OfficeMonkey

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I hadn't heard that China might have pressured Disney about the democratization of heroism, but... I could see it. I agree TLJ felt like a bit of a downer -- especially coming from the abandoned Expanded Universe novels where Luke hadn't done the best job but at least had set a direction for Jedi to come back into the galaxy. I still don't love Rey's encounter with the dark side.

But the disruption of every story beat, the possibility of being a hero because YOU choose to step forward, that was a great twist. The broom scene should have set the direction of the terribly named Episode 9...

Maybe I'll slip Rogue One in and drop Episode 9. Still 9 movies, and only really regret the first one.

docx is OOXML, Open Office XML.

However, it was definitely written to ensure existing doc files could be fully supported, so a lot of the format is "bit 7: if enabled, use Word for Mac 5.0 layout engine." So... Documented, yes. Usable, no.

PDF, as mentioned, is very similar. The format is available, but no one really wants to implement ALL of it.

Shareholders want an ever-increasing return. Officers of a publicly traded company have legal responsibility to the shareholders, not "customers" or the public -- so the publicly traded studios have to make little line continually go up. Even making the same profit as last year is deemed a failure (or cause for bailout or purchase). So yeah, the people making decisions have zero tolerance for risk. =]

on Do it Rockapella! · c/NostalgiaLane · 2 pts · 177d

My partner and I have tried to explain this to our child. They just don't get it. I even got them the Carmen San Diego handheld game... But without a physical book, it doesn't feel the same anyway.

But we've made them listen to Rockapella. They make us listen to their music, we expand their horizons!

I have entirely too many domains at namesilo.com. Privacy is included for free in the majority of circumstances -- not for .org. .com renewals for me are down to $8.85 year because of the aforemented "too many." I also have some .social and other newer TLDs and those are stupidly expensive.

I use nothing else from namesilo. For domains I use I don't even use their nameservers. But for what I need, their UI is sometimes awful, but it does what I need.