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Do you know this person's name? Have you seen their resume? Have you read anything they have written? Have you listened to any interview they have done? How do you know what they a…

How about a bus? Or a train? Or a van? Do you suppose that there is really a Japanese minister today that has never used a computer? A smart phone? A microwave? A TV? An MP3 player…

You shouldn't manage an auto manufacturer unless you've worked on the assembly line? You shouldn't manage an auto manufacturer unless you have engineered an automobile? You shouldn…

> the idea that wild lands and waters are best conserved not in private hands, locked behind gates, but as public national parks, wildlife refuges and marine reserves, forever open…

If they choose to have a judge nullify the contract, I'm good with that. I didn't add any verbage to the contract anyway, so that would just mean that the entire contract is void a…

So you're saying IBM is more like Kodak?

I routinely alter almost every contract I receive. It drives a lot of doctor offices/emergency rooms nuts. But they have so far always calculated that their liability will be highe…

I think games can have a place. Even dumb games like Lemmings can have some place. And some games really can be educational, or develop thinking skills, etc. I wonder what game cri…

For many, many years I have had a personal benchmark in mind when purchasing vehicles. I want my TCO to be So if I purchase a car for $3000, I expect to own it for 5 years with min…

I am USian. I have never liked the ambiguity of "American". Also, are Greeks "Western"? Are Italians? Croations? Austrians? What is "Western"? As a child it was confusing to me tha…

Of course that could be the case. But I don't assume that. I ask. I'm trying to find the optimal solution. There are other valid reasons for restricting the IP. I ask about those. …

Network connections are much like everything else in life. There are lots of ways to do it. Which way is best depends on your needs. So to match up the most cost effective solution…

One small, typical example: most of our VPN customers are setting up some satellite that needs to connect to the home office. The connection is initiated from our network to the ho…

Lack of DNS queries for one small example.

I work for an ISP and often encounter the exact opposite of this. From time to time we get a customer who calls up to order a connection specifically for a VPN. They know exactly w…