[quote user="mikeTheLiar"]And both sound like fantastic ways to celebrate your birthday![/quote] Would you prefer no chance that you'll be charged as a minor?  That can make things exciting, depending on what else you are doing to celebrate.

[quote user="morbiuswilters"] [quote user="locallunatic"]Voting is a big deal...[/quote] HA HA HA, good one! [/quote] Sorry, looking back I should have qualified that with for local things (as less to drown you out and it's real easy to discourage voting in others).

[quote user="mikeTheLiar"]No, TRWTF is that turning 18 doesn't allow you to do anything exciting in the US.[/quote] Voting is a big deal if you were raised with even a basic understanding politics.  Enlistment without parental consent is also big.

[quote user="drurowin"] [quote user="Lorne Kates"] [quote user="mikeTheLiar"]It will block single HTTP requests if the vulgarity exceeds a certain threshold. When I check my "spam" email account (email I give to untrusted parties) on webmail, I have to turn the page size way down or I trip that ...

[quote user="mikeTheLiar"]I would imagine that the amount of vulgarity that shows up in these forums would be enough to get it one some sort of corporate block list.[/quote] Oh, if they looked at content instead of just where it was coming from very much so.  And there are things that are set up to filter in that way, but you have ...

[quote user="mikeTheLiar"] Yet tdwtf forums aren't blocked? [/quote] "Block this site" policies generally come from non-technical people, so something like these forums isn't going to come up.

If you have the different keyboard layouts set up it does so, which would only let me switch my machine to qwerty for someone else who needs to use my keyboard for a sec but not switch another machine to dvorak so I can use it.  Instead I did the different layouts in different settings which keeps me from getting them accidentally ...

Yes at home, but at work I use Qwerty (easier to switch machines or let others use your keyboard that way).

I think you've explained it before, but how has this guy not been fired (preferably out of a cannon) again?

[quote user="morbiuswilters"]I get the testing aspect, but what does that have to do with you personally being glad you have to run IE 6 and don't get to run IE 10?[/quote] Oh sorry, no.  I'm glad I don't get the automatic upgrade in version of IE that he got, not that I'm glad I have to use a piece of crap.