Comment: Correct time? (Score 1) 271
Cases like this show that it's important to make all clock tick the same,
and also to check and ensure they did. Is this check (for NTP, whatever)
in the standard maintenance cycle?
- Hubert
Comment: Re:Excuse me? (Score 2) 218
Wall Street isn't buying these things. Big companies (Facebook, Google) are buying them. And they are "worth" whatever these companies are willing to pay for them, regardless of their current profit levels.
Comment: Re:What are these shiny discs you speak of? (Score 1) 250
No offense to you or your coworker, but is there any reason to accept your theory just on your say so?
(And your sig is accurate, btw)
Comment: Re:Can we afford technically incompetent politicia (Score 1) 297
Kathleen Sebelius was put in a politically impossible position. There was zero possibility of the technology supporting the ACA ever working as originally specced. She should have recognized this instantly, but even if she did, what could she have done?
Quit.
I'm sure she's in a financial position where she didn't have to have the income, and if she had any integrity, she would walk. Further, when questioned by the press, she wouldn't give the 'spend more time with my family' canned response, she would be truthful.
She wasn't placed in a position. She sought out the position. As do all politicians.
Comment: Re:Old Man Yells At Cloud (Score 1) 297
'cuz he's a MAVERICK!
He's too busy to learn to computer because he's busy playing with the boys?
Comment: Re:AR15 != battle rifle (Score 1) 117
So the correct answer to this question was the one ESR asked - for who and for what?
That's why I asked him to specify criteria when he answered. IMNSHO, the answer is almost entirely dependent on the criteria, as evidenced by the poster above who mentioned the FNFAL, etc.
Comment: Re:It's not any less safe than cash (Score 1) 226
People are attacking libertarians over it because they don't know the difference between anarchist, minarchist, and libertarian.
Because we don't care about that any more than we care about whether you are in the People's Front of Judea or the Judean People's Front.
Comment: Re: Anonymous cryptocurrency, who to trust? (Score 1) 226
I thought the whole system was based on the fact that most of the individuals with bitcoin holdings were criminals, so that stealing anything would get you killed.
No, you've confused BTC with USD.
Comment: Re:I'll pass on this one (Score 1) 459
What good is it to live a long time if you can't eat what you like to eat?
The four basic food groups are good enough for me - caffeine, nicotine, bacon, and pussy. Without those, life has very little meaning.
Rinsed down with a good homebrew. Gotta get your B-complex vitamins somewhere.
Comment: Re:Atkin's Diet (Score 1) 459
Fair enough that Atkins wasn't killed by his diet, still, fact: he died young.
Seventy-two isn't young. It's rather close to the life expectancy in the US, IIRC. And more to the point: it doesn't fucking matter if he died young, considering his death had zero relation to his diet.
Comment: AK or AR (Score 1) 126
Which is the better battle rifle, an AK-47/74 type or an AR-15/M-16/M-4 type? Please give your criteria as well as your answer.
Bonus: favorite handgun platform/caliber that isn't a
Comment: Re:This is not news; it is also not PC (Score 1) 427
Oh, I read it carefully enough. The goal of feminism is to provide equality to women in society, and this includes distributing the responsibility of child-rearing to both genders.
Then why do most feminist groups object to presumed shared parenting scenarios in divorce situations?
Comment: Re:Fixed the Problem (Score 1) 427
Your solution to being paid less than male colleagues is to eliminate the male colleagues?
Third wave feminism for you.
Comment: Re:But where are all the Androids? (Score 1) 487
A kindle fire can run apps. It just can't connect to Google's app store. I have a bunch of apps on mine including games, word processor, weather and news apps, etc.
Comment: Re:Just don't get it (Score 1) 134
Issues, much?