What are pros and cons of using expansionary and contractionary fiscal and monetary policy tools?

What are the Pros and Cons of using public policy when making decisions about criminal liability? A quick summary would be great. Thanks in advance.

Would using Chef (or Puppet) for deployment of web applications (typically Ruby or Python) be appropriate or overkill, versus using "simpler" tools like Fabric (Python) or Capistrano (Ruby)?

Interested in learning what tools you are using to measure webpage performance, for optimization or monitoring. What do think are the strengths (pros) and their weaknesses (cons) for what you need to accomplish with them.

Java has Netty and Play; is faster because it is static; and has more mature development tools. JavaScript itself is neither more elegant nor more succinct than Java.   I am evaluating Node.js for the task of building a new backend system from scratch...

We're planning a medium-size farm for Hadoop tools.

Not currently insured looking at buying policy with a maternity coverage, I am self employed. What I have to pay per month then in a deductable vs the 3800 fee at a birthing center, I think the insurance would cost me more in the long run and at this...

I never been an independent contractor but what I don't know I research. But, have limitations on resources. I've been offered a job in my line of work as debt collector. And, I've been in this business to know someone is blowing smoke with regards to...

I'm aware of 6to4 and 6RD.  I'm currently using AICCU with SixXS as my tunnel broker, and stuff is sent over AYIYA (http://www.sixxs.net/tools/ayiya/).  I'm aware that MacOS X has a 6to4 option, but after messing around, I haven't the foggiest idea how...