Useless Conversation

[Merusk]

Maybe it's a Midwest thing?  It was on the bottle of Coke I had earlier but in a different location, down near the CA CRV text beneath the UPC.

[Ingmar]

Or it only appears on bottles and not cans.

[WayAbvPar]

Currently enjoying a bottle of Cherry Coke Zero and do indeed have the 2nd symbol _0 here in the glorious Northwest (likely our last sunny day until May or so).

[MuffinMan]

Government experiments. Hopefully y'all survive.

[Yegolev]

I'll ask around.

[Paelos]

Those are the ones I peed in.

[Bunk]

no such symbols on the Canadian label.

[WayAbvPar]

Those are the ones I peed in.

Nice of you to add a life-sized outline of your genitals to the label for easy identification   :

[Arthur_Parker]

Coke zero floats, I think it must be a guide mark for the label cut.

[ghost]

I just had to go to a live auction tonight where they were auctioning live animals, like cows, dogs, sheep, etc.  It was pretty goddamned strange.  Ah, the things people do for charity. 

[Cyrrex]

I'm pretty sure they are toilets.  That's where they want you to dispose of your used bottles, obviously.

[Murgos]

I'm pretty sure they are toilets.  That's where they want you to dispose of your used bottles, obviously.

If it white then they used clean toilet water and if it's black, well...

[Mrbloodworth]

Going to see the Young Frankenstein The Musical tomorrow. Very pumped.

[Lantyssa]

The symbol is not on glass bottles of Mexican Coke.

[Bzalthek]

It is also not on 2 liter bottles of caffeine free diet coke. (TN in case it's a regional thing)

[Sky]

Cut the tip of my left middle finger cleaning out a rabbet plane. Small nick, but right on the center of the pad. Can't play guitar. Not happy!

I was just getting Etude 7 up to speed and clean, dammit (slow and sloppy version here). A few days of healing is going to set me back weeks.

[Reg]

Oh well. I guess you'll just have to back to work in that beta for a few more days!

[Sky]

It was just a weekend. LAST weekend.

I figure I'll knock out the rest of the woodworking this weekend. Hand planing is awesome. Throw on some Bach (Brandenberg is a nice one) and use almost the same tools as craftsman were when he wrote it.

[Sand]

Back in the hospital as of last night. Got a CT scan and another scope. I will spare you the gory details but suffice it to say my colon is rotting in one place for some reason. They don't know if its bacterial or lack of adequate blood supply following my surgery six weeks  ago.
According to the surgeon who performed the surgery and whose care I am under, my recovery has been "atypical". "
If the IV antibiotics don't control it I have to go back under the knife. Quite frankly that has me scared to death. The recovery from the first surgery has been bad enough.

Edit: weeks not months

[Viin]

Lame. Feel better! And tell the doc you want a refund.

[ghost]

And tell the doc you want a refund.

 

Surgery isn't like getting a haircut. 

[Paelos]

Once again, I think you took the joke seriously. 

[ghost]

Once again, I think you took the joke seriously. 

Sorry if I can't see the sarcasm in that one. 

[Paelos]

Well if he ended up dead, then I'd definitely demand a refund! 

[Cyrrex]

Wait, but then you'd be dead and wouldn't be able to collect your refund

[Sand]

Been back on antibiotics four days now, back in the hospital for two. I hadn't had any of my nightly pain episodes so they thought the antibiotics must be working and put me back on soft foods tonight (baked potatoes and other veggies with apple sauce).
Sure enough after eating regular food for dinner at 1:30am right like clock work the cramping and pain returned. When it got so bad I started crying I called the nurse for pain meds.

I'm sick of the pain. I'm sick of no one knowing why my colon is a wreck following surgery.
Tomorrow I'm getting a lawyer, someone is gonna pay. 

[Rasix]

America, fuck ya.

[Minvaren]

Any other IT management type people know anything about creating a "Data Integrity Policy," which focuses on "quality and integrity of stored data, with relevant policies and sample data quality reports and metrics to prove it" ?  Have a client asking me for one of these, but all the guidance they gave is in quotes above.   

[Trippy]

What's the company do?

Given the text you provided as a first order approximation it seems to me that "Data Integrity Policy" = "Backup Policy".

However it could be more complicated if it's something like financial data analysis and what they are asking for is a way to verify that the data being analyzed is "accurate" (that would be the "quality" part).  There also could be a security angle to this -- i.e. "integrity of stored data" could mean no unauthorized access to the data and someway to prove that, or at least catch when unauthorized access does occur.

[Ingmar]

Yeah I concur, sounds like they want your backup/DR policy.

[Merusk]

They just want to make sure you don't respond with, "Charlie swaps out the tape once a day, we backup full on Fridays before we hit the bar.  Someone hauls the tapes to the bank once a week. " or "Oh we totally outsourced that to those Project Zomboid guys."

[Ironwood]

Given the context, I suspect this is more to do with Security than Backup (though it'll be part of it).

Quality and Integrity suggest to me that they want to make sure some fucker isn't lifting it off your hardrive and using it to book holidays.

[Minvaren]

We already have a separate backup policy, which they approved.

We already have a separate DR/BCP policy, which they approved.

I'm guessing that they are looking for some kind of software which verifies integrity of databases and file systems that are used to store this client's data.  We're a small collection agency, they are a TBTF wanting to audit our IT processes to see if we meet their standards.  They're already confused that we only have two IT people...   

[Yegolev]

My first thought was checks for DB corruption.  Which is silly, but hey, it happens.  Possibly also want to know that you are using a semi-modern storage solution.  Or something that can survive an outsourcing.

[Chimpy]

They're already confused that we only have two IT people...   

Is it confusion that two is too few, or that you have any IT people in house at all?