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NZ Business Fined For Out-of-Date Website
Peter writes "A story reports that a restaurant in New Zealand has been fined NZ$3000 for failing to keep its website up to date. By having out-of-date menus and prices on its website, it has breached the Fair Trading Act, according to the New Zealand Commerce Commission."
isn't based in New Zealand. Hell they'd have locked up half the crew by now....
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In other news, the Staten Island Ferry was fined $30,000 after a customer got in line clutching a rate card from 1958.
Turning to Europe, a German recycling firm was shuttered over the weekend when it was discovered that, in a locked, donated trunk of old books and papers, they had been in posession of WWII-era Nazi propaganda.
And PETA's founder was forced to resign today after it was learned his father once ate a steak. Rare.
Slashdot had better watch out too then. It's putrid colour scheme and invalid html code are even more outdated.
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I had nearly the same thing happen to me yesterday as the customer in that story. For some reason, I woke up with a craving for a surf & turf omelette (grilled shrimp + steak strips). So I looked up the web site of this place in Tybee Island, GA where I used to have those.
The web site still lists Surf & Turf omelettes on the menu. So I drove all the way there (2 hour drive. Believe me, those omelettes are worth it. They also make the best damned cup of coffee in North America) just to find that shrimp are out of season and so they didn't have any to make a surf & turf.
Maybe I should email them a link to this story and a link to their own menu. That was pretty annoying.
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I think he's kidding. Congress tends to have a habit of passing laws when it comes to the internet. X is illegal, but congress still passes a law defining X online as illegal ;)
In other news, hordes of dissapointed Slashdotters find that they can't /. the servers because there is no direct link.
If I had to stretch my imagination for every story like this, my brain would look like the goatse guy.
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you mean things like "news for nerds, stuff that matters", right?
I hope I didn't brain my damage.
The difference being that if you drive out to that store and ask to pay those prices I bet they would be quite willing to accomodate you.
I'm guessing that wasn't on their radar screen...
As long as the CEO makes out with the giant golden parachute seconds before the plane bursts into flame, the libertarians are all cool with that.
Of course they do. SOMEONE has to think of the children, after all!
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