redfox

Agreed.

Dont we all use centralized management because there is cost and risk involved when we don't.

More management complexity, missed systems, etc.

So we're balancing risk vs operational costs.

Makes sense to swap out virtual for container solutions or automation solutions for discussion.

Yeah, that's pretty risky for this point in time.

I guess the MBA people look at total cost of revenue/reputation loss for things like ransomware recovery, restoration of backups vs the cost of making their IT systems resilient?

Personally, I don't think so (in many cases) or they'd spend more money on planning/resilience.

Seems like your org has taken resilience and response planning seriously. I like it.

contract "options" are indeed normal. You could also lump in government contracts into the category your thinking about. I've never heard of a scenario where the vendor broke contract by not honoring the options. I also have never dealt with a vendor getting bought out and then not honoring existing contracts. Super fun to watch the corporate drama. I personally don't care for the private equity style business that seems to be an even bigger problem than the investor first/profit centric model that I thought was the worst thing.

That indeed is infuriating. The least you can expect is to be taught by the actual professors...since that's their entire gig, aside from the research for notoriety side Hussle.

Administration to manage administration.

Ha, right.

This is accurate.

I'd have a hard time trying to even make a case for commissioning.

I tend to agree with the nice and kind part of Midwest, with exception that it seems like we're becoming more hard-line against things people call woke or alternate life styles.

I'm using a universal 'we' since, and I think you're right - there's a difference between urban city thinking and rural community thinking.

I have a whole theory about the city thinking and rural thinking having to due with ownership or property, but that's a whole other thing...

These people don’t think people like Noem and Trump go far enough. It’s actually important to understand that even the “nice church people” types believe this. They support much more extreme policies than what we’re seeing.

Holy shit, what do they want, a culling?

There's some mega churches around me, but they are very modern, kid glove, and do the whole 'come as you are'. That's not the same thing as accepting people in the letter community, they still think those people are living wrong, but they are generally more compassionate about it.

Edit, I think some of those churches would love to have letter community people attend, but that's because they'd hope to love on them enough to have them change their life. I honestly believe they'd be doing it out of genuine concern or 'love', regardless of whether that's misguided or not. How misguided and crazy that sounds to people usually depends on how they feel about these people's lives and if you accept them for who they are or not.

Example, I think most of the common mega church people around here would follow the Bible's parable about the adulteress and 'let the person without sin cast the first stone' approach. God in that example shows he cares about her more than the bad thing she did first, then calls out people for a lack of compassion and thinking what they were doing wrong was more OK than her, but lastly said 'go and sin no more' which was basically 'try to stop doing this'. My post isnt about religion, I'm just using this as an example to illustrate that I think there's varying degrees of people/religion/bigotry and I am not sure if regions are all the same.

What you're describing sounds far more extreme to me than people around me in Indiana, but again, I might be missing things.

We need to stop being afraid of electing third or independent party candidates because the other side might win.

We will keep losing in the end no matter what if we don't fight for a new political system. Most people agree this isn't working.

Can we stop urging people to vote for a D/R and focus on independent?