I used to see the same guy selling The Big Issue (I guess it's the UK version of Real Change) when I walked into uni in Islington. Every day I would say "no thank you" and every day he would say "have a nice day mate".
I wouldn't say it's the app maker's *fault*, rather that they looked at the Google Maps API and decided it was the easiest, probably the best documented and most likely gives the best user experience. They could (if they needed to target people not having Google APIs on their device) use an OpenStreetMap backend - there are plenty of libraries out there.
Is anyone surprised that a cloud based note system needs you to log in? If you don't want to sign in to google, don't use keep - it's not like it's the only way to store notes - there are hundreds of alternative note apps out there on 3rd party market places.
You don't need a google account to use android, you do if you want to use google's services. A bit like you need a Live account to use Microsoft's cloud services, and an iTunes account to use Apple's cloud services.
Granted, people such as Ray Comfort just give themselves very generous perks from their "ministry". I imagine that other religions would do the same if they wanted to, which again brings us to the fact that removing the tax exemption wouldn't be an issue as they shouldn't have to pay tax if they're actually non-profit.
As for your two examples: If you tax parking, then you're taxing everyone, and giving the rebate to a specific sector. This already happens. Everyone has to pay sales tax (for example), and the state tends to throw money at organisations they like anyway. As for halal butchers, surely they're already taxed because they're businesses (at least they are in the UK). Similarly, I imagine Christian bookshops have to pay tax.
The irony is that out of all the religions you could have chose, Islam is the worst. They're [generally] pretty particular about money - for example not being allowed to charge interest, etc. Out of all the religions I'd been concerned about not paying tax, Islam isn't one.
Doing a quick google about Islam and paying tax I came across this nugget - it's not exactly related, but it show's how dodgy some people are and how they'll try using their religion for any reason: Is it permissible for him to cheat a kaafir government and take money from them? - I'm glad he was put in his place by the people answering.
Luckily I live in a country where CoS was described as "pernicious nonsense", "dangerous material" and "immoral and socially obnoxious". And that was by our courts.
From the post, it appears that CoS was within their rights to demand the take-down - if the post was their copyrighted material, and Dice's lawyers thought it didn't constitute fair use, then it was legitimate take-down. A shitty move that only a fucking dodgy organisation like CoS would to, but a legal move none the less. Don't like it, then complain to your representative (holding your breath is not recommended).
I don't really think that argument stands nowadays. The tax code is transparent (stifles laugh, but you get my point), so the government can't just go around taxing a specific company or organisation just because it wants to. In fact, some of the these "churches" are big businesses, so the government would probably bend over backwards to accommodate them.
Besides, I didn't think the idea of religion was to make money (or at least they don't like to admit it) - if they're truly a charitable organisation any proceeds should be re-invested - no profit, no tax to pay.
My German mum was quite amused when I told her the one about the history book "The complete history of German politics - 1946 to present".
In all seriousness, anyone who thinks that the holocaust isn't taught in German schools is a fool. My mum and her class gave her science teacher hell because he lived close to Bergen Belsen, and he had to have realised what was going on.
Yeah, being able to visit concentration camps, having the mass graves marked with the text "here lie 1,500 dead", and museums that show photos, official documents and survivor & liberator statements. Yes, that's definitely hiding it.
Absolutely. I do wonder if he thought that US allies would never stoop to stopping a diplomatic flight, and that it was safer than selecting a commercial flight and dangering the public, or whether he chose the president's flight *because* it would cause a diplomatic incident.
There's a plus side for the Bolivians (and anyone who isn't absolutely behind the US), they now know that their diplomatic flights are not secure.
I think you'll find that a disturbing amount of people think that agriculture is a hobby, whilst being completely ignorant of where their food comes from.
I constantly make stupid typos when posting, even after proof reading it. I put it down to seeing what I want to see, which is why I get somebody else to proof read something important. As I'm a pedant it really annoys me when I notice them after clicking submit.
To be fair I've always fancied building a cluster, but similarly have had no tasks to solve. However I wouldn't care if it took longer than my current machine because it would be learning about how to do cluster computing. I suppose I could open an old CFD textbook and cone up with a simulation and optimise it for clustered computing.
Strangely enough the Graun has more opening commenting than the Telegraph - I read both so I get to hear both sides of the news. If you avoid any of the Guardian US "journalists" then it's not quite so bad.
How is this insightful? Where do you get the idea that he doesn't want to find out "how dumb he is"? He's gone on the record saying "I doubt it will work, and I'm still studying for the exam". More likely he wanted to see what the reaction to the request and the reasoning for declining it.
As for Kirk, I thought the whole idea of the test was to analyse how people cope with a no-win situation - that is not faulty, as they do occur in life.
They're not, they're prohibiting discussing the purely discretionary bonus that the company awards to the employee in addition to their salary. (Semi-sarcasm, but it wouldn't surprise me if one was legal and the other was not). In the UK our [outsourced] HR lady specifically said that we didn't have to put our commission schemes in the [relevant] employee contracts, which fairly surprised me - I thought it would have to be documented.
1. Police brutality is a thing - it's debatable how endemic it is, but it does exist 2. Semi-hyperbole - however recording the police has been shown to get you in trouble, even if it is not illegal 3. Most of us have seen videos of people merely watching some unfortunate bastard getting beaten up/robbed, but noone steps in - again fortunately it doesn't happen often. 4. See two - some police do seem to believe that recording them is questioning their motives, and they are acting on behalf of the state 5. I don't know of any instances of this happening - it's possible this has happened - and in this case the man has been fired and is being charged with murder, so hyperbole 6. Even less likely than 5, so hyperbole 7. See 2
I used the biometric gates because it used to be a much shorter queue. Last time at Gatwick I was dismayed to see I actually had to queue, and most of my friends now have and use a biometric passport.
In my experience it's a minority, but nothing like 1 in 10,000. In the past couple of years the queues have gotten a lot busier.
Because there's been a lot of kick back from the aggressive tactics in the US, so they need to go further afield. The Australian government/judiciary has shown that they are willing to roll over, so it's a good target. They've learned to pick their battles and go for soft targets.
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Probably not as much as the previous residents.
It's a warped works we live in isn't it!
I used to see the same guy selling The Big Issue (I guess it's the UK version of Real Change) when I walked into uni in Islington. Every day I would say "no thank you" and every day he would say "have a nice day mate".
But what was his answer?
I wouldn't say it's the app maker's *fault*, rather that they looked at the Google Maps API and decided it was the easiest, probably the best documented and most likely gives the best user experience. They could (if they needed to target people not having Google APIs on their device) use an OpenStreetMap backend - there are plenty of libraries out there.
There is no generic map widget
I found this one after only a couple of minutes. I'm sure there are lots of other ones out there.
Is anyone surprised that a cloud based note system needs you to log in? If you don't want to sign in to google, don't use keep - it's not like it's the only way to store notes - there are hundreds of alternative note apps out there on 3rd party market places.
You don't need a google account to use android, you do if you want to use google's services. A bit like you need a Live account to use Microsoft's cloud services, and an iTunes account to use Apple's cloud services.
Granted, people such as Ray Comfort just give themselves very generous perks from their "ministry". I imagine that other religions would do the same if they wanted to, which again brings us to the fact that removing the tax exemption wouldn't be an issue as they shouldn't have to pay tax if they're actually non-profit.
As for your two examples:
If you tax parking, then you're taxing everyone, and giving the rebate to a specific sector. This already happens. Everyone has to pay sales tax (for example), and the state tends to throw money at organisations they like anyway.
As for halal butchers, surely they're already taxed because they're businesses (at least they are in the UK). Similarly, I imagine Christian bookshops have to pay tax.
The irony is that out of all the religions you could have chose, Islam is the worst. They're [generally] pretty particular about money - for example not being allowed to charge interest, etc. Out of all the religions I'd been concerned about not paying tax, Islam isn't one.
Doing a quick google about Islam and paying tax I came across this nugget - it's not exactly related, but it show's how dodgy some people are and how they'll try using their religion for any reason:
Is it permissible for him to cheat a kaafir government and take money from them? - I'm glad he was put in his place by the people answering.
Bloody hell - 2001 - I didn't notice that part. So it wasn't Dice lawyers, it was some other lawyers. Surely the point still stands though?
Luckily I live in a country where CoS was described as "pernicious nonsense", "dangerous material" and "immoral and socially obnoxious". And that was by our courts.
Some might observe that it's doubtful there's been a time in history where the two were mutually exclusive.
From the post, it appears that CoS was within their rights to demand the take-down - if the post was their copyrighted material, and Dice's lawyers thought it didn't constitute fair use, then it was legitimate take-down. A shitty move that only a fucking dodgy organisation like CoS would to, but a legal move none the less. Don't like it, then complain to your representative (holding your breath is not recommended).
I don't really think that argument stands nowadays. The tax code is transparent (stifles laugh, but you get my point), so the government can't just go around taxing a specific company or organisation just because it wants to. In fact, some of the these "churches" are big businesses, so the government would probably bend over backwards to accommodate them.
Besides, I didn't think the idea of religion was to make money (or at least they don't like to admit it) - if they're truly a charitable organisation any proceeds should be re-invested - no profit, no tax to pay.
My German mum was quite amused when I told her the one about the history book "The complete history of German politics - 1946 to present".
In all seriousness, anyone who thinks that the holocaust isn't taught in German schools is a fool. My mum and her class gave her science teacher hell because he lived close to Bergen Belsen, and he had to have realised what was going on.
Yeah, being able to visit concentration camps, having the mass graves marked with the text "here lie 1,500 dead", and museums that show photos, official documents and survivor & liberator statements. Yes, that's definitely hiding it.
Absolutely. I do wonder if he thought that US allies would never stoop to stopping a diplomatic flight, and that it was safer than selecting a commercial flight and dangering the public, or whether he chose the president's flight *because* it would cause a diplomatic incident.
There's a plus side for the Bolivians (and anyone who isn't absolutely behind the US), they now know that their diplomatic flights are not secure.
Handbrake? Your distro comes with a wife?
I think you'll find that a disturbing amount of people think that agriculture is a hobby, whilst being completely ignorant of where their food comes from.
I constantly make stupid typos when posting, even after proof reading it. I put it down to seeing what I want to see, which is why I get somebody else to proof read something important. As I'm a pedant it really annoys me when I notice them after clicking submit.
To be fair I've always fancied building a cluster, but similarly have had no tasks to solve. However I wouldn't care if it took longer than my current machine because it would be learning about how to do cluster computing. I suppose I could open an old CFD textbook and cone up with a simulation and optimise it for clustered computing.
Strangely enough the Graun has more opening commenting than the Telegraph - I read both so I get to hear both sides of the news. If you avoid any of the Guardian US "journalists" then it's not quite so bad.
How is this insightful? Where do you get the idea that he doesn't want to find out "how dumb he is"? He's gone on the record saying "I doubt it will work, and I'm still studying for the exam". More likely he wanted to see what the reaction to the request and the reasoning for declining it.
As for Kirk, I thought the whole idea of the test was to analyse how people cope with a no-win situation - that is not faulty, as they do occur in life.
They're not, they're prohibiting discussing the purely discretionary bonus that the company awards to the employee in addition to their salary. (Semi-sarcasm, but it wouldn't surprise me if one was legal and the other was not). In the UK our [outsourced] HR lady specifically said that we didn't have to put our commission schemes in the [relevant] employee contracts, which fairly surprised me - I thought it would have to be documented.
1. Police brutality is a thing - it's debatable how endemic it is, but it does exist
2. Semi-hyperbole - however recording the police has been shown to get you in trouble, even if it is not illegal
3. Most of us have seen videos of people merely watching some unfortunate bastard getting beaten up/robbed, but noone steps in - again fortunately it doesn't happen often.
4. See two - some police do seem to believe that recording them is questioning their motives, and they are acting on behalf of the state
5. I don't know of any instances of this happening - it's possible this has happened - and in this case the man has been fired and is being charged with murder, so hyperbole
6. Even less likely than 5, so hyperbole
7. See 2
So, 5/7 are at least somewhat valid.
I used the biometric gates because it used to be a much shorter queue. Last time at Gatwick I was dismayed to see I actually had to queue, and most of my friends now have and use a biometric passport.
In my experience it's a minority, but nothing like 1 in 10,000. In the past couple of years the queues have gotten a lot busier.
Because there's been a lot of kick back from the aggressive tactics in the US, so they need to go further afield. The Australian government/judiciary has shown that they are willing to roll over, so it's a good target. They've learned to pick their battles and go for soft targets.