I use the Caps Lock at work all the time when I'm drawing plans because some clients have CAD standards in which all letters are supposed to be capitalized. This can be paragraphs in some cases. And for certain headings in spreadsheets and such, I'd rather toggle Caps Lock and type quickly than hold shift as I type.

I need Caps Lock for "note off" in Renoise, a music tracker program that, designed to be operated almost exclusively from the keyboard, makes good use of all the keys. (I could remap it, of course, but I like to keep it standard so I can move around easily.) Renoise uses the Scroll Lock and function keys as well.

How about if Google just deletes any comments written in all caps.

I still haven't finished the book. I'm more of a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none kind of guy that makes a point to know just enough to sound smart.

I was being sarcastic with that statement. Hence the unwarranted exclamation mark after "rife." It was meant to illustrate my point by using something roughly opposite of what you said in an obnoxious and hyperbolic manner.

But it appears I failed miserably.

When I first read this comment, I thought it was a joke for the following reason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged#Plot

Rife! I've heard of doctors getting banned from medicine the same way. Therefore medicine is rife with stories about doctors getting banned from medicine for improper behavior.

I'm just saying be careful with amplifying some stories you have heard to mean that there is a huge problem. How many doctors are there in this country? Things slip through the cracks all the time. It's the same with welfare. People love to fuss about the one guy who manages to sign up for welfare in several states but forget that he is but one out of many who are trying to be honest and get some help while looking for a job.

Again, I love to harp on this, but it's all too easy to fuss about a single, outlying case. Instead, we all need to use our facilities for reason and think about the big picture and all the evidence pro and con.

By the way, I think that's part of the reason everyone hates lawyers so much: Half of all lawyers are on the wrong side. And it's their job to game the law for their client. If the law allows them to do something evil, then that was the fault of the legislators who wrote the law.

Professional engineers are self-regulated. State boards of professional engineers, the exams, all that stuff is run by engineers and for engineers. In Florida, for example (which is typical of most states), the only government involvement is a few laws that give the Board its power. And medicine is not all that different.