Yeah, he clearly doesn't know how to force a charge-back.  You have to get stern with them and say the exact words, "this is a fraudulent charge."  No playing nice, no splitting hairs on some of the charge is legit, and if necessary threaten to report to regulatory authorities.  Also, being stern does not mean losing…

I have rented cars literally a couple 1000 times. The number of times I have had a major issue can be counted on the fingers two hand. Yes, it’s annoying when something happens, but it is never insurmountable, and some of those bad things would have happened regardless of whose car I was driving. Like the time my…

This is why credit card chargebacks are a thing. Don’t even fuck around with Hertz, call your credit card bank and let them make the trouble will go away.

Its weird that someone in the Presidents Circle at Hertz couldn’t get this resolved immediately using their hotline. If those clowns didn’t give me an answer I wanted to hear in 5 minutes, I would have called my credit card company. Maybe the Hertz accounting department could explain to American Express why $277 was…

I get the pressure, but c’mon. Swiss Army knives aren’t the ones used in crimes. Most of their blades are under 2.5” long, which usually passes local ordinance standards in many municipalities strict on knives. Their blades are clearly for utility and are actually useful as such.

Security theater performed by minimum wage level workers gets you this kind of inconsistency.

What they are really concerned about is “security theater” AKA “symbolism over substance”.

It’s weird, any kind of pocket knife blade is scrutinized, yet my shavette with literal disposable razor blade inserted doesn’t warrant even a glance.  I promise you it is a hell of a lot more dangerous than the SAK I have on my keychain 

Most Future Swiss Army Knives Won’t Will Have Blades, Maker Victorinox Says

Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.

HAIL THE VICTORIOUS DEAD!

“Who am I, Gamling?”
“You are our king, Sire.”

The trailers made the movie look like a lot of fun but I would have never guessed it cost $130m to make.

There are still Episode I Pepsi vending machines out in the world, and people map them out and visit them.  I think that alone speaks volumes.

I mean, it’s a big action comedy with lots of neat looking setpieces, surely it plays better on a big screen right?

I took the time to download the trailer over dialup. The i watched it about 80o times on my 50 lb, 21" CRT monitor. So, yes.

Whatever you do, don’t store them on a single HDD.  Get a decent NAS with some basic RAID functions so that you’re not at the mercy of a single failure.  Also, pony up for the NAS HDDs.  Don’t go cheap.

Except for pirates. That online community is, and will end up being, the true archivists of media.