Bah. Just tell him that crashes are quantumally (technical term) uncertain, and because you know WHERE the crash will be (in the computer) you can't know WHEN the crash will be. Point out that you can predict that there will be a crash at 3:35:27.45 PM that day, but because you know WHEN it is, you can't know WHICH COMPUTER it will actually be.

So, in other words, the client specced a Dell, you ordered something other than Dell, and the client made you then fix your mistake?

Wikipedia is the Catholic Church putting anything Copernican on the index librorum prohibitorum while continuing to cite Ptolemy as a verified source and citation.

Yesterday's 10,000 dollar specialty equipment is today's 200 dollar video game accessory. Wiimote, Kinect, wii balance board, all come to mind right away.

I was in England a decade or two back for reasons.

We were in London, and there was a day of freezing rain. Nobody cared. The next day, there was snow. Not even a millimeter. A dusting. The city literally shut down.

Borrow from where? All of the other cities in the area that also don't generally suffer snowstorms? More northerly cities that are probably busy using their equipment, thank you very much?

Last time I checked, it was a hacked up version of Python running on Windows servers.

Don't conflate race with culture. They're two completely separate things. And yes, various cultures have various drives, goals that they tend to place import upon, and so on.

Q: What's your greatest weakness?

A: Well, I'm horrible at interviews, especially with standard interview 'gotcha' questions, because I haven't read enough Salon articles or management fad-theory books.

I agree with all points, but wow. Number 3 really got away from you.

Are you using this OS, twenty years old, with the device drivers backported?

Aren't cell phones *required* to provide as much location data as possible for emergency services and the like?

Every time I take the 407 automated toll highway, I wonder why they're not mailing out tickets.

'Hmm. You got on at Exit A, you got off at Exit B, that's 25 KM, at 100 kph that would take you 15 minutes, you did it in 12, you're speeding. Ticket."

2500 out of pocket? Nuts. I was something like 13 dollars out of pocket for codeine.

It went like this. Go to hospital ER one night in horrid pain. Get ultrasound. Get told I have stones. Get told I should have them out. Scheduled for two weeks hence. Get gall bladder out. Go home.

As a Canadian, the US system fill me with dread. It's just plain WIERD to think that, were I American, I'd have had to actually think about whether or not to get my gall bladder out. It would have been an economic decision. That's not right.