I have little sympathy. If you are a tech company who thinks the UK and Australia is full of little people who don't matter then maybe this sort of response is to be expected.
It's all about selling adverts, and anything else is collateral damage. While this is undoubtably bad law it is also a wake up call to Tech companies that the products (you and me) sometimes bite back.
The US dominates globally in the online arena.
This is the key point. The US has done this for decades and not really given a crap about how the rest of the world has felt about that. Also US authorities have engaged in what other see as actions that they would equally like to engage in.
The rest of the world has been playing catch up and now they are catching up suddenly the US is crying "no fair !"
I mean, they look fine, constructed out of Lego and everything but once you launch one in the air the flight time isn't great and they always fall to pieces where they hit the floor.
Many years ago the UK introduced Insurance Premium Tax at 2.5% in 1993 as insurance premiums were exempt from VAT. It now has a standard rate of 12% and a higher rate of 20%. The VAT rate is 20%.
This measure at 2% of revenue is not the end. Future governments will see how effective collection is and how the public responds to it. I would not be surprised to see it rise to near Corporation Tax levels but without the neat tax offsets.
The companies that appear to have avoided being affected ? Watch next years budget, especially after Brexit.
I was at a UK company where that video was shown. It was only done once. However, it showed how USA managers are encouraged to view their workers.
Unions are both good and bad, the UK record from the 1970's and Thatcherite anti-union laws showed both of those sides in action.
That all said, sometimes technology overtakes the problem and makes it redundant - there is an ongoing dispute here about having guards on trains while at the same time Thales is rolling out driverless train systems - https://www.thalesgroup.com/en...
Amazon workers do have valid issues about working conditions that unionizing might help with, but equally Amazon could just automate all of its warehouses and just get rid of all of the workers too.
Then what ?
I think that their recruitment processes will be more than sufficient to weed out the wannabes. The issue really is if they become too good at what they're doing. The only difference between a Russian target for this work and a domestic target for this work is an accident of birth.
The office worker may not have the choice but to use Windows 10 but most home users I know use mobile devices and probably couldn't tell you what O/S is running on it. It just works for what they want it to do. I have both a work Windows 10 laptop and a personal Linux Mint laptop. For leisure purposes I don't use either half as much as my tablet or mobile phone.
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I have little sympathy. If you are a tech company who thinks the UK and Australia is full of little people who don't matter then maybe this sort of response is to be expected.
It's all about selling adverts, and anything else is collateral damage. While this is undoubtably bad law it is also a wake up call to Tech companies that the products (you and me) sometimes bite back.
The US dominates globally in the online arena. This is the key point. The US has done this for decades and not really given a crap about how the rest of the world has felt about that. Also US authorities have engaged in what other see as actions that they would equally like to engage in. The rest of the world has been playing catch up and now they are catching up suddenly the US is crying "no fair !"
I mean, they look fine, constructed out of Lego and everything but once you launch one in the air the flight time isn't great and they always fall to pieces where they hit the floor.
and consequently the rest of the world (especially the EU) needs some meaningful input on this too.
Many years ago the UK introduced Insurance Premium Tax at 2.5% in 1993 as insurance premiums were exempt from VAT. It now has a standard rate of 12% and a higher rate of 20%. The VAT rate is 20%. This measure at 2% of revenue is not the end. Future governments will see how effective collection is and how the public responds to it. I would not be surprised to see it rise to near Corporation Tax levels but without the neat tax offsets. The companies that appear to have avoided being affected ? Watch next years budget, especially after Brexit.
I'm happy if the authorities want to record what I'm doing for possible use in court against me, provided I am also free to do the same to them.
Would you like to share some of those details ?
Seriously, what has changed since Apollo 17 ? If you want an expensive holiday filled with danger then 2 weeks in Kabul is much closer.
I was at a UK company where that video was shown. It was only done once. However, it showed how USA managers are encouraged to view their workers. Unions are both good and bad, the UK record from the 1970's and Thatcherite anti-union laws showed both of those sides in action. That all said, sometimes technology overtakes the problem and makes it redundant - there is an ongoing dispute here about having guards on trains while at the same time Thales is rolling out driverless train systems - https://www.thalesgroup.com/en... Amazon workers do have valid issues about working conditions that unionizing might help with, but equally Amazon could just automate all of its warehouses and just get rid of all of the workers too. Then what ?
I think that their recruitment processes will be more than sufficient to weed out the wannabes. The issue really is if they become too good at what they're doing. The only difference between a Russian target for this work and a domestic target for this work is an accident of birth.
Why is this shit even news ?
Seriously aliens, who needs it ?
The office worker may not have the choice but to use Windows 10 but most home users I know use mobile devices and probably couldn't tell you what O/S is running on it. It just works for what they want it to do. I have both a work Windows 10 laptop and a personal Linux Mint laptop. For leisure purposes I don't use either half as much as my tablet or mobile phone.