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posted by Cactus on Wednesday February 26 2014, @03:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the making-a-list-and-checking-it-twice dept.

c0lo writes:

An Australian blogger shares his personal experience with orders put on hold by the Australian subsidiary of Element 14 (the former Farnell shop), reportedly based on a watch list maintained by US govt.

From the blog:

The counter person wasn't sure, so checked with someone else who came and wasn't 100% sure, but knew that the system does automatically flag orders based on various identifiers. It could have possibly been one of those stupid US government trade restriction things, because, you know capacitors and opamps can be used by evil terrorists and the like... (International customers have to fill out silly forms with US distributors and manufacturers saying we won't use the parts in nuclear weapons - seriously)

But they enquired further with someone else and the word came back that it wasn't the parts that had been flagged, it was my NAME that was flagged. And they said it was a US government watch list of some description. I was stunned, and it seemed like they didn't quite understand why I was so shocked at this. Because, you know, the whole world has to just sit by and let the US government dictate everything at will.

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  So lets see if I have this straight - An Australian subsidiary, owned by a UK parent company, listed on the UK stock exchange, has an ordering system that automatically matches generic names against some secret US Government watch list, and flags those orders and puts them on hold, for parts that are already stocked in Australia, are likely not made in the US, and likely have come from the main UK warehouse. Call me stupid, but something doesn't seem right with that...

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by boinker on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:04PM

    by boinker (2434) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:04PM (#7405)

    These Ed notes telling us the meaning of life on Soylent are really annoying. In bold no less. I mean, seriously, don't you think we have our own brains and can figure stuff out ourselves? Let the data speak for itself and spare us your personal interpretation.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by quitte on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:07PM

    by quitte (306) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:07PM (#7407) Journal

    It's copy pasta. Especially the boldness.

  • (Score: 0) by FuckBeta on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:30PM

    by FuckBeta (1504) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:30PM (#7414) Homepage

    fuck....fuck ed notes?

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    Quit Slashdot...because Fuck Beta!
  • (Score: 1) by DrMag on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:48PM

    by DrMag (1860) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:48PM (#7423)

    The bold section isn't an editors note--it's a continuation of the quote.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by weilawei on Wednesday February 26 2014, @07:59PM

    by weilawei (109) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @07:59PM (#7512)
    I realize that it's not an editor note, but the way it's placed in there sure makes it look like one. No more editorializing in TFS please. Save it for the comments.