Naked Bootleg

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This is because they decline nearly every roof claim.

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I live in Hail Alley here and had 3 roof replacements in the last 11 years. They've never declined a claim and in fact have been very easy to work with on those claims.

However - I imagine the raised rates after the natural disasters we've had recently and the fact we haven't had any catastrophic hurricanes or mega-tornadoes ripping through metropolitan areas in a good while have contributed greatly to their liquid assets.

Thank you, WT :cheers:

Maybe I am imagining things, but I feel like the Covid era tilted many companies into a less-than-ideal posture. It caused high rates of turnover which led to lost knowledge, then the proliferation of WFH instantly cut productivity by a measurable degree.

My company was recently made a wholly-owned subsidiary of our parent company. The transition has been a cluster but I am making it work. I have a new manager who yesterday told me I am not getting a raise this year. Understandable, because revenue has been abysmal for 7 years running. My reports are getting raises, albeit the peanut butter variety as mandated. And it is disheartening, but for now I'm good with it.

However, thanks to a leak we just learned the parent company is seeking buyers. I've had a sense of dread for a few weeks now because sales are stagnant, no NPIs which would move the needle are on the horizon, I am 6 years from retirement and suddenly we learn this company is actively seeking a buyer. My options are limited and I will be very fortunate to land somewhere making 80% of what I earn now with this company. I'm just praying that we either get bought by a competitor, or I get a fat package based on tenure. All the other options are no bueno.

TL;DR: no wage increase for me for the first time in 26 years so I feel your pain. Hang in there man.

Nice! I had to turn the game off in the top of the 8th. We were getting struck out over and over it seemed in those last couple innings. Gott go find the highlights :cheers:

I got a personalized email w/link to vote from Fidelity, 'personalized' meaning I can't forward it to anyone else. When I go back to the link again, it states I have already voted.

You can vote at proxyvote.com but you need your control number first. Your broker should be able to give that to you.

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Well that sucks. Screw those people who run this stuff. He is deserving over any others who got more years

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This makes me irrationally angry at the NCAA. They really do still have a hard-on for OU :angry:

Cheers! :cheers:

I know we started hot like this last year and its Coppin State, but I'm thinking there's something different about this team.. BOOMER

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I've tried to help a few people see the potential, but none have put money on the line, it's still a science project situation to them.

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Same here but the response is "pink sheets / OTC!? Get outta here"

Whatever, losers. I tried! :lol:

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Agreed. A scalpal shouldn't have a public ip address. Medical equipment in a hospital can still be networked and not be on the public network or even available inline from any other points within the internal network.

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Without going into too much detail: we got hit by the Akira ransomware group. How they got an 'in' was the most surreptitious, random set of circumstances you could imagine, part of which was a seemingly minute failure on our IT org's part. We were saved from total annihilation by the fact we implemented zero-trust architecture about a year prior. The attackers couldn't get to anything valuable but they tried. There's a lot more to protection than "zero-trust" but that was a big factor.

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There's nothing revolutionary about any of the attacks. This happened because people don't know what tf they're doing or maybe just don't give a shite.

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I will mildly disagree, because some threat actors are on another level than others. What we found during forensics.. two things come to mind: they were able to do some things that, according to the industry, shouldn't be possible. Some of these state-sponsored actors have massive computing power at their disposal. And the sophistication with which they covered their tracks was highly impressive. Highly developed and very effective, as well as their encryption techniques.