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I do love being the bad guy.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it's perfectly reasonable response, you won't earn your bad guy (or even a honorary Karen) badge that way.
EDIT: Maybe it's because I work for Global Megacorporation and we have to attend annual training on improper data collection. The head of our engineering division put it succinctly: "If you're collecting the data in a field and you can't give me an immediate, valid business reason you need it, you're fired."
I see your head of engineering division is well prepared for dealing with demands of GDPR for EU market.
So there's an Avatar RPG coming out. And I don't mean the one that's blue skinned Ferngully.
It's been all over my news feed lately.
I do love being the bad guy.Sorry to disappoint you, but it's perfectly reasonable response, you won't earn your bad guy (or even a honorary Karen) badge that way.
EDIT: Maybe it's because I work for Global Megacorporation and we have to attend annual training on improper data collection. The head of our engineering division put it succinctly: "If you're collecting the data in a field and you can't give me an immediate, valid business reason you need it, you're fired."I see your head of engineering division is well prepared for dealing with demands of GDPR for EU market.
Well they are Global Megacorpration, after all, not National or even Continental Megacorpration.
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Talky made a really interesting point that I've realized is nearly 100% true throughout my travels: Any place you stay where the doors to the rooms are accessible from the outside (such as a Motel 6) will be a terrible stay. Places where the doors are inside (such as a Marriott) have at least a chance of being decent.
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If I can put in my 2¢.
Generally speaking, the ones with rooms that open to the outdoors tend to be older, and therefore less well cared for, than the ones with interior hallways. (By the way, that is the difference between a motel and a hotel. A motel's rooms open to the outside, hotel's rooms open to the inside, and hotel-motels have some rooms that open to the outside and some that open to an interior corridor.) The first two "hotels" I worked at were both actually motels, and they were kept in decent shape. Now, because the doors open to the outside (and because they were in Florida), pest control is going to be more of an issue than in a hotel. The 4th place I worked, a hotel, started off as a decent place to stay, but when it was sold to a new owner, it went downhill fast. Which is part of why I left.
Essentially, it is going to really boil down to the owner of the hotel/motel and their willingness to spend the money to keep the place in good shape and up to date.
Seriously though thanks for the history.
So there's an Avatar RPG coming out. And I don't mean the one that's blue skinned Ferngully.
It's been all over my news feed lately.
Backing it.
Also, Ferngully came out at a...pivotal...time in a young Freehold's life.
Also, I came in tonight and there was a note for me asking me to wash...something. I couldn't figure out what it said for about 5 minutes. Now, my handwriting isn't great, so I'm trying not to judge for that, but even when I figured out what it said, I was still confused. It said "Please wash houserags", and for the life of me I have never heard the term "houserag" before. She could have just written "rags", or even "cleaning rags", but "houserags"? And it's definitely one word. "Houserags", not "house rags". Is it just me (and Chrome, it doesn't recognize "houserags" as a word either)?
I haven't heard that term in many many years. Is this an older Caribbean person?
So there's an Avatar RPG coming out. And I don't mean the one that's blue skinned Ferngully.
It's been all over my news feed lately.
Backing it.
Also, Ferngully came out at a...pivotal...time in a young Freehold's life.
You are older than me. You weren't old when Albion The Movie Avatar hit the screens...
The head of our engineering division put it succinctly: "If you're collecting the data in a field and you can't give me an immediate, valid business reason you need it, you're fired."I see your head of engineering division is well prepared for dealing with demands of GDPR for EU market.
It's not even that. We work with governments, health care providers, financial institutions, and other customers for whom data privacy is of paramount importance. So we take it very seriously or we lose bids.
The notion that my kids' high school takes their students' privacy so frivolously that they wouldn't even bother to check what information a third-party vendor is asking for, much less how it will be used, is yet another black eye on their pathetic performance.
Or they saw, "We're collecting your students' names, email addresses, and phone numbers for direct marketing purposes," and thought that was OK.
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Gotta love new guys!
I get on the mini bobcat to start my excavating and he asks "You know how to run one of those?" So the other Captain laughs and says "Does he know how to run one of those?! I'm pretty sure he rode one of those out of his mother's womb and immediately told her to get back to work!".
Good night (or good morning), John!
Slow day.
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*hugs* TOZ
Good to see progress in a positive direction.
Good news, TOZ :)
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Here, it sounds like one of three things have happened.
1) Someone is extremely pleased that the compilation album 'Abba Gold' has sold 30 million copies worldwide.
2) The fireworks shop in town has caught fire.
3) We are at war with Lancashire.
Yay!
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Heh. I was referring to an actual movie titled “Trainwreck”.He was hilarious in Trainwreck. (He was the only good part of that movie.)"He was the only good part of that train wreck" is a strange compliment...
A lot of actual movies are train wrecks... Some of them beautiful-beautiful irresistible train wrecks... Some... Not so much.
You are definitely slaking.
Ah, it's CY's day off.
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You are definitely slaking.
Ah, it's CY's day off.
Oh, don't get me started on that!
I was actually planning on clear sealing the sundial because I've been keeping it dry and we have an extended dry period so I put cones in all the sprinkler heads in the area of the sundial, and the other Captain and his lazy crew of slacker f#%%offs came out to put in their 2 hours of work in a 7 hour day and moved the two cones they absolutely couldn't (and shouldn't need to) move.
So I did not get to spend a relaxing hour sealing the sundial but I did get to send an extended text to the boss swearing vengeance on the other Captain and his crew should it happen again and then spent two hours mindlessly rampaging through Fallout 76.
Ooopsie...
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Boris the Bosmer is now Derek the Dunmer, and he and Mrs Derek are off to join the Imperial Army very shortly. Balls to the Stormcloaks!
** spoiler omitted **
that is EXCELLENT news.
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What I learned from playing Far Cry 5 this weekend.
The people of Montana are f##*ed.
Either they're all killed by the doomsday cult or they get run down or blown up by a rogue federal agent out for revenge (or whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing).
I don't think you are a rogue federal agent.
The marshal whom you accompanied in the beginning was a federal agent, but the main character you are playing is a deputy to a local sheriff (Earl Whitehorse, the guy with the badass mustache) and you were merely acting as a local support to the marshal. At first.
Far Cry 6 is supposed to be released in October.
Sadly, it means it isn't likely to be on sale for at least half a year, maybe a year, and its regular price is even less likely to be something within my gaming budget.
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I found a rocket launcher, and I liberated the jeep with the machine gun mounted on the back called Death Wish, was kidnapped (but I headshot three guys before they could drug me) and then liberated the town Redneck Falls (or whatever it's called) where I found my rocket launcher.
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Fantasy NPC: Zab'bah'rah, a merchant of the finest exotic magic items in existence*
*For a limited definition of the finest and exotic. Terms and conditions apply. The seller takes no responsibility for potential side effects, careless misuse or poor maintenance of the wares. If the item effects remains active for more than four hours you should consider bragging to your cleric.
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It turns out the rocket launcher was not a good idea, it turns out that what I think is a safe range for firing one and what the game thinks is a safe range for firing them are incompatible, unless it's going to let me horde medkits like I'm in Fallout I'm just going to have to use something a little less collateral damagey.
Plus only having a payload of three missiles is not nearly enough for my taste.
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It turns out the rocket launcher was not a good idea, it turns out that what I think is a safe range for firing one and what the game thinks is a safe range for firing them are incompatible, unless it's going to let me horde medkits like I'm in Fallout I'm just going to have to use something a little less collateral damagey.
Plus only having a payload of three missiles is not nearly enough for my taste.
IIRC Hurk has a rocket launcher with him as a companion.
It could have been his New Dawn role, though, not sure about that.
It turns out the rocket launcher was not a good idea, it turns out that what I think is a safe range for firing one and what the game thinks is a safe range for firing them are incompatible, unless it's going to let me horde medkits like I'm in Fallout I'm just going to have to use something a little less collateral damagey.
Plus only having a payload of three missiles is not nearly enough for my taste.
IIRC Hurk has a rocket launcher with him as a companion.
It could have been his New Dawn role, though, not sure about that.
My current mission is helping Grace defend the church, it didn't go well the first try.
Hi.
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First day of the new school year!
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The horror... the horror...
First day of the new school year!
Impus Minor starts tomorrow, in person and all! :-O
Impus Major has been royally screwed over by DVC.
- They originally announced a return to in-person classes, so he registered for four classes
- At the start of August, without any formal announcements they switched all but one of his classes to online, so he dropped the in-person course (once a week vocal training) and dropped to two classes because he doesn't do well in online learning.
- YESTERDAY, after I'd paid the fees for the semester, one of his two classes got canceled due to low attendance.
So Impus Major is going to lose yet another semester to COVID. That's practically two years of his life he's lost.
On the bright side, he's thinking that he'll get a part-time job for the semester to get some work experience while he's waiting for school to resume.
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GothBard and I just finished watching John Oliver's bit on ransomware, and it got me thinking.
Since we got our first computer in 1979, our assumption was always that at any point our computer might burst into flames, come alive and run screaming out of the house, or otherwise render itself unavailable to us. So we do annual backups. All my personal, financial, and other files from my first computer all the way through 2020 are in a 4 TB hard drive in storage.
The whole thing has always cost under $100/year, especially now that storage costs are even lower. (You don't want to KNOW the number of ZIP disks I recently had to destroy.) And if you're on a budget you can cycle back and forth between two disks.
So, if we can do it at a cost of under $100/year with ludicrous amounts of space to spare (the 4 TB backup is under 25% full), why don't corporations have disconnected backups? (Our training department at my original private job did the same -- our file server was backed up to physical media and placed in storage once a year.)