If you paid retail for your copy then you haven't paid the tax, you coughed up of your own choice.
'Microsoft Tax' refers to the fact that it can be difficult to avoid paying for a copy of Windows with a new PC even if you don't actually intend to use it. It's a complaint about Microsoft's business practices, not the fact that Windows isn't free.
Anybody here able to login to Slashdot via SixXS ? Works fine otherwise, just can't login:( Just call me Anonymous Coward. (Before anyone quibbles, this comment posted via IPv4)
Add in a real problem in the UK with second hand cars still being registered to their previous owners
I think I read somewhere that around a third of cars in the UK aren't registered to their current owner, hence the current change in the road tax system whereby you can't get a tax disc without the form which they post to the registered owner. Although with a scanner, printer and Photoshop you could probably sort something out:)
I'll be interesting to see how the London scheme works out as the council here in Edinburgh are considering implementing a similar scheme.
In the UK silence is basically an admission of guilt.
AFAIK just in England and Wales.
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Polygraph tests are not admissible as evidence in the UK as they're not considered to be in any way reliable. I can't see 'brain fingerprinting' gaining any acceptance here for the same reason.
But even if you use a filter such as SpamAssassin you still receive the spam. Even if it ends up in a different folder or is automatically deleted the spam has still been sent, the bandwidth and cpu time has still been wasted. In a way it's just ignoring the problem. If you want to forward your spam to Spamcop or similar you still have to actually look at it to be sure, and it's this approach which is more effective in making life difficult for spammers.
Don't give them your real email address, then you definitely won't get any. I reregister with a different load of random gibberish every time and use an email address out of my spam folder.
I wouldn't have thought Pace STBs, whether satellite or cable, were a good advert for anything. Horrible, badly designed GUI running on underpowered hardware. Probably nothing bad about the underlying OS but how can you tell ?
The consultation period is over and mostly due to stand.org.uk's efforts in bringing the consultation exercise to peoples attention the Home Office seem to be quietly backing down over I.D cards (for the moment anyway). No doubt this is the reason behind SchlumbergerSema trotting out this poll. They can see their fat government contract disappearing into thin air.
News stations/papers are commercial entities and as such are motivated by profit, and therefore by ratings/readership. Possible terrorist attacks bring in more readers/viewers than technical failures. QED.
If you didn't pay for prisons, you would have dangerous murderers, rapists and potheads walking the streets and terrorizing the populace.
Dangerous potheads ?
Similarly, in this system, you are paying the RIAA for the continued service of providing music. Like it or not, everything musical you purchase has an association with the RIAA; if the RIAA goes bankrupt from the rampant internet piracy of their intellectual property, the whole world will suffer, because all sources of music will dry up.
Horizon is still on, although it's maybe been 'dumbed down' a bit. Given that the BBC tries to justify the licence fee ('TV tax' to the rest of you) by claiming that this frees them from the advertising driven pressure to achieve high viewing levels, why do they then chase ratings like the commercial channels do?
You have to slide the cover on a Nokia 8110 open by hand. The ones in the film had the 'spring loaded' mechanism added to look cooler. Given the tendency of the sliding covers on that style of phone to break, I would imagine that spring loaded ones would end up being fired across the room within a day:)
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I think it means that mixing cider in wine makes you soil yourself. I can well believe this.
'Microsoft Tax' refers to the fact that it can be difficult to avoid paying for a copy of Windows with a new PC even if you don't actually intend to use it. It's a complaint about Microsoft's business practices, not the fact that Windows isn't free.
Threewave CTF ? Team Fortress ?
Anybody here able to login to Slashdot via SixXS ? Works fine otherwise, just can't login :(
Just call me Anonymous Coward.
(Before anyone quibbles, this comment posted via IPv4)
If you're using IPV6 via a tunnel broker then using the SixXS gateway enables you to avoid your ISP's evil transparent web proxy.
I think I read somewhere that around a third of cars in the UK aren't registered to their current owner, hence the current change in the road tax system whereby you can't get a tax disc without the form which they post to the registered owner.
Although with a scanner, printer and Photoshop you could probably sort something out
I'll be interesting to see how the London scheme works out as the council here in Edinburgh are considering implementing a similar scheme.
AFAIK just in England and Wales.
Polygraph tests are not admissible as evidence in the UK as they're not considered to be in any way reliable.
I can't see 'brain fingerprinting' gaining any acceptance here for the same reason.
But even if you use a filter such as SpamAssassin you still receive the spam. Even if it ends up in a different folder or is automatically deleted the spam has still been sent, the bandwidth and cpu time has still been wasted.
In a way it's just ignoring the problem.
If you want to forward your spam to Spamcop or similar you still have to actually look at it to be sure, and it's this approach which is more effective in making life difficult for spammers.
Don't give them your real email address, then you definitely won't get any. I reregister with a different load of random gibberish every time and use an email address out of my spam folder.
I find that the edge of a credit card quite effective in grinding up a rock to put in a joint.
Ha, you deluded fool, you are all Nazis.
For a period of 11 years, 60 years ago. The mud has obviously stuck as far as you're concerned though.
What's done is done. We're discussing what's not done yet.
I wouldn't have thought Pace STBs, whether satellite or cable, were a good advert for anything. Horrible, badly designed GUI running on underpowered hardware. Probably nothing bad about the underlying OS but how can you tell ?
They'll need a pretty big catapult to get them very far into Iraq though.
The consultation period is over and mostly due to stand.org.uk's efforts in bringing the consultation exercise to peoples attention the Home Office seem to be quietly backing down over I.D cards (for the moment anyway).
No doubt this is the reason behind SchlumbergerSema trotting out this poll. They can see their fat government contract disappearing into thin air.
News stations/papers are commercial entities and as such are motivated by profit, and therefore by ratings/readership. Possible terrorist attacks bring in more readers/viewers than technical failures. QED.
Can't say I've ever encountered mandatory certification for either.
Horizon is still on, although it's maybe been 'dumbed down' a bit.
Given that the BBC tries to justify the licence fee ('TV tax' to the rest of you) by claiming that this frees them from the advertising driven pressure to achieve high viewing levels, why do they then chase ratings like the commercial channels do?
Uranus is Greek.
I was including moons and asteroids as well, but what the hell.
The convention seems to be deities but not necessarily Roman ones.
Quaoar seems to be a native american one. See here.
You have to slide the cover on a Nokia 8110 open by hand. The ones in the film had the 'spring loaded' mechanism added to look cooler. :)
Given the tendency of the sliding covers on that style of phone to break, I would imagine that spring loaded ones would end up being fired across the room within a day
They're history anyway.