This is where I take the time to explain to everyone that "Yeah, while it may save you time to do it manually, if you do it THIS way instead, you never have to write it from scratch again, and your output goes waaay up".
Every job I've ever had, I always look at how my predecessors do the job, then automate the crap that I don't want to deal with. :/
I'm in the middle of writing a retrospective on my PhD - the stuff I wish I'd done at the beginning. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it mostly boils down to automate and pipeline everything. It almost always saves time because inevitably you have to repeat work with parameters changed very slightly.
The Ten Amendments are not there to give power to the people, there are there to emphasize powers that the government DOES NOT HAVE. The thought was (and a very good one), that if something was not explicitly forbidden the government would find a way to wrangle definitions so it was included (ACA as a 'tax', anyone?).
ANY powers not mentioned explicitly in the Constitution are supposed to be reserved for the people.
>ANY powers not mentioned explicitly in the Constitution are supposed to be reserved for the people.
Of course, but that only applies if the government is still good.
Should a situation arise where the government decides to become evil, then the government will not give a f*ck about the people's reserved rights.
At that point, it will become hard to fight the government, if the people have no guns and especially hard if the people no standing well-regulated militia groups of men to enforce and defend the reserved rights of the people.
This is why the founding fathers want to guarantee the peoples the right to the standing of well-regulated militias groups. Because if the peoples does not have well-regulated militia groups to defend them, then the government can just decide to become corrupt, and there will be nothing that the people can do. By then, it'll be too late to start recruiting, training, and buying guns and ammo.
However, if the people have well-regulated militia groups standing by, then the government will have to fight a bloody war against the people's well-regulated militia groups first before the government can become a full fledged dictatorship.
Yes. As a married, white, heterosexual male, being seen having a dinner alone with a single female (or even lunch) would be enough to cause questions from friends. So it's not worth it.
ahhh, but put a little effort into building the cigarette boat and the response envelope is drastically small, small enough that a swarm of cheap boats could gut a battleship.
Amen to that. I am seriously thinking about going out and buying a 1975-1985 or so Chevy C-10 pickup with a small block V8. Those things are dead simple to work on, parts are cheap and plentiful and readily available, and there's plenty of room in the engine compartment to get in there and work.
Contrast that with my 2000 Ford Expedition where you have to jack the truck up and crawl underneath just to change spark plugs. Never mind the need for more specialized tools when you're dealing with fuel injection and messing with the ECM, etc.
Yeah, I think it's time to go back to older cars. I want something I can work on myself without needing a $5,000 tool that I'll use once, and that you probably can't buy in the first place. :-(
I would expect it to be the reverse: there is no incentive for government programs to root out fraud, if they fall short, they just raise taxes. For private companies - if they are being defrauded, it directly affects their bottom line, and the bottom line of their executives (who would be VERY interested to make sure bonuses increase).
If we are talking about fraud within the company/government, I would expect the same - less in the company than in the government. Not zero, but less overall.
And THAT is the other thing. bash 7 years ago is the same as bash today, no changes based on some corporate overlords marketing idea of the month. Powershell is still in flux, and with MS as the owner, when will it ever be stable?
You're comparing the IIS management command lets to bash. PowerShell the language is largely the same, the same as bash. A more apt comparison would be to apachectl and the apache config files, which have changed.
my parents lived off of grits (we're from the South) for three weeks when they were first married. They made it, with no help from the government - and my Dad never finished school, and could barely read. A lot of people have expectations of success without work.
Every job I've ever had, I always look at how my predecessors do the job, then automate the crap that I don't want to deal with. :/