Well done Jack, great thread. The right content expressed in exactly the proper tone.

Please share my note to @maddow.msnbc.com so that your network of followers see it and amplify it. Recommend they like and reshare. Let’s get this moving.

This is shocking!

Fort Collins CO

When I gave the exact question I was asking @verizon to ChatGPT I instantly got not only the correct instructions (precede the local number with +90 the country code for Turkey, then drop the leading 0 from the local number) an exceptionally useful explanation of why this is the correct solution!

Finally, spent 20 more minutes with a human in chat who, even with a supervisor’s help, couldn’t solve my problem. I ended up giving up and having my hotel make the call for me. But here’s the fun part…

I ended up spending ten minutes on a useless customer service automated system trying to figure out how to make this simple local call before I could convince it to pass me off to a human.

That was the 2nd last time for me. The last time I made the mistake of accepting a passed joint from the guy one-third my age at a Reggae concert at a club in Santa Cruz CA and I almost died!

Very, VERY, hot Irish Coffee

I was COO and CFO for Phoenix when we had the lion’s share of the world’s Assembler engineers and of the global BIOS market. AMI, the authors of what you are playing with here, were our major competitors. The Taiwanese ODMs played us off against each other and destroyed our margins!

First ever PC build for me was our very first computer at Schwab in 1978 or so when we needed one to act as sort of a CRM. We used a very early Microsoft DOS I think. We still just had paper order tickets and a keypunch department to get the data off them and send it to our outside data processor.

My first Wang didn’t even have a screen or keyboard! Just this little punch card reader. I had to punch the cards by hand then load them one at a time into the reader. Did product cost accounting that way at Raychem Corporation in about 1966!

Read this first over there, so immediately came over here to follow you. You go girl!

Mine were an abacus and a slide rule!