try cutting back on 60K a year, thats a whole new ball game.
I hate to break it to you but at 60K/year you are still making more than 75% of all US taxpayers. In many parts of the country 60K is still a damn good salary.
I suspect there are places you could probably cut down on expenses if you tried. Don't eat out, cook from scratch rather than eating frozen dinners, drop the cable or satellite subscription, don't spend money on consumer crap such as CDs or DVDs, etc. In other words buy only what you truely need, try to get it as cheaply as possible, and save the rest.
Sorry dude but $200K/year is a fuckload of money anywhere except perhaps Silicon Valley and perhaps NYC.
Your point of tracking where your money goes and finding ways to cut costs, eliminate unecessary expenses, or spend it on more effective solutions is valid. Most people have something they could drop or cut (say using the money you currently spend on cable on buying books from Amazon, not eating out, etc). However someone in the $200K bracket is in a far different position than someone in the $20K bracket. If you were trying to live on $20K in the Valley I suspect you would be living so close to the bone that there wouldn't be much for you to cut.
I'm sorry but how is free software different from the following:
ABC corp distributes a software product. ABC gets a perpetual license for a component from XYZ corp. This licensed component is part of ABC's software product. DEF corp asserts that XYZ stole the code it licensed to ABC. DEF sues ABC for damages. ABC claims they licensed the component in good faith from XYZ and therefore aren't liable.
I will also point out that under US law individuals are quite able to hold copyrights, patents and trademarks.
Not breaking the law, they are in breach of contract. Who is going to take them to court to fight it? Nobody. However, this issue will be pressed by the IBM law team, and quite probably will have a favorable outcome on this point.
Linus for one could sue SCO for violating his copyright, slander, defamation of character, and defamation of trademark. I'm sure that if Linus wanted to sue he would have no problem getting donations to his legal defense fund or getting certain attorneys to work pro-bono.
Hopefully they'll get more than they bargained for with Linux. The Linux community are rather like surprisingly well-armed guerillas who have shocked the world by standing against the New Economy. Thanks to a unique kind of solidarity and the GPL, more than any other group fighting the corporate threat I think Linux users have a fighting chance to avoid being placed under unwanted Wall Street leadership.
Having some big powerful friends with deep pockets doesn't hurt either.
Exactly. If SCO is going to do this then they had better spell out precisely what I am licensing from them. Otherwise they are simply asking for protection money, and probably would be liable under racketeering laws.
If SCO has crossed the line and is racketeering Boies and the company officers had better leave for a country without an extradition treaty with the US now. Getting caught violating the RICO statutes isn't anything a sane person wants to do.
On the other hand perhaps they want all of their personal assets seized and to spend time in Federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison.
As has been constantly said, you can't openly run pirated software or listen to pirated music without fear of reprisal anymore. The corporations that own the intellectual property have wised up to the ways of the Internet and are cracking down. Whether the Linux kernel has any SCO I.P. in it has yet to be proven, but if it does then everyone is on pretty shaky ground.
I'm sorry but you are way off base here and show a lack of understanding of IP law. It depends greatly on exactly what IP rights SCO is asserting were violated. Currently SCO is only asserting breach of contract and trade secret disclosure. The ONLY parties who are liable were the ones who signed the contracts involved.
Even if SCO was to claim copyright violation it would be difficult for them to go after everyone who distributed linux since the distributors and users acted on the assumption of good faith. Typically at worst they could demand that everyone stop distributing the infringing code.
The only scenario where SCO would have any possible legitimate claim against the users would be patent infringement. This is highly unlikely since SCO holds few or no current patents. (if anything SCO should be afraid of violating IBM's patents, indeed this is likely a key part of IBM's defense strategy.)
This case has little or nothing to do with the Internet and much to do with a contract dispute. If SCO was suing Microsoft for breach of contract and disclosure of trade secrets, Windows users would be in no more danger of being individually sued than linux users currently are.
(I do realize that SCO could file lawsuits against individual users if they really wanted to. However when it was discovered that the suits had no basis, SCO would get bitchslaped hard)
I also have an Epson C60. Not bad quality but unless I use it at least once every two weeks, I have to run the clean cycle over and over. I could not find a way to clean just the color or just the black if needed and if I take one of them out I can't run the cycle to clean the other one. A complete waste of ink everytime. Last time this happened, it was not used for about 4 months. I had to clean the heads at least 10 times to get the megenta to work and I used almost 1/2 the black in the process.
The higher end Epsons have much less problems with this.
But yes the dirt cheap inkjets from everyone seem to be built to self-destruct and chew ink.
Epson and possibly HP have just gone downhill the least. With both of these brands you can also get most of the quality of their older printers by buying one of the over $300 models.
I've done better. I've never bought from Lexmark, period. And, I've never bought an ink-jet printer. Don't know which ones will cause me these kinds of trouble, and I don't want to spend the time to look it up. I'll just keep using my Samsung laser printer.
If you do photo or graphic arts work laser printers aren't really suitable as it is a bitch to color match properly.
The Epson's are fairly popular among digital photographers. They seem to be fairly solid and don't need tp be replaced constantly. While the newer Epson's do have chipped cartrages the refil and aftermarket vendors have workarounds.
The biggest reason for me to get an Epson inkjet was the availiblity of archival, quadtone, and specialty inks. Its great to be able to do prints with the same lifetime as an actual photographic print and to be able to do B&W prints that look like they were done in a darkroom.
As for laser printers I really haven't seen a good reason to buy anything other than an HP. They are rock solid, last forever, and toner cartrages are fairly cheap and availible even for the oldest models.
That's why the world has Denmark... 90% of the women are tall, thin, blonde, gorgeous, and best of all don't have the attitude that usually goes with all that!
And unlike some other European women they don't generally have body hair in the wrong places. (and even when they do it is far less gross/annoying on a natural blonde)
The DOJ approved the PeopleSoft/JD Edwards merger. Officials of both companies expect to formally complete the merger later this week.
Oracle claims they plan to aquire PeopleSoft even if the merger with JD Edwards is completed.
Oracle still isn't offering much of a premium over the current Peoplesoft share price. Typically a hostile bidder will make an offer for around a 40% premium over the current share price. Until Oracle raises their bid to over $25/share they aren't really serious about buying Peoplesoft.
Also DOJ anti-trust review is actually a real factor in any aquisition of PeopleSoft by Oracle. If Oracle is allowed to buy Peoplesoft 3 of the major ERP product lines and 2 of the major CRM product lines will be combined in the same company. Expect SAP, IBM, Microsoft, Siebel, and other ERP, CRM, and database vendors to protest the merger to the DOJ.
If the merger appears as if it will be approved expect some action from IBM, Microsoft, and possibly SAP. IBM or Microsoft could easily buy out SAP or Siebel, and SAP may try to buy a smaller CRM or database vendor.
I should also add that I've never seen in my many decades of going to parades, an advertisement for a Republican candidate on the State or Federal level.
Where I'm from you are just as likely to see Republicans out campaigning during a parade as Democrats.
While not at a parade, in my hometown the county Democrat and Republican organizations both run food booths during the local fair. The Democrats sell hamburgers and the Republicans sell hot dogs. From what I understand they actually ask to have their booths located near each other so they can taunt each other.
So you're the ones ruining parades by turning them into political and commercial advertisements?
Where I'm from its traditional to see people campaigning for office or initatives during parades, fairs, festivals, and other events.
In fact political campaigning during 4th of July events has been going on since 1789. If anything to campaign for a cause on the 4th is the best celebration of what the day is really about.
Gun control : Endorsed by both Bush and Dean Dean got a 100% rating from the NRA. I'd hardly call him for gun control.
Gay Rights: Opposed by both Huh? Dean signed a civil union bill in Vermont. He seems to be the canidate of choice for the gay community. While Bush doesn't support civil unions, I also don't think his views run to the same extremes as Sen. Santorum or Sen. Frist.
Socialism: Endorsed by both Huh? Please explain. Seprate examples for both Dean and Bush.
US Patriot Act: Endorsed by both Dean opposes the PATRIOT act and would like to see it repealed.
Increased Taxation: Endorsed by both Dean cut taxes while govenor of Vermont. As for Bush, did you somehow miss the 2 huge tax cuts he's pushed through since he's been in office?
Increased Government power: Endorsed by both. Again could you cite some specific examples?
The most dangerous thing we face right now is a voting population graduated (or not) from our horrible education system. If we could count on the fact that idiots would not bother to vote we would be fine, but some politicians (need I say who?) will keep pushing to make it easier and easier for clueless people to vote. This has nothing to do with democracy, this has everything to do with demagoguery.
The problem is not that voters are uninformed, its that the informed don't vote.
Far too often I'll end up discussing politics with someone who is reasonably inteligent and has definate opinions only to find out that they don't vote.
I for one, think we need more efforts to make it easy and painless to vote. Motor voter, vote-by-mail and similar programs are all helpful. Without motor voter I might have forgotten to update my registration last time I moved. Without vote-by-mail I probably wouldn't remember to vote in school bond or sewer board elections.
He introduced some legislation as governor, but most of his input consisted of saying the would refuse to sign certain bills, and claiming the legislature was responsible for writing laws when asked how he wanted a law to read.
Bravo for him. This shows an understanding of the separation of powers that exsists in most state constituions and the US Constitution. In theory the legislature (or Congress) is responsible for writing laws and should come up with its own language rather than having the excutive branch hand it something already written to be rubber-stamped.
Please go look at Dean's record before you go calling him the second coming of Lennin.
As best I can tell the following issues are what cause people to call him a "leftist":
1. Advocating for health care reform and health insurance for all Americans. Every single Democrat running has some form of health care plan as part of his or her platform. Unlike the rest Dean can point to the program in VT as something he actually implemented.
2. Civil unions for Gays. Dean was responding to a VT court ruling when he pushed for the civil union law. People and groups from all over the political spectrum support the idea of civil unions for gays. As an issue I don't see this as all that big a deal.
3. Dean is strongly pro-choice. Every single Democrat running including Liberman is pro-choice as has been every major Democratic canidate for president in the last 20 years.
4. Opposition to the Iraq war. As best I can tell this is the big one. I will remind people that there were people from all over the political spectrum that opposed the war. Just because Dean agreed with the far left on a single issue doesn't make him a socialist or communist. Even Kerry and Graham have tried to play both sides on this.
Using other views of Dean I can paint him as quite the conservative:
1. Dean is very strongly pro-second amendment. He has a 100% rating from the NRA.
2. While Govenor of Vermont Dean cut taxes, cut spending, and ran a budget surplus. This is classic fiscal conservativism. He received much ire from the left in VT for this since some of their pet programs were cut and he layed off members of the public employees unions.
3. Dean is a strong supporter of Welfare Reform. Again liberals and welfare advocates didn't much like him for his policies on welfare when he was Govenor.
As someone who's own political views are a mix of classic centrist/moderate and libertarian (with a dash of Green on the side) I find Dean to be one of the only canidates I mostly agree with.
On the above linked survey I scored 100% for Dean, 98% for Libertarian Party, and 98% for Green party.
There are probably two countries, U.K. and China, with the industrial and economic ability to build an Enterprise class carrier (actually, I'm not sure if China has the shipbuilding capability but 1 billion people can make up a lot). Unfortunately, the U.K. is about 10 years behind in terms of "know-how" in how to organize and a run such a ship as an efficient warship, with the Chinese around 10-20 more years behind.
Not quite right.
The new French carrier Charles DeGaule is the only non-US nuclear powered carrier in the world and it is the largest non-US carrier.
The Italians and Spanish have built their own small carriers (about the same size as current UK carriers) and could probably build bigger ones if they wanted to.
The old Soviet Union had just started to build large carriers before the collapse, I think they even managed to launch and comission one.
I doubt China is anywhere near the capablity of even duplicating US or UK carriers from the 50's. They are desparately trying to buy old carriers from anyone they can (supposedly to scrap them or convert for floating casino use) so they can learn the tech involved.
We had a weekly shipment to our UK office. Varied anywhere from a single DHL envelope to several boxes.
When I left we were in the process of consolidating ALL international express between Europe and the US that customers weren't paying for via our UK office. Things like contracts, marketing materials, etc as well as equipment. Again this was due to less customs hassle with the UK and the fact that it was cheaper to send a large shipment once a week to the UK and have people in the UK office break up the shipment and forward it elsewhere in Europe.
We were still shipping product and marketing materials directly to our European resellers but they were paying the shipping costs and the shipment size was larger than the inter-office stuff we shiped via the UK.
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All my money still goes to paying the credit card debts from back in 2001, when I loaded them up to pay for my wife's college degree
While I'm not someone to dis education, using credit cards to pay for it seems stupid. Couldn't you have gotten student loans?
try cutting back on 60K a year, thats a whole new ball game.
I hate to break it to you but at 60K/year you are still making more than 75% of all US taxpayers. In many parts of the country 60K is still a damn good salary.
I suspect there are places you could probably cut down on expenses if you tried. Don't eat out, cook from scratch rather than eating frozen dinners, drop the cable or satellite subscription, don't spend money on consumer crap such as CDs or DVDs, etc. In other words buy only what you truely need, try to get it as cheaply as possible, and save the rest.
Sorry dude but $200K/year is a fuckload of money anywhere except perhaps Silicon Valley and perhaps NYC.
Your point of tracking where your money goes and finding ways to cut costs, eliminate unecessary expenses, or spend it on more effective solutions is valid. Most people have something they could drop or cut (say using the money you currently spend on cable on buying books from Amazon, not eating out, etc). However someone in the $200K bracket is in a far different position than someone in the $20K bracket. If you were trying to live on $20K in the Valley I suspect you would be living so close to the bone that there wouldn't be much for you to cut.
I'm sorry but how is free software different from the following:
ABC corp distributes a software product.
ABC gets a perpetual license for a component from XYZ corp. This licensed component is part of ABC's software product.
DEF corp asserts that XYZ stole the code it licensed to ABC. DEF sues ABC for damages.
ABC claims they licensed the component in good faith from XYZ and therefore aren't liable.
I will also point out that under US law individuals are quite able to hold copyrights, patents and trademarks.
Not breaking the law, they are in breach of contract. Who is going to take them to court to fight it? Nobody. However, this issue will be pressed by the IBM law team, and quite probably will have a favorable outcome on this point.
Linus for one could sue SCO for violating his copyright, slander, defamation of character, and defamation of trademark. I'm sure that if Linus wanted to sue he would have no problem getting donations to his legal defense fund or getting certain attorneys to work pro-bono.
there will be plenty of IBM lawyers to contradict anything that a SCO lawyer might say.
I understand IBM buys lawyers in bulk.
Should be *VERY* interesting once they unleash the horde on SCO.
Hopefully they'll get more than they bargained for with Linux. The Linux community are rather like surprisingly well-armed guerillas who have shocked the world by standing against the New Economy. Thanks to a unique kind of solidarity and the GPL, more than any other group fighting the corporate threat I think Linux users have a fighting chance to avoid being placed under unwanted Wall Street leadership.
Having some big powerful friends with deep pockets doesn't hurt either.
After all they are the
* Silly
* Cretins
* Organisation
* Sleazy
* Corrupt
* Organization
would be closer to the truth but
* Racketeer
* Influenced and
* Corrupt
* Organization
might be better.
Exactly. If SCO is going to do this then they had better spell out precisely what I am licensing from them. Otherwise they are simply asking for protection money, and probably would be liable under racketeering laws.
If SCO has crossed the line and is racketeering Boies and the company officers had better leave for a country without an extradition treaty with the US now. Getting caught violating the RICO statutes isn't anything a sane person wants to do.
On the other hand perhaps they want all of their personal assets seized and to spend time in Federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison.
Businessmen of Italian heritage have been selling "insurance" like this for years. I believe it is called a protection racket.
Did SCO have Tony Soprano write their business plan?
As has been constantly said, you can't openly run pirated software or listen to pirated music without fear of reprisal anymore. The corporations that own the intellectual property have wised up to the ways of the Internet and are cracking down. Whether the Linux kernel has any SCO I.P. in it has yet to be proven, but if it does then everyone is on pretty shaky ground.
I'm sorry but you are way off base here and show a lack of understanding of IP law. It depends greatly on exactly what IP rights SCO is asserting were violated. Currently SCO is only asserting breach of contract and trade secret disclosure. The ONLY parties who are liable were the ones who signed the contracts involved.
Even if SCO was to claim copyright violation it would be difficult for them to go after everyone who distributed linux since the distributors and users acted on the assumption of good faith. Typically at worst they could demand that everyone stop distributing the infringing code.
The only scenario where SCO would have any possible legitimate claim against the users would be patent infringement. This is highly unlikely since SCO holds few or no current patents. (if anything SCO should be afraid of violating IBM's patents, indeed this is likely a key part of IBM's defense strategy.)
This case has little or nothing to do with the Internet and much to do with a contract dispute. If SCO was suing Microsoft for breach of contract and disclosure of trade secrets, Windows users would be in no more danger of being individually sued than linux users currently are.
(I do realize that SCO could file lawsuits against individual users if they really wanted to. However when it was discovered that the suits had no basis, SCO would get bitchslaped hard)
I also have an Epson C60. Not bad quality but unless I use it at least once every two weeks, I have to run the clean cycle over and over. I could not find a way to clean just the color or just the black if needed and if I take one of them out I can't run the cycle to clean the other one. A complete waste of ink everytime. Last time this happened, it was not used for about 4 months. I had to clean the heads at least 10 times to get the megenta to work and I used almost 1/2 the black in the process.
The higher end Epsons have much less problems with this.
But yes the dirt cheap inkjets from everyone seem to be built to self-destruct and chew ink.
Epson and possibly HP have just gone downhill the least. With both of these brands you can also get most of the quality of their older printers by buying one of the over $300 models.
I've done better. I've never bought from Lexmark, period. And, I've never bought an ink-jet printer. Don't know which ones will cause me these kinds of trouble, and I don't want to spend the time to look it up. I'll just keep using my Samsung laser printer.
If you do photo or graphic arts work laser printers aren't really suitable as it is a bitch to color match properly.
The Epson's are fairly popular among digital photographers. They seem to be fairly solid and don't need tp be replaced constantly. While the newer Epson's do have chipped cartrages the refil and aftermarket vendors have workarounds.
The biggest reason for me to get an Epson inkjet was the availiblity of archival, quadtone, and specialty inks. Its great to be able to do prints with the same lifetime as an actual photographic print and to be able to do B&W prints that look like they were done in a darkroom.
As for laser printers I really haven't seen a good reason to buy anything other than an HP. They are rock solid, last forever, and toner cartrages are fairly cheap and availible even for the oldest models.
That's why the world has Denmark... 90% of the women are tall, thin, blonde, gorgeous, and best of all don't have the attitude that usually goes with all that!
And unlike some other European women they don't generally have body hair in the wrong places. (and even when they do it is far less gross/annoying on a natural blonde)
Czech women are also quite often gorgeous.
The DOJ approved the PeopleSoft/JD Edwards merger. Officials of both companies expect to formally complete the merger later this week.
Oracle claims they plan to aquire PeopleSoft even if the merger with JD Edwards is completed.
Oracle still isn't offering much of a premium over the current Peoplesoft share price. Typically a hostile bidder will make an offer for around a 40% premium over the current share price. Until Oracle raises their bid to over $25/share they aren't really serious about buying Peoplesoft.
Also DOJ anti-trust review is actually a real factor in any aquisition of PeopleSoft by Oracle. If Oracle is allowed to buy Peoplesoft 3 of the major ERP product lines and 2 of the major CRM product lines will be combined in the same company. Expect SAP, IBM, Microsoft, Siebel, and other ERP, CRM, and database vendors to protest the merger to the DOJ.
If the merger appears as if it will be approved expect some action from IBM, Microsoft, and possibly SAP. IBM or Microsoft could easily buy out SAP or Siebel, and SAP may try to buy a smaller CRM or database vendor.
I should also add that I've never seen in my many decades of going to parades, an advertisement for a Republican candidate on the State or Federal level.
Where I'm from you are just as likely to see Republicans out campaigning during a parade as Democrats.
While not at a parade, in my hometown the county Democrat and Republican organizations both run food booths during the local fair. The Democrats sell hamburgers and the Republicans sell hot dogs. From what I understand they actually ask to have their booths located near each other so they can taunt each other.
So you're the ones ruining parades by turning them into political and commercial advertisements?
Where I'm from its traditional to see people campaigning for office or initatives during parades, fairs, festivals, and other events.
In fact political campaigning during 4th of July events has been going on since 1789. If anything to campaign for a cause on the 4th is the best celebration of what the day is really about.
Gun control : Endorsed by both Bush and Dean
Dean got a 100% rating from the NRA. I'd hardly call him for gun control.
Gay Rights: Opposed by both
Huh? Dean signed a civil union bill in Vermont. He seems to be the canidate of choice for the gay community.
While Bush doesn't support civil unions, I also don't think his views run to the same extremes as Sen. Santorum or Sen. Frist.
Socialism: Endorsed by both
Huh? Please explain. Seprate examples for both Dean and Bush.
US Patriot Act: Endorsed by both
Dean opposes the PATRIOT act and would like to see it repealed.
Increased Taxation: Endorsed by both
Dean cut taxes while govenor of Vermont.
As for Bush, did you somehow miss the 2 huge tax cuts he's pushed through since he's been in office?
Increased Government power: Endorsed by both.
Again could you cite some specific examples?
The most dangerous thing we face right now is a voting population graduated (or not) from our horrible education system. If we could count on the fact that idiots would not bother to vote we would be fine, but some politicians (need I say who?) will keep pushing to make it easier and easier for clueless people to vote. This has nothing to do with democracy, this has everything to do with demagoguery.
The problem is not that voters are uninformed, its that the informed don't vote.
Far too often I'll end up discussing politics with someone who is reasonably inteligent and has definate opinions only to find out that they don't vote.
I for one, think we need more efforts to make it easy and painless to vote. Motor voter, vote-by-mail and similar programs are all helpful. Without motor voter I might have forgotten to update my registration last time I moved. Without vote-by-mail I probably wouldn't remember to vote in school bond or sewer board elections.
He introduced some legislation as governor, but most of his input consisted of saying the would refuse to sign certain bills, and claiming the legislature was responsible for writing laws when asked how he wanted a law to read.
Bravo for him. This shows an understanding of the separation of powers that exsists in most state constituions and the US Constitution. In theory the legislature (or Congress) is responsible for writing laws and should come up with its own language rather than having the excutive branch hand it something already written to be rubber-stamped.
Please go look at Dean's record before you go calling him the second coming of Lennin.
As best I can tell the following issues are what cause people to call him a "leftist":
1. Advocating for health care reform and health insurance for all Americans. Every single Democrat running has some form of health care plan as part of his or her platform. Unlike the rest Dean can point to the program in VT as something he actually implemented.
2. Civil unions for Gays. Dean was responding to a VT court ruling when he pushed for the civil union law. People and groups from all over the political spectrum support the idea of civil unions for gays. As an issue I don't see this as all that big a deal.
3. Dean is strongly pro-choice. Every single Democrat running including Liberman is pro-choice as has been every major Democratic canidate for president in the last 20 years.
4. Opposition to the Iraq war. As best I can tell this is the big one. I will remind people that there were people from all over the political spectrum that opposed the war. Just because Dean agreed with the far left on a single issue doesn't make him a socialist or communist. Even Kerry and Graham have tried to play both sides on this.
Using other views of Dean I can paint him as quite the conservative:
1. Dean is very strongly pro-second amendment. He has a 100% rating from the NRA.
2. While Govenor of Vermont Dean cut taxes, cut spending, and ran a budget surplus. This is classic fiscal conservativism. He received much ire from the left in VT for this since some of their pet programs were cut and he layed off members of the public employees unions.
3. Dean is a strong supporter of Welfare Reform. Again liberals and welfare advocates didn't much like him for his policies on welfare when he was Govenor.
As someone who's own political views are a mix of classic centrist/moderate and libertarian (with a dash of Green on the side) I find Dean to be one of the only canidates I mostly agree with.
On the above linked survey I scored 100% for Dean, 98% for Libertarian Party, and 98% for Green party.
There are probably two countries, U.K. and China, with the industrial and economic ability to build an Enterprise class carrier (actually, I'm not sure if China has the shipbuilding capability but 1 billion people can make up a lot). Unfortunately, the U.K. is about 10 years behind in terms of "know-how" in how to organize and a run such a ship as an efficient warship, with the Chinese around 10-20 more years behind.
Not quite right.
The new French carrier Charles DeGaule is the only non-US nuclear powered carrier in the world and it is the largest non-US carrier.
The Italians and Spanish have built their own small carriers (about the same size as current UK carriers) and could probably build bigger ones if they wanted to.
The old Soviet Union had just started to build large carriers before the collapse, I think they even managed to launch and comission one.
I doubt China is anywhere near the capablity of even duplicating US or UK carriers from the 50's. They are desparately trying to buy old carriers from anyone they can (supposedly to scrap them or convert for floating casino use) so they can learn the tech involved.
USS Inappropriate Response has a ring to it don'tya think?
We had a weekly shipment to our UK office. Varied anywhere from a single DHL envelope to several boxes.
When I left we were in the process of consolidating ALL international express between Europe and the US that customers weren't paying for via our UK office. Things like contracts, marketing materials, etc as well as equipment. Again this was due to less customs hassle with the UK and the fact that it was cheaper to send a large shipment once a week to the UK and have people in the UK office break up the shipment and forward it elsewhere in Europe.
We were still shipping product and marketing materials directly to our European resellers but they were paying the shipping costs and the shipment size was larger than the inter-office stuff we shiped via the UK.
And the EU isn't?