Seriously? How many 70 year old people do you know? Let say you need to urgently take your child to a doctor and can choose between a 30 yo and a 70 yo. What would you do?

Parent cited an experiment that found 70 year-olds to have mental functioning on par with young people. Would you like to argue against the study's conclusion in a meaningful way? Or are you just pointing out that regardless of what is true, humans tend to act in a biased and ineffective manner?

That's a straw man right there. Why would it matter? In terms of the decision making, the one with more knowledge is better. In terms of driving, it depends on if the 70 year old still has the PHYSICAL ability and acuity to drive a car, which is exactly what we weren't talking about.

I'd say the 70 yo doctor is less likely to prescribe new 'fad meds' that cost more and perform worse than the classical drugs

Also, experience

Exactly, nowadays the majority of people in the developed world are "working" in marketing, finance and other useless areas. It would be far better if they just stay home.

Right, on to registering letmeddosthatforyou.com :D

Does this work with https sites? I'd like to stop online banking sites from logging me out every few minutes.

I feel like a bad developer for not knowing this answer.

Part of me wants to say yes because it's iframe traffic and independent of my website.

Part of me wants to say no because i dont have a cert for this domain and it might somehow try to communicate via http because of that? or at least cause some flags in your browser?

Either way I'm not sure I personally would trust a random guy (even though I'm pretty trustworthy) having my bank session hanging out in an iframe on his insecure personal project website.

Why? Are you playing naive? Information today is the ultimate power, those surveillance systems are operated by the most powerful people in the world. A guy takes actions against them, how shocking he's getting punished.

Bill Gates never said that.

It's impossible (without an AGI :) ) to reproduce all the features and bugs in something as complex as MS Word, so import/export will never be perfect. Just have a look at the "standard" docx format specification.

Well, nobody's expecting 100% perfection anyway. Even if they just squashed a dozen well-known bugs such as revision tracking, that would be a major accomplishment.

How to switch on revision tracking in LO: http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/3961/track-changes/

Now if you're saying it's buggy as hell, that's a different matter :-)

IMHO there are two reasons this is unlikely:

1. MS has always been the king of "on paper" features. That was an important reason back in the 80s and 90s for Word, Excel, PP to win the market.

2. MS Office is by far the most profitable software product in the world, while Libre Office is not the coolest open source project. Which means a lot more developers on the MS side.

I didn't say "the most popular" Office product, I said "the most advanced".

"seems totally ridiculous" is a ridiculous argument. Human brain being very bad at estimating exponential processes. Do you have anything more scientific?

Any way there are gonna be big changes in the near feature. Either the current progress in data, energy, etc. will stop/drastically slow down or in a few years will have what it takes to build AIs and move planets around.

Uff, 1st theory =/= hypothesis, 2nd if the brain quantum computation in microtubules is true, 10^19 computations per kw/hr is not going to be nearly enough.