Cygnwulf Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 8 minutes ago, Froggy the Great said: + : It's now Friday a day early. - : I lost a day somewhere. I've had this feeling before. It's rather disconcerting 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aku-chan Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 2 hours ago, Chaoswolf said: I hope you all have a great Friday to start off the weekend. It's been a good Friday so far. Housemate is out of hospital, so we're going to be exceptionally English and have Fish and Chips to celebrate. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redambrosia Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Parades are stupid. You have to sit there forever, roasting in the sun, hoping to see something neat. Usually it’s just old people sitting in the back of old cars, waving. The stupid rodeo parade is shutting down half the town. Apparently the walk in clinic I need to go to (because I’ve broken down and am in enough pain that I can’t stand it anymore), is closed for the stupid parade. Parades are stupid. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaganMegan Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 We're taking the bus this morning. Two cop cars had blocked off our parking lot, and officers were wandering around in ballistic vests. Whoever they were looking for, it wasn't a short woman and her lovely daughter. 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaganMegan Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 2 hours ago, Froggy the Great said: I discovered midway through yesterday that it was Thursday not Wednesday. + : It's now Friday a day early. - : I lost a day somewhere. Have you checked between the sofa cushions? I once found a full week that way. 1 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristof65 Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Ugh. This is becoming an almost weekly occurrence. The company I contract to sells car wash credit card equipment under a brand name. This equipment can work with most, but not all merchant processors, because we use a standard hardware interface made by one of the big players in the credit card industry. One of the competitors sells similar equipment, but their equipment uses some credit card gateway software from a small third party company who can't work with very many processors. The troubling part is that this third party company happens to have a name that is very, very similar to our brand name. So when their customers go shopping for a new merchant processors, those processors often find us first, and ask for setup information we can't give them for sites we have never heard of. Apparently little can be done via Trademark law, because technically they're in a different industry, a different country, and have been around nearly as long as our brand name. It only became an issue a few years ago when the competitor chose them for their product. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenity Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 RTB Pro-Tips! Bronze golem from bones 5! 7-16-21 Started at 11:31 AM. https://www.twitch.tv/reaperminiatures 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnwulf Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 53 minutes ago, kristof65 said: Ugh. This is becoming an almost weekly occurrence. The company I contract to sells car wash credit card equipment under a brand name. This equipment can work with most, but not all merchant processors, because we use a standard hardware interface made by one of the big players in the credit card industry. One of the competitors sells similar equipment, but their equipment uses some credit card gateway software from a small third party company who can't work with very many processors. The troubling part is that this third party company happens to have a name that is very, very similar to our brand name. So when their customers go shopping for a new merchant processors, those processors often find us first, and ask for setup information we can't give them for sites we have never heard of. Apparently little can be done via Trademark law, because technically they're in a different industry, a different country, and have been around nearly as long as our brand name. It only became an issue a few years ago when the competitor chose them for their product. I had a similar problem, in that the company I work for has a product that has a specific name [Product] by [Company]. The issue came when we integrated with a credit card processor who had another customer that had a product that had the same name even though the company name was different. We were in very different verticals, we catered to power equipment dealers, they were a billing software for veterinarians, so there was zero overlap in our customers. But we'd get calls every once and a while from the credit card processor because of integration problems and at times it would be an extended argument to convince the service representative that, no, this is not our product and not our customer and no there is nobody who I can escalate your call to I do know what I'm talking about because you gave me the name of the customer in question and [x] Street Animal Hospital definitely does not sell chainsaws unless they're now offering canine cybernetic implants. (the last part is maybe a small embellishment) 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitterwolf Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 Large parts of Limburg ( our province) and towns in Belgium and Germany are flooded. Hundreds dead, houses gone, people missing. Luckily we live in the northern region of our province and we're not near the rivers. But just 25km further people were surprised by the rising water. It has been raining a lot and the rivers couldn't take it anymore. Aside from this disaster our country is mourning the dead of Peter R. de Vries a crimefighting journalist who you might know from solving the murder of Natalee Holloway. He was executed in the streets last tuesday and passed away yesterday. The murder is linked to a drug kartel, the leader is in jail awaiting court. Already the brother of the lead witness was killed, the lawyer of the same lead witness and Peter was an advisor of this lead witness. Even our King has expressed his grief. This man has freed people who were jailed while innocent, brought murderers to justice from cold cases and was a national hero to us. 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenity Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 From Reaper Discord: Quote ReaperJon — Today at 1:30 PM No Reaperland today, we are taking the day to recover from fulfillment and do some of our other duties we have not been able to do! We will see you next week. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristof65 Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Cygnwulf said: [x] Street Animal Hospital definitely does not sell chainsaws unless they're now offering canine cybernetic implants. (the last part is maybe a small embellishment) I would so have been tempted to use the embellishment when talking to them. We had a similar issue with a company that sold international Sim Cards for phones from US airport kiosks back in 2008-2012 or so. Their company name had one extra letter from ours, and we would get emails, usually from overseas and in foreign languages about issues with a sim card someone had bought. We'd reply back with a standard email reply directing them to the correct company, but if the customers got belligerent with us, we were allowed to be creative in our replies. 8 minutes ago, Glitterwolf said: Large parts of Limburg ( our province) and towns in Belgium and Germany are flooded. Hundreds dead, houses gone, people missing. Luckily we live in the northern region of our province and we're not near the rivers. But just 25km further people were surprised by the rising water. It has been raining a lot and the rivers couldn't take it anymore. Aside from this disaster our country is mourning the dead of Peter R. de Vries a crimefighting journalist who you might know from solving the murder of Natalee Holloway. He was executed in the streets last tuesday and passed away yesterday. The murder is linked to a drug kartel, the leader is in jail awaiting court. Already the brother of the lead witness was killed, the lawyer of the same lead witness and Peter was an advisor of this lead witness. Even our King has expressed his grief. This man has freed people who were jailed while innocent, brought murderers to justice from cold cases and was a national hero to us. I had heard about the flooding, didn't realize you were so close. I had not heard about Mr de Vries - that's awful 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManvsMini Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 39 minutes ago, Glitterwolf said: Aside from this disaster our country is mourning the dead of Peter R. de Vries a crimefighting journalist who you might know from solving the murder of Natalee Holloway. He was executed in the streets last tuesday and passed away yesterday. The murder is linked to a drug kartel, the leader is in jail awaiting court. Already the brother of the lead witness was killed, the lawyer of the same lead witness and Peter was an advisor of this lead witness. Even our King has expressed his grief. This man has freed people who were jailed while innocent, brought murderers to justice from cold cases and was a national hero to us. From everything I've read about him in the past few days, this man was fearless and relentless in his pursuit of the truth with his journalism. I am deeply sorry for your country's loss of a man with such integrity. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitterwolf Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, ManvsMini said: From everything I've read about him in the past few days, this man was fearless and relentless in his pursuit of the truth with his journalism. I am deeply sorry for your country's loss of a man with such integrity. Thanks, He could be annoying at times, but he was honest, fearless and when he took up a case he didn't let go till he found the truth. His specialty was solving cold cases the police had given up on. He helped a lot of people bringing murderers to justice and he proved two men innocent who were jailed for a crime they didn't commit. It's a great loss. Edited July 16, 2021 by Glitterwolf 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redambrosia Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 (edited) I broke down and went to see a doctor. I waited for an hour and a half for a 5 minute talk with the doctor, he prescribed me an antibiotic and a steroid. For this privilege I paid $100 🙄 I just hope it’s worth and I can stop missing work. I was only able to work 1 day this week. Edited July 16, 2021 by redambrosia 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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