Why on earth would you dial 911? This isn’t America.
The emergency number in New Zealand is 111. Given that your neighbour was crushed to death, I can only assume that is the number you meant to call.
Maybe they watched too many US TV shows.
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Some countries will forward the emergency number into their emergency number. For example, if you dial 112 in the US, it forwards into 911. Found that out when our old data device didn’t detect the last digit I was enterering to unlock it and it brought me over “you’re making an emergency call” screen.
I don’t know if this is an urban legend, but I remember someone getting upset because they couldn’t find the eleven button after hearing “dial nine eleven”. Now it’s all standardized on saying “dial nine one one”.
We disabled 911 at my old office. In order to dial 911 you had to dial a 4 digit speed dial number.
I can’t remember what it was. And I’m pretty sure most of the office didn’t know this.
Some places do this so they can route emergency calls through a central security desk.
Note that in some places this is definitely illegal. For large offices, you may also need to deal with e911 fun in which you have to add some zone info so emergency responders can know which portion of a site calls are coming from. This gets messy with VoIP devices,
We’re not a large office, but we have VOIP running from a hosted, off-site provider. We all had to add the correct area code to our individual 911 settings.
On a positive note, since we have geographically dispersed sales and projects people, they can each set their own properly, and not have all phones set to 513 or 978.
Yeah, we just turned it off. We had like 15 calls to 911 in a two week period and couldn’t track down the offender. The phone system documentation was in German, so it was a bit difficult to do anything fancy with it, they did want us to make it so you had to dial 9911 to dial 911, but not so much.
Turned out we found her a couple years later. She was dialing a long distance number and her 1 key was sticking, so she would hang up real quick “So it had to be someone else dialing 911 because I hung up”.
No. A slice of process cheese between 2 fried eggs that had been sitting on the grill top for god knows how long is not the same thing as a cheese omelette.
What I said: Here’s a dollar for the coffee. I’m going to go someplace where the chef has worked breakfast before.
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Why no, my rental house’s neighbors aren’t going to get their trampoline replaced for free while I have to pay my $1,500 deductible to fix the wall of my house it punched through.
And I’m sure the stupid shit’s won’t secure it this time either. How many times are they going to get free hits at my house?
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The last three weeks of the school year are so relaxing. Not much to do except wind things down and wait it out. There is plenty of time in the day to accomplish the few things my three kids need to get done.
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What possible reason could you have for making every link open in a new tab?
If I want the link to open in a new tab I’ll use the wheel click.
The reason I am using a standard left click is because I want to replace the current page with the new page.
You haven’t been going to work for the past several days because you simply don’t have work to do, you’re the one that wants to be ultra-picky with the paving job in the backyard, you’re the one with the construction experience, and you’re the one who loves to flaunt that you know everything. Why in the blue hell am I the one saddled with middle-manning the paving job when I’m out of the house 10 hours each weekday?
Seriously, you just need to be out there from time to time and let them know what you want. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out, but I guess that’s too much to ask from your mentally-deficient brain.
To the major grocery store chain in the US that begins with an A: Just because someone uses a smartphone to look at your website doesn’t mean you should divert them over to a page where the only thing they can do is install your app. All I needed to do is find out where your closest store was. A store locator should be accessible to anyone on any device, not just desktops.
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Almost three weeks it took you to do the work when it could have taken three or four days. But no, instead, you take forever to get there and then when you actually do work, it’s in small bursts and the results are wrong. I’m a hair away from doing the work myself.
My 19 year old is not leaving home in three weeks to live with some dude in Florida.
It’s taking a lot of effort to not flip out. Especially since she decided to move there while she’s on vacation down there and called her mother from Florida today to break this to her while on lunch.She knew before she went down there, she met his parents up here before she went down. Supposedly with a friend, and supposedly to stay with her family.
I don’t get the secrecy on this, it’s not like we were going to tell her no. She’s 19, she can do what she want. And if she’s worried we’ll talk her out of it then she’s not paying attention.
Ordinarily I’d agree with you, but Florida? Can’t they move to a nice state? They’ll buy a Caddilac and get eaten by alligator-mosquito hybrids!
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I feel like I’m on a sit and spin and losing my grip right now.
Too many things!!!
I hurt laughing at this!
She goes to Florida every spring break for vacation since she was 14 or so. With us and with friends.
It’s where all the happy stuff happens and where the happy people live.