Not surprising. I haven't rented a car in a couple years, but I did need to rent a special tool from Home Depot. I needed a 10 foot sheet metal brake to bend some aluminum flashing to repair my garage. I rented the tool for 4 hours, transported it home, assembled it, did my work, disassembled it, and transported it back. I was 10 minutes over my 4 hour window because of holiday traffic and road closures, but the guys at the counter cut me a break. I found out that they were just thrilled to get the tool back in one piece or even get it back period. The brake I used cost around $3500 dollars and the rental counter told me that was the third one they replaced in 6 months.

If you don't have a full-time team of lawyers and recovery goons, I can't image renting your car out to someone is a good idea.

Did Netcraft confirm it?

Hey ChatGPT, write me a story about Star Wars. With a Wookie who's really a Furry, Leia in the metal bikini, Sarlacc tentacles, and Natalie Portman in hot grits.

Interesting. About the length of a TikTok video.

No. No they're not. What has been keeping me employed the past few years since COVID is picking up the shit-shows the H1Bs are failing miserably at. I've been working from home 100% for the last 3 years and the question on whether or not I'm delivering what is asked of me has never needed to be asked. The last guy one of our DBAs interviewed "lip-synced" his video interview. The interviewee had another person in an earphone answering questions and our clue was the timing was just off on the guy's responses and his lips were moving like a bad Kung-Fu movie dub. The question that was asked that made him panic and not be able to answer? "What color is your shirt?".

We had a team of 3 or 4 H1Bs try to implement a project and delivered almost nothing for 3 months. The lead manager asked my coworker and I to take a look at it and give him an assessment. We did better than that. We demonstrated a Proof of Concept of the promised deliverables a week later. The guys who were doing the work previously had no idea what they were doing.

The H1B program has been a mess for almost 25 years now, starting with the .com boom. The lock-in and abuse from Wipro and Tata Group needs to end.

You know what they say. You can't start a funeral without "f-u-n".

How would hanging a horse convince him to stop mailing bombs to people?

It's called Furry Futanari you insensitive clod!

Good news! It's only 6 digits if it's cold.

Specifically one that you can export or print out all records. Personally I use KeePass.
The Windows version is regularly updated, has an installable executable as well as a portable version. It is also in the Debian Stable (Main) branch and has several unofficial contributions packaged for other distros.

I have a relative that was recently diagnosed with dementia. They had done all their investing, banking, etc. online for several years. By the time I finally found out and took them to the hospital, they had forgotten how to log onto their accounts and refused to work with us in getting access to their accounts.

The TLDR version of events is we had to retain an attorney on their behalf and paperwork was submitted to probate and Guardian and Conservator appointed. Almost 9 months later, finances are still being sorted out and almost all funds from their house sale will go to the nursing home that was only supposed to be where they were staying for a month at most.

If your parents are at that age or showing symptoms of cognitive impairment, talk to them to see if they have a plan. If they don't, let them know if any, and I mean ANY issues have to go before probate, they will likely die broke and on medicaid unless they make plans while they can.

Layoffs always occur AFTER the stock holder proxy vote in April and before the announcement of performance raises.

Maybe Ben Cotton should join the Kyndryl age discrimination suit.
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The reason Watson didn't catch on wasn't because of Watson's high cost, it was because of IBM Services high cost. Their CEO is talking about AI becoming 100 times cheaper, but I would venture to guess that the cost to IBM customers isn't even half. I saw it first hand when I was in Global Services and Armonk started moving to the "global factory" model for consultants. (also, isn't it weird that IBM's CEO thinks employees need to be in the office, but thinks a consultant 8000 miles away can support a client? But I digress.) Global Services Clients caught on really fast when IBM press releases talked about how much money they were saving using Indian labor at 1/10th the cost of North America employees and they saw 10% or more of the onsite IBMers laid off each year. The minute clients asked why the savings weren't being passed on to them and IBM just shrugged, that's usually when the decision was made not to renew the contract.

Well, it sounds like IBM has truly integrated RedHat with their layoff schedules. IBM for the last 2 decades has announced layoffs the month before announcing merit increases so they can cut back on the number of people they would have to pay out.

Oh well, I'm sure RedHat will recover from this. I mean just look at how helpful IBM was to Lotus after they were acquired.

Cowboy Neil writes my comments you insensitive clod!

Reading the quiz, it seems that Americans understand all too well what their risks are and what companies want to track.

If the US wants privacy, we need something on a federal level like GDPR. US companies have to follow GDPR to do business in the EU, why is it impossible to comply with privacy requests when they are dealing with a US citizen?

The only thing in the US even close to GDPR is the California Consumer Privacy Act, and that doesn't cover everyone in the US.