ISO9000 is a really sad joke. If you have a shitty process that produces poor quality, you can pass ISO9000 just fine. From that point on, it will make sure you never accidentally produce a mediocre or (god forbid) a good product.
From TFA:
But taking my phone on the raft wasn't the stupid part; I had it sealed in a zippable plastic bag.
There needs to be a law to make those plastic bags really, REALLY watertight so people who are NOT being stupid by putting their phone in one and then going on a raft
Were you really going to answer the phone while you were on the raft? No that's not stupid. (sarcasm)
But on the way back through the locks, some jerks in a rental yacht pulled up to the raft, started chatting, and then suddenly urged us to get on board and get our raft into the yacht very urgently, making me think it was an emergency and causing me to lose track of my phone.
And you did not ask "why" because
... we later determined that the "emergency" was that the jerks were trying to get the three women in bikinis on board their boat.
Is there some reason
He made a series of stupid decisions about his 1st-world-toy and now he wants the government to make it better for him.
It troubles me that you were without your phone for a few days. Really... well... NOT.
I'm old. I remember the times before cell phones. Sometimes, when you moved, you were without phone service for a whole week or more. And you had to tell everyone who mattered what your new phone number was.
And still society managed to survive.
Somehow, without constant phone reception, the country put men on the moon.
But let's make a law now so companies will be forced to stock replacement phones because OVERNIGHT is too slow.
It reminds me of a two-year-old crying over spilt milk.
Worse. It's that child whinging because he cannot have the toy he really really wants RIGHT NOW! Tomorrow is too late!
Surely for the sake of realism, the latter should be: journalctl -fu sendmail
"sometimes sent out refurbished phones"
not sometimes ALWAYS...
I was one of the first to get an HTC M8 and the first to suffer the failures of the device. 5 days after I first got the phone I had to send it in for replacement (lens cracking and scratching on camera that is still rampant) and I got back a refurb.
They will never ever send you a brand new phone unless they have no other choice. They will send you someone elses borked item first.
http://enenews.com/japan-times...
Note that Tepco itself has admitted that 300 tons of highly radioactive water is leaking.
"so to provide 2-week long backup"
I don't see any need to do that, I never suggested that. Just make up some crazy math why don't you.
The point is 0.007km3 is absolutely miniscule compared with hundred of massively larger reservoirs around the world which rand from hundres to thousands of km3 which givens them huge pumped hydro potential.
"spend it on buying Westinghouse AP1000 reactors (which cost ~£4.25 billion a pop if you look at the Vogtle 3&4 project), build about 30 of them"
That would cost a lot more than £450 billion, at the rate our stupid gov't wants to pay for nuclear power the subsidies for the electricity would cost us over a trillion, no thanks.
I know I'll never order from Sears again (other service companies carry parts on their trucks), but I hadn't thought of just making it illegal to provide bad service...
See, you're doing the right thing there by telling you friends. I've done the same on Facebook (Sears told me that me hand-washing dishes for a month while I waited for a $70 part was reasonable under their extended warranty that I foolishly purchased and that I was lucky because people who have refrigerators that fail in the summer and have to wait six weeks for service are much more unhappy).
And I mean FOOLISHLY because, for Pete's sake, I'm in the support & service business and I never thought to ask Sears what their SLA is!
So, yeah, I'm going to buy my next appliance from the local mom&pop shop and pay more, which means I'm pre-paying for customer service I'll need later (dishwashers are essentially disposable after their warranty service now - a control board can cost $375 if it's an old enough model).
What the OP wants is to make it illegal for a Mom & Pop store to ever exist, because only the big megalocorps like Sears could ever afford to stock huge quantities of parts (and even Sears has closed down its branch parts counters in this economy). So, to the OP - screw you for being a corporate water carrier and enemy of the small business owner - you are what's wrong with society. If you want a service *PAY FOR IT*. Asshole.
Alas, it appears they are drinking the cool-aid. They USED to use only the init scripts, log only to syslog, and in-general paper over it every way they could so you don't have to notice it.
If you want it much faster than they start already, you'll need coreboot.
A trigger for what? Perhaps I'm just watching the console.
I doubt it. Then you just have the old init call the rc scripts as normal and tell systemd to start/stop/watch/ nothing and if it crashes, who cares.
Unfortunately, I think your post is too close to the truth the be funny...
When all the developers move to the same platform with its non-standard implementations of everything, you get IE6.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
