geoffwnz:

 

When you have all the money, laws cease to apply to you. Apparently.

 

The EU would like you to hold their beer.

networkn:

geoffwnz: When you have all the money, laws cease to apply to you. Apparently.

The EU would like you to hold their beer.

Was just going to say the same thing, that's certainly the case in the US but those evil freedom-hating socialists in Europe think differently.

Downside is that it takes them forever to act.

Handsomedan:

The fact that a Mechatronic unit in a VW DSG transmission is $5500 for a car we only paid $6500 for.

Yet another Parcel ordered from Australia that arrived before a Parcel ordered the same day, from 1 suburb away in Auckland 

Companies that send out a payment 'Text' that looks like a Phishing Text.
You have an outstanding invoice click the link to pay.

Many people are not going to be able to decypher if link is safe or not.
Especially older, and older person may just be using their SmartPhone just as a Phone.
So this maybe a little distressing.
Having received fake NZTA etc Texts in the past, as many have. 

Especially if unexpected, due to undercharge when they paid in person. 

Having to buy DC power cable (red/black 224020 / 18 AWG / 0.75mm) from element14 because it's the only way you know you're not getting CCA garbage.  Seriously, try finding this in NZ, for general sale (not trade-only call us for pricing) where it's actually copper and not CCA or most probably CCA based on the price.

The one mitigating factor is that Farnell UK have some 002-coded actual-copper stuff at about a third off the standard price, free delivery ($86 vs $124).

When the instruction manual for a product says "for more information, watch this video on our YouTube channel" and the video is the same information, word for word, just set to stock music with some photos of the product.

It’s 2024 and there’s still no WhatsApp client for iPad.

That and broadband in developing countries sucks.

Handle9:

 

It’s 2024 and there’s still no WhatsApp client for iPad.

 

That and broadband in developing countries sucks.

 

I use the browser on my tablet. Opera has a built in WhatsApp interface. I presume other browsers do too.

spearsniper: Someone with a full trolley of groceries at the 10 item or less express lane. Normally always in front of you when you are in a hurry.

Haha. Agreed!

neb: That the shooter (mostly) missed.

Trump is a horrible human being. But this is not the way to fix that. 

If the alternative is Trump turning the US into a dictatorship, giving Putin a free hand in Europe, possibly starting WWIII with China, then it's definitely the way to fix it.  How many people have said, with 20/20 hindsight, "if only someone had managed to kill Hitler before 1939".

neb:

 

If the alternative is Trump turning the US into a dictatorship, giving Putin a free hand in Europe, possibly starting WWIII with China, then it's definitely the way to fix it.  How many people have said, with 20/20 hindsight, "if only someone had managed to kill Hitler before 1939".

 

A civil war in the USA allows for those things to happen...this will be bad for everyone.

neb:

 

If the alternative is Trump turning the US into a dictatorship, giving Putin a free hand in Europe, possibly starting WWIII with China, then it's definitely the way to fix it.  How many people have said, with 20/20 hindsight, "if only someone had managed to kill Hitler before 1939".

 

Your idea is not only morally flawed, but also logically faulty. Trump is just a front man. He is good at throwing out word salads that trigger people but he has only gained power and influence because those with real power and influence have come to see him as a useful idiot who can advance their own interests. If that bullet had succeeded in exploding his shrunken brain, it most likely would have resulted in an overwhelming reactionary mandate for his appointed successor, say someone like DeSantis or Cruz who knows how to be a real dictator.