Recent content by amberkei

The Access gurus around here may have a different answer, but I found Access VBA for Dummies and the Access Missing Manual book to be very good starting points. (I had the versions for 2007.)

I wanted to drop in a thanks, too. I was having a similar problem, and the answers here finally made it click. YAY! Search function!

Does anyone have a favorite access template that they've used to manage meetings (minutes, agendas, attendees, etc). Or even a non-Access favorite? We're currently using an excel binder where someone starts a worksheet for each meeting, but some of them have 200+ worksheets in them, and Excel...

I love the interstate commerce rule. They can use it to justify just about anything that they'd like to make a federal law. And when they can't, they pull a drinking age - You don't *have* to change your drinking age to 21, but we don't *have* to give you federal highway funds. :)

Every state has its issues. I'm sure every government has some mismanagement issues. I work in biotech - our businesses most certainly aren't fleeing, but it's a small segment of the business world, especially outside of San Diego.

No. Goodness, no. One of the roles of the government is to protect the minority from the majority. If mob rule controlled everything, we'd probably still have legal slavery. Or Jim Crow laws. Or forced religious observance. Not exactly. The tenth amendment states, "The powers not...

Because the status of the death penalty is very much in flux in the US right now. There are many states that have abolished it altogether and do just as you said - life sentences. I think that's key to understanding the situation here in the States - each state has its own laws, and there are...

Most who oppose the death penalty do it for very logical reasons. It is very expensive to try a death penalty case, and then to house the subsequent prisoner. They require special treatment, special housing, more guards. The appeals are a lengthy and very expensive process, as well. It costs...

In the state of Illinois, at least, (where I grew up) the sentences of all death row inmates was commuted to life without the possibility of parole, and the prisoners were moved from "death row." Illinois is one of the states that has abolished the death penalty (all death sentences were...

Appeals. More appeals. Some more appeals. Which are in place because of things like this: http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/The_Innocent_and_the_Death_Penalty.php http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/West_Memphis_Three_Go_Free.php (I also don't know how much US news you get "over...

GMOs? Those are kind of my thing :-D Vaccinations? Goodness, what are contentious issues that stir up a good debate that *aren't* religion or guns? Mac v. PC? (But we said no religion...)

What could ever get boring about guns and religion? Those two things are the foundation of American society ;-) So are you looking for other contentious topics? Like, the death penalty?

I'm (more or less) Wiccan. The entirety of that religion can essentially be boiled down to "It's all good." (An it harm ye none, do what thou wilt.)

I have met many atheists who disbelieve with the same religious fervor that you see in believers. For many, it seems to be the religion that replaced the one with which they were raised. I think it's always necessary, however, to separate religion and spirituality. Religion is characterized...

I have been tempted, over the last year, while we are deeply entrenched in the why phase, to go back on my promise to myself and tell her, "Because God, that's why!" We go through very scientific explanations for everything (two biologist parents. pity her.), but I've been very harshly judged...