Oh man. This is brilliant for phishing training. Get through some armor. Don't let your biases get in the way. You can do a variation around this theme. One could be similar to above. Another is one that says you can opt-into this kind of thing by "Managing Preferences". You'll hit a large swath of people without them paying too much attention. I like this.

"Secret" just like those emails I get from HR asking my opinions about management that are completely anonymous, but don't forward this email or share the link with anyone else because it's just for me....

Can't put the laptop down because he's next to a pool to free up at least one hand.

The best I can advise for him is to chew up the cigar and chase it down with the espresso martini. Then throw the laptop into the sea like a discus and get into the pool to wait for the authorities to charge him with littering.

How much money would one presume 5 beers would that it would cover this many beers? Even if you're buying at a local convenience store or at your local alcohol store this would be around $50? Who walks up to a place, sees an order of what they assume is 5 beers for that price and thinks, "Yeah that's a fair price."

Also your neighbors and friends will be too disoriented and perturbed to mate.

What kind of hospital let him get near the room with that kind of metal around his neck? I've had to be in several hospitals recently for different imaging issues and every time the MRI is a thing I have to remove everything metal to go past a certain door (escorting my daughter and son for medical reasons). I don't know who let him anywhere near the room with something that large.

Edit for Clarity: I've had to be the one removing all metal even though I'm not the one being scanned. For me to progress beyond a certain part of the hospital toward the MRI I needed to get rid of everything. My children were being scanned, not me. So, I'm not sure what hospital system allowed this man with a 9kg chain get this far deep into the imaging area.

They did this during the pandemic and parked the buses in lower-income areas to help kids who had to do school from home and didn't have internet. There were a lot in my area and there were complaints because it wasn't enough for everyone.

You can't do nice things, everyone is going to complain no matter what.

Just gonna leave this here for unrelated reasons:

In a 2004 interview, Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat", explaining: "It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans. Now, it shouldn't be that way. But if you go back, I mean it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats...But certainly we had some very good economies under Democrats, as well as Republicans. But we've had some pretty bad disaster under the Republicans."

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For posterity purposes. Section 9&10 are missing from the site.

Section 9

The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.

No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another; nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Section 10

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Control of the Congress.

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

• Paprika
• Powdered/granulated Garlic
• Powdered/granulated Onion
• Cayenne

Basically almost everything I cook has these in there with salt & pepper. Even if I'm using onion and garlic in the recipe.

This is how Microsoft has always done this adoption stuff. I'm surprised this is only coming out now. Probably has been happening to the larger institutions for much longer. They get the "next generation" hooked on free product that is part of the education system and then it's just part of what they do naturally.

I was in college when .Net was just being rolled out and we all got free licenses to Visual Studio. Also had licenses for Adobe products and pretty much any other major player. Just had to ask the right IT person how to get a disc and license key. They only worked for 4-5 years before going dormant, but some of us kept in touch with internal staff and got it for several years after that as well.

If you're in college, don't fall for the free taste. There's always a catch.

People get mad when they feel like they weren't ready for training, but to your point, that's why we train. To make you more aware when the real thing comes. Check all of your links. Verify it's real before just clicking through.

The issue has come from some companies threatening jobs when people don't perform properly. I would love it if people saw this as just training and not a personal attack. You fell for the trick now how do you not get tricked next time? It might help if we did a quarterly report and put it on the intranet for people to see how many got clicked. Don't make it a Wall-of-Shame, but a report to see how good things have been going. Put out sample emails that were the trickiest and what were the tells. Make Security a thing that is a growth aspect, not a shaming tactic.

People who are putting on socks and shoes to be presentable outside of their house and have been barefoot or in sandals up to this point.

Never.... NEVER work and personal with the same account. It's a pain to have separate accounts, but this makes it so much more worth it. If they got mad at the personal account, that's losing photos and other connection pieces but the work account (DEV account) still can make money. If it's the DEV account, your personal still works and you don't lose all of the personal connections but hopefully you're working under an LLC or other entity that has the ability to have some legal push back when needed. Not always, but sometimes, businesses don't want to mess with other businesses but they'll punch "Steve" in the mouth.

100% if this is on a metronome at the highest tick rate possible.

We have had these around our farm properties for a while for the same reasons. You can make them out of mesh wire and some 2X4 pieces of wood. Don't look as fancy as this but with the right bait (horse/cow dung and some meat scraps) you can get the same amount of flies. Really helps the animals and humans when the horseflies start swarming.

I mean, that's the point, right? The only way they can offer those "experiences" is to process your data. We need to get off the teat of convenience and learn to use the tools and want to put a little effort into things again. We've relied on them to just feed us the information in the way we want it for so long, we've forgotten how it got there originally. We can do it. It's okay to take 5 minutes and put that info into Calendar. Learn how to formulate the searches to get your information, and alternatives to make sure you've covered your bases. READ THE BOOK/BLOG/EMAIL YOUR DAMN SELF and write a summary in your own words.

For those who don't know, on most Microwaves if you hold one of the numbers (mine is the 1 button) for about 5 seconds it will silence the beeping.

You're welcome.

I always knew lizardpeople were behind knitting. Thanks for the confirmation.

Depends on the messenger. If someone comes and tells me I look good and they love me, but it's the person who's been throwing their dog's feces over my fence for the last year, the message is very much overshadowed by the messenger.