Thus it never happend. VATs are due where you live, not where you spend your money. Not true. I buy car parts from Germany (VAT is 16%) but my local rate is 19%. I pay only the German rate. This applies within the EU. Same if I order from Amazon UK, I pay 17.5% (UK VAT), not my local 19%.
Should I order the goods when say in NZ, I don't pay the German VAT, but may well have to pay the NZ version (GST) which is 12.5%.
Now, if we're talking cars, then it's a whole new kettle of fish....
d say that any European nation bold enough to reduce it's VAT rate to 5% will gain in jobs and revenue in the long term They can't, the minimum is 15%, which is why a few officed may setup in Luxembourg!
Maybe I've misunderstood the business angle, but if I as an individual buy something from say Luxembourg (@15% VAT) but live in say Holland (19%), I pay the Luxembourg VAT, and am not required to pay anything more in Holland as the goods are already EU VAT paid.
I thought similar things applied with business-business transactions, and there is a mechanism to claim back the VAT paid, even for foreign (EU) paid VAT.
with France offering VISA's to Saddam & family Complete and utter bullshit. Another lie that has been repeated many times, obviously in the hope that it becomes true.
You should read this [guardian.co.uk]. Funny that you chose to link to a left-wing newspaper, packed full of liberal viewpoints! Maybe read some of their other articles.
I use a sitecom card (802.11b) with the atmel chipset. Drivers are available on sourcforge, and seem to work quite well. (Using SuSE 8.1). In fact, the drivers work better than the windows ones!
Win XP does this with only one base station "visible"! The recommended fix from the vendor is to turn of the zero config stuff. Still get drop-outs every now and then. Same on, but to a lesser degree on a win2k laptop
What is very funny is that the Linux drivers (atmel) have no problems at all...Ha!
That would be great, but I've been caught a few times recently, as you couldn't easily tell the "CD" was copy protected. In two cases there was a small transparent label with tiny white writing on the CD case (and the shop only displays the covers), in another case, the warnng is on the back cover, again in microscopic type.
It's still in a CD case, with CD logo, but no logos on the disc or artwork.
I actually have no qualms with Bush's arguments. I hate sending people into harm's way, but better we lose some life taking nukes away from Saddam than losing many thousands getting nuked. According to everyone but Bush and Blair, Saddam doesn't have nukes.
(Doesn't mean to say he's not a nasty piece of work though...)
The difficult part will be to get enough "points" to get a work visa in the first place. That'll allow you to live and work in NZ. After 3 years, you can apply for permanent residency, so you can come and go as you please, and work wherever you like. After 5 years, you can apply for citizenship (you can have dual citizenship too). Or, you can marry a kiwi.
Because its a small place, population-wise, there is not too much bureaucracy. You can talk to your local MP (representative), and even cabinet ministers and the PM. You can even "discuss" things with officials:-)
Generally, people are very friendly, and living in Europe at the mo', I can say customer service is NZ is excellent! Food quality is excellent, and house sizes quite reasonable.
Technically speaking, it's advanced, literate, and we tend to push technology to its limits fairly quickly.
Like any place, there are bad points. We have all the typical anglo-saxon country problems with violence and alcohol abuse. The police generally don't carry guns, and are (generally) friendly and reasonable. There is no requirement to carry ID, except when you're driving (driver's licence).
Cost of living is lower than most OECD countries, and quality of life is very high. Many activities that are considered expensive in Europe/US are more affordable in NZ (flying, sailing, golf, etc). There is a strong sense of equality, to the extent that we "suffer" from have a "tall-poppy syndrome".
Climate, well, that depends on where you live. Sub-tropical north (no jobs), temperate in the middle, a bit more extreme down south/south-east, and very, very, very wet in the extreme south-west (4500 to over 10.000mm rain per year!!!)
I sort of understand his anger though. I've got xine, which works pretty well, but also wanted to get mplayer working. I could never get the RPMS to work (even to the extent that they locked the machine solid), and didn't fancy using the command line version all the time. And I prefer to use KDE.
Eventually I found a KDE front-end and compiled mplayer, sans gui, and.....happiness - it works, and properly too.
But, it took far more time and effort than many users can be bothered with. Get the program stable first, then do a simple, easy to use interface/GUI, and THEN worry about fancy skins.
Composites are in use in quite a few high performance (and lower performance, such as the old Renault Espace), and the vehicles are safe.
The science of crash safety is complex. Rigid vehicles cause occupants far more injury than those with well designed safety cages and deformable crumple zones - one reason why SUVs involved in single vehicle collisions often result in more serious injuries. New cars provide far better protection to occupants than older cars, but the damage to the actual vehicle may look more severe.
(Why do computer geeks assume that since they know and understand computers, they know about totally unrelated disciplines? (BTW that is not a dig at the parent poster, just a general observation)
The biggest reason for the damage an SUV causes in a collision with a normal car is the disparity in bumper height. Look carefully at normal cars: notice how the front and rear bumpers all line up? That's due to regulation - regulations which the SUVs don't have to conform to.
The BMW bike is not legally allowed. Scooters have to be less than 50cc. In some places, scooters are banned from cycle lanes due to irresponsible riders going too fast. Also little 50cc "cars" are allowed too.
But the lanes are great, as you can skate, bike, kickboard almost anywhere.
Interesting. Assuming you drive on the right in Amsterdam Assumed right.
how does a cyclist make a left-hand turn? The same as anywhere else - turn the handlebars a bit an lean to the left:-) Seriously, there are separate traffic lights for bikes, else the normal give way to traffic from your right applies.
How does a car turn right if the bike is going straight ahead? Car must give way (give way to all traffic coming from your right).
Are there separate turn signals for bikes and cars at every intersection? In the cities, for the most part yes, otherwise see above
I'm having trouble picturing how it all works Visit!
Unfortunately, bike trails have turned out to have poor safety records.
Seem to work pretty well here in the Netherlands. But then, they design the fietspad in from the start, rather than tacking it on somewhere as an afterthought.
Still, Segways would be useless in Amsterdam, as it'd be nicked within 30 seconds of parking it...
The Yugo was based on the 127, while the Lada (2wd) was based on the FIAT 124/125 (actually quite a good, fun to drive car). The Niva, a 4wd, is their own design, and fairly capable off road. There were, maybe still are, fitted with 1.9 litre Peugeot diesel engines, or a 1600 petrol.
Spending $300 (so years ago) on a direct drive turntable+needle to get good sound If you want good sound quality, get rid of the direct drive. Good for DJing, crap for listening. Plus it'll cost you a fair bit more than $300 for the turntable and cartridge.
Yes, it does cost more to get decent sound quality from LPs than CDs. But I can also say that a $50 CD player will sound truly awful!!
There are many other places of interest in Holland, almost all related to water management.
Go and see the afsluitdijk up in the north east take a look around Flevoland (a huge reclaimed area) and IJburg (new islands in Amsterdam built for housing), and the barriers down in Zeeland.
Speaking of Zeeland related things, if you are in New Zealand, go to the Te Papa museum and any other place that has eathquake "proof" related engineering. NZ is a world leader in this (Wellington is not really an ideal place to have built a capital city:-) ) If you break the law in Wellington, maybe the police will let you see the foundations in the basement, complete with giant lead-filled shock-absorbers:-) ).
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A car with crumple zones (invented by VW, BTW) Not too sure about that one. Mercedes and Citroen probably had the first production cars with intended crumple zones (old 180's and ID/DS), and SAAB & Volvo were doing quite a bit too. This at a time when VW where only doing the Beetle.
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I think you'll find that is because of the (dirty) diesel that you have in the US. Measure one running on low sulphur diesel, and it'll be a lot better.
Err don't think so. At least the ones I was on last week weren't. No, it's just a light rail system (hens the LR), and a not very quick one either. Oh, and the really clever thing, that only the English could devise, was to have the DLR NOT stop at London City Airport, even though it runs right past it!
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Not to mention the 180% car registration tax. Not only applies to new cars, but also to "substantially modified" ones too.
Ouch!
We are both right!!
15% minimum for the standard rate, and (this one I'm not sure of) 5% minimum for the low rate (basic foods etc).
It's all way too complicated. Have a lower rate, and on everything.
Thus it never happend. VATs are due where you live, not where you spend your money.
Not true. I buy car parts from Germany (VAT is 16%) but my local rate is 19%. I pay only the German rate. This applies within the EU. Same if I order from Amazon UK, I pay 17.5% (UK VAT), not my local 19%.
Should I order the goods when say in NZ, I don't pay the German VAT, but may well have to pay the NZ version (GST) which is 12.5%.
Now, if we're talking cars, then it's a whole new kettle of fish....
d say that any European nation bold enough to reduce it's VAT rate to 5% will gain in jobs and revenue in the long term
They can't, the minimum is 15%, which is why a few officed may setup in Luxembourg!
Maybe I've misunderstood the business angle, but if I as an individual buy something from say Luxembourg (@15% VAT) but live in say Holland (19%), I pay the Luxembourg VAT, and am not required to pay anything more in Holland as the goods are already EU VAT paid.
I thought similar things applied with business-business transactions, and there is a mechanism to claim back the VAT paid, even for foreign (EU) paid VAT.
Any tax specialists out there?
with France offering VISA's to Saddam & family
Complete and utter bullshit. Another lie that has been repeated many times, obviously in the hope that it becomes true.
You should read this [guardian.co.uk].
Funny that you chose to link to a left-wing newspaper, packed full of liberal viewpoints! Maybe read some of their other articles.
WestpacTrust (NZ "version" of Westpac) works fine with Opera, Konqueror and Moz
I use a sitecom card (802.11b) with the atmel chipset. Drivers are available on sourcforge, and seem to work quite well. (Using SuSE 8.1). In fact, the drivers work better than the windows ones!
Win XP does this with only one base station "visible"! The recommended fix from the vendor is to turn of the zero config stuff. Still get drop-outs every now and then. Same on, but to a lesser degree on a win2k laptop
What is very funny is that the Linux drivers (atmel) have no problems at all...Ha!
Just order Placebo's new album from Amazon - not copy protected.
Of course, it's also available, non-CP, on many street corners!
That would be great, but I've been caught a few times recently, as you couldn't easily tell the "CD" was copy protected. In two cases there was a small transparent label with tiny white writing on the CD case (and the shop only displays the covers), in another case, the warnng is on the back cover, again in microscopic type.
It's still in a CD case, with CD logo, but no logos on the disc or artwork.
Pure and simply deception.
I actually have no qualms with Bush's arguments. I hate sending people into harm's way, but better we lose some life taking nukes away from Saddam than losing many thousands getting nuked.
According to everyone but Bush and Blair, Saddam doesn't have nukes.
(Doesn't mean to say he's not a nasty piece of work though...)
The difficult part will be to get enough "points" to get a work visa in the first place. That'll allow you to live and work in NZ. After 3 years, you can apply for permanent residency, so you can come and go as you please, and work wherever you like. After 5 years, you can apply for citizenship (you can have dual citizenship too). Or, you can marry a kiwi.
:-)
Because its a small place, population-wise, there is not too much bureaucracy. You can talk to your local MP (representative), and even cabinet ministers and the PM. You can even "discuss" things with officials
Generally, people are very friendly, and living in Europe at the mo', I can say customer service is NZ is excellent! Food quality is excellent, and house sizes quite reasonable.
Technically speaking, it's advanced, literate, and we tend to push technology to its limits fairly quickly.
Like any place, there are bad points. We have all the typical anglo-saxon country problems with violence and alcohol abuse. The police generally don't carry guns, and are (generally) friendly and reasonable. There is no requirement to carry ID, except when you're driving (driver's licence).
Cost of living is lower than most OECD countries, and quality of life is very high. Many activities that are considered expensive in Europe/US are more affordable in NZ (flying, sailing, golf, etc). There is a strong sense of equality, to the extent that we "suffer" from have a "tall-poppy syndrome".
Climate, well, that depends on where you live. Sub-tropical north (no jobs), temperate in the middle, a bit more extreme down south/south-east, and very, very, very wet in the extreme south-west (4500 to over 10.000mm rain per year!!!)
HTH
I sort of understand his anger though. I've got xine, which works pretty well, but also wanted to get mplayer working. I could never get the RPMS to work (even to the extent that they locked the machine solid), and didn't fancy using the command line version all the time. And I prefer to use KDE.
Eventually I found a KDE front-end and compiled mplayer, sans gui, and.....happiness - it works, and properly too.
But, it took far more time and effort than many users can be bothered with. Get the program stable first, then do a simple, easy to use interface/GUI, and THEN worry about fancy skins.
Composites are in use in quite a few high performance (and lower performance, such as the old Renault Espace), and the vehicles are safe.
The science of crash safety is complex. Rigid vehicles cause occupants far more injury than those with well designed safety cages and deformable crumple zones - one reason why SUVs involved in single vehicle collisions often result in more serious injuries. New cars provide far better protection to occupants than older cars, but the damage to the actual vehicle may look more severe.
(Why do computer geeks assume that since they know and understand computers, they know about totally unrelated disciplines? (BTW that is not a dig at the parent poster, just a general observation)
The biggest reason for the damage an SUV causes in a collision with a normal car is the disparity in bumper height. Look carefully at normal cars: notice how the front and rear bumpers all line up? That's due to regulation - regulations which the SUVs don't have to conform to.
The BMW bike is not legally allowed. Scooters have to be less than 50cc. In some places, scooters are banned from cycle lanes due to irresponsible riders going too fast. Also little 50cc "cars" are allowed too.
But the lanes are great, as you can skate, bike, kickboard almost anywhere.
Interesting. Assuming you drive on the right in Amsterdam Assumed right.
:-) Seriously, there are separate traffic lights for bikes, else the normal give way to traffic from your right applies.
how does a cyclist make a left-hand turn? The same as anywhere else - turn the handlebars a bit an lean to the left
How does a car turn right if the bike is going straight ahead? Car must give way (give way to all traffic coming from your right).
Are there separate turn signals for bikes and cars at every intersection? In the cities, for the most part yes, otherwise see above
I'm having trouble picturing how it all works Visit!
Seem to work pretty well here in the Netherlands. But then, they design the fietspad in from the start, rather than tacking it on somewhere as an afterthought.
Still, Segways would be useless in Amsterdam, as it'd be nicked within 30 seconds of parking it...
It's been done, mainly on regional rallies, and the cars have won their classes. IIRC, Peugeot has been experimenting with a diesel WRC.
A TD came very, very close to winning a 24h endurance race, primarily because of only having to stop half the number of times.
The Yugo was based on the 127, while the Lada (2wd) was based on the FIAT 124/125 (actually quite a good, fun to drive car). The Niva, a 4wd, is their own design, and fairly capable off road. There were, maybe still are, fitted with 1.9 litre Peugeot diesel engines, or a 1600 petrol.
Spending $300 (so years ago) on a direct drive turntable+needle to get good sound
If you want good sound quality, get rid of the direct drive. Good for DJing, crap for listening. Plus it'll cost you a fair bit more than $300 for the turntable and cartridge.
Yes, it does cost more to get decent sound quality from LPs than CDs. But I can also say that a $50 CD player will sound truly awful!!
There are many other places of interest in Holland, almost all related to water management.
:-) ) If you break the law in Wellington, maybe the police will let you see the foundations in the basement, complete with giant lead-filled shock-absorbers :-) ).
Go and see the afsluitdijk up in the north east take a look around Flevoland (a huge reclaimed area) and IJburg (new islands in Amsterdam built for housing), and the barriers down in Zeeland.
Speaking of Zeeland related things, if you are in New Zealand, go to the Te Papa museum and any other place that has eathquake "proof" related engineering. NZ is a world leader in this (Wellington is not really an ideal place to have built a capital city
A car with crumple zones (invented by VW, BTW) Not too sure about that one. Mercedes and Citroen probably had the first production cars with intended crumple zones (old 180's and ID/DS), and SAAB & Volvo were doing quite a bit too. This at a time when VW where only doing the Beetle.
I think you'll find that is because of the (dirty) diesel that you have in the US. Measure one running on low sulphur diesel, and it'll be a lot better.
Err don't think so. At least the ones I was on last week weren't. No, it's just a light rail system (hens the LR), and a not very quick one either. Oh, and the really clever thing, that only the English could devise, was to have the DLR NOT stop at London City Airport, even though it runs right past it!