Просто чтобы поднять всем настроение.
Фермер возвращается с рынка, купив молодого петуха в свой курятник.
Молодой петух осмотрелся, подходит к старому и говорит:
- Ну что старый, пора бы тебе свалить отсюда.
И старый петух отвечает:
- Да ладно, всё равно ж со всеми не управишься. Взгляни на меня, каким я со всеми этими стал. Может оставишь мне тех двух немолодых уже курочек, что сидят в углу?
Но молодой петух ни в какую:
- Исчезни, старый. Твой век закончился. Теперь я единственный, кто командует тут всем!
Отвечает старый:
- Ладно, молодой и здоровый, давай наперегонки вокруг дома 5 раз. Кто первый, тот и главный в курятнике. Только дай мне всего 5 секунд фору за мой возраст.
Молодой рассмеялся и говорит.
- Слушай, ты, со свалки, знаешь же, что проиграешь. Хрен с тобой, хоть десять, на втором кругу все равно уже будешь позади...
Старый петух стартует и через 10 секунд молодой бросается вдогонку. Сделали круг и молодой все ближе к старику, остались считанные метры...
... вдруг жена фермера кричит:
- Ты кого блин опять купил? Он за нашим петухом гоняется!!!
Фермер в ярости берет ружье и ба-бах  в мододого петуха. Всё, пипец молодому...
- Нее, ну, не может такого быть!!! Третий петух за неделю и все голубые, блин!!!

МОРАЛЬ:
Не связывайся со "СТАРЫМИ". Возраст, мудрость и опыт обычно всегда выигрывают...

ВОЗРАСТ И СЕДИНА ДОЛЖНЫ ВСЕГДА  ВЫЗЫВАТЬ УВАЖЕНИЕ!!!
Моё почтение всем "старым", прочитавшим этот анекдот!!!!
👍Отошли всем друзьям пусть поржут!!!😄😄😄

De Blasio must resign!

Hey Guys.
if you love New York even half as much as I do join me, share this petition and sign it for your children!

Petition for de Blasio to resign!
If link does not work on your computer just copy-paste into your browser:
https://www.change.org/p/andrew-m-cuomo-impeach-mayor-bill-de-blasio?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_16854024_en-US%3Av3&recruiter=1132650955&recruited_by_id=43860220-c8f5-11ea-955f-fb0aae6156df&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=6e193c1a480d4026805ea1a34bffeca3

Another MTA fare hike on the horizon...

And again about MTA.
As you all aware MTA more or less recently increased the fare, by 25 cents:  quietly, without any discussion or public announcement.
But in last few weeks we again see same picture: slow trains, unexplained delays, especially during rush hours.
What is going on?
Be ready, we are about learn that fare hike on top of us again! How it will be done? Most likely same way, quietly and without any announcements or discussions. Chairman of MTA already making noise in Albany about shortage of funding and not getting enough from the city and state. I would like to know how agency servicing about 10 million people a day(income about $60 million a day!) can have shortage of funding.Not counting money from tunnels and bridges.
Is there IRS audit around to look at finances of that company? Where all those money goes to?
And 10 million is the lowest estimation of the number of people who uses MTA service in NYC every day.

All this make me thinking about financial responsibility.
Lets see.
I live and work in Brooklyn. Every week I am paying $5.5* 5=$27.5 just to get to work and back home.
However if I drive a car, Honda for example, with 45 mpg I would need about 3 gallons of gas per week!!!
In money amount, even with current price of the gas, it would be less than $11!!!
That is good incentive to switch from MTA subways to my own car. And if I get electric, I may even get some tax credits on top of the gas economy.

But from other hand I perfectly know that about 15% to 20% of oil production worldwide come from area controlled by IGIL(aka ISIS) which is well known terrorist organization. And money paid for that oil comes to support terrorism, right?
That would make anyone who pushes people to switch from public transportation to private cars - promoter, if not direct supporter, of terrorism.
But in this case we seen huge semi-private company, supported and controlled by NYS and Federal government doing all it can to push people away from public transportation.
And in terms it make me feel like MTA is the biggest supporter of terrorism in NY state!


p.s. one more thing. President of MTA making bit over $400.000 per year in salary alone plus bonuses.
I would like to know for what he is getting paid?

And bonuses for doing pretty bad job, don't you think this is ridiculous?

What is Acunetix?

Recently it comes to my attention that many so called "web security" experts issuing reports on web sites vulnerability using tools such as security scanner from Acunetix site. You can download and try it for free but how really usefull this tool is?
As I said earlier I am a web developer and working on that fields since 1996. Looks like I do have some expirience and would like to tell you: do not waste your money on that kind of tools.
I can create such a tools within 20 minutes and it will show unsuspected user scary picture of his website possible vulnerabilities. But how many of those scary things are real? Belive it or not but even developers of such tools have no clue. Best example is SQL injection vulnerability. Any web site which have database behind it is potentially vulnerable to it. 
And all scanning tools have show that. Small things which none considered is human factor behind it. For example none of sites developed by me was ever broken using SQL injection! 
There were vulnerabilities on IIS side but that is nothing your developers can do about. Only your network and sysadmin can keep up your systems up to date with Microsoft updates to protect system.

As a result what would I recommend to all web site users and future owners?
Better spend it on your IT team education and allocate resources on books and code reviews.
Establish company standards and do not let anyone - no matter how high or valuable this person for your company - compromise those standards.
That is your only protection against hackers and other type of  BS waste.
And keep in mind the old saying, but still true: the avaricious pays twice

Hurray Mr. Mayor!

Do you understand what Bloomberg is doing recently?
First he is launching campaign to reduce speed limit to 20 mph in the city.
Ok, I know that it does not compile: how successful businessman can be that idiotically stupid.
Did he ever drive a car, I do not think so.
Most likely he always use limo and that is why he does not know that 99.99% of the cars in US (and that include NYC) adapted for running at speed 55+ mph.
What is happening at lower speed?
Exactly what Bloomberg said that he is working hard to avoid when he set anti-smoking rules in the city:
                      more polluted smoke comes out of the working engines into air. 

Car makers does acknowledge that most effective way to use cars is at high speed -over highways.
At lower speed in the city we have higher level of emissions and that is what Bloomberd doing.
Or maybe he does not care about poisoning people because he getting more money from gas stations and oil industry?
Can you answer this?
For me answer is clear: raise voice and tell him to resign from mayor position now, before it is too late. And if not — impeachment I think is the good legal option to.

Best places to quit smoking... or why Newyorkers should not attempt

Recently, while on Hawaiian vacation, I decide to stop smoking.
Want to see how does it feel -- been smoke free.
Works just fine and I discovered that even coffee smell different. For example Brazilian and Arabic have completely different aroma to my surprise. And whiskey is not the same as vodka, even do it manufacturing procedure almost the same. So, I did not smoke for almost 30 days or my entire vacation. And be amid ocean breeze and gorgeous woman did help :-), a lot actually.
Felt great and I assumed that as soon as I get back to New York I will continue with this none smoking routine.
You know what? New York sucks in all terms and under any sense of this word. Even while I was stepping down from jet I sensed that air is not the same as in Hawaii for some reason. At first I assumed that it is because a time difference and jet legs.
But by the next day – my first work day – I knew what is wrong. Subway stinks so horribly that I was forced to walk all the way from Brooklyn to NYC downtown. There were all those stinks from street vendor’s cages.
As a result I could not stand it. Here is first few reasons why new yorkers should not quit smoking:
1. Subways stench comes not from just underground rats and decay but from all those homeless people sleeping in the subway cars.Think about it. When MTA anti-rat commandos sprayed all over tunnels and stations special pesticides and rat poison where do you think vapors and small dust particles goes?
Keep in mind that those poisoned particles tends to accumulate in your body. And later you will ask where the hell did I got poisoned or got cancer...
2. Smell of garbage emanating all over this freaken city and mayor currently only worries about how to get more money out of city coffins before he take final walk out of City Hall.
3. Wind from Atlantic not as fresh as we force to believe. It smell has nothing to do with fresh breeze from ocean and more with stench of the garbage dumped over years into East River and Hudson.

Or we have another option –- do not go to vacation into areas where air is remain clean and wind from the ocean smell like a fresh salt water wind.

Do not stop or quit smoking unless you really want to know how New York smells.
But if you do quit smoking - move far-far away from New York…

How MTA will raise fare this time...

Ok boys and girls.
Do you know what season this is?
Yes you do, time to re-visit fare for subways. MTA already done with bridges and tunnels this year. Now it is our turn to shake pocketbooks.
How this raise will be performed.
Simple really.
Most of us already see overcrowded subway cars, unexplained delays at the rush hours, especially on the way back home.
In a few weeks MTA will announce that because of the shortage in their funds they will have to raise fares or face compete shut down of the system.
We all really know that it is not a shortage of funds the issue: it is their greed and financial irresponsibility.
How could the huge company runs year after year with budget deficit and all their management getting yearly/quarterly benefits?
Are we live in communist ruled country?

Hoodia or do you have money to waste?

One of the primary arguments that this new weight lose supplements has been used by local African tribes to lower appetite for hundreds of years without any side affects at all.
You know what, fresh bamboo contained about 10 time more than any animal need to be killed of cyanide but for some reason panda consider bamboo as a main dish.
Does this means that you should try it as well?
I would not.
just think about it. Few years back tobacco was main trend in any movie or advertisement. And Indians use tobacco long before European discovered America without any ill affect for their (Indians) health.
Try to light cigarette somewhere in NYC park or in bus. If you lucky you will escape with slightly hurt ego, if not with summons for about $200 total addressed to a city packet...
Got it?

stackoverflow.com dead or just to much to handle?

Hey as most of the developers I know about what use to be a great resource for answers and to share your knowledge --www.stackoverflow.com.
Pay attention: use to be.
There is apparently new rules there, if you ask a question and either nobody know answer or just nobody else searching how to resolve the same or similar problem you got banned to post your question or even create new profile. Does not matter how good your reputation was there before!!!
You can earn black mark for something which this site actually originally build and respected for.
For example my profile was banned just because I asked if anyone know how to resolve problem on Counterpoint. Not to many people does even knows what the hell Counterpoint is, so I did expect that those who does can help me in something what used to be a collection of best computer geeks in the world.
So be aware and do not ask questions there if you not sure that there is someone knows answer or at least have similar problem and searching for answers.

Do we even need a brain?

Cheerful American named Carlos Rodriguez lives with virtually no brain. He does not have the frontal lobes, and in general there is little in the skull after a terrible car accident. But he is no different from other people ... when he in his hat.

There is also described a case of the 16th century, when dissected boy, who died 3 years after severe injuries of the skull. The autopsy found he had no brain. How did he live three years? Some scientists believe that there is a so-called "abdominal brain". Indeed, in the stomach and intestines of about 100 million nerve cells, much more than in the spinal cord, for example. As far as Rodriguez, the identity of its totally changed after he had removed more than 60% of the brain, has not changed the memory and cognitive abilities. What was he thinking? To answer this question remains to be learned.

sources:http://medinfo.ua/news/00014e19108d4ef827031beac01f5d25