You had me until you brought out the "dumb sheep" trope. You would be more effective in persuading people if you could leave out the hyperbole and tired, cliched insults.

I wonder what role social media is having on the timeline for this event?

It would be nice if tablet designers, OS designers, and app coders stopped treating tablets like media consumption devices and started treating them like actual replacements for people who need to do actual work. Try working on a spreadsheet on one. Yes, you can do it. Yes, it's a colossal pain in the ass. Wanna reset a password in Active Directory from your tablet? If you're on Android or iPad, there's MAYBE one or two apps that can do it and then not very well. Oh, but if you want to listen to music on the crappy little speakers, there are about a thousand music players out there. There are any number of freemium games out there, too.

Tablets are fine for what they are, but you can't sell them as a productivity tool without actually designing it as one, and that's what Microsoft tried to pull with Windows RT.

As usual, the only people who know (or care) about SysAdmin Day are sysadmins. Therefore, nothing is being done to celebrate it. Not even a free donut.

They need a better message than "You're down. You're f***ed. Call back later." Yeah, I know we're down. That's why I called. They need to provide BETTER information. Put something useful on their blog, FB, Twitter, etc. Instead, every time there's a problem, they close the blinds and lock all the doors while the angry mob gathers outside. That's a hell of a way to run a railroad.

So, your contention is that it's "too easy" to climb and therefore the mountain itself is some kind of absurdity? You must hate every minor hill on the planet.

How is it a "joke of a mountain"?

Yeah, that's why I don't want to talk to them, either. I just wanna talk tech with the techs.

>Is it that you don't want to talk to an attractive salesmodel or you have trouble talking to women in general? It's an important question.

Neither. I don't want to waste my time talking to someone in a booth who doesn't know anything about the product being sold. Their level of attractiveness and their gender are both irrelevant.

I like looking at booth babes as much as the next guy, but c'mon. It's just unprofessional. And frankly, I don't want to talk to a hired salesmodel at an IT conference, either. I want to talk to a technical person who knows the freaking product and can answer detailed technical questions about it. If I wanted a brochure, I'd go to the website. It's a waste of my time and your money to have anyone in your booth that doesn't know the product inside and out.

On Sprint here. When I renewed my contract and went to set up my new phone, GVoice took over completely. I can't find any way to use it for voicemail only, but when I originally set it up it was before Sprint's "full integration" with Google Voice. I'd be thrilled if you can tell me how to use it for voicemail only.

...until they featured "improved" integration with my cell carrier. I used it for voicemail and transcription only. Now, if I try to replace my carrier voicemail with Google Voice, it also replaces my cell phone number with my GVoice number, all my texts come from GVoice, etc. I can't seem to simply redirect voicemail to it any more. Good service, but it needs better integration and more granular control.

The purpose of the death penalty is not to prevent recidivism. You could easily achieve the same outcome by sentencing them to life in prison. The purpose is to deter people from committing the crime at all. My argument is that it DOES NOT deter people from committing the crime for which the sentence is death. And furthermore, the risk of convicting and executing an innocent person is too high.

I think you don't know what "deterrent" means. Otherwise, your comment suggests that everyone should be preemptively executed just in case they might pollute. The idea of a deterrent punishment is that a potential criminal will consider the consequence of getting caught (death, in this case), but even in countries that still have the death penalty it's been shown over and over that it doesn't lower the incidents of that crime. Furthermore, the potential for executing an innocent person is a non-zero percentage. The risk of doing so is not worth the arguably dubious reward of lowering crime.

The death penalty has never been an effective deterrent for any crime.