an ION HTPC in the bedroom because it still made noise when it was off. Bothered the spouse.
De-powering everything else that's supposed to be off but really isn't would probably save more than this nonsense.
A lot of people are simple in the middle not affiliated with either side. It has been this way since the Continental Congress nearly didn't pass the Declaration of Independence. Both parties are full of themselves and don't acknowledge to what degree people don't drink either flavor of Kool-aid.
Both Bernie and Trump talk nonsense like the Golden Girl with no impulse control. They say whatever stupid shit that comes into their heads or what they think will get them elected.
OTOH, most politicians are like that...
Both represent fringe elements that need to be ejected from their respected parties. Both aren't really members of the parties they are running for. Trump is just an attention whore and Bernie is too afraid to properly label his party affiliation.