From context, "eschews". I don't think I've ever heard it spoken; I thought it was pronounced "ess-shoes", but I suppose the "ch" could be a hard "ch" so "eskews" could be correctly phonetic. Or it could be wrong twice. Either way I don't think it made the post hard to understand.

But that's SOCIALISM!!!!11!bang!!

I was all for single-payer. So were most Democrats, but the theory was that single-payer wouldn't fly with the Republicans, so we got Romney-care relabelled as Obama-care to get it to pass. In hindsight, as I recall, they couldn't get any Republicans to vote for it anyway, so the pandering to delicate Republican sensibilities (probably also pandering to DINOs) was useless. Should have had the single-payer, government option in there as well.

When it reigns it poors...

I see what you did they're....

Whoosh!

Learn to read. 2 separate companies are referenced in that sentence: Bayer, which IS still around; and Chemie Grenenthal, which is the company that brought Thalidomide to market. No claim was made that Bayer brought Thalidomide to market.

I was extremely surprised when my Excel spreadsheet that uses a VBA macro opened perfectly in LibreOffice 4.4. I have no idea how complete the VBA compatibility is, but there definitely is some. I suggest you try your Excel spreadsheets using VBA in LibreOffice; they might just work, or might only need very minor changes. My VBA usage is not enormous, so my success may not be representative, but it's worth a shot.

#darkmatterlasers

Should say: meant to have been played from.

No, 115 mg/kg is LESS toxic than lead at 70 mg/kg. It takes LESS lead to kill you, MORE uranium to kill you.

Actually that was Lily Tomlin.

Thank you. I read the comments solely to find this quote. I'm surprised it was so far down.

I regularly find them in Europe.

In the US it's a lot more rare. I did stay at a hotel in Manhattan that had private rooms but a common bathroom (shared for the floor). Bu that was an extremely low price, for NYC. And I wouldn't do it again (now I have a family).

What was the rule?

The way to fix that is to just use remote desktop over the VPN. Then the machine that needs fast access to the files is on the fast network. You have fast access to everything that way. The machine that displays the desktop can be anything, and cheap; the machine that you really use can be fully virtualized (although I just use a regular desktop at the desk I never visit; it could be moved into a data closet or onto a shared VM box and I wouldn't care).

About the only thing that doesn't work well over VPN remote desktop is video (a smarter remote desktop could deal with that, but I haven't seen it personally). My job doesn't involve video at work anyway.