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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

More than 200 years ago, the United States created a free religious market. Religion is a market which was kept relatively free for quite some time. It flourished when similar markets in other countries did not. In fact, the freedom of religion is now often considered a basic human right in many countries.

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Last year, Katrina revealed several problems with central planning and emergency management. Centrally planned emergency management aims tries to guarantee that all available resources are diverted to the emergency site. The problem is the same as with any government funded solution. Money. Depending on who is in power and a few thousand other variables, funding may or may not be substantial enough to handle emergencies.

A few years ago, a town in New York decided to cut the budget and not purchase snow insurance. Central planners felt there was little risk in that area for heavy snow fall. After a few years of savings, there was a very heavy snow season and little funds to clear roads. Central planners found out the hard way why snow insurance rates in there area were not lower.

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There is an old saying amongst carpenters. Measure twice, cut once. This cuts down on materials. The same is true of typing for Perl programmers. Read more, type less. Okay, that doesn’t have the same ring, but reading the documentation before writing your script does make sense.

I came across a script recently where a beginner programmer had obviously decided that typing was easier than reading. Here’s an excerpt. The author needs to start a really wide table, but won’t end it for a while yet.

[perl]
use CGI qw/:standard/;

print “

“,th,”day”,td,”Date”,td,”Time In”,td,”Break Start”,td,”Break End”,td,”Time Out”,td,”Evening In”,td,”Evening Out”,td,”flex hours”,td,”flex bal”,td,”lieu”,td,”adjustment”,td,”lieu adjustment”,td,”type”;
[/perl]
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