Just a rough guess from the article, it wasn't a short while. I'd say at least a few weeks. Who knows what finally did them in though. A little while without rain could have depleted their water supply. Exposure to the sun could have done it. There wasn't a mention of any makeshift cover. For all we know, a particularly nasty storm could have swept them out to sea. A 1938 report stated that the highest point was 16 feet above low sea level, and nothing is to say that they camped at the highest point. Looking at the island with Google Maps, it appears the sea sweeps across the southern side on a regular basis.

    It would be nice to think they only survived for days. It could have been months. With no real supplies, something as simple as a cut could have been fatal.

    In any case, they didn't survive. That is very unfortunate, as they could have if they had been found in time.

If Michael White is that stupid then it explains a lot. The Direct TV UI is completely horrid in every way. The guide sucks the menus suck, the remote sucks. It's better than the garbage that Comcast has, but only marginally. All of the Cable or Satellite providers have the crappiest UI possible on their boxes. Because they refuse to spend any money on them so they have the box engineers simply slap one together for the least possible cost.

Apple is going to wipe the floor with them. If apple finds a way to have a $45.00 a month subscription to most of the desired channels out there but in a On demand form, They will utterly destroy Dish and the others.

The people that voted to pass it never even read it.

In Texts a Cactus can practice Law. That is the state where a lot of the really bad lawyers go as they are incredibly lax on their requirements.

ReiserFS works extremely well on small files, so I like using it for /tmp. I would use it for /etc, /usr/share and /usr/man as well, but I've had problems where it has corrupted the FS. I can afford to lose /tmp, but /etc is another matter. If I felt safer with it, I'd consider ResierFS to be near-obligatory for any directory in which short files were the norm.

(More partitions is no big deal with gparted-style partition tables. More than 6 partitions was more of a bother under the MSDOS-style partition tables. The overheads are a pain, but in some case the space efficiency of specialist FS' in their niche will cover this. In other cases, the speed improvement is worth the space penalty, especially on modern drives.)

Btrfs is promising but the repair tools have been promised for a very long time and I'm beginning to think that Oracle might try to recover the cost of development by charging for "professional-quality tools" in the same way as is done for MOSIX. (I can sympathize with the MOSIX stance as anyone building a large cluster probably has spare cash.) Oracle has done something along these lines with MySQL and I don't trust them to not do the same anywhere they can.

ZFS has its own niche - it essentially folds hardware RAID, LVM and a logging filesystem into one unit, with tight integration and resulting efficiency gains, but being run in userspace does harm most/all of those gains. With work, though, it could be made into an excellent filesystem where you need that kind of dynamic - such as for database work, or software development. You can't predict in such cases what the final requirements will be and migration is a major headache.

The P9000 filesystem is fascinating and may well be great in certain clustered environs. There are other clustered filesystems but I'm beginning to think Lustre has lost its way, POHLFS has recently been reinvented and can't be regarded as stable yet, Gluster hasn't been heard of for a while and the "top" commercial cluster FS for Linux (Polyserve Filesystem) died when HP bought the company owning it, with suspicions of murder. The field is a bit of a mess.

She claims to be an attorney, but others have posted that no research so far conducted can find evidence that she has ever been licensed as such or is currently entitled to act as such. If, as seems possible given the evidence so far, she is not an attorney at all but a fraud, then Texas' bar should be considering legal action on those grounds and the State should consider pulling her business license as it is presumably a violation of the terms and conditions of such a license.

If she actually IS an attorney, then she's either incompetent (which should be a debarring offense) OR she is knowingly using threats of a lawsuit for the purpose of intimidating an innocent party to perform specific actions for the benefit of the accuser (I believe this may fall under the terms of "Demands With Menaces", which is a criminal offense). Neither of these would look good on her resume and I hope both the bar and the State Justice Department examine the issue.

It's couched in deliberately vague terms that would make a libel charge against her difficult to stick, given the level of protection of free speech and the lack of specific direct accusations ("merely" insinuations, which are just as toxic). This is precisely the sort of case where cyberbullying laws would be useful, where weasel-wording makes it difficult to prove the kind of harm needed in other lawsuits.

(Actually, it would be better yet if the US went back to involuntarily committing people who were mentally unsafe in public.)

I would not really call it ironic as much as I'd call it circumstantial evidence that she was aware that what she was doing was in violation of the law.

I thought she already did that.

These look familiar.

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