I hate reviewing LaTeX documents, as the software doesn't come with any revisioning/collaboration tools to speak of. Word, on the other hand, PITA though it may be, comes with very good tools via track changes and comments. Not revisioning in the sense of version control, but in the sense of what most people actually need for document editing. For an open textbook a VCS would work great, but it's overkill for smaller, article-length papers.

Your account is just an MS schill account, judging by your comment history. Vista was a steaming pile of crap when it was released. After four years of work on it, MS scrapped anything innovative and rushed for a year just to get *something* out the door. SP1 fixed a lot of the issues but I still have problems with my one remaining Vista box that have nothing to do with driver support. It is just...buggy. Win7 was great, but it sounds like they are once again rushing a Win8 release to get something out the door. I predict a moderate disaster, followed in about 12-18 months by a really solid new release for the desktop.

Truth is, it is hard to know. Cannabis research is underfunded and publication of completed research is suppressed by the relevant journals. As hazah mentioned, there remains much to be concluded. For years, all we had was propaganda, so it's really hard to tell when something is valid or not. This goes for arguments both for and against the drug. What has been discovered over the last 20 years or so is that it's not nearly as bad as the propaganda made it out to be on most fronts, and that there are real medical benefits to its use.

Good damn thing there is a 2nd Amendment

I'm all for second amendment rights but I really don't think they are going to help with any of these things. If we can't live together as a society without the threat of violence, there is not much hope of maintaining a stable, long-lasting state. It is violence spurred by political unrest and divisiveness that the OP is predicting, go figure.

Please post your name here, and we'll all do our best to help...

The DC metro area is the second most congested in the country next to LA, so, it's probably worse than you may imagine.

Yeah...I've started wondering, am I not a trekkie any more? I didn't really watch the last TV series, I can't even tell you what it was called. I went to see the movie this past weekend and was underwhelmed. Spock was great but on the whole, there was nothing particularly interesting about it. A lot of kids running the Enterprise? Yawn. Time travel? So overdone, and not particularly well done this time. There were none of the interesting, weird, thought-provoking ideas that I'm used to seeing from the first two series. Maybe I'm just old and grumpy, but I felt the movie was deliberately dumbed down to try and get greater mass appeal.

Thanks for writing this, I've enjoyed Rogue Touch quite a bit. It's remained true to the original - it's a tough game and the adaptation to the iPhone was pretty smooth, without making it feel too flashy on the gfx.

My wife missed the end of Idol the other night, and she wanted to know what happened. I told her to just search twitter to find out, and sure enough, there were like 1700 results that came through in 30 seconds. First thing I've found it to be useful for, and it was a pretty lame use. Lots of people seem to enjoy it for some reason, I wish I knew why...

My name is Robert Paulson...

That lag is not intentional? Back in the day, you had a choice to 'preview' or just 'submit' directly, the first time through. Preview always took much longer than submit, and it used to ding you if you replied too quickly.

To offer a slightly different perspective: If he felt that management was going to misuse the passwords to compromise the security of the network, he was best off sticking to his guns, as it would have come back on him, not management, if the security was compromised. Corruption at the top levels is not unheard-of. It just doesn't sound like that's what happened. In situations like this, people typically work out some compromise, like bringing in outside contractors with limited permissions or with a separate admin account for a limited time, etc.

Based on what we have seen, as you said, he was most likely engaged in a power struggle with management, and he handled it poorly when management could have just come in and said "you're fired, give us the passwords and leave."

Look on the bright side - if you're one of those few million, you won't have to worry about it...

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