Random Thoughts.....

YJJPWrangler said:
I would imagine that other companies IT services have a pretty targeted phishing/scam profile in place. My company routinely sends out active phishing emails. They look pretty legit. Email addresses are usually the dead give-away plus the "click on this link".

I'm sure they catch a lot of people this way at least some of the......ahem older generation.

I have never once been fooled. Click the "Phish Alert" and a dialogue box pops up, "Congrats on detecting a phish alert"

I brought it up to my boss that we should be compensated for every scam email we find. He laughed, I laughed, nothing happened.

Another one popped up today. I'm half tempted just to click on it and see what happens...
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My old job was in IT at a big company. A ton of IT folk fell for the phishing link. Let just say in the next bid meeting the VP was more than pissed. lol
 
YJJPWrangler said:
I would imagine that other companies IT services have a pretty targeted phishing/scam profile in place. My company routinely sends out active phishing emails. They look pretty legit. Email addresses are usually the dead give-away plus the "click on this link".

I'm sure they catch a lot of people this way at least some of the......ahem older generation.

I have never once been fooled. Click the "Phish Alert" and a dialogue box pops up, "Congrats on detecting a phish alert"

I brought it up to my boss that we should be compensated for every scam email we find. He laughed, I laughed, nothing happened.

Another one popped up today. I'm half tempted just to click on it and see what happens...
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Don't do it! You'll have to do a bunch of training!
 
YJJPWrangler said:
I would imagine that other companies IT services have a pretty targeted phishing/scam profile in place. My company routinely sends out active phishing emails. They look pretty legit. Email addresses are usually the dead give-away plus the "click on this link".

I'm sure they catch a lot of people this way at least some of the......ahem older generation.

I have never once been fooled. Click the "Phish Alert" and a dialogue box pops up, "Congrats on detecting a phish alert"

I brought it up to my boss that we should be compensated for every scam email we find. He laughed, I laughed, nothing happened.

Another one popped up today. I'm half tempted just to click on it and see what happens...
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We run those monthly, and it's the same people that always fall for it.
 
YJJPWrangler said:
I would imagine that other companies IT services have a pretty targeted phishing/scam profile in place. My company routinely sends out active phishing emails. They look pretty legit. Email addresses are usually the dead give-away plus the "click on this link".

I'm sure they catch a lot of people this way at least some of the......ahem older generation.

I have never once been fooled. Click the "Phish Alert" and a dialogue box pops up, "Congrats on detecting a phish alert"

I brought it up to my boss that we should be compensated for every scam email we find. He laughed, I laughed, nothing happened.

Another one popped up today. I'm half tempted just to click on it and see what happens...
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My old company did that with a program called KnowB4. Had to watch stupid videos and take test and constant phishing tests.

For years I took a small sense of pride in being one of like 3 out 200 who had never been got. But conversely I had a field tech who was damn smart and a computer whiz, retired marine, recovered alcoholic - just all in all a good savvy hella smart dude. But he had like a 50% fail rate. During his annual review I brought it up - ‘dude let me show you how to spot this shit. I’m tired of seeing your name on my risk report.’

I start pointing out tells- he kinda smirks and says, ‘Dude - your the best civilian boss I’ve ever had and until you take a bullet in the ass cheek for me you can’t go no higher on my list. You want me to stop clicking the damn things I will for you.’

Huh?
So you know they are scams? Then why click em?

‘Every time I fail I have to watch an hour video. Every 3 times is an 8 hour training class. Go back and look, I don’t miss many in spring and. Fall. It gets hot or cold and - you know - company wants to pay me an hour to “train”…that’s their bull shit let em pay me.
 
mbalbritton said:
I didn’t realize this IFC ring thing at the White House was a real UFC event. I thought it was some AI joke.

…FFS.
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It's not based on real human intelligence, so.....
 
mbalbritton said:
I didn’t realize this IFC ring thing at the White House was a real UFC event. I thought it was some AI joke.

…FFS.
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As opposed to the massive lgbtwkmdjfh$&!@ show that Biden held with all the flavors wondering around half naked with kids on the white house lawn? Yeah. Man. A ufc event is just horrible.
 
skyhighZJ said:
As opposed to the massive lgbtwkmdjfh$&!@ show that Biden held with all the flavors wondering around half naked with kids on the white house lawn? Yeah. Man. A ufc event is just horrible.
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Why not both?

Hear me out.
Team Red is all the UFC guys - Team Blue are the Alphabet Protest Crowd. Old school UFC rules, no weight classes, no rounds fight to tap or unconscious. Elimination style. “Winner’s Out” like playground bball.

All the money to charity.

Tell me you wouldn’t pay to watch Rousey vs the 350lb blue haired nonbinary she-wolf
 
Drank 1.5 gallons of water today. Two liquid IVs. Ate one banana. Lots of mustard latter I'm still cramping up.

Since it got above 85 this nightly ritual suck balls!
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
Drank 1.5 gallons of water today. Two liquid IVs. Ate one banana. Lots of mustard latter I'm still cramping up.

Since it got above 85 this nightly ritual suck balls!
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Hylands Leg Cramps ... It's an OTC the dr. suggested for my wife that does actually work for her.
There's two versions, one for daytime and one for night ... my wife uses them both and it's helped a lot.
WalMart and other regular pharmacies will have them.


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I was just over perusing the bourbon thread and seeing some of the 12, 14 and 22 year old bourbons and it brought up a random thought that I often have.

It still blows me away to think that in 2012 and 2014 these distillers knew that in 2026 they were going to need X number of barrels of 12 or 14 year old liquor. Then to know how much they could sell it for calculating demand and inflation... Then to think how many barrels they have to make each year for subsequent years. This isn't some widget that you can design, order the materials for it, have them delivered and processed in a few months. Or something you can plant, grow and process in a few months. Don't even get me started on how much grain it takes to make a 5 gallon batch of beer then imagine scaling up to mass production that you can ship across the world. How much acreage of grain did that take?
 
mbalbritton said:
I was just over perusing the bourbon thread and seeing some of the 12, 14 and 22 year old bourbons and it brought up a random thought that I often have.

It still blows me away to think that in 2012 and 2014 these distillers knew that in 2026 they were going to need X number of barrels of 12 or 14 year old liquor. Then to know how much they could sell it for calculating demand and inflation... Then to think how many barrels they have to make each year for subsequent years. This isn't some widget that you can design, order the materials for it, have them delivered and processed in a few months. Or something you can plant, grow and process in a few months. Don't even get me started on how much grain it takes to make a 5 gallon batch of beer then imagine scaling up to mass production that you can ship across the world. How much acreage of grain did that take?
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i mean alot of times they dont know thats why those barrels are so expensive and hard to get alot of times.
 
no distiller in 2014 knew the insane levels of inflation coming in 2021.

they just make what they can, based on grain crops and the availability of other raw ingredients, and purposefully limit some to create artificial demand (that they are doing today as well)....and not all 'rare' stuff becomes valuable.
 
mbalbritton said:
I was just over perusing the bourbon thread and seeing some of the 12, 14 and 22 year old bourbons and it brought up a random thought that I often have.

It still blows me away to think that in 2012 and 2014 these distillers knew that in 2026 they were going to need X number of barrels of 12 or 14 year old liquor. Then to know how much they could sell it for calculating demand and inflation... Then to think how many barrels they have to make each year for subsequent years. This isn't some widget that you can design, order the materials for it, have them delivered and processed in a few months. Or something you can plant, grow and process in a few months. Don't even get me started on how much grain it takes to make a 5 gallon batch of beer then imagine scaling up to mass production that you can ship across the world. How much acreage of grain did that take?
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Don't they just... make what they can? Why would they need to target a specific amount?
The only concern I could see would be making so much that the market becomes overflooded and you lose some of the cache' value.
even then they can't fully predict when they're ready, that ends up being up to the barrel, the environment, and the Master Distiller who tests them along the way and says "Yup, its time."
 
RatLabGuy said:
Don't they just... make what they can? Why would they need to target a specific amount?
The only concern I could see would be making so much that the market becomes overflooded and you lose some of the cache' value.
even then they can't fully predict when they're ready, that ends up being up to the barrel, the environment, and the Master Distiller who tests them along the way and says "Yup, its time."
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I buy that. I didn't think look at it from the other side of the fence.
 
jeepinmatt said:
Then you just release half of it haha
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Isn't that pretty much what they do?
It ages in the barrel but not the bottle. Bottle it all when ready, then strategically release the bottles.
 
mbalbritton said:
I was just over perusing the bourbon thread and seeing some of the 12, 14 and 22 year old bourbons and it brought up a random thought that I often have.

It still blows me away to think that in 2012 and 2014 these distillers knew that in 2026 they were going to need X number of barrels of 12 or 14 year old liquor. Then to know how much they could sell it for calculating demand and inflation... Then to think how many barrels they have to make each year for subsequent years. This isn't some widget that you can design, order the materials for it, have them delivered and processed in a few months. Or something you can plant, grow and process in a few months. Don't even get me started on how much grain it takes to make a 5 gallon batch of beer then imagine scaling up to mass production that you can ship across the world. How much acreage of grain did that take?
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Thats why there is now an Eagle Rare 12.
The tariff killed the bourbon export market and the forced scarcity created a glut. So Buffalo Trace let some 10 year barrels age 2 more and charge a little extra
 
I'm not sure what this says about me and whether its something to be proud of or ashamed of.

In the last 2 weeks we have finalized two large year+ projects.

The first one came in well ahead of profit projections, but because of a number of reasons - was unnecessarily chaotic and the work quality overall leaves something to be desired.
The second missed budget a bit, though was still profitable - though not nearly as well as it should have been, but was ahead of schedule and is showcase quality work I'd put against anyone in the industry.

Internally I'm much happier with the second and feel no joy about the first regardless of dollars, cents and bank account balances.
 
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