IR35, lose 54% of your income, and you are not allowed state income for things like sick days.......
Provided you operate and phrase your contracts correctly, UK tax rates for Contractors are a lot less than 54%. If you're paying much more than 20% you're doing it wrong.
You do have to set things up to avoid IR35, but this is probably no different from setting up your finances in the US to keep your tax liablility down.
Its a bit difficult to say what the attrition rate would be. Is Chinese military technology good enough to cause harm to significant numbers of F22s? It has to be pointed out that whilst Chinese technology has advanced, it's nowhere close to that of the US in terms of what is in the front line in significant amounts.
The Chinese army significantly outnumbers that of the US, but again most of their troops are conscript level and less well equipped.
All this is a bit pointless really though, the Chinese simply believe that if they wait long enough, then their culture is superior enough and patient enough to win in the long run, without firing a shot (or at least not many)
If a competitor has come up with "the perfect solution" then he'/she deserves to profit from that solution. It's not desirable for one company or person to restrict the usage of an idea, but it seems the best way for inventors to be rewarded for their ideas. Setting royalties is increasingly the solution used by the courts, but the flip side where larger companies screw small inventors over because they can't afford to protect their ideas in court must be recognised.
However I'm really saying that you're perfectly welcome to make suitcases provided you don't do literally everything possible to make it look exactly like a Louis Vuitton suitcase.
Whilst I am hoping that Samsung largely wins its case, I can see that there should be limits to what can be copied and how much a rival product can simply imitate the originator. Apple should be able to protect the unique aspects of its design, and both Samsung and Apple should be able to patent technological innovation where it is appropriate to do so.
Having said that, I feel Apple is trying to grab too much in this case. It is obvious that Apple didn't come up with the general idea for the layout of a tablet, even if they were the first to market with a genuine product that consumers wanted. It is similarly obvious that everyone wanted to go to a touch screen phone layout at around the same time, and the ergonomics and layout for that are obvious.
Whilst the gap is narrowing, Apple should realise that they really make their money from producing a product that, whilst on the leading edge of techology, is a polished design where all the parts have been carefully put together. I have a Samsung phone at the moment, and whilst there are aspects of it that are probably better than an iPhone, the whole product lacks the design harmony of its rival. The UK judge who, in dismissing Apples case, said that the Samsung product was 'not as cool' probably expressed it best.
Well if you want to cut and paste it into Notepad that's up to you. I pressed one key and had it available for analysis. I never said that there wasn't TMTOWDI
And finally, as the last one was in 2000, and they're due every 500 years, you'll be good for a while.
One presumes that these events are totally random processes and like dice, the fact you rolled two 6s last go has no effect on whether you'll roll two 6s this time. Assuming that to be true, you could just as easily get one next year as in 500 years.
The foreign office sent a letter pointing out they have a legal route to arresting Julian in the embassy. It's not quite the same as threatening to sent the paratroopers in.
You're misunderstanding the UK mastery of understatement - "Awfully nice Embassy you have here, old chap. Shame if it were to get broken..."
There seems a lot of Islamophobia on the site today!
Given what Islam espouses and the actions of Islamic extremists, opposition to Islam is a perfectly rational point of view.
Given what {religion x} espouses and the actions of { religion x}, opposition to {religion x} is a perfectly rational point of view. (for all values of x)
Indeed, but it neglects the fact that Saudi has been in general a regular US supporter and ally for the last 70 years.
There seems a lot of Islamophobia on the site today!
The system should have simply kept to the.org.edu.mil.gov and.com TLDs, plus the ones for countries where nations could do as they like. In fact it was a bad idea having ANY tlds except for nations; it would have solved a lot of problems if Saudi Arabia applied its own rules to its own domain, and the US to its domain. Instead everyone wants a TLD to show how important their organisation is.
You want to track me? You need my permission, and you don't get it by default.
You virtually get it by default. Some of the messages simply say - we use cookies for all sorts of purposes, if you don't like it f**k off and use someone else's site.
1Ghz CPU and 128 megs of ram is really quite a bit of computer power, lets get some perspective people. Just a little over a decade ago that would have described the computer in the steel case under your desk!
In 1991, I had a 33Mhz 486 and 8Megs of RAM, with 512K video card and thought I had a powerful system....
Just take the N900 design, make the processor faster. Add a bit more RAM and fix that bloody usb connector and then sell it as a featurephone spun as a smartphone. You'll still be a fucked company, but at least you'll have the best goddamn phone on the market.
(From a geek point of view).
.For your genius to be complete and for a phone that the Gods themselves would use, suggest they add the 41MP Pureview sensor in too.
Next time, post wisdom like this as a proper user - you'll have incredible Karma in no time!!
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They'll all get Asus or Samsungs in protest at the patents decision and code on those instead.
IR35, lose 54% of your income, and you are not allowed state income for things like sick days. ......
Provided you operate and phrase your contracts correctly, UK tax rates for Contractors are a lot less than 54%. If you're paying much more than 20% you're doing it wrong.
You do have to set things up to avoid IR35, but this is probably no different from setting up your finances in the US to keep your tax liablility down.
Have UK Citizenship
...for the video of the resulting Blues Brothers style pile-up.
It is a little unclear from the abstract but it looks like of the 4000 women only 34 rape based pregnancies were the basis for this study.
Does anyone have access to the full article to see whether this is correct or not?
Just use all those servers the US confiscated from MegaUpload to save your data on
Anyone being boring and pointing out they were only "borrowed" will be killed by custard pie squad.
Its a bit difficult to say what the attrition rate would be. Is Chinese military technology good enough to cause harm to significant numbers of F22s?
It has to be pointed out that whilst Chinese technology has advanced, it's nowhere close to that of the US in terms of what is in the front line in significant amounts.
The Chinese army significantly outnumbers that of the US, but again most of their troops are conscript level and less well equipped.
All this is a bit pointless really though, the Chinese simply believe that if they wait long enough, then their culture is superior enough and patient enough to win in the long run, without firing a shot (or at least not many)
If a competitor has come up with "the perfect solution" then he'/she deserves to profit from that solution. It's not desirable for one company or person to restrict the usage of an idea, but it seems the best way for inventors to be rewarded for their ideas. Setting royalties is increasingly the solution used by the courts, but the flip side where larger companies screw small inventors over because they can't afford to protect their ideas in court must be recognised.
However I'm really saying that you're perfectly welcome to make suitcases provided you don't do literally everything possible to make it look exactly like a Louis Vuitton suitcase.
Whilst I am hoping that Samsung largely wins its case, I can see that there should be limits to what can be copied and how much a rival product can simply imitate the originator. Apple should be able to protect the unique aspects of its design, and both Samsung and Apple should be able to patent technological innovation where it is appropriate to do so.
Having said that, I feel Apple is trying to grab too much in this case. It is obvious that Apple didn't come up with the general idea for the layout of a tablet, even if they were the first to market with a genuine product that consumers wanted. It is similarly obvious that everyone wanted to go to a touch screen phone layout at around the same time, and the ergonomics and layout for that are obvious.
Whilst the gap is narrowing, Apple should realise that they really make their money from producing a product that, whilst on the leading edge of techology, is a polished design where all the parts have been carefully put together. I have a Samsung phone at the moment, and whilst there are aspects of it that are probably better than an iPhone, the whole product lacks the design harmony of its rival. The UK judge who, in dismissing Apples case, said that the Samsung product was 'not as cool' probably expressed it best.
Not at all - Paul Allen has an interest in nuclear power generation. Even Google were thinking about investing in nuclear fusion research.
Should Google go Nuclear?
I don't want LAPP...
Don't projects get Finn-ished when you use LAPP?
Well if you want to cut and paste it into Notepad that's up to you. I pressed one key and had it available for analysis. I never said that there wasn't TMTOWDI
And finally, as the last one was in 2000, and they're due every 500 years, you'll be good for a while.
One presumes that these events are totally random processes and like dice, the fact you rolled two 6s last go has no effect on whether you'll roll two 6s this time.
Assuming that to be true, you could just as easily get one next year as in 500 years.
how could you protect data to survive a modern day Carrington event?
Ban reruns of Dynasty on TV?
The foreign office sent a letter pointing out they have a legal route to arresting Julian in the embassy. It's not quite the same as threatening to sent the paratroopers in.
You're misunderstanding the UK mastery of understatement - "Awfully nice Embassy you have here, old chap. Shame if it were to get broken..."
There seems a lot of Islamophobia on the site today!
Given what Islam espouses and the actions of Islamic extremists, opposition to Islam is a perfectly rational point of view.
Given what {religion x} espouses and the actions of { religion x}, opposition to {religion x} is a perfectly rational point of view. (for all values of x)
Indeed, but it neglects the fact that Saudi has been in general a regular US supporter and ally for the last 70 years.
..quoth he pressing F12 and looking at the Firebug output
There seems a lot of Islamophobia on the site today!
The system should have simply kept to the .org .edu .mil .gov and .com TLDs, plus the ones for countries where nations could do as they like.
In fact it was a bad idea having ANY tlds except for nations; it would have solved a lot of problems if Saudi Arabia applied its own rules to its own domain, and the US to its domain. Instead everyone wants a TLD to show how important their organisation is.
My jaw dropped in amazement. The fact the technique is extensible to other sensory and brain malfunctions seems to be just icing on the cake.
Doctor Who is commercially viable on its own, as it is one of the 5 top power brands which between them bring in £300million in sales to the BBC
I'm sure it will work and they'll grant freedom of speech and preserve human rights and that the Vietnamese will welcome them with open arms.....
The problem is this guy should of ran the site under the guise of a corporation,.
Actually he did run the site as a Limited Company (equivalent of a Corporation in the UK) so that idea didn't carry much water
You want to track me? You need my permission, and you don't get it by default.
You virtually get it by default. Some of the messages simply say - we use cookies for all sorts of purposes, if you don't like it f**k off and use someone else's site.
Put simply it is pointless form filling.
1Ghz CPU and 128 megs of ram is really quite a bit of computer power, lets get some perspective people. Just a little over a decade ago that would have described the computer in the steel case under your desk!
In 1991, I had a 33Mhz 486 and 8Megs of RAM, with 512K video card and thought I had a powerful system....
Just take the N900 design, make the processor faster. Add a bit more RAM and fix that bloody usb connector and then sell it as a featurephone spun as a smartphone.
You'll still be a fucked company, but at least you'll have the best goddamn phone on the market.
(From a geek point of view).
.For your genius to be complete and for a phone that the Gods themselves would use, suggest they add the 41MP Pureview sensor in too.
Next time, post wisdom like this as a proper user - you'll have incredible Karma in no time!!