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Rat pogo stick.

Unfortunately rat consumers are notoriosly sensitive to the 'not tested on animals' logo, so is not as simple as attaching rat and observe.

Standard practice is to tape a large potato to the top part and check it bounces properly.

The datasheet should state the specific bounce characteristics to test against, but normally, it should bounce between 2o% and 40% of it's length, when dropped from 40-50% of it's length. I think the standard weight for the testing potato is 700 +/-20 grams. Again the datasheet might indicate a different range if it is specifically marketed towards a niche market like juveniles or the obese or something.

it’s a pointless statement to say if everyone did anything

I was agreeing with this part, except that I think OP statement was 'hyperbolic' not 'pointless'; an exageration for rhetorical effect.

What I think is pointless is taking hyperbole (and most rhetoric) at face value and arguing about it. It is better to try to determine the underlying point being made (there probably is one if you look hard enough or enquire about it) and think about some more realistic scenarios.

I don't think the original point was about the vulnerability of the economy of mauritius due to overconcentration of the dodo industry ; or, the sustainability of a street entirely owned by landlords. Maybe someone wants to make some Ronald Coase type speculation about how property rights could have saved the dodo .

ok, nice and realistic. No hyperbole here.

Are you're saying that if an economy has an increse the concentration of farming activity then economic ouput will deteriorate as fast as if it were to have instead had the same increase the concentration of parasitic activity? Very interesting idea.

Maybe I'm dense but the only way I can see that working is if the parasites become super-effective livestock and can be turned into food that is either more nutrious or has a longer shelflife than the feedstock.

obligatory bunk mcnulty do csi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNVEQgXsBgs

On my routes theres some bikes that are just as bad as cars for this. Especially on unlit paths.

Cars would normally dip to low beams.

And those from the fucking UK apparently.

Very similar though - just waiting for them to elect farage to gut UK public services.

Because one of them shot the sheriff one time?

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I'd say the operational requirements.

A home PC mostly has max 1 simultaneous user (i.e. the "person") - out of maybe a small pool of potential users - the availability requirement is ad-hoc. It offers many services, some available immediately on boot, but many are on call.

A server typically has capacity to provide services to many simutaneous users and probably has a defined availability requirement. Depending on the service, and the number of users and the availability and performance requirements it may need more communication bandwidth , more storage, faster storage, more cores, UPS, live backups and so on. But it doesn't strictly need any of that hardware unless it helps meet the requirements.

In terms of software any modern PC runs an OS offering a tonne of services straight from boot / login. I don't see any real differences there. Typically a server might have more always on serices and less on-call services, but these days there's VMs and stuff on both servers and on PCs.

Most PC users would expect to have more rights such as to install and execute what they want. A server will typically have a stronger distinction between user and sys-admin. but again if a server offers a VMs it's not so clear cut. That mostly comes out of the availability requirement - preventing users compromising the service.

They can't if if they're "difficult".