I can understand that. San Francisco traffic is bad enough already, imagine if it had a million more people, with a lot of them wanting to drive.

Increasing the building height limit without improving the roads would be a gigantic mess. You can't just raise the limit without planning for how the people will get around. And people in San Francisco don't really want to make it easier to move there.

> of course you conveniently ignored that manufacturers do not even want a liability with an upper bound at the sale price.

Of course they WANT no liability. They WANT Jessica Biel, wearing nothing but whipped cream, too. Neither of those is reality, so I don't know how that's relevant.

Yrs, under current law in India, anyone providing any products or services to a can be held liable. Anyone includesanyone who sells them batteries for their smoke detector. If something scary were to happen, the lawyers may well sue everyone and see what sticks. It's clear you don't run a business. The most worrisome thing isn't that you actually screw up and ARE liable. Most if the cost is that someone sues you and you have to spend millions s prove that you aren't liable, then hope that the jury doesn't decide "someone needs to pay".

Yep! Total chicken and egg problem though perhaps not an unsolvable one. You'd basically have to make something that is easy to start and easy to use and falls back gracefully for customers not using it yet. Plug in to popular accounting software packages and maybe a web interchange. Once companies start to use stuff like this they tend to stay with it so the user stickiness would likely be rather high if the experience is good.

Honestly I'd probably start with Quickbooks which has an active SDK as Intuit is actually the bigger player here. More small businesses use quickbooks than anything else. I do know that Sage works with a lot of third party software but I don't work with their products enough to know many details.

Of course they are. However that is not incompatible with a tool for exchanging documents and data more easily. I understand and respect your distaste for some of their business practices. I deal with Quickbooks all the time and some of the restrictions are just absurdly arbitrary. For instance you cannot do any sort of inventory costing except for Average Cost (no LIFO, no FIFO, no Standard Cost unless you buy expensive add ons from third parties). It's not like they don't know about these things either.

I am a Certified Management Accountant (another type of certified accountant somewhat like a CPA but focused on internal corporate accounting rather than public accounting). Short version is that companies care that it works. If you need accountants to review bits of it, that isn't hard to arrange. There are plenty of plug ins to software like Quickbooks (I'm a Quickbooks Proadvisor too) and the majority of small businesses use some form of Quickbooks with most of the remainder using Sage products. Quickbooks would seem to be the logical place to start but you might even be able to do most of the work through some sort of neutral online exchange.

Happy to chat on or off slashdot and share my perspective on things even if it comes to nothing ultimately. I'm quite serious about the problem though I can't promise the solution will be easy. The biggest challenge probably isn't actually writing the software, it's getting multiple parties to use it. Kind of a chicken and egg problem. However kind of like social networking sites if you can get it working and groups using it the network effects will be REALLY strong.

No, you ban it. The people that then lose their ill-gotten plantations can go pick cotton. They can consider themselves lucky that they aren't punished more directly.

The north even had slavery at an earlier point in history. Plenty of blame for slavery all around.

But the Civil War still boils down to slavery.

More people wearing head coverings like in Star Wars.

Personally I'm thinking of exercising my rights, as a western white male, to dress as a muslim woman and don a Burqa.

Soon this will be the rule for walking around the street, great news for botox fans. No smiling, look straight ahead, head down, eyes down and enjoy your freedom.

Have a nice day!

You can write a Classic ASP app in vbscript or javascript.

While technically true, I doubt very many organizations actually do that in practice, based on my observations, such that it's not worth making that distinction, except perhaps as a footnote.

If you don't like what the product does, just don't buy them.

They Bay Area is one of the few economically active places in the USA, that's why housing is expensive there.

If you want cheap housing, go to an economically dying area, like Detroit; or a place with no regulations such that chemicals leak into your house or explode in your face, like Texas.

THIS! It's funny how Microsoft has all the issues that they do, and yet when a problem shows up in anything else, the fanbois instantly ejaculate LOOK!! SEE???

Sorry kids, Windows has a many year legacy of needing constant security updates, way too many for you to be braying about this, as proof of the bankruptcy of FOSS.We get it, But Redmond products have a lead that will never be equaled.

Again, I agree - but it doesn't make it any more moral to keep piling debt up for our children. The debt is a bigger travesty than overtaxing.