#1 - You can do anything you put your mind, and soul to if you believe in yourself and the cause; if not by yourself then by orginizing a group.
#2 - Bullshit; I know of 5 people off the top of my head that on high up in the ILDA hierarchy and not related to Lasernet in anyway.
You make me wish I was in Miami; I care, got time on my hands, and would enjoy a cause more interesting that finding employment.
I guess I have an atittude from my last job; if there is a problem that needs to be resovled, do everything you can, bother as many people as possible until you get satisfactory results and the problem is resovled especially if there are people getting paid to resolve that problem.