Agreed. And you can look for signs of stress on the skin of the Jalapeno. There will be white striations on the pepper. The more the merrier in my book. It's only a guideline -- there will still be lots of variation in heat. But, in general, the more skin damage the hotter the pepper.

Google has a *long* way to go. Unless they allow their customers to select the operating system (by providing IaaS), this just won't fly long term. We looked at using Google, but we need Windows Server 2012 for some of the things we wanted to move out of our datacenters. And SQL Server. They provide/allow neither.

Except they make it readily apparent how to compose a tweet -- even for new users. #dying

Ah, yes. It was vacationing Russians that took over the Crimean peninsula. They saved some money by parachuting in rather than taking a commercial flight to Sevastopal. (The checked bag fees are brutal!) And I hear combat gear is the newest fashion statement out of the Moscow fashion district this year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary_execution#Exceptions_to_prisoners_of_war_status

Emphasis mine.

If true, under the Geneva Convention these soldiers would be considered unlawful combatants and subject to Ukranian law.

Where is the center of the surface of the earth?

It's very easy for the U.S. to pay off the U.S. debt. It is denominated in U.S. dollars.

Assume there exists a spherical cow in a vacuum...

I don't know that I agree with that 100%. I've seen people that think they understand economics be all for it. I see it as driven by engineers (among others) with no education in the Humanities, having a complete lack of understanding about fundamental aspects of human nature.

Let me re-write that for you in a simplified form:

Dependable banks require that those running them, and those depositing money into them are not Human.

If Microsoft really wanted me to stop distrusting them, they'd ask the user which search provider they'd like to use (or just choose a random one) rather than make Bing the default. Instead, they are using their position in the market -- again -- to limit choice and tilt the field to their advantage. If they didn't have the ability to make Bing the default, there is no way it would have the position that it does today. Microsoft still has a monopoly power on the desktop. And they continue to abuse that power. When forced to compete on equal footing, we get real competition. Some, like XBox, are successful; some, like their mobile platforms, are not.

Government regulation of curricula exists to protect children from being taught "Creation Science" in public schools. You want to fix over-regulation in schools? Fix the root cause. Otherwise, I'm all in on that one.

Denial. Recognize it and you have reached the first stage of overcoming addiction.

Otherwise put up a well-reasoned rebuttal.

I've seen the effects of Solaris addiction on a company first hand. The result is little different than a drug addiction. It doesn't cost much at first, then you start having to devote more and more of the budget to support. Some companies resort to breaking the law to feed their addiction (which is what this article is about). The best engineers leave for greener pastures. The company is relegated to only hiring the second-tier developers and admins that are still willing to work on Solaris, knowing full well that the cream of the crop have moved on. The competitive edge is lost and the company is in an inexorable death spiral, with no one on board with the skill to turn it around.