I'm not an Apple fan, but, you're either ignoring facts or are too young to remember - not sure which. But either way, *all* of the computer companies were making their stuff as proprietary and hard for others to work on as they possibly could until companies like Columbia Data Products, Eagle Computer, and Compaq began making clones of the IBM standards that wouldn't get them sued out of existence. And then there was a bit of a golden age for a while, but eventually component standardization and the accessibility for end users to work on their own stuff fell back off again - and yes, some of that is corporate greed, but some is also just realities of design. The only thing "special" about Apple is that they never stopped, and they did it partially for an emphasis on quality and improved guarantees of compatibility of components. I'm not saying there haven't been times when they went out of their way to make things difficult for end users wanting to work on their own stuff for greedy reasons. I just don't see why you'd call them out over many others.

I'm mostly fine with this, except making Thursdays the last day of the work week would make them even more complicated, and I, for one, have never been able to quite get the hang of Thursdays. ;)

"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

Wouldn't it be hilarious if everyone including Google assumes they mean Chinese anti-trust laws... and then China turns over everything they've found on how Google is violating EU and US anti-trust laws to relevant prosecutors in those jurisdictions?

... I think so, Brain, but, how do they get the microplastics into their chewed up brains *after* they eat them? NARF.

That was an awful lot of words to explain Transformers and not *once* did you mention that the Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons.

If I could do it once, or even a reasonably small number of times... maybe. But in reality you'd never reach the end of that. New stupid and apathetic people are made every damned day. ;)

I do tech support for far too many hours out of my day and at least get paid for it. I shouldn't then have to do tech support for free to get people to behave like decent human beings during the few hours of downtime I do get.

Office isn't the stumbling block, really. Active Directory is.

Well, you're likely to be, anyway - what with it being pitch dark and all.

The rest of these Despicable kids need to get offa my lawn, before I throck the grass and it gives them a proper what-for. ;)

Boy, I sure am glad you cleared that up for me. I definitely wasn't *obviously* speaking tongue-in-cheek or anything. :smh, lol:

Beat me to it. If I had mod points I wouldn't be commenting. :D

It's actually not impossible, if you have enough money to build a really big needle or bioengineer tiny tiny camels. ;)

And realize like Henry Ford did that a healthy economy for your company includes a broad middle class with discretionary income and the time to spend and enjoy it.

To the effect of the additional fuel burned to alter the routes?