Have everyone use UTC, and adjust working/opening hours to what makes the most sense for any business. There would be no more problems with lazy developers using zulu time and aggregating data from different parts of the world. "Can we meet at 17:00" would be unambiguous without either part having to adjust to the other person's time zone and DST.
Having the date and day of week change during working hours in some parts of the world (East Asia, Australia/Oceania, America) might be a little bit inconvenient.
I can't help but feel like you completely missed the point of OP's post. GPS has basically nothing to do with this story, except for what the people that wrote it were referring to the device as. Immobilizer is the proper term. GPS is only a secondary function of it, and again, not relevant to this.
Does the immobilizer have builtin GPS? If so, then calling it a "GPS device" is correct, and the company die use this GPS device to disable the car.
Yes, the term "immobilizer" may be more precise. But that does not make "GPS device" incorrect.
You must be a little kid then. Only little kids would ever refer to 1kB as 1000 bytes. Those of us who are old enough to have been around computers since the beginning know that 1kB is 1024 bytes.
Yeah, right. You must be an oldtimer who has never heard of mass storage or data transmission, then. Those of young enough to have heard of such things understand that 1 byte x 1 kHz = 1 kB/s (and it does not matter whether 1 kHz is the symbol rate for a transmission or the frequency at which data is written onto a tape or disk).
...except for the visas UK citizens will need to get into the EU after day one of leaving, because they can't negotiate with any of the member countries for visa-free travel until after they have left.
*yawn*
Visa-free travel does not even need to be negotiated. It can be granted unilaterally.
These "lots" of energy you are talking about are not nearly enough for a modern smartphone.
Even if you would make use of the electromagnetic radiation coming from a nuclear fusion reactor, and position your phone optimally, a harvesting panel the size of a smartphone would barely be able to gain 1W.
This is only true if your goal is high unemployment rates.
If solar is much more labour intensive, this means that it provides much more employment. And the overall cost is only slightly higher, c. 100 $/MWh for coal vs. 125 $/MWh for solar (projected costs for 2020, source), and this does not even include the higher externalities (i.e. costs paid by others, such as damages to the environment and health) of coal.
Basic Income has lots of things going for it, but it doesn't feel like the exactly right answer. I'm more in favor of a linear income tax (with no writeoffs or exemptions) where the intercept is set to equal what the basic income would otherwise have been. And this tax should include *ALL* sources of income and replace all other taxes.
Think, don't just "feel". For your information, write-offs exist because investments actually do reduce your income. If you don't allow them, someone who spends $100 to gain $1100 (net income: $1000) might be taxed $440, and someone who spends $2000 to gain $2500 (net income: $500) would be taxed $1000. Does. Not. Make. Sense.
Facebook has offices in both Berlin and Hamburg. It's clearly a German company and should obey any order given by the German government.
Germany is still a country where the rule of law prevails. They are entitled to contest such orders (or the laws). And they would win because holding a platform responsible for third-party content is a blatant violation of EU law.
It's the pro desktop - which doubles as a vacuum cleaner.
To be used as a vaccum cleaner, it would need to waste more power to generate noise and heat. Yes, this seems the most important feature of vacuum cleansers if you listen to consumers. All they care about is power consumption; it does not matter how well it actually cleans.
What if you cross a border where the "maximum speed limit" is higher (or lower)? What if the "maximum speed limit" is changed? How do you prevent someone from tampering with the setting?
On the other hand, going above the "maximum speed limit" of a country (or state) is not the most unsafe type of speeding. It's much more problematic to speed in locations where the actual speed limit is lower than the "maximum speed limit".
Amazon in the US tends to do the investment in R&D. How much does it do in the UK? From the sounds of it not much. It doesn't matter how much R&D it does in the US Amazon UK can't write it off.
Sure it can. They can license the results of the R&D and write off the license fees to Amazon US. In fact, the US tax authorities might even demand that Amazon US collect license fees from foreign subsidiaries - otherwise they would actually transfer profits (the arm's length license fees) from the US to foreign countries.
A Mom and Pop convenience store may not turn a "profit" at all, instead merely supplying Mom and Pop with a stable occupation and a living salary. They "invested" as little as a few thousand dollars, or as much as a half million dollars, and the only real ROI is that they are their own bosses, with a stable job that they enjoy.
Being “their own bosses” and having “a stable job that they enjoy” (with a “living salary”) is their ROI.
By running two or more different companies in different countries you can "sell" things across the borders at artificial (fake) prices so that, no profit is made in the UK, and all of it is in Luxembourg or Ireland, on paper. There's no free market for those trades, it's all between two companies, controlled by the same people.
You know, tax authorities actually look at transfer prices for intra-group sales and services to ensure that they are at arm's length. If they aren't, they're taxed as profits.
Free trade is only desirable to the stronger economy/ies in the bloc. For example: The Eurozone benefits the already established industrial powers (Germany) while giving no incentive for the smaller countries to set up their own factories.
Then how come that smaller countries in the EU seem to thrive economically?
In a free trade agreement, Germany can now dump all of their products in a smaller country and take all of their money. Germany doesn't need to buy anything from them: they already make everything their need - so basically the smaller country is just a raw material supplier, or purely agricultural exporter.
Germany as a whole does not decide that it needs not to buy anything from, say, Austria. It's individual people or corporations who decide to buy from supplier A, B or C. In a free market, supplier C from Austria has the same chance of being chosen as A and B from Germany.
Do this simple mental exercise... Imagine if a new gross receipts tax was put into place that said that all businesses had to pay a 50% tax on their total sales...
That is not how taxes on income work. They are taxes on income (profit), not revenues (sales).
Compare that to Terry Pratchett: 22 Discworld novels in the same timeframe, all in the same universe, all hanging together, including hanging together with the previous 18 novels he had written over the previous 13 years.
And full of contradictions.
The effort to write a single consistent story is not O(n), after all. Even if it's only O(n log n), Martin wins:
Tolkien had to do it all by hand -- Martin has the luxury of software development and movie writing tools that will plot out all the charaters/relationships etc. and point out any potential inconsistencies.
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Have everyone use UTC, and adjust working/opening hours to what makes the most sense for any business. There would be no more problems with lazy developers using zulu time and aggregating data from different parts of the world. "Can we meet at 17:00" would be unambiguous without either part having to adjust to the other person's time zone and DST.
Having the date and day of week change during working hours in some parts of the world (East Asia, Australia/Oceania, America) might be a little bit inconvenient.
Windows 10 (32 bit) runs Word for Windows 6.0, which was written for Windows 3.x.
The same person, obviously.
I can't help but feel like you completely missed the point of OP's post. GPS has basically nothing to do with this story, except for what the people that wrote it were referring to the device as. Immobilizer is the proper term. GPS is only a secondary function of it, and again, not relevant to this.
Does the immobilizer have builtin GPS? If so, then calling it a "GPS device" is correct, and the company die use this GPS device to disable the car.
Yes, the term "immobilizer" may be more precise. But that does not make "GPS device" incorrect.
Can that maglev do 0-267-0 in 0.8 miles?
No. It was design to carry human passengers without killing them.
You must be a little kid then. Only little kids would ever refer to 1kB as 1000 bytes. Those of us who are old enough to have been around computers since the beginning know that 1kB is 1024 bytes.
Yeah, right. You must be an oldtimer who has never heard of mass storage or data transmission, then. Those of young enough to have heard of such things understand that 1 byte x 1 kHz = 1 kB/s (and it does not matter whether 1 kHz is the symbol rate for a transmission or the frequency at which data is written onto a tape or disk).
If it's a constitutional right, then wouldn't it be illegal for AT&T to ask clients to sign it away?
Owning property is a constitutional right. Even though, you can sign it away (that's called "selling").
This game is called passing the hot potato.
Music stops 2019-03-29. Whoever holds the office of PM on that day loses.
...except for the visas UK citizens will need to get into the EU after day one of leaving, because they can't negotiate with any of the member countries for visa-free travel until after they have left.
*yawn*
Visa-free travel does not even need to be negotiated. It can be granted unilaterally.
These "lots" of energy you are talking about are not nearly enough for a modern smartphone.
Even if you would make use of the electromagnetic radiation coming from a nuclear fusion reactor, and position your phone optimally, a harvesting panel the size of a smartphone would barely be able to gain 1W.
This is only true if your goal is high unemployment rates.
If solar is much more labour intensive, this means that it provides much more employment. And the overall cost is only slightly higher, c. 100 $/MWh for coal vs. 125 $/MWh for solar (projected costs for 2020, source), and this does not even include the higher externalities (i.e. costs paid by others, such as damages to the environment and health) of coal.
Basic Income has lots of things going for it, but it doesn't feel like the exactly right answer. I'm more in favor of a linear income tax (with no writeoffs or exemptions) where the intercept is set to equal what the basic income would otherwise have been. And this tax should include *ALL* sources of income and replace all other taxes.
Think, don't just "feel". For your information, write-offs exist because investments actually do reduce your income. If you don't allow them, someone who spends $100 to gain $1100 (net income: $1000) might be taxed $440, and someone who spends $2000 to gain $2500 (net income: $500) would be taxed $1000. Does. Not. Make. Sense.
How does this work when travelling and using someone's wifi, exactly?
Facebook has offices in both Berlin and Hamburg. It's clearly a German company and should obey any order given by the German government.
Germany is still a country where the rule of law prevails. They are entitled to contest such orders (or the laws). And they would win because holding a platform responsible for third-party content is a blatant violation of EU law.
It's the pro desktop - which doubles as a vacuum cleaner.
To be used as a vaccum cleaner, it would need to waste more power to generate noise and heat. Yes, this seems the most important feature of vacuum cleansers if you listen to consumers. All they care about is power consumption; it does not matter how well it actually cleans.
What if you cross a border where the "maximum speed limit" is higher (or lower)?
What if the "maximum speed limit" is changed?
How do you prevent someone from tampering with the setting?
On the other hand, going above the "maximum speed limit" of a country (or state) is not the most unsafe type of speeding. It's much more problematic to speed in locations where the actual speed limit is lower than the "maximum speed limit".
Amazon in the US tends to do the investment in R&D. How much does it do in the UK? From the sounds of it not much. It doesn't matter how much R&D it does in the US Amazon UK can't write it off.
Sure it can. They can license the results of the R&D and write off the license fees to Amazon US. In fact, the US tax authorities might even demand that Amazon US collect license fees from foreign subsidiaries - otherwise they would actually transfer profits (the arm's length license fees) from the US to foreign countries.
In the UK, there are a few private retail banks that do issue banknotes.
Ad hominem attacks don't validate your incorrect views.
A Mom and Pop convenience store may not turn a "profit" at all, instead merely supplying Mom and Pop with a stable occupation and a living salary. They "invested" as little as a few thousand dollars, or as much as a half million dollars, and the only real ROI is that they are their own bosses, with a stable job that they enjoy.
Being “their own bosses” and having “a stable job that they enjoy” (with a “living salary”) is their ROI.
By running two or more different companies in different countries you can "sell" things across the borders at artificial (fake) prices so that, no profit is made in the UK, and all of it is in Luxembourg or Ireland, on paper. There's no free market for those trades, it's all between two companies, controlled by the same people.
You know, tax authorities actually look at transfer prices for intra-group sales and services to ensure that they are at arm's length. If they aren't, they're taxed as profits.
Free trade is only desirable to the stronger economy/ies in the bloc. For example: The Eurozone benefits the already established industrial powers (Germany) while giving no incentive for the smaller countries to set up their own factories.
Then how come that smaller countries in the EU seem to thrive economically?
In a free trade agreement, Germany can now dump all of their products in a smaller country and take all of their money. Germany doesn't need to buy anything from them: they already make everything their need - so basically the smaller country is just a raw material supplier, or purely agricultural exporter.
Germany as a whole does not decide that it needs not to buy anything from, say, Austria. It's individual people or corporations who decide to buy from supplier A, B or C. In a free market, supplier C from Austria has the same chance of being chosen as A and B from Germany.
Yes, it is, and you're simply wrong...
Do this simple mental exercise... Imagine if a new gross receipts tax was put into place that said that all businesses had to pay a 50% tax on their total sales...
That is not how taxes on income work. They are taxes on income (profit), not revenues (sales).
And full of contradictions.
The effort to write a single consistent story is not O(n), after all. Even if it's only O(n log n), Martin wins:
22 * 300 log 300 =~ 16000
1 * 6000 * log 6000 =~ 22500
Pretty much explains the delays.