Everybody here has managed to forget that little document called the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which divided Central and Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence. Before the Germans attacked them, the Soviets were their ALLIES.
Who was it that marched into the Baltics in the late 1930s? Who executed a large part of the Polish officer corps at Katyn? Who eliminated most of their experienced officer corps through political purges in the 1930s and then whined that they had to take extreme losses in the war after they were invaded? The USSR. They may have suffered, but how much of it was suffering and death brought on by senor Stalin?
Whether or not the story is true, it seems like Arnaud has taken a piece of Soviet propaganda and tried to make it one better.
Tax can vary from country to country, and you get a lot more benefits by being a direct employee. The Netherlands, for example, has crap for salaries and unless you're lucky you'll get screwed on the housing, but there's also a tax exemption which'll lower your overall tax to about 20%.
Keep the US taxman happy, but don't give him any reason to come looking at you. Some IRS requirements are contradicted by international tax treaties, so get someone to give an expert opinion and write it down.
Europe is starving for tech help right now, and there's only so much that keyboard monkeys in Brazil can do. (For example, I know a couple of guys how are importing all of their tech talent & getting visas because it's a commonly known fact that there's nobody in the EU.) Germany is offering fast-track work permits, you probably don't need an entry permit for the UK, The Netherlands actually allows you to come and start work (wink, wink) if the paperwork has been started for you by the company, etc. DO YOUR RESEARCH WELL, and don't believe ANYTHING that the different consulates tell you. They're only there to process paperwork.
Five to six weeks vacation, plus sick days, is nothing to sneeze at.
Low points can be the absolute necessity of learning local, miserable expats, a flailing Euro, unending bureaucracy and locals trying to take advantage of you as you may not be familiar with the prevailiing "way of doing things" in any given locale.
Mr. Bun: Morning.
Waitress: Morning.
Mr. Bun: Well, what you got?
Slashdot Waitress: Well, there's egg and Cowboy Neal; egg, sausage and bacon; Linux and spam; egg, Windows NT and spam; egg, Bill Gates, Linux and spam....(Vikings start singing in background).
Vikings: Spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam, lovely spam.
Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, science articles, Red Hat Linux and spam. That's not got much spam in it.
Mrs. Bun: I don't want any spam!
Waitress: Ech!
Mrs. Bun: What do you mean ech! I don't like spam!
Mr. Bun: Shh dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, Windows 2000, spam, spam, spam and spam.
Guy should've have posted the papers to a website based exclusively outside the US and then linked back. Maybe I'm wrong, but don't think they would find it as easy to lean on someone in Kuala Lumpur, eh?
Most of my writing is all done outside the US, and my master's was written in the US, and I don't see my work anywhere in Contentville at all. Done so much publishing I thought I would.
If I EVER see anything of mine up there, I will be suing the living daylights out of them.
Any non-US-based folks out there who see their work being stolen from them and sold for a profit by the so-called watchdog? Brill seems to think everybody else should have to abide by the laws that he doesn't have to.
OK, Mr. Dutch Smart-Ass, I speak more languages than you (Czech, English, Italian, French, German AND Dutch). US English is easier and far more widely used than UK English. As a Dutch person you should know that. Or maybe you're just one of those few Dutch people who wants to be English. We Americans may occasionally sound silly abroad, but people understand us. We also don't go around saying "oi" and throwing deckchairs and bottles at crowds of police and non-UK soccer fans (viz- Belgium this past weekend). Our wrists don't scrape the ground either. As for on-line privacy- HAH! Try dealing with any European govt. bureaucracy and see how personal info they ask for. The Europeans are also further behind the US in Internet use and technologies (the average Joost pays 17.5% sales tax on PCs, etc.), hence less to protect. Laws mean very little on this Continent.
I think it was those guys from the island off of England who're setting up offshore Internet services pulling a 'Mouse that Roared.' Dang, though, it sounds like a pretty easy way to pay off student loans.
It's nice to think that over here in Europe AOL and TW are practically irrelevant. Europeans suck in their own way. Most of the ISPs are crap and the local news is just as bad as anything in the US. A story of a cow falling in a canal outside of Amsterdam actually was covered more than famine in Ethiopia or rioting in Zimbabwe.
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Everybody here has managed to forget that little document called the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which divided Central and Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence. Before the Germans attacked them, the Soviets were their ALLIES. Who was it that marched into the Baltics in the late 1930s? Who executed a large part of the Polish officer corps at Katyn? Who eliminated most of their experienced officer corps through political purges in the 1930s and then whined that they had to take extreme losses in the war after they were invaded? The USSR. They may have suffered, but how much of it was suffering and death brought on by senor Stalin? Whether or not the story is true, it seems like Arnaud has taken a piece of Soviet propaganda and tried to make it one better.
Tax can vary from country to country, and you get a lot more benefits by being a direct employee. The Netherlands, for example, has crap for salaries and unless you're lucky you'll get screwed on the housing, but there's also a tax exemption which'll lower your overall tax to about 20%.
Keep the US taxman happy, but don't give him any reason to come looking at you. Some IRS requirements are contradicted by international tax treaties, so get someone to give an expert opinion and write it down.
Europe is starving for tech help right now, and there's only so much that keyboard monkeys in Brazil can do. (For example, I know a couple of guys how are importing all of their tech talent & getting visas because it's a commonly known fact that there's nobody in the EU.) Germany is offering fast-track work permits, you probably don't need an entry permit for the UK, The Netherlands actually allows you to come and start work (wink, wink) if the paperwork has been started for you by the company, etc. DO YOUR RESEARCH WELL, and don't believe ANYTHING that the different consulates tell you. They're only there to process paperwork.
Five to six weeks vacation, plus sick days, is nothing to sneeze at.
Low points can be the absolute necessity of learning local, miserable expats, a flailing Euro, unending bureaucracy and locals trying to take advantage of you as you may not be familiar with the prevailiing "way of doing things" in any given locale.
Mr. Bun: Morning. Waitress: Morning. Mr. Bun: Well, what you got? Slashdot Waitress: Well, there's egg and Cowboy Neal; egg, sausage and bacon; Linux and spam; egg, Windows NT and spam; egg, Bill Gates, Linux and spam....(Vikings start singing in background). Vikings: Spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam, lovely spam. Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam? Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, science articles, Red Hat Linux and spam. That's not got much spam in it. Mrs. Bun: I don't want any spam! Waitress: Ech! Mrs. Bun: What do you mean ech! I don't like spam! Mr. Bun: Shh dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, Windows 2000, spam, spam, spam and spam.
Guy should've have posted the papers to a website based exclusively outside the US and then linked back. Maybe I'm wrong, but don't think they would find it as easy to lean on someone in Kuala Lumpur, eh?
Most of my writing is all done outside the US, and my master's was written in the US, and I don't see my work anywhere in Contentville at all. Done so much publishing I thought I would.
If I EVER see anything of mine up there, I will be suing the living daylights out of them.
Any non-US-based folks out there who see their work being stolen from them and sold for a profit by the so-called watchdog? Brill seems to think everybody else should have to abide by the laws that he doesn't have to.
OK, Mr. Dutch Smart-Ass, I speak more languages than you (Czech, English, Italian, French, German AND Dutch). US English is easier and far more widely used than UK English. As a Dutch person you should know that. Or maybe you're just one of those few Dutch people who wants to be English. We Americans may occasionally sound silly abroad, but people understand us. We also don't go around saying "oi" and throwing deckchairs and bottles at crowds of police and non-UK soccer fans (viz- Belgium this past weekend). Our wrists don't scrape the ground either. As for on-line privacy- HAH! Try dealing with any European govt. bureaucracy and see how personal info they ask for. The Europeans are also further behind the US in Internet use and technologies (the average Joost pays 17.5% sales tax on PCs, etc.), hence less to protect. Laws mean very little on this Continent.
I think it was those guys from the island off of England who're setting up offshore Internet services pulling a 'Mouse that Roared.' Dang, though, it sounds like a pretty easy way to pay off student loans.
Oh great. Commentary from someone who says that the UK has a "president." Yutz. I have one forced volunteer for the sail mission.
It's nice to think that over here in Europe AOL and TW are practically irrelevant. Europeans suck in their own way. Most of the ISPs are crap and the local news is just as bad as anything in the US. A story of a cow falling in a canal outside of Amsterdam actually was covered more than famine in Ethiopia or rioting in Zimbabwe.