Huh......pics or it didn't happen

Who's liable when they roll into the parking lot of the local Best Western and do the same thing?

Making it public is what makes you immune. If it's not public, then you're verifying that all activity from your IP is your own. Making your connection free for others to use re-anonymizes your IP address.

This comment makes it seem like you don't understand the difference between communism and socialism. If you don't know it, I suggest you at least read up on the topic on Wikipedia. If you do know it, and understand why the USSR didn't consider themselves to be communist, then I suggest you write more clearly.

Well sure, let me know why you think Great Britain is going to be the first to go, I'm still not clear why you think that, other than something vague about having a lot of debt (which many countries do).

That number doesn't include citizens/business, it includes things the government has committed to paying but hasn't funded. If you do a search for "us total liability," there are plenty of different estimates. I chose $150trillion because it's somewhere in the middle of the estimates.

And how many Starbucks owners do you see in federal prison?

I think the goal is to not treat anyone like that.

My first boss said, "I don't think I would respect a programmer if he couldn't insult my code." Insulting each other is part of being a programmer.........

No, you're wrong, you didn't even read the article (should I say you are stupid?). Specific examples from the article, if you'd like to read it:

"Only 1 out of 5 is hot, and that is Jessica. The rest need to be in the kitchen."
"I have a guy who’s writing fan fiction starring me and him. It’s a pornographic fanfic, and he's on chapter 6. He anonymously submits chapters through my website"
"Rape fantasies and pictures of dead children were coming faster than I could block individual users."

That is the kind of thing we are dealing with.

I think it was a combination though, the extreme scarcity of basic goods, including food, PLUS a very high level of corruption in government and a rather brutal government. Compare to the US where the great depression led to very high levels of scarcity and yet that did not produce a generation of cheaters.

There has really been no comparison between two countries mostly equal except for one being a communist state, there are always many more variables that are different. Ie, here was have West Germany that was able to rebuild more quickly due to the Marshall Plan and which was given a relatively autonomous government not too long after the war, whereas East Germany had a lot of repression and USSR was not about to treat it as an equal. If you compared tendency to cheat across the various former communist countries I think you'd see a wide variance.

That's why I don't do voice chat. Letting random strangers whisper in your ear is a terrible idea.

I'm male, I've had men threaten all the same bullshit you just said. I think what women mis-understand about men is that men do this to men as well. I've been violently assaulted by other men before. In highschool I was put into the hospital. The "perpetrators" didn't even get suspended. I've had my tires slashed, guys show up at my house with baseball bats wanting to fight only to find out I'm armed to the teeth and that bats not going to do them much good.

I know a lot of guys don't get that sort of thing, but a lot of us do. Women aren't the only victims, and turning male violence into a womens issue is somewhat insulting. Men don't talk about it like women do because of social stigma, but it's a real problem. In the workplace if a man even smiles funny at a women he's walked out the door. The same man threatens violence against another man and it's treated as a joke. At least women have some legal and social protections. If you don't think it's true, here's a thought experiment for you... a Man shows up at work with a black eye... what's your first reaction? Now a woman shows up with a black eye... why should your reaction be any different based on their sex?

3 phase requires the return by code. Technically however, you are correct. That's just for safety and I often question if it makes any sense myself.

3 phase makes electric motors more efficient, and that's it. Technically, you could have as many phases as you could imagine having... each making the motor a tad more efficient. But they are not "smoother" and don't improve transmission.

'Phase' is often considered by some to be some magic property of electricity that somehow makes it better... it's not at all. It's a purely mechanical feature that's revolves around generators and motors. 2 phase means there are 2 electro magnets on the motor. 1 to the north, 1 to the south. When the North magnet is near and electro magnet that magnet goes to +120v and by contrast the south is at -120v. When you have 3 phase it increases efficiency by having an extra electro magnet. So now north is at +120v, but there are now 2 electro magnets to the south that are both 1/3rd of the way from that south pole and therefor at -60v each... It's a purely mechanical distinction and has no affect on anything other than the mechanical operation of motors.

Oh yea, and you can get 3 phase in the US. I got it, and most welding/milling shops have it as well.

We consolidated about 20ish old servers (and added new systems) in to two Dell R720xds that are VM hypervisors. Not only does this save on power n' cooling but it is way faster, more reliable, and flexible. It is much easier and faster to rebuild and stand up a VM, you can snapshot them before making changes, if we need to reboot the hypervisor or update firmware we can migrate VMs over to the other host so there's no downtime. Plus less time is wasted on admining them since there are less systems, and they are newer.

On top of that they have good support contracts, and some excellent reliability features that you didn't get on systems even 5ish years ago (like actively scanning HDDs to look for failures).

Big time win in my book. Now does that mean we rush out and replace them with new units every year? No, of course not, but when the time comes that they are going out of support, or more likely that usage is growing past what they can be upgraded to handle, we'll replace them with newer, more powerful, systems. It is just a much better use of resources.

i never said that your statements were correct. i was being rhetorically generous.

as for the rest, i don't see why i should give advice on a business plan, for free, to a self-described "entrepreneur."

How problematic is a 60yr old vial of likely dead virus anyway?

And they were sealed in melted glass? Come on...
Sounds like a BS "Panic! Your life is in danger!" story to distract us from the worlds real problems.