Dragan:

I just can't contain myself from continuing this dialogue because of the images you raise in my mind.

But I had a job with the Government of Canada (my Country) and I am sure they were following procedures written by people who had died years ago. I noticed that rewards for them were based solely for following the procedures. And punishments were applied for not following procedures. The only thing worse than not following the procedures was questionning the procedures which were absolutely useless in most cases.

The benefit of the procedures to the taxpayer was not an issue. I honestly believe it had never crossed their mind ever in their careers. And do you know that we communicated by fax not email. My contact boss did not even have a computer and this was in 2001.

So if you looked in is head you wouldn't find any Cobol Code but maybe there were lines and lines of ASCII for all the procedures he had memorized.

I was never so glad to get away from these people. But it is so sad that they have a budget larger than any of our corporations.

Mike Smith