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Comment This Visa program should just be eliminated. (Score 2) 72

Where I grew up there were a lot of Aerospace companies. Those companies needed engineers. They didn't ask the government to import them. They made large payments to local universities to support their engineering programs and helped create a pipeline of future employees. Seems like companies nowadays just want to take shortcuts, instead of helping themselves.

Comment Re:One downside (Score 3, Informative) 65

As one of those poor bastards I can tell you with confidence that it's very easy. We manage approximately 400 physical hosts and deal with relatively few hardware issues. Redundancy and good alerting make dealing with those issues fairly trivial. The other benefit of hosting systems yourself is a properly architected environment can use hardware much longer which helps keep costs down.

Comment So it's basically an Android phone (Score 3, Insightful) 97

with crappy specs and almost no apps, that costs as much as a mid priced Android phone? I've got a better suggestion for potential buyers- Buy a mid priced Android phone and remove all apps you don't want/need? Then you get decent specs for the apps you do want/need. And you can get it from a manufacturer you won't have to worry about going out of business in a year.

Comment Re:I get sick of seeing these stories on this site (Score 0) 89

As expected people attacking me but no actual solutions. And no, "renewable energy" is NOT the solution. I won't get in to why with people who just want to attack. Anyone who thinks "renewables" are a better solution than Nuclear, and doesn't understand WHY Nuclear takes TOO LONG and is EXPENSIVE to build has not done their homework anyways. So, have fun in your echo chamber.

Comment I get sick of seeing these stories on this site (Score -1, Troll) 89

Even IF we concede that climate change/global warming/whatever it's being called this year is real, I'm waiting for some REAL solutions before I buy in on destroying our economy to combat it. Because electric cars, solar/wind energy, and getting rid of plastic bags at the supermarket IS NOT WORKING. And we still aren't building nuclear power plants. Our politicians fly to far off places every year, emitting massive amounts of carbon, to discuss the issue. It's impossible to take seriously under these circumstances and with these people deciding how to fight it.

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