Sugar is not harmful in sensible quantities, i would rather drink a small quantity of full sugar coca-cola than any quantity of coke zero.

I'm an insulin dependent (LADA) diabetic, thanks to Agent Orange. Unless I need to recover from hypoglycemia before I pass out, that is not an option for me. I'm sure that I'm not the only person reading this thread who has to avoid regular sugar except in very small amounts (Sugar in my morning coffee is part of my morning carbohydrates.) or in emergencies.

Prepared foods should in theory cost more because you're paying for not only the ingredients but also the preparation, the only reason they're cheaper is because they can hide all kinds of unpleasant or inferior ingredients in there.

You can believe that if it fits in with your particular set of conspiracy theories, but it's not true. The USDA is very big on inspecting commercial food plants and comes down like a metric ton of bricks on companies that try that sort of thing. No, what keeps the prices on factory food down is something called "economies of scale." I'll let you look that up for yourself because that way there's a slight chance that you'll learn something.

If there is a three party Presidential race, the US House of Representatives makes the decision as to who wins.

No they don't unless none of the candidates manage to get a majority in the Electoral College, and that's not a sure thing by any means. Remember, Ross Perot tried that in both '92 and '96 and didn't carry a single state in either election.

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."

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.

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!

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.