I'd've thought MS's FUD department would have come up with something better seeing as they're just about to release a competitor to Google Docs - you know, something like a coordinated campaign of spurious patent trolling, adverts etc. But fidelity? Not exactly a rallying cry for the troops. Maybe it's a case of hubris - the MS Office team have had the playing field to themselves for such a long time, they can't really contemplate a successful competitor. Sucks to be them.

But that is the point: the Nazis were not the full-on atheistic regime that the religious right would have us believe. They destroyed those who threatened their power, not those who held a faith.

Ah hem: a WW2 Wehrmacht belt.

http://snyderstreasures.com/pages/buckles.htm

Please go peddle your propaganda somewhere else.

Yeah, auditing always works

I'd prefer a complete change in attitude, where cleaners and cleaning are treated as an essential adjunct to the medical process, rather than some optional extra which requires the occasional 'audit'.

In the UK, cleaning was almost universally outsourced, because of some management ideology about core-functions. It turns out that cleaning *is* a core function of a hospital (see a previous poster about the training of Norwegian cleaners) and should not be left to the cheapest bidder.

http://www.worldwar1.com/tlcrates.htm
http://www.worldwar1.com/stats/nmob.gif

We should stop putting value on the work of those who make money from money, from paper instruments, rather we should value money for goods. As a socialist, I applaud takeovers; they always lose money. As someone who likes to get paid, I want a return to the time before the Masters Of The Universe ruled our financial institutions.

He's the second Belgian in space since Tin-TIn

Hating NASA is like a religion these days. Anything NASA does is bad. No matter. Kinda makes you look a fool, though, when you start letting it warp your logic.

But he wants to wipe the net of all free news don't you see. Get back to the Good Old Days when only the 4th Estate had the monopoly on news.

I fully support the BBC. It's website has become my source of news on the web, and I guess it's the same for a lot of other people. And long may it remain so.

.... Aaargghh

Face Of Battle is indeed a fine book. The histiorography in the introduction is worth reading by itself, his shift from romantic descriptions of battles to more logical modes of battle analysis. Also worth reading are his books Mask Of Command and Five Armies In Normandy. The Mask Of Command is particularly useful in describing why Hitler was a bad leader, and Grant was so good. I read Grant's autobiography on the strength of that book.

I work for a financial company and if the rest use their bright shiny oracle databases like we do - and I don't think we're atypical - then, no, they have no idea how to use a database. Or build applications. At all. Not a clue.I can't begin to describe the inability, the sheer awesome crap-ness of what they do. The amount of work-arounds that the programmers implement to short-circuit the crap-ness. Really, you have no idea what you're talking about.

Microsoft were so desperate to get on the netbook wagon, they forced OEMs to use XP - an OS which was officially dead - at knockdown prices. That's the evidence right there.

And even XP can't really operate with SSD, and the netbook market has been skewed with netbooks with hard-disks, because "hard disks are better for you." Duh. If XP or 7 or whatever the fuck ms and it's apologists are force-feeding us these days, I bet that SSD would suddenly become "good". I looked for a "netbook" with SSD the other week in trawl of non-techie emporiums and I could not find one. All the netbooks I found were XP with hard-disks.