Being single (especially with a high-prestige job such as pilot), living with your parents *and* using a photo of yourself in San Francisco as your Facebook avatar....

Well, he was gay so you can bet your last t-shirt that the media will drop the story pretty soon. (Can't say anything bad about them, even though both murder and suicide are pretty common in that community. It would lead to "prejudice", you know...)

See, you can have a media cover-up without a conspiracy, just wait a few days after the news-cycle has turned.

No, AFAIK the lock is active only for 5 minutes (according to other sources 20, doesn't make a difference).

In other words the guy inside the cockpit has to re-lock the door every 5 minutes to prevent somebody from entering.

Pretty much the same for me.

I tried to use Postgrest 2 years ago, but I could not get it to compile into a custom directory and decided that it's not worth the effort.

In the meantime I have written so many wrappers geared to MySQL that I will use it for many years to come. But I will certainly give Postgrest a try sometime in the future.

It's always the same. The realists come with real issues, real arguments and real examples.

The Microsoft apologists only say that it's "pretty damn good". That's it. No specifics, no reasons, no nothing. It's just that good, "honestly".

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I love to dump on Microsoft as much as the next guy, but honestly SQL Sever 2000 on is pretty damn good.

Now, if SQL server is "honestly" so good, why are the one million busiest sites slowly migrating away from Microsoft?

http://news.netcraft.com/archi...

In 2008, 20% of the million busiest websites used Microsoft, now only 12% do, and the decline slowly continues.

When we talk about these installations, we talk about very heavy loads, very much data and very high requirements on reliability and availability.

So why does the high-end "enterprise" systems move away from that "pretty damn good" platform? The Microsoft apologists on this thread constantly tell me who licensing costs don't matter and how good all Microsoft products are ("honestly"!) - but exactly in the one area where licensing costs really don't matter (the one million busiest sites) Microsoft is also losing it. So why then?

Maybe it's not as "pretty damn good" as some anonymous internet commentators claim? Honestly?

Exactly. My hoster even charges extra for the privilege to run Windows. (Here in continental Europe, Windows is used on less than 10% of servers) - which makes MS SQL a "no go" for most installations.

In fact I would not even consider a database that runs only on a proprietary platform.

3: Finding MS SQL expertise is easy.

That's a lie - and you know it. Everybody (and their dogs) runs MySQL. Wordpress uses MySQL. Pretty much everybody in the computing industry who is working with databases (except maybe some Microsoft-diehards who refuse to run anything not from Redmond out of principle) has at least some MySQL experience.

If you're doing something that data intensive and can't afford a DB license, then you're doing something wrong.

The sheer stupidity in that statement is outrageous. You may not believe it, but it's not just Fortune 500 companies that do "data intensive" stuff. Even a freelancer (i.e. a single person) is able to do "data intensive" stuff.

So, whether you can "afford" a DB license depends on the application. There are lots of applications where using DB would price you right out of the market.

Don't you feel any shame?

It's trivial to expose your lies, it's even on Wikipedia:

Recently, gang-related incidents have been on the rise. Between the years of 1997 and 2005 over 300 gang-related deaths have occurred. [..] In late September 2005, Toronto police arrested 44 members of the Rexdale-based "Ardwick Blood Crew" also known as A.B.C.

Hmm, also according to Wikipedia, "Rexdale's first residents were mostly English and Scottish, but evolved into a multicultural neighbourhood in the following decades."

But there is more:

Then in May 2006, 106 additional gang members were apprehended, who were part of Rexdale's "Jamestown Crew" (a Crip gang), in the largest gang sweep in Toronto's history.

Hmm, what ethnicity could a gang be that is called "Jamestown Crew"?.... Hmmm, you will probably never know...

In June 2007, Toronto police arrested about 95 people, including leaders of the Jane and Finch-based "Driftwood Crips" and the sister of murder victim Jordan Manners, for a lengthy list of 700 criminal charges.

Aha, a "Crips" franchise gang. What ethnicity could that be... It's a mystery...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

That's not true at all.

Washington DC has a couple of black neighborhoods that are rich and violent.

Often compared to what exactly?

Because blacks commit more violent crime than all other races combined, one can say: Compared to everything else.

Blacks genocided Khoi-San in Angola, Mosambique, etc. - now all violent deaths are black there.
Blacks genocided (almost all) Pigmies in Kongo - now (almost all) violent deaths are black there.
Blacks genocided Indians in Uganda - now all violent deaths are black there.
Blacks ethnically cleansed Whites in Detroit - now (almost) all violent deaths are black there.

It's only "racist" when whites are doing it.

If blacks are doing it, it is "empowerment".

The sad thing is that Mozilla hides their ESR release. Once I (unsuccessfully) tried to find it on mozilla.org (Go ahead, try it!).

I only succeeded by using Google (oh, the irony!) to find an obscure download page on mozilla.org.

Mozilla treats their ESR release like some unwanted stepchild.