We recently switched to OEL from RedHat, purely for the cost savings. Oracle even provides an 'up2date' package that switches a current RHEL box to OEL, and will give a discount based on current RHEL support licenses.

Considering that I've been at my current company for over 2 1/2 years, and haven't called Redhat or Oracle for Linux support, I'm not too worried about the quality of support.

In fact, like a lot of people, the only real reason we even pay for support is so that management feels good.

OK, that is the dumbest article I've read in a while. Among other things, it claims that the void created by ejaculation is filled by air, and this air somehow travels to the brain, causing thermal shock!

Well, duh. The point is that the overweight people will eat a bunch of junk, and therefore pay a lot of taxes. If you don't eat the junk, you don't pay the tax. I though that was pretty obvious.

What, where, when, who, and, for the love of <diety/>, why?

It took me a minute to figure out what was wrong with this exchange. Tackling someone is assault--but threatening bodily harm unless someone complies (assuming you're not a cop doing his lawful duty, which Loomis Boy obviously wasn't) is coercion, which is just as illegal as assault.

In either case, Loomis Boy had a gun. In most states, the possession of a gun during a violent crime (like coercion) is a felony.

So a trained Loomis guard (had to have some training, or he wouldn't be licensed to carry) commited a felony in front of a room full of people. I'm actually having a bit of trouble believing this, especially since our victim, according to his own blog, never once asked anyone (Loomis, REI, or actual police) if they thought he had committed a crime. Would have been the first thing out of my mouth.

But, if it did happen that way, my guess is that the guard, at some level, knew that he f***ed up, and needed to stay on the offensive to keep from getting called for it.

Not to mention that you have no assurances that the mics that *are* supposed to be there as part of the system aren't being used to surreptitiously monitor and record your conversation.

I find my laptop helpful to have around, so I named it after Micheal Dorn's immortal line in "Dinosaurs": "...with the help of my lovely assistant, Ramona!"