Like many others here, I work in IT and that's the kind of thinking that led to every new project being "Ruby On Rails" about 12-15 years ago and every time a new underlying library gets updated, a bunch of code breaks. Meanwhile, C/C++, COBOL and FORTRAN programs from 30-50 years ago are still running the infrastructure of the world.

Newer doesn't always mean better.

Of course it's important and it's inevitable but calling it an "emergency" would by hyperbole and cause it to be taken less seriously.

Perl is still my go-to language when I need to write something quickly.

I have so many purpose driven utilities that I have written in Perl, that it saves me several man-hours of work every month.

I am unabashedly pro gun. I have testified at hearings on behalf of gun owners.

Still, the point I'm making here is that there is something especially troubling about those cops who see themselves as the protagonist from an 80s action movie.

I had one high school classmate who wanted to become a cop. He was a runt who discovered weightlifting and steroids. The thing that kept him from becoming a cop was that he got caught stealing from vending machines when we were teenagers.

It's fantastic that he didn't get to carry a badge and gun.

They're thinking about making their vehicles look differently than everyone else's instead of thinking about what would work the best?

I spent a year at a TA at a University and in that time I had two students who were really stellar. They were outstanding programmers. They paid attention detail and wrote elegant but easy to read code that worked. I took the time to offer both of them my assistance if they needed any help after graduation.

I play video games with one of them. The other one got out of CS and changed her major to something art related.

That would free up over 80% of the DEA's budget to go after meth and heroin.

Apparently, one of them is a doctor with a caribbean bank account. I was getting monthly balance updates for years.

I get confirmations of automobile service appointments and a bunch of other things.

Once, I even got an email from someone saying "This is MY name."

Occasionally, I get alerts on my phone that someone tried a password recovery. I gleefully decline and go about my day.

My name is neither common nor uncommon but I'm glad I got here first.

Their behavior wasn't ethical. They didn't approach me. I found their job posting and approached them.

My decision to make them persona non grata was about not rewarding them for behavior that negatively impacted me.