If you were old enough to be aware in 2021 you were BOMBARDED with messages to get vaccinated. The doctors were telling people the vaccines would prevent infection (often using the polio vaccine to dishonestly cast its effectiveness onto the COVID vaccines). Politicians, journalists, and celebrities were hammering the message that people who got the vaccines would not get infected (they were all getting that line from DOCTORS, primarily Fauci and his associates).

Remember any of this stuff? Note that in one of the clips Fauci (DOCTOR) says that if you're vaccinated you won't get it.

Here's a handy example of a bunch of people (including some doctors) making that assertion. It was so damned common that the burden should be on you guys denying it to make your case.

I should not have to go on, given your apparent desire to play grammar games to avoid reality; I linked you a video of Fauci directly stating the vaccines would prevent (with NO caveat, no "only 90%", etc) infection and you responded by saying that this did not imply 100% - YES it DIRECTLY DID, not by saying "100%" but by saying "protect individuals from getting infected" with NO exception or limit specified. If I sold a car with a robot driver and said in the ads "this will prevent crashes" and then somebody had a crash (even one customer out of 10 million) I'd still get sued and lose the lawsuit. You certainly know this, but apparently wanna play whack-a-mole with language for partisan political reasons. I'm not interested in that game; I'm interested in REALITY.

Remember: All these talking heads, INCLUDING THE DOCTORS, were talking to the GENERAL PUBLIC, not English language majors or lawyers etc. They knew exactly what they were saying and how it would be taken by all the rubes in "fly over country". When they said stuff like "if you're vaccinated, you're not going to get infected" they KNEW the general public would hear that as 100%, and it's playing games years later to say "well they never actually said the words "one hundred percent".

Tell me something: If Donald Trump said something like "I'm not going to bomb Cuba" would YOU assume he meant "100%" and then get mad if he proceeded to drop only a few bombs? Would you accept it if some of his mindless followers said "well, he never actually said ZERO bombs"? Let's be consistent in our use of language.

Over 60% of VMs on Azure run a version of Linux, not Windows - but you knew that, right?

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You used the phrase 'junk emails' but it is clear from context and the rest of your remarks that you were not talking about SPAM but rather legitimate emails that you just considered useless junk.

Look at this statement, it would be nonsensical to claim this is referring to ACTUAL junk aka spam email: Pruning spam.

"Don't use the legal excuse, that a lawyer might ask for an email some day, that's BS and you know it! Don't use the "I might have to reference email X later on", excuse, you'll know if it's important enough to keep."

"I will never keep an email where someone is alerting me they'll email me later, I'll just wait for that later email. I will never keep an email where someone is asking me to upload stuff to their site, once I upload whatever, they confirm, I delete the email. There's no the value to the email once the upload is done"

Right, emails you subjectively consider useless, but many people are required to keep ALL communications. They are not allowed to decide which are useful and useless. More importantly, you are describing a time consuming process where you spend significant time and worse, mental load, backtracking to determine old LEGITIMATE email is no longer useful. We just calculated a cost under 25 cents a year to simply archive all your email forever. That means if you make $15/hr flipping burgers and spend ONE MINUTE A YEAR managing email you've already exhausted the cost to simply keep all of it.

A lot of developers took a long time fighting your argument, only they were fighting for microoptimizations in code but the math kept crushing them. It's simply far more effective to save the time you'd spend choosing instructions that are slightly faster and instead use that time finding a high level design that is more efficient or timing execution to find the choke points. Email management is only useful to the extent it aids you in finding emails you need.

After eklektic stated: "'COVID -- the vaccine will keep you from getting it", you plainly stated: "No medical doctor claimed that."

This is an absolute lie. Every medical doctor that I or any immediate family member saw in 2021 said it, but so did lots of medical doctors in public forums like TV and the internet. Rather than making my point by dragging some relatively unknown family doctor through the dirt here on the web, let me simply prove you wrong with two links:

HERE is Dr Anthony Fauci's wikipedia page. Surely you will agree that HE is a well-known MEDICAL DOCTOR. Nearly everybody on planet Earth knows who this man is, given that he was reported to be the highest paid employee in the US government in 2020 & 2021 and was constantly doing interviews telling everybody to mask or not mask, to "social distance" or go ahead and take part in a big protest, and pushing the vaccines for COVID-19. He was not only doing interviews with American journalists, but also doing international interviews as well as being seen globally as various outlets replayed his interviews. Please note: he "earned his Doctor of Medicine from Cornell University". By any reasonable definition, he is a "medical doctor".

HERE is a link to a YouTube of him (on just one of a massive pile of occasions and presentations) plainly stating "We have vaccines that will not only protect individuals from getting infected and getting seriously ill...". The guy did this over and over and over again and EVERYBODY knew it at the time.

Probably the most famous medical doctor on the planet in 2020-2022 did the very thing you claim no doctor did. You are either a newly-arrived visitor from another planet, you suffer from some form of amnesia, you are a typical dishonest Marxist trying to re-write history (as they ALL do, for well-established political reasons), or you are a typical sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome and thus despise the Bad Orange Man so much that simply cannot restrain yourself. I don't care which is the cause, my only concern here is for REALITY and HISTORY no matter if it's good or bad for the Bad Orange Man.

You are perfectly free to personally disagree with everything that eklektic, or I, or any other poster on Slashdot says. You can even fling mindless insults instead of using facts, as some here (unfortunately) do all too often when they lack a cogent argument. You are not, however, free to boldly lie without at least being challenged on it.

I don't care about individual politicians of ANY party more than I care about REALITY. They can fend for themselves, and every single one of them has his/her good and bad points. They ALL lie from time to time. They ALL exaggerate sometimes. They ALL implement policies I dislike intensely. They're all vulgar to some extent, use objectionable language sometimes, get boorish, do foolish stuff, drop bombs, upset people, etc. NONE of them is worth a serious emotional investment by anybody other than their own family members. HISTORY and FACTS and TRUTH, however, matter very much. They shape both how current people and future generations will face future challenges, and whether they'll stupidly repeat mistakes of the past or learn from the past and do a better job next time. Mangling the truth and trying to re-write history might make some fool feel better in the here-and-now, but it does EVERYBODY a dis-service in the long run.

The Law of Supply and Demand, that is.

The laws of economics are as inviolable as the laws of physics.

When there's more of something than the demand, the value/price goes down.

In an earlier era, when most Americans worked farm or blue collar jobs, a basic college degree was a ticket to the good life. There were not enough people with degrees and so people with them got the better jobs at better pay. After WWII, huge numbers of troops took advantage of the GI Bill and went to college for degrees, completely changing the ratio of people in the population with vs without a BS/BA degree... but the economy was booming (with the US as the big, industrial country not much harmed by the war) and so the sill-over effects of the ratio change were mitigated by external economies. Over the past several decades, however, an accumulation of societal forces have driven the message that "everyone should go to college", so now a basic BA/BS is nearly as common as a high school diploma once was - with the result that many young graduates have a hard time getting by WITH a degree, even though they had grand parents who did very well without one. It's in this environment that people try to get a Masters degree to regain the career edge, BUT with everything effectively re-calibrated, a Masters ain't what it used to be.

It's sort of a credentials arms race. As the degrees/arsenals held by all parties rise, the relative values just don't move much, and the new levels become unimpressive.

The more degrees that are held by job seekers/holders, the less each new one stands out.

Tell me about that service guarantee when the power goes out - how does the electric company make it up to you?

The issue is the community buys its electricity from one company that in turn buys its electricity from another company - it that 'other company' that is reducing available electricity, and the first company is working to find a new source of electricity, which is apparently a paperwork issue, nothing more.

Drama Much?

Do people in third-world countries get 12 month notice of a reduction in the amount of electricity available to them? These folks will have reliable electricity, it will just not be as much as they currently have.

In a free market another private, for profit, electric company would add generation capacity to the residential grid and meet the needs of the community, but this is not a free market.

If half the homes add solar panels, the issue is solved. It would be pretty simple for the state, as a cost added to the incentives to bring in the AI Datacenter, deeply subsidized the residential solar panel deployments in this community.

Public utilities are not "free market"

I'd like to see some numbers here - please explain this "pittance" teachers are paid...

To become a teacher in most states (all I'm familiar with, my I have not looked into all) require little more than a BA degree to become a teacher.

Once hired, if the teacher can hold on to their job for two years in a union school district, they get "tenure", among other things, it is effectively job security for the rest of their lives.

Teachers have, typically, fairly generous health care benefits, as won though historical contract negotiations and labor disputes.

Teachers are off every school holiday (by definition), and yes, some take their work home and finish up grading papers at home, but if they tried a bit harder they could likely get most of that done if they stuck around school for an hour or less - they likely choose to go home and meet their kids coming home from their school.

Union teachers (not all teachers) are paid fairly competitively for the jobs they do, and typically know in advance their next three to five years annual salary increases due to labor contracts - that something few Americans have.

At retirement, teacher pensions are very generous and include continuation of their (previous) employer health care coverage for life.

If you really want to argue teachers are paid a "pittance" I really need you to show me your evidence.

If teachers are buying classroom supplies because the district won't, that's on the parents (AKA the taxpayers) who should step up and cover the expenses.

The next time a teacher says they are under paid, ask them what their salary is, if they won't tell you their salary, they aren't underpaid, they just want more.

If you want to claim teachers are underpaid, make sure you take a good look at their union contract first - see if they really are underpaid, their salaries are public record.

Parents don't care about their children's education - they think their high property taxes remove the need for parents to become involved in their child's education ("That's what we are paying the teachers for, right?").

And the teachers, unshackled from the dreaded "Teaching to the test" regime have decided that their jobs are to be an ally for their students, to expose them to unconventional ideas (Drag Queen Story Hour? I remember when parents used to read stories to their kid's classes, not men dressed as Vegas Chorus Line dancers).

A few years ago 13 Baltimore High Schools had NO STUDENTS reading or doing math at grade level - NONE. You know what that means? That means the class valedictorian wasn't reading or doing math at the 12th grade level. Let that sink in. Their parents think they are a genius, when they aren't even working at grade level... Think that child might go to college? Of course! Will they succeed? Likely not, but they'll have some hefty student loans for classes they never should have taken.

You want parents to care? Start holding back under-performing students, end social promotion.

You want teachers to care? End tenure. Institutions like NYC public school's famous "rubber rooms" only serve to drain resources from the classroom and allows teachers in the classroom to backslide into not teaching, instead babysitting their students because "why not?" They (effectively) can't fire me?

There's lots of other things that can be done, for example let parents take some school funding and put their kids in charter schools, get their kids away from failing public schools. No one's future should be determined by their zip code!

What?

You are acting like this is a common occurrence happening all across the country - it isn't. This article is the first such case , and since it takes effect in one year, it isn't "...driving the broader shift to distributed solar and storage". Tax incentives, rising utility prices, and concerns about the environment are what has been driving folks to invest in alternative energy sources like residential solar panels.

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I answered the legal/compliance point seperately.

"I'll assume a 50 GB email load, if 10 million people have that much email that's 50 x 10 000 000 or 500 000 000 GB of email, which is also 500 PB, a 1/2 EB of email, that is most likely almost worthless. Where do you store 1/2 a EB? Why store 1/2 a EB of effective digital toilet paper? That's just email, now think about photos, videos, and cloud drive usage, if you start cleaning it up, and you're honest, most of that is junk."

Of course most of it is junk but you missed the point. Yes, I said 120 50GB email accounts and you sound like someone stuck dealing with people and their oversized outlook PSTs that crash and clobber their systems to me so I'm sure we can agree that in reality, you'll have some double that and most far smaller. So lets say that is 200 users covered by a $200 drive for 5 years. That is $0.20/user/year... hell lets pad it and call it a quarter a year for the benefit of never deleting an email you need later. At that price it's going to be the right call for 200 people or 10 million people. And that's talking about RAW storage... email is text, not only is text highly compressible but emails are highly redundant text... you only need to store unique blocks on disk if you do it right and the rest will just have references pointing to the same location. Just thinking about emails sent to 20 co-workers and their giant reply chains... how much less that becomes becomes because you only store the novel content once and store pointers for all the repetition across all those mailboxes.

"That's just email, now think about photos, videos"

Personal Photos and videos take up far more space than emails. Emails especially are redundant as well. 1/2 EB of email doesn't require anywhere remotely close to 1/2EB of disk to store.

"There is no legal requirement to keep old junk emails."

See the problem with talking out your ass is that you are often wrong. There may be no legal requirement for YOU to retain emails/communications. That doesn't make it some universal truth.

Sure — there are quite a few. Common examples:
Financial services

SEC Rule 17a-4 — broker-dealers must retain electronic communications (email, IM, chat) for 3 years, first 2 in easily accessible storage, in WORM (write-once-read-many) format
FINRA Rule 4511 — similar 3-6 year retention for member firms
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) — public companies retain audit-related communications for 7 years
Dodd-Frank — swap dealers retain communications for 5 years
Investment Advisers Act — registered advisers retain records for 5 years

Healthcare

HIPAA — covered entities retain communications containing PHI for 6 years (longer in some states; CA requires 7, some require until patient age 21+)
CMS / Medicare — claims-related communications retained 7-10 years
FDA 21 CFR Part 11 — pharma/medical device communications related to clinical trials and manufacturing retained for the life of the product plus a period after

Legal / litigation

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure — once litigation is "reasonably anticipated," all potentially relevant communications must be preserved indefinitely (litigation hold), overriding normal retention schedules
Attorney-client communications — typically retained 7-10 years post-matter under state bar rules

Tax

IRS — communications supporting tax positions retained 7 years (3-year audit window + extensions); employment tax records 4 years; some indefinitely if fraud alleged
State tax authorities — vary, often 4-7 years

Employment / HR

EEOC — personnel-related communications retained 1-3 years (longer if charge filed)
FLSA — payroll-related communications retained 3 years
ADEA — 3 years for hires, 1 year for other personnel actions
OSHA — workplace safety communications retained 5 years (30 years for certain medical/exposure records)
ERISA — benefits plan communications retained 6 years

Government contracting

FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation) — contractor communications retained 3-4 years post-contract
DFARS / DoD contracts — often longer, 6+ years
Davis-Bacon Act — prevailing wage communications 3 years

Energy / utilities

FERC — communications related to wholesale energy transactions retained 5 years
NERC — grid reliability communications retained 3-6 years

Telecommunications

FCC — carrier communications retained 2-5 years depending on category
CALEA — certain surveillance-related records 6+ months minimum

International / cross-border

GDPR (EU) — retention varies by purpose, but documented retention schedules required for all personal data communications
MiFID II (EU financial) — communications retained 5-7 years
UK FCA — similar 5-year retention for regulated firms

Industry-specific

Insurance — state insurance commissioners typically require 5-10 years
Education (FERPA) — student-related communications retained per institutional policy, often 5+ years
Nuclear (NRC) — communications retained for facility lifetime in some cases

Public sector

Federal Records Act — government agency emails are federal records, retention per NARA schedules (varies from a few years to permanent for historical records)
State sunshine/open records laws — public employee communications often retained 3-7 years and subject to disclosure

The retention periods aren't arbitrary — they're tied to statutes of limitations, audit windows, and the practical needs of regulators to investigate after the fact. Most large companies actually retain longer than required as a hedge against litigation discovery, and many implement formal retention/destruction policies specifically so they have a defensible reason for deleting older material when it's no longer required.

"Businesses, it is worse. One lost email can mean a lost sale, or a customer unable to contact you and then resorting to legal means [1]."

This is very real and it almost seemed to happen overnight. Once upon a time as a freelance service tech I had dozens of small business clients who hosted their own email and it just doesn't make sense for a say a cabinet maker with 20 ppl on staff to pay for a T1 when they could have some multiple of the bandwidth and the same uptime from the same provider for a tenth of the price... but every so often they'd get a blacklisted IP or they might even really get some kind of bug and get blacklisted and the time it took to get off those lists grew and grew until eventually you basically couldn't get off the lists.

Luckily those large providers and spam battling champions saved the internet from the evils of people self-hosting email and spam exists no more....