Subj : Health Scare
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Barry Martin
Date : Fri Jun 12 2020 19:27:00


Hi Daryl!

 BM> I think OfficeMax/Office Depot sends out the occasion dollar or
 BM> percentage off e-mail coupon: sign up for their e-mails.  (Might be
 BM> thinking of some other promo.)
 DS>   I am a member of the rewards deal at Office Depot and Best Buy.
 DS> I looked last night, and I think there was a 13 port USB deal
 DS> from Office Depot, but it was out of stock. One was USB 2.0, but
 DS> I'd rather have USB 3.0 or later.

Yes, I would also.  While UBS 2.0 may be satisfactory now may not be 
later, potentially causing a bottleneck.

And sort of a barely-touching-the-circle tangent, I had a scanner which 
was old enough it would not have known about USB 3.0, so designed for 
the USB 2.0 standards, 500 mA maximum.  With an original setup (physical
placements) it was plugged into a USB 2 powered hub -- did fine, but to 
me seemed a little sluggish and bogged down.  Moved stuff around, plugged 
it into a powered USB 3.0 hub: much peppier and less 'grindy'.



 BM> IMO posting an ad too often does the opposite of what is intended:
 BM> tends more to turn the potential customer away rather than attract.
 DS>   I want folks to logon because they WANT to...NOT because they
 DS> have to. In one of my ham radio applications, I noted info on the
 DS> BBS...talk about a shameless plug. <G>

Different strokes for different folks!  I prefer a simple log-in 
process, but also realize there are all sortso of bots out there, people
and things wanting to do nothing but destroy, so a bit of low fence
jumping is fine.  


 BM> Seems to have.  Did see him the day after: sort of sat at a short
 BM> distance looking rather sad and confused.  Hadn't seen his girlfriend
 BM> at all: LIS one day when he was almost constantly trying to fly through
 BM> the window she was on the railing maybe 10' away with that look of
 BM> resignation: "you're such an idiot!"
 DS>   I've wondered if the animal kingdom communicates like that.

Some people think yes, they're smart enough while others think no,
they're too stupid.  Most, well, let's make that many -- humans tend to 
'humanify' what they see happening in the animal kingdom, I'm thinking 
mostly to help understand - give a starting point based on what we know.
Not necessarily correct, not necessarily wrong.  They also say talking 
to plants is advantageous; doesn't seem to hinder.



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