Vodafone customer support? I have a question. Look, when I signed up with Vodafone, I was told that it roamed automatically with the Telstra service, so that the coverage was just as good as Telstra’s. Wherever Telstra had a tower, my Vodafone mobile would connect.
Anyway, I’m in country Victoria right now, and I’d like to ask – why is it that my friend here can make calls on her Telstra mobile, but mine keeps dropping ou… Hello? Hello?
*NO SIGNAL*
UPDATE 3/4: Now there’s a surprise.
Rolling Stone thinks Wall St is using the bailout “to stage a revolution”.
I think they’re just jealous that it never occurred to THEM to stuff over the country and then hold it to ransom.
Once you start, you can’t stop.
UPDATE: Particularly if you make your living doing a particular thing.
Posted in Environment
Oh dear – something’s gone wrong on the eBay payment method description page. They list the advantages and disadvantages of the permitted (damned ACCC!) payment methods and, whilst they’ve really gone to town with the disadvantages (both real and implausible) of most, they appear to have entirely forgotten to include any disadvantages for PayPal. What a strange omission!
Since I’m sure they meant the page to be a fair comparison of the options, and not a blatant bit of self-justifying for abusing their dominant market position in an anti-competitive manner by forcing PayPay on sellers, I thought I’d help them out with some of the obvious disadvantages of PayPay. No need to thank me fellas – the warm glow I’d get from seeing these honestly listed on the page in question would be payment enough.
Disadvantages
I wonder why they left those out? They were more than diligent in listing the faults of the payment methods they don’t own.
Posted in Internet
Tagged ACCC, anti-competitive behaviour, corporate dishonesty, ebay, paypal, paypay
I haven’t bothered looking too closely into what it’s about, but if workers get a whole public holiday each year, and our military personnel get two, then surely it’s churlishness in the extreme to object to the planet getting an entire hour.
I don’t know what you’re planning to do to celebrate all Earth’s done for us, but I hope it’s something. Turn a light off. Turn a light on. Turn it on and off and on and off until the energy efficient bulb blows up and sprays mercury around your living room. Whatever. LIVE A LITTLE.
Three cheers for Planet Earth! Whatever its many faults, it’s always been there when we’ve needed it.
UPDATE: Proud to say that we supported the cause by turning every light in the house off for not just Earth Hour, but the whole evening. (We were out.)
Posted in Environment
Tagged climate change, Earth Hour, electricity, environment, greenhouse gas
Counterproductive, perhaps – but childishly funny.
Still – internet? You keep pulling this sort of stuff and it will just harden our resolve to destroy you.
ELSEWHERE: Melbourne audience frustratingly fails to pwn Stephen Conroy – although this does appear to be more due to the silly Q&A format, in which questions are not actually answered, and follow-ups to ask WOULD YOU ANSWER MY DAMNED QUESTION PLEASE are not granted.
Thus Conroy got to continue to obfuscate on issues like – is he planning to block all adult content (eg X-rated material that’s saleable in the ACT but not Victoria) by default or not? Does he have any evidence to counter the suggestion that any child porn that’s currently being easily accessed PROVIDES A BRILLIANT BLOODY OPPORTUNITY TO CATCH THE PEOPLE TRADING IT? When is he going to stop blaming everything on THE RUSSIAN MOB?
Is he worried that Andrew Bolt’s got his back? (Probably not; he’s had the support of an even less reputable Andy for years.)
It’s the weekend; enough with the seriousness. Time for some inconsequential, light-hearted blog fluff.
So I present a list of my top six most horrifyingly evil movie villains, the ones whose downfall I found the most satisfying:
Any other suggestions? Who’ve I left out?
UPDATE: Of course!
UPDATE #2: I can’t believe I left out
UPDATE #3 (31/5): Oh, and
Sure, this sounds pretty terrible:
Human Rights Watch says Israeli forces might be guilty of war crimes over what it says was the indiscriminate use of white phosphorous shells during the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
But look at the picture!
(via Reuters)
Why’s it a war crime to provide the Palestinians with awesome fireworks displays? Wah wah “when the white phosphorous artillery explodes in mid-air it covers an area of approximately 250 metres in diameter” and “when it touches skin it will burn all the way to the bone”. But it looks so pretty!
Honestly, can’t they be grateful for anything?
Posted in Middle East, Politics
Tagged Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, war crimes, white phosphorus
I know mX is low-grade trash and News Ltd doesn’t stake its reputation on it, but still, shouldn’t a story like this – in the alleged “news” section – have some kind of disclaimer?
No mention that MySpace is owned by NewsCorp, which owns mX.
“Beats Facebook” indeed!
In other news: NewsCorp is the best company ever and Fairfax sucks balls! Turn to page 3 for the details.
Of course not. That’s an outrageous question to even ask. I’m sure she doesn’t “love” them, in the sense of, you know, having fond feelings for them and doodling their names inside hearts with “+JA 4EVA” and asking them around to dinner.
But she mustn’t think they’re all that bad because, whilst she’s telling us that the rule of law is optional, and advocating it being withdrawn from people who commit serious crimes for political or religious reasons (“terrorists”) – she has noticeably not argued for the same to apply to serious domestic criminals, like serial killers and rapists. The people who attracted the toughest sentences in our domestic courts, for doing unimaginably horrible things. And it’s not clear why not.
If she’s calling for us to lock up overseas psychos indefinitely without charge, and try them (if we can be bothered) and convict them on hearsay or other flimsy evidence, if that’s now a legitimate tool in our arsenal according to Janet, then why hasn’t she called for the same for the murderers and rapists in our own society?
Is Martin Bryant less of a villain than David Hicks? Is a notorious paedophile less of a threat to our community than some guy the Americans picked up in Iraq being all suspiciously muslim without a good alibi?
I’m sure many would be sympathetic to Janet’s argument that it’s about time we stopped coddling people we reckon are probably villains with luxuries like “the right to a fair trial” – but why draw the line at terrorists? Why not extend it to Australians the police think have possibly done something wrong or might in the future? There are only two possibilities that I can see:
I really hope Janet can think of a third.
Posted in Crime and Punishment, Law, Politics, terrorism
Tagged justice, law and order, police, rule of law, terrorism
