Most robbers don't pay to fix the homeowners homes
Maybe in your fantasy world. In the real one, restitution is generally part of any criminal trial, and there might be more at a civil trial if you wish.
I can think of plenty of examples off the top of my head, but I'll leave you with this one. When I was young my father was a grocer. The son of one of our regular customers broke in to the store one evening and stole about $100 of groceries and cigarettes, and hid his loot in a hay storage building used by the farm bureau about 5 blocks away from the store (small town). Someone found the stash, the cops staked it out and caught him. Long story short the judge made him pay restitution. Since they had no money, the judge made him mow our lawn for the rest of the year among other things.
The guy taught me that you can fill the kiddy pool up faster if you put your finger over the end of the hose and make the water squirt out with more pressure - to this day I don't know if he really believed that or was just messing with me.
I use RoR, so each table has a field named "id" and it's then called "other_table_name_id" in other tables. I prefer it that way, anyway. Good catch on the on/using, by the way:)
they think they know what they're doing, but when you ask them an SQL question they use a sequence of nested queries without any join statements.
And what exactly is wrong with that?
Query optimizer will generally convert a nested query into a join when necessary. And for a non-correlated nested query (and possibly some particularly shaped indexes) nesting is probably a better answer to begin with.
You speak the truth. Look at it this way:
select something from table1 where id in (select table1_id from table2 where name ilike '%smith%');
or
select table1.something from table1 inner join table2 using table1.id=table2.table1_id where table2.name ilike '%smith%';
They're equivalent, and if you're using a reasonable rdbms (I use PostgreSQL) they end up being optimized identically. IMHO, the first one is far easier to read and understand, particularly if you start adding even more and more tables and restrictions. Something I've picked up over the last 25 years of paid IT work is that maintainability trumps nearly everything else given the price disparity between hardware and human time. (obviously there are limits to that)
In my company I maintain tons of code that I've written over the last 15 years. People call me up and expect for me to be able to look at code that I wrote 10 years ago and make changes. How about places where there's actual staff turnover? Writing readable and maintainable code is just better.
Of course there are externalities. It's just that some of us are smart enough to realize that $1,000,000,000,000 is just a little too round of a number to not be simply pulled out of someone's ass.
And exactly just how much oil have we been pumping out of Iraq since this "investment" you brought up?
I've oft heard this argument that we went to war in Iraq for oil, yet, I've not seen where we've benefited from this glut of oil from there. If we did go for oil, I'd certainly rather see a better return for our investment, but those prices sure haven't come down THAT much.
Iraq pumps about $20B/year of oil out of the ground. There isn't enough oil under Iraq to pay us back. I know a lot of people don't get this but the war over there might have been about something other than oil.
We have at least two gas stations within 5 miles of my house with pure gasoline, one of them is "Pure". Good stuff. I have to use it for my pressure washer and other power equipment, and it's about 10% more expensive than the government subsidized ethanol crap.
Um, they realize it now. That's why they don't want people reading these books. The emperor has no clothes, so instead of clothing the emperor we just make sure everybody's wearing a blindfold.
People in the music industry tend to be big time suckers when it comes to technology. Remember, these are the people who really believed that DRM being sold by big tech companies was all about keeping their music secure so it couldn't be "pirated". So, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at all if someone approached them and claimed to have a "sophisticated algorithm for identifying infringing web sites" and they bought it hook, line, and sinker. And when I say "bought", I mean literally. This is the "more money than brains" crowd.
If you want to get into "what we really should be doing", then the answer is "get rid of pensions and give everybody a 401K/403B/tax-sheltered-retirement-savings-plan".
Because it actually forces the pensions to be funded - it's obvious why the union would like it.
Look at the cities going bankrupt in California, as an example. It's unfunded pension liabilities that are dragging them down. The USPS is being forced to actually make good on their promises, otherwise we'll have to bail out their pension fund in the future. The gripe (somewhat legit) is that they're being singled out for this treatment while every other government agency with promises that are going to be broken aren't given this treatment.
"To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to convince a user to preview or open a specially-crafted email message, open a malicious file or browse malicious Web content."
Thankfully it's proven difficult over the years to get a Windows user to do any of those things....
It wouldn't have even been annoying unless someone - say, some jerk petty enough to put barricades around open air monuments - would have tried to stop payments on debt service. We had easily enough money coming in to cover the debt service, so it would have only been a problem had someone purposely done that to harm the US.
To further your thoughts, the oreo is far more nutritious than the rice cake. Rice cakes are not "health food", they're a big piece of starch that will be instantly turned to sugar by your liver thus spiking your blood sugar and insulin levels. Rice doesn't contain a substantial amount of other nutrients. Nutritionally, it's the equivalent of eating a pile of sugar, but it doesn't taste as good.
Whoever designed this "experiment" doesn't understand basic nutrition.
The Republicans just pushed such a bill and it went down in flames. It would have (among other things) forced Congress and the President to use Obamacare.
More is lost in the 2-3 months of "summer vacation" than is taught in 2 months of classes (more for students of low income families). That actually means that in terms of education knowledge gained, our students only have 5-6 months of school while countries that do not have a 2-3 month summer vacation received 10-11 months in the same time period. It is no wonder our students do not do as well....
The other side of that coin is that other countries don't have as long in school. My wife is from the Philippines and they have primary school for 10 years. "High school" starts at 7th grade and ends in 10th grade. They're 16 or 17 and going to college then. She graduated as an RN at age 21 and started working.
Our economy also suffers from keeping fully-capable workers in school for too long.
The neighborhood beside mine has historically had a lot higher crime rate due to it being close to a major road (criminals like to be able to get in/out quickly) and as a result they have hired private security. The security guys are licensed to carry guns and do at all times. The police like it because the private guys take care of the bulk of the issues in the neighborhood and only call the police if an arrest needs to be made. The residents like it because if they need help the security guys are typically only a few minutes away. You might find them useless but not everybody does.
"Co-pilot" is a misleading term. They are both pilots....
Um, that is the literal meaning of prefixing "co" to a word. In reality, if there is a hierarchy then "co" is incorrect. So, no, "co-pilot" isn't misleading - it's correct.
So, what is the role of government? I'll answer that:
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men...
There you have it. The purpose of government is to secure your natural, unalienable rights.
I always love this part where tea partiers are lunatics. You know who I think is a lunatic? Well, how about the guys who increase our federal spending by 10 or 20% in a year even though we started out with a huge deficit? That's looney. How about those who insist that giving money to rich campaign donors through "bailouts" or "stimulus" funds is going to help the economy? Yes, LOONEY. Okay? It's just more common.
Looking through the "contract from America", there's little I can dispute:
1. Identify constitutionality of every new law: Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does (82.03%).
This should have been part of the original Constitution.
2. Reject emissions trading: Stop the "cap and trade" administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. (72.20%).
Agreed. Although technically C&T should be about economic incentives.
3. Demand a balanced federal budget: Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax modification. (69.69%)
Obviously.
4. Simplify the tax system: Adopt a simple and fair single-rate tax system by scrapping the internal revenue code and replacing it with one that is no longer than 4,543 words – the length of the original Constitution. (64.9%)
Well, I would argue about the word length possibly. But, yes, we should have a simpler tax system.
5. Audit federal government agencies for constitutionality: Create a Blue Ribbon taskforce that engages in an audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their Constitutionality, and identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities. (63.37%)
Again, this should be obvious and should have been done before now. It's time to roll the government back to a legal size.
6. Limit annual growth in federal spending: Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus the percentage of population growth. (56.57%).
Only problem with this is that a WWII kind of screws it up. But putting provisions for that into law simply makes another case for our current endless war strategy.
7. Repeal the health care legislation passed on March 23, 2010: Defund, repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (56.39%).
How about come up with a replacement and go from there?
8. Pass an 'All-of-the-Above' Energy Policy: Authorize the exploration of additional energy reserves to reduce American dependence on foreign energy sources and reduce regulatory barriers to all other forms of energy creation. (55.5%).
I think we're doing pretty well on this so far. We also need to remove subsidies and tax breaks to various industries as part of this.
9. Reduce Earmarks: Place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any earmark. (55.47%).
How about just outright get rid of earmarks? They're used for nothing but graft.
10. Reduce Taxes: Permanently repeal all recent tax increases, and extend permanently the George W. Bush temporary reductions in income tax, capital gains tax and estate taxes, currently scheduled to end in 2011. (53.38%).
Again, good idea as long as we can keep revenue up.
Sorry, little of that looks like lunacy to me or most people for that matter.
Honestly, read about everything that the government says marijuana is going to do to you - then consider that our current, last two, and first two Presidents (at the least) used the substance.
Our government is just as stupid, only in other areas.
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Maybe in your fantasy world. In the real one, restitution is generally part of any criminal trial, and there might be more at a civil trial if you wish.
I can think of plenty of examples off the top of my head, but I'll leave you with this one. When I was young my father was a grocer. The son of one of our regular customers broke in to the store one evening and stole about $100 of groceries and cigarettes, and hid his loot in a hay storage building used by the farm bureau about 5 blocks away from the store (small town). Someone found the stash, the cops staked it out and caught him. Long story short the judge made him pay restitution. Since they had no money, the judge made him mow our lawn for the rest of the year among other things.
The guy taught me that you can fill the kiddy pool up faster if you put your finger over the end of the hose and make the water squirt out with more pressure - to this day I don't know if he really believed that or was just messing with me.
I use RoR, so each table has a field named "id" and it's then called "other_table_name_id" in other tables. I prefer it that way, anyway. Good catch on the on/using, by the way :)
they think they know what they're doing, but when you ask them an SQL question they use a sequence of nested queries without any join statements.
And what exactly is wrong with that?
Query optimizer will generally convert a nested query into a join when necessary. And for a non-correlated nested query (and possibly some particularly shaped indexes) nesting is probably a better answer to begin with.
You speak the truth. Look at it this way:
select something from table1 where id in (select table1_id from table2 where name ilike '%smith%');
or
select table1.something from table1 inner join table2 using table1.id=table2.table1_id where table2.name ilike '%smith%';
They're equivalent, and if you're using a reasonable rdbms (I use PostgreSQL) they end up being optimized identically. IMHO, the first one is far easier to read and understand, particularly if you start adding even more and more tables and restrictions. Something I've picked up over the last 25 years of paid IT work is that maintainability trumps nearly everything else given the price disparity between hardware and human time. (obviously there are limits to that)
In my company I maintain tons of code that I've written over the last 15 years. People call me up and expect for me to be able to look at code that I wrote 10 years ago and make changes. How about places where there's actual staff turnover? Writing readable and maintainable code is just better.
Of course there are externalities. It's just that some of us are smart enough to realize that $1,000,000,000,000 is just a little too round of a number to not be simply pulled out of someone's ass.
And exactly just how much oil have we been pumping out of Iraq since this "investment" you brought up?
I've oft heard this argument that we went to war in Iraq for oil, yet, I've not seen where we've benefited from this glut of oil from there. If we did go for oil, I'd certainly rather see a better return for our investment, but those prices sure haven't come down THAT much.
Iraq pumps about $20B/year of oil out of the ground. There isn't enough oil under Iraq to pay us back. I know a lot of people don't get this but the war over there might have been about something other than oil.
We have at least two gas stations within 5 miles of my house with pure gasoline, one of them is "Pure". Good stuff. I have to use it for my pressure washer and other power equipment, and it's about 10% more expensive than the government subsidized ethanol crap.
Um, they realize it now. That's why they don't want people reading these books. The emperor has no clothes, so instead of clothing the emperor we just make sure everybody's wearing a blindfold.
People in the music industry tend to be big time suckers when it comes to technology. Remember, these are the people who really believed that DRM being sold by big tech companies was all about keeping their music secure so it couldn't be "pirated". So, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at all if someone approached them and claimed to have a "sophisticated algorithm for identifying infringing web sites" and they bought it hook, line, and sinker. And when I say "bought", I mean literally. This is the "more money than brains" crowd.
otherwise we'll have to bail out their pension fund in the future.
You mean like we did for every major airline in the country?
Yes. What's your point?
If you want to get into "what we really should be doing", then the answer is "get rid of pensions and give everybody a 401K/403B/tax-sheltered-retirement-savings-plan".
Because it actually forces the pensions to be funded - it's obvious why the union would like it.
Look at the cities going bankrupt in California, as an example. It's unfunded pension liabilities that are dragging them down. The USPS is being forced to actually make good on their promises, otherwise we'll have to bail out their pension fund in the future. The gripe (somewhat legit) is that they're being singled out for this treatment while every other government agency with promises that are going to be broken aren't given this treatment.
I guess you heard a loud whoosh and didn't know what it was.
"To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to convince a user to preview or open a specially-crafted email message, open a malicious file or browse malicious Web content."
Thankfully it's proven difficult over the years to get a Windows user to do any of those things....
I fell off a 40 story building one time. Thank God I was on the second step when it happened!
The difference is that there are few companies that can do what Halliburton did, but there are plenty of good software developers.
This is about the same size as some larger viruses!!! Can you imagine a home device capable of the precision of the size of a virus?
And now the police in the UK are shitting themselves even more because someone's going to 3d print a virus.
It wouldn't have even been annoying unless someone - say, some jerk petty enough to put barricades around open air monuments - would have tried to stop payments on debt service. We had easily enough money coming in to cover the debt service, so it would have only been a problem had someone purposely done that to harm the US.
To further your thoughts, the oreo is far more nutritious than the rice cake. Rice cakes are not "health food", they're a big piece of starch that will be instantly turned to sugar by your liver thus spiking your blood sugar and insulin levels. Rice doesn't contain a substantial amount of other nutrients. Nutritionally, it's the equivalent of eating a pile of sugar, but it doesn't taste as good.
Whoever designed this "experiment" doesn't understand basic nutrition.
The Republicans just pushed such a bill and it went down in flames. It would have (among other things) forced Congress and the President to use Obamacare.
More is lost in the 2-3 months of "summer vacation" than is taught in 2 months of classes (more for students of low income families). That actually means that in terms of education knowledge gained, our students only have 5-6 months of school while countries that do not have a 2-3 month summer vacation received 10-11 months in the same time period. It is no wonder our students do not do as well....
The other side of that coin is that other countries don't have as long in school. My wife is from the Philippines and they have primary school for 10 years. "High school" starts at 7th grade and ends in 10th grade. They're 16 or 17 and going to college then. She graduated as an RN at age 21 and started working.
Our economy also suffers from keeping fully-capable workers in school for too long.
The neighborhood beside mine has historically had a lot higher crime rate due to it being close to a major road (criminals like to be able to get in/out quickly) and as a result they have hired private security. The security guys are licensed to carry guns and do at all times. The police like it because the private guys take care of the bulk of the issues in the neighborhood and only call the police if an arrest needs to be made. The residents like it because if they need help the security guys are typically only a few minutes away. You might find them useless but not everybody does.
Look at what happens when a police officer commits a crime. Not only does he shut up, so do all of his buddies.
That's *all* you need to know.
"Co-pilot" is a misleading term. They are both pilots....
Um, that is the literal meaning of prefixing "co" to a word. In reality, if there is a hierarchy then "co" is incorrect. So, no, "co-pilot" isn't misleading - it's correct.
So, what is the role of government? I'll answer that:
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men...
There you have it. The purpose of government is to secure your natural, unalienable rights.
I always love this part where tea partiers are lunatics. You know who I think is a lunatic? Well, how about the guys who increase our federal spending by 10 or 20% in a year even though we started out with a huge deficit? That's looney. How about those who insist that giving money to rich campaign donors through "bailouts" or "stimulus" funds is going to help the economy? Yes, LOONEY. Okay? It's just more common.
Looking through the "contract from America", there's little I can dispute:
1. Identify constitutionality of every new law: Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does (82.03%).
This should have been part of the original Constitution.
2. Reject emissions trading: Stop the "cap and trade" administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. (72.20%).
Agreed. Although technically C&T should be about economic incentives.
3. Demand a balanced federal budget: Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax modification. (69.69%)
Obviously.
4. Simplify the tax system: Adopt a simple and fair single-rate tax system by scrapping the internal revenue code and replacing it with one that is no longer than 4,543 words – the length of the original Constitution. (64.9%)
Well, I would argue about the word length possibly. But, yes, we should have a simpler tax system.
5. Audit federal government agencies for constitutionality: Create a Blue Ribbon taskforce that engages in an audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their Constitutionality, and identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities. (63.37%)
Again, this should be obvious and should have been done before now. It's time to roll the government back to a legal size.
6. Limit annual growth in federal spending: Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus the percentage of population growth. (56.57%).
Only problem with this is that a WWII kind of screws it up. But putting provisions for that into law simply makes another case for our current endless war strategy.
7. Repeal the health care legislation passed on March 23, 2010: Defund, repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (56.39%).
How about come up with a replacement and go from there?
8. Pass an 'All-of-the-Above' Energy Policy: Authorize the exploration of additional energy reserves to reduce American dependence on foreign energy sources and reduce regulatory barriers to all other forms of energy creation. (55.5%).
I think we're doing pretty well on this so far. We also need to remove subsidies and tax breaks to various industries as part of this.
9. Reduce Earmarks: Place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any earmark. (55.47%).
How about just outright get rid of earmarks? They're used for nothing but graft.
10. Reduce Taxes: Permanently repeal all recent tax increases, and extend permanently the George W. Bush temporary reductions in income tax, capital gains tax and estate taxes, currently scheduled to end in 2011. (53.38%).
Again, good idea as long as we can keep revenue up.
Sorry, little of that looks like lunacy to me or most people for that matter.
Honestly, read about everything that the government says marijuana is going to do to you - then consider that our current, last two, and first two Presidents (at the least) used the substance.
Our government is just as stupid, only in other areas.