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Comment Re:The solution is obvious: (Score 5, Insightful) 627

They're not my morals, pal. Quit conflating the way the cartel does and would respond to military action and how I feel about that.

As others have said, we've tried militarized action again and again and again. You don't think there were SpecOps folks working with Columbia? You know, since the 80s? And you can still buy cocaine easily in America.

You're arguing for not just more of the same, but a shit-ton more of the same. You are completely ignoring the demand side of the equation. You will never understand much less be able to do anything about the situation on our border until you address and accept the reality of the human desire (and I would argue right) to get fucked up.

You can't shoot enough people to make the people you're shooting stop being humans and having human desires. But shoot enough of them, and you'll find yourself dehumanized much faster than you even thought possible.

Comment Re:The solution is obvious: (Score 5, Insightful) 627

"A good assassination team would remove 100% of the cartel operatives in Mexico fairly quickly."

As if the cartels don't have the money and the will to hire effective special ops types to ensure this doesn't happen. These people ship contraband in submarines, for the love of mike. They definitely can (and obviously do) hire professionals to do security.

"It's my experience that most people with which I've discussed this topic deny the effectiveness of this solution because they do not wish it to have viability."

Your Rainbow 6 fantasies notwithstanding, it's not that I don't wish it were simple. But it's not simple. You're dealing with a group of people who have more money that most of the official institutions charged with fighting them. Don't even get me started on will, either. The cartels don't have to worry about court or political considerations.

You're making up a better video game scenario than actual strategy.

Comment Re:PC? (Score 1) 608

I suspect it's being called PC because it seems they reached into the grab bag of classic PC definitions, swirled their hand around, and pulled out something that fit. They even did it in a parallel universe and then tried to claim it wasn't a publicity stunt. Now, if a half black half latino possibly gay character that they seemed to pull out of the ether isn't PC, what is?

What's more, it seems that they went in with the idea of "we'll make him not a white guy" and worked backward from there.

Is it a problem to have a super hero who is X where X is not "a white male"? Of course not. But in this case, it does look like they set out to create that and then tried to make it make sense. That's what makes it PC, not just what the character is.

On the other hand, if this new character had been an established friend/ally/confidant of Parker's and then took up the mantle when Parker fell, that wouldn't have been PC as it would have been a logical outgrowth of the story that just happened to flow that way.

It looks that way to you. Does it look that way to the rest of us?

Do you think it would look that way to mixed race comic fans?

"PC" is a code word for "things that I'm sensitive about". There is no objective definition possible.

Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 538

You still need people to develop the custom apps, create user accounts, write company-specific documentation, create custom fields, create the workflow rules that help move external paper-based processes to the cloud, interface with the IT to support legacy servers and processes, advocate for the users when IT pushes back and says you don't get the data you need b/c [insert territorial/job security reasons here], train users, help determine what processes and data should be in the cloud vs. what shouldn't, make partnering and add-on decisions, and advise upper management.

There's still a need for an admin, but he or she can't just focus on the technical aspects. They have to know their system, and also know their users. A cloud admin is still an IT-type position, just one that requires the ability to understand things that aren't necessarily related to IT.

Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 538

This is never clearly spelled out or even thought about by the idiots jumping on the Cloud bandwagon.

I download my backups regularly.

Also, if you're a good admin, you're going to think through these processes, document your best practices, train your users to them, and use reporting to ensure accountability and compliance.

A bad admin is a bad admin, whether their work is in the cloud or not.

Comment Re:Duh (Score 1, Insightful) 538

Problem is they basically outsource their internal knowledge and open them way more to hacker attacks and also to failure. I would be reluctant to move to a cloud no matter what.

It's entirely possible that the cloud host has better security than an internal IT department. If a huge cloud host, like Salesforce, devotes more resources, expertise and time to their security, and has higher security standards than an internal IT department, what's the disadvantage of going with the cloud?

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