Its both.

As you say, previous films had some degree of continuity.

But with Daniel Craigs Bond, we see him earn the 007 designation in the first film, so that makes his Bond a reboot and self contained.

Oh seriously?

I use both Slack and Teams day to day (we use Slack internally, client uses Teams, so we are on both as a result).

Slack we never have any issues with, and can find information from previous conversations easily.

Teams? Fuck teams. Fuck it and then fuck it some more. Its slow, clunky, constantly has issues, very hard to find information unless you still have the chat open somewhere, and chats are spread all over the place (chats, teams, channels...). Teams also requires you to have access to the workspaces OneDrive and SharePoint as well if you want to share files, so if you dont have access to those things then ... you are limited to text only.

Its video call system is sorely limited, and even doing things like zooming in to the presenters shared screen is clunky and shit.

Teams is the worst collaboration system I have ever used, so dont try making out that its better than Slack or Zoom. It is by far the worst of the three.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Please take a look at this wikipedia on Limpieza de sangre ("blood purity") from the 1400's and tell me how it fails to qualify as racism.

Wow, the idea that "racism was invented in the 18th century" is the wildest thing I've read in a while. I'm trying to imagine a defense of that statement but I just can't.

I don't think it is much cheaper in the US, after a paying a 70% to 100% import tariff.

I would call this an immigration cap, not a population cap. Let's say internal growth somehow resumed and they got on track to break 10M even after ceasing immigration. If it's a population cap, they'd have to make their own citizens not have kids, which is an ugly prospect. Granted the distinction doesn't matter unless their internal reproduction zooms back up which isn't happening anytime soon.

The argument will be that its not a bank, (I mean, who wants to trust those things?), and the money is merely travelling in a conveyance

"Except Apple."

They are immune to the so-called laws of economics.

To the point, they pay for their utilities - water and electricity. For some reason people seem to think industry gets utilities for free and then the residential users have to pay for it? It's silliness. The utilities require upfront fees and contracts before making an investment for a big new consumer.

There isn't a shortage of water in Michigan.

And then we get this: " Last month, Township attorney Douglas Winters told the Board of Trustees that building hosting the data center would make Ypsilanti Township a "high value target." He pointed to the recent bombing of Gulf Coast data centers by Iran as evidence. "

They're grasping.

Forbes has a guess:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...

Microsoftâ(TM)s standard severance package previously included 12 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for every year of employment, though this could vary depending on tenure and level. When the company laid off 10,000 employees in 2023, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said his firm would offer benefit-eligible employees six months of health care and stock vesting and 60 days of notice in addition to severance. If a 20-year employee whose salary totaled $180,000, their severance package would offer $180,000, though itâ(TM)s likely this would be larger for higher-level workers.

Two weeks pay for every year of employment, up to a year of pay, seems to be kind of common in buyouts.

I dont see an issue with that, as UK schools also ban a lot of other things during "free time" (its not actually time without restriction), for example leaving the school grounds for most of the school body (when you get into sixth form, you gain more freedoms as you are deemed to be there voluntarily).

He's 65 years old and worth almost $6B. But no, he must keep his nose to the grindstone or he'll be a rat abandoning a sinking ship. Couldn't just be sailing off into the sunset in a megayacht, why would somebody want to do that?

Sometimes the 1000 lb gorilla has the worst odds of leading the next generation because they're still making good money on the old model during the years when they would have to be building a lead in the new model, but doing that would destroy the old (highly profitable, for them) model even faster.