VAT is paid by everyone along the supply chain. Manufacturer buys raw materials, supplier pays VAT.
If you are talking about the UK (the only place I know of that calls it VAT), you are wrong. Only the final sale of the goods has VAT added. That's why if you get a supply catalogue aimed at business, or go to a cash and carry like Macro, you don't see VAT on the prices automatically.
No, the first poster was right. Everyone pays
VAT, but since businesses get to reclaim it when
they charge their customers they want to see the price without VAT in catalogues and so on.
Sales taxes vary by state too.
That explains the problem in the States for this kind of thing. The UK has a VAT rate of 17.5%, which is the same across all of the countries that make up the UK. Makes the taxing of internet goods pretty simple.
But Europe doesn't have a unified VAT rate. If a non-business customer buys goods in another country then they pay the sellers VAT rate (businesses pay their local VAT rate, at
the port of entry).
VAT seems complicated, but it works, even with different rates.
It makes much more sense to compare the US to the EU than to any single EU country. (I always wanted to laugh when I saw reports of Maggie in the states lecturing on the evils of a Federal Union or a single currency. Why, the idea of a single currency without a single tax rate, it could never work!:-)).
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...care to email me and tell me how it f'd up?
What part of
...who spent 6 million in 7 months...
Don't you get?
<digression>
One day I was talking to a friend in some kind
of junky internet company (you may know them, they
have a sports stadium named after them). "What's your burn rate" he asked. "What's a burn rate?" I naively replied. He explained. I had to explain to the poor looser that we'd made a profit for every month since we'd started business. Tee Hee.
</digression>
Why does no-one ever mention
ifile? They seem to have been doing this for quite some time (since 1996?) and have a neat trick for avoiding all those boring "training" steps (you tell ifile how to classify messages by moving them into the folder you think they should be in).
There are people dying in New York. A ductator across the ocean is building weapons of mass destruction. Go donate some blood or something, don't bother us with your pandering consumerism.
Nokia makes the best phones on the market. Period. I've owned Siemens, Motorola and four Nokias - I've tried the Sony Ericsson T68i, Ericsson (old ones) and a few others (like Bosch etc) - NONE of them are as good as the Nokia - they simply have the best user interface - menu system - of them all. On advanced phones the menu system is very important - And none beats the nokias.
I don't know about you, but I've droped my cell phone into lakes too often to want an expensive one. (it was in my pocket when I fell overboard last time) Sure I recover it, but I haven't had success getting them to work after tha[t].
You need a good old motorola 3688, had mine in my pocket when I fell into the Canal du Midi, 5 days later it was working as good as new.
Only 83g as well, carry a 130g telephone? Those Nokia guys think I'm an elephant?
Is a standard driver interface for x86. Preferably managed by a non-profit group who could then permit the manufacturer to display a logo on the box once the driver has been tested
Oh, you mean like UDI? Pity those Linux zealots trashed on it.
Also, 2.4 is getting somewhat more sane in recent releases.
Bullshit, if anything it's getting worse. When Linus retires to the 2.5 never-never land things might get sorted out. Or do you mean that 2.4.10+ will nead a 2x1800+ Athalon?
What the fuck are you smoking! Name a great and exciting development in operating systems in the last 20 years!
Shit, Linux includes device drivers in the kernel source! Talk about retro!
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The funny bit about The Art of War is the difference between the simple, sensible stuff written bu Sun Tzu and the incomprehensible crap that is the commentaries. Often it seems that the commentaries contradict what Sun Tzu said!
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Fourth, software is also improving thanks to more efficient algorithms, more reliable programming tools, the compression of image and data, and more efficient coding of radio transmissions. The technologies of artificial intelligence may also start to bear great fruit as well.
... the very large company I work for... it is getting hard to communicate in English - for a global firm that predominately does mostly U.S. business...
I am unable to understand this sentence fragment. It's a global form or it does mostly U.S. business. Which?
The big problem is that two of the interesting parts of UnixWare, the Veritas file system, VxFS, and the volume manager, VxVM, were bought from Veritas so they might have a bit of trouble freeing that.
NonStop clusters for Linux would be pretty impressive though.
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VAT seems complicated, but it works, even with different rates.
It makes much more sense to compare the US to the EU than to any single EU country. (I always wanted to laugh when I saw reports of Maggie in the states lecturing on the evils of a Federal Union or a single currency. Why, the idea of a single currency without a single tax rate, it could never work! :-)).
<digression> One day I was talking to a friend in some kind of junky internet company (you may know them, they have a sports stadium named after them). "What's your burn rate" he asked. "What's a burn rate?" I naively replied. He explained. I had to explain to the poor looser that we'd made a profit for every month since we'd started business. Tee Hee. </digression>
Why does no-one ever mention ifile? They seem to have been doing this for quite some time (since 1996?) and have a neat trick for avoiding all those boring "training" steps (you tell ifile how to classify messages by moving them into the folder you think they should be in).
Try The Reefs of Space, Pohl & Williamson, 1964.
Yup; Dubya has the bomb. Deal with it.
Great menu. Pity the phone doesn't work.
You need a good old motorola 3688, had mine in my pocket when I fell into the Canal du Midi, 5 days later it was working as good as new.
Only 83g as well, carry a 130g telephone? Those Nokia guys think I'm an elephant?
So it'll live beyond it's first release? The Mod Squad
Oh, you mean like UDI? Pity those Linux zealots trashed on it.
Bullshit, if anything it's getting worse. When Linus retires to the 2.5 never-never land things might get sorted out. Or do you mean that 2.4.10+ will nead a 2x1800+ Athalon?
Well, Linus, he's just this guy, you know?
And as for Linux, well after the whole 2.4.10 VM debacle it seems like Linus is what's fucking things up. Seems like about time he should retire.
What the fuck are you smoking! Name a great and exciting development in operating systems in the last 20 years!
Shit, Linux includes device drivers in the kernel source! Talk about retro!
The funny bit about The Art of War is the difference between the simple, sensible stuff written bu Sun Tzu and the incomprehensible crap that is the commentaries. Often it seems that the commentaries contradict what Sun Tzu said!
You reboot to add new hardware? How primitive, you've still not caught up with 1960's technology.
Linux - 40 years out of date and proud of it. :-)
Caldera must be sick about this!
Well, they've just made sure that my next system is Linux. Sorry FreeBSD, vinum was nearly enough, but NSC is the hard stuff!
Silly boy, if you're in orbit you don't need a railgun. Just drop things on 'em. Never heard of gravity?
See N&P's "Footfall" for details.
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Oh good grief. Of course the CPU usage was higher.
Hint: with a RAMdisk you don't have to wait for the disk.
NonStop clusters for Linux would be pretty impressive though.
(no, it is not at all the same thing as Beowulf).
Not Xenix, that's owned by the boys from Redmond.
Recent versions of UnixWare can't even run Xenix binaries, so SCO didn't have to pay a Microsoft tax on every copy. (All praise the EU!)