Its different because the idea came from Foss ( Ben - sorry I RTA )

No no no - Imagine if every body did that - a near empty /.

and scibe assign him to Starship Captain

I know I shouldn't have

I believe the infanticide of several 10's of millions of female children in recent years will be seen as the greatest tragedy of all time ( assuming historians exist in the future ). You are right tho' it will get sorted out and I doubt it will be nice. I keep thinking there must be a lot over underground 'gay stuff " going on - I think I have even heard of raiding nearby countries to abduct females. I might add it is not only China doing this now and historically there are many examples but just not the shear numbers . The extend of this tradgedy is that it is not a foreign power decimating another but an internal process at the family level.

Yes but if it was a tightly focused weapon that missed its target 12 billion years ago then it might have only needed to be half a super nova (which is equal to 20 LoC raised to the power of a slashdot meme). Any hooos if you can decimate someone else's 2000 light years of space why not - teach a lesson an' all that.

I have experienced a Office 2007 Spreadsheet that would not open in Office 2003 with the compatibility pack ( but that Office 2003 could open other 2007 created docs and spread sheets - sort of proving the compatibility pack had installed correctly ) where as OOo was able to open the file. Based on this evidence - all of teh bases belong to OOo.

There are many things that we could all do better :-)

When I follow your link to a check of Amazon it shows a book called "Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind" however the first review I read mentions only 5 plants. The missing plant wait for it .... Coca - in the book he refers to both Popeye and at least one Charlie Chaplin movie that appeared to be references to Cocaine. Your links seem reasonable - at the mo' I have loaned the book to my brother and can't refer to his rational.

It is a great read - amongst many interesting things I felt he put a great case for decriminalising drugs but at the same time making a great case for why addictive drugs (such as Cocaine ) should be avoided.

I was wondering if in fact there existed a censored version of the book ( he speaks not unfavourably of the use of the drug in its natural form so some Govt. might not like it ) - if you have read it let me know.

Happy Days

Off topic but I thought I would mention that in "Seeds of Change " Henry Hobhouse mentions the use of Spinach was a thinly veiled nod to Cocaine and also generations of kids had to eat the stuff because it was a high source of iron - where as it is nothing special for a leafy green.

Yes the ones that think they know - press this button once - hearing down the receiver beep beep beep beep - you pressed some other buttons? Yes. OK - we just need to go back a few steps now.

Agreed - and thought I would add a little anecdotal evidence. I have found some professions require more assistance than others - the one I find most interesting is how often nurses have difficulty with simple tasks - my belief is there job is in some ways a life and death roller coaster and loading toner in the machine correctly is low on their radar. By the way I think very highly of nurses - salt of the earth and all that. Unsurprisingly lawyers are the rudest as a rule and quite often have difficult with simple things also - I aint making any excuses for them.

You bet - get them involved - explain it any way you can - give full tech acronyms and jargon - or dumb it way down to "its the button on the right at the top of the mouse" - describe simple shapes and positions - use analogies. The downside - you end up with a host of clients that only want to speak to you.

Yes I have reached the low point and have asked clients to either make a complaint or hang up as they are not telling me anything I have not heard a lot of times before ( I have done approx 80k cases for the copier/printer/fax/scanner company I work for - I've been here for a long time). Of course I phrase it a lot nicer than that. Interestingly in almost all cases a complaint does not help. Certainly with our major clients the people that do the buying and the users are so separated that poor service standards are not reported back to those who sign the cheque. With smaller clients they can complain all they want - the PHBs sometimes give in sometimes not - it does seem the noisier the client the more attention they get - if they are real lucky I am directed to sort it:-) Heading even further OT - one complaint I raised for a client was the crap user manual. The manager calls me and asks me what it was about so I explained the specific example the client raised was quick dial programming - ( this was of course clearly explained in the case notes ) . I suggested she attempt to program one her self as that was the same model as the one in her office - she was too busy ( she told me )to do that - but the client received a nice official letter apologising thanking input blah .

Not religious myself either - but you are right about weird - it all comes down to faith. One little philosophical game a played the other night led me to conclude that Christians are all agnostic because they can never know the truth and have to make a leap of faith to believe in god - they are , therefore , agnostic because they have 'no knowledge ' only faith. I am an agnostic aetheist beccause i dont know god exists ( who could ) but i believe it likely he does not.