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Passengers kicked off Perth-bound flight because plane was too heavy

news.com.au
June 13, 2017 9:15am

A NUMBER of passengers on board a Perth-bound Qantas flight were forced off the plane over concerns the aircraft was too heavy to fly.

Passengers on board the Boeing 737-800 Sydney to Perth flight told Radio 6PR that they had their names called out and were asked to disembark, WA Todayreported. It is estimated that up to 40 passengers had to be removed.

A Qantas spokeswoman told WA Today that it was due to an issue with the fuel pump, which affected the plane’s load readings.

“As a result, a number of customers were re-accommodated onto the next available service, which departed shortly after,” she said.

The last-minute request led to a delay of 45 minutes for the 7.40pm flight.

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vreihen said:

Truth in advertising alert.

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The beginning of the end...........

Can't make the existing model work so buy another failed one....."what it walks backwards" lol.......

Amazon is buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, the companies said Friday.
The deal values the grocer at $42 a share.
Whole Foods (WFM) had been under pressure from investor Jana Partners, a hedge fund that lobbied for the high-end grocer to seek a buyer to reverse declining share price. Shares had been trading at about $33 Thursday; trading was halted Friday morning on the news.
The deal is expected to finish later this year, if Amazon's shareholders approve it. It would make the combined company the seventh-largest food retailer in the U.S., according to Greg Wank, partner-in-charge of the food and beverage practice of accounting firm Anchin." This makes them a major player in grocery and just adds more pressure on Wal-Mart, Target and Costco to not continue to lose share," he told CBS MoneyWatch.
Amazon's own stock rose by 3 percent Friday morning.
The merger opens up tantalizing possibilities for shoppers, as several people noted online.


Amazon (AMZN) has been dabbling in the grocery business with Amazon Fresh, a delivery service available in about 20 cities for a $14.99 monthly subscription. But the online retailer has been challenged by logistical issues and shoppers' reluctance to buy food sight unseen, Bloomberg reported.
Whole Foods stores will keep operating under the company's brand, according to the release.
"This partnership presents an opportunity to maximize value for Whole Foods Market's shareholders, while at the same time extending our mission and bringing the highest quality, experience, convenience and innovation to our customers," Whole Foods CEO John Mackey said in a release.
Grocery stocks plunged on news of the mega-merger Friday morning. Kroger (KR) fell 14 percent, while Target (TGT) dropped 12 percent and United Natural Foods (UNFI) fell 20 percent.
An Amazon spokesperson promised no layoffs would result from the merger, according to a reporter.

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LOL -- so Amazon is discounting PRIME memberships for people on "welfare", and now they're gonna buy Whole Foods (a.k.a. Whole Paychecks)... What's next? Accepting EBT cards for delivery Prime delivery of Whole Foods' outrageously over-priced stuff?

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Dystopia

"You must destroy the cancer at its root" Dave Mustaine

dys·to·pi·a
[disˈtōpēə]



NOUN

dystopias (plural noun)

• an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Compare with utopia.

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Uwe said:

LOL -- so Amazon is discounting PRIME memberships for people on "welfare", and now they're gonna buy Whole Foods (a.k.a. Whole Paychecks)... What's next? Accepting EBT cards for delivery Prime delivery of Whole Foods' outrageously over-priced stuff?

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vreihen said:

Actually, what's next is re-programming Alexa to understand "street" dialects, so the lazy sponges don't even need to leave their couches to spend my tax money.....

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The Queens woman who was offered a steak dinner after staff said her $43 million win at a slot machine was the result of a glitch is suing the casino for the entire jackpot.
Katrina Bookman in August posed for a selfie at New York’s Resorts World Casino in front of the “Sphinx Slot Machine,” its screen promising her a grand prize of $42,949,672.76. When she attempted to collect her cash, however, casino employees told her she hadn’t actually won and offered her a complimentary steak dinner and $2.25 — the prize they claim her slot machine actually should have delivered.
Bookman’s lawyer, Alan Ripka, told CNN Money his client turned down the chump change and the dinner along with it. Instead, the mother of four filed a lawsuit against the casino off Rockaway Boulevard in the Queens County Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Ripka is seeking $43 million in damages from the resort. The suit also takes aim at Genting New York LLC, the casino’s parent company, and International Game Technology — the maker of the slot machine — for alleged common-law negligence, breach of contract and negligent representation, according to the 17-page complaint.
“You can’t claim a machine is broken because you want it to be broken. Does that mean it wasn’t inspected? Does it mean it wasn’t maintained?” Ripka told CNN. “And if so, does that mean that people that played there before [Bookman] had zero chance of winning?”
A resort spokesperson in August said Bookman’s win was the “result of an obvious malfunction,” noting the Sphinx Slot Machine’s highest payout was $6,500.
The state Gaming Commission at the time also dismissed the win as the machine displays a sign stating “Malfunctions void all pays and plays.”
Ripka said he repeatedly asked Resorts World Casino what caused the machine to glitch but has not yet received an answer according to CNN.
“I feel like they did me real dirty,” Bookman told the Daily News in August.
In the complaint, Bookman alleges the entire ordeal has caused her “mental anguish” and resulted in a financial setback because she did not have “the chance and/or opportunity to win.”

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^^^ There's already a court precedent from the midwest for the exact same thing that says she should have taken the free steak dinner.....

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Three men in Thailand reportedly ran a clickfarm with over 300,000 SIM cards and 400 iPhones
To boost products on WeChat

by Dani Deahl@danideahl
Jun 12, 2017, 7:09pm EDT

Screencap via TNAMCOT Thailand News Agency/YouTube

Clickfarms are a dubious business people rarely get a peek inside of, but accept as part of our everyday internet existence. We know companies pay bots to shower likes, emoji, ratings, nonsensical comments, and plain traffic on content in order to artificially boost online popularity and rake in ad dollars. Now, a recent raid in Thailand is giving another look at the underbelly of the bot industry.

According to the Bangkok Post, Thai police and soldiers raided a rented home yesterday near the Cambodian border, discovering an alleged clickfarm ring run by three Chinese nationals. Wang Dong, Niu Bang, and Ni Wenjin are said to have had metal racks set up in the house with hundreds of 5S, 5C, and 4S iPhones wired to computer monitors. In total, 474 iPhones, 347,200 unused SIM cards belonging to Thai mobile phone operators, 10 computers / laptops, and other assorted electronics were reportedly seized.

Officers originally thought the men were running a fraudulent call center, but the suspects said they were being paid to operate a vast network of bot accounts on WeChat, China’s largest social network. According to the Post, the trio of men said a Chinese company (which they refused to name) supplied the phones and was paying them each 150,000 baht per month (about $4,403 USD) to artificially boost engagement on WeChat for products sold online in China. The operation was reportedly headquartered in Thailand due to the country’s relatively cheap smartphone usage fees.

WeChat’s bot problem is not new. The platform has over 700 million monthly users, most in China; chatbots are legitimately used by brands to interact with clients, but unsanctioned ones run rampant, spamming groups and artificially bloating brand likes and follows.

The Bangkok Post says the men were arrested on several charges including overstaying their visas, working without a permit, using unregistered SIM cards, and, according to a later report also from the Bangkok Post, smuggling. Working without a permit in Thailand can result in a five-year prison sentence, or a fine ranging from 2,000-100,000 baht (about $58-$2,936 USD), or both.

Police are currently looking into how the men were able to smuggle so many smartphones into the country and acquire such a large number of local SIM cards, which are legally required to keep users’ records once activated.

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It's official: Fidget spinners have jumped the shark. How could they not, what with the whirlwind and weirdly sordid history they've had in their short, spinny lives?

First, they were a mere toy with supposed benefits for anxiety or ADD. Now, there is X-rated fidget spinner content. There are fidget spinner cookies, because of course. There is fidget spinner nail art. And did you know? You can use your fidget spinner to cook your dinner, to contour your makeup, and even to swipe right on your next date. It's high time someone stepped in to say something along the lines of, "Please, no more, I am dizzy, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH." And as of this week, that someone is the country of Germany.

The Associated Press recently reported that German customs officials have seized no less than 35 metric tons of fidget spinners and are planning on — with much dramatic flair — "crushing them out of existence."

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