Today's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Forums › Off topic › Today's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

1 | ... | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | ... | 301

6734 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 2928

Subscriber

#3195711 15-Feb-2024 12:02

alasta:
I use the interisland ferries three times a year but had a terrible experience with Interislander over Christmas, so will be using Bluebridge in future.

Until something happens to remind you that Bluebridge aren't immune from problems either.

alasta

6891 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 3365

Trusted

Subscriber

#3195825 15-Feb-2024 14:00

Bung:
alasta:

I use the interisland ferries three times a year but had a terrible experience with Interislander over Christmas, so will be using Bluebridge in future.

Until something happens to remind you that Bluebridge aren't immune from problems either.

They have just as many operational problems as Interislander, but that's not what I'm complaining about.

Kiwirail's IT systems are so broken that they can't administer their loyalty scheme properly, and can't provide the add-on services that customers purchase with their tickets. Strait Shipping don't have that problem.

neb

11294 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 10018

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3195835 15-Feb-2024 14:19

Technofreak:
No argument there. My point was rail services in Auckland haven't been disrupted previously like this to my knowledge, yet temperatures have been as high or higher.

It could be nothing more than a newfound awareness that it can be a problem, sort of like any number of industrial chemicals were regarded as OK for decades and then suddenly became dangerous.

neb

11294 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 10018

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3195837 15-Feb-2024 14:21

alasta:
Okay, a fleet of three is more expensive to operate than a fleet of two,

More for the "things that make you smile" thread, but only in NZ would two ferries constitute a fleet :-).

nzkc

1634 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 1041

#3196073 16-Feb-2024 08:16

"Google makes $1 billion in revenue from New Zealand news, Daryl Holden, Ashburton Guardian co-owner and managing editor, said."

From: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350181320/what-minister-said-media-leaders-stated-case-making-tech-giants-pay-news

Seriously... do they really make that much from NZ news? I doubt it. Maybe globally they make that from news.

Bung

6734 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 2928

Subscriber

#3196095 16-Feb-2024 09:09

nzkc:

"Google makes $1 billion in revenue from New Zealand news, Daryl Holden, Ashburton Guardian co-owner and managing editor, said."

From: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350181320/what-minister-said-media-leaders-stated-case-making-tech-giants-pay-news

Seriously... do they really make that much from NZ news? I doubt it. Maybe globally they make that from news.

Maybe it depends on how little the $NZ is worth. It's claimed that Google makes $21 billion a year using US news. Google's ad revenue is > $250 billion.

Geekzone support

Support Geekzone with one-off or recurring donations Donate via PressPatron.

kingdragonfly

11995 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 12892

Subscriber

#3196275 16-Feb-2024 12:50

Oh Florida. You so crazy!

Two cops unloaded on their own cruiser.

Turns out it was an acorn dropping!

Florida deputy who shot at man after mistaking falling acorn for gunfire resigns

NBC News

gzt

18690 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 7829

Lifetime subscriber

#3196518 16-Feb-2024 17:28

That is one very lucky man. Small screen on mobile. What is the deputy doing holding her gun.. with some kind of cloth?

Behodar

11102 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 6095

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3196750 17-Feb-2024 12:18

I'm posting this more out of amusement than anything else, but the lowest bidder apparently strikes again.

I bought a product in white from one brand, and the same type of product in black from a different brand. Apart from the colour, the actual products are completely identical and must come from the same factory. But it doesn't stop there: even though the design of the packaging is completely different between both brands (and they have different postal addresses), the actual text is word-for-word identical. Presumably the manufacturer supplies some template marketing spiel and neither company bothered to customise it in any way!

Journeyman

1206 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 1237

#3196760 17-Feb-2024 13:16

kingdragonfly: Oh Florida. You so crazy!

Two cops unloaded on their own cruiser.

Turns out it was an acorn dropping!

Florida deputy who shot at man after mistaking falling acorn for gunfire resigns

NBC News

Did anyone search the acorn for weapons?

neb

11294 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 10018

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3196785 17-Feb-2024 14:15

Journeyman
Did anyone search the acorn for weapons?

Was the acorn black or Hispanic?

HP

Shop now for HP laptops and other devices (affiliate link).

Journeyman

1206 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 1237

#3196788 17-Feb-2024 14:25

neb:
Journeyman

Did anyone search the acorn for weapons?

Was the acorn black or Hispanic?

It would have been shot if it were.

richms

29105 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 10222

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3196871 17-Feb-2024 20:23

Behodar:

I'm posting this more out of amusement than anything else, but the lowest bidder apparently strikes again.

I bought a product in white from one brand, and the same type of product in black from a different brand. Apart from the colour, the actual products are completely identical and must come from the same factory. But it doesn't stop there: even though the design of the packaging is completely different between both brands (and they have different postal addresses), the actual text is word-for-word identical. Presumably the manufacturer supplies some template marketing spiel and neither company bothered to customise it in any way!

That is how most housebrand products operate. Warehouse just give them artwork for the box, so does kmart, so does kogan.

They will prepare the manuals from the stock documents.

There are not that many factories in china making toasters and kettles, and sometimes more than one local place will choose the same design to get made.

Richard rich.ms

kingdragonfly

11995 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 12892

Subscriber

#3196898 18-Feb-2024 07:52

From video:

"…Air Canada was finally forced to give a partial refund to a grieving pass who is misled by the airlines chatbot inaccurately telling him how the Airlines bereavement travel policy worked.
…
He logged on to the website found the chatbot and asked the chatbot to explain. The chatbot provided inaccurate information encouraging him to book his flight immediately and then simply request a refund 90 days after the flight.
…
In reality ER Canada's policy explicitly states that the airline will not provide refunds for bereavement travel after the flight is booked. It's something you must raise with them as you're booking
…
According to Air Canada, the customer never should have trusted the chatbot and the airline should not be liable for the chatbots misleading information because Air Canada argued that the chatbot is a separate legal entity responsible for his own actions

Air Canada essentially argued that here's the 'the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions'

Now who put it there did it hijack your page?

Oh you put it there?

And you told it to answer questions of customers. That's on you Air Canada"
...
Who knows? maybe in Canada you're allowed to hire or employ in the loosest sense of that word.

People or programs or things that will tell your customers what to do and not do but but you're not responsible for that because they're responsible for their own actions.

Can you imagine if you called up and got a rep on the phone and the rep told you this? They could say well that rep is acting on their own. That's a separate legal entity.

Airline's Insane Defense in Lawsuit it Lost

Steve Lehto

Behodar

11102 posts

Uber Geek
+1 received by user: 6095

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#3196900 18-Feb-2024 08:00

Whiskey Tango indeed! "You should be suing our website, not us!"

Edit: Bonus points for Air Canada's page, which has a section titled "About our bereavement policy". This section tells you who it applies to and how to book, but nothing actually about the policy (i.e. no information about what you actually gain by using it).

1 | ... | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | ... | 301