Sticking an electrode into a creature and have it twitching to music is not funny, it's cruel.

Mr. Toohey would be proud.

I don't think so.... Aryan maybe, but not German.

You sound pedantic.

You have it backwards. You're putting your fastest storage under the files accessed the least. Put /usr and /home on SSD for performance, and let the boot process basically take care of your typical system binaries.

Because not everyone has infinite money, you ass.

But remember, socialism is better than capitalism.

The less value paper money has, and the more regulation and taxation there is on commerce, the more of this you will see.

Who'd have thought that aggressive, competitive people end up dying earlier than more laid back types? Go Science!

"I expect to make a pile of money from the John Galt Line. I will have earned it."

No it doesn't work.

From Microsoft-

"The W32Time service is not a full-featured NTP solution that meets time-sensitive application needs and is not supported by Microsoft as such. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 939322, Support boundary to configure the Windows Time service for high-accuracy environments (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=179459)."

"The W32Time service cannot reliably maintain sync time to the range of 1 to 2 seconds. Such tolerances are outside the design specification of the W32Time service."

First, they will use Windows Active Directory for NTP because someone will say "it's authoritative for the whole network". And their clocks will be off.

Then they will run into config hell, and blaming that for clocks being off - they will load balance the domain controllers. Which is precisely what you're not supposed to do with NTP. And their clocks will be off.

Then, some small but relevant IT subgroup will secede, claiming that they need "real" NTP. "Network Security" folks are typical suspects here. So their clocks won't match the rest of the gear (which is still off, remember?)

If you have poor enough technology discipline that your clocks are 24 minutes off already, you're probably screwed.

Sounds like you're just riding a bomb.

And all the socialized deficit spending you can eat.