Neat.

Think I used one of these in the 80's?

That's existed since at least the 60's, maybe even earlier.

And electric clocks used to get their timing from the frequency of the electrical system, and power companies would compensate for any daily variations by changing the frequency over night so any timing systems would be back in sync.

Commercial buildings often used these kinds of clocks.

Lol, "modern weather prediction" which is still as wrong as much as it's right, on an hourly basis.

We just don't have that kind of predictive capability, yet, as weather systems are dynamic/chaotic.

Many times I've left the house with no prediction of precipitation, and been caught out. And I use multiple weather apps, including radar apps.

And this is still how you program handheld radios.

"We can't be friends if you don't pray"

OK.

Walk away.

This is my response to any kind of ultimatum. And I say "OK" as dispassionately as possible, as if someone said they prefer vanilla over chocolate ice cream.

"improving perceptions of air quality"??

Just curious, what were you expecting?

Having worked for a few banks in the US, it's staggering ro me this could happen with a critical system.

What we do with non-critical (but production-impacting) systems would prevent this kind of failure.

Granted I can't speak for all banks, just the financial companies I've worked with.

My last couple have been used, off Craigslist. So slightly older models. That also means they are less likely to have the phone-home nonsense. And I refuse to ever own an inkjet again.

Currently running a 2013 HP consumer B/W, and a 2018 Canon Color laser. Neither care about internet.

Why the hell does a printer need to "call home" for anything anyway?

Man that really grinds my gears. So now I need to isolate my printer in a VLAN and only open a port for my server to access it so it can be shared there, to keep it from accessing the internet.

I've found refurbed HP lasers (older ones, that have NICs but before this web crap) - they're looking pretty attractive...

That would be dual homing using both cell and wifi networking.

I don't think iOS can do this - and I'd be hard-pressed to make it happen on Android (honestly I don't think it can be done, maybe with root, even then, I'm not sure).

Nah.

We saw this happen in the 90's when controls were practically non-existant.

This behaviour (and his lack of concealing it), just reinforces you don't want him as an employee - partly because he never considered the implications of his actions.

Now he gets to deal with the legal consequences of this - court alone is going to be stressful and expensive, then jail time. Dude ended his career doing this.

The Federation started the war with the dominion? Er, uh, I don't think so.

You could either ignore the special bit "requirement" (though with MDF I suspect it'll be problematic), or reproduce it using two bits, or just buy the bit, it's $20 on Walmart/Amazon/Ebay, a pittance in the woodworking world.

And how many people are there with such botox that it makes them completely expressionless?

This sounds like some made up stuff just to generate talk about the club.

That sweet, sweet data.

Wow, 50 lbs (_{20 kg) per stud, with a bunch of screw holes in the base plate. Problem solved, and you could just use a number of wood screws into the ply panel, just spaced well apart (like 2.5-3 cm), and anchor into a stud where you can with a long lag (3"/}8cm).

Or if you can only hit a stud on one side, use a single Molly on the other and a couple wood screws in between.

I don't think too many people will get caught short. I haven't seen a company using it since before MS acquired it.

In the publishing/layout world, there are much better products... Or there used to be. PowerPoint and Word can't come close to what a page layout program can do. I use it all the time for simple stuff that would take longer using Word, and I wouldn't even try even slightly complex stuff with word.

I suspect of lot of page layout is outsourced by companies any more, which is why MS is killing it. Weird.

Guess I need to find the latest full version, I only have Pub 2016.

Ah, interesting. I can see it.

Britain seems to have addressed it, but... Their system requires honesty on the part of anyone finding anything, plus they require documentation of antiquities if you sell/buy them.

Hahaha, but they never had a concern before??