We were kids in the early 80's.  It was this or the Sears catalog.

I feel like it’s something mainly used by Robert Ludlum novels.  “Agent Spork cabled Lisbon; it’s only a matter of time before Smithers shows up with new passports and money belts.”

My state is a bit more restrictive than that. We have both medical and recreational weed. Medical lets you buy more, and at dispensaries that serve both, gets you preferential treatment. More importantly, it’s a lot cheaper: recreational weed has hefty taxes associated with it (which is why I still buy from a plug).

For what it’s worth, I have a friend who works for a fairly big federal agency. Evidently his agency has been talking with others about eliminating marijuana completely from the background checks — meaning, smoking weed would no longer prevent you from getting hired. This is because they believe they’re losing out on…

which is really just an overgrown Southwestern Bell that renamed itself AT&T in 1994

Well if that isn’t a huge incentive to enable “Announce Messages with Siri” then I don’t know what is.

Revenue.

I don’t know that I’ve ever agreed with a Kinja comment as much as I agree with this one.  I wish I could give you all the stars.

OK, I LOL’d.  Take your star.

Particularly when one of the lines in the jingle is, “The snack that smiles right back at you until you bite their heads off!”  Like...what?

We are all thrilled that you took the time to add this comment.  Well done!

Starred for the DS9-inspired username as well as the great comment!

Godfather Part III?

Outstanding Kinja, right here.  Thank you for that write-up!

Starred because I am laughing my ass off at 8 in the morning over this comment.  Thank you for the great way to start my day, Internet Stranger!

Pretty sure you answered your own question.

My dad worked for a credit-ratings agency back in the day (similar to S&P). Now, the thing about that business is that the companies you’re rating are the ones paying for the service. It was therefore to not only avoid conflicts of interest, but even the appearance of them.

More people should watch Real Genius.

Having interviewed with a few contractors back in the day, that has not been my experience. Salary offers were very competitive.

Just an FYI: tightly-managed enterprise PCs shouldn’t have an issue. I use a Razer mouse on my work machine, and it did not — in fact, would not -- install Synapse.  I tried, actually, because I’d love to program the buttons, but oh well.