Lots of people like me grew up to Neil Young and saw him as an outsider not beholden to the establishment. That was part of his appeal. Well now he is an angry old man in the establishment and wants to silence entertainers that say stuff he does not like. He has evolved into his own enemy.

I am fully vaccinated and boosted and will continue to take the advice of my doctor. Myself and anyone with a brain is not going to listen to Joe Rogan for medical advice. That does not mean he should be canceled, He is an entertainer, a shock jock. He is supposed to be controversial that is the point of his show.

That is the shocker in this article. I thought the point of Free software and especially GNU was freedom from companies like IBM.

Having been through 3, 20 year cycles I say, people in their 20s will think they are the smartest to ever live with no clue what came before. People in ther 30s will say not much has changed just the new music sucks. People in their 40s will say people in 20s are dumbest generation ever. People 50 and over will say everything has changed for the worse. I will have been through 4-20 year cycles and glad the modern world is 420 friendly.

I am pretty sure not a single person voted based on something they saw on Facebook on any other social media. It is just a dead horse being beaten over and over by people that still cant believe they were wrong about the election. They have to somehow "fix" the problem. But in reality they still don't get it or cant bring themselves to accept it which means they cant fix it and Trump will win reelection.

People have to accept the result and understand it to overcome and defeat it. It is sad to watch the meltdown and attempt to blame everything but the problem itself. The D's lost for at least 3 reasons. 1. the candidate was really so bad anyone could defeat 2. Trump routed around traditional media so they could not control his message 3. A conservative candidate always wins US presidential elections.

Go back and look at debates even with Obama and Romney. Obama was against gay marriage, talked like a war hawk about Iraq, on and on. He was seen as conservative by the general public. Romney was portrayed by the press as weak. Liberals that supported Obama ignored all of those comments as just lip service and knew about his many other positions. The general public watching CBS news would never see Obama as anything other than an acceptable conservative. Once elected he had more freedom to be himself for the second election.

As of now I predict a second Trump term. Mainly because his opponents are all still focusing on games they cannot win, controlling social media, impeaching the pres, etc. If you have any critical thinking brain cells left you should be able to see those things are not going to happen. The internet will route around censorship. Actually arresting or trying to take down the president will not happen. I would bet any amount of money on that fact. People that still think that might happen are dumber than dumb, I don't care what evidence they think exists, it is irrelevant.

The only way for the Ds to win the next presidential election is a very conservative appearing person that is a fantastic public speaker that does not trash Trump but appears smarter and more pragmatic. I am willing to bet they will go the opposite direction and pick a liberal professor type that complains about everything trump. They will lose bad once again.

Midterms are not an indicator of anything. The opposing party almost always comes into power during midterms because they are reeling from the loss and more motivated to go vote.

If this had any value it is most likely gone. Now thousands of musicians will sign up for the service and try to get their songs listed on many irrelevant playlists. This might help If you happen to have some really great and very well recorded original songs that fits perfectly in a very high traffic genre. Most people don't.

99.9% of the people that sign up will have real crappy songs that will not go anywhere. People will take your money and maybe even get them on some playlists but users will skip the songs and you will spend more than you make.

Back in my day I didn't have GPS or cell phones. I did field service for point of sale systems going to mom and pop stores all of the southeast in tiny little towns. I was usually given directions by my boss that were similar to a Larry the Cable guy skit.I had no problem reading a map, changing the am radio station, shifting gears, drinking a beer, while smoking a cigarette. Kids today just can't multitask.

The first versions of Word I used in late 80s were keystroke compatible with WordPerfect and would read and write WP format files by default. It was close enough for most companies. Many of my customers went to word because it was much cheaper than WordPerfect (competitive upgrade pricing). Law firms were the hold outs that would not switch and also used more advanced WP features that were not copied. By the time Windows 95 came out WP for Windows was buggy as hell and Word was pretty stable. Law firms that I dealt with starting converting Word at that time. Generally they were going from Novell file servers to NT Server and Win95 workstations and from WP to Word and getting internet connected all in one big upgrade.

Most likely someone at Microsoft had the bright idea (at a bar when they were drinking heavily), hey what if websites were in Microsoft proprietary document formats rather than html. That's the ticket, we will create a public place for people to set up a profile and then host their personal public website in MS document formats. I think that is where it started but the people actually used as place to store files like Google drive.

The people that used the search feature were probably after all of your points above and instead found a trove of personal information.

The whole point of the site is that you are putting documents there to be seen by everyone, sort of a YouTube for documents. It is a place to "Showcase and discover Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Sway, Minecraft world and PDF documents for free". Showcase being the key work, hey everyone in the world, look at my pretty documents.

I don't think this (for once) in a MS problem.

All of the news about fake news is just the people who thought they controlled all information trying to get their power back. All major TV networks, Google, FB, DNC, RNC, PACs of the mega rich all thought they had absolute power. By some fluke of nature this wildcard lunatic goes against them all and wins. This will not be allowed to happen in the future. All sources of information must be validated and unapproved information suppressed.

The Fake News label has about the same value as Fact Checking. Sometimes it is obvious but when it really matters, fake = not aligned with my bias.

Maybe I just have a lot naive liberal friends. I see lots of fake stories from both sides I would say at least equal amounts left and right. I just scroll past and I have stopped following some on both sides. I never challenge anything on-line because you just get incoherent rants from the poster and they do not hear what you are saying. It is not fake because they believe the premise. The facts are just an annoyance.

People will believe without question anything that matches their ideology or preconceived notions and they will vehemently challenge anything against them. This is true across all ideologies and probably true for the people at Facebook who saw fake news as a conservative problem.

I cannot find anything that says why this is a good idea. If FB, Google, etc, are supporting it there has to be a reason and they are not saying. I can speculate that these companies could possibly claim to be global entities and not US corporations and avoid taxes/regulations or otherwise piss off a US administration with no fear of the domain getting shut down. It is probably short sighted because they may have more control over the US government and more due process than some unelected international body.

Trump is not a Republican by any stretch of the imagination. He is using the Republican system because he picked that channel for his sales effort. I am not convinced he will make the republican nomination. The GOP does not want him because they do not appear to control him.

The fact is that if anyone with a D or R beside their name is elected (and they will be unfortunately) all will remain the same. D & R and just different sales channels of the same government.

The internet is a big part of the problem. Whatever you want to believe no matter how far from reality has an strong support system on the internet. Prior to the internet you could have crazy beliefs but you still had to interact with people of varying views. This helped to center most people. Now you can stare at your phone all day and be completely brainwashed by whatever you want to believe.

Facebook and others help with the process.. They know pretty quickly if you are for or against something and then overload you with click bait slanted to your point of view.

I was working for a VAR that used Xenix and later SCO Unix and AT&T Unix (NCR Towers). Somehow I ran across some GNU tools. I got a tape of some GNU utilities. In any case I had become familiar with GNU. I started to hear about Usenet and wanted to get on the internet. I got a prodigy account and subscribed to some Unix newsgroups. Somewhere I saw reference to Slackware. By that time I was using a local ISP that has a limit on how long you could stay connected but unlimited from midnight to 8 in the morning. I started a diskette downloading at midnight every night for a couple of weeks to download all the diskettes.

I had a 386sx system cobbled together from parts. I installed and was impressed that I had an actual running unix like system. I played around with it for a couple of years. In January 1996 I started a local ISP/Web hosting and web development company. Not sure if I trusted Linux for production I bought two servers. On one I installed the commercial BSDI Unix system and on the other I install Red Hat 1.0.1 I believe. I set them up in identical configurations (as much as possible). As we grew and added servers it was all Linux. We ended up hosting hundreds of web sites and thousands of email accounts. I started taking old PCs and installing Red Hat along with Linuxconf (not the crappy version that came with some versions of Red Hat, but downloaded and updated from the maintainer). I set these up for most of my local business customers running their own email/proxy/NAT gateway they could self manage with the Linuxconf web interface.

I was all in with Linux in every part of my job until 2001 I was offered a job by one of my customers. The hiring manager told me they were 100% Microsoft and would never use any Unix or Linux or anything else. The offer was too good financially to turn down so I took it. Since that time I have continued to use Linux almost exclusively at home and hobby projects. It has been amazing to see Linux grow in use and acceptance and a shame that I have been prevented from using it for work. I have managed to implement a couple of Linux based proxies here but in general the IT staff is anti-Linux just based on the historical culture.