Contrary to the scaremongering we hear, the world is not full of terrorists. They exist, don't get me wrong, but the reason we're so afraid of them is that our fear of them is incredibly useful for people who want to control us.

And also, the ones who do exist aren't engineers. So a shooting, or a stabbing, that's pretty easy to figure out how to do. Derailing a train? That's physics. Physics is much harder than pointing a gun and pulling the trigger.

The most common side effect I've seen reported is nausea. Sometimes that can lead to vomiting, but it doesn't usually.

You misspelled "thief." Google is a data thief ...

Exactly ... I don't want my fuckin' email client "putting words in my mouth." Literally makes me want to put my hand through the screen. Same with the naggitty-nag-na-nag-na-nagging to turn on x feature. If I wanted to have a clanker finish my sentences, stink my photos with the clown, etc, I'd turn on those features myself. Please stop with the picking at users.

An everybody else who provides a similar service for free does the same thing, only with worse spam filters (say what you want, Gmail has the best spam filters in the business - they don't want the competition).

Because those settings have always done this

Because we're already done with that, but we will continue to sell it to advertisers because is our core business and always has been.

Hasn't yet, and if it ever does, I'll write my own Notepad (which should take all of about two minutes) and have done with it.

They could have just kept it as part of Windows ... no cost to them to "ship" an existing .exe file.

Nope, they killed it because it's adequate for word processing for a lot of non-technical people, but they wanted to nudge and nag people into paying them $100/yr for an Orifice 365 subscription. Got to keep milking the sheep.

Nerdella is a truly vile human being with his desire to ram cloud surveillance down everyone's craws.

This might be the best evidence yet of a bubble.

It's there. You just have to turn the new crap off, and set .txt files to open in it.

Or, better yet, just use the old Notepad.

No, it's not. It was removed in an update some time back, to push people into an Office subscription.

The eliminated Wordpad to push people into Office subscriptions. But they need Wordpad functions in something included with Windows.

The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing (and doesn't want to, since the right hand is probably masturbating to a selfie).

GNU pico/nano have also been ported to Windoze, or so it seems.