Strangely, all were able to transition to Libre within the time frame.

Let me guess: when push came to shove the users quickly found out that the two programs were similar enough that they could make them work without any extra training.

It doesn't matter if they know about other tools or not because most of the time their work machines are locked down to keep malware off of them so that they're not able to install Libre Office even if they want to. Excel is all they have so they do what they can to make it work, for some minuscule value of "work."

RFK's first order of business at EPA would probably be to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydroxyl Acid, and other dangerous chemicals.

Jewish people do something similar with their youth with bar and bat mitzvahs.

You might want to consider learning something about the subject you're going to rant about before going off half-cocked to avoid shoving both of your feet down your throat. Those two ceremonies are simply symbolic coming of age rituals without any secret sections, and you can find out everything you need about them by asking your Jewish friends, presuming, of course, that you have any.

Since when does the public health matter when there are corporate profits at stake?

This in turn strongly suggests they knew how to position themselves in a marketing perspective in a way that shows all the other more venerable distros out there really dropped the ball.

I don't think so. I think it's more a case of Zorin being the only Linux distro that made an effort to have a look and feel that's as close to Windows as possible so as to make it easy for Windows refugees to make the transition.

Personally, I prefer Sam Gross' take on that: An Elephant is soft and mushy.

Thank you. I'll check it out and maybe buy it.

TFA is for subscribers only. Not much good, is it? And, by the way, First Post!

There are a couple of things going on there. First of all, schools are really designed to teach kids en masse. If you had to teach ONE kid, you'd never set that kid up as we do, where a kid sits down and a teacher talks to them from the front of a room and, after that, gives the student a few minutes of individual attention. The classroom format is designed to maximize the amount of the teacher's time spent teaching while trying to maximize the aggregate learning of the class. But, that means that, for any particular kid, there's a fair bit of the class time when they're not learning at all or learning slower than they are capable of.

You can offset that, some, with differentiated instruction where you put the "smart" kids together -- there, the teacher can go at a faster pace, can provide more challenging work, and so on. But, it still has the same fundamental flaw -- you're optimizing for use of the teacher's time, not the student's.

The other thing is that schools, especially public schools, are bureaucracies that tend to be driven by centralized policy, not by individual decision making at that staff level. Part of that is necessity, but part of it is because administrators don't trust student-facing staff to make good decisions and are also hyper-concerned with liability when student X gets to do something when student Y doesn't. If X and Y are of different races, then there will be a claim that Y was denied BECAUSE of his/her race, even if the decision ultimately made sense for both X and Y.

I did it the same way I'd do it on paper, with the first number on top.

No, it's not that those who don't pass will be stuck there, it's that they won't qualify for the elite Green Berets. And that's just being used to illustrate how some people just can't wrap their minds around math.

For example, if I asked you, "what is 98 + 87?" you would probably intuitively subtract 2 from 87 to get 85, then add 100 to get 185.

Now that's a weird, counterintuitive, roundabout trick if I ever saw one. When I saw that question, I simply added the two numbers together in my head and see no reason to do things the hard way as you expect.

Here's another real world example: most adults know that if 100 soldiers try out for the Green Berets, only three will pass, but if you ask them what percentage passes, they'll draw a blank.

No, they're just using alcohol to extract it, just as it gets extracted while wine or whiskey are being barrel aged.