Emacs can do *anything* if you give it the right command. If you know the right 7-finger keyboard commands it can track tasks even without the org-mode package.

Advanced emacs users are, of course, aware of certain 12-finger keyboard commands that are so powerful that emacs will do the tasks for you, then check them off as completed.

If you don't have 12 fingers, don't fret - emacs has some very convenient 6-finger commands that will make you grow additional fingers.

The Vatican is currently deciding whether it wants to be the organization that dooms the entire human race to be wiped out by annoyed extraterrestrials who already have their own religion(s).

"Meld them together," like we always do? Doesn't that usually involve one side enslaving or exterminating the other side? :)

How did it come to this? Free markets. If you're willing to take crap, it's only a matter of time until someone makes you take crap.

I got into computers in 1993, back when it was the wild west. Then PHBs, lawyers and politicians started stepping in it, and a plague of cubicles swept the landscape. If you don't like the new rules, bail out.

I'm in law school now :)

The vast majority of programmers *never* get to the level where they can write an OS kernel or a multithreaded banking app. You're much more likely to be maintaining code that puts up a user interface and connects to a commercial database.