Congress. If Congress had any integrity. Only that can change the rules and go after the free loading corporations.

Which as nothing to do with his point.

Except all evidence shows it's the pubs that are doing that. The Dems have fought repeatedly to make things more even.

I am generally speaking of pubs and dems since about 1950 or so.
I am baffled at how, as a party, people can think the dems are doing that. The way out of a caste system is money.
You might want to pay attention to who tries to give who equal access to money.

Just remember, someone in congress shoved that line into the farm bill,, not the IRS. Find out who.

You could give Gargoyle a try......
http://www.gargoyle-router.com...

If you only want to code for 25 hours a week, just join a large company. You'll be in meetings for 25 hours a week and have to work 50 hour weeks to get all of your work done....... :)

The difference is that the homeless person did not CHOOSE to be homeless. He didn't get up one day and ponder that it would be so much nicer for him to abandon his home and live on the street.

The bully has always the choice NOT to bully someone. Instead he deliberately took the choice to be a bully.

Unless someone forces a bully to be a bully, I cannot follow your argument.

This is my biggest gripe with open source. You *SHOULD* be concerned whether the format changes or not. All of these different versions of similar products fracture the landscape which hampers the adoption. Just like there are too many Linux distros for Linux to ever win, too many Office products will keep adoption numbers lower than they could be.

While I don't condone it, people in the Finance/Accounting departments have made complete applications in Excel. Then, they throw it over the wall to I/T and say "turn this into a web app for us -- it should take, what, two or three days?"

But again, I've seen plenty of complex spreadsheets that use way more functionality than I as a developer would ever use.

"I personally don't because I don't use cash unless I have to. And then only coins."
I love statements like that. My mind suddenly comes up with some narrative about some crazy crank going on about germ and tracking in cash.

I know that it isn't true, but still I have fun picturing 'you' shoving dimes into a self check out, hair all mussy and the collar to your sweater turned up. wearing sandals with mis-matched socks.
On the plus side of this narrative, you shuffle out of this store, get into your Delorean and fly off.

And MS Access will upsize decently enough to SQL Server when you Access database outgrows the limits of Access (and I don't really mean the file size limits).

'Big Brother' It was mostly whipped up by the media.
Along with that, ignorant religious people made mark of the beast comparisons.

First off:
We don't actually ship money into space.
Secondly:
We pay people, we have things manufactured, we do RnD. SO the money doesn' t disappear.
Thirdly
What we develop for space exploration helps us on earth as well.
Fourthly:
This planet will meet its doom. Either via global warming, a giant rock, or a massive solar event. So we should make a way to get some people off the planet.
Finally:
We know life an occur with liquid water, that's why it's a goal and why people get excited. No one thinks it's magically a great place to live, but it does improve the odds.

I'm going to have the put on my tombstone.

I strongly disagree. Give them a list every day, with a question so you force a response. Suck up their time until you get more man power.
If they don't respond say 'I didn't move with that patch becasue X hasn't responded yet.

I"m not against CABs,, in fact I am for them. I am against just tossing this decision out and not adding man power. Recipe for failure.

I agree with everything else. Man power up, or make it go away.