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Listening to CW and Lyndsey dance around what they thought of the officiating made me glad that Rich wasn't doing the games anymore. He would have been beside himself and totally going off.

It's the one thing I hate about Cyclone WBB is the culture of whining and complaining about calls when we play a team that plays aggressive defense. It's starts with our own "no touching no fouling" Cyclone defense and it's ingrained in the fans that anything that doesn't look like a game of H-O-R-S-E is thuggery. Just pisses me off.
 

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Yes, there are different sub genres to horror. I for one love slasher movies as well as the psychological horrors.
I can't say for certain but I think the first VHS tape I rented was Pieces
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082748/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

FYI if you like psychological horror and you've never seen The Autopsy of Jane Doe you should.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3289956/

First VHS horror film I rented was The Evil Dead. The clerk at the rental store I frequented knew I liked horror and asked me if I had ever heard of it.

I'll definitely check out the Jane Doe movie, too. Thanks for the suggestion!
 

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Speaking of appropriate.....as one of RTT's experts on law, what do you think of the prisoners' lawsuit to regain their pornography?

Not much, bloody wankers.
I think we would first need to determine if said materials are indeed pornographic. In the name of justice I would be willing to help make that determination.
 
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Yes, there are different sub genres to horror. I for one love slasher movies as well as the psychological horrors.
I can't say for certain but I think the first VHS tape I rented was Pieces
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082748/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

FYI if you like psychological horror and you've never seen The Autopsy of Jane Doe you should.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3289956/

Also, V/H/S was a pretty good horror flick (the original, not the four sequels that followed.)
 

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Not to bring things down but I find it interesting from a historical aspect. There was a documentary done on the flight dispatchers that handled the flights on 9/11. Kind of interesting from their perspective.

 
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So not only has my organization required a minimum 16 character password for the last year that must include a capital letter, a lowercase letter, a number and a special symbol but even though I am on my third such password in less than a year they are requiring the entire organization to change their passwords at the start of the month. I know cybersecurity is a real thing, but when you go too far you have unsecure things like post it notes with the password on the computer or password documents with a person's every password in them undermining any security gains. It's not like we have nuclear launch codes here.
 
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So not only has my organization required a minimum 16 character password for the last year that must include a capital letter, a lowercase letter, a number and a special symbol but even though I am on my third such password in less than a year they are requiring the entire organization to change their passwords at the start of the month. I know cybersecurity is a real thing, but when you go too far you have unsecure things like post it notes with the password on the computer or password documents with a person's every password in them undermining any security gains. It's not like we have nuclear launch codes here.

Last job I was on wasn't that bad in terms of requirements, but we had about 4-5 systems that all had different passwords and password requirements that ll changed at different dates. Just about every person had a post it note, page in a notebook, etc with all their passwords on it. The one that really got you was the can't repeat a portion of the previous three passwords requirements.
 

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So not only has my organization required a minimum 16 character password for the last year that must include a capital letter, a lowercase letter, a number and a special symbol but even though I am on my third such password in less than a year they are requiring the entire organization to change their passwords at the start of the month. I know cybersecurity is a real thing, but when you go too far you have unsecure things like post it notes with the password on the computer or password documents with a person's every password in them undermining any security gains. It's not like we have nuclear launch codes here.
I have to change mine about every 30 days. It's ridiculous and sometimes they change the requirements without telling you so you have no idea why your new password isn't working.
 
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I've been debating about buying them now just in case. If it's us or Texas, I think I could flip them regardless
Looking at ticketmaster there are some open seats that are not resale. I know I can get a better seat now than I would via the university. I'll bet half of them are in the upper end zones.
I just hate going through the hassle of reselling even though in today's online world it isn't hassle. #CrotchetyOldMan
 

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Didn't find a link but they busted two people for meth. They told the police they had more meth at the hotel. Police went to hotel and find more meth and two people with outstanding warrants.
 
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So not only has my organization required a minimum 16 character password for the last year that must include a capital letter, a lowercase letter, a number and a special symbol but even though I am on my third such password in less than a year they are requiring the entire organization to change their passwords at the start of the month. I know cybersecurity is a real thing, but when you go too far you have unsecure things like post it notes with the password on the computer or password documents with a person's every password in them undermining any security gains. It's not like we have nuclear launch codes here.
Due to my access to certain accounting functions within the whole system, I was required to change my password at frequent intervals. I created a "safe" password with the stuff you have listed, and a four digit number in the middle of it. At each password change I simply changed the number by 11. Less memorization that way, and I had the number only taped in a desk drawer. Not as safe as a completely random change each time, but with my memory (or lack thereof) it was certainly safer than having my complete password written somewhere accessible.

The random letters were the first initials of my mother and her seven siblings. Can't get much more random than that. :D
 
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On way to wrestling meet. Wife wants to know if turn is coming. I’m in backseat and have to ask if she can give more than the 10 foot behind the semi so I can see anything.
 
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