Posts by Eddy Ito

What?

"hey guys, I need to reboot the server for updates, mind if I do that tonight at 7:00pm?"

A proper BOFH would only ask if he knew the answer was 'No! don't do it! I have a job running and it won't finish until 7:15 so please, please, please wait until after 7:15!!" and only then would a proper BOFH proceed to schedule the reboot at 6:45. Then again in my office the email telling everyone to log off for a reboot usually goes out roughly an hour after everyone has rebooted their own system because the application they use most often hasn't been responding for 40 minutes.

"Also it doesn't have user-replaceable battery? FAIL."

It sounded to me like it was fairly easy to replace the battery so there's clearly no need to shout. Also, the lack of 3G isn't that much of a non-started as more and more phones have hotspot capability and, frankly, that is the way it should be. It's B.S. that telcos feel I should have separate plans for every device I own and if I can't use my phone line for everything then I move on to a provider who allows it. I don't need to tell you that there really is no such thing as "(free) 3G wireless" do I?

I do take your point about the lack of an SD card. I always felt it was one of the major shortcomings of the Palm Pre was the card was missing but Palm, HP and Apple all seem to think that storing your stuff on their cloudyness is better than you having direct control over your stuff so why not Amazon, cloudy king on high? Google isn't much better, sure you're free to have a data storage card but they really want you to use the GOOG cloud and/or your employers exchange sever. I wager if HTC, B&N, Samsung, et al. get into the cloud business you can kiss your cards goodbye.

I'll have a go

OMFG is shorthand for Oh My F-word Glands where f-word glands is, oddly, longhand for testicles. The term is used in reference to something so totally shocking that the shock, if not the actual pain and anguish, is similar to being popped in the nuts with a force appropriate to make the eyes instantaneously water, the knees buckle and expel all traces of oxygen from the lungs for an extended period of time. So, I don't see how Tommy A. would think it a sin as there was no actual use of the f-word and frankly I don't see what is so wrong with the word fornicating even if Tommy had a fucking problem with fornicating.[12]

[12] A dozen, perhaps that is the daily dose.

@Lance 3

Granted, IANAL but It is a trespass to chattels and damages aren't always required as it depends on what jurisdiction you are in. As it turns out trespass to chattels is nearly always a tort and not criminal however so most likely one would have to sue. I do feel it almost certainly is a form of vandalism in that it does incur an expense to correct and would lower the value of the vehicle if it was sold. Perhaps the scraped knee, bumped head or other physical injury resulting from removing it may also qualify as damages.

That said, it would be easy to have a house on community property, if not public property, such as a condo where the house is private but the land belongs to the community. Also the long pole I mentioned wouldn't necessarily mean "leaving" public property provided you were wearing a handy law enforcement provided GPS ankle bracelet which would prove you didn't enter private property to place the handycam and burning the broomstick clears the evidence problem.

Now then, the easy thing to do is take it off the car and attach it on the nearest ISO container bound for travels across the globe and snigger every time you see a train, truck or ship go by.

"Most recent I could find (1997, so I guess it's way higher now):"

Why guess when all it takes is a quick bit of addition. I assume the figure of 37,776 deaths is from all firearms causes so we can easily add the 2009 numbers for the same and come up with 30,913. I would say that isn't "way higher" but the exact opposite, in fact it's way lower, over 18% or nearly one in five.

"The gunshot and cut/stab totals include U.S. $40 billion and U.S. $13 billion respectively in medical, public services, and work-loss costs."

While not strictly an answer to my question, we can take a stab at it. According to Kaiser, healthcare costs are $2.3 trillion. Using the raw $40 billion without the 18% reduction and keeping in the related but not healthcare costs, such as work-loss, the cost of firearms related as a fraction of the total is 17/1000 or 1.7%. While I'm a bit surprised by the number, perhaps you can explain why a doctor would harp about gun ownership when cardiovascular disease, according to the CDC, "accounts for about $1 of every $6 spent on health care in this country." It isn't about dollars.

I have to admit you have me stymied on the PTSD part as I didn't see any mention of bullets, guns, firearms or anything related to the probability of developing PTSD based on exposure to differing stimuli. It could be because the didn't or couldn't separate such data as pretty much everything comes into the ER and ICU so it may be difficult determining which incident type caused what PTSD rate. On the whole I don't see how the link is relevant to the topic at hand.

"There, it didn't take long to find that information; perhaps it would be a valid point to ask you to research something prior to flaming?"

I'm sure it didn't take long. It never takes long to find any old thing that isn't really pertinent. It does show that studies are a great source of funding and building interesting looking databases may serve to siphon a bit of that funding in a particular direction. Oh, for the record, it wasn't a flame, it was a snark and I love to cook so the heat isn't a problem for me.

Half the problem

One of the big reasons that particular area of the globe is mostly fallow is that there are simply too many sick folks to work it. One of the fundamental problems is that lifespans are so short they tend to do their damnedest to produce as large a family as possible so that maybe some will survive long enough to take care of any who don't die before they turn 40 and have a sufficient number of non-sick people to keep it all working.

Certainly rapid changes make things worse and oddly it is one of the downsides of things like DDT, in that it makes the problem go away for a bit and there is the expected population boom but then the downsides are realized and the plug gets pulled spilling it all backward again. Solving the malaria and clean water problems would undoubtedly produce an immediate increase in population but if sustainable it would quickly shift and birth rates would likely drop to levels more typical of western society as people don't need replacing quite so frequently.

Naturally there will be a substantial need for education in order to kill off the specters of the past but those specters still need to be killed off first. The ideal situation produces outcomes where major areas are self sustaining and the breed now, breed often tradition tapers off. The skeleton in the closet or unseen balance point is that developed nations also need to stop kidding themselves and they need to dump the agricultural subsidies, which are funded by taxpayers, that make food in developing nations cost less to import than it does to grow while artificially making sugar (in the US anyway) more expensive than corn syrup. Granted it has the benefit of pushing down the price of rum... but that gets taxed away by the BATFE; [insert alcohol, smoke shop, firearms & explosives joke here].

Update

Actually, Clinton's mother died.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/01/us/obit-clinton-mother/index.html

Yes but,

"Now you're "Green" and doing a public service as well."

Having lived near a pig farm in my youth, do the fuel cells take care of the odor as well?

Translation

Anonymised when translated from bull shit to English means they don't sort your personal information before selling it.

No worries

The $1m is certainly due to eh... inflation, what with today's dollar not being worth what it was in the '50s. The $5m for Cyd's legs was probably a conservative estimate unless of course it was $5m each.