The bulge in his tights?

Exactly. Everything I'm reading says they are dangerously close to bursting. I'm not an economics guy so I have to rely on the "experts" but it doesn't sound good. Plus, their GDP is artificially inflated with these building projects they're doing. Google "Chinese ghost cities" and take a look. Strange stuff going on over there.

I'm frustrated as well but I doubt it's a "complete inability". I can't remember a summary that was incorrectly right leaning. Seems intentional. I've been coming to this site since the beginning and, I know it's Taco's blog, but it seems to be transitioning from a geek site to a liberal politics blog. Since there are over 1000 posts here (which is usual for the politics postings) and much less on the tech postings my guess is the politics are here to stay.

Dude. You just argued AGAINST a giant deathray.

Tell him we need a giant version, STAT.

Working within and using the cloud is a whole new way of looking at servers and, at least for my company, works well internally as well. For us, the cloud has great potential and use for DEV and QA environments, serving static content, and for quickly and easily provisioning additional capacity. We keep our data in house. No proprietary data is in the cloud, just the front end for delivering it.

When it comes to cloud we think of servers as applicances. We hardly ever fix them. If they break we throw them away and turn up another. As I said above, no data is stored on them. We also built "factory reset" into our automation that allows us to return servers to how they were configured when we first built them as a means to control drift (which is minimal since noone ever logs into the servers).

This automation and tool set are now transitioning to our internal data center. We are building out a "cloud" infrastructure that will allow us to treat internal servers as appliances as well. That way, we have a choice between public and private cloud when provisioning servers (lower cost/security vs. higher cost/security).

I know cloud is a buzz word for the consultants and marketers but Sys Admins (and developers as well) need to look beyond that and see the potential.

Ha. That's actually a truly diabolical idea. I'm really surprised Jobs didn't come up with it. They could have just gone after the tool makers with trademark infringement.

*...and it'll never be outsourced."

Yeah, but it might be Obama'd :)

Anyway, I'm a systems administrator so thankfully I don't have to deal with this crap. The only thing young sys admins contribute is downtime and they are compensated appropriately.

I'm not a tea partier so I can't speak for the whole lot but the ones I do know are against unbalanced spending, big gov't, redistribution of wealth, the massive debt, etc. Everyone should be against the mandate because it IS unconstitutional. Personally, I feel health insurance/care needs to be fixed. No doubt about it. I just don't like the progressive way of doing it (and either does a majority of the country if polls are right).

Who is the liberal equivalent to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck for instance?

Ed Shultz
Obermann
Tons of celebrities

I think Obermann is off the air though (don't feel like googling it). You may not know about them because no one is watching them but they exist. Rachel Maddow was pretty bad last time I checked but haven't heard much about here lately.

As for celebs, friggin tons:

Michael Moore
Bill Mahar
The View
Oliver Stone
etc...

And of course there's Jeanine Garafalo (sp?). She out crazies all the crazies put together.

I had to vote Maniacal. How could I not??

Dude, Attila made a statement based on fact that you blasted him/her for and you were wrong. Wish I could say I was surprised at how you handle that. Maybe if you spent more time reading opposing ideas and viewpoints and less time trying to filter out the boogeyman you would have been able to google it and avoid looking like an ass.

This one's cool, Beck rally vs. inaguration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7y8gEcoqas
A little longer with a funny title "Post-Barackalyptic Wasteland" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMrJE7J3fWU
This one's all dramatic looking http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2009/09/13/they-say-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-photo-after-obama-inauguration-ceremony-versus-photo-after-9-12-tea-party-rally/
Here's one from a liberal rag for you. Scroll down to "Tell your grandchildren: 'I was there'. Two people sitting on a pile of trash looking super happy about it http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/cold_weather/page/2/

It's probably based on the fact that the people at Colberts rally would be liberals. At Becks rally and at the Tea Party rally there were conservatives and both times the mall was left spotless by the crowd. Compare that to the inauguration crowd for Obama who left the place looking like a bomb went off. It gives a bit of an insight into the character of the different people attending the events.

You forgot one:

4. Low FQ (Faggy Quotient)

Army doesn't want a bunch of soldiers running around with a prissy little iPhone in their hand. They need a manly device. Just the saying the name "Android" makes me spit a wad of tobacco spit, and I'm not even chewing tobacco. Now that's manly. iPhones are for teenage girls and smug hipsters in turtlenecks, not killing machines.

Well, in case you want to know, right after that it said "The economy is doing great, and then, Obama farts puppies, flowers and rainbows"