It was Lotus Jazz that made the Mac a success.

The stupidity is using file extensions as file types. But that horse has long since bolted.

File extensions are absolutely irrelevant. If your malware security relies in any way on users knowing what file extensions are it's broken.

There's no confusing programs for data on Macs as any downloaded executable that isn't signed won't run without explicitly allowing it (individually or by changing the default security setting).

Neither the fact that other people have repeated it extensively before, nor whines about "political correctness" excuse your homophobia.

It is one of those odd things.
The simple truth is that the vast majority of gamers have never attacked women on line or threatened them. It is a tiny minority but it is often seems as if all males are targeted.
As to the why women are shown in games as super attractive always I have to just ask why are the covers of all the womens magazines full of attractive women? Why are all the men in games beefcake?

Over all you have a bunch of jerks causing a lot of problems for everyone.

Non-App Store programs often check for software updates on a regular basis. Worst are those that autorun a daemon specifically for this: Adobe is one of the worst offenders (and indeed many other software crimes.)

Have you spotted any other common categories of why they might do so?

That may be true but doesn't apply to me. I've lived for years in two other countries besides the UK and have been hospitalised and had a serious operation in a third. And I know a bit about the US system from following US political news.

I don't know about the Australian system so can't argue with you there. But your original post seemed to be more than a little inspired by right wing private sector good/public sector bad ideology. And in the UK that has not been true.

Furthermore, whilst the American "Obamacare" system is still private, it was characterised as "socialized healthcare" and predicted to be a failure. But in fact other than some short term issues with the web site, the outcomes of Obamacare so far have been very positive.

Good. There are better things to do with NHS funds than using them to subsidise private patients. One of the reasons the NHS is more efficient than private insurance health systems is that it's a single payer system. Diluting it by encouraging people to go private would be a bad step.

", but transgender people are unfairly burdened by a requirement of using their birth name when that doesn't agree with the different name they're getting most people (hoping eventually everyone) to use in the real world."

They want people to use that name. So why doesn't everyone have the right to pick the name they want to be called on Facebook?

You allow everybody pick their name or you do not.
Or if you really do not like your name you can always have it legally changed.
In discrimination. You are saying that those people are so not like normal people that you must make a special exception for them.

The plus is that this genetically cleansed group would be having a bad time of it. Living on a planet with no outdoor atmosphere or flora and fauna would be pretty miserable.

Blond and blue eyed of course.

Ah but Ebola is easier to contain. You need clean water supply. And separate waste water processing. You need to physically isolate potential carriers and monitor them for two weeks.

Africa struggles with providing clean water, proper watste water processing and physical isolation. When you drinking water comes from the same river as the one you shit in. You have issues.

Over the next month you have to worry. If no more cases break out you are good.

So have food delivered. Sit down and binge watch you tube cat videos. It will be over soon enough.

Do you (or your employer) have to do annual insurance paperwork?

The problem with that argument is that the NHS has progressively got worse as it's moved from central planning to every more devolved decision making and private ownership.

And the US comparison is bogus. They don't have universal coverage there, and still manage to pay 2.5 times more per capita for healthcare. If the NHS budget was multiplied by 2.5, then there wouldn't be any waiting lists - and they'd still have universal coverage.

Similarly, the UK train system has only got worse as services were privatised. The franchisee for the East Coast Line pulled out prematurely in 2009, and since then it;s been run by the public sector. And under government hands it's the most efficient of all the franchises. Whilst the private sector organisations take subsidies, the East Coast line actually returns a profit to the government.

Yet still, because of ignorant right wing ideology, the government is attempting to put this service back in to private hands. Insane.