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I can't have any sympathy for the group of young adults still living with parents but not bothering to hold down a steady job and/or go to college/trade school. These are the kids who fuel the negative stereotypes about young people: mooch off parents or anyone else willing to provide free room...

One thing I really wish would happen is for the 24 hour cable news networks to fall on hard times. They're a big culprit in why America's political landscape is so angrily polarized. They devote as much attention as they can to the loudest, most extreme mouths on the left and right. The loud...

The problems our nation is now experiencing have literally been decades in the making. Price inflation in categories like housing, health care, child day care and college tuition have been well above average wage gains and the so-called "core CPI" rate for many years. America's economy has very...

The Fed had no choice but to raise interest rates. One factor that contributed to the inflation rate getting so high: the Fed farted around too long before finally taking action. This is shades of the mid 2000's all over again when Alan Greenspan kept the overnight lending rate at zero for way...

I don't know if the lettering in the attached sample image is from an un-altered actual typeface or if someone took a more standard sans typeface and modified the corners on the letters a little. Any help with the font ID would be appreciated.

Big oil companies, such as Shell, BP, etc are publicly traded. The same goes for many of the companies more geared to oil exploration, like Halliburton (which began nearby in Duncan, OK). There are lots of smaller, private companies too. American oil producers would really like to build and...

I repeat: Oil is a GLOBALLY TRADED COMMODITY. Do you think that giant complex of refineries next to Houston exists only to refine imported oil? American oil producers like making money off oil exports. If buyers elsewhere in the world are willing to pay more for their product and that difference...

The United States already drills and refines nearly all of its own oil and gasoline. In recent years the US has been a net exporter of oil -meaning we drill more than we use domestically. Here's the thing: OIL IS A GLOBALLY TRADED COMMODITY. The US government has very little control over oil...

It does seem pretty shocking that rates for a 30 year fixed mortgage surpassed 7% for the first time in 20 years. I wonder how many people putting those news headlines on blast remember 1981 when 30 year mortgage rates went as high as 18.6%. To answer the original question, how raising interest...

I use Corel's Font Manager application to "see" some font collection folders I organized, but that's mainly for design tasks I do in CorelDRAW. Otherwise I just install fonts directly into the OS via Windows' Fonts folder. The Adobe Fonts service is pretty handy. I haven't had many headaches...

Those "2" numerals are Arial Black. Distorted out of their normal proportions. Vomit.

I gave up on using Flexi for design work back in the early 2000's. We have 3 licenses of Flexi in my workplace, but they're all on "production" PCs for driving various devices. Not doing design work. Limitations with handing type, particularly the extended features of OpenType is one of the...

I have two problems with DaFont web site. One issue is they have a lot of poor quality fonts uploaded there. And many of the ones that are of better quality can be found either at Font Squirrel or Google Fonts. A bigger problem is many fonts on the DaFont web site are free only for personal...

A gray color that is really a CMYK mix may print more smoothly than a gray that is made up only with black ink.

Google Fonts and Font Squirrel are good sources for fonts that are free for commercial use. Most are of pretty good quality too. I usually buy commercial fonts from the MyFonts web site. They have lots of pricing specials on newly released typefaces as well as deals on not-as-new fonts...

The Find and Replace function has had issues in the 2022 version. I don't know if they did anything to fix it in the recent ".2" (subscriber exclusive) update. I've had issues with it hanging the program and even making it crash. That goes along with other issues. I rarely press the "H"...

Are you talking about the options in the Text palette? Within the last couple or so versions Corel decided to hide the character spacing, word spacing and language spacing options in a collapsible part of the Text palette. At the bottom of the "Paragraph" portion of the palette (near bottom)...

Yes. It's worth it. Because there is no shortage of fake-clients who abuse the services of legit sign companies, trying to get something for nothing before shopping our bid(s) to less-legit rival sign shops. They'll have us do all sorts of leg work: visit their location, measure/survey the store...

I think I would be inclined to go "whoops" and accidentally delete the files related to that project. Sign companies are not obligated to keep any source files or production files related to a particular project after it is completed. As others have stated, the client has no right to the...

"Near perfect" is good for some tasks. Not so good for others -like my example of a broken long channel letter face. I already have an excellent DSLR, Gitzo tripod, etc. I have plenty of experience with this stuff.