"PC LOAD LETTER"? What the fuck does that mean?

A message I saw often on my LJII, even though it had an A4 tray and I was trying to print an A4 document.

You're just trolling, right? No one is that dumb.

Fucking "Letter" page size default in every fucking installation of MS fucking Office I've used in the last 20 fucking years, and I've never even seen a piece of Letter size fucking paper.

Every country has traditional units. China, like Europe, uses metric in almost all engineering, building, legislation. You might buy vegetables in a street market in traditional units, though that's fast fading, but in the supermarket all the packages are marked in litres and grams. The road signs are in km. Your weight is in kgs.Your height in cm.

You missed a major consequence: we don't see a lot of old movies, old books, old songs. Because no one knows who the copyright belongs to, so no one dares reissue or adapt them in case they get sued. Or the owner is known but doesn't think it's profitable to release, so no one else can ever do so either.

The logic seems to be: This asshole anonymously trolled people on Reddit. Hitler was a genocidal asshole. Therefore, online anonymity leads to genocide. Did I miss a step? I did read the whole article.

On a 2" screen, as opposed to 46"?

I visited my sister in law last week, she's had a Samsung "smart" TV for a few months. Was only using it to watch broadcast TV. The broadband router was right next to it, but never plugged in. So I plugged it in, looked up the manual online and tried to get it going. Main issue was that you had to use the incredibly clumsy arrow keys on the remote for input. So it took literally 2 minutes to type in "youtube.com" to test that out. The manual never mentioned that there are apps for smartphones that can act as touchpad remotes, Found that out later, so will try that next time I visit.

Sounds like you don't read the news.

No, you're a gun nut who thinks everyone is either afraid of, or envious of, his penile substitute.

I'd say the exact opposite. I edit a lot of novels, and every single author now uses MS Word. Not one of them has a clue how to use any of its features. And really, to write a novel, you only need the simplest features. Business documents, with lists, bullets, tables, headings, etc, etc need more elaborate formatting. A novel is a stream of paragraphs. Maybe one or two heading styles, and block text (for things like quoted letters, poems), and a spellcheck. That's all you need and you can do that in any wordprocessor made in the last 25 years. It was a lot simpler back in the days of Wordstar 5 and WordPerfect 5.1.

Writers using Word have gotten less and less able to use it, compared to 20 years ago when people actually consulted a manual before trying. Now they just point and click and type, and so the vast majority just use it like a typewriter, and select text and style it from a button. That's it. They are clueless of and intimidated by the vast number of features and just give up and don't try to work out how to use any any of them. Then they somehow activate one of Word's wacky, "helpful" automated formatting tools and find all their text is in 24 pt red italic. Or they've somehow styled the entire MS as "Heading 1" and have to override its style every time. Writers start new pages not by inserting a pagebreak, but by pressing "enter" a few dozen times, or even worse, hundreds of spaces. I spend an hour or two cleaning up all that crap with every file I get. If I was working with them over a long period I might try to educate them, but few want to learn anything. People now want every program to "just work" without them having to learn anything.

Writers need a simpler wordprocessor. Word has been getting worse and worse as a tool for authors since about version 2 for Windows 3. Its development us pushed by claiming more and more features. Features that just get in the way of 95% of users. To disable all the crap you have to read up and tick off lots of little options. But it seems that also is just impossible for most users.

So, not having used GoogleDocs, I can't say if it really is better, but if it has fewer features it probably is. Can hardly be worse.

It was pretty popular in Australia. I'll have to give it another look, it was almost 40 years ago I last saw it. All based on the (brilliant) Robert Graves novels. And that in turn based on scurrilous contemporary "histories" by people with axes to grind. Anyway, it was a drama, not a documentary, As well to criticise Shakespeare for historical liberties.

I've been looking at Roman history recently, and it was a pretty extreme and bloody time. Nero, for instance, didn't fiddle while Rome burned, but he did like playing the lyre, and he did have his mother, brothers and sisters and a couple of wives executed or just murdered -- in many cases, because they were plotting the same for him.

Realism? As a teenager and SF fan at the time, I found the stories embarrassingly stupid in almost every respect. The moon wildly flying from one solar system to another each week for no reason at all (except to meet up with the next batch of "aliens of the week") being a major one.

Thank god for some perspective. Riots, genocide, war aren't what this is about.