I can also set my virtual card to work only for a single transaction, altho I think it is automatically deleted, meaning I would have to create a new one for every transaction. Maybe workable (albeit with a synchronization/timing hole) but starting to get ridiculous.

I thought someone said you could have a personal payment card as long as there was one other setup to be shared. That would make this work fine because I would just lock the shared one. But if as you say that's not true, I'll be continuing with the status quo for my family. Send me a link and I'll order it. I guess I'll find out sometime between now and Oct 1.

My virtual credit card is tied to Amazon and won't work anywhere else. So I don't need to lock and unlock between uses. Never had it fail in several years of use.

I believe the rule was only for children as students. I know for a fact that lots of us resident Americans do zoom based English tutoring for adults with unusually high voices. Translation: These days Chinese parents just register themselves as the students and their kids take the online tutoring.

I was sitting in a diversity training class at Ford in the late 1990’s when the presenters aired this same statement. Our manager, who was a Brit on loan from Jaguar, offered the following statement:

“So you’re saying that if I was looking for the best and most popular four door family sedan, I should look at a picture of the design teams from the Big Three, and the one that was most diverse would be the number one car?”

He was told that was correct.

He then said that it was a bit of a trick question, since the best selling sedan in America was the Toyota Camry, and the design team for that car was the least diverse group you could possibly imagine, consisting of Japanese males between 30 and 60.

After a long silence, the presenters finished their PowerPoint and left.

In the USA there's usually frozen slushee coffee but not fresh coffee at the in house eatery.

It *IS* fraud because I never gave them this credit card to charge me on. Saying it's not fraud would mean anyone I buy something from could charge me on any credit card they wanted, not just the one I gave them.

Late last year I cancelled a Citi credit card dues to come actual fraud charges. A month later, a charge appeared on the replacement card from an organization that had been billing me monthly for something. I flagged it as fraud in my online console, noting I had given the new card number to nobody. I got an immediate temporary credit. A month or two later, the credit was permanent. Worked as expected.

Hasn't the bay area had a lot of population loss in the past few years?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kron4.com%2Fnews%2Fbay...

San Fran alone lost 8.6%.

Someone doesn't get the movie reference...

During the pandemic there seemed to be nurse shortages in every major city as nurses reported being severely overworked. Half of what a nurse does for me at a doctor appointment is simply transcribe answers into a computer form. Something a high school student could do. I don't think I'm willing to take much medical advice from an AI yet without confirming with a real nurse or doctor, but I think an AI could educate me quite a bit before I talked to a nurse or doctor in person to confirm. Well within a few years at least, but reviewing and confirming with a real person would catch AI errors.

An AI might take over these low level tasks and leave the ones requiring nursing skills to real nurses. This would help alleviate the shortages and might also raise the wages of nurses by making them more productive, in terms of doing more work that really needs to be done by a nurse, not a well trained high school graduate. A quick search will show lots of articles out there on a nursing shortage.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fb...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fhealth%2F...

Don't forget about the Terrifying moment massive lightning bolt strikes London-bound Boeing 777 carrying 400 passengers moments after take off in Canada.. (this week -- Boeing)

According to this, 11th generation with Iris graphics support DP4a.

DC arguably has the best mass transit on the east coast outside of NYC, yet ridership is down.

Why? Well asides from telecommuting being much more prevelant, mass transit has gotten quite expensive, due to corruption, they started charging more for parking, due to lack of ridership, service got signifigantly cut back, and due to safety incidents people are scared of insufficent maintenance. People would prefer to drive in their own cars than ride on the train.

You and HP have inspired me. I have also used Brother printers exclusively for over a decade. Never thrown one away - just passed on to someone else. But I buy cheaper third party ink which works great. My New Year's resolution is to buy some Brother cartridges to reward them for their products that are good citizens and dnot acting like HP printers. BROTHER INC, if you're listening, give me a donation link and I'd even give you a few bucks every time I buy a non-Brother cartridge!

Since the Concorde stopped flying in 2003 and French patents are good for 20 years, you would think they're not sitting on many patents any more.