One of the more frustrating things about working in the windoze context is the difficulty, or often impossibility, of automating tasks. Their design "philosophy", such as it is (or isn't) is that the user is an integral part of the computer system. It's damn hard to get done anything that involves a lengthy sequence of steps without sitting in front of the screen throughout the whole process, just so you can click "yes" at certain points.

As I have often said, one of the Microsoft tactics is to waste as much of the end-user's time as possible.

Not so. Thunderbird is WAAAAY better that Outlook (AKA Look Out!). In fact even if Outlook worked as designed and intended (which it doesn't, much of the time) it would still be a piece of crap because that very design is poorly done.

Bill Gates should burn in Hell.

They can release all the raw reports they like, but the fact is there are no "aliens" visiting our Earth. One look at who is occupying the White House and those aliens said, "Forget it. We ain't going there."

I nominate him for the Ig Nobel Prize.

Applying Occam's Razor: the simplest explanation for why some buildings seem to be haunted is that they are full of ghosts.

The USA is burning over a billion dollars a day in a pointless vanity war.

Forget Zip drives, forget floppies. Punch cards and paper tape, baby! That's where it was at. Better still, a good memory and front panel switches! That how we did it back in the day when men were boys and women were girls.

I was driving near Area 51 when I saw the Flying Saucer Cafe. As I passed it, a saucer came flying out the front door. This was surprising, so I pulled into the parking lot and went in. I asked the waitress, "what was that?!!". She said, "We have an excellent cook, but sometimes he loses his temper and starts throwing the crockery."

1. Why would aliens from light-years away come all that distance, only either to crash into the oceon or perform anal probes on some hapless humans? Don't they have assholes of their own?

2. All this talk about maneuvers that "defy physics" sounds to me like reflections off the glass of the cockpit. Reality does not defy physics.

In an age when everyone has a high-quality camera in his pocket, how come the only evidence we have of these extra-terrestrial craft are fuzzy blobs?

When is M$ going to get prison time for selling faulty software?

Oh, dear. Micros**'s tender feelings have been hurt.

"Scientists can't explain why warming is accelerating. Science can't explain it. Therefore global warming is a crock."

-- The authoritative opinion of a random ignoramus.