Not only do I see multi-threaded .Net apps, I have worked on several -- starting back when you had to start your own threads. The threading features in the newer versions of .Net should make threading relatively easy.

If you bought a piece of property that has deed restrictions that grants an HOA power over certain things, and then you want to do something that the HOA doesn't allow, you're pretty well stuck.

And considering that you agreed to those terms when you bought the property, there's not a whole lot you can do.

And from you description of the problems your father had, it sounds like it wasn't the HOA exercising it's power, just his neighbors being buttheads. You can get that without any HOA being present.

for an M1 Garand. En bloc clips to be exact. ;^) Lighten up a bit. Please.

Lutheran churches in the US seem to operate as much on coffee as they do on faith. However, there are great differences depending on the nationality of those who started the congregation. Go to a German Lutheran church and the coffee is a little on the weak side. Go to a Norwegian Lutheran church and your eyes will pop open after the first sip.

At the bar where I worked when Suzie B's first came out we chucked them under the cash drawer becaues there was not a slot for them. This worked well until one day when the bar owner confused them with quarters and stocked the cash drawers with them. She gave them out in change as quarters all day before one of the night bartenders told her what she was doing (she asked him why we kept putting quarters under the drawer). She never made that mistake again, but we kept chucking them under the drawer.

Here in Wisconsin, they tried that. The hunters were up in arms because what happens when you see the huge buck and have not shot a doe yet? There are plenty of hunters who will shoot does, but don't want to have to pass up that once-in-a-lifetime huge buck.

Or at least one of his demons. I got to implement time zones in an embedded system a few years ago (think really low end -- it doesn't even have an OS). The time zones weren't too bad -- and they don't change all the time like DST does. Now we get to update the firmware everytime some government somewhere decides that DST should shift to a new start or end day.

Plenty of software folks who make over 80K in Wisconsin. IT directors and CEO's make way more than that. I live near West Bend. My commute takes me 20 minutes in the winter. You've a twisted image of Wisconsin -- makes me wonder if you have ever even lived near here.

And when there are three options?

...in three months. I've been developing software for over 25 years now. My manager is the only person near my age in my group of seven developers (not sure if she is younger or older). Everyone else is around thirty or even younger. We're mostly using C# with .Net 4.0 right now and have just started looking at .Net 4.5. (We're held back a bit by software we have to be compatible with.) It's still interesting to me. Forty is too old?! You young whippersnapper! You're just hitting your mid-life crisis! Go out and buy a little red sports car and get it over with! Oh, yeah -- GET OFF OF MY LAWN!!!