Since the British PM isn't named (and the name isn't germane to the post), perhaps it should just be edited to read "It's here the British went to the US asking for help..."
My wife and I have been loyal TracFone customers for over 15 years. It is inexpensive, reliable and has very good customer service (how many telcos can say that?). We are nowhere near what would be classified as "low income", we just like to keep our money to spend it on things that aren't giant telecoms, and like paying only for what we need (insert Limu Emu picture here).
"Management would rather poke their eyes out with ice picks than do more Zoom."
Sounds like your company needs better, more flexible managers. You know, ones who inherently know that it's not about them, it's about the people they are supervising and who are the ones doing the actual work.
It doesn't have to be even vaguely gun-shaped or even metallic or even existent. Da officer just needs to "think" the suspect (and they're all suspects, even in the wrong house) had a gun or a pound of plastic explosives or an RPG on a Kalashnikov.
The ultimate content moderation, IMO, would be to just ban anyone who is an elected or appointed government official for the duration of their public service.
I lived in Columbus when all the THE bullshit started. It didn't start with the lawyers but with the marketers who noted that the university's charter included the definite article "The" in its name. But they are nothing if not strident, and they do have a limitless supply of unpaid legal assistants at OSU's College of Law.
I get the feeling they thought they were, in the recent legal sense, releasing the Kraken. I also get the feeling they are about to experience a similar outcome.
The North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners got smacked down by the US Supreme Court a few years back for pretty similar turf-keeping activities. This isn’t exactly the same, but there are strong similarities.
Oh, there's lots of stuff from fantasy that has made it into reality that has turned out alright. Satellite communication (Arthur C. Clarke, 1945), picture phones (Hugo Gernsback, 1911), self-driving cars (Isaac Asimov, 1960), mood-altering medication / antipsychotics / antidepressants (Aldous Huxley, 1931), and Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle, AKA TASER (Edward Stratemeyer, et al, circa 1940) are just some examples. But on further consideration, maybe that last one goes into your column.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 🤔
Since the British PM isn't named (and the name isn't germane to the post), perhaps it should just be edited to read "It's here the British went to the US asking for help..."
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Imagination
"If that isn't a perfect example of how insane ownership culture is, I can't imagine what would be."
Try this:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
SNYDER’S LANCE, INC. AND PRINCETON-VANGUARD, LLC
v.
FRITO-LAY NORTH AMERICA, INC.
ON MOTION FOR REVIEW OF THE DESCRIPTIVENESS OF PRETZEL CRISPS
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Hell's bells and dinky toys!
My wife and I have been loyal TracFone customers for over 15 years. It is inexpensive, reliable and has very good customer service (how many telcos can say that?). We are nowhere near what would be classified as "low income", we just like to keep our money to spend it on things that aren't giant telecoms, and like paying only for what we need (insert Limu Emu picture here).
Time to start searching for alternatives...
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Re: Re: Re: Fetch me the nano-violin!
To accommodate for the excessive size, just play it briefly, quietly, and in a closed room.
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COVFEFE!!!
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<malign>MALIGN MALIGN MALIGN MALIGN MALIGN MALIGN MALIGN MALIGN MALIGN MALIGN</malign>
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Re: What managers want to avoid: Zoom meetings
"Management would rather poke their eyes out with ice picks than do more Zoom."
Sounds like your company needs better, more flexible managers. You know, ones who inherently know that it's not about them, it's about the people they are supervising and who are the ones doing the actual work.
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Re: Re:
It doesn't have to be even vaguely gun-shaped or even metallic or even existent. Da officer just needs to "think" the suspect (and they're all suspects, even in the wrong house) had a gun or a pound of plastic explosives or an RPG on a Kalashnikov.
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Ultimate content moderation
The ultimate content moderation, IMO, would be to just ban anyone who is an elected or appointed government official for the duration of their public service.
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Where'$ it going?
Any bets on the "private inve$tigator" conducting this "foren$ic inve$stigation" being related to one of the members of the city clowncil?
On the post: OSU, Marc Jacobs Call Truce Over Infuriating Competing Trademark Applications For The Word "The"
Re:
I lived in Columbus when all the THE bullshit started. It didn't start with the lawyers but with the marketers who noted that the university's charter included the definite article "The" in its name. But they are nothing if not strident, and they do have a limitless supply of unpaid legal assistants at OSU's College of Law.
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Re:
"No one should be allowed to own a simple common word used in almost every sentence"
I notice that you're hedging your bets that it might work out in OSU's favor and didn't use that word anywhere in your comment.
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I get the feeling they thought they were, in the recent legal sense, releasing the Kraken. I also get the feeling they are about to experience a similar outcome.
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Re:
No, Daltry and Townsend aren't the ones with the issue.
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Re:
That's OK, you can relax. No reasonable person would believe you.
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Not NC’s first rodeo
The North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners got smacked down by the US Supreme Court a few years back for pretty similar turf-keeping activities. This isn’t exactly the same, but there are strong similarities.
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/north-carolina-board-of-dental-examiners-v -federal-trade-commission/
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Sqauring the circle
She'll be able to get away with it provided she demonstrate to the court(s) that she can successfully divide by zero.
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Re:
Oh, there's lots of stuff from fantasy that has made it into reality that has turned out alright. Satellite communication (Arthur C. Clarke, 1945), picture phones (Hugo Gernsback, 1911), self-driving cars (Isaac Asimov, 1960), mood-altering medication / antipsychotics / antidepressants (Aldous Huxley, 1931), and Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle, AKA TASER (Edward Stratemeyer, et al, circa 1940) are just some examples. But on further consideration, maybe that last one goes into your column.
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Throttles, throttles everywhere!
I guess they figured out how to throttle settlement payouts, too.
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Amen.
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