I think the issue is that by seeking, reading and bringing to the jury room information on Rape Trauma Syndrome she was promoting the idea of the "alleged victim" as simply "victim". The jury were there to decide whether the accused committed the rape, it could be argued that the forewoman's actions prejudiced the jury in that decision. If she had read it before that's fine because she didn't know what case she was going to be on.

You're correct I did write that with some irony but the philanthropists were not the subject here. And let's not forget that many a philanthropic gesture coincides with a tax rebate claim.

Yes because there is a history of those with a lot of money being prepared to give any of it away

Perhaps not unexpectedly TFA doesn't mention licencing of the software but there are several free software stop motion applications available. I've not tried them all but I've posted that link here if people are interested.

TFS says

and from TFA:

I think both have missed the point. Those claiming that MS has validated OOo as a viable alternative are not suggesting that this was the intention. It would be virtually impossible for anyone to see that video and presume MS were somehow endorsing OOo. By attacking it they are MS not also implying it is a threat to MS Office. They are saying it a competing product which potential customers might choose or existing customers migrate to. If MS weren't worried by OOo they wouldn't have produced this marketing video decrying it: they would have ignored it.

Whatever your opinion of the suitability of OOo, this video suggests that MS think it's worth making to prevent people going over to OpenOffice.org.

I presumed the reason was that Libre (freedom) is distinct from Gratis (zero cost), both of which can be written as Free in English.

> But we do have teenage gangs, teenage pregnancies and teenagers walking around with knives on the street - bad education, crap parents, whatever the reason, they need to stop, take a deep breath and think about the consequences of what they're thinking of doing.

You did a nice job of pre-empting most of the traditional comebacks that a post like yours will get but you missed one. It's not just teenagers. We also have adult gangs, pregnancies* and adults walking around with knives on the street. They also need to "stop, take a deep breath and think about the consequences of what they're thinking of doing". They should also know better.

*that have similar consequences to the teenage ones you are referring to.

Brilliant! That has a real touch of Adams about it.

From the screenshots it looks like this theme infringes on some MS trademarks - wallpaper, start button etc. Is this wise?

It's also the routing. I once had a case where two adjacent sockets (on different lines) got entirely different speeds. Turned out one went direct across the road to the exchange and the other took a left out the building, went round the block for about 4 miles and came back to the Exchange across the road.

The fact that there is no way to say "grant this permission but not that one" is a shortcoming which needs to be fixed. There should probably be an "Advanced..." dialog for that, and some system that catches runtime violations and asks if you want to change your settings to allow them or not.

Couldn't agree more. There should also be some way to find out _why_ this app needs access to those services and whether they can be disabled within the app. For example a game that says it needs access to the Internet might only "need" it if you use the high scores submissions part, but would otherwise be safe to use if you disable that bit.

i have every right to say what happens on my machine

So ably demonstrated by your extensive use of the shift key.

You're not old fashioned. It's always been fashionable to dismiss the generation that comes after you. When the young people of today get to your age they'll do the same.

[Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.." Aristotle

Just imagine what happens when the printer gets an e-mail which has a standard "Think of the planet before printing this e-mail" footer attached. Oh the irony.