Who YOU callin' a "bysshe", bysshe?

Mr. Shelly and I are on first-name basis, despite his untimely expiration on the capsize of the Ariel, some two centuries nigh. I thought nearly all speakers of English to also be so familiar. Please forgive the oversight.

Don't you think having AC's live forever is a good idea? :-)

Man. This is a barrel scraper 'tho.

I have one proposition for Gennady. Why not stop killing each other first? Work that angle on the "Death is Wrong" gig. Then, when we have problem A solved, get to the advanced degree shit. You dig?

Anybody in Africa who's received a polio vaccine from Gates' foundation would. I'm sure they'd be much more likely to call Gates a hero than Snowden, too.

I don't know.... if Windows, SQL Server, and Microsoft Office weren't so darned expensive, or they went away, so we could be using Open source software instead, there might be 1000x the funds being donated for Polio vaccines in Africa.

Gates is labelled a hero..... but maybe he's the villain depriving large numbers of people of the chance to be heros :)

It was enough for Einstein to just "have helped the US" to be deemed a traitor. He didn't have to copy or steal anything, since the US was deemed an enemy.

How'd you remember the PW? :-)

A free thinker. Which means I will perform thought experiments, with assumed values that are contrary to my observation or bias, and see where that leads. Often an otherwise undiscovered insight or new set of observable conditions can arise - to be confirmed with primary documentary sources.

One thing I can assure you - the USA is no inherently or morally "better" than Russia. Their murdered millions were mostly within the borders of their assumed territory. US's are continual, in secondary economic fiefdoms.

Let's find out if this is happening at Chernobyl, so we can start using the stuff to pull Cs137 from the environment.

Research probably not likely to get funding by the USG, since there is no military application for that kind of nuclear research. On the other hand. bioconcentrators of certain uranium isotopes for purpose of bioenrichment, may be of interest to the gov.....

The place is isolated.... what is the ignition source; if there is no heat produced by decay of materials?

It's been a while since I used NetApp though. NetApp and 3PAR's management toolkits crap all over HP MSA/EVA or the various IBM SAN consoles for usability.

Yeah... welll.... I believe even Cisco's CLI, Dell Equallogic's management console, and even Nexenta craps on what HP provides with MSA/EVA.

I also hate the UIs of small business storage vendors, and I am thinking of a storage vendor targeting mid-sized companies in particular, where the management UI has pretty limited functionality, you don't get CLI access ("It's for your own protection, honest! [Or to secure our intellectual property!]"), AND you are limited to same basic Share/Volume setup/removal and told to "Call support" to request that they SSH in using remote support tunnel to perform any more advanced operations or configuration changes, such as setting up or turning off the replication between multiple systems, OR recover/remount the cluster filesystems after a backend Ethernet failure, or change your frontend IP addresses.

Of course, this Support requires continuous subscription payments, just to be able to make changes to your own configuration, and somewhat exorbitant costs just for software updates as well ------ this turns out to be important, because if something breaks during a software update, no mechanism is available to revert, and you have to call support.

In general: I hate the mentality of a number of vendors that they can push out a product that is not easy to administer, at low prices that will encourage management to buy: use a generic Linux system, but keep Shell/Root access to themselves (no CLI for the end user, just a menu), and require/insist engineers wait on their product support teams as a crutch for the product.

The same applies just as well to products that aren't well documented, or that require voluminous documentation to understand their UI sufficiently to perform basic operations.

He's a third generation fascist terrorist.

Diego Garcia

Plane is now here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/DiegoGarcia1.png

There's some nice places, all down the road. Over Turk Kabobs, and Tabacs.

"We already had a nigra. Aftah that, some Jew bwah ain't so bad, now."