At this point in my life, I can probably say, I have been doing "computers" over 1/2 my life (over 25 years), and it always amuses me when people tell me I need to learn about how a computer works. Usually people who don't know how reality works.

I'm not a shill for any company or technology. I've seen way too many products come and go to be emotionally tied to a piece of hardware or software. AND if you go through my posts, you'll find where I tell people that Microsoft is a dying "Windows" company, not a technology company. HOWEVER, ActiveSync is the one "cross platform" API that Microsoft has that just "works". That being said, I would drop ActiveSync in a heartbeat if there was something better. No, Linux doesn't have anything better. It has a bunch of tools we can approximate the functionality of Exchange, but nothing that replaces ActiveSync.

Thanks for making me laugh though, I appreciate it. :-D

Criminals will always get weapons. Even if it is a hammer. We going to ban Hammers because they kill more people than rifles?

Bingo! From Petty criminals to mass murdering despots. The only problem for both is when the victim can fight back.

And yet, gun crimes are much less of a problem than car crimes. And all those safety features, licensing and training of cars and drivers haven't made cars safer than guns. How does that compute in your world that we need more gun laws? Shouldn't we be looking at cars some more?

You realize that you're much much more likely to be killed by a car than in a gun crime? I mean, it is not even close to the same level of danger. The fact that cars kill more people, while being less in number than guns, should also scare the crap out of you every time you drive to work. Chicago and DC not withstanding.

I would go one more. Entertainment is not a right, Liberty is. Guns ensure Liberty, Entertainment doesn't. I personally value Liberty over being entertained. Those who don't, will be enslaved and pacified by those providing entertainment in exchange for liberty.

And yet, cars kill more people than guns do (including suicides). It is even more alarming when you remove suicides from Gun Deaths. And even slightly more alarming when you remove all others leaving just gun crime deaths. Guns are loud scary items, and emotions count more than facts. Take Emotion out of the debate, and the anti-gun crowd is left a huge empty bag of nothing. It is all they have.

The 30K deaths, include about 20K suicides by gun. They grossly inflate gun deaths, and equate all of them with gun crimes. If you want to piss them off, quote this little factoid, people using clubs and hammers kill more people than people using rifles do.

And if they claim that gun suicides should be included, then ask them what the rate of suicides is in gun controlled countries compared to the US. To give you a clue, total suicides in the UK are only .2 per 100,000 less than the US (and all the guns). This proves, people committing suicide will use whatever they can get to kill themselves, and gun control will have no effect on suicides, and therefore shouldn't be included in any gun control debates.

Gun Crime has been going down over the last 20 years, but that doesn't fit the narrative that gun people are loons. However, of the high profile gun killings, most of the people who did those are (D) or voted (D) in elections. I would suggest that (D)s shouldn't own guns. Of the cities that have gun control laws, most of them vote (D) and also have the highest gun crime rates (Chicago, DC). Again, suggesting that (D)s should not be allowed guns (using any number of their logic points).

It is pretty easy to deconstruct the emotional arguments Liberals make, because it is nothing short of scare tactics and feel good emotionalism.

Do it for the Children!

"Linux"

"GNU/LINUX"

For now. Tech will get better, faster, cheaper, always.

Wrong. if you hate, you're giving power to the other person. You are giving them the power to manipulate you via your emotions. If you give them power, it is you that will lose. Be strong, and don't give a shit. It is the best revenge possible, but by then, you won't care about revenge. You get what you think you want now, but when you get it, you don't care.

Don't waste energy hating. Turn your hate into indifference to those you hate, and into caring for others that you love. Love everyone.

ActiveSync works. With Exchange. It just works. But it is easily replaced by going to GMAIL and GCalendars. ActiveSync is what killed BlackBerry servers, as it does most everything most people want or need. Not everything, but good enough.

Trust me when I say this, nothing else comes close to Exchange for total functionality. Problem is, it is Microsoft, and horribly expensive. Someone making a ground up replacement to Exchange would make a killing, especially if they give it away for free (j/k).

You obviously are wasting your energy on people who should no longer matter to you. Suggestion, best revenge is to stop caring, and move on. Or, think of it this way, your "ex" still has power over you, do you want that?

Remove the Political System from our money.

If the government fixed itself, the other things that the government is in charge of would get fixed. Problem is, too many people "believe" in the political "process", when it clearly hasn't worked.

Moving the power from Federal, to local would help, rather than the current trend of the other way around.