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Comment Re:Missing option (Score 1) 225

"you sir are guilty of jaywalking, but because the arresting office has alluded to the fact that you might be a pedophile, I'm going to give you 15 years".. right.

Well, 15 years isn't within the allowable punishments for jaywalking so that's a specious argument. However if you think Capone got all that time in jail for simple tax evasion you're nuts. Sometimes people of bad character are charged with what the prosecution can prove beyond a reasonable doubt but everyone knows the score and so they'll get the top end of the scale for what could be proven. That's not necessarily against justice even if it isn't within the letter of the law.

Comment Re:Am I the only one... (Score 2) 125

When I talked to one of our VAR's he said that one of the local hospital chains was one of his best and worst customers, best because of all the expensive gear they bought, worst because they were so demanding. They actually paid to have trenching done to make sure that their backup link at one facility went out a different CO which was on a different uplink facility (ie truly divergent paths with no single mode of failure), and that was just for PACS, not telesurgery.

Comment Re:Tesla enables Edison to win the endgame? (Score 4, Informative) 597

The parasitic losses of DC over long distance is reason enough that it's not done

Siemens quotes 3.5% loss per 1,000km for +-800kv DC vs 6.7% for 735kv AC systems, exactly the opposite of your claim. I think I'll trust one of the biggest names in power over someone with a free bitcoin scam in their signature.

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