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>>>The idea of the second chamber being appointed still has merit.
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>>I would only amend that to read "the idea of the second chamber being appointed *by me* still has merit <s>
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>>> A lot of politicians have never done anything else and have no experience of industry or science etc.
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>>I think it should be required that no one can run for any public office until they have actually done something in real life for a minimum of 20 years.
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>I seem to recall a good part of your career being outside the public sector.
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>>>I sometime wonder if the second house should be appointed by some sort of random draft that would hopefully reflect the makeup of the nation.
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>>William F. Buckley used to say he'd rather be governed by a random selection of 100 names from the Boston phone book than the faculty at Harvard.
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>Do you agree with him? He was just pissed off that he wasn't one of them.

May have just been a Yalie thing <g> But the point was regarding the "annointed elite" and assumptions about their fitness to make decisions for the peasants and to some extent I do agree. I have a natural suspicion of "experts" who are such because they are part of mutual admiration societies and adhere to the orthodoxy. Tenured faculty is certainly the epitome of this syndrome especially in the arts, humanities and soft sciences.

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>On the bright side, I just got an email about the VS 2010 version of Infragistics NetAdvantage. Free download for me.

I will probably be buying a license very soon for a project I just started. Definitely want to have the stuff available when I seriously start WPF.

Have you tried the SF Infragistics wrappers yet? After years of struggling with this kind of stuff in Fox when even the vendor didn't have a clue how to make it work with VFP (except for DBI) I was stunned at how easy it is to use a businessbindingsource to hook up third party stuff.