My dad is running a spreadsheet in Office on his 2011 iMac that he originally wrote in VisiCalc on the Apple II+ in 1980. There are ways, or at least used to be. I believe his path was the following:

VisiCalc 13-sector diskette -> ProDOS file system hard disk -> Macintosh Performa 525 with ProDOS system extensions -> ClarisWorks 4 (could read VisiCalc documents -> Excel 5 -> Office v.X on Mac OS X 10.3 -> Office:Mac 2011 on Mac OS X 10.7.x

Sure, there's a missing link in there, but we were moving that stuff around when those things were current products over the last 20 years.

If its in code freeze, then why won't they release it to developers?

I see no citations there. Please provide a credible source.

It was their blind faith in their religious leaders that lead them to believe the idiots. It was their rejection of science and logic, which is based in their religion, that led to it.

Yeah, but why would they buy a company in decline? Apple buys companies that make emerging technologies.

The only way to do this is to either put an icon for every application you ever want to run on the desktop, or install a 3rd party hack that adds back functionality that should have been there to begin with, and has been there for 18 years.

Unfamiliarity with the subject matter also ruins arguments.

If it's so minor, then why aren't they done with it yet, and releasing it to developers?

You can repeat the refrain of "Oh, it's a minor update. Nothing to worry about here!" all you want, but nobody is buying it because of past experience.

2 months is a shitload of time in software development.

I just really wish that the US (and mostly the CIA) would learn from the foreign policy mistakes of the last 50 years. Every time we get involved in one of these middle-eastern sectarian wars, it just gets worse for the US.

Iran in the 1950s
Israel / Lebanon / Syria / Egypt in the 1960s
Iran in the 1970s
Iraq / Iran, Afghanistan, and Lebanon in the 1980s
Iraq / Kuwait in the 1990s
Iraq / Afghanistan in the 2000s
Afghanistan in the 2010s...

We should just GTFO and let them kill each other like they obviously want to. They don't need our help in that regard.

Because the Government is the only organization besides the New York Times that seems to care about the New York Times. Oh, and Twitter isn't exactly hard to hit - they do it to themselves enough.

Then this attack had exactly the wrong effect. Shutting off Twitter and the New York Times is going to put me in a better mood, and make me want the conflict to escalate into them attacking Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit.

Have yourself a good time, Syrian Electronic Army! Take out the Internet's trash and do the rest of us a big favor.

That's not the case - it's actually worse. Syria killed hundreds of thousands with guns before escalating to using their chemical weapons. I'll amend your post for accuracy:

Egypt: kills hundreds with guns. US: whatever
Syria: kills a couple hundred thousand with guns. US: whatever
Syria: kills hundreds with chemical weapons. US: oh noes!

You forgot: Almost cases directly connected to Eagle Mountain International Church. Those cases that weren't directly related to the church were traced back to the church.

Yeah, a high five to an ignorant woman preaching ignorance, poured into her from her father, resulting in getting many sick with a preventable disease. You can respect that, I prefer to call her what she is, an ignorant megalomaniacal psychopath.

If you were only talking about BC and or Canada, why did you mention WA, ID, and OR? Obviously the US is Canada. Now stop being a dick.

Except that the father of the preacher used his and the preachers position to preach against vaccinations. So, instead of being just a "lots oh humans gathering in one place" issue, it was a "lots of ignorant people who are gathering to listen to and follow someone who preaches a set of bronze age fairy tale who is espousing the lie that vaccinations are bad and the god in their fairy tale will protect their kids better".

You should probably RTFA before commenting.