I find it quite depressing how little firms use macros etc. Many years ago we had a Lotus 123 system that read in a text file of account transactions from a mainframe then scanned each one, pulling in custom pricing for each client via additional sheets, formatting and printing a bill for each one with breakdown before issuing a charging schedule. Worked great for 2000 plus clients a month. With Excel and Word plus macros we built some very sophisticated and functional pricing tools and even a tool that optimized cash collection routes for a security firm. These days, people don't even know macros exist.

It was bricks they were avoiding in green. Obviously you could still make war machines. I used to make tanks, battleships, aircraft and guns

It does seem a strange choice of wording. Given that Lego resisted producing green bricks for years to stop kids making tanks etc, I'm not sure they'd be best pleased.

And it's also worth noting that on the basis of all that tempting full pay deal, In the last 4 years I've had 5 days off total. The year before that I was very ill with post viral fatigue and had 5 weeks off. Point being, the system worked for me when I was genuinely ill and in return, I don't take advantage of it unless I really need it. You know, everyone being grown up about it.

Seriously. I get full pay for 6 months then half pay for six months if I'm off sick. Does that make my country a filthy commie country? Does that make me a freeloader? A loser? No it's treating people like humans. Sometimes people get sick. That's bad enough without making them fear for their jobs and homes as a result. It's inhumane.

http://investor.yahoo.net/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=724306/

When browsing in private mode, if you then switch back to normal, when you close Firefox and as the tabs shut down, you usually get one of the supposedly private pages flash up briefly. Clearly not all buffers are cleared when exiting privacy mode.

Seriously, when you have to pass a law to ensure fairy tales aren't taught as facts in school, something is horribly wrong with society.

may just end up detecting many small cancers

Exactly. ISTR reading that at any one time, most people have dozens of small 'cancers' but in most cases, the body destroys them before they get a hold. It's only when our own defences fail that the cancer goes on to become a 'proper' one and become a health hazard.

The reason it's so hard to treat and there are so many treatments is that each and every cancer has it's own unique fingerprint in terms of how it works, what it responds to.

It would be nice but I can't see any one test being able to identify all possibilities any time soon. As the article says, it's a step.

Spot on. The original Usenet archive was a great resource, especially the older stuff. A fantastic history and repository of knowledge that was starting to be lost. When google first took it over, it was ok but slowly it had been made harder and harder to find the actual Usenet posts amongst the ads,forums etc. Heck, even forcing it to a specific newsgroup by name often fails to find tuff you know damned well is there.

That means, if you start December 1, then on January 1 you can submit your invoice for December. At the end of January you get paid for that invoice (for the work you did in December).

But on the plus side, the other end you can put your feet up for a few weeks and still get paid!

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Or just plain 'burgle' if you're English.

I mean, aliens don't need hairspray

Chewbacca begs to differ.