In the US Air Force they use US currency at all overseas facilities and shops on the base. But they don’t ship pennies because it’s not worth the cost, so they round up or down to the nearest 5. I worked with a guy who was so cheap that when it would round down he would pay with cash and when it would round up he would write a check (this was before debit cards, yes I’m that old).

Lead singer of AC/DC

I could understand that if they were an overseas company, but they are from the US. That had to be one of the most incompetent customers service reps ever.

IEP ensure that all children receive a free and appropriate public education in the least restricted way possible. Unless you want kids with special needs just shoved in a special education classroom until their 18, they are absolutely necessary.

As a parent of a child with special needs, all of this scares the crap out of me. The second the department of education is gone so will the enforcement of the IDEA act. And that is the only thing keeping states like the one I live in from providing these services. It is already hard enough to get schools to do what they are supposed to. I’ve had to threaten a lawsuit against ours, and it’s one of the better school districts.

The second they don’t have to provide for these kids they will shove them in the deepest darkest hole and leave them there until they age out.

There is a Firefox extension called Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy that works great for a lot sites that block you from being able to copy.

Just like the constitution, states can add to, but not take away from federal department of education regulations. For example, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children. Changing laws if difficult and no one wants to go on record voting against special needs. So they can just get rid of the department that enforces laws and say they are leaving up to the states.

As someone who lives in a red state and has a child with special needs, the IDEA law is the only reason my child gets any support in school. If they get rid of the department of education then states like Texas can reduce their special education services even further, so they can build more multi-million dollar high school football stadiums.

So I have a conspiracy theory around that. Android used to put the volume slider at the top of the screen. At some point they moved it to the right side, and now blocks the skip button on YouTube. I won’t doubt this was done on purpose, so if you lower the volume for an ad, you will be forced to watch more of it.

Is there a word for the thing before the penultimate? Because that would be it.

see ISO 8601

Got to get those datetimes properly formatted. I can’t hate on that

Thanks rimjobsteve

Hijacking top comment with something completely unrelated, just so people will see it

guy eating salad: I wish this hurt

guy who invented croutons: have I got something for you

But I imagine he’s probably really sweaty and hogs the arm rest and/or makes it greasy

Don’t forget the situations where you find a good blog post or article that you can actually follow along until halfway through you get an error that the documentation doesn’t address. So you do some research and find out that they updated the commands for one of the dependency apps, so you try to piece together the updated documents with the original post, until something else breaks and you just end up giving up out of frustration.

Can you change the report for this one customer who has a nonstandard completely fucking stupid set up that none of your collection points account for and goes against the entire point of this report?

Well, maybe not those exact words. It’s more like:

• rep: customers XYZ doesn’t like what they see on the report
• me: well tell them to clean up their shit and stop leaving orphaned systems in their environment
• rep: well can’t you just exclude the orphaned ones
• me: the point of the report is to help you clean up your environment. If they did that it would show improvement week over week until it got to the levels they want to see.
• rep: they don’t want to do that, they just want them excluded from the report
• me: no

Reminds me of a guy I knew who kept getting letters for a $10 parking fine he got while at university. He waited until they spent more in postage than the fine before paying it.

Just a reminder she was a big part of Microsoft Bob, which without we would not have comic sans. Not relevant to anything here, but an interesting footnote in her career.

My first thought too. I can listen to their entire discography without skipping a single song. And they are even better live. Saw them a month ago and even after tonsil cancer Mike hasn’t slowed down a bit.

I was 8 years old when I moved to Texas. I’ve never been more disappointed than the first time I saw a roadrunner. My only frame of reference was Looney Tunes.

We mustn’t dwell. No, not today. We can’t. Not on Rex Manning day!