Joejimbobjones

I am really having trouble believing it went down like that. Analyzing one specific runners routine is more like stalking than anything. Especially given that there is a wealth of material on high mileage plans (Pfiitzinger anyone?).

I went through a round of this with my bank a couple of years ago. They would reissue a card that would be compromised in days and the cycle would go around. It was an internal security problem for them that eventually got sorted out. I remember one card was cloned and bought several dozen monthly transit passes in Boston (contactless purchase) before it was caught. I live in Western Canada. So yes I carry cash. A lot of younger retailers don’t even accept it. They just have that square tap system tied to their phones.

Men? Have you heard about the women’s?

Oh wow. I’ve got some reading to do! I read them in the late 1970s and there were only the three!

Except why just A Wizard of Earthsea. I mean it was a trilogy…

I don’t understand the love that the Dresden Files gets. Great idea with terrible execution. Butcher’s writing is just clumsy with bad dialogue and weak world building. The series was originally recommended to me because I was lamenting that Gibson had moved away from noir after Neuromancer and a friend thought Butcher would fit the bill.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison

The article is a nothing burger classic. They set up the straw man notion of a 1950s jet pack futurism where we live in glass domes and commute in flying cars and then try to knock it down with their superior insight.

Modern science fiction has dealt with this for decades now - Blade Runner is 40 years old ffs - where the future is layered on the past. And the poorer you are, the more you rely on the castoffs and remnants of what was. So guess what - we do get parts of that shiny glistening future, you just have to be a billionaire to enjoy it. And if you’re born in a slum then it will probably never exist for you.

Don’t waste the click and spend a moment thinking about inequality instead.

In many cases those positions are terminal i.e. you fuck up company X and you are either never working again, or it will take you years to find a comparable position. The golden parachute is there to lower the risk for candidates when you offer the job. Is it abused? Of course it is, essentially becoming risk pay for people who aren’t taking any risks. Compare to the “poison pill” where any attempted takeover or removal of executives triggers a massive payout to them.

That is exactly right. This wasn’t about saving them, but is an invaluable exercise that can’t be replicated by a tabletop or full scale exercise. Agencies were probably jumping at the chance to get involved.

I’m trying to be done with it. I lasted through the blackout and a couple of extra days. I feel dirty going back, but there is still a lot of content there.