While perl makes it so it is possible to write scripts that are hard for the author to understand I find it better to make my scripts more readable even if they aren't as compact or fast as they otherwise could be. I will say one thing I probably have seen more unreadable, thus unmaintainable, perl code than almost anything else although Java gives it a good run for the money.
Why is it I need hundreds of dollars of insurance each year just to drive my car, but I don’t need ANY insurance for my handgun?
Because your state mandates that since you operate your car on public roads you need to carry insurance. I have a car that is never operated on public roads, I don't have it licensed in the state and don't carry insurance on it. I know a bunch of other people who do the same with one of their vehicles.
Well that may very well be true as the old M14s shot the big boy.30-06 rounds which do pack substantially more punch and would likely kill more effectively. The M16 was a lighter gun and the ammo was also lighter, so while it has less range most firefights take place at distances where that doesn't matter as the M16 in battle conditions is the more effective weapon with its reduced recoil, lighter weight, and ability to carry more ammo. The days of the full power round used in a main battle rifle ended in WWII for the most part with the US military being the main holdout for a while.
Well those intermediate power semi automatic rifles make wonderful varmint guns. Usually you want something with a bit more power for deer as it is more forgiving with non ideal shot placement but they are perfectly acceptable for smaller things like coyotes, coons, prairie dogs, opossums, etc. In Minnesota the.223 is a perfectly legal big game round but most people (by a large margin) prefer using more effective rounds like 7mm, 8mm,.30-30,.30-06, 7.62mm (x 39mm or 54mm),.270,.308,.303., 12ga slug. etc as they are just better at quickly killing a deer.
While most of these are usually bolt action, or pump action for slug guns, semi auto is still very common. For years I hunted with a SKS and took a number of deer with it and that is one of those evil "assault style weapons" but the 7.62x39 round in recent years has taken the place of the venerable.30-30 as a good entry level deer rifle as it is very comparable power wise (7.62x39 at very shot distances has slightly less power but after that it retains more), and with the availability of inexpensive SKS and AK (semi auto) rifles they are substantially cheaper than the.30-30s. Add in that the SKS and AK rifles are very forgiving when it come to maintenance, with low recoil they are a pretty good choice for hunting deer.
I always like the old MS analogue Sidewinder Joystick and I have an old MS serial (9 pin) mouse that is still nice to use (I found it when my previous mouse died and no place was open) except it doesn't have a scroll wheel.
Fuck signs unless you are going to stick them up the ass of your elected officials. Sadly the most effective method is to write you state legislators and your elected representatives in the US House and Senate on this issue and instructing them to create legislation that bans civil asset forfeiture unless someone has been found guilty of a crime. Granted if it is like my most recent letter sent to one of my senators (Al Franken) you will be lucky to receive a response and it will thank you for your concern on the issue and for you continued support of the action that you wanted changed.
Sadly I have had a friend of mine who is a cop say much the same. In his city is is their best shot but then he and I like to go waste a lot of ammo at the range and at my property up north. He is better with handguns than I am but better with long guns than he is.
I have often wondered why one couldn't file a criminal complaint of theft, or grant theft if the amount is high enough. Granted you would likely be fining the criminal complaint with the entity that employs the person who committed the theft, so maybe one needs to also file a complaint with the state's Attorney General not that have any reason to listen. Finally there is the final option of suing under deprivation of rights under the color of law if all else fails. Too bad so much of this is being done to prevent someone from being able to exercise their rights and is shutdown by the use of extraordinary mental gymnastics by judges to justify this continued behavior.
Well had I followed this naming scheme my first one would have probably been named "cries but doesn't eat". The second one may have been named angry shitcannon though.
Except that garbage day is on Friday in my city and almost everyone in town jumped to one of the 3 really low cost haulers. So now instead of 2 trucks going down my street on Friday there are 3 and I save about $100 every 3 months and that trash still all goes to the same place. I haven't seen anyone who gets their trash hauled off by the original 2 anymore as every trash company has their name on their trash bins.
Sounds like my city. About 4 years ago they let a bunch of new entrants into the garbage hauling market, before we had 2 now we have 7, and prices fell dramatically. I had paid something like $125 a quarter for the small trash bin for years but after 5 new entrants came in I now pay $27 a quarter and have a larger bin. Granted I could care less about the larger bin most of the time as it is mostly empty but when I do some construction work it is nice to not have to get rid of the trash over several weeks.
And I want a solid rhodium toilet. In a sane world I would be more likely to get that toilet than the FBI would bet to get warrantless searches but alas we seem to have gone insane.
I like seeing stories like these as it does restore my faith in the legal system. I had a similar one years ago where I had to sue an insurance company to get the fair market value of a wrecked car. The insurance company wanted to give me $1200 for my car, yet the KBB and NADA book values were within $50 either way of $3100. I also found a bunch of almost identical vehicles (mine was in better shape before the wreck with lower miles and more options) for sale and the average price of those vehicles was $3000. The insurance company dismissed all of that. I went petitioned the insurance company for an independent appraisal which was done that found the vehicle should have been valued at $3150 and the insurance company said it was invalid even though they chose the appraiser. So after 4 months of fighting I filed a claim in small claims court for $3150 plus the $35 filing fee. Two months later I have my court date and I present all of my evidence, the KBB and NADA book values, the example cars, the independent appraisal done by the appraiser the insurance company chose, the insurance company's flawed valuation (triple deducting for mileage, and choosing 2 example vehicles each of which had 2-3 times the mileage as my car). The insurance company simply stated that they believed that their valuation was perfectly correct. For the ruling the judge found in my favor and told the insurance company that what I had been asking for was perfectly reasonable and that there was no reason why this should have made it this far. The judge also told them they should have settled as soon as I provided the KBB and NADA book values for the vehicle.
So in the end the insurance company had to pay to store a vehicle for 6 months, pay for an independent appraisal, pay to have someone show up in court, pay my court costs, and pay the reasonable amount I was asking at the start.
The problem is that most people don't know every bit of traffic flowing on their network so you get a NIPS setup with some shitty general rules and some limited destination based filtering. It takes a lot of work to do proper source and destination based filtering which at best gets you a good firewall. Then add in that if you are doing NIPS right you need to be doing DPI (deep packet inspection) and saying that only this protocol is allowed on these ports between these hosts. That only gets you a somewhat good NIPS but to really fully protect yourself with a nips you need to define valid ranges and do data validation which really takes a lot of time. Then add in a host based firewall taking into account source and destination and filtering outbound traffic, having a proper HIDS configured, a highly segmented network with firewalls between machines, including only necessary software, disabling of unused physical ports, diligent monitoring, patching, disabling (and then removing) unused services, etc. and there is a lot that can be done that in practice isn't. Most of what is done is people instead go and buy a device from some vendor the says that it will do everything other than head, plug it in, and maybe do some basic configuration.
Having dealt with vendors most of them are sank oil salesmen, like one who was pushing a network monitoring tool who said that their tool was better than Snort because Snort didn't do DPI.
I keep writing my congress critters suggesting this and even use that wording but Representative John Kline, Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Senator Al Franken don't seem to want to hear that and none have ever responded back to me on the issue. With Senator Amy Klobuchar I do feel the need to point out that she supports increased H-1B visas as many people in my state support her and believe that she actually supports workers and would never support this even though she has been one of the biggest supporters of expanding the program.
While the the person to whom you were originally responding I have an interesting idea that I have offered up to my dumb congress critters. It does make some assumptions (all the wrong ones) but seems like it would be substantially more resilient to abuse than the current system.
Assumption 1: Lets take the managers at their word and there is a shortage of IT workers
Assumption 2: Lets take the managers at their word that there isn't a single US citizen that can do these jobs
Assumption 3: Lets take the managers at their work that the skills they need are so critical that they can't train a US citizen in time
So given these 3 assumptions (I said I was going to make all of the wrong ones didn't I) this would indicate that these people that they are bringing in on H-1B visas are truly exceptional people. I mean they have skills that are so critical that a company cannot find a single person in a country of over 300 million people that has those skills or could be trained up in time. As such I say that these people need to be compensated at levels appropriate for their skill set which seems only fair as they are at least a 1 in 300 million and companies can run with persons missing form the executive board so these are truly exceptional people. As such these individuals should be receiving the highest total compensation in the entire company including benefits. This means the best insurance coverages, wages, stock options, company transport, company provided housing, relocation funds, retirement packages, etc. Remember the companies say they desperately need these people and don't have time to train a US worker so they are obviously more critical than anyone in management or sales. To avoid some possible doggedness make it so that this compensation is the highest one calculated from the company they are employed by or are doing work for.
Do this and I say that we can remove the cap on H-1B visas. We will then see just how critical these people are to companies.
While true it is because no one who could realistically do anything about it has the stones to do so. About the only thing the workers could do would be to file wrongful termination lawsuits but I don't know if they would have standing to do so. Assuming they don't (it probably isn't age, sex, race, religion, disability, etc related the likely don't) then it would have to fall to some State or Federal Attorney General and they like those campaign contributions.
When I see stuff like this happening I like to remind people that both major political parties do not have your interests at heart. Yes republicans are painted as the party of Big Business but deomcrats are all for this shit. Especially one of my shit stains of a senator Amy Klobuchar who is against well paid skilled labor for Americans and is hard at work trying to destroy these jobs.
What kind of beef are you buying and how are you buying it? Seriously I don't know what it costs in stores as I get my beef from directly from a processor and purchase the fraction of the animal from the farmer directly but unless it is some of the ultra prime cuts it shouldn't be costing that much. If that is for ground beef, chuck roast, or round steaks quit shopping at Whole Foods in San Fransisco or New York, if that price is for tenderloin then quit your bitching.
The added efficiency is mostly because of the scale of the ships involved. While locomotive engines are huge (they are used on small shipping ships, huge mining trucks, and as stationary backup generators as well) they don't hold a candle to large marine diesels used on the biggest ships. I could easily stand in the cylinder of the largest ship engines while I might be able to get my foot and lower leg into a locomotive engine cylinder. Also ships are slower and when loaded have a huge mass, even larger than a loaded freight train. The largest container ship can carry 197,362 tons of stuff or 19,224 20 foot containers. A train that size will have a lot of engines and train cars. The advantage is that a train is fast compared to a container ship so that also adds to the efficiency of the the ship. Ships like those are also cheaper to run as they can burn oil that is only slightly thinner than asphalt in their engines so the fuel is very cheap.
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While perl makes it so it is possible to write scripts that are hard for the author to understand I find it better to make my scripts more readable even if they aren't as compact or fast as they otherwise could be. I will say one thing I probably have seen more unreadable, thus unmaintainable, perl code than almost anything else although Java gives it a good run for the money.
Why is it I need hundreds of dollars of insurance each year just to drive my car, but I don’t need ANY insurance for my handgun?
Because your state mandates that since you operate your car on public roads you need to carry insurance. I have a car that is never operated on public roads, I don't have it licensed in the state and don't carry insurance on it. I know a bunch of other people who do the same with one of their vehicles.
Well that may very well be true as the old M14s shot the big boy .30-06 rounds which do pack substantially more punch and would likely kill more effectively. The M16 was a lighter gun and the ammo was also lighter, so while it has less range most firefights take place at distances where that doesn't matter as the M16 in battle conditions is the more effective weapon with its reduced recoil, lighter weight, and ability to carry more ammo. The days of the full power round used in a main battle rifle ended in WWII for the most part with the US military being the main holdout for a while.
There's a reason it's second on the list.
Because it was the second one approved of the initial list of amendments proposed.
Well those intermediate power semi automatic rifles make wonderful varmint guns. Usually you want something with a bit more power for deer as it is more forgiving with non ideal shot placement but they are perfectly acceptable for smaller things like coyotes, coons, prairie dogs, opossums, etc. In Minnesota the .223 is a perfectly legal big game round but most people (by a large margin) prefer using more effective rounds like 7mm, 8mm, .30-30, .30-06, 7.62mm (x 39mm or 54mm), .270, .308, .303., 12ga slug. etc as they are just better at quickly killing a deer.
.30-30 as a good entry level deer rifle as it is very comparable power wise (7.62x39 at very shot distances has slightly less power but after that it retains more), and with the availability of inexpensive SKS and AK (semi auto) rifles they are substantially cheaper than the .30-30s. Add in that the SKS and AK rifles are very forgiving when it come to maintenance, with low recoil they are a pretty good choice for hunting deer.
While most of these are usually bolt action, or pump action for slug guns, semi auto is still very common. For years I hunted with a SKS and took a number of deer with it and that is one of those evil "assault style weapons" but the 7.62x39 round in recent years has taken the place of the venerable
I always like the old MS analogue Sidewinder Joystick and I have an old MS serial (9 pin) mouse that is still nice to use (I found it when my previous mouse died and no place was open) except it doesn't have a scroll wheel.
what about:
A ship shipping ship shipping shipping ships.
Fuck signs unless you are going to stick them up the ass of your elected officials. Sadly the most effective method is to write you state legislators and your elected representatives in the US House and Senate on this issue and instructing them to create legislation that bans civil asset forfeiture unless someone has been found guilty of a crime. Granted if it is like my most recent letter sent to one of my senators (Al Franken) you will be lucky to receive a response and it will thank you for your concern on the issue and for you continued support of the action that you wanted changed.
Sadly I have had a friend of mine who is a cop say much the same. In his city is is their best shot but then he and I like to go waste a lot of ammo at the range and at my property up north. He is better with handguns than I am but better with long guns than he is.
I have often wondered why one couldn't file a criminal complaint of theft, or grant theft if the amount is high enough. Granted you would likely be fining the criminal complaint with the entity that employs the person who committed the theft, so maybe one needs to also file a complaint with the state's Attorney General not that have any reason to listen. Finally there is the final option of suing under deprivation of rights under the color of law if all else fails. Too bad so much of this is being done to prevent someone from being able to exercise their rights and is shutdown by the use of extraordinary mental gymnastics by judges to justify this continued behavior.
Well had I followed this naming scheme my first one would have probably been named "cries but doesn't eat". The second one may have been named angry shitcannon though.
Well depending on your state a write in vote may or may not be counted. For example in Minnesota for votes for a write in candidate to be counted they candidate needs to register in writing with the MN Secretary of State no later than November 1, 2016.
Except that garbage day is on Friday in my city and almost everyone in town jumped to one of the 3 really low cost haulers. So now instead of 2 trucks going down my street on Friday there are 3 and I save about $100 every 3 months and that trash still all goes to the same place. I haven't seen anyone who gets their trash hauled off by the original 2 anymore as every trash company has their name on their trash bins.
Sounds like my city. About 4 years ago they let a bunch of new entrants into the garbage hauling market, before we had 2 now we have 7, and prices fell dramatically. I had paid something like $125 a quarter for the small trash bin for years but after 5 new entrants came in I now pay $27 a quarter and have a larger bin. Granted I could care less about the larger bin most of the time as it is mostly empty but when I do some construction work it is nice to not have to get rid of the trash over several weeks.
And I want a solid rhodium toilet. In a sane world I would be more likely to get that toilet than the FBI would bet to get warrantless searches but alas we seem to have gone insane.
I like seeing stories like these as it does restore my faith in the legal system. I had a similar one years ago where I had to sue an insurance company to get the fair market value of a wrecked car. The insurance company wanted to give me $1200 for my car, yet the KBB and NADA book values were within $50 either way of $3100. I also found a bunch of almost identical vehicles (mine was in better shape before the wreck with lower miles and more options) for sale and the average price of those vehicles was $3000. The insurance company dismissed all of that. I went petitioned the insurance company for an independent appraisal which was done that found the vehicle should have been valued at $3150 and the insurance company said it was invalid even though they chose the appraiser. So after 4 months of fighting I filed a claim in small claims court for $3150 plus the $35 filing fee. Two months later I have my court date and I present all of my evidence, the KBB and NADA book values, the example cars, the independent appraisal done by the appraiser the insurance company chose, the insurance company's flawed valuation (triple deducting for mileage, and choosing 2 example vehicles each of which had 2-3 times the mileage as my car). The insurance company simply stated that they believed that their valuation was perfectly correct. For the ruling the judge found in my favor and told the insurance company that what I had been asking for was perfectly reasonable and that there was no reason why this should have made it this far. The judge also told them they should have settled as soon as I provided the KBB and NADA book values for the vehicle.
So in the end the insurance company had to pay to store a vehicle for 6 months, pay for an independent appraisal, pay to have someone show up in court, pay my court costs, and pay the reasonable amount I was asking at the start.
In chess, everything is black and white.
Not so much in the world.
Then you lack the right level of granularity.
Said only partially tongue in cheek.
You can't get some minimum wage support staff to do that so it must be impossible.
The problem is that most people don't know every bit of traffic flowing on their network so you get a NIPS setup with some shitty general rules and some limited destination based filtering. It takes a lot of work to do proper source and destination based filtering which at best gets you a good firewall. Then add in that if you are doing NIPS right you need to be doing DPI (deep packet inspection) and saying that only this protocol is allowed on these ports between these hosts. That only gets you a somewhat good NIPS but to really fully protect yourself with a nips you need to define valid ranges and do data validation which really takes a lot of time. Then add in a host based firewall taking into account source and destination and filtering outbound traffic, having a proper HIDS configured, a highly segmented network with firewalls between machines, including only necessary software, disabling of unused physical ports, diligent monitoring, patching, disabling (and then removing) unused services, etc. and there is a lot that can be done that in practice isn't. Most of what is done is people instead go and buy a device from some vendor the says that it will do everything other than head, plug it in, and maybe do some basic configuration.
Having dealt with vendors most of them are sank oil salesmen, like one who was pushing a network monitoring tool who said that their tool was better than Snort because Snort didn't do DPI.
I keep writing my congress critters suggesting this and even use that wording but Representative John Kline, Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Senator Al Franken don't seem to want to hear that and none have ever responded back to me on the issue. With Senator Amy Klobuchar I do feel the need to point out that she supports increased H-1B visas as many people in my state support her and believe that she actually supports workers and would never support this even though she has been one of the biggest supporters of expanding the program.
While the the person to whom you were originally responding I have an interesting idea that I have offered up to my dumb congress critters. It does make some assumptions (all the wrong ones) but seems like it would be substantially more resilient to abuse than the current system.
Assumption 1: Lets take the managers at their word and there is a shortage of IT workers
Assumption 2: Lets take the managers at their word that there isn't a single US citizen that can do these jobs
Assumption 3: Lets take the managers at their work that the skills they need are so critical that they can't train a US citizen in time
So given these 3 assumptions (I said I was going to make all of the wrong ones didn't I) this would indicate that these people that they are bringing in on H-1B visas are truly exceptional people. I mean they have skills that are so critical that a company cannot find a single person in a country of over 300 million people that has those skills or could be trained up in time. As such I say that these people need to be compensated at levels appropriate for their skill set which seems only fair as they are at least a 1 in 300 million and companies can run with persons missing form the executive board so these are truly exceptional people. As such these individuals should be receiving the highest total compensation in the entire company including benefits. This means the best insurance coverages, wages, stock options, company transport, company provided housing, relocation funds, retirement packages, etc. Remember the companies say they desperately need these people and don't have time to train a US worker so they are obviously more critical than anyone in management or sales. To avoid some possible doggedness make it so that this compensation is the highest one calculated from the company they are employed by or are doing work for.
Do this and I say that we can remove the cap on H-1B visas. We will then see just how critical these people are to companies.
While true it is because no one who could realistically do anything about it has the stones to do so. About the only thing the workers could do would be to file wrongful termination lawsuits but I don't know if they would have standing to do so. Assuming they don't (it probably isn't age, sex, race, religion, disability, etc related the likely don't) then it would have to fall to some State or Federal Attorney General and they like those campaign contributions.
When I see stuff like this happening I like to remind people that both major political parties do not have your interests at heart. Yes republicans are painted as the party of Big Business but deomcrats are all for this shit. Especially one of my shit stains of a senator Amy Klobuchar who is against well paid skilled labor for Americans and is hard at work trying to destroy these jobs.
What kind of beef are you buying and how are you buying it? Seriously I don't know what it costs in stores as I get my beef from directly from a processor and purchase the fraction of the animal from the farmer directly but unless it is some of the ultra prime cuts it shouldn't be costing that much. If that is for ground beef, chuck roast, or round steaks quit shopping at Whole Foods in San Fransisco or New York, if that price is for tenderloin then quit your bitching.
The added efficiency is mostly because of the scale of the ships involved. While locomotive engines are huge (they are used on small shipping ships, huge mining trucks, and as stationary backup generators as well) they don't hold a candle to large marine diesels used on the biggest ships. I could easily stand in the cylinder of the largest ship engines while I might be able to get my foot and lower leg into a locomotive engine cylinder. Also ships are slower and when loaded have a huge mass, even larger than a loaded freight train. The largest container ship can carry 197,362 tons of stuff or 19,224 20 foot containers. A train that size will have a lot of engines and train cars. The advantage is that a train is fast compared to a container ship so that also adds to the efficiency of the the ship. Ships like those are also cheaper to run as they can burn oil that is only slightly thinner than asphalt in their engines so the fuel is very cheap.
So if your business operates in one state, doesn't sell overseas or to Indian Tribes the federal government has no power to regulate your commerce.
If only that were the case.