And living in this world of Word and everything, I have never heard of these markup types...

Thank you for educating me :)

I learned all about tab stops in fourth grade. I haven't had to change tab stops since fourth grade.

In my experience, format painter is a piece of crap and only works half the time. It worked best back in Office 97 of all things.

Throughout my career, I have used lots of Office suites. Lotus Notes (or whatever their office product is called now), MS Office in all its forms, Wordperfect suite, at least four others. Some of them use the same layout so you can find things. Others don't. Learning a basic office suite is the best option.

There are times that bold and italic are pretty much necessary. So basically something between Notepad and Wordpad would be sorta perfect for most writing. Kate, gedit, and the like on Linux would be good to me.

First time I laughed out loud at a comment in a long time...

Well, our underclass is a larger portion of our country as a whole. That's basically what this study is saying.

Do you think we should just let them stay the underclasses?

Some of the problem is the stress of being poorer can make it harder to be emotionally unavailable. I would agree, however, that love and parent involvement do a lot to equal out those issues. However, a low-income student has to work a thousand times harder (an estimate, possibly off) than a high-income student to be able to afford college at a prestigious university like Harvard.

Going one way, love and caring can ease issues, but going the other way, economic issues cause problems, too.

By this standard, any upper-class person who both inherited and made money are excluded from all the percentages mentioned in your post. I also cannot find any copy of the study online to see how many were in this group. If one-third were in this group, then your 69% for rags-to-riches falls to around 44%. If two-thirds were in this group, the percentage falls even further to 22%. Without more details of the study, you cannot make those sorts of generalizations.

Then there's the fact that if your parents make $500,000 a year, you may not get an inheritance til after you would have participated in the study. Your parents may still have bought you a car, or paid for your schooling at Harvard. This is another flaw of the study. It looked at specifically where the wealth came from, not what kind of wealth the parents had.

The sad part of your comment is that , until I got to the last two sentences, I wasn't sure if you were being serious. I have heard people say almost exactly what you said, seriously.

It is similar to North Korea, yet here it's not the government that is saying it. It's "private" media outlets like Fox news, HLN, or MSNBC. No, I don't think Fox is the only one who says stuff like this.

As the AC says, the East Roman (Byzantine) Empire was originally part of the West Roman Empire. It was a schism, so they really were the same empire for a long time. Also, the Caliphates, as said above, were different empires. If you really want to get technical like that, the Holy Roman Empire actually endured until the mid 19th century, and started well before the Caliphates, which, by definition, couldn't have started until over 1000 years after the Roman empire, since the Caliphates were specifically Muslim. And when was Islam founded?

Hear, hear. My relative, making a bit less than me, was able to get the new homeowner's incentive to buy a house, but I wasn't able to get it. I made too much per year. And I don't make all that much. I also can't figure out all my tax loopholes I'm allowed without paying a licensed tax specialist. If I were to pay around $250 to have my taxes done, I would get an extra $200 back. Not worth it to be $50 in the hole. Now, if I made another $10k or had a few investments, that $250 would net me more than $250 in benefits. Isn't that sort of wrong?

I have never tried to buy a gun before. Because I haven't had a problem with background checks to get jobs, I believe I would be able to get one. I might need to wait a day, since my info isn't in the system as a gun owner, but I would probably be able to get one by tomorrow, or Friday, at the latest if I went to the store right now. It looks like it would cost about $500 or so to buy a rifle that's not bolt-action (single-shot). A handgun with a magazine is slightly cheaper. Ammo isn't very expensive, if I want it, either. That said, the vast majority of gun buyers are law-abiding citizens.

I don't know what country you live in, but I'm sure I can get plenty of dangerous items from a regular shop there. Yes, guns can be dangerous. Fortunately, the average person is decent.

Was that where they killed a bunch of Halo players? Or Halo players held people hostage because the US got the new game first?

It can be, depending on what writing program was used. There are supposed wipe programs that don't actually write the bits in a proper way, but if he used DBAN, or another easy to find tool, you're right.

I know you most likely enjoyed watching Babylon 5, but that takes little research.

Because the RSS feed's server will likely get blocked, but the emails are less likely.