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I thought the Arabic influence was all around the mediterranean? At least in architechture some mauric streak is omnipresent there,

Yes. French actually is a 100% successor of the local vulgar latin. There's no "native" French that's somewhere in the bowels of the language; no celtic ("gallicus") roots to be found there.

The word is "robotic", not "robiotic".

I was just getting seriously into CAAD, VR and visualization when I switched from NT to 2k - and to Linux on my second machine. I had Blender (still proprietary of NaN, then) importing DXF files via network share and render them in the backgroud while I was working on the next drawing on my W2k machine. Nobody understood what the heck I was doing but the visualisations (and even an animation in real 3D - gasp!) were quite a killer back then...

The only two incarnations of Windows I found to be acceptable were NT4 and W2k. Anything later was mostly a step into the wrong direction.

That's what blood ought to be in the age of social media.

What does making sense have to do with MS-Windows?

I think you're overinterpreting a bit. Actually the MS-droid doesn't really say anything. Just that the taskbar is not movable. Which was exactly the question.Typical evasion strategy.

building the taskbar from scratch meant that they had to cherry-pick things to put into the feature list first, and the ability to move the taskbar didn’t make the cut, for several reasons that Microsoft values.

Translation: Nobody really knows (or wants to take the blame), we probably just forgot to put on the feature list. Anyway, I'll just use the usual vague weasel-words that don't really mean anything.

That's what the Platonians want you to believe. Fools! Blind, dumb followers of the Athenian sophistry! Socrates was innocent!

Easy. It's Atlantis. Not only Americans would fail here, also ancient Greeks because they located Atlantis somewhere in the Aegean sea where an undersea quake sunk a couple of islands. Claiming Atlantis was lost and can't be found, of course, is cheap. It takes the illuminated mind of a trained alchemist to see the truth behind the blindwork of the temple knights and the dark forces of the Vatican.