Didn't you get the memo? Globalization is for corporations only. You still need the masters to agree if you want to work off the plantation.

Case in point: My Ford Fusion was assembled in Mexico. My Honda Odyssey was assembled in Alabama.

And your reason for it is extremely logical. Being stuck far from home with no resources to draw on is not a fun time, as I've learned from personal experience.

"Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them." - John Milton

I'm trying to come to grips with how the Fed could lend out 16 Trillion dollars over 24 months without having rampant price increases. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but could it be we witnessed the largest money laundering operation in the history of civilization?

Nah, I have lots of those. Would you be interested in some? $9.99 each, but I'm running a special: 3 for $20!

Because your chances of killing yourself wandering around out here in the summer without water are MUCH higher than your chances of contracting Valley Fever. I've lived in the Phoenix area for 12 years and it's pretty much common knowledge as far as I can tell.

And thirst is not a good guide for when to drink. By the time you even feel thirst, you are already on your way to dehydration. That goes even more for hot dry places like Phoenix.

Their website is almost a parody of corporate websites. Apparently they've won something called the "Corporate Compliance of the Year Award" for 2012. What the hell is that? The words are English, but they don't parse to anything meaningful to me.

You know this. I know this. I'm not confident the GP knows this. :-)

Normalization has almost nothing to do with space reduction. Normalization is there to help ensure correctness of your information.

If your career will involve databases for any length of time, it will pay for itself many times over.

Also, thanks for that. As an ex Slony user, I appreciate that reference!

Nope, all of those are horrible too. I have not actually put a lot of thought into what I would like a relational query language to look like. Now that I'm thinking about it, though, I'd like to give the problem some consideration.

I like relational dbs, but SQL is kind of a crap language to access them. The default join is a Cartesian which is almost never what you want. The defaults for UPDATE and DELETE are to affect every row in the table. Yes, transactions prevent data loss here, but transactions aren't there to save us from crappy syntax.

but can't get out of Bronze in SC2. But I don't like the new one nearly as much as the old one in terms of gameplay. But it is beautiful to look at.