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Tool remain one of my favourite bands. For me Justin Chancellor could be playing one note and hitting the strings with a wet fish as long as as he was still creating that sound and driving that juggernaut forward.

Staying off topic on Basschat? No chance. Never happens.

Sadly apart from a DDOS attack every major IT outage or incident in my career has involved email and a click happy user giving away financial data, credit card details, passwords etc despite constant training and the fact that 2 minutes of thought would have prevented an obvious spoof/phish.

I suggest that you google DHCP and IP leases. At best you put a sticking plaster on the situation for a short period. At worst you may have lost a bunch of customers. Unless you are dealing with a seriously clueless scammer that lives in a single occupancy dwelling, pays for a dedicated fixed public IP and has never heard about VPN you are not likely to achieve much by IP blocking a suspect scammer. For persistent offenders (usually mass distribution of spam or malware) companies do take action but it’s a game of cat and mouse. Not sure what is wrong with WFH? My current company has over 40 sites, a datacenter and various cloud based tenancies. My previous company had contracts all over the world. I would frequently find myself in the early hours connecting to resources in New York, London or Budapest. My home office was as adequate as anywhere else (though I do wish that they would let me do the work from somewhere warm and cheap.

You would need a little technical knowledge around public vs private IPs, NAT and a bunch of other technobabble to understand why this is not as simple as it sounds.

I started a reply along these lines but binned it as I guessed at the fairly predictable outcome.

Having worked in technology for a while now email is becoming ever more problematic for businesses. Spam, spoofing, phishing and layers of protection used by ISPs and businesses themselves to counteract the menace, such as Mimecast and numerous MS 365 protections makes delivery of email problematic and a bit of a headache for businesses. The issue may well be down to whatever technology they employ to protect themselves having settings that need to be relaxed to prevent mail getting trapped. This is a fine balance as opening the net too widely can cause chaos if the wrong mail gets through the system. Basically email is no longer a guaranteed way of getting in touch with a business. it’s also a method of communication that doesn’t engage with the younger generation, so I am not surprised that it’s not a priority and social media is preferred. Sandberg appears to be a company that makes high quality instruments and have a high regard and good reputation for customer satisfaction so maybe worth persevering with unless you are on a tight schedule?

My attitude is that blaming heavy metal or computer games for the ills of society via dodgy news channels is a little disingenuous. So I thought it was a parody of this and a little amusing hence the glib comment. Think we will let this one lie now and get back to reggae.

If I have offended you sorry. Im not a fan of Rupert Murdoch, News Corp or Fox news. I find their output to be a little distasteful. Others are free to form their own opinions.

As I said I thought it was a parody of moral panic “news” rather than a something to be taken seriously.

Nope sorry just a flippant comment. I don’t watch Fox News. I just presumed it was a parody rather than a real news story.

Same here but Im just a prole that’s getting poorer.

Probably because the likes of you and me don’t have 20K of surplus income sat gathering dust in a bank account or bedside cabinet knowing that it’s losing purchasing power every month it sits there. Vintage investments and crypto may just collapse in value. Cash is definitely doing so.

I don’t think for a minute that they will prop up the price of vintage Fenders Every asset is in a bubble. It’s either all going to burst (starting with things like vintage instruments) or there’s going to be a tsunami of liquidity to keep it all afloat that will devalue the value of currency and pump the price of all assets. Anyhow wrong thread for this. Personally if I had the spare cash I would like a vintage Fender Precision. I would put it in my Man Cave garage next to my vintage car collection.

Fans of Fox News must be Psychotic!

first and last and always - sisters of mercy

Absolutely. It’s always great when the next generation get into music that you love. My kids are really into reggae and have started introducing me to new artists. Here’s something a little different that my teenage son has been playing recently:

The price of vintage instruments has diverged hugely from the earning power of your average person. Logically it should correct but the economic system appears to have also diverted from all logic over the last few decades. Instead of big recessions we have seen epic borrowing at unprecedented levels in peacetime. Whilst most of us are getting poorer for every £1 we owe someone else has that £1 plus interest. There is a lot of money sloshing around still looking for assets and investments. Central banks and governments are just itching to rinse and repeat so I would not bet on prices going down. They might if a recession is allowed to let rip, but until then I will look at a vintage Fender bass priced at £10K plus and think that’s crazy in the same way I look at a 500K+ average home in a leafy suburb and think that’s crazy but they still appear to attract buyers.

Howl - BRMC

It would be easier if FB Marketplace place just renamed itself FB Scams, Lies and Tosspots.

My favourite bass. It never asked for anything but was never as extroverted or flamboyant as my Clownfish. Now that could really party and win over a crowd. Nilo share the drugs.

Just my tupence worth. Pretty much every large company is in a race to the bottom in terms of customer service. Whether they appear on these pages is probably more due to people falling foul of whatever workflow or process they use to extract cash and provide the most basic service they can get away with.

If you are working off massive generalisation then the UK is just about XFactor tosh and insipid Beatles rehash bands.

Take a trip to places like Seattle, Nashville, Portland or Brooklyn. You might revise your opinion.

The USA is such a huge and diverse place that there is a market for a very diverse range of music. Pretty much every new artist that grabs my attention is from the USA and this is across a wide spectrum of genres. I found on every visit I make to the USA that my preconceptions are proven wrong. I would totally disagree with the macho/conformist argument. Mainstream fodder is invariably rubbish whatever continent you live in.