...Of course I didn't RTFA, so I can't really say which is which.
Please get with the program. You're supposed to not RTFA and then provide a strongly worded opinion and become belligerent when challenged on it. Sheeesh.
in Australia (apparently a nazi country since we have govt regulation of business, gun control, national healthcare?)...!
I believe that every developed country on the planet, with the exception of the US, is a 'nazi country' by this definition.
So don't you go feeling you're special:-)
Solar power is not dispatchable. This failing may possibly be rectifiable with battery storage systems, but we're not there yet.
FWIW, I live in Vancouver where sunlight is almost non-existent in November, so I always find it interesting when solar is championed as the wave of the future.
It's truly ludicrous that outside of North America, dual SIM phones are the norm, whereas in NA, it is impossible to buy a phone from a carrier that is dual SIM (at least that's the case in Canada). That kind of nonsense is the result of having oligopolies.
I voted with my wallet and bought a dual SIM Xiaomi from a third party. Will likely do so next time I need a phone as well.
I've had a Redmi 6 for about a month. I put Nova on it and life's good. The Redmi 6 is not a power phone by any stretch of the imagination, but it is very good bang for the buck. Got mine from B&H Photo. Next phone will likely be a Xiaomi as well.
America sure is different than the rest of the world. In most developed places, if you even had 90,000 dollars cash on your person or in your house, it would be assumed to come from illegal means.
Hell i can't even take more than $2000 dollars out of the ATM per day.
rich people problems... Austrailia has a big problem with housing speculators, hot asian money, etc. So thats more likely the reason for this decision. Who the hell walks around with 90,000 dollars... where would you even get that much cash? If you are super rich can you just walk into the bank and say "give me a $100k in 20s, here's a suitcase" ??? man i simply cannot picture this world you live in... not sure if its because i'm super poor or not american or what this time.
We have the exact same problem in Vancouver - housing speculators, hot asian money, etc. We even had people walking into casinos with $10s of thousands, usually in $20 bills, or even $100,000 to $200,000 in duffel bags, exchanging it for chips, and then cashing it out - voila, money laundered. So, count me in as incredulous as to why anyone needs to be walking around with $10,000 in cash on them.
There must be no thieves in Belgium as it is forbidden, by law, to block phones....
Canada must also be cell phone thief free, but only just recently. IIRC it was as of December 2017 that it became illegal to sell locked cell phones in Canada.
Presumably prior to Dec 2017 Canada was rife with cell phone thieves. Either that or the whole lock to prevent theft argument is so much BS.
In the UK housing is really unaffordable. We don't build enough houses, and older people see them as an asset which means they want to keep prices high.
In top of that, rents are very high too.
Many young people's only chance of owning a home is to wait for a relative to die and leave them some money. This creates a feedback loop where older people want their homes to remain expensive so they have more to pass on to their kids now that house prices are so high.
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Pretty much the same situation in Vancouver and Toronto. The one difference with the UK may be that in Vancouver, housing supply would arguably not be an issue except for foreign money pouring into the residential real estate market, thus driving up demand and prices.
I live in Canada and for a number of years had been getting mail order contacts from daysoft in the UK, with no doctor's prescription. Was always happy about the cost and service. I've since had PRK done, so no longer need their services, but would definitely recommend them (and have) to anyone looking for daily wear contacts.
So, yup, I agree, the "prescription" requirement is something of a racket.
My 2 cents.
Paper ballots are perfectly fine. Paper ballots are used in all elections in Canada (federal, provincial, municipal). Sadly, online voting keeps being raised as a way to increase voter participation - a brain-dead idea for a number of reasons.
Did something similar - wasted about 30 minutes of their time. I was even truthful thruout the entire time - initially asking whether their fix worked on "all operating systems" , which I was assured it did:-). Eventually, a more senior person was put on the line and when I had grown tired of the thing and said I was running Linux he got real made and became somewhat threatening - "I ought to kick your ass" or some such.
So, yes, for me this was both entertainment and a public service.
Canadian law professor Michael Geist asks: "Google will obviously abide the ruling, but as I noted last year, what happens if a Chinese court orders it to remove Taiwanese sites from the index? Or if an Iranian court orders it to remove gay and lesbian sites from the index?"
In-freaking-deed what?
As a Canadian, I find this court ruling, well, sucks.
... It works, it's reliable, and is pretty resistant to any kind of interference....
But it's just not sexy:-)
Seriously, I live in Canada and during the last federal election campaign my head almost exploded when I saw that the Liberal party (now the governing party) was promising to seriously look at online voting if elected. Online voting - a problem-ridden solution in search of a problem.
This is what Canada should have done rather than phasing out home delivery of mail in favour of not-so-super "super mailboxes".
For those not in the know "super mailboxes" are basically community mailboxes located somewhere in your neighbourhood. The not-so-super aspects of this is that they are subject to vandalism, theft, and arson (yes, arson). Additionally, some people feel it acceptable to drop their junk mail straight on the ground, rather than take it home for recycling. And, finally, for some folks (elderly, disabled) fetching mail by trekking out to a super-mailbox in the middle of a Canadian winter is a less than pleasant experience.
One can only assume that the sensible approach of cutting mail delivery from 5 to, say, 3 days a week was not taken so as not to upset the postal union (CUPW).
A quick example, the US forced Switzerland to automatically provide information on bank account but at the same is refusing to do the same.
Maybe they're not refusing, it's just that no Swiss citizens have decided that when depositing money in a highly secure private bank account, why screw around with the United States when you could just walk across the street. You know, to a Swiss bank...
The US has forced (via threat of financial sanctions) FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) on numerous countries in order to obtain financial account information on US citizens. Meanwhile the US has so far refused to reciprocate in any meaningful way. The result is that for non-US citizens, the US is the best tax haven around (google "Delaware Nevada Wyoming tax havens").
Meanwhile the US also refuses to sign up for the OECD CRS (Common Reporting Standard).
So, the other guy is totally correct - the US is indeed being monumentally hypocritical when it comes to offshore tax evasion.
In the case of Canada, it can be seen by even a layperson that the particular use of an Isle of Man tax haven was tax evasion with just enough lipstick on it to be able to later claim, in an emergency, 'gosh, I didn't realize that was a pig I was kissing'. Look up the details of it and tell me how any reasonable person could think what was being done was legal tax avoidance. !
In the case of Canada, it can be seen by even a layperson that the particular use of an Isle of Man tax haven was tax evasion with just enough lipstick on it to be able to later claim, in an emergency, 'gosh, I didn't realize that was a pig I was kissing'. Look up the details of it and tell me how any reasonable person could think what was being done was legal tax avoidance.
Too true. The US refuses to sign on to the OECD Common Reporting Standard automatic exchange of information, and refuses to implement true reciprocity in FATCA IGAs. The result is that the US will be the last tax haven standing. Hypocrisy abounds.
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...Of course I didn't RTFA, so I can't really say which is which.
Please get with the program. You're supposed to not RTFA and then provide a strongly worded opinion and become belligerent when challenged on it. Sheeesh.
in Australia (apparently a nazi country since we have govt regulation of business, gun control, national healthcare?) ...!
I believe that every developed country on the planet, with the exception of the US, is a 'nazi country' by this definition. :-)
So don't you go feeling you're special
[written from nazi country Canada]
Solar power is not dispatchable. This failing may possibly be rectifiable with battery storage systems, but we're not there yet. FWIW, I live in Vancouver where sunlight is almost non-existent in November, so I always find it interesting when solar is championed as the wave of the future.
It's truly ludicrous that outside of North America, dual SIM phones are the norm, whereas in NA, it is impossible to buy a phone from a carrier that is dual SIM (at least that's the case in Canada). That kind of nonsense is the result of having oligopolies. I voted with my wallet and bought a dual SIM Xiaomi from a third party. Will likely do so next time I need a phone as well.
I've had a Redmi 6 for about a month. I put Nova on it and life's good. The Redmi 6 is not a power phone by any stretch of the imagination, but it is very good bang for the buck. Got mine from B&H Photo. Next phone will likely be a Xiaomi as well.
America sure is different than the rest of the world. In most developed places, if you even had 90,000 dollars cash on your person or in your house, it would be assumed to come from illegal means.
Hell i can't even take more than $2000 dollars out of the ATM per day.
rich people problems... Austrailia has a big problem with housing speculators, hot asian money, etc. So thats more likely the reason for this decision. Who the hell walks around with 90,000 dollars... where would you even get that much cash? If you are super rich can you just walk into the bank and say "give me a $100k in 20s, here's a suitcase" ??? man i simply cannot picture this world you live in... not sure if its because i'm super poor or not american or what this time.
We have the exact same problem in Vancouver - housing speculators, hot asian money, etc. We even had people walking into casinos with $10s of thousands, usually in $20 bills, or even $100,000 to $200,000 in duffel bags, exchanging it for chips, and then cashing it out - voila, money laundered. So, count me in as incredulous as to why anyone needs to be walking around with $10,000 in cash on them.
Didn't seem to work for Pied Piper, why should it work for Facebook.
Well, I, for one, blame Canada.
The problem with this is that you'd separate parents from kids. So, not gonna happen.
There must be no thieves in Belgium as it is forbidden, by law, to block phones. ...
Canada must also be cell phone thief free, but only just recently. IIRC it was as of December 2017 that it became illegal to sell locked cell phones in Canada. Presumably prior to Dec 2017 Canada was rife with cell phone thieves. Either that or the whole lock to prevent theft argument is so much BS.
In the UK housing is really unaffordable. We don't build enough houses, and older people see them as an asset which means they want to keep prices high.
In top of that, rents are very high too.
Many young people's only chance of owning a home is to wait for a relative to die and leave them some money. This creates a feedback loop where older people want their homes to remain expensive so they have more to pass on to their kids now that house prices are so high.
Pretty much the same situation in Vancouver and Toronto. The one difference with the UK may be that in Vancouver, housing supply would arguably not be an issue except for foreign money pouring into the residential real estate market, thus driving up demand and prices.
I live in Canada and for a number of years had been getting mail order contacts from daysoft in the UK, with no doctor's prescription. Was always happy about the cost and service. I've since had PRK done, so no longer need their services, but would definitely recommend them (and have) to anyone looking for daily wear contacts. So, yup, I agree, the "prescription" requirement is something of a racket. My 2 cents.
That trick has worked for me as well in the past. Haven't tried it in the last few years, so can't say how current it is.
Paper ballots are perfectly fine. Paper ballots are used in all elections in Canada (federal, provincial, municipal). Sadly, online voting keeps being raised as a way to increase voter participation - a brain-dead idea for a number of reasons.
Did something similar - wasted about 30 minutes of their time. I was even truthful thruout the entire time - initially asking whether their fix worked on "all operating systems" , which I was assured it did :-). Eventually, a more senior person was put on the line and when I had grown tired of the thing and said I was running Linux he got real made and became somewhat threatening - "I ought to kick your ass" or some such.
So, yes, for me this was both entertainment and a public service.
Canadian law professor Michael Geist asks:
"Google will obviously abide the ruling, but as I noted last year, what happens if a Chinese court orders it to remove Taiwanese sites from the index? Or if an Iranian court orders it to remove gay and lesbian sites from the index?"
In-freaking-deed what?
As a Canadian, I find this court ruling, well, sucks.
My kingdom for a supported, reliable Netflix add-on.
And while they're at it, an officially supported Netflix addon for Kodi would be great too!
It could not come soon enough.
... ...
It works, it's reliable, and is pretty resistant to any kind of interference.
But it's just not sexy :-)
Seriously, I live in Canada and during the last federal election campaign my head almost exploded when I saw that the Liberal party (now the governing party) was promising to seriously look at online voting if elected. Online voting - a problem-ridden solution in search of a problem.
This is what Canada should have done rather than phasing out home delivery of mail in favour of not-so-super "super mailboxes".
For those not in the know "super mailboxes" are basically community mailboxes located somewhere in your neighbourhood. The not-so-super aspects of this is that they are subject to vandalism, theft, and arson (yes, arson). Additionally, some people feel it acceptable to drop their junk mail straight on the ground, rather than take it home for recycling. And, finally, for some folks (elderly, disabled) fetching mail by trekking out to a super-mailbox in the middle of a Canadian winter is a less than pleasant experience.
One can only assume that the sensible approach of cutting mail delivery from 5 to, say, 3 days a week was not taken so as not to upset the postal union (CUPW).
A quick example, the US forced Switzerland to automatically provide information on bank account but at the same is refusing to do the same.
Maybe they're not refusing, it's just that no Swiss citizens have decided that when depositing money in a highly secure private bank account, why screw around with the United States when you could just walk across the street. You know, to a Swiss bank...
The US has forced (via threat of financial sanctions) FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) on numerous countries in order to obtain financial account information on US citizens. Meanwhile the US has so far refused to reciprocate in any meaningful way. The result is that for non-US citizens, the US is the best tax haven around (google "Delaware Nevada Wyoming tax havens").
Meanwhile the US also refuses to sign up for the OECD CRS (Common Reporting Standard).
So, the other guy is totally correct - the US is indeed being monumentally hypocritical when it comes to offshore tax evasion.
In the case of Canada, it can be seen by even a layperson that the particular use of an Isle of Man tax haven was tax evasion with just enough lipstick on it to be able to later claim, in an emergency, 'gosh, I didn't realize that was a pig I was kissing'. Look up the details of it and tell me how any reasonable person could think what was being done was legal tax avoidance. !
In the case of Canada, it can be seen by even a layperson that the particular use of an Isle of Man tax haven was tax evasion with just enough lipstick on it to be able to later claim, in an emergency, 'gosh, I didn't realize that was a pig I was kissing'. Look up the details of it and tell me how any reasonable person could think what was being done was legal tax avoidance.
Too true.
The US refuses to sign on to the OECD Common Reporting Standard automatic exchange of information, and refuses to implement true reciprocity in FATCA IGAs. The result is that the US will be the last tax haven standing. Hypocrisy abounds.
Agreed. Sad as it may be, I have also found that procrastinating solves a surprising number of issues.