As a former employee of a major industrial equipment manufacturer for life safety systems (standby generators), we had similar concerns about proprietary code that ran on our microprocessor based controls.

I used to live about a mile as the crow flies from Indianapolis Raceway Park, where the Nationals are held every Labor Day weekend. When the top fuelers ran, I could be sitting inside my house, double pane windows solidly closed, and hear them run like I was within direct sight of the track. An unbelievable amount of…

“nobody could bare to beat up”

The key here is credit union versus bank. As a credit union, the depositors are the owners, and essentially the ones who set policy. So in effect, you’re lending yourself money. It has been my experience that credit unions are far more lenient on things like this than a bank, who has to satisfy its owners/stockholders…

No worse than them using a domain they don’t even own for their HR department email:

Grew up as the younger of three in the proverbial “big Catholic family” of the 1950s/60s. Maternal grandmother was the head of the family and went to Mass daily, etc., etc., the only way you could dodge Sunday Mass was to be on your deathbed, blah, blah, blah.

Really? The Cimmaron wasn’t worse? Hell, it made it into the Shitbox Market Letter.