No sales tax, no -- unless it's levied at a muncipal level in some EU member states. We all follow the V.A.T. model... unless maybe Slovakia is different? I know they have a flat tax regime, so maybe it's somehow different there.
Apple used to manufacture in Cork, Ireland. Not sure if it's still a manufacturing facility, but they are still there -- my friend is the manager of telesales for Europe.
Make enough in an hour to buy an iPod? An iPod shuffle 512MB, if you're lucky... I want to work in this mythical place you refer to, where the hourly rate is >=$99/hour...
Nah, it's funnier when you only half-translate it, and poorly at that! I was in a Betriebsrat (worker's council) meeting one day at my former employer in Raunheim, Hesse, and the worker's council head (who spoke German only) used the word "ge-updated" in reference to a system we were rolling out... for some reason that Denglish word has just stuck with me ever since.
Oh calm down... the soliders of destiny might be a bunch of wankers with a graft problem, but I wouldn't describe them as fascist. McDowell maybe, but not FF.
I dropped my 1GHz/17" PB *hard* once, denting the front left corner... still works great. I haul it back and forth to work every day on the floor of my car, had it for well over a year now. The thing is quite tough.
I put a 60GB (unformatted) one of those Hitachi 7200 RPM drives in my G4/17" @ 1GHz along with a gigabyte of RAM... the performance increase was (purely subjective) ~25%... very welcome.
No purported about it, Ireland is about as capitalist as it gets in Western Europe... not for us the generous safety net of social provision. MLE was told upfront how much it would be given in state funding, and for how long. It was clear from thge beginning that this funding was limited in time and amount.
Couldn't agree more, total fucking waste of Irish taxpayer euros... investing in this crap when there aren't enough hospital beds and people are sleeping on gurneys in the A&E room. Wasteful shits.
It's nightmarish! A friend of mine just bought a 1200-square foot semi-D house in my hometown (a smallish town in the southwest), nothing special, new development of 20 or so houses, for... euro 380,000. It's just insane.
EUR 5 for a pint of Guinness in the local, EUR 7 for a pack of 20 cigs, you hit the highest income tax rate as soon as you earn the average industrial wage (not that high, maybe EUR 35,000 a year)... it just all adds up. Especially compared to the very reasonable and sane cost of living here in St. Louis, where I've been for the last 6+ years.
And yet Ireland tops the Economist Intelligence Unit's ranking of places to live (determined by quality of life, not income...)... every Irish person I know laughed bitterly when told about this, given that they're paying through the nose for the privelege of living there...
Me, I'm waiting for the housing market crash before I move back there... it makes me sad. I emigrated to the continent in 1992 because I was being paid a pittance there, now I can't afford to move back!
I think our basic VAT rate in Ireland, at 17%, is higher than the UK rate. That, and the fact that everything now costs a freaking arm and a leg in Ireland. I haven't lived there in over 10 years, and I'd move back in a heartbeat if it weren't for the shitty weather and brutal cost of living.
The wireless card is likely a custom card -- looks like a PC Card but isn't. At least that was the case with my iBook. The RAM is common DDR RAM, as are the drives used.
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You are subject to Chinese law (unless you have diplomatic immunity). Show a little respect and common sense, and obey the prevailing laws.
That you're American makes little difference -- in China, you're subject to Chinese law.
No sales tax, no -- unless it's levied at a muncipal level in some EU member states. We all follow the V.A.T. model... unless maybe Slovakia is different? I know they have a flat tax regime, so maybe it's somehow different there.
Apple used to manufacture in Cork, Ireland. Not sure if it's still a manufacturing facility, but they are still there -- my friend is the manager of telesales for Europe.
Make enough in an hour to buy an iPod? An iPod shuffle 512MB, if you're lucky... I want to work in this mythical place you refer to, where the hourly rate is >=$99/hour...
I'm lucky to see less than half that.
*This* gets modded insightful? No disrespect, but the guy just repeated a couple of very obvious points about a small, embeddable Java database...
I run Eclipse 3.1 M4 on a PowerBook G4 1GHz with 1GB of RAM and the performance is excellent.
Does "abgeraucht" mean, sort of, "smoked out" or "burned out"? It's been ages (1996) since I lived in Germany... getting rusty at the language.
Nah, it's funnier when you only half-translate it, and poorly at that! I was in a Betriebsrat (worker's council) meeting one day at my former employer in Raunheim, Hesse, and the worker's council head (who spoke German only) used the word "ge-updated" in reference to a system we were rolling out... for some reason that Denglish word has just stuck with me ever since.
Slashdotted in German... how about "upgefuckt"?
I don't drink coffee
I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side
And you can hear it in my
Accent when I talk
I'm an Englishman in New York
I don't particularly like Sting, but I love this song... it's about Quentin Crisp, isn't it?
I see what you mean... that was an inane post. Sorry! :-)
Yes, and yes.
Minus 36 degrees *celcius*?! Sweet Jesus, that is cold...!
There are areas that need serious legislative review, sure, but that is the case in most countries. Bomb the IFSC? That's crazy talk.
I agree on the software patents though.
Oh calm down... the soliders of destiny might be a bunch of wankers with a graft problem, but I wouldn't describe them as fascist. McDowell maybe, but not FF.
I dropped my 1GHz/17" PB *hard* once, denting the front left corner... still works great. I haul it back and forth to work every day on the floor of my car, had it for well over a year now. The thing is quite tough.
I put a 60GB (unformatted) one of those Hitachi 7200 RPM drives in my G4/17" @ 1GHz along with a gigabyte of RAM... the performance increase was (purely subjective) ~25%... very welcome.
No purported about it, Ireland is about as capitalist as it gets in Western Europe... not for us the generous safety net of social provision. MLE was told upfront how much it would be given in state funding, and for how long. It was clear from thge beginning that this funding was limited in time and amount.
Bye bye to MLE, a waste of taxpayer euros.
Please... corporate tax in Ireland is a tiny 12.5%, less than most countries including the US. Ireland is NOT a socialist country, quite the opposite.
Couldn't agree more, total fucking waste of Irish taxpayer euros... investing in this crap when there aren't enough hospital beds and people are sleeping on gurneys in the A&E room. Wasteful shits.
It's nightmarish! A friend of mine just bought a 1200-square foot semi-D house in my hometown (a smallish town in the southwest), nothing special, new development of 20 or so houses, for... euro 380,000. It's just insane.
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EUR 5 for a pint of Guinness in the local, EUR 7 for a pack of 20 cigs, you hit the highest income tax rate as soon as you earn the average industrial wage (not that high, maybe EUR 35,000 a year)... it just all adds up. Especially compared to the very reasonable and sane cost of living here in St. Louis, where I've been for the last 6+ years.
And yet Ireland tops the Economist Intelligence Unit's ranking of places to live (determined by quality of life, not income...)... every Irish person I know laughed bitterly when told about this, given that they're paying through the nose for the privelege of living there...
Me, I'm waiting for the housing market crash before I move back there... it makes me sad. I emigrated to the continent in 1992 because I was being paid a pittance there, now I can't afford to move back!
This post is a bit of a rant, isn't it? Sorry
It's VAT, not sales tax, and Ireland has an economically liberal government... actually so does Britain! They're "New" Labour, remember?
I think our basic VAT rate in Ireland, at 17%, is higher than the UK rate. That, and the fact that everything now costs a freaking arm and a leg in Ireland. I haven't lived there in over 10 years, and I'd move back in a heartbeat if it weren't for the shitty weather and brutal cost of living.
The wireless card is likely a custom card -- looks like a PC Card but isn't. At least that was the case with my iBook. The RAM is common DDR RAM, as are the drives used.
Garageband runs just fine on my 2003-model 17" PowerBook G4 1GHz with a gigabyte of RAM...