Unfortunately I am one of the types that uses both (but only out of consistency). Some projects (typically older ones) use tabs, while our newer projects correctly use spaces.

But when I hear from other parents at the same school, and other parents hear the same message from kids at other schools maybe our kids aren't all full of crap at the same time. (Kids are often full of crap, so you have to play the numbers.) For our situation, we do pack lunches for them precisely because we actually want them to have something to eat that's healthy and palatable. Regardless of what we happen to feed our kids, having federal mandates over something that is not one of the limited and enumerated powers is yet another example of federal overreach and expansion of powers.

It may be anecdotal, but when I have three kids, including my 5 year old, that will eat damn near anything says that the food at the cafeteria is terrible I have to take them at face value. (You can't call a kid picky that will sushi, escargot, frog legs, oysters, etc.) While I'm not saying that cafeteria food was fine dining before the Obama regulations, at least kids would eat it. For those saying cafeteria food is mainly for the low income families, that may be so, but when the garbage can contains more "healthy" food than what ends up in kids, you're still not doing them any good.

I skipped school that day to watch the launch. We had a satellite receiver and I found the NASA wild feeds (the unfiltered video that is sent out without all the talking heads and commentary). It really gave a different take on the disaster than what was on the networks. Much more unfiltered, at least until they killed all transmission.

Anyone else get the feeling that life is imitating art here? Who would have thought that The Secret of NIMH was prophetic.... Soon we shall all bow down to our rodent overlords.

What a complete crock of excrement. I am amazed at the stupidity of these people. I wonder if they have ever used a whiteboard or had to take impromptu notes in a meeting. We as a society are dumbing down the curriculum to such a point that many kids today are no longer required to be able to do basic arithmetic with the excuse of "They will have access to a calculator, so it's not important." Spelling requirements are just as bad with multiple choice spelling tests along with the excuse of "They will have spell checkers available so they only need to recognize the proper word from a list." Current educational "standards" along with the recent trend of large corporations trying to indoctrinate new customers are brainwashing society's children. This blatant push by the Microsoft sales and marketing team is just one more example.

So now, instead of getting a pesky GPS warrant on your car, they'll just ask the phone companies for the metadata (via subpoena) for your GPS location of your cell phone, which you're probably carrying, as this is just business data and you have no right to the expectation of privacy for it.

What do you want to bet that their Terms of Service have the "no class action lawsuit" clause.

Except that the intent behind the blackmail (beyond the money) is to influence a presidential election via illegal means.

I think you meant to say "Scotch whisky".

I'd second this. (And would have modded it up had I had some mod points.) Even a beginning developer can draw some very useful information from Bloch's Effective Java. While you probably won't understand a large part of the details, reading through it will help give an idea of things to avoid and things to use. By going through the book, even if you don't remember all the details, hopefully enough will stick so that you can reference back to the section if you ever have questions regarding a particular detail.