Ugh. My last company laptop used the same software as the desktops. It would check to see if it was on a local network, then check to see if updates were pending. If there were updates, it (basically) took over my machine. Most updates were pushed out over the weekend. Wouldn't be so bad if I had an assigned desk where I could stay logged in over the weekend (instead of packing up and locking it away). So Mondays were mostly reading (snail) mail and checking and responding to voice mail (I took notes with pencil and paper because ... computer not available).

The REAL fun began when the two anti-virus programs got into a fight. Program 1 runs scan on memory and processes, updates log file. Program 2 sees log file has been changed, scans the file. Program 1 sees that Program 2 is running, scans Program 2, updates log file...

I suppose we could manually place ,1 ,2 etc. behind each file. I wonder if you could write a script wrapper around your favorite editors to do this. I suppose vim and emacs might even have modules for this as well.

How about: "Does anyone speak L33T?"

A less impressive example:

Client PCs are both browser and web server. The app screen-scrapes the tn3270 window into html. Outbound data is sent with the "Submit" button on the page.

Failover is ... directly using the tn3270 session

I think you need to differentiate between apps operating over a LAN / private WAN and apps that work across the internet.

I create very little software (and almost always for in-house use).
My plan is to use Windows (98 through 10) whenever I need an application (including peripheral support) that I cannot find a substitute for. If I can find a free substitute, I will use it.

Of course, once Buenos Aires is hit [,which kills his beloved wife], he changes his tune right quick and signs right up for military service

How about lockpicking, disarming traps, and backstabbing? Oh wait, you said rouge classes...YOU'RE a BARD!

Faster rotation would help evenly bake the exterior of Venus. Faster rotation would also spin the molten core, which I believe needs to be spinning in order to generate a large magnetic field comparable to Earth's.

My solution is not about making people happy. It's about efficient collection of taxes.

When Congress also demands "information from universities, companies and trade groups about funding for scientists who publicly [accept or] dispute widely held views on the causes and risks of climate change," then I'll care about what "prominent members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate" think about climate change.

It's not like members of Congress understand the "research or testimony" anyways. Nor do members of Congress care what others have to say; they use testimony as an opportunity for themselves to give speeches disguised as questions.

Eliminate income, payroll, and VAT taxes. Replace with retail sales tax.

In America, most politicians are educated as lawyers (and rarely in an additional profession). They usually weren't good enough at being a lawyer to succeed in private practice. Then look at the typical undergraduate and graduate coursework a lawyer does (in America). Not one rigorous science course at all. Why do we wonder that politicians are "scientifically clueless" ?

That would be using astronomy, not astrology.