Screwball

Here's another question for Del. On this bank thing above. I had double charges on the same day at the same place, but I couldn't tell what time by my statement. Only on rare occasions did I go there twice in one day, but possible. There were a few that could be, but I wanted to question anyway. A time stamp would prove it. If both transactions were the same time, I was double charged. Different times, then no problem. Who has access to the time stamps, and am I missing anything? This is my bank debt card. I think they run it as a credit.

I don't know how the transactions work, so I can't speak to this. I'm interested in the coding. Bitcoin transactions can contain a line of code entered by the seller that has nothing to do with the transaction. It is limited in size due to ASCII coding. It's turned into hex to save space. It was around 80 characters, but I think it is now 40, but I could be wrong. As far as fixing exchange **** ups, and banks... *warning bank rant* My fault for not catching it, but about a year ago I found about a dozen dual charges on my card from the same place, a local gas station/carry out. I am usually on top of that as I check it all the time, but I missed this. I only buy about 3 things so from the dollar amount I know what I bought. I went though my statement, took screenshots, documented so I could go play phone tag and stupidity with the bankers. I wasn't disappointed. I started out online with my bank. It took over a half hour to get a person. It took 20 minutes to not find out anything about the first double charge on my statement. I told them I had a bunch of these, so why don't I just send you an email and you can work on it and get back to me. Nope, they don't do that. I told them we are going to be on here for hours doing it this way, and I don't have time. You need to go to your local branch. OK, so I did. I was promptly told that all they could do is call the same number I did. At that point I gave up. The banks win again, and my fault too. Not worth the hassle. Then a couple of weeks later, I get an email from this bank, some person at the regional office. Hi, my name is Joe Schmoe, in capital letters no less. I am your personal banker and I'm here to make your experience with X bank the best it can possibly be. How can I help you? Well, lookie here, an email address. So I spun up a letter explaining everything, and finished with how glad I am he was going to make my experience all it could be. In a nice way of course. Nothing. A month later, I emailed him back and ask why I never heard anything, and my experience has not been much better. Nothing again. This is where we are. **** banks.

Thanks for this. I was doing a little investigating. So many angles to the crypto fad. Will it ever replace money, is it a medium for fraud, what exchange rates, does it protect against inflation, it is a good investment, all kinds of things. I got a kick out of the OP_RETURN stuff but then thought, in these days the spooks would be all over that, or should be. Should be easy to decode and read it one would think. When you think about it, crypto is short for cryptography - code. I grew up and played baseball with a guy who was a highly intelligent human. He was a walking talking calculator before we ever heard of them. He went to a high dollar college and majored in math. His dad was a professor who was a mathematician and did code breaking before and during the cold war. I've always been fascinated by that kind of stuff. And thanks for the link. I found a bunch of stuff but didn't know what to trust.

Interesting, but I'm not surprised. Funny, here in Cornhole a little grocery close by has a Bitcoin machine. I have no idea how it works or what it does. That said, disclosure; I've never followed the cryto stuff ever to any extent. It didn't interest my kind of investing. I really had no care about it. But I do remember you posting about it since maybe 3 boards ago, so I have a few questions since you have been on top of this for a long time. In the article you posted, it said this; If Bitcoin’s isn’t used for payments, what use does it have? I don't care about the first part, but the bold is key. The article talked about the volatility. It has to work that way when there is a hard cap. But traders love it, and probably make a killing. But that's not the deal that matters, maybe... This is where I get curious. Again, from that article; I only care about the first part. The rest gives the pundits and idiots in DC something to make themselves look stupid over. What intrigues me is the OP_RETURN stuff. Is anyone digging into this? Is there a way to read the blockchain, and I know you talked about the blockchain long ago? That could be some wild stuff.

I don't think I ever "equated" a trans person with a sexual predator, but go on with your insinuations. She might have in her mind. I don't know exactly why she was afraid to go in, but she was, and I didn't care why - I was put in a position to do address it. Part of keeping our jobs it to take regular training on how to handle things in school, like safety, discrimination, bullying, medical emergencies, weather related evacuations, and even how to handle mass shootings. This training also includes how to help identify and spot potential issues and how to prevent them. Our job is keep everyone safe, no matter what their biases may be. And we must consider any and all circumstances. You can't be too careful, and you can't ignore anything. People's biases be damned. This is a school. We know all the bad things that happen in schools. Maybe people should try it sometime before passing judgement on those who do.

This is the correct answer, but I did her one better. Hello! This is the janitor, anyone in there? Hang on...Nobody in there. You are safe, I'll be right outside. She was grateful. I've had ex-cons and felons in my class. You can never be to safe, or too careful. I exposed a potential person last year, and he got thrown out. She has every right to be afraid.

No argument. I don't watch any TV news, or read any of the major publications as my first choice of news. I see what headlines are trending, pick which ones are interesting, then go see what people are saying about it. The "perception" or "narrative" one might say, and how people are reacting. Then pursue how they came to that conclusion. Many times I find, I think, it is because they have built their own silo, and are happy to live in it. It's human nature to avoid "negative vibes" as "Oddball" of Kelly's Hero's fame said. That's why they can't look in the mirror. Then there is the follow the crowd thing. All interesting stuff. Then there is the question of what America wants right now, since fighting for years over a bunch of inept, crooked, and bought off assholes who want to **** us next. It's a big club, and we ain't in it. And we hate each other. Giddy up!

A year or so ago our college changed the signs on the restrooms to "Men" and "Gender Exclusive." Last year about this time, a late afternoon class, so not as many at the school in our wing, I had a women who was around 50 I'm guessing. We were walking out around 6:45 and she told me she wanted to go to the bathroom before she had to drive all the way home, but was afraid to go in the bathroom. What do you tell her?

Around here, no. Shop class, and what used to be called home ec, has been outsourced to vocational schools. Many offer shop type classes with machining, welding, robotics. There is also carpentry, auto body and mechanics courses, along with some medical and cosmetology and hair salon stuff. As a few examples. It sounds good on paper as they offer these skills for those who are not interested in college prep courses. The local school I taught at was fueled by 14 different public school districts in this part of the state. There is little learning going on there. It is complete joke. Kids come to school and play video games and play on their phone. The administration is a complete and utter joke. They are good at PR but bad at education. But then again, you can only work with what you have. If little Johnny and sister Jessica have parents who doesn't stress education - then you are behind the curve before you even start. But in general it was widespread ineptness on the part of the administration. Plenty of wasted money too. And they have no answer for those boondoggles either.

That's about where I was too. You should also remember the nuclear bomb drills we went through. They told us to get under our desks. Yea, that will help... Wild times, as the threat of nuclear war was was real. And here we are, 61 years later and wondering about nuclear exchanges. I truly hope the current idiots in charge don't get us all killed before they are done ****ing up the world.

I kind of equate it to science. And maybe free speech too. Throw all the **** on the table and let's have an adult conversation about the pile in front of us. What is true, and what isn't. Pretty simple IMO. The KISS rule once again applies. And don't hide from what you don't want to hear. Too bad it doesn't work that way today.

Which has nothing to do with what I said. I would expect more from you.

I really don't understand the point of that article, but it doesn't matter. Coming from someone who has spent the last 5 1/2 years teaching for a state college, and being whored out to a vocational setting (STEM class) which I eventually refused to enter, I can tell you this; our educational system, at least where I am, and I don't really think that matters, is a massive cluster **** of ineptitude.

Probably not.

Musk buying Twitter changed many things, but many have no idea because they live in their own created information bubble oblivious to what goes on outside that bubble. It's like the digital equivalent of parking your head up your ass, but they like it that way.

Speaking of engineering mistakes; ask one of those geniuses who thought it was a good idea to put fuel pumps inside gas tanks? Only one example of stupid designs by so-called smart people.

Exponents are a bitch

On the Sanders/Trump thing on interest rates. So much to pick over in that article, but I'll go with this one. FTA: They have been saying that **** since these very banks blew up our financial system back in 2008, which ruined lives of millions, while the bankers got richer. They must think we are still that stupid. Maybe they have a point. If they wanted to fix it, they would have done it a long time ago. I wonder if Bernie thought he was being clever by using the word usury.

Jerome Powell's term as Fed Chair expires May 2026. Board post ends Jan 2028. He will not be fired because the president cannot fire him. He will be the Fed chair until May 2026 unless he resigns, or congress ends the Fed itself. Powell isn't going anywhere, nor any of the rest of them, regardless of what the idiots in these echo chambers try to feed the gullible.

Still two different issues, that's my point. This isn't difficult.

Adding; your cherry picking what you think are structural design issues to build a strawman about corrosion that IS preventable by using a different grade of stainless.

That proves nothing. I'm glad your not a car designer.

I don't think it's stainless. Mixture of steel and aluminum. Either way, welds easy and sound. If there is any stainless, using a different grade solves the corrosion problem.

At this point where I live a horse would be faster. I wonder why he decided to make some of his cars so ugly? Jokes about they look like a pinewood derby car in 1950. From a manufacturing standpoint, it makes a bunch of sense. Deming might be proud. ON EDIT: Marketing department, not so much.

They have thrown money at the system for years, but they don't spend it wisely. They have turned education into an assembly line instead of a job shop. Too many kids are shoved into a position to fail, not succeed. If you see it up close and personal it is heartbreaking. That's the system they have built and it's shameful.