So it can do something LaTex so what? It can also do HTML but I don't see Adobe or any other web writing tool throwing in the towel.

The big question is can it write it effectively. Word already has the tendency of turning a basic document into a code of spaghetti when saved as HTML. Somehow I don't see this being any different

I don't work for any school but I did attended a private school (briefly) and you know what? It was also a good school and the teachers had a union. So your corollary to unions and teachers doesn't add up.

How about this, find a public school without a union and see where it sits on the performance curve. Because you base your data on a private school doesn't amount to anything. Private schools have the benefit of screening out unfit students and parents. This is something public schools don't have an option of. And there is way more evidence stating a disruptive student can destroy class cohesion than there is on the performance of teachers.

When talking to a friend of mine that left teaching after three years, it wasn't the union, the district, or even the students that made him leave. It was the fact that over the years he was asked to do more than teach. For 125 students he has to be psychologist, parent, and bureaucrat. He had to prepare them for standardize tests, evaluate their emotional well-being, and prepare class material.

In my opinion, anyone that can be a teacher in this day and age I say {$Diety} bless 'em

Actually, that doesn't make sense. If you are backing things up it means you are in the habit of backing things up. If you stop paying for a backup service it means you either don't care or went with plan B. It's like smoking, either you continue to use the brand you always used, you found another, or you stopped completely. But Marlboro isn't going to keep a 6 months supply just for you incase you fallback.

The graveyard option wastes resources that could be allocated to current paying customers. And most likely their will be a lot of backup data from former customers who don't want the data or don't think it was important enough to keep a backup

The reason it got this far was because they passed it with only a few members (~12) of the assemblee present. By trying to rush it through at 9pm on a friday night they wanted to avoid debating the bill.

The next time the bill is presented it will be under more a scrutiny and even less popular since everyone has learned what the Sarkozy gov't has tried to do.

Japan is unique in the fact that it's a sizeable market. Most western companies have attempted to market products there and failed. The only market that does well is American and European fashion.

I think this has to do with a little bit of NIH (not invented here) and poor understanding of the country. Hell even Microsoft with billions of dollars sunk into the XBox marketing can't make a dent there and there is only 2 competitors. On the other hand Sony did so poorly in the international mobile market they had to team up with Ericcson to bail them out. Product marketing in Japan is like the LOST bubble. We can't seem to get in and they can't seem to get out.

Damn, I just bought a BFH to smash some walls. I wonder if I can upgrade with a serial number?

In most cases you only need 3 years. If you've gotten in trouble with them before they can make you keep it longer. Business fall under different rules. You can also look here:
Individual and Businesses

Actually if you want to create change then you really have to do it with the stick rather than the carrot. To put it in another words I believe we should all download music from wherever we see fit in whatever format we like. It puts the ball in the court to of the music industry to find an effective method of trying to maintain control without being run over by the populace. Currently, at least in other countries outside of the US, they are in a battle with the people. And it's the will of the people that gets laws passed or revoked. They are waging a much better campaign of propaganda, getting people to believe the idea of pirating is bad. They haven't really found a way of formulating why DRM is good too. But they also know that suing too many grandmothers is a quick way of getting all those laws they begged lawmakers to write nullified.

As for MLK, Jr., near the end of the civil rights movement he had a lot of internal politics about whether the marchings and speeches were having any effect at all. More radical groups like the BPP were growing exponentially. Black people were disenfranchised and it looked like the marches weren't working. At the same time the Vietnam War was underway and the US military was drafting young black men to fight there wars but were unwilling to extend the same freedoms to there own people. His speeches were getting more radical, but still peaceful. Finally, while his work in the civil rights certainly contributed greatly to it's success. I believe it was his death that finally got Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the act. It's unfortunate, but his martyrdom was the final sacrifice that got us here today.

While MLK was the carrot, BPP definitely was the stick. They believed in armed revolution if they didn't get what they want. After the collapse of Bautista in Cuba the government certainly didn't want that in their back yard.