Posts by officerbill 4 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Feb 2014
"What this is really trying to address is the market dominance of companies like Google and Facebook," said O'Brien. "I really wish the EU had concentrated on pursuing those companies through antitrust and anti-monopoly actions"
Instead of, you know, having EU providers compete on their own merits. Is there an EU based site (other than maybe the BBC) with works wide usage?
Flying round trip from Jamaica to Miami (well known narcotics transport locations) on the same day to make a drop off & pick up at an obscure business and traveling with three different passports, it practically screams "look at me". Of course you're going to get looked at pretty closely, what else would you expect?
The argument about which format the government will accept is pointless since almost any decent word processor will at least open & read pretty much any format. We saved any internal document that would not need editing as a pdf and all of the documents available to the public (including on-line forms & email attachments) were only available as pdf, no problems.
The corruption issues were probably primarily caused by text being pasted retaining it's original formatting on top of the document formatting. Doing a rt/click paste, rather than a CtrlV, gives you the ability to preview & choose how the paste will be applied.
As for orphaning formats, even today Word will open & save as formats as old as Works & Word Perfect.
MS isn't perfect, but their document formats are the most widely used in the world and that should count for something when the government adopts an "official" format; otherwise why not just mandate .txt and no one will ever have to worry about compatability or licensing issues.
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