I always liked the title Jarl, I think I would be a good Jarl.

Don't know what planet you are from, but in the real world, DBA's quite often fill many roles in the development life-cycle. I've been the DBA as well as the fucking PM for projects just due to lack of man power, shit happens.

Changes to production that pass QA can still break the system once they are in the wild and every instance of execution begins. Additionally, not every change that goes into production in all instances goes through the DBA especially when there isn't a schema change. A dipshit writes an app that works fine in QA, migrates to production, due to a difference in version he didn't pay attention to, he overwrites 5 million records. It really does actually happen in the real world and they ( many companies) don't bother consulting the experts until it's already fucked up.

This is becoming more commonplace as companies are outsourcing or contracting out their admins and development.

You'd think that, but when it's your job on the line because fucktards in management have 0 clue and assume that because it has something to do with the database and you are the admin, it's your fault. And having been subject to intentional sabotage, and seeing it done numerous times, it exists and happens.

The reason we are control freaks is because when some moron wants to make a change and breaks the whole system, we are the ones that catch the blame and have to try to fix it if we don't get shit canned for it. You ever tried to re-key millions of records across hundreds of tables? You ever had to spend 3 days restoring db's from backup and having a site outage for 3 days because of it?

This is retarded to even think but, okay. In the real world, a friend today can become the enemy tomorrow. Not to mention, we actually get most of our best intelligence from our allies, whether they wish to give it to us or not.

We have 70+ military bases and installations along the Us/Canada border from Washington in the west to Maine in the east. Here

Why would it need to be compatible?

First of all, when the government began introducing computers into the common work environments, Apple was not a real competitor. MS work a hell of a deal with the government for licensing that Apple wasn't willing to do. Then along came Dell. Dell was able to put a PC and/or laptop into the hands of government workers for less than 1/3 the cost of an apple computer. Not to mention, at the time, Apple's OS sucked for ease of use. Today, Macbooks are becoming more prolific in government work, each of the 4 agencies I have worked with in the last 2 years were switching all of their laptops to macbooks and running windows virtually. It takes a huge amount of time, in many instances, years to migrate hardware and software. Hell for the FDA to approve the installation of a single piece of software took 6 months to get approved on my laptop and that was just Eclipse.

So casinos raise the suicide rate, bankruptcy rate and crime rate, but apparently only if they are in MD or are Mississippi river boats... Apparently the Vegas casinos had no impact? Seems flawed to me and I live 20 minutes from 1 casino in MD, 5 minutes from the new one they are building and less than an hour from the others.

Clark county NV, Amsterdam Netherlands to name a couple.

Citations please, there are multiple casinos within an hour of me and they are actually in pretty good areas.

You're correct, both on Pandora but not on Spotify, yet another reason to use pandora instead.

Tool and Led Zeppelin are absolutely available on Spotify and Pandora.

Nope.

Not "American" in general. In many, and I dare say most, places people are generally pretty courteous. But, then again, I grew up in the South and Southern hospitality is world renowned.

Okay my friend, just for you, we'll pull back all military forces from around the globe, cut the size to 1/4 what it is now and send 2 million people back into an already over burdened work force. Let the clock begin on how long it takes for crime rates and prices to jump through the roof.

You say that, but the reality is, helping in areas and helping people in starvation riddle areas, patrolling for pirates, assisting in rendering medical aid to poorer countries makes a huge difference in not only our own security, but that of the world as a whole. It helps to provide more stable areas, stable trade routes, gains in natural resource allocations to us, and many more quite tangible benefits that would not otherwise be possible. Sure you can send an NPO into Somalia or Yemen with trucks of grain, but who the hell is going to protect them so that the pirates and warlords don't kill the NPO workers and take the foodstuffs? Who is going to protect the oil tankers and cargo ships from the VERY real pirates? There is complete chaos in several african countries, and that's still with us helping, what do you think it would be like if we weren't helping at all?

When you actually have a clue what you are talking about, come back to us. The only thing you got right there was budget breaking.