Disaster graced us by uttering:
> "Tim Hammerquist" <tim@vegeta.ath.cx> wrote:
>> Vaughn L.Porter graced us by uttering:
>> > Tim, you don't, by any chance, work for Intel, do you?  I heard
>> > acronyms are all the rage there.
>>
>> Not likely.  Intel has already convicted and criminalized one of my
>> acquaintances.
> 
> What did he do?

Um, that's why I gave the link that you snipped:

    http://www.lightlink.com/spacenka/fors/

But if you don't have a browser handy (which is ridiculous because you
use MS Outlook Distress...), here's some relevant paragraphs:

    In late July 1995, a trial jury convicted Randal L. Schwartz of
    three felony counts under Oregon's Computer Crime Law. The charges
    related to his activities while working as a consultant at an Intel
    Corporation facility in Beaverton, Oregon. His sentence issued in
    September includes 5 years of probation, 480 hours of community
    service, 90 days of deferred (cancellable) jail time, and $68k of
    restitution to Intel. His legal bill exceeded $170k by the end of
    1995. In July, 1998, the deferred jail-time sentence would have
    taken effect. Due to excellent compliance with terms of probation
    the judge converted the deferred jail time to suspended jail time.

    Schwartz appealed the conviction. A decision by the State of Oregon
    Court of Appeals in April 2001 upheld the convictions on all counts,
    but reversed the restitution order and sent this issue back to the
    original court for reconsideration.

    Mr. Schwartz is known and respected on the Internet for his
    contributions to the progress of the Perl programming language
    through two books, long-time participation in the
    comp.lang.perl(.misc) newsgroup, moderation of the
    comp.lang.perl.announce newsgroup, and training courses.

In short, a well-liked and well-respected fellow programmer was
convicted of commiting a computer crime that Intel _paid_ him to commit.
That's what he did.

>> Those with managers who are _still_ below the comprehension threshold
>> for HTML can at least laugh that these same managers think that
>> writing HTML is remotely akin to programming. ... I did. =)
> 
> LOL
> 
> HTML is at least programming like! Not akin or as difficult I'm sure
> but sometimes you get just as frustrated! :D Although HTML doesn't
> cause me as much trouble as expression building in MS Access97. O_o;;;

Expression building takes some getting used to, but compared to regular
expressions [1], it's a cake walk.

    http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Administration/RegExp/page1.html

Now _scripting_ MS Access (VBA) starts to look like programming!

Tim Hammerquist
-- 
I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down.
I think that the problem may have been...that there was a Stonehenge
monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.
    -- David St. Hubbins, "This is Spinal Tap"