I'm confused - it appears you're disagreeing with my post, which actually agreed with your post but added a qualifier to a specific circumstance in which they would be right - one which is far outside the control of the healthcare system anyway.

People simply do not die waiting for elective surgeries or emergency procedures - transplants are the only way I could think of where a person would die waiting for the operation.

For what it's worth, I live in the purview of the New Zealand healthcare system - one which has a target of 6 months for elective surgeries.

Sounds like the procedure they're referring to is a transplant, the sort of thing that's also dependent on a seriously scarce resource (donors).

It has a browser, therefore has access to porn.

Newer generation Xbox 360s do not actually have red LEDs any more. Errors are simply displayed as cryptic numbers on the screen

It would have to be "Xbox, Settings, Turn Off, Yes" - and there's a 50/50 chance that halfway through it misinterprets something and just locks up until followed by "Cancel"

Well, except for provide roads, school systems, emergency medicine, justice systems, police protection, fire protection, civil defense, national defense, libraries, research subsidies...

Yup, all nothing.

Unfortunately the reality is, in the wrong hands pretty much any solution can seem shitty. Doesn't matter if it's Exchange, Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, or even Google Apps (I've managed to bollocks up my Google Apps configuration a few times).

And I would agree, older Exchange versions were a dog (like 5.5 etc). It's come ahead by leaps and bounds since then though.

Never seen that before. Either we have phenomenal administrators (unlikely, I've met them) or the people running that install were frankly incompetent. I'm leaning toward the latter.

Right. Plug an unconfigured Sendmail or Postfix server into the internet, and it magically configures itself.

Your post is the dumbest shit I've heard all day.

Then why the fuck aren't they using EWS?

Google Video for Business. Gone.

(According to Google, "use Google Drive instead").

You do realise that Windows domains at greater than Windows NT 4 functional level don't have Primary Domain Controllers right? Are you saying that Samba 3 can act as a FSMO Master role server in a Windows 2003 functional level domain?

(The answer is no by the way - only Samba 4 can do this, and even then the functionality is still buggy according to the Samba project).

Side note, SMB isn't used for domain communications, it's LDAP/S and Kerberos (well, Kerb5 or whatever it's called). Your post appears to completely apply only to NT 4 domains.

In all fairness, Google has a tendency to keep any retired services running for Apps users (Wave notwithstanding). If they don't, then they tend to migrate the data to a comparable service automatically (e.g. all Google Video data being migrated to Google Drive).

Oh. A chair joke. How original.

Google Apps now has the same privacy policy as regular free Google services.