Just bomb every fucking Facebook datacenter. Easy and cheap

You mean donations to the tories. Donâ(TM)t be so rude!

BMW?

It was (possibly) an attack by Houthi rebels performed using a (possibly) Iranian made drone. Since the Saudis are slaughtering Houthi civilian since years with UK/US/EU made bombs, should they also get a "Free bomb" card for hitting the UK/US/EU?

How in the hell did a sub-par drone manage a 1000 KM flight trough a controlled and militarised airspace? Either the Saudi sucks or a stealth planes like F35 are a overkill.

Because hyperthreading gives you an additional 20/35% of performance in virtualized workloads. Those chips are meant for ESX server farms.

Yes, but at least you have no downtime during the VM upgrade. If you use a mature virtualization product

Yes, between 10 seconds and a minute.. ;) left click, migrate and BOOM

UCS B-250, the B-200 tops out at 96MB when using 8GB DIMM

Ok, you don't work in IT right? At least not on the admin side.
VM are mainly about server consolidation. That means that given the fact that servers are usually under utilized you can put quite a number of VM per core. Usually for server workloads the number is around 2: 2VM * 4 cores * 2 cpu (typical blade) yields 16 VM. You see, in the end the power company gets paid only for a physical server every 16 OS instances. Not bad.
Server consolidation is not the only reason you use virtualization. Other issues you can solve are: high availability and fault tolerance, quick deployment of new servers, hardware abstraction and many others

AAC is not more proprietary as MP3, both are patent encumbered. You should then choose OGG. I'm fine with AAC as it gives me same quality of MP3 at lower bitrates.

Is dragging .mp3 files into the itunes windows so difficult? Anyone with opposable thumbs should be able to do it.

This is the epilogue from "Blood Meridian", a novel of McCarthy:
"In the dawn there is a man progressing over the plain by means of holes, which he is making in the ground. He uses an implement with two handles and he chocks it into the hole and he enkindles the stone into the hole with he steel, hole by hole, striking the fire out of the rock, which God has put there. On the plain behind him are the wanderers in search of bones, and those who do not search. And they move haltingly in the light, likes mechanisms whose movements are monitored with escapement and palate, so that they appear restrained by a prudence or reflectiveness which has no inner reality. And they cross in their progress one by one that track of holes that runs to the rim of the visible ground and which seems less the pursuit of some continuance than the verification of a principle, a validation of sequence and causality. As if each round and perfect hole owed its existence to the one before it there on that prairie, upon which are the bones and the gatherers of bones, and those who do not gather. He strikes fire in the hole and draws out his steel. Then they all move on again."