Plenty of ex-cons get a second chance in the construction industry, for example. There are places that will hire ex-cons, but not many because they have chosen to demonstrate that they are toxic humans and only a fool or someone who can absorb what some of them will rip off will hire them.

We may WANT someone ELSE to hire an ex-com but unless it were a victimless crime such as (some) drug crimes I certainly wouldn't risk it. I can get solid workers who are motivated and have a good track record, so why risk when I don't have to?

You like 'em, hire 'em and have a blast.

So why lie them flat and try to force air front to back when it wants to rise?

A) You don't want 10% of the servers at the bottom getting ice build-up, while 20% at the top are about to burst into flames... Feeding the output from one server to the input of another is a bad idea.

B) It would be a horribly inefficient use of space to have your server taking up 0.5 meters vertically, and sprawling out across the floor.

C) Convection is horrendously weak. A little fan blowing horizontally probably provides 1,000 times as much pressure. And with low-pressure, and low volume, you need much larger cavities to cool well enough.

D) We already DO use convection... Cold air is piped through the floor, and hot air is removed from intakes in the ceiling.

If Microsoft is to be an "incorporated person" then it should pay taxes at the same rate you do. 9.5%, right?

It is absolutely absurd to suggest that Microsoft and its shareholders should profit from their employees use of the public infrastructure (not to mention the direct business uses of the roads; shipping CDs, etc.) without paying for it's upkeep.

OK - that was beyond my conception. Intel lives within 3 miles of me and I consider them, by their tax breaks, taxes paid, and all other factors, to be giving back as least as much as it takes from our state, New Mexico.

Ridicule away - but seriously, I was shooting more for an even analytical response than as flame-bait, and would have been just as satisfied with a yes answer, or if nothing else, some compelling information that I was missing.

I did NOT know if the OP was a Washington resident in first place (so I asked that), and did not know if my factors had been considered (so I asked that next), and if he was a resident, and if he had considered those options, what the answer would be to: is Microsoft a good corporate neighbor?

Unlike you, I think questions are often just questions.

I didn't say that Microsoft was responsible for everything - and I'm not going to defend against things inferred that I did not imply.

Financial models are non-trivial, but in the end, an economy is simple.

My question was honest - kindly quote it in its full context:

If you want to attack me, why not attack me for the ignorance I was guilty of - that Washington residents don't pay state income taxes - THAT was the (erroneous) basis of my question, and that's what the OP has held me accountable for.

Had I known that, I *still* might have asked a similar question. Or - I might not. Personally, I don't know what I might have done in the past.

Just to nitpick, Vimeo works perfectly on iPhone and, in fact, has an iPhone optimised interface.

As an aside, more people should develop their site to work on an iPhone first, then scale it up. It forces you to decide what it *actually* important on the site. If it isn't needed on iPhone, why is it needed on the full version?

Except for the fact that H.264 is hardware decoded on a lot of mobile devices.

Upon researching, apparently the initial run were prone to problems, and it was fixed after a debacle of a recall. Presumably mine was either manufactured after this, or fixed. As for heat, just depends on the efficiency....

How about this for a radical solution - we let the people who want it have it, and the people who don't, don't have it?

Oh, oh, and I know. The government could provide software to do that that people could install on their computer...for free!

Like the Australian government has been doing for a while now. No one used it.

You know, it's always amazing when governments say 'The people want this', and they try to make it mandatory, but end up compromising politically and making it optional...and no one uses it...so a push happens to make it mandatory.

Hey, dumbasses, I think we just figured out how many people actually want it. People might claim to want it, but they either are a stupidly vocal minority, or they are factually incorrect about their own desires.

We're about to do the same thing with health insurance in the US. Granted, at the same time, we're demanding that insurance companies allow people to purchase health insurance that they outright excluded until now, but there's a reason healthy people aren't buying health insurance...it's an insanely horrible scam that no one wants any part of unless they are already very sick.(1)

Sometimes ideas are just stupid. Sometimes the citizens, despite people saying 'This is what citizens want', are smart enough to say 'Thanks, but no thanks'.

1) I just know that someone is going to take that the wrong way, so I will say a) I am a Democrat, b) I am someone whose preexisting condition means he can't buy insurance currently, c) am for health care reform, and d) know that requiring people to buy health insurance from the same monstrous companies that kill every year approximately 1/10 the amount of people that cigarette do is going to be so incredibly unpopular that the Democrats will be lucky if they're not fucking lynched. Democrats: Always willing to shoot themselves in the head as long as both they and the Republicans bipartisanly pull the trigger.

4'x4'x4' sounds like a large enough space that even Kevin Smith would fit.

Well, if you want any semblance of battery life, you do...