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Nope. Get to work for the 2015 prize.

Yeah, I've moved past the point where people like you can shame me into flip flopping. I don't want you around me, and I don't value your approval.

It doesn't really matter why I hold this position, or how you want to label it. What matters is, I refuse to support companies that woo women away from traditional family life, and I refuse to be sneaky about it in the name of political correctness.

I think professionals should wear suits, and I'm highly competent, as demonstrated by the many world class projects on my CV.

Your view of the world is flawed.

You're so caught up in your desire to defend your ridiculous "free expression" ideology that you won't acknowledge that facts exist, or that lies exist. There's a huge blind spot that you can't see past because you've decided that your ideology is beyond critical examination.

That pedantic crap about "thinking hard" just reinforces that for all your cleverness, you're just another idiot who has been crippled by his preconceptions.

You should probably stick to the contrived world of the chessboard and leave the real world problems to others.

Careful there. By design, the IPv6 address space is very sparse. For instance, my house has a /48 netblock allocated to it. If that were the universal rule, the effective address space would be 2^48 networks, not 2^128 hosts. That's also assuming that all of the /48 space is allocated perfectly and densely, and not like a /16 per ISP which would mean that we'd never be able to have more than 66,000 ISPs.

IPv6 will not feasibly support 2^128 hosts because it was never meant for each host to be consecutively numbered. While your coworker is incorrect, your standpoint isn't exactly right, either.

First, I'm not talking about adding any additional gear. There's no reason that what I'm talking about can't be handled entirely in the DSLAM or head end or whatever and in the existing CPE hardware that talks to it.

Second, I wasn't really talking about changing the CPE for business customers with fiber connections anyway. They're not (usually) the ones who are constantly on the phone with tech support saying "The Internet is down" when really, they just accidentally unplugged something. I'm talking about providing smarter, preconfigured cable modems and DSL modems for home use.

Missing link (not the caveman type).

Or goes to bed too late?

Poindexter is more likely going to get his ass kicked by Helga, the research assistant who can pick up a tyrannosaurus thighbone.

Can you think of a scenario which can be called an emergency where you would benefit from protection from malicious misinformation?

Think hard.

I disagree. I think the problem is that there are women in the workforce serving the needs of rich old bastards instead of taking care of their husband and children.

There are zero women in my workplace. I love it.

Not so much in the dating/reproductive game. This isn't like a lion looking for an easy meal. The strongest males seek the best females. It's an optimal reproductive strategy for producing the fittest offspring. And society has encoded it in its social structure. Be seen dating a lower ranked woman by the alpha females and you get points taken off your rank.

And then there's the whole etiquette thing: Proper social behaviour is learned, much like sports, if you practice correct technique, you improve your game. If you goof around, or play with low ranked players, your game will suck. Sure, you can get laid more frequently hanging around the strip club. But you'll have a hell of a time building long term relationships with quality women if you treat them like hookers out of habit.

Contracts are written by both parties. Don't like the terms? Try asking for something different and see who will sign.

Yes, but who has the option? Most often the dealership, to protect what is to them a large investment. Manufacturers won't be affected by a few dealers coming and going to the same extent.

So, if you want to invest a few million into a dealership, will you sign an agreement that might get you cut off at the end of a term? Interesting note: In the past, dealership franchise contracts prohibited corporate ownership of multiple dealerships. manufacturers didn't want large ownership structures to build up which could challenge them in contract negotiations (divide and conquer). But this was challenged and thrown out by the courts (in the '60s or '70s, I believe).

I really do want digital albums, complete with very high resolution art, full lyrics, liner notes, and extras.

I'd actually like to have the ability to buy the "full album" that would include video files of each music video from the album, "B" sides from old 45 releases of songs from the album, backstage videos, interviews with the artist, whatever.

The old album covers from the 70's, the ones that were supposed to be on large vinyl record jackets... I want to be able to put those up on a large flatscreen TV while the album is playing. Preferably not just a scan from a CD printing, but the original image scanned in high resolution. I'd like to be able to see all the details in Hipgnosis images like the jacket art to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway or Wish You Were Here. (Hmm, someone made an animated GIF for that last one... heck, I'd like it both ways in the digital album, original and new animated version.)

Of course, I want this all using open file formats (FLAC, JPEG, HTML). But since nobody else got around to doing this, Apple is doing it first, and of course with Apple it will be proprietary, opaque, and likely patented somehow for maximum lockin.

I don't think this will revolutionize music, but it really is something I want.

It also has a Glacier backup, which is great for huge backups that you don't need to restore often (or ever). I use Time Machine to backup our laptops to our DS412+, and it pushes those backup volumes up to Glacier once a week. If something catastrophic happened like a massive earthquake or a house fire, we could recover all our most important data (including irreplaceable like our photos) just by replacing the hardware and clicking "restore". For less than $10 a month, that's a great feeling.