Presume, the builder is self employed (no employees). The builder receives 100% of the fee charged to the customer, for building the wall. The fee includes the builder's labor and material cost, plus a contingency fudge factor, and profit. If the builder has a mason/employee build the wall for him, he must pay the employee a salary for all work performed, including repairing the faulty work. If the mason is an independent subcontractor, and not an employee, then the mason is responsible for rectifying the problem on his own time and at his own cost. So, it depends on the situation. Debugging and testing is inherent in the creation of software, and the client pays for it, no matter what.

Sneaky, sneaky; but ingenious. Fighting fire with water. What a fabulously new concept.

By saying, "Texas has a huge influence on text books used throughout the USA," are you referring to the Dallas, Texas Schoolbook Repository, made infamous by Lee Harvey Oswald?

Would that we may, go through all the books in Texas' book repositories, do you think that we would uncover creationism on the pages of the science books. Also, aparantly, Texas educators believe, court decisions don't apply to Texas. Thus, it seems, they are deaf and blind to, The First Amendment to the Constitution, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

The concept of separation of church and state refers to the distance in the relationship between organized religion and the nation state. The term is an offshoot of the phrase, "wall of separation between church and state," as written in Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists Association in 1802. The original text reads: "...I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State ."The phrase "separation of church and state" was quoted by the United States Supreme Court first in 1878.

Now here is a short legal view, seemingly ignored by the Texas Constitution carrying, Fundamentalist, Creationist, Intelligent Design Scientists. After the legal judgment of the case Daniel v. Waters (1975) ruled that teaching creationism in public schools contravened the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, the content was stripped of overt biblical references and renamed creation science. When the court case Edwards v. Aguillard (1987) ruled that creation science similarly contravened the constitution, all references to "creation" in a draft school textbook were changed to refer to intelligent design, which was subsequently claimed to be a new scientific theory. The Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al. (400 F. Supp. 2d 707, Docket no. 4cv2688) ruling concluded that intelligent design is not science and contravenes the constitutional restriction on teaching religion in public school science classes. Neither party appealed ruling. So, what are these Texans thinking?

Also, I attended a New York City public elementary school. After academic classes, I attended a religious school, three days a week, two hours per day. No problem!

DITTO!

As a member of the Department of Defense community, security becomes a way of life. In a fast-paced, highly classified operation "too complicated to use" is an unacceptable excuse. So, a built-in, systems approach is used, including hardware, software, and human, i.e., physical. The organization does need a security officer or administrator for surety. All that leaves you to deal with is your mission critical stuff, physical security and document protection. Thus "operating" data protection software never is an issue. A piece of cake? Never!

Give me the name of one hero who committed esponage. Yes, stealing secure, compartmentalized defense information is espionage. Releasing it, where an enemy or a potential enemy can obtain possession, is considered consorting with that enemy.

No, I wouldn't complain if Wikileaks disseminated documents from North Korea or Iran. However, consider this.

Suspending reality for the moment, what if Wikileaks obtained and publicly released North Korean classified information, in what manner do you think Kim Jong Un and his Stalinist country’s secret police would respond?

I'm sure, the response would not be diplomatic. Perhaps, Kim Jong Un would match or surpass his unprovoked shelling of 1,700 residents of Yeonpyeong island, South Korea, Thanksgiving week, 2010, with something covert yet just as insidious. Sure gives one pause for thought, doesn't it?

A second home or vacation home is, usually, purchased with disposable income and personally occupied. It is not considered an investment property.

However, when a second home is income producing via rental or lease, actively maintained, and actively managed it is considered an investment property. Additionally, if the home or facility is used, substantially, for business purposes--say for business entertaining or company meetings--it may or may not be interpreted by the Internal Revenue Service as an investment property. Most likely, it is not income producing but, still, may have some interesting tax advantages and resale opportunities, or not.

However, if the investor's carrying costs exceed income, a tax deduction can be claimed and he will have less of a tax burden to pay to the US Treasury. That is to say less money fed back into the economy. When income exceeds expenses the investor realizes a profit. The treasury gets its pound of flesh (or your first born, ha, ha), and the investor has more cash to reinvest, save, or spend as he wishes. In other words, feed back into the economy, we hope.

In both situations, it seems, the only folks to make money are bankers, mortgage company executives, real estate agents, insurance brokers, and so-forth. Again, the usual cast of characters appear, most of them, the same old "Wall Street" club members for greed. And, I think you know, most of the moneylenders are sitting on their cash and not stimulating the economy.

Final note. Years ago, we were a pretty thriving cash economy, "Pay As You Go" government funding and a private sector economy where cash was king. So, what happened?

Simple chalanges require simple solutions. Complex chalanges, almost always, require complex solutions.