People who make this argument miss the point. The massive costs are largely the result of NIMBYs and all the red tape and bureaucracy that forces constant changes and jumping through hoops to continue to comply and go online.

The irony is we operate old, less-safe nukes because it's easier in a regulatory fashion to keep them running, even though newer, modern designs would be safer and better for everyone because the plants can't be built.

So shut up about "long term" effects. There are none. Zero. Ever. For any vaccine ever created in the history of mankind.

It's ignorant and absolute statements like these that make people struggle to believe the assorted narratives we're constantly being asked to swallow. Zero ill effects or long term effects for any vaccine ever? That's a pretty big reach. Use terms like rare rather than never. Because if you study the history of vaccine/drug development, plenty of the drug companies' products have caused harm, especially early rounds of them. It's a matter of weighing the potential harms between the "cure" and the disease.

If he's got qualified immunity and a monopoly on state-sanctioned violence then he should be recorded any time he interacts with a non-cop while on duty. Janitors can't whip out a weapon and shoot you if they feel like it for any reason at all

FTFY

Fortunately most shareholders understand that running a business requires rather more than immediate profit maximisation.

I don't know what public corporate structure you're familiar with, but MBAs here in the US are taught it's morally imperative to do whatever it takes to increase share value. Shareholders understand "My stock value goes up" and "My stock value goes down." Most of them have zero interest in the company's long-term success as an investment because the stock market does not reward that sort of thinking.

It's funny how my cable Internet service went from $80 for ~10-15 megabit when it was a monopoly to $45 for 300 megabit within 2 weeks of AT&T laying fiber behind my house.

Though they still try to get me to rent a cable modem from them, because the 'substandard' modem I own wouldn't handle the speed, when it's rated for ~400 Mbps

I live in a state that passed Voter ID. Since the law passed, local Democratic Party workers no longer come to my house asking to speak to several other voters registered to my address who definitely don't live at my address. So yes, there is fraud, and yes voter ID has prevented fraud.

The state will issue an ID for free for the purposes of voting so there is no financial barrier to voting.

You say voter suppression, sensible people say fraud prevention.

It is significantly more a matter of convenience than baby size. The entire OB industry is based around convenience, painlessness and reducing the amount of time medical staff need to actually work on you. They want to clear the bed for the next patient as quickly as possible. Another significant part of the problem is medical care professionals (at least in the U.S.) treat childbirth like a pathology rather than a life event. Both the doctors and the patients treat this like something that should be scheduled, painless, and regimented when the process is unpredictable and defies easy scheduling.

My wife had both of our children at home under the care of a midwife. The birth was painful and messy, but our children are healthy. Contrary to what you see on medical shows, movies and TV, most of the events of birth take a significant amount of time... it's not 5 minutes between "my water broke" and "baby is born" unless you have to fit a birth inside a 22-minute show.

Cost-wise, the home birth cost much more out of pocket, but was actually significantly cheaper overall - somewhere between 15 and 30% of the cost of a hospital birth. Of course, these costs are hidden when you have insurance, but be assured that somebody pays that extra 70-85%.

(Inktank community guy here)

There are a number of different options for backup/disaster recovery solutions with Ceph, depending on what piece(s) of the platform you are using. For instance, the object gateways (think S3) from multiple clusters can be plugged together for multi-site replication. The CephFS and block device portions both have snapshotting built in that can be replicated offsite.

In the medium-term we're looking at having a way to replicate your entire cluster over the wire at the RADOS level (underlying object store). Longer-term we'd love to be able to offer WAN-scale replication for a single cluster and the ability to snapshot a cluster (or portions/pools therein) easily.

I hope that helps. If you have more questions hit me up on #ceph at OFTC.net IRC.

• * Native API
• * Via a RESTful interface that can handle native Amazon S3 and Swift API calls
• * As a thinly provisioned block device
• * Mount it as a POSIX-compliant file system via CephFS (although this is a bit rough for production environments just yet)

Josh Durgin has actually done some really interesting work in using the block device (RBD) to back Cinder which you can read a bit about here.

The cool part about Ceph is it was designed to be massively scalable (petabytes and beyond) and extremely fault tolerant / HA / etc. DreamHost actually just built out a huge production deployment of Ceph and OpenStack for their new DreamCompute / DreamObjects offering. If you have questions feel free to hit up the #Ceph irc channel at irc.oftc.net or poke me via email (my UN at inktank.com) and I'll see if I can't find the right person to help.

OpenStack really has some awesome potential, and we're excited about poking at it more with our semi-sharp Ceph-stick. Good luck.

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