TechNerdWizard42
“Fix it tickets” are not a national thing. Some places do it, some places don’t. It’s just easier to say with a general meaning like Kleenex versus tissue paper.
Many places just issue you a ticket. End of story. Once the ticket is issued you are on notice that your vehicle is not considered legally roadworthy. You are legally supposed to park it and not drive on public roads until fixed. Tow it to the shop if you have to.
Obviously this is onerous and stupid. But it is the law. If you have a minor issue, 99% of the time the pig will let you go and get it fixed like you said. But they don’t have to. “Officer discretion” is a fancy way of saying applying laws on a whim. Picking and choosing when to enforce laws and against whom.
In some countries it is much more clear cut. If you need to fix something the police escorts you to a staging area, like a big parking lot and that’s where your car sits until it’s fixed. Once fixed the popo there check it before you drive out. People in the lot changing bald tires, burned bulbs, fastening new side mirrors, etc.
Yes exactly. I love Linux. I build embedded systems devices with it. I run it on some of my rack appliances. But I’m also not a blind fan boi.
Windows made leaps and bounds into stability with XP. And since then it’s been a slow cog into being an excellent enterprise grade OS even with users bashing it all sorts of ways.
Most (all) of the complaints except price focus on money grabs and features for the docile masses. Forced updates, reboots, integrations, etc. My 80 year old relatives can use it and you know what it works great when they type into the “computer question box”. Click start menu and type. It brings up their files, folders, apps, answers to web questions, etc. That makes sense to someone who doesn’t understand a computer. It’s not pandering to the IT folk, it’s pandering to Karen.
If you’re IT folk, you can just spend a little more money on the proper license and all that goes away. Or you spend some time hacking the registry and get it for free usually.
The only BSODs I have had in the last decade are graphics driver related usually when pushing beta drivers hard. My Linux OS’s have had way more stability issues with less interaction.
I mean… He’s not wrong. You shouldn’t need your phone number or email as a requirement to drop off a prepaid package with a mailer. The courier service has that info there’s no reason Walgreens should need it.
If you’re getting insurance, asking historical insurance questions should give them a better understanding of your history, like if you’re a brand new driver or not, etc. But it should not be required. Instead of “we have to know this” it should be “we need your history to determine policy risk and provide coverage. The less information we have the higher risk we have to assume and the more you pay. If you don’t want to tell me your history that’s fine, but you’re going to pay more”. In reality the insurance companies use giant databases to know exactly who and how you were insured. Payment histories, claims, everything. So it’s moot and still wrong.
The sov cit movement is ridiculous, but they’re not always 100% wrong in their stances.
Anecdotally I had a UPS Store try to pull the “you have to wait in line to drop off a package so we can get your details” crap for a prepaid drop-off. They can make you wait in line if they demand because they can ask you what’s inside to determine if it’s hazardous. That’s their loophole for preventing drop offs. But they cannot demand your information. I’m not super important but do a fair amount of business with UPS for a rando (thousands $'s week which is a rounding error to them) and after a complaint, got a followup, and magically now they accept packages without requiring information. But you still have to wait in line for them there. The purpose of the information was to get you on the store’s email list for promotions and presumably data sales.
Bully terrorist state steals assets of other sovereign nation.
That’s the headline.
No. It really isn’t.
Windows with the proper license and configuration is more stable, more productive, and that configuration takes less than an hour once for the life of the machine.
In 2024 if you’re still bashing Windows for BSODs, stability, updates, etc, you’re doing it wrong. You can bash all day long for privacy violations and corporate greed but both of those are fixed with the proper version like Windows Enterprise. Costs more, but you are less of the product.
If you were a minority you’d be pulled over every day, probably each way to and from work with that as the reason. Given expensive fix-it tickets each time. And most likely had your vehicle searched or impounded for multiple failures to comply. Not being hyperbolic, this has happened often. One guy it was 1 day, 3 tickets and then impound because he failed to fix the issue in a day.
When the rules are applied on a whim by whatever person with authority feels like, you live in tyranny. That isn’t an orderly system. It is a failed nation.
American definitely has a culture. And most of it is shit. Keep that idiocy away.
Yup. And eventually all gone there. The plan isn’t secret, they post on social media and make news conferences about the new Israeli territory’s geographical boundaries.
They’ve even made references to the greater land they claim which extends all around neighbour countries. Obviously they’re not going to invade Saudi… Today. But start making the PR claim today, and eventually the rhetoric moves with it