Trailer Park Boys has taught us that you can steal anything if you first move it from a person's house to the side of the road.

Even Alex Lifeson.

In which case the employees who said "give me my damned money now" spared themselves from being the ones with no chair when the music stopped.

Having been in the situation where my employer stiffed me out of thousands of dollars in pay (let's call it for what it is: "theft of services"), I've adopted the wisdom of Paulie Cicero: "Fuck you, pay me." Next time an employer can't make payroll, I'm out, with a small claims suit to follow if necessary. Not that I'll actually recover anything, but the time spent donating labor to an insolvent employer can be put to better use finding another job.

Some of the decisions might also be said to be in the shared traders best interest, but definitely not in the shareholders best interest.

Depends on what kind of shareholders you have. This business strategy sucks for those looking to gain long-term value or even (gasp!) dividends, but often works great for the day traders that aren't going to hold onto the stock long enough to see more than a couple of quarters pass in the quest for instant returns.

"Klytus, I'm boooored. What plaything can you offer me today?"

Yes, being the professionals that they are, they recognized a potential issue, analyzed the possible solutions, and implemented several mitigating factors (only one of which you seem to be aware).

You know what they say about assuming...

Thanks for the links. It's especially interesting reading Tim Kosse's argumentative responses to people experiencing problems.

Modern hospital surgery has relied on power for decades, and they usually get by without an electrician in the room.

I'm guessing he hasn't seen the big standby generators with big fuel tanks that hospitals have. Lots of grocery stores too, for that matter.

Ever try and get AT&T or any other big carrier to listen to you while you explain in detail how their "bullet-proof service" is down and needs to be fixed?

I have. Even telling them where the packets are being dropped often doesn't help. My favorite was when my service went out, and after four days of going back and forth with them, it turned out that they'd somehow accidentally dropped the DSL router's MAC address from the authentication list.

I made a living installing NetWare 2.15 servers in banks using token-ring with Windows 3.x or DOS and WordPerfect.

That brings back memories, although we served the medical and legal community back when Maxtor 100MB drives were cutting edge. NLSNIPES was tons of fun.

Go read the glossary on the above link and stop spewing your bullshit.

Go read up on a little military aircraft history and learn how many *decades* remotely piloted target aircraft have been referred to as "drones".

I lean more toward the Pentel Hi-Polymer myself, but any vinyl eraser is going to be miles better than the traditional rubber ones.

That's hysterical. Along those same lines, a co-worker met Bryan Cranston this past weekend.

Or is Slashdot just in love with Ethan?

Well, they had to fill the site with something once they got over their Bennett Haselton love-fest.

I've seen boards where all the decoupling caps are bunched together in a corner of the board, far away from the action.

Yeah, kinda defeats the purpose. I've seen something dumber though - many years back, a friend of a friend tried to get rid of the ignition noise coming over the radio in his car by installing a filter cap across the battery terminals and then wondered why it didn't make any difference. Guy was an electronics tech in the Navy, for crying out loud.

Not every power supply is the same, add a capacitor and/or line regulator to the input.

And don't be stingy with decoupling caps.