They did honor the deal for the lifetime of the car wash. Were you expecting something different?

Anyone who hasn't figured out that "lifetime" belongs in the same pile of terms as "unlimited" and similar marketing ilk has earned themselves the experience of learning a valuable life lesson.

I've had the opposite experience with Amazon. They were far easier to work with and within ten minutes would either refund or replace an order that never arrived. Compared to the hours spend dealing with the police or postal service, Amazon was downright pleasant.

If you did order something you never received and you paid with a credit card you should have filed a chargeback. Having filed a police report and contacted whoever delivered the package to get a case number will certainly help, but the card companies have mean bastards on retainer that will squeeze the money out of the company if they didn't give you what was sold.

I doubt it considering the voice recordings that exist of the pilots. Radical Jihadists aren't exactly shy about proclaiming their acts. It sounds like a pilot did something incredibly stupid that they tried (and unfortunately failed) to fix, for reasons that we'll never fully know or understand. This could be filed under the kind of brain glitch that happens all the time to no ill effect or a near miss, but because it happened to someone flying a plane it was far more catastrophic.

Universities seem to be doing exactly nothing to change this or to fix the culture and incentives that led to this problem. The very idea of "publish or perish" is what should perish. Any government funding should require preregistration of the study including the full set of hypotheses and methods. Give funding to making sure results are replicable instead of chasing after the next big thing.

The system itself needs to be reengineered so that it doesn’t devolve into some kind of cargo cult. It may be painful, but that's the cost of leaving the problem to fester this long.

The rich always had gated communities and clubs.

nuf sed

He's manufacturing illegals:

On May 30, the Supreme Court granted temporary approval for the Trump administration to revoke a program known as "humanitarian parole," which had allowed more than 500,000 migrants feeling political turmoil in Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to quickly get work permits if they had a fiscal sponsor...[emph. added]

= a lot of noise and pain with nothing of importance gained (unless you are a white supremist).

Other examples of boondoggles: F-35*, "War on drugs", CyberTruck, Afghanistan war, CA Speed Train, Vietnam war...

* Yes, it's starting to work good-enough, but took too damned long to get there.

one year ago, Ada was ranked #24 â" but on this month's index it ranks #9.

Doesn't Tiobe have a small investigative team to find out why the grand shift? A shift that big with a legacy language is either a surprising trend or a boo boo, most likely the latter.

Or was it Yado?

The jamming of radio remote control has already lead to the use of fiber (they literally carry miles of fiber optic line that unspools as they fly...

Counter-measure: flying scissors. Which then results in flying rocks to knock them down, but flying rocks are stopped via flying paper that blinds them.

Projection, Aduff

[Delphi]...In an alternative universe, these languages have been dead for decades and no sane business would invest in writing software in those languages.

Delphi/Lazarus is one of the most stable GUI development platforms. MS changes its UI engine & tooling more often than I change my underwear, and MS killed the other commercial GUI competitors using bundling and size.

Delphi/Lazarus may not be esthetically shiny and new, but it works and has been working. Most complaints are for fairly obscure needs. Some things are successful simply because people don't keep fucking with it based on Fad of the Month. It's a GitOffMyLawn tool.

Hint: "We're there now. Oops, not, Okay We're there now. Oops, not, Okay We're there now...."

Let the greedy foolish West be the guinea pigs. If it works, copy, if not, laugh at CowboyFailGPT over sake.