I use DuckDuckGo and Startpage mostly now for search. When I need to map directions I jump directly to google maps.

The homeowner should pay for a conduit pipe from street then comm vendors can bid to use it by fishing conduit wire thru it to home. This would drastically reduce the price of upgrading services and even allow more than one provider at a time. The problem is cronyism on the local level with Cable deals from the 1970's and then Federal rules that favor the incumbents to collude.

Seen it done many times. Why should we base a document creation and sharing infrastructure based on these kinds of users?

If you need to to do advanced formatting for a longer document, LibreOffice is much easier and reliable for that. And printing Avery labels is a breeze until Word to this day.

What is called "sharing" is actually electronic send and read/markup. So LibreOffice has built in PDF Export for that. Why would you want to send your biz partner a document that could easily be edited/changed and misinterpreted (or made fraudulent for quote etc)?

And be sure to sue the birds and bees.

I learned much from Byte Magazine. R.I.P.

Took Computer Programming as freshmen at my high school. The teacher started by talking about the computer, languages, and coding stressing spaghetti code horror stories. We then discussed a sample problem, the flow chart for it, and the code. We then programmed an Apple II. Next we learned the Basic Language. The rest of the class was: pick a problem, flowchart it, write it in pseudo code, program it in Basic, test it, have fun. I wrote a tank program with simple sound and color that hunted down my friend and blew him away for the class project which was the majority of the grade.

The Commerce Clause was originally intended to not allow a state to put up barriers to trade with another state. Now it is interpreted as the exact opposite.

As Thomas Jefferson said, to paraphrase: "You can choose to tax capital, income, or sales; but if you tax all three you will kill the economy."

The Supreme Court already decided that mail order companies do not have to collect state sales tax if the company does not have a physical presence in the customer's state. So how does ordering online via web browser differ much logically from ordering from a mail order catalog and using the 800 phone #? A bankrupt state will tax anything that moves. The vendor already pays property tax and profit tax. The consumer is paying property tax and other taxes that already cover utility for road use and such.

Physics dictates that as weight increases mpg decreases. So BO is granting manufacturers and the EPA to lie in order to make the stat goal. Sounds like Full Employment Budgeting B.S.

The job market is good too! Endemic psychopathic lying.

John, have you speculated on why Psychopathy is so widespread today and why psychos are so controlling of creativity? Creative persons can spot a psycho a mile away so I would think psychos would not confront the creative types. -- Yadda

Why was FB not flagged for doing the same? These companies are valued on registered users that were inflated by this fraudulent marketing. How many of these users are regular users? 40%? LinkedIn P/E is 916 and FB's is 1,712. Can you say crash?