South of the border? Really? Which border? The North Dakota border? The Kentucky border? Citation, please.

Or will they play doctor?

You reading this, AC/DC?

How many unions did it deal with? How did it handle Civil Service regulations? Would it scale up to handle 300,000+ employees in 100+ different agencies each with its own policies over and above the CS and union ones? Believe me, I'm not trying to justify the CityTime team, just illustrating some of the issues faced by NYC government trying to get a handle on its timekeeping. (My agency uses something that works quite well and would definitely scale up to deal with the things I asked above.)

please..... you people put heavy cream in your fucking clam chowder

There, fixed that for you.

OK, I'll play too - in my small group it breaks out as 5 iOS devices (2 iPhone, 3 iPod Touch), 2 Blackberries, 1 WebOS, 0 Android. As I look around the floor to other groups I see 1 Android, 15 or 20 iPhones, 3 or 4 more Blackberries, and a bunch of dumbphones and "messaging phones".

So YMMV, as always.

Too late. (Unless you're talking about the computers in the school offices? Yeah, we're all on Win XP / Office 2007.)

At any rate I doubt NYC has many Macs in use

Only in the schools. (There are only about 1,600 of those.)

As I read it, the 2nd Amendment directly refers back to Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 16, which states that Congress gets to arm the militia. Given that, couldn't you extrapolate that since you'd get your weapons from Congress, what weapons you're allowed to get would be decided upon by them?

And then the blood could go "psssshhhhhhhht" in slow motion...

Damn, beat me to it. All I can say is "but these penguins were brown, not white". But that probably only means that these penguins spoke it with an accent. "Tekeli-li, y'all!"

We just implemented this in New York State with this week's primary elections. To call it a disaster would be an understatement. No privacy (reports of poll workers seeing how people marked their ballots and commenting "Well, there's another one for Schneiderman!"); confusing ballots (why weren't the incumbents listed first?, type so small that each ballot marking station had a magnifying glass as standard equipment); poorly-trained poll workers who didn't know who made the scanning machines, how to set them up, or whether the ballots should be fed in face up, face down, head-in, or tail-in (actually any of the above is supposed to work) -- thank goodness this was only a really-poorly-attended primary and not something like a Presidential election. Bring back my trusty old mechanical lever machine!

it's worth noting that Doctor Jonas Salk, the guy famous for curing blue baby syndrome and first to perform open heart surgery, didn't actually do the work himself.

Probably because Dr. Salk wasn't involved with the first open-heart surgery. He was the guy who invented the polio vaccine. (See for yourself.)

You've never sat through one of my classes, then.

On what planet? Nobody I know can stand Smith as The Doctor.