You can't let the facts stand in the way of your opinion.

Based on my 12 hour locatel micro climate analysis, my lawn will burst into flames in 87 more hours.

To justify spending on any project, you have to explain why it is worth spending money on. This is standard practice for any large expenditure.

It's a simple concept, but it's hard to do well.

Simply identify the benefits of hiring someone, and their value. If the additional value is more than their cost, by the required return, they'll spend the money.

If you spend your time doing other stuff, point out you spend x% of your time doing this other stuff, and if you consider the context switching overhead you're very inefficient. That's often enough to hire a jr support guy.

Except this only works on the bacteria on contact.
Get a bit of slime and the surface never touches most of the bacteria.

Unless they don't buy that part of the business.

The whole point of a bankruptcy is to get rid of excess obligations.

I liked the old MS UI work.

They pushed for the Common user interface stuff back in the DOS days, and it was great.

Now they're trying to merge desktop, tablet, phone & TV/Xbox into a consistent theme of UI. It's hard but they're pushing hard.
They're getting a lot of pushback, but I think that's inherent in what they are doing, Gnome 3 is getting the same thing.

Apple however does the same thing, but they've conditioned their customer base to accept the Apple way.

As someone who lives in a rural area, even though I'm not rich, I can tell you that the quality of phone lines in rural areas are pretty much crap and you're better off going with a mobile phone. If the phone companies are being paid per active line, this whole thing will go away in a few years anyway.

The fact that they simultaneously claim it is a thermoplastic and that it cures confuses me.
Thermoplastics don't really cure, they just melt and "freeze", so what is it?

This is just a fancy tech laden "Bondo"

The problem with keying a car is the paint, not the structural damage.

BTW your local bodyshop should be able to pop out panels and touch up small scratches relatively cheaply, at least compared to replacing the part with a 3D printed replacement, which would still need to be painted.

You mean the university email system that delivers the malicious email?

I have a crazy idea, tell users not to give personal information out by email. It's that simple.

NEVER give out personal information by email.

I just start typing what I want.

Typically if it's bookmarked chrome will autocomplete it as I type.

Same thing on my phone, I just start typing the app/contact name into the google search bar.
Also with google drive, I'm either in "recent" or search, it's faster and easier than navigating a directory structure.

I have a layout/tree, but that's basically habit as opposed to any functional reason.

Often I want "super snappy", in which case I use gnumeric, which is super snappy.

If I want portability and access, I'll just leave it in sheets, or skydrive

LO/OO/Excel really don't offer much of a benefit to me, at least in my personal life.

It's free-ish and fully compatible.
Openoffice is just too slow, on my Linux box I use google sheets and gnumeric.

Speed? Really. You're going with the speed improvements of paper? Wow, how can you stand to be so progressive.

Wow, 4 hours of extra work during initial setup. How do you stand it!? Of course with your course material online, getting setup for the next semester's course should take no time at all. Students are now able to access course material when and wherever they are, and can take their course work with them into the field. But let's focus on the 4 extra hours of work you had to put in

I don't think transparency is their goal.

Their goal is to push their political adgenda which is basically anti- anything big & powerful.
Transparency is just a cover.

The reality is we need transparency and accountability to control the big powers effectively.
However, realistically they also need some secrets to function effectively.

It isn't black and white like crypto, with a public algorithm and secret key where everyone (with a clue) is in agreement where the line is.

In the real world the division of what should and should not be shared is not as clear.