If he wrote the check on a closed account, rather than just one without enough in it to cover the check, that might, in some jurisdictions, have resulted in a more serious fraud charge.

Was this a small local bank?

One where there might have been someone who knew both you and your parents?

Sounds like they kept you out of some legal hot water.

Was there enough money in the account on which you actually wrote the checks to cover the checks you wrote?

Or did you write the checks on an account that had already been closed?

My experience with TWC cable boxes makes me appreciate my TiVos all the more.

When TWC started charging rent on cable modems, I bought one which is about the same quality/level of performance as what I'd be paying rent on, and for what I would have paid in rent I can buy a new one every year and break even. But I don't need a new one every year, so basically what I saved the first year repaid what I spent, so it's like I got it for free.

Provided no one else gets it, either.

Like when they don't want to wire an area, but go to great lengths to keep anyone else, especially local governments, from being allowed to do it.

Of course not, the batteries in their hearing aids are dead.

I dunno, this election season has me thinking maybe we're the ones who're more dense.

So you're saying that in Australia the ISPs don't know the proper pronunciation of "cache" ?

For most of the one hundred years covered by the poem that would have been the King's English.

I can't tell if you're being ever so droll, or not, but I'm going to assume the former.

Firehose isn't all that new, it showed up back when Taco was still here.
Just off the top of my head I'd say it's been about a decade.

I think they're engaging in Dice-like thinking, that they want the site to work and to be a certain way (that involves lots of buzzwords), and they're finding it terribly inconvenient that the users, who are also the content providers who attract each other to the site, want something entirely else