NotHereToPlayGames

We all use our computers our own way. I don't use any filter lists and only allow .js on a white-list basis - I fully EXPECT the web to be "broken" even if I did use an "unbreak" list.

I personally disagree, but we all have different perspectives and it's not all "binary".

Emulators can be hit-or-miss also. I tried a few Commodore 64 emulators a few years back and one of them didn't even adjust clock speed and everything was emulated at "lightning speed" - FAR from realistic.

Same here!

Not sure.

I myself wasn't too concerned with the word-choice of "fools". We have multi-million dollar homes build in Los Angeles or Malibu that are often built on "stilts" and collapse decades later. We have poverty-homes in New Orleans that flood over and over and over again, but "the rent is cheap" so the renters just "deal with it". "Fools" to me has no socio-economic undertone. There are rich "fools" and there are poor "fools". New Orleans homeownership rate is 48% when parent-state to New Orleans (Louisiana) has a homeownership rate of 69%. There is a reason for the large percentage difference. The "smarter" people relocate to safer districts and rent to the "fools". MOST sea port cities have a lower homeownerhip rate then their parent-state - but New Orleans tends to be among the largest percent-difference (69-48=21). Mobile, Alabama has a homeownership rate of 54% to Alabama's 72% (72-54=18). Miama, Florida is #1 for worst cities based on hurricane hotspots - homeownership rate of 51% to Florida's 69% (69-51=18).

I do the same. When I had a working version to use as my "base", I copied four files that I use so that future profile-builds do not depend on first-run. Those four files are "Preferences", "Bookmarks", "Favicons", and "Web Data". They all exist in the same folder as "Preferences". This seems to work for 99.9% of my settings. The ONLY setting I need to remember to make on profile-builds (and do so before enabling network access) is the "Join user experience plan" setting.

You brought up "a couple thousand years" in your post before I did when you seem to have been offended by the word "fools" (which I also did not bring up). At any rate, "things change". I don't really see the point in debating history. But let's at least agree to learn from history instead of repeating it. And history tells me that relocating a "poverty population" from New Orleans due to Katrina to the Midwest only added to the Midwest's poverty issues. So REPEATING that and relocating "poverty population" from Chicago due to covid does not do anything POSITIVE to the poverty issues HERE that hasn't even fully recovered since the last time we tried this "experiment". "Distributing" poverty across the map is no better a "solution" than "distributing" wealth across the map, shuffling the cards in the deck doesn't change the faces on those cards.

I'll add that my only real "direct" experience with New Orleans is that here in the Midwest where I live, we had several high-rent districts evolve into government-subsidized housing that took in several families from New Orleans. I can tell you firsthand that these areas are no longer high-rent districts and most of us cross our fingers that our children do not select these apartment complexes when they find a place of their own and start their families. The non-fools moved away from those communities, even though they were the "best in town" when we moved their in the first place. We have the same thing happening again here in the Midwest due to covid-pandemic, a very large number of folks migrating from the Chicago area to our area. And some very well-respected areas of town no longer regarded as well-respected. "Things change..."

Where is the line drawn, shall we discuss the Nile next? I don't really see the connection between New Orleans in 1718-1725 and whether or not people should have still been living in some of the area post-1940. Gold Mine towns popped up left and right during the Gold Rush - and departed when no more gold was to be found. Same for Coal Mine towns. But as far as sea port towns, New Orleans made terrible mistakes, mistakes that New York, Houston, Corpus Christi, Baltimore, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Tamba Bay, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Louisville, Brunswick, Sandusky, etc did not make.

The best parallel that comes to mind as far as "fools" building along the river and the plan of those "fools" working in that we are still here is NEW ORLEANS. Then Hurricane Katrina flooding New Orleans in August 2005. Look at the history of New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina hit. Public schools were some of the worst in the country; the murder rate was among the highest in the USA; there was deep-seated economic disparity between races; and the city's population had been on a steep decline for nearly a half-century. It all "worked" as far as us being here thousands of years later because the non-fools FLED and the "fools" stayed behind. And those that do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Do you think that Katrina was the "first"? Heck no, we had Betsy in '65, Camille in '69, Andrew in '92. But the "fools" did not heed warning and stayed behind.

No surprise. I was a moderator on a Proxomitron forum many years ago and that's how things were there also.

I ran into this also, several months back. I was unaware that when I attached a picture to a post, that it is saved as part of my profile. I had to go into my profile and delete pictures in order to be able to post new pictures. But then I ended up with old posts that had a picture but now no longer do. I now upload pic to Dropbox then embed links instead.

This is my 3rd or 4th account here that I can think of, spanning 10-15 years, don't really recall. The first one or two was because I landed here from a Google Search and simply needed to download somebody's attachment. I did not think I'd return after getting the attachment that brought me here in the first place (slipstreaming XP is what originally brought me here, I think). Then months pass and another Google Search landed me here, no clue of the previous account so I registered again. Then more months pass, account forgotten, don't even have the email address I registered under anymore, so I registered again. It wasn't untl XP hit end-of-life, tried the POS updates, apps were broken, reinstalled WITHOUT the POS, then needed a browser for XP that I landed here "permanently".

Bingo! Which here in the States generally means OWN YOUR OWN HOME versus renting-and-saving. I'm not too concerned with Social Security (our poorly-planned state assistence for the old) being here or not when I get old. I do think that it will still be here. But it is poorly-planned and Baby Boomers (those that are retired now or retiring soon) are currently getting, on average, $18,170 a year. This is when the average household income is $87,864. So the average Social Security income is only 21% of the average household income. I plan my retirement assuming this number WILL be LOWER when my generation draws Social Security because it is POORLY-PLANNED. But bear in mind also that this compares retirement income to household income. If your kids are still living off the dole during your retirement years, this will effect you negatively. If you took out a 30yr mortgage 50yrs ago and you are still making mortgage payments, this will effect you negatively. If you took out a 6yr car loan 2yrs before you retired, this will effect you negatively.

When I reinstall XP, my network doesn't show in that list either. But if I go to Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Wireless Network Connection -> right-click -> select Properties -> select Wireless Networks tab -->> then I can ADD the network under Preferred networks

I have been using 360 since mid to late 2020 and I have been very impressed with it. There are some guides in other threads on how to fully convert to English and also how to prevent telemetry. Very small learning curve but well worth it for those of us on XP. There's even some Vista and Win7 users that use 360 but I don't think they have the same vested interest as those of us on XP.

Renting versus owning has pros and cons on both sides. I'm not well-traveled so I can only speak based on "numbers". Home-ownership in US is 65.3%. Germany is 51.5%, Finland is 71.1%, Ireland is 70.3%. EU average is 70%.

Have you tried renaming to .zip or .7z and then extracting it? Or trying Universal Extractor or UniExtract2?

If you know it to be video, I would try any video converter and see if it will convert it. Or rename it as .avi or .mp4 and see if a "universal" video player will then play it.

Wages in Germany have also increased more than wages in US, at least for 1991 through present. Higher wages generally go hand-in-hand with higher home prices.

The Germany data I can find on home-ownership rate doesn't seem to be updated as frequently as the US data. Germany home-ownership (ie, owned by the people that live in the home, not by corporations renting that property out) is definitly on a decline. But so was the US and the US was on an increase until this "pandemic" caused a large drop. But it should also be pointed out that the left scale (US) full-scale range is only 62 to 70 percent for as far back as 1965 for the above chart. An 8% fluctuation doesn't seem too much of a concern to me. The scale on the right (Germany) only has a full-scale range of 51 to 53.5. So Germany home-ownership has only dropped LESS THAN 2.5% for the range shown above.

Not sure if possible through the Win7 bootup. For the XP, have you tried to access the main administrator account instead of the actual user accounts? XP has an administrator account that only later versions of Windows disabled by default and it should be present on a default install of XP. On the username/password screen, don't select any user accounts but enter Administrator for the username. Keep the password blank for the first attempt, if that doesn't work try Administrator as the password for the Administrator username. If that gets you in, go to the Control Panel -> User Account -> Change Account and change the password for the user accounts you need to regain access to.