Only if you want to open sharepoint up to outside access. We found out the hard way. Part of our security posture includes preventing non domain account access to Sharepoint. Which means if I host a meeting, I cant post a file from my desktop into chat for a client or vendor to grab because they are using their account and not ours.

They really need one more level of granularity to allow access to files in the meeting only. Or a DMZ style space for meeting shares. We're not opening up our Sharepoint to the world just so somebody can share a file every once in a while. Luckily in our case we have a 3rd party file transfer service we can use. Its just not as streamlined as using chat transfers.

It also has TONS more to do with the fact that those companies get Teams as part of the licensing agreement for email. (yes its groupware, but they buy it for the most popular E3 license for Exchange 365 mailbox and get Teams "for free")

Teams does the job, so why pay extra for Zoom? "We dont need to stop at McDonalds, kids. We have food at home."

No real need yet. Its like putting a payphone 100 miles deep into the wilderness where nobody goes. Is it worth installing something that gets used less than once a decade or two? Have we even sent anything to the far side of the moon in this century? The last one for sure that I know of was I THINK 1972?

Now when there are more frequent visitors to the location, then absolutely YES! Put one in place. It just doesnt make sense to go to the trouble and expense for one until its a regular thing.

"Onewheels have lower serious injury rates than bikes, ATVs and motorcycles,"

Well, I suspect that statement is due to Onewheels being used exponentially less than Bikes, ATVs, and motorcycles.. By that measure, alligator and hippopotamus serious injury rates are also lower than bikes, ATVs and motorcycles.

Exactly. IMHO he is no poorer today than he was last week. This crypto crap is all speculation and fantasy. If its not backed by hard assets like gold, it doesnt truly exist.

True.

And what I forgot to mention was economies of scale. half a gram doesnt sound like much. But multiply that by the estimated 4.87 million cups of coffee per day Starbucks sells, and you are looking at an ADDITIONAL 979 TONS of plastic a year. JUST from Starbucks.

LIttle things add up quick.

So now we have the ecowarriors cancelling out the gains of the greenies trying to reduce plastic consumption overall.

Or worse. Redesigning a lid to work like a sippy cup to eliminate the straw. But you Increase the weight of the lid by a gram when a straw you are trying to cut out only weighs a half a gram* and you end up using MORE plastic by mistake.

*(weights for illustrative purposes only)

Mom and dad originally bought it for my older sister for school, but she had less than zero interest. I took it over and had a blast.

It also helped that Dad worked for Howard Sams publishing. They produced some collections of programs and games on cassette tape, so he got copies of them all for free.

The frustration of sitting there for 5-15 minutes waiting for the tape to load the program, only to error out half the time was frustrating as hell. And it wouldnt detect the error in real time. You'd sit there until it said it was done, then as soon as you hit start, it would chug for a few seconds to a minute, then throw an error. *headdesk*

But with the same access to the thermal energy source below ground? You'd think they'd just move it that were the case.

Think about it. Which is worse for the planet? The loss of an obscure amphibian that is on the brink of extinction that nobody knew about before, or damage to the entire rest of the planet due to fossil fuel use? Will that tiny population of toads destroy the local ecosystem if it disappears? If its only because of the rare frogs themselves, why not capture as many pairs as possible and move them to captivity to breed them and release them elsewhere to spread the species? Its a win-win and we have done it before.

"Sorry, but we cant operate on that cancer tumor. You have a unique, one of a kind birthmark above it and we cant operate without damaging the birthmark, so to preserve the birthmark, we are not going to remove the tumor. " Sorry about your luck.

Thanks for the insight.

No, thats not what I'm saying. Why cant they feed the cooling system using the power the reactor is generating when the outside power goes down? Why rely on strictly outside power to operate it? its like telling a McDonalds worker he MUST go next door to Wendy's to eat because there is no food in the building for them.

I'm no rocket surgeon, but I managed to get tertiary power into my corporate data center. A/B power plus generator. If I can figure that out, why cant nuke level electrical engineers figure out how to use a transfer switch to send some power they are creating themselves to the cooling system when the grid gets disconnected?

Ive never understood this part.

Its a power plant. Why cant the power from the reactors power the cooling system? Why do they need to be connected to the grid to keep the reactor cooler system online? I can understand Chernobyl since its reactors were down and they just need to keep materials cool. But at a working site?

On the surface its like saying a gas station's generator is offline because it ran out of diesel fuel. Uh. there's 3,000 gallons in the ground tank the generator power the pumps. Just pump more into the generator tank.

Like "How may I be helping you?" or stumbling for words, or choosing the wrong words?

I have found ESL support agents dont fully grasp the nuances of English speech. So they may sound vanilla and devoid of an accent, but unless it can completely change the entire sentence structure of to be grammatically correct, (e.g. speech to corrected text to speech) you'll still be able to tell easily after a few minutes.

Reminds me of the time John Wilkes Booth took an Uber to Walmart.

So shortly after the Parkland shooting my family was discussing it over dinner at a local pizzeria. We were talking about the event and the details of it. In the middle of the conversation we got on the subject of the Lincoln assassination. We were talking about JWB, his accomplices, how he did it, why, etc.

One of our kids asked a question about Parkland, so I answered it. My wife didnt register the shift in the topic because she was still dwelling on Booth and was deep in thought. So she asked "How did he get away?" Being back on the subject of Parkland, I of course replied "He took an Uber to Walmart. That is where police found him later."

She heard THAT loud and clear, and thoroughly confused said "John Wilkes Booth took an Uber to Walmart? WHAT!?!?!?! " We all died laughing.