You do have a good point there, and this would not be the first time I've been wrong on such and assumption. I assumed that Zimmerman would walk at one point because the hadn't charged him with anything turns out the prosecution was just waiting for the ducks to line up.

Well sometimes when we assume anything we often end up looking like the first first 3 letters of that word.

Sure Office has issues opening files from other formats and this a big problem for the other office programs. Yes, its a big problem for the other office programs and not a problem for Office. Its this way simply because Office is the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Weather you like it or not where Office goes the other office programs will have to follow. An I actually don't like it. I despise Office 2013.

I've been in the work place longer than I care to comment on. I've written documents in nroff, which I miss, wordperfect, scribble, and Word. Never have I had a document rejected because it was in Word format. I've had PDF's rejected because they where pdf.

I'm writing documents in librewrite at the moment. The are strictly for my use and my flunky behind me. Its probably a bad idea on my part because if the docs where to be made "official" I will have to redo them in Word.

What about when the pig is searching my phone at the accident he comes across the text my brother sent me about the 5 kilos of weed he scored? Or the notes I made when I buried the body. or the bank account numbers to my secret millions that I've stolen?

I use both Libreoffice and MSoffice. To say that libre office is any way a competitor to MSoffice is foolish. It's like saying the gimp is a real competitor to photoshop. Libreoffice, like the gimp, gets the job done when professional tools are not available but they lack the support and integration that the professional tools have.

The biggest issues of using libreoffice in a real office is compatibility of the documents. While it is true that both office and libreoffice can read and write each others native formats, these formats are not 100% perfect. I have written simple documents in libreoffice, saved them in docx format, and then loaded them in office 2010. The result was readable and even usable, but look completely alien to what I had on typed up under librewrite. The reverse was also true. If I had submitted the document I wrote in librewrite it would have been rejected for poor formating.

I'm not saying this because I love Ms office. I actually prefer to work in librewrite because of its simpler interface. I'm saying this because its true.

I thought the Supreme Court had all ready ruled that the pigs can't search your phone with out a warrant.

I've read several stories on this and here is what I take on this. Seems everyone has a different take on this.

They have evidence that he might have been storing child on the encrypted drives. They don't have any real evidence, such as the pictures themselves, just that he might. What they have done is decrypted a weaker drive and found a file structure that indicates this. Maybe it contains links to common child porn file names and the files have been deleted and can't be recovered. All they have is the names now but no pictures.

File names are not going to be a solid case, they need the pictures themselves. So they suspect the pictures are on the other drives. The ones they can't decrypt. So they are trying to make him cough up the password. Since they haven't arrested him that tells me they don't have a solid case.

Seems to me that it would be in his best interest to clam up and not say a word. Any charges they can come up with to force him to decrypt those drives would be nothing compared to what he would get if they did find child porn on those drives.

Well with modern genetic engineering we can grow ears on a mouse and have goats that glow in the dark. Crossing a pig with a buzzard shouldn't be to hard.

I'm of the option that most world leaders are some what crazy. But in all honesty I believe the little runt may actually be insane. I don't mean figuratively, but medically certifiably bats ass insane.

Hopefully someone, China?, will nut up and send in the brute squad to put him down before he moves from mildly annoying fruit basket to full blown menace. An I mean menace with nuclear weapons.

No, its perfectly fair. Most patent trolls are lawyers anyway. A lot of them know they are just fishing for free money, Don't have any sympathy for them.

Lets say you and your friends get together and circle jerk every Friday night. Now then, I'm a patent troll that has filed a patent on circle jerking. Now a patent on circle jerking is stupid, I know that, and you know that but my plan is to sue you and your friends anyway hoping you will settle. Now you decide to fight my patent so we go to court.

To go to court you have to hire a lawyer and do research to prove that circle jerking is in the public domain or at least covered by prior art. All this will take time and money to do. You will also lose time that could be used in more productive things, like circle jerking on Friday night with your friends.

During this time you will not be allowed to profit off of your activities. I'm not sure how you could profit off of circle jerking with your friends on a Friday night. Maybe something involving a web cam, youtube, and a paypal account. Any way, you would not be able to profit off of this and any profits you had before could be seized if you lose the lawsuit.

Under my proposal if I lost, I would have to pay for your defense, pay you for your time and the lost of any profit for your activites. Plus I could no longer sue anyone that likes to sit around with their friends on the Friday night and circle jerk for pleasure or profit.

See, makes perfect sense.

I like this bill but I would take it a step farther. If the patent troll loses, not only do they have to pay the defense, they need to compensate the poor SOB they sued, AND they need to lose access to the original patent they where suing over.

Horse shit. The Quran, unlike The Bible, doesn't contradict itself in later passages. That is a passage written later on in the quran will superseded one written earlier. When Mohammad told muslim to respect Christians, Jews and pagans, he was surrounded by them. If he didn't say such things they would have stomped a mud hole in the ass of him and his followers.

Later passages in the quran clearly state to kill all unbelievers. These passages where written after Mohammad insane brand of superstition had taken control of the areas. Since they where the dominate force in the area they where free to kill and murder at will. Which they pretty much have been doing for the last 1600 years.

I'm pretty sure some muslim or muslim apologist is going to state that I'm wrong. But if you are reading this I want to point out the practice of Taqiyya. Basically it says muslims can lie to non muslims about Islam. Just want to put that out there, so that if you are listening to a muslim say wonderful things about their brand of superstition, odds are they are lying to you.

Yes, 600 years ago Christianity went through brand of savagery. But today Islam is still deep in savage era. In an age of nuclear and biological weapons, that bullshit doesn't work. Muslims are actively trying to get a hold of such weapons. No matter how bad Christianity was it never reached the point where its brand of bats ass crazy could kill millions of people. Mohammad and his brand of bats ass crazy can and will if allowed to continue.

Seriously. Are really this stupid or do you have to work at it?

The problem with just shooting down their shit is they will start shooting at S. Korea. I read that N. Korea has thousands of cannons pointed at Soel. If they fired all of them off they could effectively remove the S. Korean capital before we could do a thing about it. N. Korea as it stands is not a threat to the United States to any real degree. What they are is a major threat to U.S. allies in the area.

That being said, I think that I must agree with you. There is going to come a time, unless there is a major political change in N. Korea, that we will have to deal with this idiot sooner or later. It would be better to deal with him now than wait till they got a real nuclear capability.

Of course if we do decide to remove the little man with the funny hair cut with extreme and righteous force, its going to honk the Chinese off to no end. Maybe if we let them have Taiwan in exchange for us being able to eviscerate the N. Korean government? Don't think that will fly.

There is another way. Feed the people of N. Korea directly. Ignore the government an the little crazy man with the bad haircut. Take high flying aircraft and drop food bundles all over the country. Hell, drop MRE's so they scatter making it hard to gather them all up. This way the army can't just impound them, but they will be every where. Make sure written on the package is says where and who they are from. Put those little digitized voice chips in there that say where they are from in the Korean language.

Make sure everything is open to inspection. Let China inspect the packages at will so they will know its a humanitarian mission and not clandestine cold war type bullshit. Put some Chinese observers on the planes too so they can supervise the drops. That way N. Korea might think twice about shooting them down.