I didn't realize only 17% of Slashdotters live in their parents' basement!

Good thing we have three space dimensions now, otherwise it would have gone right into your head.

It does seem to get pretty hot if it lives up to its name though.

It's not only the absolute amount of freedom that's important, you also have to consider the time derivative. While I obviously appreciate the relatively large amount of freedom we currently enjoy, the way "the west" generally seems to be headed now, I'm not sure it will still be a place I want to live in in 10 or 20 years.

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Well you can, but it won't be insanely fast for long!

What is happening seems to be a revolution in the making. Either you win or you die, and the people (at least those involved enough to be specifically targeted by the government) probably know it.

I don't live in Egypt either. But these recent events were very prominently featured in the media here, almost impossible to miss.

Maybe it wasn't so much of a hot topic in the US? Europe is quite a bit nearer, after all.

Actually no. Somebody made a slight typo when trying C-x M-c M-butterfly. It went unnoticed at first...

Have you been asleep?

A revolution is happening in Tunisia. Protests similar to the beginnings there have been reported from Algeria. People are setting themselves on fire to make a statement. The Egyptian regime has been trying to control unrest by capping food and oil prices for the last few weeks.

Is it really necessary to point out what the Egyptians are unhappy about? Isn't it obvious?

Hint: poverty, exploitation, dictatorship, greed, corruption, astronomical food prices, general lack of freedom... enough reasons already?

There's never a single reason for protests of this scale. A single-issue campaign probably also won't get the president's son and "heir to the throne" to flee the country.

To quote the fount of all knowledge: Although freedom of access was enshrined in the law, as a security measure, the Israeli government currently enforce a ban on non-Muslim prayer on the site.

So it's apparently not the Palestinians who have a problem with Jews praying there.

Citation please? The way I keep hearing that story seems to be quite the opposite. Jewish settlers are offered financial incentives (source, source), while the majority of Palestinian building permits are turned down (source).

A friend of mine visited the West Bank last summer. She worked at a small Palestinian farm which was denied electricity and running water. She saw families who lived in caves because their houses had been torn down and they weren't allowed to build new ones. The village she worked in was ~10km away from the next. What would normally be a 10 minute drive had been turned into a 1 hour journey because the separation wall conveniently deviated from the 1949 border, along which it was supposed to be built, to include a Jewish settlement.

Yeah, I totally see the Israelis being oppressed here...

Can't you just write "Option Explicit" at the beginning of the .bas file? Also, you're free to declare your variables even if it's not required.

But it's been 7 years or so since I've last used VB, and I've never used it with Access, so I'm not sure I understand correctly what you mean.

I'm sure glad I'm not your neighbour!

And that's why public transportation should be paid for by taxes and free to use.