Maybe she does.

1) Websites that state they don't ship outside of the United States.

2) Price comparison websites like Price Spy that claim a re-seller ships outside of their country but doesn't.

3) Newspapers that review products that are never going to come to New Zealand.

When Windoze grinds to almost a complete halt for 10 or 15 minutes, for no apparent reason.

matisyahu:

 

1) Websites that state they don't ship outside of the United States.

 

2) Price comparison websites like Price Spy that claim a re-seller ships outside of their country but doesn't.

 

3) Newspapers that review products that are never going to come to New Zealand.

 

4. Comparison sites that don't include businesses you know exist in your region.

DarthKermit:

 

When Windoze grinds to almost a complete halt for 10 or 15 minutes, for no apparent reason.

 

It is waiting for you to bang on the computer. 

matisyahu: Websites that state they don't ship outside of the United States.

How about sites that don't state that, until you try to place an order and find that there's no Country field?

Behodar:

 

matisyahu: Websites that state they don't ship outside of the United States.

 

How about sites that don't state that, until you try to place an order and find that there's no Country field?

 

Can you blame the Yanks? They don't wanna be bothered with shipping to foreign planets like Noo Zeeland.

DarthKermit:

 

Behodar:

 

matisyahu: Websites that state they don't ship outside of the United States.

 

How about sites that don't state that, until you try to place an order and find that there's no Country field?

 

 

Can you blame the Yanks? They don't wanna be bothered with shipping to foreign planets like Noo Zeeland.

 

Hah!

A while back, I did some work for a company doing business worldwide. Naturally enough, it called itself XYZ International. After some confused discussion with prospective American customers, it turns out that "International" to the average American means "everywhere but the good ol' U. S. of A.". Company had to rebrand as XYZ Global.

mdf:

 

... it turns out that "International" to the average American means "everywhere but the good ol' U. S. of A.".

 

It's like domestic or international flights - USA or ROW.

Behodar:

 

matisyahu: Websites that state they don't ship outside of the United States.

 

How about sites that don't state that, until you try to place an order and find that there's no Country field?

 

Companies that talk BS about why they won't ship outside the US.

I tried to order a Surefire flashlight a few years ago from a stockist in the US. They claimed they could not ship it outside the US because "doing so is banned under ITAR".

So, shipping a small pocket flashlight outside the US is banned under the International Treaty on Arms Reduction?! Sheet, ya gotta watch those Russkies don't come atcha with a torch in the dark!

Double BS because there is a Surefire NZ retailer who actually sold that model (it's no longer made) at the time...for twice the US price....so clearly it CAN be exported and ITAR has SFA to do with it.

^^ Doubly ironic considering the product is probably made in China in the first place!

Geektastic:

Behodar:

matisyahu: Websites that state they don't ship outside of the United States.

How about sites that don't state that, until you try to place an order and find that there's no Country field?

 

Companies that talk BS about why they won't ship outside the US.

 

I tried to order a Surefire flashlight a few years ago from a stockist in the US. They claimed they could not ship it outside the US because "doing so is banned under ITAR".

So, shipping a small pocket flashlight outside the US is banned under the International Treaty on Arms Reduction?! Sheet, ya gotta watch those Russkies don't come atcha with a torch in the dark!

 

Double BS because there is a Surefire NZ retailer who actually sold that model (it's no longer made) at the time...for twice the US price....so clearly it CAN be exported and ITAR has SFA to do with it.

^^^ That's crazy really. If memory serves me correctly, it was a British mathematician who first conceived of the idea of modern cryptography, and he did it way before the computers needed to do these computations even existed.

Oh, something small that really annoys me is usage of the word "flashlight" when we call 'em a "torch" here. 

I downloaded an app onto my phone and the very first thing it wanted me to do was to create an account. Why? Apparently so that my data can be automatically synched across my other phones. I only have the one... but there was no way to continue without the account.

I begrudgingly made one, logged in, and quickly found that the app was fairly useless. Of course, there's no option to delete the account.

Six months later I get an email saying that they've been hacked. This makes me so angry; they request details that they don't need, they don't let you delete them, and it turns out that they don't secure them.

"Video reporting". It's ok to show the video since this is something you want to see in action. But put the text underneath it. I don't want to have to watch the whole thing to get the story.

The BBC is doing it now but the Washington Post does it a lot. Sometimes I click from my feed reader and it's a damn video. I can't always have sound on and I don't to watch things all the time.