You are right, but still wrong in your conclusion.
I don't know about the JW, but the KKK and such are -just- like the IS bandits. And they are not real Christians because they go against everything Christ said. Just like IS does.

The Bible has a paragraph where God says "Vengence is mine." They think that gives them the right to take vengence. Wrong!
It should be read as: "Vengence is -mine-." As in, only God has the right to take vengence, -no one- else.

But criminals will seize on anything that they think will slow down the honest people... and they are indeed criminals.

That depends on how you measure it. We are still in Japan, that might be longer.

More than you know...
The Russians and North Vietnamese had an active "fifth column" operation in the US to convince people to be anti-war and anti-South Vietnam. And it worked. You can even see the effects still today in the more rabid "liberals".
(Note that I put "liberals" in quotes, I used to consider myself Liberal, but not like that...)

See the messages above, near mine. You have been listening to the wrong people. By the way, don't drink the coolaid they give you...

Maybe that is the key: conforming to prevailing beliefs, as opposed to showing needed beliefs.
The very definition of mediocre...

It's quite possible to make a clean, simple interface for a computer. They are called Application programs. The OS manufacturers don't know anything about them and should not be applying theory from them to the OS, which is different. i.e, A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and the OS manufacturers have little or no knowledge of Applications interfaces. (Thats why I have a job, to make up the lack.) 8-)

P.S. I think the core of the problem is that the Marketing/Advertising people, at the OS manufacturers, are more like morons than the actual customers, and have more input to the design!

No, actually they are wrong. Everyone is a "moron" when they are out of their area of expertise, but that's different. Most of those people are plenty smart, they just are not interested in learning -your- area of expertise. That's what IT is for.

You can fall into this state, too, by doing your own corporate taxes or acting as your own lawyer or dosing yourself with pills when you are sick. Or just giving advise about other things, that is not worth what it cost. 8-)

I have seen that problem with Windows Explorer in Win7, but not for a couple of months. Maybe they fixed it...
It was also locking files in the folder it had open, which would cause errors in my builds. But that also seems to be better.

Advice: Wait to buy the new Windows OS until the next one is out. By that time it has a few patches and is safer to buy. Like, right now the Win8.1 is getting usable, but maybe next year...
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No, actually they are trying to make them compatible with low resolution cellphone screens. But by the time they get it done the cellphones will (do?) have much higher resolution screens. It's a fools choice...

I think if the auto manufacturers had changed the position of the brake and gas pedals, they might have gotten themselves in a bit of trouble. This is not just the "look and feal" they are changing, they are changinmg the necessary controls. And they have been at it since XP, that is one reason Linux is getting more popular.

Just because someone is ignorant of history does not mean that it didn't exist. Including the history that no-one knows anymore! 8-)
Any sailor that goes to the horizon (about 12 miles) knows that the world is not flat. They can -see- it.

It is possible that it could make steel much stronger, by preventing microcracks from starting at the surface. Cracks start at defects in the metal or in uneven surface features like micro-scratches. If a coating can smooth and reinforce the surface, then it can stave off cracks starting and push the breaking point to much higher levels.

We already have methods of preventing defects inside the metal, and I assume they are already using those methods.

We also have used surface hardening to strengthen metals and other things (see Corel dishes). So if the coating is stronger we know it will help.

The Sun causes all warming, there is no other source of energy for us. (And no, things that originally came from the sun don't count...)

But, if you want to know if it is possible that the Sun could cause what is called "Anthropomorphic global warming", then yes of course it could. It is already known to do so. The berden of proof is on the other side, to prove that it is -not- caused by changes in the sun !

We already have "robots" that write code! They are called Compilers and Linkers, and they have put all of the Assembler coders out of work.

Except me and a few others. But I have not actually done assembler for a long time.

The next step up is code generators, like what the Clarion development system has. They are run by scripts which can be written by coders, if necessary. So instead of writing assembler or writing source code, to run the app, we write "Template" code to run the code generators.

But Clarion has been around for more than two decades, so it is not that new... 8-)