Which is why I said for large definitions of office. I also mentioned IT because myself, my team, and members of other teams, are in the office every day doing our work because it can't be done from home.

Since we're told English is a fluid language and changes over time, here's another one. Office is no longer only for white collar workers. It's wherever you do your job regardless of what you do.

Oh it's also definitely about the office. While the managers get their private offices, the rest of us are dumped in "open floorplans" to "encourage collaboration". Nobody wants to be stuck listening to Bill loud-talking to his customer on Zoom or smelling Janet's microwaved tuna and garlic lunch.

For the vast, overwhelming majority of the workforce that does their job in meatspace, and for their bosses, what this guys says holds no water.

Thank you. As some on here are wont to say, not everyone learns at the same pace. In a similar fashion, not everyone can sit on their ass and do their job from home. If people would take more than three seconds and not have a knee jerk reaction every time this subject comes up, they'd understand the vast amount of people who need to be in the office (for large definitions of office) every day.

Let me know when the gal slinging your pizza for delivery can do that at home. Or the guy who's delivering that pizza to you via whatever overpriced delivery service you're using. The pharmacist getting your drugs prepped for pick up, the delivery driver who delivers the drugs to the pharmacy, the fast food worker grilling your slab of meat, that Starbucks worker making your overpriced mug of coffee-flavored sugar, truck drivers, warehouse workers, farmers, ranchers, landscapers, construction, road workers, chemists, virologists, judges (maybe in between cases), attorneys (again, maybe in between cases), the list goes on. I've only touched on the multitude of people who cannot, under any circumstance, work from home. And that includes some IT folks as well.

As you said, if you're a code warrior or account manager, or a general paper pusher, sure, sit on your ass and get fat at home. For the 75% of the workforce who don't fit into those categories, the office it is. Every day.

Yes. And if it did kill the kid they can always fall back on, "God has a plan."

Reaching Mars requires at least planetary escape velocity (11.2 km/s). That means you need a three stage rocket. Usually, the lower stage is about five times the next one. Starting from Mars requires only one stage (escape velocity 5.0 km/s). But still, you need a rocket large enough to carry a fully loaded ICBM as payload to get this one to Mars. A very small ICBM like the Midgetman weighs about 17 metric tons, the usual sized Minuteman twice that. Carry this one on a three stage rocket, your first stage has to have about 125 times the size of a Midgetman or Minuteman, thus between 2000 and 4000 metric tons. This would easily be in the size range of the Saturn V (2200 to 2900 metric tons).

In fact, the Atlas Centaur which carried Mariner 6 and 7 to Mars, weighted 136 metric tons while carrying just 400 kg of payload. At this ratio, we would need more than 300 times the payload, hence a rocket able to carry an ICBM to Mars would weigh between 6000 and 12000 metric tons or four times Saturn V.

With Republican's infatuation with what people do in their personal lives, this shouldn't surprise anyone. It's essentially next level McCarthyism.

That is not what I said. I said people should not buy tickets. The groups can still use TM, but no one buys a ticket. Sure, the scalpers will still buy tickets, but once they realize there is no market for the tickets they stop buying them.

The only way to truly hurt a company is to hurt their bottom line. Stop buying their product/service and they either go out of business or change their ways.

The easiest thing to do is not to buy tickets, either firsthand or from scalpers. Kill the market. TicketMaster goes out of business and multiple companies will step in producing competition.

But like people who complain about Amazon then go out and buy from them rather than not buying from them, this is too simple an idea so it can't be done.

For instance, look at Hallmark movies. They could all be original, but they're so formulaic they may as well not be.

I'm pretty certain I read at some point Danielle Steel admitting her stories were all the same, only the names and locations were changed.

Basic story elements don't change, and the details mostly exist to get you to miss the fact you've already seen the plot or character a million times before.

Which would fit in with what Steel said.

For the record, Steel has written at least 185 books.

There are a few use cases where having a push button lock with a code, or some other form of electronic access control is preferable. Not for a family, but often if you have a short term rental, or a shared workspace that a team uses. There's no excuse for a company that makes locks to sell a product with vulnerabilities like this.

1. Bare minimum, we should definitely hold Chinese vehicles (electric or otherwise) to the same safety-testing standards as domestic vehicles, and enforce it absolutely relentlessly (like we haven't been doing with Boeing until very recently, but we should have been). There will be huge pressure to relax this, but we dare not, because any loopholes will be abused in the worst possible way and people will die. This one shouldn't be negotiable at all.

2. Tariffs and sanctions remain an option, to be used correctively whenever a foreign company receives inherently unfair advantages resulting from things like government subsidies, currency manipulation, and so on. The details here are potentially negotiable, but...

3. There's no point negotiating *anything* with the CCP until the keep a few of the promises they've already made. Send them an open letter that says "Do some of the stuff you already said you were going to do. We'll wait." When they call to try to negotiate a better (for them) deal, have an intern put them on hold and go to lunch.

Casted boy groups were nothing new in the 1990ies. There are examples of those going back at least 100 years. At latest with the widespread availability of recorded music, the marketable boy group was born.

Decent-quality aluminum ore is still abundant. In the first place, it was more common than e.g. high-quality iron ore; but the real reason is, we didn't really start mining it in earnest until we figured out an affordable way to refine it, in the late nineteenth century. So compared to just about any other metal you care to name, there's significantly more of the good ore left still accessible, for aluminum.

Right, as if anyone still owns a pen.

I have a collection of pens I use. I used one of those pens multiple times this past week, and two other pens for limited use as well.

As for taxes, my local taxes were done via pen.

I know it's difficult to imagine using something which doesn't rely on a computer, but try.