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Indivara wrote: Imagine the reaction if this happened in most other countries
It'd probably be "Hang the elephants who dumped 'em!" here.
And I for one would agree.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Years ago (like 30) I walked out of my apartment to my car, which meant having to walk by the dumpster in the parking lot. I heard these tiny "mews" coming from the dumpster and discovered someone had put 4 kittens, probably no more than 3 weeks old, in a cardboard box in the dumpster. 
I took them in, there was more flea than kitten to them, gave them all baths in de-flea-ing stuff (box said not to use on less than 6 week old kittens, but there really wasn't much choice.) The water turned pink from all the flea poo.
Kept them for a few weeks, it was the cutest thing to see them playing in the book cases and my other two cats took to them right away, which was amazing. They all survived and I found good homes for them.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Years ago (like 30)
You should have just left it at "years ago" because now, for some reason, I have this mental image of you being like, 75 years old. 
Good story, though. 
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Slacker007 wrote: 75 years old.
Who knows, he might be flattered by that. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Slacker007 wrote: I have this mental image of you being like, 75 years old.
53 
I have the same birthday (but not year) as Bill Clinton!
Marc
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You're a mere infant; I turn 55 next month.
Where's my cane...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Marc Clifton wrote: The water turned pink from all the flea poo.
I learned something new today. Flea poop is pink.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Flea poop is pink.
Well, it's red because it's from the blood of what they feed on, it just turns pink in the de-flea-ing stuff because that's milky white. 
Marc
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Indivara wrote: if this happened in most other countries
crispy or fried?
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Sounds perfectly normal for the UK.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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To follow the post below...
They are insanely fast in a creepy sort of way
A couple of days ago I ordered something (nothing particularly important, cost the equivalent of around 20 dollars)
Only 8 hours later it had arrived. Now there is no way they could have been so quick unless they are clairvoyant or have a time machine.
This was regular delivery too, at no extra cost.
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Or have local warehouses.
This space for rent
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No its definitely a star trek like beam transporter that they are using. Or telepathy. Probably both because even telepathy won't be enough to get them through the traffic and the two-foot wide roads here so fast
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Or have local warehouses.
in his backyard! 
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Also Amazon.it. But htey have a warehous 100 km from me and there is a comfortable highway linking us so it's probable. They caught me off guard a couple of times... luckily my local delivery services are freaking humane and it's easy to not incur in penalties or problems.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Or they sent you a goon squad that brainwashed you into ordering something and then forget that little detail. Your order was already on the way before the goons knocked on your door.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I recommend reading The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman and Information Rules by Shapiro and Varian.
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Indivara wrote: unless they are clairvoyant or have a time machine
Well, Japan is a few hours ahead of just about everybody else...
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They must have hacked microsoft's telemetry "features".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I rarely shop Amazon.com but I had a gift card. I ended up needing to return one item. They provided a prepaid return label which was nice. I dropped off the package at the UPS store. An hour later I had an email that my item had been returned and my money was refunded. Sure enough, the refund was already posted.
I do appreciate quick service but this seems silly. Why not just an email stating that they have been notified that the return is in the mail and you'll be reimbursed as soon as they receive it. If someone were to send something back that they had damaged then Amazon will have to re-charge the account.
I should have sent back an empty envelope, just to test their processes, as a quality check. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I shop a lot, both on Amazon.com and the other Amazon sites (such as Amazon.co.uk, .de, .fr etc) and have always been extremely satisfied with them. As far as I'm concerned, Amazon is more or less a one stop shop. If they don't have it, it's not worth having...
Ok, Amazon, you can credit my account now with the money you promised me if I'd say that...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It's because Amazon continues to raise the bar in leveraging their Leadership Principles to drive their excellence to new levels.
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I feel the same way. Oh, and by the way, Amazon has been in default in my royalty checks for years.
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It's a fundamental of optimization. In the vast majority of the cases this is faster, so it leaves less problems pending and less work to do. The exceptions require more time and work but are offsetted by the common scenario.
Maybe in some other country (like Italy) they wouldn't do this way beacuse of different common scenario (our postal service is under-standard and very little ethical, as our citizens).
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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den2k88 wrote: In the vast majority of the cases this is faster
How? It gets scanned when the worker in the warehouse opens it so they could easily send the email and do the refund at that point. Having an automated email and refund at one point in time vs. another point in time is no more efficient or faster.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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