Service?
I ordered an ISO Standard from the Standards Australia on-line shop a week and a bit ago. The web page indicated it was in stock and the delivery options included express delivery which I chose. The confirmation e-mail said delivery in 2-4 days. 6 working days later I ring up and enquire where is it. Oh that is coming from ISO Direct and will take another 1 - 3 weeks. Huh? Hello, this is not the way to encourage business. Although I guess you don't have to when you are a monopoly. *sheesh*

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In freeciv it is 1684AD. The brinkmanship has stopped for the moment. The Sioux have altered their strategy to try and up their population a little. Shift the production goals to maximum food and adjust the taxation until all the cities start celebrating. Use the extra trade to offset the production loss by buying units and building settlers in the largest cities to ship to the smallest. I can't say this has been an unequivocal success but it was an interesting experiment. On the Demographics sont the Sioux are first in Research Speed and Economics, 2nd in Pollution, 3rd in Population, Land Area, and Settled Area, and 4th in Production and Military Service. Mordor is first in population and size and Sweden is first in production.