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The USA has some (unpleasant) experience in cutting ties with an overarching power. Twice. Once, we cut the cord with King George in the late 1700s. It worked but was costly in lives. Once the united states (lower case intentionally) became separated in the 1860s. Again, it was costly in...

Oh, darn, and I try SO hard to not be a man-splainer. My dear Linda only lets me 'splain once on an topic before she gets out the wet rubber chicken.

As it is part of the thread title, the "PC" movement is a part of this discussion. Whenever I hear someone use a PC excuse or comment, I have to ask myself whether the problem is that the comment is truly offensive or that the PC commenter didn't want to face the argument because that person...

Genetic engineering has already created genetically modified organisms in the plant kingdom. Take a look at various grain-based snacks that tout "Non-GMO" as one of their merits. These GMO life forms are examples of playing around with genetic code. In other threads we have discussed two...

At the moment, because it is all we have to study, DNA-based life (and its RNA-based cousins) seems the only viable solution. So far we have not come upon anything we would call "living" that isn't based on some form of the nucleic acids. I think that until we meet such an entity, we will have...

Having a focused goal, a directed project of some sort, leads to doing more constructive things in an area that needs constructive attention. Having no particular good goal usually leads to no particular good result. It is a matter of human nature that we like to tinker. Even as kids we take...

Panspermia is a wonderful theory but all it does is move the goal line. If you compare DNA among species, it is possible to derive a "tree of life" in which you can find a little change in one spot of your DNA that is the difference between you and Cromagnon Man. And another spot that leads...

In line with Bee's comments about doing best when under some pressure: "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." - this is believed to be a variant on a quote from Chaucer; the original MAY be "Idleness is the root of mischief."

I think it is possible to over-think sometimes. That reflection can indeed occur, and should. But Man does not suffer too much change at once. Thus, if you are going to seek some reflection that might lead to change, be sure to only indulge when you can afford to change or can't afford not to.

As someone used to problems of software engineering, chemical engineering, and electrical engineering, I feel it necessary to defend the phrase, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Taken out of context, it sounds like someone wants to rest on their laurels. But the real problem is that taken in...

Actually, you can customize Outlook because of the Rules - but the issue for your specific problem is that standard Outlook doesn't have a "Save As" rule. It only has a "Save message to other messaging folder" rule. I looked in my own copy of Outlook and in a couple of online searches. If you...

The utopian dream of perfectly representative government is necessarily the origin of a dystopia where we elect lawmakers who can't say NO. And if they do refuse us, we oust them and elect someone else who will give us what we incorrectly think we want. We put the government in place when we...

The question is whether everyone has Outlook. That one is easy. The VBA/Macro method would be a bit harder and if you have a typical IT department they would immediately resort to the NIH syndrome... not invented here.

Utopia is an imagined perfect society, but its original meaning in ancient Greek writing that first used the term is "a place that doesn't exist." Based on the prefixes, dystopia would be the opposite of utopia in that it SHOULD be a perfectly imperfect society. But it, too, cannot exist...

What is inside or outside of the box? Frequently "the box" is just self-imposed barriers of doubt. We all live inside walls of our own making. Pardon the use of vernacular here, but when I was younger I struck out with the ladies consistently because of my own self-imposed (and incorrect)...

Ah, a "Save As" case... There is another way that could be automated if everyone has Outlook. You could create a "secondary" post office file (.PST) in a shared area, create a folder in the .PST file (using the name HOUSE of course), change that file to allow shared read access, then store...

That sentence seems incomplete. Care to rephrase? You SHOULD be able to open a folder and customize the view. Even if messages are otherwise letter-for-letter identical to each other in title and content, you should be able click on the column header in that folder view and select to sort the...

Whether "Outlier" is a box or merely represents one doesn't matter. When it comes to mental issues, perception is everything. If someone perceives that I think outside of the box, that implies they saw a box. The fact that I didn't just means everyone has different barriers or perceptions of...

Bee, your difficulty identifying with the "normal" distribution is because they are on the inside of some self-imposed box that you can't see. Can't say what is "normal" if you happen to not see the same limits. It is part and parcel of my "relative viewpoint" comments. People see you as an...

Some people say I think outside the box. My usual response is "There was a BOX???? Why is it that nobody told me?" Being an outlier implies that there are limits for you to exceed. But the question for me is "Why do you think there are limits?" I found at least a partial answer to that...