"...you are by no means required to spend all your money, you can save it up, earn interest, invest them - at no point do you have to pay anything more."
In the UK, you pay tax on income. That includes interest and returns on investment. You also pay capital gains tax.
VAT covers goods *and services*.
I'd be astonished if the same weren't true in just about every EU state.
Jeez, you really insist on demonstrating your ignorance about the UK, don't you? The current administration is planning a "Great Repeal Bill" precisely because the previous administration was deemed by many to have curbed liberties unduly. As for friendly police, your experience is your experience, but there are many hundreds of examples of unfriendly police seeking to exercise authority beyond the rule of law, and they tend to succeed. Jean Charles de Menezes, Ian Tomlinson, kettling, attempts to ban public photography, stop and search, warrantless taps, etc etc.
Here's a suggestion: stick to talking about Denmark.
OK, so you don't understand immigration rules as they apply to the UK, you don't understand taxes and to add to your list of achievements, you don't understand what I've written either.
In the UK, the toughest part of getting in is *not* the earnings threshold. If you're a skilled worker, you need employer sponsorship and there *is no* earnings threshold. If you're a very skilled worker, you don't need employer sponsorship, but you do need to gain enough points based on qualifications, earnings (ooh are you happy?), UK experience, age, English skills and funds (happy again?). Additionally, you need to meet the entry clearance criteria that apply to your country of origin, which are often tough and separate in themselves. All of which is a long-winded way of saying that the OP was right and you were wrong, when you had your disagreement about whether it's tough to immigrate to work in the UK. It is tough.
I have no idea how you think your point on paying VAT on everything backs up your assertion that a 60% tax rate is only applicable in Denmark. That's just wrong. Particularly as you've assumed that there are only two taxes that apply: income and VAT. There are, of course, many more, and the cumulative effective is that many people pay more than 60% of earnings in taxes. This is not a left vs right thing: in the UK, a large number of benefits recipients have an effective marginal tax rate of above 100%, which discourages them from seeking better-paid employment and is a disgrace.
You know more about life in Denmark, but you have demonstrated you know less about life in the UK. And even less about taxes.
Immigration rules in the UK are a lot tighter than simply an earnings threshold. There is a points-based assessment for highly skilled workers, investors, entrepeneurs and recent graduates from UK universities. Skilled workers can get in via sponsorship from their employer, mostly. Other workers are by and large SOL.
No-one is able to avoid all taxes other than income tax, no matter whether they live in the UK, Denmark or the US. The OP specifically mentioned VAT. VAT in the UK is charged on, among other things, many types of food and all adult clothing. You may not ever buy new underwear, but everyone else does.
In your example (a), the choice the copper is offering is "you're breaking the law right now, but I'm prepared to overlook it if you'll piss off home quietly". I think that's a great + sensible thing to do, but it's different from "You're not breaking the law, but do what I tell you anyway"
In your example (b), I think the motorist's cooperation should depend on whether there's a sensible reason for pulling him over. But if I were the motorist, my first question would be "what seems to be the problem, officer?" -- before I got out of the car.
I agree re comms skills and mediation. That's not what I see happening in this video, though -- I see police trying to get someone to comply for no good reason and through force of will. Not very consensual.
what the *fuck* are you on about? what, specifically, did he say or do that could justify you calling him a "smartarse"? what specifically are you referring to when you say "whiney teenage defensive thing"? what words, what tone of voice? if you're going to carp from the sidelines, you might at least supply some concrete evidence to back up your assertions.
"it is however a conscious provocation" So what? Should the fact that it is a conscious provocation alter the police officer's behaviour in any way? also, note that speeding is a criminal offence. taking pictures of a public parade is not.
"an internal NUJ event on public property". wtf? what kind of "internal" event would take place on "public property"?? and what has that analogy got to do with filming a *public event* on public property and then subsequently filming *public servants* going about their *public duties*??
these copper twunts were irritated because this guy wouldn't do what they asked him to. but he wouldn't do what they asked him to, because he was *doing nothing wrong*.
"he sounds hysterical in the video" Of course he does! He's a 16-year old kid and these big burly twats keep on grabbing him and his camera for no reason other than that they've decided they don't want him to do what he's perfectly entitled to do.
hint: just because they wear a uniform doesn't make them automatically right.
but this isn't about keeping abreast of the latest developments in the law. this is about something really fundamental, which you'd hope coppers would learn really early on in their job, and would be reinforced by a pervasive culture:
1) "people don't have to do what I say just because I'm a copper. they have to do what I say insofar as I enforce the law" 2) "if someone's doing something legal and I don't want them to do it any more, I can't make it illegal just by telling them to stop" 3) "I'm not the parent of the members of the public I meet. I don't get to win every battle of wills because I am an officer of the law"
Bollocks. The X1 has a 3" display providing 800*480 pixels. 800/3 = 267ppi. Why do people not check these things before the post with such faux-authority?
Your quant is flawed because you're ignoring the fact that the ratio of terrorists to passengers is extremely low. Your numbers tell us the false positive rate. They don't tell us the false negative rate, which is much more important. Security architects need a system that minimises inconvenience to non-terrorist passengers while reliably spotting the incredibly rare terrorist passengers. The answer may well not be SPOT, but your analysis doesn't demonstrate that.
BTW, your philosophical debate is flawed as well. A truly successful programme would turn up ZERO real terrorists, because terrorists would know that there was no point in trying.
Re your examples: Taking cash from Company A while cheering Company B is a little... distasteful. If you're going to do it, you'd better do it in private. If you're going to use the interwebs, you'd better acquaint yourself with the fact that it's quite difficult to be truly private when you post on it.
Your First Amendment rights are not affected. The government will not throw you in jail for speaking your mind in this way.
For someone with a sneering tone about someone else, you really have an astonishingly tiny brain. Dispatchers *are* the people who answer 911. They answer the 911 calls and then "dispatch" the firefighters or police officers to the scene. You can read all about it here: http://www.911dispatch.com/jobs/JobDescriptions.html
Well, when I get mine, I'm going to get a powered wall mount in my kitchen. I'll use it as an all-in-one e-calendar, music player, photo display, tube map, ordinary map, etc etc. I'd like to have that handy. It would be really nice if I could also get all my applicances' manuals on there as well, so that when the boiler or washing machine plays up, I don't have to hunt around for it. Of course, being detachable, it'll be great to read Alice in Wonderland and similar stories with my 1-year old daughter and enjoy this amazing new combination of words, graphics and interactivity that she can enjoy in a way that's completely inconceivable with a mouse or trackpad-driven device. Oh, and it'll be nice to have a recipe book that plays videos / shows multiple angles to show me the really tricky bits, compiles instant shopping lists and allows one-click purchasing from Waitrose, etc etc.
1) There's plenty of people who would struggle to get $5k together 2) He also paid insurance premiums, and the premiums may go up and the exclusions may become more significant because of his history now 3) In the UK, he'd have paid £0 at point of need, not $2.5k or 5k 4) How do you know for sure that Duke provides better treatment? What do you mean: better outcomes? better experience? safer? all three? Where's the evidence for your assertion?
Well could you tell my enterprise, please? Cos I have a Thinkpad T61 and its battery barely lasts 2 hours, and the screen is horribly dim as well. My four year old white MacBook, by comparison, still lasts 4 to 5 hours, under just as heavy usage.
Erm. I work for a top-rank management consultancy. We have a bunch of stroppy partners stranded abroad and one of the world's best travel teams trying to sort them out. The advice is that Eurostar is booked out 2 weeks in advance no matter what strings are pulled; websites are showing unreliable information; and ferry companies and other alternatives are also pretty much sold out, and that you need to turn up in person if you want to try to book a ticket. I'm not sure how bus companies can help with a Channel crossing...
The fact remains that while both sides carried out atrocities, the atrocities carried out by one side (hint: the losers) were vastly larger in scale and generally far more vicious. It wasn't the Allies who carried out the Shoah, after all.
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Your use of the future tense clearly implies that this is not something you currently do. I'll bet it isn't. Much too bloody clunky to be worth the effort. As opposed to a simple all-in-one solution, like an iPad.
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What on earth are you talking about? People will be writing cooking apps that combine text, audio and video. In fact, they already exist for the iPhone. And of course Flash is not the only way to implement online video. Did you want to win the special "dumbass comment" prize for the day? Cos you just did.
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Well, no. But books can't give you instructional tips in audio and video on every step of what you're cooking.
Cmon...you're really trying to claim that your experience is typical and mine is atypical of Windows, and vice versa for the Mac? Absolute horseshit.
What's more, the problem you describe with a Mac can be made to happen if you shut the lid quickly enough during the shutdown process, but you have to work at it, especially given that shutdown routinely takes no more than 5 to 10 seconds on a Mac. On my Lenovo laptop, by comparison, shutdown takes 2 minutes or more -- and they've also managed to break the shutdown process, by introducing a new black screen that shows all your running apps and gives you a choice of force-quitting them each or cancelling the whole shutdown, rather than doing what Windows used to do and what the Mac does, which is to cycle through each open programme with unsaved data and ask you whether you want to save or not, and then continue shutting down. Nice. I've never seen something that fuckin' dumb before.
Ooh ooh, I've got something! How about: I'd like to shut the lid of my bogstandard, highpowered work Lenovo laptop running Win7 and have it go to sleep quickly and reliably. And then wake up instantly and reliably when I open the lid. It's the fact that my MacBook can do that, and my Lenovo can't that causes endless irritation. And telling me that the answer is that I'm an idiot is not going to win you any friends. It's not my *job* to sort this out -- it's not what I'm paid to do. Incidentally, neither first- nor second-line support can sort it out either. Whatta waste of fucking time to have to try to. So when you twat around trying to claim that the machines are equal, you demonstrate a complete ignorance of how most users interact with their machines most of the time.
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"...you are by no means required to spend all your money, you can save it up, earn interest, invest them - at no point do you have to pay anything more."
In the UK, you pay tax on income. That includes interest and returns on investment. You also pay capital gains tax.
VAT covers goods *and services*.
I'd be astonished if the same weren't true in just about every EU state.
Why don't you quite while you're behind?
Jeez, you really insist on demonstrating your ignorance about the UK, don't you? The current administration is planning a "Great Repeal Bill" precisely because the previous administration was deemed by many to have curbed liberties unduly. As for friendly police, your experience is your experience, but there are many hundreds of examples of unfriendly police seeking to exercise authority beyond the rule of law, and they tend to succeed. Jean Charles de Menezes, Ian Tomlinson, kettling, attempts to ban public photography, stop and search, warrantless taps, etc etc.
Here's a suggestion: stick to talking about Denmark.
OK, so you don't understand immigration rules as they apply to the UK, you don't understand taxes and to add to your list of achievements, you don't understand what I've written either.
In the UK, the toughest part of getting in is *not* the earnings threshold. If you're a skilled worker, you need employer sponsorship and there *is no* earnings threshold. If you're a very skilled worker, you don't need employer sponsorship, but you do need to gain enough points based on qualifications, earnings (ooh are you happy?), UK experience, age, English skills and funds (happy again?). Additionally, you need to meet the entry clearance criteria that apply to your country of origin, which are often tough and separate in themselves. All of which is a long-winded way of saying that the OP was right and you were wrong, when you had your disagreement about whether it's tough to immigrate to work in the UK. It is tough.
I have no idea how you think your point on paying VAT on everything backs up your assertion that a 60% tax rate is only applicable in Denmark. That's just wrong. Particularly as you've assumed that there are only two taxes that apply: income and VAT. There are, of course, many more, and the cumulative effective is that many people pay more than 60% of earnings in taxes. This is not a left vs right thing: in the UK, a large number of benefits recipients have an effective marginal tax rate of above 100%, which discourages them from seeking better-paid employment and is a disgrace.
You know more about life in Denmark, but you have demonstrated you know less about life in the UK. And even less about taxes.
Immigration rules in the UK are a lot tighter than simply an earnings threshold. There is a points-based assessment for highly skilled workers, investors, entrepeneurs and recent graduates from UK universities. Skilled workers can get in via sponsorship from their employer, mostly. Other workers are by and large SOL.
No-one is able to avoid all taxes other than income tax, no matter whether they live in the UK, Denmark or the US. The OP specifically mentioned VAT. VAT in the UK is charged on, among other things, many types of food and all adult clothing. You may not ever buy new underwear, but everyone else does.
In your example (a), the choice the copper is offering is "you're breaking the law right now, but I'm prepared to overlook it if you'll piss off home quietly". I think that's a great + sensible thing to do, but it's different from "You're not breaking the law, but do what I tell you anyway"
In your example (b), I think the motorist's cooperation should depend on whether there's a sensible reason for pulling him over. But if I were the motorist, my first question would be "what seems to be the problem, officer?" -- before I got out of the car.
I agree re comms skills and mediation. That's not what I see happening in this video, though -- I see police trying to get someone to comply for no good reason and through force of will. Not very consensual.
Globally, you're right. In the UK, it's not (yet) against the law, except in very specific circumstances.
what the *fuck* are you on about? what, specifically, did he say or do that could justify you calling him a "smartarse"? what specifically are you referring to when you say "whiney teenage defensive thing"? what words, what tone of voice? if you're going to carp from the sidelines, you might at least supply some concrete evidence to back up your assertions.
"it is however a conscious provocation" So what? Should the fact that it is a conscious provocation alter the police officer's behaviour in any way? also, note that speeding is a criminal offence. taking pictures of a public parade is not.
"an internal NUJ event on public property". wtf? what kind of "internal" event would take place on "public property"?? and what has that analogy got to do with filming a *public event* on public property and then subsequently filming *public servants* going about their *public duties*??
these copper twunts were irritated because this guy wouldn't do what they asked him to. but he wouldn't do what they asked him to, because he was *doing nothing wrong*.
"he sounds hysterical in the video" Of course he does! He's a 16-year old kid and these big burly twats keep on grabbing him and his camera for no reason other than that they've decided they don't want him to do what he's perfectly entitled to do.
hint: just because they wear a uniform doesn't make them automatically right.
but this isn't about keeping abreast of the latest developments in the law. this is about something really fundamental, which you'd hope coppers would learn really early on in their job, and would be reinforced by a pervasive culture:
1) "people don't have to do what I say just because I'm a copper. they have to do what I say insofar as I enforce the law"
2) "if someone's doing something legal and I don't want them to do it any more, I can't make it illegal just by telling them to stop"
3) "I'm not the parent of the members of the public I meet. I don't get to win every battle of wills because I am an officer of the law"
Bollocks. The X1 has a 3" display providing 800*480 pixels. 800/3 = 267ppi. Why do people not check these things before the post with such faux-authority?
Your quant is flawed because you're ignoring the fact that the ratio of terrorists to passengers is extremely low. Your numbers tell us the false positive rate. They don't tell us the false negative rate, which is much more important. Security architects need a system that minimises inconvenience to non-terrorist passengers while reliably spotting the incredibly rare terrorist passengers. The answer may well not be SPOT, but your analysis doesn't demonstrate that.
BTW, your philosophical debate is flawed as well. A truly successful programme would turn up ZERO real terrorists, because terrorists would know that there was no point in trying.
Re your examples: Taking cash from Company A while cheering Company B is a little ... distasteful. If you're going to do it, you'd better do it in private. If you're going to use the interwebs, you'd better acquaint yourself with the fact that it's quite difficult to be truly private when you post on it.
Your First Amendment rights are not affected. The government will not throw you in jail for speaking your mind in this way.
For someone with a sneering tone about someone else, you really have an astonishingly tiny brain. Dispatchers *are* the people who answer 911. They answer the 911 calls and then "dispatch" the firefighters or police officers to the scene. You can read all about it here:
http://www.911dispatch.com/jobs/JobDescriptions.html
Well, when I get mine, I'm going to get a powered wall mount in my kitchen. I'll use it as an all-in-one e-calendar, music player, photo display, tube map, ordinary map, etc etc. I'd like to have that handy. It would be really nice if I could also get all my applicances' manuals on there as well, so that when the boiler or washing machine plays up, I don't have to hunt around for it. Of course, being detachable, it'll be great to read Alice in Wonderland and similar stories with my 1-year old daughter and enjoy this amazing new combination of words, graphics and interactivity that she can enjoy in a way that's completely inconceivable with a mouse or trackpad-driven device. Oh, and it'll be nice to have a recipe book that plays videos / shows multiple angles to show me the really tricky bits, compiles instant shopping lists and allows one-click purchasing from Waitrose, etc etc.
1) There's plenty of people who would struggle to get $5k together
2) He also paid insurance premiums, and the premiums may go up and the exclusions may become more significant because of his history now
3) In the UK, he'd have paid £0 at point of need, not $2.5k or 5k
4) How do you know for sure that Duke provides better treatment? What do you mean: better outcomes? better experience? safer? all three? Where's the evidence for your assertion?
Nope, Intel graphics.
Well could you tell my enterprise, please? Cos I have a Thinkpad T61 and its battery barely lasts 2 hours, and the screen is horribly dim as well. My four year old white MacBook, by comparison, still lasts 4 to 5 hours, under just as heavy usage.
Erm. I work for a top-rank management consultancy. We have a bunch of stroppy partners stranded abroad and one of the world's best travel teams trying to sort them out. The advice is that Eurostar is booked out 2 weeks in advance no matter what strings are pulled; websites are showing unreliable information; and ferry companies and other alternatives are also pretty much sold out, and that you need to turn up in person if you want to try to book a ticket. I'm not sure how bus companies can help with a Channel crossing...
Willie Walsh, CEO of British Airways, was on the first BA test plane today. Back in your box, tosspot.
The fact remains that while both sides carried out atrocities, the atrocities carried out by one side (hint: the losers) were vastly larger in scale and generally far more vicious. It wasn't the Allies who carried out the Shoah, after all.
Your use of the future tense clearly implies that this is not something you currently do. I'll bet it isn't. Much too bloody clunky to be worth the effort. As opposed to a simple all-in-one solution, like an iPad.
What on earth are you talking about? People will be writing cooking apps that combine text, audio and video. In fact, they already exist for the iPhone. And of course Flash is not the only way to implement online video. Did you want to win the special "dumbass comment" prize for the day? Cos you just did.
Well, no. But books can't give you instructional tips in audio and video on every step of what you're cooking.
Cmon...you're really trying to claim that your experience is typical and mine is atypical of Windows, and vice versa for the Mac? Absolute horseshit.
What's more, the problem you describe with a Mac can be made to happen if you shut the lid quickly enough during the shutdown process, but you have to work at it, especially given that shutdown routinely takes no more than 5 to 10 seconds on a Mac. On my Lenovo laptop, by comparison, shutdown takes 2 minutes or more -- and they've also managed to break the shutdown process, by introducing a new black screen that shows all your running apps and gives you a choice of force-quitting them each or cancelling the whole shutdown, rather than doing what Windows used to do and what the Mac does, which is to cycle through each open programme with unsaved data and ask you whether you want to save or not, and then continue shutting down. Nice. I've never seen something that fuckin' dumb before.
Ooh ooh, I've got something! How about: I'd like to shut the lid of my bogstandard, highpowered work Lenovo laptop running Win7 and have it go to sleep quickly and reliably. And then wake up instantly and reliably when I open the lid. It's the fact that my MacBook can do that, and my Lenovo can't that causes endless irritation. And telling me that the answer is that I'm an idiot is not going to win you any friends. It's not my *job* to sort this out -- it's not what I'm paid to do. Incidentally, neither first- nor second-line support can sort it out either. Whatta waste of fucking time to have to try to. So when you twat around trying to claim that the machines are equal, you demonstrate a complete ignorance of how most users interact with their machines most of the time.