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We must all remember.
The only person who's ever gotten all of his work done by Friday ,was Robinson Crusoe.

 

This is what true capitalist generosity looks like:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/10/us/company-10-million-bonuses-trnd/index.html

... when the 198 employees of St. John Properties received surprise bonuses averaging $50,000, it was a holiday miracle most didn't see coming. All the bonuses totaled around $10 million.

 

This is what true capitalist generosity looks like:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/10/us/company-10-million-bonuses-trnd/index.html

Ha. He just push some of those employees into (possibly much) higher tax brackets. They're gonna be pissed come April.

 

Ha. He just push some of those employees into (possibly much) higher tax brackets. They're gonna be pissed come April.

But they oughta come out on the winning side, right? ... they ones that'll be pissed are the ones that will not see that coming...

 

they ones that'll be pissed are the ones that will not see that coming...

It happens all the time. Someone gets a windfall and splurges (or they win a car or something) -- only to find they can't pay the taxes when Uncle Sam comes to collect.

 

The weird professor:

Bertus

 

Snapped this while driving in Portland.

 

The US foot is finally getting the boot:

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...iving-boot-official-foot-measurement-67732383

There are actually two different definitions of the 12-inch measurement known as a foot.

Some land surveyors use what’s known as the U.S. survey foot. Others use the definition that’s more accepted by the broader world: the international foot.

 

https://nerf.hasbro.com/en-us/produ...rf-darts:D65B1AB5-782E-49F7-87BC-32F3D722116D

https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news...ros-to-stop-making-assault-style-toy-weapons/

State Consumer group asking Hasbro’s to stop making assault-style toy weapons

 

Simple... Buy them out and quit making them! Oh, you want it for FREE- I smell a commie rat.

 

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Beer? Sex? What?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/D1qVRFeHpC/the_danger_in_our_homes

Excess fluff or lint could travel from the filter over time to the back of the machine and end up touching the heating element and causing a fire.

This design problem seemed to have existed for years.

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/p...maged-computers-planting-logic-bombs-programs

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...s-in-his-software-to-ensure-hed-get-new-work/
"He gets jail time for doing on purpose what thousands of developers do by accident every day?"
Contractor admits planting logic bombs in his software to ensure he’d get new work

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50871948

Mr Esmond says he's already thinking of what he can do next year, but says it definitely will not be the same act of kindness.

"People say 'are you going to do this again next year', and my reply to them is, if people knew I was going to do this nobody would pay their bill.

"They'd all wait for me to pay it," he chuckled. "I'll have to think up something."

 

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/12/20/naval-academy-hand-gestures-sophomoric-game/

Two Naval Academy midshipmen who made a hand gesture associated with white nationalists while standing in the background of a TV segment during the annual Army-Navy football game were playing a “sophomoric game” and were not flashing racist gestures, according to a Navy probe into the incident released Friday.

These are the type of future Naval officers I'm familiar with.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50902496

"Increasingly, authoritarian countries which want to control what citizens see are looking at what Iran and China have already done.

"It means people will not have access to dialogue about what is going on in their own country, they will be kept within their own bubble."

 

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/in...fund/283-72d48538-24e1-4c1c-b4ce-69205127110d

UPDATE Dec. 24:

Carol Doty received her refund from AT&T on Dec. 24.

Doty overpaid the company on Nov. 6. She contacted them about the mistake the very next day and has been getting the runaround ever since

"At one point we were told we couldn't get that money back. That the amount was too large and we would have to keep it as a credit on the bill," said Doty.