Although I think the poster really intended to write "patents", I see where "patience" is also necessary. :)

FTFY

I go to youtube when I've heard a snippet of song (usually in movie trailers, tv shows etc.) and want to hear the whole thing to see if I like it. I don't really care what's the visual is, I just want to hear the music. If I like it, I usually research other music by the same artist and that often involves listening to other youtube videos.

I've heard that more conceptions are male, but more births are female because more miscarriages are male babies. This is supposedly due to the XY for boys vs. XX for girls. For girls, if one of the chromosones on mom's X has an issue, it can compensated by a good one on dad's X and vice versa. No compensation for boys with XY and so more miscarriages.

Makes sense and I tried to find a reference for this but didn't find one on a quick search; might be able to find one if I spend more than 10 mins...

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Many (many) years ago, I used the MS-DOS version of WordPerfect. It was what was on the computers at school and on my friends' computers (those who actually had a PC in their home). I was good at it and was happy with it.

Windows 3.1 came out and WordPerfect launched a new version for it. It was horrible! We used it at work and I was always frustrated with how I had to "reveal codes" to get any meaningful text formatting done.

When I bought my first computer, it was mainly for writing papers for university, so a good word processing application was key. At the store, I asked what other word processing programs were available and I played with Word 2.0 for a few minutes. It was beautiful! I went home with Word.

That may not explain why others went with Word over WordPerfect, but it explains why I did.

This. Telus and Bell have an agreement to share their infrastructure to save on costs. It's not that Bell has a receiver/trasmitter on Telus towers below Telus', they USE Telus' in the west and vice versa in the east. "Bellus" is a common nickname for a reason...

As stated in a previous post, for the last few years I've been able to wear mine as long as they're not plugged in to something other than the planes' system. Even turned on. Since I don't need to listen the safety instructions or other announcements at full blast, I just leave the headphone unplugged.

Me too. For the last few years I've been able to wear mine as well, large Bose cover the ears ones, as long as I'm not plugged into anything. It's wonderful as the noise from the plane during takeoff can set my equilibrium off enough that putting them on after take-off can't be compensated for during the rest of the flight.

It's been a few years, but the son of a co-worker of mine took a year long web developer program at our local technical institue. It focused solely on the skills/tools needed for that specialty. My co-worker is a senior software architect with an engineering degree and 30 years in the industry. He fully supported his son attending this program to get the education needed for his chosen profession.

This is in Canada, and I don't know what the equivalent would be in your area, but the school wasn't one of those private, for-profit types you see commercials for, but an accredited polytechnic (sait.ca).

Although your sentence may be interpreted the way you intended, I too intrepreted it to mean that "Purchasing nothing online constitutes an emergency to most people." It's a poorly worded sentence.

My first thought was that for music it would be good, only having to carry the one device with all my music on it, turning pages by pressing the screen, but on second thought it wouldn't be. As a member of a choir and a flute player in a chamber group, I know that musicians need the ability to mark their music. Also, the lag sometimes in turning pages on my ereader would be unacceptable while performing music.

I actually find the current monitor positioning to be a pain in the neck - literally. I would much prefer it to be much lower on the desktop at a 30 to 45 degree angle for viewing so that I am looking down at it; the same angle I would if I was reading a book. Years ago I had a friend who built a custom workstation for himself where the montior (CRT) was cradled under the top of the desk which had a cutout and a piece of glass over it for viewing. I thought it was brilliant. With flatscreen monitors, it would be so much easier to do today.

I agree with you on the use of the word "native". As a Canadian, born in Canada, I consider myself a native Canadian. Your use of the phrase "tribal descent" is new to me though. Is it common in the US? In Canada, we usually use the term "first nations person/people". I also like the use of the term "aboriginal" over "native".

You may not be 70, but you are in your seventh decade. You were in your first decade of life from age 0 to 9.