If you already have the Office suite, check out Onenote. It may be billed as a "note taking app", but if you back it to "the cloud" (group Onedrive area), it can be used for collaboration just fine. Might want to try a small test on it with a few people for a week or two to make sure it'll fit your needs before you go whole hog on it. I can't tell you how many tools I've tried that look good for the 5 minute demo, but once I use it for a week I find all kinds of weaknesses to the point I throw it out.

Haha, you're really funny. The Dems have had Congress plus the President at least twice in the last 10 years. AFAICT, they didn't even try for a balanced budget.

Search for "Weaknees tivo", they sell refurb units for the sort of models you're looking for. I just got a Bolt for OTA with 2TB disk, something Tivo won't sell me, and it comes with a lifetime license. I'm pleased with it.

It would have been really nice for the summary to tell us how it infects computers, especially the Linux ones. Some research makes it look like it does it via an SMBv1 exploit.

Solar panels can be recycled. They want the silver and a few other elements out of them. Windmill blades also can be recycled. Both are fair new processes, as in within the last 2 years, so I wouldn't be surprised of you haven't heard of these new processes.

Buyers are not buy the Lightning in the numbers Ford would like because Ford raised the price on it. It's the basic "not going to buy if we can't afford it." If I had the money, I'd buy one, but I passed it up and bought a different truck at literally half the price, despite how much I'd like to have an EV pickup.

You forgot to subtract corporate taxes paid from the total before dividing by the number of tax payers. :)

Not if done correctly. The "one amazing trick" is to take income, subtract a base number (like say the poverty line), then flat tax on the remaining amout. If you think about it, that's sort of what the "standard deduction" does or helps with.

You forgot to mention that range drops about the same with gas trucks (lots of people have show and said that). The advantage they have is 5 min refuels. Once solid state batteries are mainstream, an EV truck will do just as well.

Yes, the Lightning sales are not quite what Ford hoped. Here's a data point of 1; I'm sure there are other reasons for lower than expected sales...

I had a first day reservation, heck, I had it 10 minutes after the reveal show was over. However, Ford allowed dealer to prioritize "good customers" to the top of the list, 5 in the case of my dealer. I ended up being #9 on their list when I should have been #4. They only received 5 for the first year (to be fair that "year" was only 6 months long). So I had to wait for the next year and hope my 11 year old car continued to survive.

By the time my Lightning came to the dealer, Ford had jacked the price up by $7500 -AND- the IRA bill came thru so my model no longer qualified, inducing a $15K add-on to the final price. My dealer sold at MSRP, but that extra $15K was too much and I needed a new vehicle then. I order a new Ranger (yeah it's smaller but did what I need to haul things around) at literally half the price of the Lightning.

I want a BEV truck, but it has to be affordable. Yes, a BEV really wins when it comes to TCO calculations, especially when you have a solar array, but the initial price still matters. So I have a 1 year old truck in the driveway, and my purchase window won't reopen for another 4 years. Ford and everyone else has that long to get their act together before I'm ready to purchase a new truck. I really hope that's enough time to get a BEV Ranger or an equivalent, out there because I really want a BEV pickup and not have to purchase gasoline.

I liked "The Core", :) but yeah, lots of science issues. Then again, it is rare that a Hollywood file is both fun and has decent science. In fact, the only one that immediately comes to mind is "The Martian", who's book was written by an ex computer programmer.

> You can run a Linux X11 desktop without a session manager, provided you're willing to start everything up manually. I used to do that back in the 90s. You can even run without a session manager at all. All you really need with X11 is a window manager.

Oh right, the days where I'd login to my shell, then run "startx" to start the window manager and a few basic apps like an xterm. That really wasn't a problem. OTOH, I use KDE so Gnome can go do whatever they want.

From the article:
"The measurements refer to PM2.5 – tiny airborne particles mostly produced from the burning of fossil fuels, some of which can pass through the lungs and into the blood stream...
Traffic, industry, domestic heating and agriculture are the main sources of PM2.5 ..."

That's as much as it states. Perhaps there's more in the study, but I don't care enough to go look (assuming I can even get to it).

Instead of mocking him, maybe go read the story and consider if there are "concepts" or "inspiration" from the story that might apply, like having a leader who uses both wisdom and practicality to get a job done. People take inspiration from many stories from many places.

I have a Xerox Phaser laser printer I've been very happy with and it wasn't all that expensive either. It's only black and white, but that's ok as my needs are minimal ... but sometimes you just got to print a something. It's a network one that takes postscript, so it works great with Linux and the Windows computer my wife uses for work.

Since the vast majority of us need a car to get places, no, the automotive industry won't die off. Change, sure, but not die. Not having a car only works if you live in an extremely densely populated place with amazing public transportation ... which does NOT describe most of the US.