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No, I meant your browser - do you use Windows Explorer, Firefox, Opera, or what?  I'm not familiar with Windows 7.1. Did you mean Windows 8.1?  The operating system doesn't really matter, but the browser does.  It sounds to me like this site thinks you are a Linux or Mac system or your browser, for some reason, is reporting to the site that you are. Try cleaning out your cookies for this site. You will have to re-enter your username and password, but maybe the correct CTRL-C and CTRL-V shortcuts will come back.

EDIT: You might also check to see if you can cut and paste OUTSIDE your browser (like open a test text file and enter, cut, paste, some keystrokes).  THis will verify that you CAN use those shortcuts, but the site isn't letting you use them.

~Tom

As an aside, I worked for six months on a computer program involving the Jacksonville (FL) monorail. There are electronic & mechanical safeguards everywhere that refuse to let a train move if just one of them has tripped.  Getting a stuck door (by a foot, for instance) would cause the train to just sit there and electronically call for help. In that instance, all the doors pop back open.

In a lot of SF and Space Opera stories, displaced drivers end up piloting some sort of tramp freighter around asteroids looking for "the big deal".

Cheers,

~Tom

Hi, Dirk.

Is this setting a penal colony? If so, then being sentenced to "hard labor" doesn't really NEED a reason to be labor. Back in the old days before the Uniform Code of Military Justice, service confinees were made to dig random holes all over the countryside and then go back and fill them up.  No rhyme or reason, they were just order to do it as punishment.

In your situation, they are apparently slaves, so they are either being punished, or there are other reasons for them to exist. If they are forced to do something that could be done by machines, so what? You could even drive home the fact that they are slaves by letting them see machines also doing their jobs. That would take the fight out of them.

~Tom

I just read it also, Janet. I am appalled at something like this could ever make the screen, much less be billed as a 'great film'.

~Tom

Exactly what happened to me, Janet.  I was on my home page, left it for a moment, and then came back.  Huh?  What happened? I don't mind it, but, like you, just a little warning.
~Tom

Thanks, Janet. She was perhaps the second thing I saw when I entered the living room (the first being a giant galvanized tub of iced-down beer). At first she didn't see me but she must have sensed me looking at her because when she looked up and we locked eyes it was all over. The elapsed time from entry to seeing her lasted about three minutes. That spark is still there.

~Tom

Sol:

It isn't really a bug, but I have seen several reviews that have a title bar and a blank review. It is followed almost immediately by another review by the same person stating, in effect, "I hit the Enter key and posted a blank review".  Would it be possible for the body of the review to be checked and if blank, present a pop-up asking if a blank review is what we meant or wanted?

~Tom

I've never had a case of writer's block. At the moment, I have 23 directories on my computer with novels in various stages of completion. Every time I get bogged down on one, I work on another. In one case, I worked closely on two novels and intertwined them at the middle and then broke back apart in a sort of parallel life.

You just have to find out what works for you and stick with it - adding and subtracting items as necessary. I carry a small spiral notepad in my pocket so I can jot down ideas as you never know where one will come from. My original idea for my current novel came from a couple of Anime pictures and my own experiences.

~Tom

I see the new "Home" button (which wasn't really necessary because the left-side logo was a Home button), but I'll be darned if I can find the "show your posts" button.  I just don't see it.

EDIT: Operator Error.  I see it now.  I was looking on the Home page instead of on a forum page.

Tom

Absolutely no rush, Sol.  I know how busy you are working on important items.

Tom

The recent flurry of new posts in the forums only pointed out the need for this: Can we please have the links on our home page to new posts take us to the first new post?  At the moment, the links dump us at post #1 and it is up to us to find where the last post we read is located.  I find myself scanning through pages of posts to find the spot I want.  In one of my forums, there is a underlined link to the first post and a small button to the left of that which will take you to the last unread post.  Maybe something like that could be set up here.

Tom