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Actually there is a rather large body of facts that point to the Reagan years as the root of the recession, especially the efforts at deregulation of banks and financial institutes. These continued to accelerate through following administrations. But G.W.'s administration was unprecedented in...

Restricting my answer to those I have personal memories of, I would have to say the best would be a tossup between John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, the worst by far would be Cowboy George Bush II.

the_net 2.0, In the US, your work has copyright the moment you create it. Putting a notice on it merely codifies it and registering makes it easier to prove. But even unregistered with no notice, you own the copyright and can take legal action if someone infringes on it. Since the burden of...

Rarely are these issues due to language. Legacy software tends to doom itself due to the piecemeal way it grows. While there may have been an original good design, it sounds like your application has gone far beyond that and is now out of control. My advice is to take the time and sit down...

I like your solution, Bob. Quick and avoids all that looping. Thanks also, Doc Man

I am creating a quiz program from young people based on academic Knowledge Bowl rules. Currently the "universe" of questions numbers just under 3,000 and are stored in an Access 2007 database. From this set of questions, each match will consist of x number of questions (standard is 30 but that...

Saint, could you post your code for this? I may have a use for it in my own quiz application. Thank you.

And I came up with BOOMS, PUNTS and SAX

Too bad you don't have a free dictionary so you can learn to spell capitalist and capitalism. :D

Exactly. The Nth word in the sentence has N letters

Well, that is true and very close to the answer I am looking for...

A new one: What is unique about this sentence: "I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness"

He probably thought that meant you were tired again.

I could care less about the ad mistakes or ad types as long as they help kieep this forum free.

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I would think that the airline reservation system in the library would be fairly close to what you are looking for and could be readily adapted to your needs. After all, flights have seats that must be reserved, paid for and each flight is like a new play - you start fresh.

I see four ads per page. With the traffic on this site, the ad revenue should pay for the upkeep. The advice is provided gratis, so the forum should be as well.

I have a simple table: ID (autonumber - PK) Description (text) Status (integer - FK) StatusDate (datetime) I would like to create a query that will return a random set of N records where N is an integer less than the total number of records in the table. For example, if I have a table of...

When is enforcing laws primarily a civil responsibility? When the government fails to enforce laws who is responsible for enforcement? A citizen can detain a lawbreaker in the act, aiding government enforcement. There are laws on the books requiring private enterprises to aid the government...

I don't disagree that many of these issues are valid. But way too many people put up the Big Brother aspect as a justification for their outright theft of intellectual property - piracy. Without the theft you would not have the efforts of private enterprise to eliminate or reduce it, even if...