Yikes.

Sorry, and I hate to be the one to say it, but his view isn't that far from mainstream. In fact, it would seem less than a decade ago, it was quite popular.

Just because your opinion is currently popular, doesn't mean the people who disagreed with you six years ago owe you an apology or they can't have a job.

I do frequently wonder if that's the best way to end the email... as what I want to suggest is "Email me back directly if something happens, but I don't think anything will."

Maybe: "Feel free to ping me directly if you run into any issues."

Your last sentence is very troubling: You feel the negative effects when eating certain foods that you 'suspect' contain MSG. To me, that really sounds like you may psyche yourself out. ie. that you worry about MSG so much that it starts to cause you stress about it, and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy/placebo effect/whatever. Anyway, I can't tell you with 100% certainty that MSG is healthy or not, but I can tell you that there are cultures that consume it in large quantities that seem largely unaffected.

Definitely true on the Spanish. More than twice as many people speak Spanish at home than English. (though a lot of the Spanish speakers are bilingual, it's the dominant language in the county)

http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/...

Suburban Miami wasn't bad at least... I certainly don't remember any gunshots growing up there. Now if you lived near Overtown, West Perrine, Goulds, etc. then yeah, you had to deal with gunshots. Same with every major city though.

So this mom never brings this up with the teacher, presumes if she does it won't help, and then writes a letter at the end of the year detailing all the problems? Mother of the year, right here.

Also, "VB? Seriously??" got funnier every time I read it too. Jokes never get old.

A friend of mine makes a road trip every week for business. Do they also add the cost of the time you spend waiting for a charge at charging stations vs a quicker gas pump for road trips? A full charge is about an hour. Should the price be higher for him?

Look, I'm not saying it's still not a decent bargain when all is said and done, I'm just saying you can't roll it into your 'cost' and advertise that as the price you want me to pay. I am not paying that. I'm paying 190 bucks more a month based on my current fuel usage. My friend would be paying for it in an extra hour a week at least. These things count too.

That being said, I would be absolutely shocked if they weren't scanning photos of the event programmatically for items resembling a black bag, and then the people who were carrying them.

"It's skills you use in every business management, so it's just like work!"

Go ahead and list it on your resume if you believe it.

In all seriousness though, security is not that simple. Yeah, what you're suggesting would mitigate risk, but it wouldn't come remotely close to eliminating it. You can end/save lives through hacking, and if you're costing the opposition lives, you should be treated as anyone else would be.

a) Doesn't know exactly what they want. b) Doesn't know what data is available exactly, or what it means/corresponds to.

With those two considerations in mind, I find anything Waterfall to be exceedingly difficult because I can't possibly come up with perfect requirements up front. And yeah, I know it would be best to spend all the time in the world trying to figure everything out perfectly up front, but it's simply not possible. It's not just my time I'm eating up, it's my client's time as well.

It's better to get as good as I can get without hitting diminishing returns on requirements gathering, then to present the client with incremental milestones, so they can play with it and give feedback, and I can adjust accordingly.

I also really don't like waterfall because at the end I have to say "Hey, here's the requirements you we agreed upon, here's the contract! You can't be mad." I think if at any point you ever have to bring out the contract, then you've massively failed in pleasing your client. Even if you're right, they're still unhappy.