"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

That's the 1st Amendment, the actual text of it. It says nothing about the private sector. The Constitution protects us from the government. It is what outlines government and sets up the framework for the government, not the private sector.

where's BadAnalogyGuy when you need him??

I agree that they are different tools for different things, however I have seen people try to use Excel in ways that would have been trivial with a RDBMS. It seems very easy to let a simple spreadsheet blow up into something that should be a a db but the office worker never new that RDBMS even exist. I was trying to tap into that feeling.

I would have hoped that he would be using parameterized queries to start with.

PHP supports PostgreSQL its as simple as doing a global find-replace of mysql_ with pg_ there done. Okay a bit too simple but the mysql functions and the pg functions have the same names other than the prefixes and they behave in the same exact manner. You may need to change a little bit of SQL.

Once you get to start to use the more advanced features of postgresql you'll look at mysql more as a toy rather than a fully featured RDBMS.

It's rather like when you first started playing with mysql and went "Wow, this is so much better than Excel!"

~Z

My problem with this is if i spend a good bit of time driving in say Canada, does that mean I'm being taxed by America for driving on Canadian roads? Do I file for an exemption? How do I prove it? My first thought was to check the odometer too, but its just a problematic as well i think.

So Amazon should be responsible for what the people should be reporting to the states but are not? It's not Amazon's fault that the people who buy from them don't file their taxes properly. Why should be bury them with undue overhead because people are breaking the law? There are already systems in place to handle this sort of thing. The state in question can have their IRS audit people whom they think are skipping out of reporting the tax. No need to force every internet store to keep track of the sales tax laws of every state, county, city and township in the union.

~Z

Watching Babylon 5 a bit much ?? ^__^

you know i have been wondering about geothermal myself. IIRC current thinking as to why mars died is because it cooled too fast. no molten core means no magnetic field which means the atmosphere gets stripped away by the solar winds.

So what happens when we start leeching heat from the earth. would we, could we siphon off so much to accelerate the cooling of the outer core?

Thoughts like this make me think that maybe its better to add energy to the system rather than remove it.

but then again this is wild conjecture.

maybe they meant "Perpetual Reciprocal Motion"? /shrug

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wouldn't homeless people and welfare mothers already be covered under medicare/aid ?? well what welfare mothers i know are. i don't know any homeless people so i haven't asked.

if they area already covered then are we not ALREADY paying for them??

Errr that would be just one event in a play the reads like a modern movie with all the murders and betrayals and rapes. Any lack there of can be seen as a limitation of the current technology and lack of wanting to watch some people getting it on, on stage.

why not quote one of the critics of Titus?

~S. Clark Hulse

This play was considered the goreporn of the Victorian era.

I myself haven't seen it on the stage but watching a few of the movie adaptations, one could be forgiven for thinking it was written a bit more recently.

Titus Andronicus anyone? well no tits there i guess >>

I don't mean to troll but this quote just blasted its way through my head when I read your post