If they bought it outside the country, then tried to bring it in, the tax would be assessed at the border.
No it wouldn't. Under European law, people in Germany can buy goods in any European Union country, and import them without paying duty. The only problem would presumably arise if they then tried to sell them in Germany.
I had a writing teacher once who was actually from England and she said that on average writing skills are better in America than in England because so many people leave school at something like 16 or so.
What the hell does this mean? Who leaves school at 16? Do people in the other country stay longer or shorter? Get an ambiguity filter.
On the other hand, writing skills in the UK are atrocious. But that's generally blamed on the fact that kids from 5-11 aren't taught grammar, reading, etc, they're just supposed to pick them up while they're doing fun projects with papier mache, or watching videos.
From a BBC report on the introduction of the minimum wage in Britain:
Trade Secretary Stephen Byers says its introduction was 'remarkably smooth' and that fears that the minimum wage would damage jobs were wrong.
Service sector employment is growing
"Tory predictions about the minimum wage's impact on jobs are already being shown to be nonsense," he said, citing a recent survey of firms by Reed Personnel Services.
The survey showed company support for the principle of a minimum wage rose to 87% in the run-up to April 1, when the minimum wage took effect, compared to 49% two years ago.
Earlier Shadow Trade Secretary John Redwood said there was evidence that employers were getting around the increased costs of the minimum wage by cutting benefits, such as free work clothes or taxis home, for their staff. He said that up to 250,000 jobs would be lost through a combination of higher government taxes and red tape.
But Mr Byers said that service sector jobs increased by 2.2% in 1998, with Burger King, McDonalds, and Allied Domecq, which owns a variety of pub franchises, all increasing employment.
Bizarrely enough, even McDonalds, that bastion of workers' rights (found by a British judge to be forcing down wages in the catering industry) supports a minimum wage in Britain. (
Reference).
On a different note, just what kind of moron volunteers to work 20 hours a week for nothing more than free AOL connection? Unless you're a pedophile or something, the payment is not worth your time expended. Get a Saturday job.
(b) instituting an Earned Income Credit based upon the hours worked and the wages paid.
Which would be a minimum wage, but paid for by the government rather than by corporations. And how is that libertarian?
Fact is, like most right wingers, you're not against government spending, you're just against government spending when it's on something you don't like.
Minimum wage laws create inefficiencies in any economy
Nice rational post. Sadly, however, there is no evidence for the above assertion. Britain recently introduced a minimum wage law, and this did not create unemployment; rather, unemployment continued to fall.
You could equally well argue that paying a higher wage motivates staff better, allows them to spend more time with their families (making them happier and less stressed, and reducing divorce, depending on their family), means they don't have to take 2 jobs so they're more likely to stay awake on the job, and allows firms who wish to offer these advantages to not be undercut in the short term by mean old sweat shops.
Of course, if I'm not going to supply any references, I could just say the minimum wage makes cats really angry and turns cauliflowers into quiche.
I make coffee with boiling water straight from a kettle (wooh, 212 F). I give this to friends visiting my house. If one of them spills it in their crotch and is traumatized by an embarrassing hospital visit, can they sue me then? Should I stick to luke-warm beverages from now on? Or beer?
Why do most lawyers make the characters in Ally McBeal look sensible?
Are they planning to make it illegal to read barcodes? Maybe they have a patent on reading barcoded information into a computer.
Am I missing something, or is there any real difference between using this scanner and just typing the numbers on your keyboard? (Other than getting to pretend you work at the forefront of retail technology.)
(This is why windowpanes in very old houses are thicker at the bottom. Really.)
Windows in old buildings are thicker at the bottom because builders found it easier to put the heavier, thicker ends of uneven panes of glass at the bottom rather than the top. Clever, huh?
Mmm. Torpedos have save millions of lives in the last 50 years. Forget penicillin or immunisation, these men are the true humanitarians.
I don't know exactly what happened.
Then do not post your ill-informed speculations. Or if you must, write them in an e-mail and send them to Mr Putin, who I am sure will be grateful for your message of support.
Since they seem to be giving them away I would like to patent math please.
What's that cheering sound? Schoolchildren across the world realise no more long division or algebra. Only the elite, at highly exclusive private schools, can afford the huge license fees for differentiation or vector geometry. The common boy and girl can devote their attention to sports and underage sex.
Sure, they'll no longer be able to score their sports or tell that they're having underage sex, but at least their teachers can't give them lines, calculate when the next period ends, or add up their test results.
And the collapse of the global financial system would be neat too.
So you'd see it as okay if someone borrows you lawnmower and starts renting it out to people, or if GNU take software you've contributed to thinking it was Free, and start selling it?
Without the users CDDB would be nothing, and by attacking open-source development, CDDB are attacking their users.
Interesting comments. However, as a philosophy student, I must question whether they are a posteriori, ie based on experience, or a priori, ie based on theory.
I believe the latter to be the case. Clearly, if you start with the assumptions of classical economics, and all the above can be argued with ease.
However, if you look at the real world for evidence, to prove MONOCROME's assertion we would have to establish: (1) That competitors have free access to all markets, and (2) That the DOJ always acts in the interests of free competition and against the interests of monopolies.
The first assertion is demonstrably false: consider oil production - you can only drill for oil if you own an oilfield; there are only a finite number of oilfields in the world; therefore not everyone can compete in the oil industry. Many other areas have similar restrictions, in terms of resources or capital. You may wish to set up as a competitor to Intel tomorrow, but without a few billion $$ for your fab plant, you may be at a disadvantage.
The second is equally untrue: for a few decades America had fairly powerful anti-trust laws, but sadly Ronald Reagan repealed most of them. And furthermore, there are many areas where the DOJ cannot or does not intervene, because it has no jurisdiction or legal mandate.
Therefore, it can be seen that nothing has been proven; the benefits of capitalism are merely asserted without evidence.
Don't worry. x86 assembler is just a cruel practical joke.
It might have been pretty standard in the early 1980s, but it beggars belief that it still persists in a largely unchanged form.
And all those instructions that only work with a particular register - that's not a primitive design which no one bothered to extend, that's just to encourage ingenious register swapping techniques to make your programming more fun.
Plus, 90% of the instructions are completely useless, so ignore them, and you got a reduced instruction set computer right away.
No need for Jeff Goldblum yet
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This is so not going to work. Sorry to be a nay-sayer, but cloning mammals is still very problematic in the best conditions.
Dolly the sheep has been in bad health for a long time; and other clonings report similar results. Injecting DNA from one organism into an egg does not give the same results as natural conception; it appears likely that some DNA damage may be occurring.
Also, the DNA by itself isn't sufficient to reproduce an organism: there are lots of proteins involved in reproducing DNA, and the environment in which the embryo grows is crucial. Even if we produce a clone of something, there's no guarantee it'll be an actual Tasmanian wolf; it might be smaller, bigger, whatever.
No matter how you nurture the clone, it is not going to be in an authentic womb, and things like the oxygen and nutrient supply, hormones from the parent animal, the womb physiology and the gestation period will all have unpredictable effects on development.
My prediction is that they will be highly unlikely to get any form of live offspring, but if they do, it certainly won't be a Tasmanian Wolf as your 19th Century hunter would know it.
Yeah, I mean America's hardly being invaded on a regular basis. People talk about defending the USA, 'our soil', etc, but when was the last time that was an issue? Aside from Hawaii (then a colony rather than a state) in WW2, it's way back in the early 19th Century. The American army's main wars at home were against itself (civil war) and in genocidal wars against the Indians: hardly moral purposes.
The American military exists to defend America's interests overseas. Whether or not you think that's moral, it's a fact.
And the army is very interested in any aspect of technology: if robot soldiers were cheaper/more effective than human soldiers, they would use them. Just like tanks replaced horses.
You're still looking for "intelligence" and "life" as we know it. I believe that there are many states of existence, some of which we will never be able to understand. FWIW, there may be another state of existence in which Earth beings are just lumps of DNA.
And what the fuck's a 'state of existence'? Would you know one if you saw it? Or is the whole point that you wouldn't? And if not, how can you claim it exists?
My invisible purple unicorn is back, and boy is it mad.
Since the response to the search does not include any return address, ShareZilla uses Gnutella Net's natural anonimity to keep your home IP address from being discovered. This way you don't have to wory about any number of hack attacks, which can only be done once the hacker knows your home IP (sic)
This means ShareZilla allows anyone to spam, spam, spam in a (supposedly) undetectable way, free from retailiatory hackage.
However, there is a simple solution. There is one organization whose IP address we do know, www.flatplanet.com.
There are only a couple of genres now, there were more when 2d was the norm. In five years time will it still just be doom-like-games and racing-vehicle games?
What about God-games, sports games, real-time strategy, RPGs, 3-D platform games, puzzle games, flight sims, space combat sims, Resident Evil clones...
Lots of people seem to come up with this 'there's no innovative games around any more', but remember in the days of the SNES when every other game was a 2-D platformer? Or 10 years before that when it was mostly Space Invaders rip-offs (Galaxians, Zalaga, etc.)?
New technology means new gaming styles, it's inevitable.
Re:I really don't see how they could get sued.
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I say, sue Xerox. The entire point of a photocopier is to allow you to copy documents. Until we have some protection system on photocopiers so they can only copy public domain pieces of paper, they should be banned (although they do smell kind of nice).
Er, sorry, I mean, a bunch of idiots banging on about zany, toddler-IQ ideas of freedom. Atlas Shrugged is so boring and badly written I can't believe anyone, not even Ayn Rand, has ever read it. Still, Gary Cooper was cute in The Fountainhead.
Why is the only thing that passes for politics in geek circles (and I'm talking about the whole discussion, not just this poster) is this screw-everyone, I've just watched 'The Wild One' rampant, sub-Nietzschean un-individual individualism? Are all geeks destined to live their life by the same cliches?
Just because everyone hates you (and what geek isn't despised by most of right-thinking society) doesn't mean you shouldn't have *some* respect for the human race.
And please, try and read more than one book before you formulate a view on any topic, least of all the role of human beings in the world.
They're nihilists, Donny. Nothing to be afraid of. - The Big Lebowski
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No it wouldn't. Under European law, people in Germany can buy goods in any European Union country, and import them without paying duty. The only problem would presumably arise if they then tried to sell them in Germany.
And you can bet it'll only be German artists/artists on German labels who see any of the money.
I had a writing teacher once who was actually from England and she said that on average writing skills are better in America than in England because so many people leave school at something like 16 or so.
What the hell does this mean? Who leaves school at 16? Do people in the other country stay longer or shorter? Get an ambiguity filter.
On the other hand, writing skills in the UK are atrocious. But that's generally blamed on the fact that kids from 5-11 aren't taught grammar, reading, etc, they're just supposed to pick them up while they're doing fun projects with papier mache, or watching videos.
From a BBC report on the introduction of the minimum wage in Britain:
Bizarrely enough, even McDonalds, that bastion of workers' rights (found by a British judge to be forcing down wages in the catering industry) supports a minimum wage in Britain. ( Reference).
On a different note, just what kind of moron volunteers to work 20 hours a week for nothing more than free AOL connection? Unless you're a pedophile or something, the payment is not worth your time expended. Get a Saturday job.
(b) instituting an Earned Income Credit based upon the hours worked and the wages paid.
Which would be a minimum wage, but paid for by the government rather than by corporations. And how is that libertarian?
Fact is, like most right wingers, you're not against government spending, you're just against government spending when it's on something you don't like.
Minimum wage laws create inefficiencies in any economy
Nice rational post. Sadly, however, there is no evidence for the above assertion. Britain recently introduced a minimum wage law, and this did not create unemployment; rather, unemployment continued to fall.
You could equally well argue that paying a higher wage motivates staff better, allows them to spend more time with their families (making them happier and less stressed, and reducing divorce, depending on their family), means they don't have to take 2 jobs so they're more likely to stay awake on the job, and allows firms who wish to offer these advantages to not be undercut in the short term by mean old sweat shops.
Of course, if I'm not going to supply any references, I could just say the minimum wage makes cats really angry and turns cauliflowers into quiche.
Get back under your bridge.
Never heard of Joan Of Arc? Still, you probably never even met a woman.
I make coffee with boiling water straight from a kettle (wooh, 212 F). I give this to friends visiting my house. If one of them spills it in their crotch and is traumatized by an embarrassing hospital visit, can they sue me then? Should I stick to luke-warm beverages from now on? Or beer?
Why do most lawyers make the characters in Ally McBeal look sensible?
Are they planning to make it illegal to read barcodes? Maybe they have a patent on reading barcoded information into a computer.
Am I missing something, or is there any real difference between using this scanner and just typing the numbers on your keyboard? (Other than getting to pretend you work at the forefront of retail technology.)
Vote Nader, because it doesn't matter.
(This is why windowpanes in very old houses are thicker at the bottom. Really.)
Windows in old buildings are thicker at the bottom because builders found it easier to put the heavier, thicker ends of uneven panes of glass at the bottom rather than the top. Clever, huh?
See www.urbanlegends.com
Mmm. Torpedos have save millions of lives in the last 50 years. Forget penicillin or immunisation, these men are the true humanitarians.
I don't know exactly what happened.
Then do not post your ill-informed speculations. Or if you must, write them in an e-mail and send them to Mr Putin, who I am sure will be grateful for your message of support.
Since they seem to be giving them away I would like to patent math please.
What's that cheering sound? Schoolchildren across the world realise no more long division or algebra. Only the elite, at highly exclusive private schools, can afford the huge license fees for differentiation or vector geometry. The common boy and girl can devote their attention to sports and underage sex.
Sure, they'll no longer be able to score their sports or tell that they're having underage sex, but at least their teachers can't give them lines, calculate when the next period ends, or add up their test results.
And the collapse of the global financial system would be neat too.
So you'd see it as okay if someone borrows you lawnmower and starts renting it out to people, or if GNU take software you've contributed to thinking it was Free, and start selling it?
Without the users CDDB would be nothing, and by attacking open-source development, CDDB are attacking their users.
Interesting comments. However, as a philosophy student, I must question whether they are a posteriori, ie based on experience, or a priori, ie based on theory.
I believe the latter to be the case. Clearly, if you start with the assumptions of classical economics, and all the above can be argued with ease.
However, if you look at the real world for evidence, to prove MONOCROME's assertion we would have to establish: (1) That competitors have free access to all markets, and (2) That the DOJ always acts in the interests of free competition and against the interests of monopolies.
The first assertion is demonstrably false: consider oil production - you can only drill for oil if you own an oilfield; there are only a finite number of oilfields in the world; therefore not everyone can compete in the oil industry. Many other areas have similar restrictions, in terms of resources or capital. You may wish to set up as a competitor to Intel tomorrow, but without a few billion $$ for your fab plant, you may be at a disadvantage.
The second is equally untrue: for a few decades America had fairly powerful anti-trust laws, but sadly Ronald Reagan repealed most of them. And furthermore, there are many areas where the DOJ cannot or does not intervene, because it has no jurisdiction or legal mandate.
Therefore, it can be seen that nothing has been proven; the benefits of capitalism are merely asserted without evidence.
Don't worry. x86 assembler is just a cruel practical joke.
It might have been pretty standard in the early 1980s, but it beggars belief that it still persists in a largely unchanged form.
And all those instructions that only work with a particular register - that's not a primitive design which no one bothered to extend, that's just to encourage ingenious register swapping techniques to make your programming more fun.
Plus, 90% of the instructions are completely useless, so ignore them, and you got a reduced instruction set computer right away.
This is so not going to work. Sorry to be a nay-sayer, but cloning mammals is still very problematic in the best conditions.
Dolly the sheep has been in bad health for a long time; and other clonings report similar results. Injecting DNA from one organism into an egg does not give the same results as natural conception; it appears likely that some DNA damage may be occurring.
Also, the DNA by itself isn't sufficient to reproduce an organism: there are lots of proteins involved in reproducing DNA, and the environment in which the embryo grows is crucial. Even if we produce a clone of something, there's no guarantee it'll be an actual Tasmanian wolf; it might be smaller, bigger, whatever.
No matter how you nurture the clone, it is not going to be in an authentic womb, and things like the oxygen and nutrient supply, hormones from the parent animal, the womb physiology and the gestation period will all have unpredictable effects on development.
My prediction is that they will be highly unlikely to get any form of live offspring, but if they do, it certainly won't be a Tasmanian Wolf as your 19th Century hunter would know it.
Neo Geo Pocket Color = 16 bit.
Yeah, I mean America's hardly being invaded on a regular basis. People talk about defending the USA, 'our soil', etc, but when was the last time that was an issue? Aside from Hawaii (then a colony rather than a state) in WW2, it's way back in the early 19th Century. The American army's main wars at home were against itself (civil war) and in genocidal wars against the Indians: hardly moral purposes.
The American military exists to defend America's interests overseas. Whether or not you think that's moral, it's a fact.
And the army is very interested in any aspect of technology: if robot soldiers were cheaper/more effective than human soldiers, they would use them. Just like tanks replaced horses.
You're still looking for "intelligence" and "life" as we know it. I believe that there are many states of existence, some of which we will never be able to understand. FWIW, there may be another state of existence in which Earth beings are just lumps of DNA.
And what the fuck's a 'state of existence'? Would you know one if you saw it? Or is the whole point that you wouldn't? And if not, how can you claim it exists?
My invisible purple unicorn is back, and boy is it mad.
Sorry www.flatplanet.net
From the FlatPlanet website:
Since the response to the search does not include any return address, ShareZilla uses Gnutella Net's natural anonimity to keep your home IP address from being discovered. This way you don't have to wory about any number of hack attacks, which can only be done once the hacker knows your home IP (sic)
This means ShareZilla allows anyone to spam, spam, spam in a (supposedly) undetectable way, free from retailiatory hackage.
However, there is a simple solution. There is one organization whose IP address we do know, www.flatplanet.com.
There are only a couple of genres now, there were more when 2d was the norm. In five years time will it still just be doom-like-games and racing-vehicle games?
What about God-games, sports games, real-time strategy, RPGs, 3-D platform games, puzzle games, flight sims, space combat sims, Resident Evil clones...
Lots of people seem to come up with this 'there's no innovative games around any more', but remember in the days of the SNES when every other game was a 2-D platformer? Or 10 years before that when it was mostly Space Invaders rip-offs (Galaxians, Zalaga, etc.)?
New technology means new gaming styles, it's inevitable.
I say, sue Xerox. The entire point of a photocopier is to allow you to copy documents. Until we have some protection system on photocopiers so they can only copy public domain pieces of paper, they should be banned (although they do smell kind of nice).
Yay! Political argument on /.
Er, sorry, I mean, a bunch of idiots banging on about zany, toddler-IQ ideas of freedom. Atlas Shrugged is so boring and badly written I can't believe anyone, not even Ayn Rand, has ever read it. Still, Gary Cooper was cute in The Fountainhead.
Why is the only thing that passes for politics in geek circles (and I'm talking about the whole discussion, not just this poster) is this screw-everyone, I've just watched 'The Wild One' rampant, sub-Nietzschean un-individual individualism? Are all geeks destined to live their life by the same cliches?
Just because everyone hates you (and what geek isn't despised by most of right-thinking society) doesn't mean you shouldn't have *some* respect for the human race.
And please, try and read more than one book before you formulate a view on any topic, least of all the role of human beings in the world.
They're nihilists, Donny. Nothing to be afraid of. - The Big Lebowski