Vodafone NZ sux (yet again!)

It's an almost certainly grey box about 1.5 m tall by 0.5 ish ? Look for it
in a street near you. [/QUOTE]

They're green where I am.

 

A subset, certainly, but maths is not required for sums.

No, you don't. Your call of course.
Start now. In a month, you're done.

 

Maths covers doing "sums", plus lots of other sub-subjects. "Sums" is
in fact the basis for pretty much all of maths - if you can't add,
subtract, multiply or divide, then you're basically screwed when it
comes to doing most higher maths. That's why they teach such things in
primary school maths classes (or at least they're supposed to ... in
these days of politically correct stupidity it wouldn't surprise me in
the least if subtracting numbers is considered too "negative" to be
taught!).

Some emails are not every month - in fact some I get are annual
reminders for various things (as a silly up-coming exmaple, the
reminder for an annual "12 days of Christmas" competition).

 

Yep, I saw the techs sitting at them a while back when they were all
upgraded. Trouble is (as mentioned in another post) I'm in an urban area and
they're all over the place. I don't know how to tell which one serves my
home. Blow them up one-by-one until the connection drops out? ;-)
--
/Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).
[Sent from my OrbitalT ocular implant interface]

 

Green here too. There are three that I have noticed within a km ot two of my
home - two of which are about equidistant. I don't know which one serves
this street (cul-de-sac actually) though. I remember a website a few years
back when I was waiting for ADSL2 that showed the area that the cabinet I
was 'on'. I can't find it now but at the time I recall there were two cabs
on the edges of the zone. How are you supposed to know which???

<shrug> I guess it doesn't really matter.
--
/Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).
[Sent from my OrbitalT ocular implant interface]

 

<snip>

Goodness me, Chorus actually supports this!
http://www.chorus.co.nz/cabinet-art

 

Ah well ... must own up that I'm a tad colour blind, grey/light green ...
all the same really.

That typed, most of these sorts of boxes seem to be a pale shade of ...
something indeternminate ?

<thinks> ... I wonder if they'd mind if I painted it a more interesting
colour ?

 

It's possible that some of them used a paint that faded to a different
colour over time.

They supposedly paint them green (and the electricity boxes) to blend
in ... which they rarely do. They should just hire them out for
advertising, then people would more easily ignore tham. ;-)

 

And you don't want to be behind him at the traffic lights. ;-)

 

Well it seems that Slingshot is still run by a bunch of cowboys:

"Slingshot has been fined $250,000 for forcing customers unwittingly to take
its service and then aggressively pursuing them for payment and referring
some to debt collection agencies."
And:
"Commerce Commission consumer manager Stuart Wallace said Slingshot's
actions were "very disappointing", especially for a trader of Slingshot's
prominence, and because it was warned about similar behaviour in December
2009."

From: http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=178807

I'm pleased that I'd seen negative publicity about them (often here) and
have never been keen to try them - giving their reps short-shift when I've
been approached.

[Public Service Announcement; nz.comp2013/b151.] ;-)
--
/Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).
[Sent from my OrbitalT ocular implant interface]

 

Not sure how that makes them any different to pretty much all the other
ISPs in the country (if not the world). :-(

Personally I would never ever use Slingshot, and the one person I know
who briefly switched to them had nothing but problems dealing with
them.

Technically this wasn't actually Slingshot's fault, but the idiot
company they contracted out the phone sales promotion to. Those morons
then gave Sligshot a list of names, and Slingshot processed what they
believed were legitimate transfers.

What was Slighshot's fault was "aggressively pursuing [transferred
customers] for payment" despite being told by those customers that they
had not wanted to be transferred.

 

Good job says Quin as Slingshot fined $250K for 'slamming' customers


http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/slingshot-fined-250k-“slamming”-customers-ck-150013

 

So you've never been an Acrtix customer then. Orcon were good for a year or
so too when Seeby's heart was in the business - before he realised it could
make him rich.

I wouldn't either - but then I've heard the runblings over the years. Your
average Jow has only seen the TV ads and knows no better.

If you believe Slingshot's after-the-fact account of this latest
incident....

Yep. Not their first time either.
--
/Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).
[Sent from my OrbitalT ocular implant interface]

 

Yep, just like ihug's Woods brothers. :-(

It's run by another greedy idiot (or pair of idiots, I don't remember
nor care about their marriage status).

Of course, it is what you get for contracting a greedy sales company
.... they no doubt get paid by how many people they switch over, so
no-morals / pushy tactics and fudging the numbers was bound to happen.

 

Of course, it is what you get for contracting a greedy sales company
.... they no doubt get paid by how many people they switch over, so
no-morals / pushy tactics and fudging the numbers was bound to happen.[/QUOTE]

Interestingly, IME, companies that contract out part of their service seem
to think that exempts them from culpability and/or blame when cock ups
happen with that service. Recent example, xtra/yahoo.
My response is simply ... you paid them money for a service which they
failed to provide. That's your problem, not mine. You sort it out.

 

Indeed. Ultimately the buck must stop with the person / organisation who
contracted them. The same as if you hire a contract killer - both are
responsible for the result.
--
/Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).
[Sent from my OrbitalT ocular implant interface]

 

Technically you're probably not. The hitman you hired would be charged
with "Murder", and you would likely be charged with something like
"Conspiracy to murder".

Of course, in this case Slingshot will likely pay the fine, and they
start legal proceedings against the contracted company to get at least
some of the money back.

 

Which is a measure of responsibility for the result yes?

.... and in a couple of years will likely be caught doing a similar thing.
--
/Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).
[Sent from my OrbitalT ocular implant interface]

 

It is SOME measure, but it's not the same level for both participants
because only one person actually did the murder.

Probably, especially if they keep farming out their sales promotions to
dodgey companies and likely paying at least partly on a "how many sales
you make" game ... commission selling should be banned, it simply makes
the salespeople greedy and selfish.