Maybe the unions could guarantee job security by giving the school districts the best possible teachers? If a teacher doesn't meet standards, pull them out of the classroom and send them back to school. They keep their jobs, and children aren't victimized by the unions' desire to keep their people employed.

Have you ever even seen a modern wind turbine farm? If you had, you'd be able to see that wind generation is not highly variable.

Sure, that makes perfect sense. Some juice from the back of a tanker truck can bend a tectonic plate?

Exactly. My parents and all their cousins grew up in houses with about 100 sq feet per person. Three bedrooms, 7 kids, etc. Sure, they were able to live on dad's salary, but mom's entire day was spent toiling so they could make it work. If you want to live like they did in the 70s (and 60s and 50s), you certainly can on one income. But it won't be pretty, because it wasn't pretty then either. We have two income households because we have greater expectations for standards of living.

I think the rebuild time depends on the sustained write ability of the controller and drive more than the size of the drive. It is always going to take X amount of time to fill up a hard drive, whether the source of the data is one other drive or 7 other drives.

Yes, RAID is not a backup. But it definitely can reduce the number of times you need to use your backups.

I would also suggest that if doing a resync affects client performance all that much, your machine is misconfigured or under-specced.

Very little these days. Heat is the only thing that really matters anymore. You are just wasting power.

Fuckin' commie!

If your firewall and LAN config is good enough, perimeter defense works fine. Unsecured devices should never be able to see anything but the path to the gateway. If they need to access something internally, it should be through some kind of proxy.

But then they would have to learn how to do ipv6. And pay Cisco or Juniper for new IOS licenses that support ipv6.

I can only speak to my tiny little microcosm of the world, but if I plug my Win 7 machine into my Comcast router, and IPv6 works just fine. Not so for Fedora.

Chances are the software is old Windows 3.11 or OS/2 shit that they hacked to get working on 95, and then further hacked to get working on XP. They probably are legitimately at the end of the line.

I'm not a MS hater, but it does seem silly to use an OS that everyone knows will have a limited lifetime. It seems like something like an ATM would be the EXACT place where one of the UNIXes or Linux would be perfect. Support as long as you want it and in the case of linux, support as long as you want to solve your own problems.

My other question would be, what support do they still need for XP? Haven't all the problems been solved?

What is amazing to me is that people routinely kill themselves with all manner of drugs. Why can't they just load the poor fuckers up with a shitload of morphine and off they go? How hard does it have to be? We put cats and dogs down all the time; just do that.

No.

Prescriptive grammar is what makes a language. Otherwise, they are just random words.