Friday, October 20, 2006

Don't go breakin' my law...

I'm so straight. There is not an anarchic bone in my boring, law abiding body. I can't even sit in a parked car without putting money in the metre. Letterboxing for The Greens at the last election is about as edgey as I get.
Although I won't offer my bags for inspection as I leave shops, because it gives me the irrits (Do I look like a shoplifter? No? That's right. Go and infringe the rights of that kid with a skateboard, thank you very much), and I'm not afraid of a bit of a Loud Complaint if I'm not happy with something, but actually law breaking is something I just can't come at....
So when Ivy told me that she had just been 'war driving' , and then explained what it is, I was quite frankly shocked and dismayed at the kind of shenanigan that she has learnt during her time in the UK. Driving around trying to find an internet signal on a computer?? Surely thats stealing isn't it? Now my knowledge of the telecommunications industry may be patchy at best, but I know for a fact that Telsra's profits for the LFY were in the millions rather than the billions, so I really don't think that they can afford to have people flogging their signal, wily nilly, without a thought to the CEO's bottom line, or the farmers who have quite enough access to high speed broadband as it is, thank you were much Mr Trujillo.

2 Comments:

At 1:57 am , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think I'm worse than you, Eva. (I hadn't known that term for getting wireless signals)

I once ordered by phone from a catalogue. Three gift certificates of well over a hundred dollars a piece for my three sibs.

Visa came with a mere 45$ charge. I called company back and complained. They explained that it was alright; I should feel no guilt.The certificates would be for what I had said -- not 15$ each.

I explained that in my mind they would be 15$ and I wanted them to be what I had ordered.

There was more explaining about the girl having pushed the wrong buttons and clicked in the minimum each time.

I said that they could reclick buttons for the amount minus the 15$ for each already charged.

They finally agreed, but it wasn't easy.

At first my own true love thought I'd lost it all - gone berserk. But when I explained my idea of honesty, he was forced to concede. At least he did.

I don't know what that tag is, but maybe this way I will find out. If it's inappropriate chalk it up to my being new at tagging.

Couldn't use it after all. Didn't know how to 'close' it. Don't know what it is either. :biggrin0:

 
At 6:06 pm , Anonymous Anonymous said...

You're so cool Eva!

 

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