Sounds like it taking a few years for children to realize that the new owners of the house hand out fun size bars at Halloween instead of the full sized ones the previous occupants did. I agree with the others' thoughts that a site/domain's 'reputation' should absolutely be reset when it changes hands. Hopefully the new owner's reputation falls faster than would in my Halloween example. Piggybacking on someone else's success like that isn't 'cool'. :sigh:

Back when I used one, it was once per day used, after the last refill is gone. Can't stand having sticky residue or dried tea/coffee in a mug; makes the next cup taste worse.

From the article:

“The DPRK will redouble the efforts to increase its strength to safeguard the country’s sovereignty and right to existence,”

Sorry, but when the rest of the world tries diplomacy to get you to stop your lunacy, and that is met with threats, and even more lunacy... You've stopped being a good world citizen and have given up your right to existence. And yes, I realize the US isn't much better with them trying to throw their 'weight' around and force laws on other countries. At least we aren't threatening to nuke other countries into oblivion for not respecting our 'sovereignty'.

I was wondering about this one too. It falls in the 'Not a bad idea, so why not?' category for me. But marking off on a driving test for not doing it seems silly to me. In my 14+ years and 175k+ miles of driving, I've never once had a door magically spring open while driving... /edit: driving years. Forgot how old I was... :laugh:

I just simply don't bother signing my cards at all (and thanks to the missus, that's up to like 12 now...) Every card I've ever had and used for longer than six months has had the signature strip worn completely off from removing/replacing it in my wallet. I can count the number of times I've been asked for ID because of it on one hand. Besides, with chips now, most merchants just assume if the transaction goes through it's all good anyway (never had a card checked for a signature or ID after the chip switch-over.) The durability of those chips, however, is another conversation entirely... :sigh:

Well, I'm not a climatologist. But like any rational person, I'm willing to defer to others that are more expert on a topic than I am. That said, I don't blindly trust everything an 'expert' claims; I still dissect the topic critically, and try to discern if what they are claiming passes the sanity test. So, when I am presented with historical data about how atmospheric CO2 has consistently risen (and fallen, as part of the natural recapturing process in the summer growing season, however less,) then it passes the sanity test. We keep burning fossil fuels, CO2 rises, planet gets hotter. Basic, historically supported, cause and effect. The planet is also much warmer than it should be, compared to historical data and models (the planet has had hot and cold periods, cyclically, for millions of years, but currently we're hotter than previous data shows we should be.) Now, are we past the point of no return? I'm not qualified to answer that question. To me it looks like we are. We're already seeing environmental issues related to the rise in the average temperature of the planet (coral bleaching, sea level changes, heat waves...) So if more CO2 makes the planet hotter, and the current heat level is causing problems... And we aren't actively removing CO2 from the atmosphere... To me, that says the problem is going to get worse before it gets better. If you have a measured argument to the contrary, I'm happy to listen.

Perhaps. But like religion, I welcome a calm, grounded, debate on the topic. You'd be surprised what people can learn from each other if they are just willing to behave like adults. ;P

So, I recall reading an article some time ago about the planet already having crossed the point of no return with regard to 'devastating' climate change. I Googled, and this article seems like what I'm probably thinking of: The World Passes 400 PPM Threshold. Permanently[^] That was back in late September of 2016. The gist here is that, at this point, we can only keep things from getting worse. Those bad things that scientists have been warning everyone about for decades? They're going to happen. They're already happening. Even if we stopped all artificial addition of CO2 to the atmosphere, coastal regions are still going to flood, coral reefs are still going to be damaged, and heat waves and droughts are going to get worse. We are past the point of being able to avoid any serious consequences. We're in the damage mitigation phase now. And our lovely denier 'President' Trump decided he didn't want any part of the Paris Climate Agreement. Good job. Guess he would prefer the White House to be beach-front property... :doh:

Positively brilliant. Love it.

My guess is option B, but they'll likely take the MPAA/RIAA model of just lobbying to have competition suppressed, since innovating is hard and costs money... :rolleyes:

My thoughts as well. Though I'd remove punctuation and carriage returns as well, just for good measure! :laugh:

I've had mixed results. The better systems will at least have an entry for 'Shipping Label Printed' or similar. Then at least you have some idea what is going on. Having a tracking number that returns no results because the courier hasn't yet received the package is, frankly, asinine.

We use SSRS here, and I can't say I've ever seen that error. It sounds more like your SSRS server is borked, if it can't compile the expressions in the report. Or, perhaps that the reports are written for a newer version of SSRS than you have on your report server, and the report is using some operator or function the server doesn't recognize. (Remember, MS error messages are disingenuous at best, and outright lies at worst...) To answer your primary question though, yeah, SRRS uses VB. A quick look at the expression editor makes it pretty obvious (the Operators->Logical/Bitwise list is 'And', 'Not', 'Or', etc, instead of '&&', '!', '||', and so on...) Best of luck resolving your issue. In my experience, SSRS can be a bit of an elephant to get fixed when it decides it doesn't want to work properly...

An attractive option, if I thought I were even remotely competent to do the work. Since I don't have a backup car to get to and from work if I muck something up... I'll stick with rolling the windows down. :sigh:

Living with that right now in South Florida... Mechanic said I needed a new compressor and quoted me $600+. I laughed and said the old beater isn't even worth that much anymore. Time to price out a new one!

Eh, if she didn't get the joke, she isn't worth keeping around anyway!

:rose: My mother is a breast cancer survivor. As OG said, caught early enough, survival rates are really quite good. Also, my mother has been overweight for 30 years, and a smoker for longer, so chances are your better half is in way better health. Best wishes to you and yours.

There's a 53 year old woman who might disagree with you: Kelly Carlin[^]

I typically cancel install as soon as there is any whiff of an installer containing bundled "software". The upshot? 95% of the time, the installer can be cracked open with your archive software of choice and the real installer extracted. I find it's the only way to be (reasonably) sure you know what's getting installed. Maybe this should be a feature of virus scanners? Try to unzip the file, and if it finds multiple executables, flags it as potential bundleware? Maybe also provide a list of the files, so you can tell the difference between true crapware and something that simply shipped with a redist? Dunno, seems useful to me.

True, but this the US we're talking about here. Squeeze every last red cent you can out of the consumer, then lobby congress to try to get even more. X| Though to be fair, with those speeds, the cost is likely only a pinky finger, rather than an arm and a leg.