PHB1: "We have to do something AI-ish, everyone else is!"

PHB2: "Here's one, have bots compile podcasts from our news articles."

PHB1: "Brilliant! Make it so."

[months later]

PHB2: "Um, the podcast bot has been making silly errors. Should we keep it?"

PHB1: "How is our competition doing with their AI?"

PHB2: "They suck also."

PHB1: "Okay, let's keep it so we can have AI on our brochures and resumes."

Yes. And when the "think of the children" lie has run its course, they will just continue with one of the other horsemen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

These are malicious people, plain and simple. They want everybody monitored and dislike anybody having freedoms. And they will stop short of nothing to get there.

It is a lot of historic reputation. But I actually know 3 (!) Swiss numbered account systems personally (don't ask). They used to be anonymous a long time ago. They are not these days. The identity of the account holders has to be verified carefully in each case and has to be given to the government. The reputation of the Swiss banks refers to a situation that does not exist anymore and has not existed for quite a while.

Indeed. But they have to win this first. So far they convinced 2% of the voters to sign and they had 18 months for that. In the end, the Swiss voters are usually pretty pragmatic.

CS has gone out of business due to management incompetence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The largest Swiss bank is rank 23: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And the 2nd largest Swiss bank is rank 97.

Funny how that goes when hallucinations collide with actual facts ...

I was unlucky once to buy a roundtrip flight on a trumpistani airline and participate in the trumpistani airport "security" theater, in airports not on trumpistani territory. What is different from a person flying in/out the same airports not using an airline of an idiocracy obsessed with "terrorists"?

I was "preselected" for a "random check" that involved a trumpistani thug who appeared not to be there in an official capacity and nevertheless ransacked my luggage and left it in a messy pile that I had to repack myself. This is something that I've never experienced from any other airport security.

When I complained, the thug got rude, argumentative and uppity. It tried to order me to take off various items of my (light) clothing for no good reason, it threatened me that it would make sure I miss my flight, not to mention that it was trying to speak to me in its own dialect, ignoring the fact that wasn't an official language at the airport.

I've never been a subject of such treatment by any other security service before or after that. Moreover, it was made quite obvious that the issue was not me threatening security, but what the thug was seeing as "lack of compliance". LOL. So we had a little more of "non-compliance" chit-chat until the the local crew managed to have the thug removed and let me through with apologies. Apparently it wasn't only my own opinion that the trumpistani thug had gone a bit too far.

  Lesson learned, I now schedule around that shithole and its thugs.

You think half a person of teaching personnel per student is too much? Well, being one of these, I can assure you it is money well spent. In fact, every CHF spent on the universities returns 4 CHF in profits. These are current numbers, just updated. You think that somehow is a problem?

Why are you still beating your wife and children?

That little mushroom is a real pain in there, said Stormy.

Ugh. Was it Adecco?

I wanted to stay contractor if I couldn't become a FTE, but I was told that there was a 1.5 yrs limit. :(

It looks like this is a "Man in the middle" attack in one way or another. Try to access your bank from another place and computer. Consumer routers are known to be hacked easily, and turn off UPnP in the router since that's a security hole the size of Grand Canyon.

If your bank don't do Multi-Factor Authentication you shall leave asap for another more secure bank.

A login and password might have been enough in the 1970's.

Yeah, probably.

lost contact...after it passed behind Mars. When it reemerged from behind the planet, the spacecraft never resumed communications.

I toldja, never leave sight of Mommy! Space Ghosts eat little probes like you!

ICE probes Uranus and Myanus