I feel ya, but the "thanks Republicans" remark is a bit dated. The new left loves big tech and it's power to sway messaging. Both sides are and have been garbage for decades. Obama and Trump were both elected to change things up in different ways and the establishment seems to be as resilient as cockroaches. Term limits in congress might help.

You must have a very powerful and very clean computer. MS Office 2016 crashes just sitting there. I can't leave spreadsheets open or I start getting weird UI issues affecting it and other programs. Seems to be stacked with memory leaks, utter POS. The last time I enjoyed MS Office was the '97 version. That just worked.

I must be new here. You tone was necessary, the guy wasn't challenging you in any way. Next time, call me an idiot and throw the F-word in between every word instead of attacking someone just stating what they're success with non-traditional pain management. I will just think you're late for your ANTIFA march instead of someone else having to get annoyed.

Not to mention, that modern IT is more about memorizing weird places to click in junk cloud-based software that isn't intuitively written. Every version of Windows seems to be designed to add more clicks and make the interface less efficient. The job used to be built upon understanding the underlying components of the system and being able to perform step-by-step troubleshooting using the OSI model. Controlling the user environment to keep them out of trouble was also a big part of the job and if done well make life easier for everyone. We've entered a period of multiple monopolies forcing their ideas on us and stifling real innovation and product improvement. Don't think that failing to immediately know where some silly function or setting was hidden in an inferior product is a sign of early onset dementia!

You well-reasoned, calm, documented comment is greatly appreciated. Thank you for maintaining a non-partisan discourse and setting an example for others to follow.

He'll be of the party of "you can't prove it!" and "even though they need ID for several other aspects of modern life, it is too much of a burden to require one for voting".

To be fair, every once in a while they'll catch a dummy on the other side illegally voting too.

I wish we could trust our civil servants not to be political hacks and weaponize their positions of trust to further their personal political views. Authenticating doesn't have to mean you're DOXing yourself to the planet. What you post wouldn't have to be attributed to you for the masses, it could be a temporary identifier that only a secured site would be able to reference to you. Law enforcement could then get a warrant if your daily/hourly or whatever ID had been found to be naughty enough to investigate. However, we've recently seen that the bar for such a request can be pretty low if the activities of the person being unveiled don't meet the prevailing views of the individuals working in the government. That is a bit of a crisis.

That episode of the Orville was one of the most useful things to show up on television, ever. I wish it had gotten some press. Unfortunately, being able to whip people into a frenzy on social media is too valuable a tool. It follows that we are a Republic for many of the same reasons. Democracy is important, but mechanisms do need to be in place to temper moments of mob hysteria.

I have an O365 subscription to ensure compatibility. The rest of my house uses LibreOffice. It's nicer to use for most things, runs a lot faster and is a lot more stable, and of course, it's free! Haven't purchased anything from Adobe in a decade, it's garbage and in a subscription model has no value.

The upper management types also have a lot more sociopaths, why don't we figure out a way to teach that in the universities as well?!? I have a better idea, lets develop personable sociopathic androids that can replace upper management. At least they'll be consistent. Think of the cost savings!!!

I was not happy when Jar Jar was presented. Having a large part of the movie taking place on a My Little Pony planet would have been less annoying.

Can you refute a single point that he raised? All I see you doing is name calling because you don't "feel" the way he does.

Here a few words they've redefined in the Newspeak liberal dictionary:

Hate = anything libs don't agree with that is even remotely related to race or religion.
Diversity = not white.
Black = even a drop of African blood -- this definition used to be racist, but now its okay since they're using it.
Fascism = Right - even though this word was created for the facisto supporters in WWII Italy and applies to the Nazi (National Socialist) party of WWII Germany.
Gender = Fluid and based on feeling rather than biology.
Race = not fluid and everyone is a victim except whitey, they never can be History = something to erase if it doesn't fit today's PC narrative. Interesting that ISIS feels the same way as they destroy ancient monuments
Science = Any data that supports the notion that the USA is bad or that humanity should be reduced by any means necessary to minimize our impact on the planet.

The list is virtually endless. The Obama years were simply awful for a lot of our citizens. If you didn't have concerns about this, you've been indoctrinated rather than educated and should sue your "university" immediately for some of that student loan money back.

Next they'll tell us that George Soros invented the Internet. Al Gore will be relieved to pass the torch. The origins of the Internet have nothing to do with Globalism whatsoever, aside from allowing the sickness to spread a little faster.

Their products are devolving to the point of creating barriers to entry to themselves, yet their monopolistic power is so great that they still don't lose market share. I own licenses to office 365 and still use OpenOffice as my default because it doesn't crash nearly as often. Server 2016 - especially with Exchange is just hideous to manage compared to previous versions. It's bad. Yet, there still isn't a viable alternative.