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eaterofdog

ass grabber
Sep 8, 2006
9,206
2,728
Central Florida
I work with a couple of people over 70 and their life looks like an absolute living hell. Miserable, confused, tired and hurting all day every day. Don't go into debt in your 60s guys.
 

Nick

My name is Nick
Sep 21, 2001
24,905
16,472
where the trails are
I prefer the more subtle but damaging methods such as dropping a scrunchie in the crack of his passenger seat, maybe even dropping some earings in his coat pocket, there is always ordering a stripper gram to his desk and even using his email to get moving quotes. so fun
this is the way to a higher level of evil.
BITD I knew a girl who made sure to leave a condom wrapper in her side-guy's passenger door pocket, to be found by his girlfriend.
 

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
41,820
19,135
Riding the baggage carousel.
Collaborating with a "Technical Fellow" to write paper and all of his content is just inane circular bullshit clearly generated by ChatGPT.

I have had a contentious relationship with this dude in the past and I think I need to go back to openly pointing out his bullshit in a highly disrespectful manner.
Time for "openly antagonistic relationship".
 

gonefirefightin

free wieners
Bailed on buying the lots from the city, too many red flags

asked for disclosures and they the ones they sent had no pertinent concerns, sweet, put in the offer, no answer for 4 days

Then after the offer they want curbs, ok thats fine, still no reply to clarify

then they wanted sidewalks, ok fine, even though there isn't a curb or sidewalk on the entire street. Still no replies

Then they wanted a concrete approach, even though there isn't one on the whole street, ok fine but no replies to new messages

Then they wanted the sewer connection to the back of the property rather than the street, thus started my spidey senses to all the red flags and still zero communication

Then they wanted a 40' easement over the existing sewer line that they didn't know how deep or the exact location that would be 40' of the 60-foot building pad.

Told them to fuck off and get their shit together.
 

chuffer

Turbo Monkey
Sep 2, 2004
1,793
1,140
McMinnville, OR
Bailed on buying the lots from the city, too many red flags

asked for disclosures and they the ones they sent had no pertinent concerns, sweet, put in the offer, no answer for 4 days

Then after the offer they want curbs, ok thats fine, still no reply to clarify

then they wanted sidewalks, ok fine, even though there isn't a curb or sidewalk on the entire street. Still no replies

Then they wanted a concrete approach, even though there isn't one on the whole street, ok fine but no replies to new messages

Then they wanted the sewer connection to the back of the property rather than the street, thus started my spidey senses to all the red flags and still zero communication

Then they wanted a 40' easement over the existing sewer line that they didn't know how deep or the exact location that would be 40' of the 60-foot building pad.

Told them to fuck off and get their shit together.

Haha. That is their way of saying they are saving that lot for one of their own…
 

Toshi

butthole powerwashing evangelist
Oct 23, 2001
39,748
8,748
Let us know how those are - we've been threatening to go there for quite a few years now... but haven't gotten around to it. :D
Good overall. Cronut one was excellent. Breakfast fare tasty as well. 7/5 would visit again
 

6thElement

Schrodinger's Immigrant
Jul 29, 2008
17,224
14,697
WTF is the point in making a service appointment if the vehicles are just serviced in the order that random ppl arrive in line?

45 minutes after arriving and my vehicle hasn't moved from check-in yet.
 

Fool

The Thing cannot be described
Sep 10, 2001
2,919
1,669
Brooklyn
Was at a friend-of-a-friend's bar this evening, with aforementioned friend. Upper west quadrant of Tribecca, near any number of shithead banker towers full of shithead bankers. Anyfuckers, there was tableful of loud, honky interns for most of the time we were there. Upon their leaving, the server brings the signed check over to the friend-of the-friend bar owner, showing the receipt with the tip amount showing "vote for trump" instead of any tip amount. The dumbass who signed for it, used a corporate card. The friend-of-a-friend bar owner added a 100% tip top the bill. Hope this works out for them. Anyway, kill whitey.
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
55,997
22,032
Sleazattle
Was at a friend-of-a-friend's bar this evening, with aforementioned friend. Upper west quadrant of Tribecca, near any number of shithead banker towers full of shithead bankers. Anyfuckers, there was tableful of loud, honky interns for most of the time we were there. Upon their leaving, the server brings the signed check over to the friend-of the-friend bar owner, showing the receipt with the tip amount showing "vote for trump" instead of any tip amount. The dumbass who signed for it, used a corporate card. The friend-of-a-friend bar owner added a 100% tip top the bill. Hope this works out for them. Anyway, kill whitey.

Several years ago I was in Detroit on a project. The project manager was a wet behind the ears dipshit, I think this was his first time ever leaving Washington. He thought it would be a good idea to see how much money he could spend one night on his corporate card. I warned him against it and he ignored me. We all ran up a pretty good tab, I quietly paid with my personal card, he did not. He of course got caught, tried to deflect blame and said I had done it too. He got into pretty big trouble and from that point on every dime he spent or hour he billed was scrutinized.

A year later in a high level meeting he freaked out over some design changes, I explained that he had actually approved everything but was probably too busy playing Candy Crush to have actually understood what was going on. He didn't show up for a few days then ended up quitting.
 

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
88,802
27,011
media blackout
Several years ago I was in Detroit on a project. The project manager was a wet behind the ears dipshit, I think this was his first time ever leaving Washington. He thought it would be a good idea to see how much money he could spend one night on his corporate card. I warned him against it and he ignored me. We all ran up a pretty good tab, I quietly paid with my personal card, he did not. He of course got caught, tried to deflect blame and said I had done it too. He got into pretty big trouble and from that point on every dime he spent or hour he billed was scrutinized.

A year later in a high level meeting he freaked out over some design changes, I explained that he had actually approved everything but was probably too busy playing Candy Crush to have actually understood what was going on. He didn't show up for a few days then ended up quitting.
One time @SkaredShtles was in my neck of the woods and treated myself and Mrs jonkranked to a tasty dinner and expensed it. I don't think he got in trouble.
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
43,075
15,163
Portland, OR
EtherCAT and ProfiNET? Why not throw in some Modbus or CANbus while you are at it?

At least some ProfiSafe and some Profinet-RT.
CANbus isn't interested in TSN it seems, but there are still automotive applications for it. The ProfiNET stuff is mostly for 2 wire Ethernet (remote cameras or robots), but our RTOS will control the flow and timing. The 2 wire stuff is cool. I've never geeked out on networking at this level before, but I've also never worked on an OS before, so there is that.

EtherCAT is still HUGE in Europe. I've never messed with it before. And you didn't call out the CC-Link? :rofl:

It's the vPLC's that are the big deal along with the TSN routers..
 
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Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
55,997
22,032
Sleazattle
One time @SkaredShtles was in my neck of the woods and treated myself and Mrs jonkranked to a tasty dinner and expensed it. I don't think he got in trouble.
We aren't allowed to bill for alcohol, but you don't have to show an itemized receipt under $70. Spend $200 with booze on the receipt, prepare for an HR discussion.

When you work for a company with government contracts certain things are heavily scrutinized.
 
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