Kinda figured that that would have been one chosen. Took me awhile to realize that the title was also an imperative.

Word Perfect was what I first used, back in DOS days. The 'reveal all codes' feature was nifty. You can get some of that in LibreOffice, but not ALL codes. But, actually, usually enough to be very useful.

Yet another reason to stay the hell away from FB. Far, far away...

Uh, have you actually tried to use RS? It already seems as tho the interface was designed by insane, autistic children. For this alone, people have stopped using it in droves.

"What is everyone addiction to setting the homepage?" Guessing you meant 'why' there. Pretty much the first thing I want to go to when the browser comes up is email, so it is handy for it to be there. But if I am feeling more paranoid, I just set it to blank page.

Rather than Chrome, which has a nasty tendency to phone home, mention Chromium which one can now easily install (used to be kind of a bitch) for Windows. I find I need this because for some time now Firefox and flash have not played well together. It's sort of hit or miss. Sometimes flash works; sometimes it stutters or worse, freezes. Newish update; we'll see what that does, but it looks very incremental. And yes, I realize that Firefox has that problem with the address bar. But, basically I've never really gotten to like Chromium/Chrome. Nice to have a backup however since I really do dislike IE. I gather it works fairly well now, but I just hate how it looks. It just uses up FAR too much real estate which is idiotically dumb and should have been fixed ages ago.

This I have to reply to. I left OpenOffice the moment I realized it was now enslaved by Oracle. LibreOffice was freaking created by all those former OpenOffice people that had just realized they were now enslaved by Oracle. [and if you happen to like Oracle, just let me refer you to the recent Java debacles] LibreOffice had a bit a a rough start (not surprisingly), but they have consistently and often updated it with improvements. Oracle simply sloughed OpenOffice over to Apache when they found it couldn't be monetized. As far as M$ Office is concerned I've never seen any point in paying for it when these free versions let me do what I needed. The $100 annual price point for HOME users is just M$ shooting themselves in the foot. Again.That said, I can why business might have to use it. But since I am not a business, there is no way I am paying for this. LibreOffice allowed me to take Charles Dicken's 'Pickwick Papers' that I got as a really ugly .txt file from the Gutenberg project and turn it into a really lovely .odt (and .doc and even docx) file. That must be legal since I'm the only one who has even seen them; the Gutenberg people never got back to me about offering it. I also use calc mainly as a simply data base. Works fine for me.

Why it has taken so long to have 'move to' and 'copy to' implemented has always been a mystery to me. That has really been a major reason I have kept using Windows and even then you have to hack the registry to get that.

In the US, you betcha!! You can always get another house, but guns are sacred. And, sorry 'bout those deaths, but ya know, yer gonna die anyways so what's the big deal?

"Congress was criticized for not being tech savvy, but from a lot of the comments we got it became clear that the people who were calling us did not understand the bill any better than we did." What kind of an argument is that??

I liked it better when they first called it Operation Iraqi Liberation. So much accidental truth to that acronym.

It's 'Gerrymander', not 'jerrymander'. Named after the Mass. Governor Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814).

That comment about dogs not being interested in TV made me think that they don't respond to music reproductions either. Except for one interesting album that I know of: Live Peace at Toronto 1969 by the Plastic Ono Band. Side one is just John jamming out some tunes, but side 2 is where he sez, "Uh, now Yoko's gonna do her thing." By the time Yoko gets really revved up I can pretty much guarantee that any dog in the room will be yelping and trying to hide. Seen this effect on more than one dog. Actually, seen this effect on most people. Me, I thought it was the most raw form of rock n roll EVAH and still like it. Years ahead of its time :) Uh, carry on.....

OK, here's an idea: Why don't we just collectively sue ourselves for being stupid. Would that cover everything?

Dear Lord what you said is so fucked up in so many ways. Exactly whose payroll are you on?