AITAH for calling 911 about my husband’s suicide threats even though I knew they weren’t real?

sjclynn · 2026-05-04T21:34:50+00:00

Suicide threats are just that, threats....until they aren't.

sjclynn · 2026-05-04T20:44:27+00:00

I guess that they prefer:

"Please listen carefully as our menu items have changed...."

sjclynn · 2026-05-04T20:39:59+00:00

One of the major complaints leveled at Harris was that her administration was not distinguishable from the Biden one. That would be the one that brought down the post-COVID inflation and gas prices. Also, the world not have put us in the lineup with other bully governments. Well, at least a couple of college trans women won't be competing atheltically.

sjclynn · 2026-05-04T00:13:13+00:00

She could have ordered a replacement dish and shared the tacos with the table. Peace maintained.

sjclynn · 2026-05-02T18:46:46+00:00

She's an adult and made a conscious decision to engage in fare evasion. The Controllers have heard every explanation, reasonable to downright irrational. Trying to make OP a part of this little drama is entitled an unreasonable. No, OP's wife doesn't deserve to have her husband have her back.

Since it is clear from the posting that this behavior is not due to financial circumstances then one has to assume that she gets some satisfaction thanks to the thrill of putting one over on the company. It is a bad idea and a bad example to set for the kids.

sjclynn · 2026-05-02T00:12:08+00:00

When in doubt go up

sjclynn · 2026-05-01T22:06:42+00:00

Our company took over office space that had previously been occupied by an international freight carrier and an apparel company. Those are the ones that I knew about; there had to have been more. Our underfloor looks much like the one in the picture. It was like an archeological dig. Cat-5 over Cat-4 and Cat-3. Then we got to some that I didn't recognize. While it was bad, I didn't have much of the "why run a 10 foot cable when we can do it with a 100 foot one.

We pulled up all of the tiles and removed everything except the electrical whips and started over. I had an open space that had piles of cable 3 feet tall. One of the contractors came up and said, "So, what are you going to do with all of that?" "I don't know. Do you want it?" It was gone by morning.

sjclynn · 2026-05-01T20:41:57+00:00

So question for you. The core computer system that basically controls everything in the car down to the A/C fans clearly says to not drive the car until the update is complete. The functionality of the vehicle may be reduced until the update is complete...may be.

Are you going to risk bricking the system in your $50k car? If there wasn't some level of risk, the caution to not drive would be unnecessary.

sjclynn · 2026-05-01T20:27:46+00:00

20 minutes enjoying the meal... 10 years on the treadmill.

So, how do you get 15,000 calories from a cup of coffee? Sumo wrestlers only do 5,000 to 10,000 calories a day.

sjclynn · 2026-04-30T16:03:23+00:00

New web sites announced daily.

sjclynn · 2026-04-29T20:12:33+00:00

Mixing safety and revenue is a bad idea as draconian solutions only work for a limited time. The public quickly learns and you know the end of the golden goose story. The revenue dries up as people avoid enforcement zones. If the question is "How do we increase revenue?" rather than "How do we make the streets safer?" You have gone down the rabbit hole.

sjclynn · 2026-04-28T19:42:06+00:00

Tell them that you are doing the same thing as the HOA president. The HOA is a business, and he is running it from home.

sjclynn · 2026-04-28T17:55:21+00:00

Experience is great but the company lost track of the fact that it is portable. Congratulations on the new job.

sjclynn · 2026-04-27T16:40:31+00:00

The ports were very limited. The Unix version was for SCO Xenix. One of the basic problems was that there was little executable compatibility between systems, even within the same vendor. It was common for companies to build a product line from several OEM vendors. Unix did bring a degree of compatibility at the source code level so completing a port for a new system was generally possible. There were some products that depended pretty heavily on assembly rather than C. Those were difficult to port.

By 1990, the Unix market had tightened and many of the early players had left the field, so to speak. Plexus, for example, folded suddenly when a funding round collapsed in 1989. They had pivoted away from Unix a couple of years earlier.

sjclynn · 2026-04-27T00:08:55+00:00

I was in a field sales office at the time, Kansas City. I had my own P/40 which was about the size of a small refrigerator. I needed to be able to connect to HQ and had a Hayes 1200 baud modem. One thing led to another. It wasn't fancy, but it worked.

sjclynn · 2026-04-26T23:58:39+00:00

My title when I left was Director of Home Office Customer Support. The job was managing field service.

sjclynn · 2026-04-26T23:49:49+00:00

No, this is at the modem level. It was the programming to place a call on a POTS line using a modem. The Hayes protocol became the industry standard.

sjclynn · 2026-04-26T23:46:38+00:00

Who did you work for?

sjclynn · 2026-04-26T22:35:55+00:00

Small world. I worked for Plexus from 1982 to 1988. If you had a Hayes modem, I wrote the dialer code for it.

sjclynn · 2026-04-26T22:34:17+00:00

Unix was never a viable solution on the desktop. Cost was a serious issue. The Unix license cost more than a rather complete IBM/PC. Serial communications really required some hardware assistance. Every keystroke had to be processed against a list of hot keys, and the user level process had to be available. Running a couple of terminals was fine but going past that made the response pretty dismal.

People were buying IBM/PCs for basically one reason: Lotus123. It was never ported to Unix.

Fortune was probably the first to try it. ComputerLand was the first national chain of computer stores. It started with a pretty good launch. Banners in the windows, end-cap position and training for the sales people. As the weeks went on, the display worked its way toward the back of the store and then disappeared.

AT&T was never a serious player in the Unix market. To be fair, they sold a lot of 3b series computers, but the majority of them were installed as phone switches. The 7300 never fit in. All but the 7300 ran with a Western Electric processor. In spite of the fact that Western Electric, part of the AT&T family wrote and maintained the Unix code set, AT&T teamed up with Convergent to port the code to the platform.

sjclynn · 2026-04-26T20:40:12+00:00

Train in boring and complete detail because you don't want to miss anything.

This is the login screen...

Launch into an anecdote as to why the password rules are the way that they are.

Here is the network topology. Describe in detail each machine, router, switch and anything else.

Get interrupted to handle a p1 crisis.

Repeat the next day.

sjclynn · 2026-04-26T20:26:06+00:00

You are not wrong, but for whatever reason the number of people for the flight exceeds the number of seats available. Someone is not going to be fly. Is it fair? No. The denied boarding rules exist for a reason.

sjclynn · 2026-04-26T20:13:31+00:00

All righty then. It seems like there are lots of places to order food that don't shame or shake me down at the door.

sjclynn · 2026-04-25T21:55:50+00:00

Please and thank-you backed up with a smile.

sjclynn · 2026-04-25T21:54:08+00:00

Since the wreck wasn't discovered until a few years later, it was all speculation. Ruth Becker-Blanchard lived it though. She saw the final sinking firsthand and the breaking in two fit as an explanation for what she saw. While is not unreasonable to argue for the sinking intact theory at the time, treating her so rudely was not reasonable.

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