I must agree wholeheartedly with this. I am a very serious amateur photographer. My current photo library stands at ~75,000 files and are stored on a network share like so:../photos/YYYY/MMDD-place_or_event/DSCF_XXXXXX.JPG
and../photos/YYYY/unsorted/DSCF_XXXXXX.JPG
And the file names are sequentially numbered (DSCF_00001, DSCF_00002 etc).
I have experimented with tagging etc and to be honest I found it's a giant pain in the arse. In my opinion, having a strictly-enforced naming convention and directory structure is far better and easier to maintain than tagging each individual photo.
I'm 25. My income tax rate is 40% (top bracket) (bear in mind that this comes into place at the relatively low threshold of roughly £34,000). On top of that, everyone pays NHS tax at around 11%. So right away, 51% of my pay cheque is obliterated by tax.
Add to that 17.5% VAT (sales tax), petrol at £0.90/L ($6/US gal.), insane council (property) tax.
I get private medical insurance from my company. If I actually use that, instead of it being a tax break because I did not burden the NHS, I would be taxed on THAT TOO as a "benefit in kind." I cannot opt out of paying NHS taxes; if I could, I would. I broke my arm recently and was forced to wait in the ER for SEVEN HOURS before I was seen.
I am tired of working my fucking arse off only to get totally gouged by the government day in and day out.
Time to find myself a Craigslist wife. Any takers?
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I originally started using Flickr because you get unlimited space for only $25 a month...
It's actually $25 per year.
I must agree wholeheartedly with this. I am a very serious amateur photographer. My current photo library stands at ~75,000 files and are stored on a network share like so: ../photos/YYYY/MMDD-place_or_event/DSCF_XXXXXX.JPG
../photos/YYYY/unsorted/DSCF_XXXXXX.JPG
and
And the file names are sequentially numbered (DSCF_00001, DSCF_00002 etc).
I have experimented with tagging etc and to be honest I found it's a giant pain in the arse. In my opinion, having a strictly-enforced naming convention and directory structure is far better and easier to maintain than tagging each individual photo.
I'm 25. My income tax rate is 40% (top bracket) (bear in mind that this comes into place at the relatively low threshold of roughly £34,000). On top of that, everyone pays NHS tax at around 11%. So right away, 51% of my pay cheque is obliterated by tax.
Add to that 17.5% VAT (sales tax), petrol at £0.90/L ($6/US gal.), insane council (property) tax.
I get private medical insurance from my company. If I actually use that, instead of it being a tax break because I did not burden the NHS, I would be taxed on THAT TOO as a "benefit in kind." I cannot opt out of paying NHS taxes; if I could, I would. I broke my arm recently and was forced to wait in the ER for SEVEN HOURS before I was seen.
I am tired of working my fucking arse off only to get totally gouged by the government day in and day out.
Time to find myself a Craigslist wife. Any takers?