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Right? Isn't that the excuse for paying them 1000x what their employees make (while going through bankruptcy no less)? They're the ones with the responsibility and personal risk?

> In this case, you want the CEO and board to go to prison because ...

The organization which he manages does this on a regular basis.

You're completely ignoring the point of the comment that you're responding to. Someone at Hertz is culpable for not taking steps to prevent this from happening.

> When they’re not efficient, I want to blow a gasket at the line and lack of any urgency from the staff

As a customer, I completely get that feeling.

As someone who has worked in auto rental (although for Budget Truck), the reality is usually along the lines of rental clerks making slightly above minimum wage, the entire city getting drastically overbooked by corporate, and customers who were due to return (and counted on for availability) not doing so. They have no urgency because it happens on a regular basis and they're the ones getting screamed at all day because of it even though they have no control over it.

Considering they were bankrupt and didn't go out of business I think they're pretty aware of their capability to get away with anything they want...

Wealthy business or person calls cops to report a crime: cops immediately act upon it (usually despite a lack of any legal cause for arrest such as an officer witnessing the commission of a crime or getting an arrest warrant), presuming guilt.

Anyone else calls cops to report a crime: cops will come out to take a report in a few days, at which point they will ... do nothing. Hope you have insurance that covers theft.

That's laughably twisted. Just because someone makes a ton of money in a year (i.e. from inheritance, life insurance, or something else) means absolutely nothing about their wealth.

Honestly, this should be surprising to basically nobody who's actually paying attention.

Not sure why you think clang having multiple not-identical executables is relevant to Backblaze having multiple identical executables.

Can you acknowledge that critical bugs aren't rare as the comments here should show?

B2 is, at smaller capacities, cheaper than their Backup offering. You have to implement your own uploader, though. (We pay something like $8.50/month for ~2TB of storage in B2 and the necessary transactions to keep the backup up-to-date with rclone)

Their Backup client is so buggy and unreliable that you're honestly better off just backing up locally, there's less chance of your backups ending up worthless that way.

Because otherwise a trashed computer could backup corrupted data over the good backup.

> What was the bug? It was a threading bug.

lol

But these are bit-for-bit identical.

Per their support, there are known issues which can cause the client and their servers to become "out of sync". If this happens, your backups will stop occurring (even though the app will indicate that the all files are backed up successfully through the current date). The only notice you will receive that this has occurred is after 14 days when they send you an email to warn you that they'll delete your backups if you don't fix it.

They don't seem to recognize why backups silently failing is a very bad thing.

I stopped using Backblaze after that revelation.

That map is showing the only definition of tornado alley there can be if you insist on a single definition: where tornados happen.

I'm not sure who your most people are but they ain't mine.

> People need to shelter, not be leaving the facility to go home.

Perhaps you should re-read my comment.

> They absolutely can (and should) shut down

PS I live in tornado alley and any time there was any kind of watch, my school enacted their severe weather plan. I am well aware that the vast majority of businesses don't even have a severe weather plan. That has absolutely no bearing on whether or not they should.

I never said all content on TV was good. Similarly, not all content on Youtube is bad. But the most hyped/advertised content on TV tends to be pretty entertaining (and usually fairly accurately advertised), while the most hyped/advertised content on Youtube (i.e. frontpage) is 90% clickbait and 10% people I'm subscribed to.

Hmm, it gave me an error message and wouldn't let me continue until I had put in my email address a few weeks ago when I was making a throwaway. Not doing it now though. I suppose either they're experimenting or maybe they just don't like my ISP.

> Sure it does. It causes the renderer to reverse direction

Correct.

> , which overwrites the previous characters.

Wildly incorrect.

Again, you don't even being to understand what's going up, so please go educate yourself.

Oh, that's great. Good to hear that the user interface will totally be the same.

ring ring Hey mikewarot, my computer is asking me if I should grant TotallyAGoodApp.exe access to C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\sam. I went ahead and said yes because I wasn't sure.

Clearly you've never worked in any kind of remotely user-facing position.

The Norwegian law you referenced appears to say you can't charge for debt collection (unless conditions are met). This has nothing to do with debt collection. In fact it has nothing to do with debt. But you know what man, go ahead, try and scam someone with an NSF or decline and see how it goes.

(Disclaimer: I don't speak Norwegian or any of the other languages)

LOL @ the guy replying to you acting like collection costs ("§ 17. The debtor's responsibility for costs of extrajudicial collection") is somehow relevant... :)

> IANAL But AFAIK in civilised jurisdictions if I offer a service for money, and you offer money, I must offer the service.

First off, you need to stop using the (incredibly loaded) word "civilized".

Second, I am not aware of ANY jurisdiction in which businesses are required to provide their services or products to anyone.

Third, THIS IS NOT AN "OUT OF CONTRACT CHARGE". This is a charge which IS IN THE CONTRACT.

Fourth, anti-discrimination laws have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with charging someone a fee when they don't pay you in a timely manner and/or cause you to incur higher costs (such as decline fees or NSF fees).

You can repeat that as many times as you want but it won't make it any more relevant.

It was pretty clearly plain language and clear notification.

I have no intent to purchase anything from you, unlike the customers (i.e. people who have and continue to purchase) who this thread is discussing.

An actual analogy would be more like "You all owe me $100 for reading this, if you want to purchase something else from me". Which is completely legal. In any jurisdiction. If you don't like it you're free to go buy from someone else.

... why would I use that when I could use https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html ?

If all your <s>friends</s>warehouses jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?

It absolutely is. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Tornado_...

Not by nearly as much as proper severe weather planning nationwide would.