No also for goods. And it wasn't changed recently. It has been that way for a long time, it just not required of smaller online retailers to deal with it.
Just like the States! Tax free shopping online should be the norm, it makes zero sense when you live in a state that has a gas tax to pay for the roads separately that the delivery truck is using. At that point I'm literally getting zero benefit from whatever a sales tax is used for. We can justify that the vehicle delivering goods has to pay registration/tagging fees, fuel (with said road tax), property tax or rent that goes towards it for their warehouse. Why should I pay fucking sales tax too?
VAT is not salex tax. And it is used as an alternative to income taxing as it has fewer loopholes and is less regressive.
They have to sell to every EU country. At the same time they are not allowed to sell to other EU countries unless they have a tax (and depending on the type of goods also a recycling) representative in those countries.
Small retailers are excempt from having to handle tax in other countries. Generally it is up to the consumer to declare the goods for taxation in those cases (which is a commonly used loophole to get things "taxfree" over the internet)
I believe slashdot uses that to embed ads so they can't be blocked. If you view page source on the main slashdot page you'll see what I mean. Of course I could be misunderstanding what Mozilla is saying and/or what slashdot is doing.
Why don't you just click the button to disable slashdot ads? I think you get it when you have enough karma.
When I first moved to the USA, there were a number of British English words that were largely unknown in the USA. Now, they appear to be understood, if not in common use. For example: "loo".
Well during the Nice attack I head a reporter on CNN say that a "lorry" had run down several pedestrian, but that there were no information as of now of whether the "so-called lorry" was a car or a truck.
Not really. It's just as much a variety of English as American English or Australian English.
Actually it is much more of a variety of English than those example. It is for one some 20 varieties that are all mutually more distinct than those two colonial ascents.
But your fingerprint is still somewhat private. You can't replicate my fingerprints from a picture of me that you found on facebook. I can always change which fingers I have mapped to TouchID periodically. etc.
You only have one face, and your face is public, which means it's less secure than TouchID was.
They need a bit more than a photo of your face. If I understand it correctly they need a 3D image of your face. You might be able to get them for a large number of images or detailed video, but it is a bit harder.
"Sir, you can't use FaceID on the off chance that someone 3D prints your face, takes a high-resolution picture and tapes it to the outside of it and uses it to unlock your phone!"
That sentence is too long, you lost them a third of the way through. Rethink it and imagine you have to convince Donald Trump.
Get the laptop you like, but get one with USB-C. Reasoning as follows;
I really consider the keyboard of most laptops to be "good enough". Would I want to work a full day on it? I don't want to, but in a pinch I could. I'd rather walk up to my desk at work or in my private office. With USB-C, you hook up a single cable and everything is connected: power, monitor, mouse, and a decent keyboard that's good on the ergonomics.
No. A single USB-C port can't do everything. It is either USB, OR power OR displayPort.
There is a alternate protocol that tries to do all three, but is has less power and can't do as high resolutions, and can't do fullspeed USB 3.1g2
Nah, just ThinkPad T420 and family.. The last awesome ThinkPad keyboard, though the current ones are still the best one available on a laptop produced today.
Both MacOS and Windows have been able to use both OTF and TTF for many years. Yes, that may have been where they both became mainstream, but they're not exclusive to the OSes any more.
Exactly, TrueType started on macOS, while OpenType was on Windows first, but both standards were designed by both companies.
Thanks to MacOS it's become associated with crap font rendering. It wasn't until they got high resolution displays to negate the crap anti-aliasing that a print font really worked on screen.
It wasn't the antialiasing that was bad, it was just mediocre, it was the lack of hinting. It makes thing look more like print... If you squint, but makes the text even when you are not squinting as clear as if you were.
I find it amusing that IBM, a company with a track record of working with Microsoft and Dos and other non-MAC OS would compare their new font to Helvetica, a font closely associated with the Mac OS. Why they wouldn't say "IBM Plex is the new Arial" is beyond me, especially since those two fonts are so similar.
I suspect the designer is an fanatical Mac user. After downloading the font it has multiple directories. Among those mac vs pc.. Only mac users are under the delusion that macs are not PCs, and secondly... The "mac" fonts were OTF and the "pc" fonts TTF.... yeah.. those working on that are pretty deluded, and if it is designed on macs the hinting is probably also completely fucked, though with my hidpi screen I can't tell bad hinting anymore.
Really? You honestly thing a company with virtually unlimited resources didn't think of that? (Or the Parent's "changing a pixel" comment?) I realize that what they are doing doesn't follow the definition of "hash" as we traditionally think about it, where changing one bit in the source changes the hash. But I'm pretty sure FB didn't just get outsmarted by two ACs on Slashdot.
Well, the YouTube video ID for instance, is easily defeated by picture-in-picture, or sufficient noise on the image.
In short, countries like China and India don't have to do a damn thing about their pollution for 10+ years
Try reading it yourself or get away from fake news. What you are describing is the Kyoto agreement, and that one was from 1999, and the 10 years tehy didn't have to do much ran out in 2009.
Yeah, that is pretty similar. Though you probably didn't have them popularized by show hosts on children's programming on NPR? Which was basically the case in Denmark.
I guess you are a resident of a non-EU country then, because I definitely ordered from Amazon to Italy and got billed from Luxembourg (i.e. zero VAT). When shipping to Norway, instead, the customs apply the VAT (none on books, but 25 % on most items).
Nope. EU
I even remember when the rule was activated in the 2000 because before then it was very common for everybody to order on amazon and not pay VAT, though we should, then customs started catching the packages and adding VAT, but you could get around it by ordering gift-wrapping, and then finally Amazon had to collect VAT for other EU countries based on the location of the buyer.
Slashdot Mirror
I once had shuffle turned on by accident.
I had to Google search how to turn off shuffle. The Music app is THAT bad.
That is how all functions in Apple software "works".
Fortunately he is too greedy for that. He didn't even pay for his election campaign but stole money from it.
No GSM is GSM. Maybe the non GSM networks had issues with nonstandard SMS protocols
That is only true for services, not for goods.
No also for goods. And it wasn't changed recently. It has been that way for a long time, it just not required of smaller online retailers to deal with it.
Just like the States! Tax free shopping online should be the norm, it makes zero sense when you live in a state that has a gas tax to pay for the roads separately that the delivery truck is using. At that point I'm literally getting zero benefit from whatever a sales tax is used for. We can justify that the vehicle delivering goods has to pay registration/tagging fees, fuel (with said road tax), property tax or rent that goes towards it for their warehouse. Why should I pay fucking sales tax too?
VAT is not salex tax. And it is used as an alternative to income taxing as it has fewer loopholes and is less regressive.
They have to sell to every EU country. At the same time they are not allowed to sell to other EU countries unless they have a tax (and depending on the type of goods also a recycling) representative in those countries.
Small retailers are excempt from having to handle tax in other countries. Generally it is up to the consumer to declare the goods for taxation in those cases (which is a commonly used loophole to get things "taxfree" over the internet)
Or they become hostile to ANY kind of surveillance because they're pissed at their helicopter parents.
One can only hope.
Would make sense, the same way hippie parents created yuppies.
I believe slashdot uses that to embed ads so they can't be blocked. If you view page source on the main slashdot page you'll see what I mean. Of course I could be misunderstanding what Mozilla is saying and/or what slashdot is doing.
Why don't you just click the button to disable slashdot ads? I think you get it when you have enough karma.
When I first moved to the USA, there were a number of British English words that were largely unknown in the USA. Now, they appear to be understood, if not in common use. For example: "loo".
Well during the Nice attack I head a reporter on CNN say that a "lorry" had run down several pedestrian, but that there were no information as of now of whether the "so-called lorry" was a car or a truck.
So there are some words that are still secret ;)
Not really. It's just as much a variety of English as American English or Australian English.
Actually it is much more of a variety of English than those example. It is for one some 20 varieties that are all mutually more distinct than those two colonial ascents.
By switching between being one or the other. So a second as power and a second as USB 3.
Yeah not good.
It can carry USB2 independently, but they high bandwidth things it can only do a single thing at a time.
But your fingerprint is still somewhat private. You can't replicate my fingerprints from a picture of me that you found on facebook. I can always change which fingers I have mapped to TouchID periodically. etc.
You only have one face, and your face is public, which means it's less secure than TouchID was.
They need a bit more than a photo of your face. If I understand it correctly they need a 3D image of your face. You might be able to get them for a large number of images or detailed video, but it is a bit harder.
"Sir, you can't use FaceID on the off chance that someone 3D prints your face, takes a high-resolution picture and tapes it to the outside of it and uses it to unlock your phone!"
That sentence is too long, you lost them a third of the way through. Rethink it and imagine you have to convince Donald Trump.
Get the laptop you like, but get one with USB-C. Reasoning as follows;
I really consider the keyboard of most laptops to be "good enough". Would I want to work a full day on it? I don't want to, but in a pinch I could. I'd rather walk up to my desk at work or in my private office. With USB-C, you hook up a single cable and everything is connected: power, monitor, mouse, and a decent keyboard that's good on the ergonomics.
No. A single USB-C port can't do everything. It is either USB, OR power OR displayPort.
There is a alternate protocol that tries to do all three, but is has less power and can't do as high resolutions, and can't do fullspeed USB 3.1g2
Nah, just ThinkPad T420 and family.. The last awesome ThinkPad keyboard, though the current ones are still the best one available on a laptop produced today.
Add Bioware there.. I might still technically be a brandname under EA, but it is pining for the fjords.
Both MacOS and Windows have been able to use both OTF and TTF for many years. Yes, that may have been where they both became mainstream, but they're not exclusive to the OSes any more.
Exactly, TrueType started on macOS, while OpenType was on Windows first, but both standards were designed by both companies.
Thanks to MacOS it's become associated with crap font rendering. It wasn't until they got high resolution displays to negate the crap anti-aliasing that a print font really worked on screen.
It wasn't the antialiasing that was bad, it was just mediocre, it was the lack of hinting. It makes thing look more like print... If you squint, but makes the text even when you are not squinting as clear as if you were.
I find it amusing that IBM, a company with a track record of working with Microsoft and Dos and other non-MAC OS would compare their new font to Helvetica, a font closely associated with the Mac OS. Why they wouldn't say "IBM Plex is the new Arial" is beyond me, especially since those two fonts are so similar.
I suspect the designer is an fanatical Mac user. After downloading the font it has multiple directories. Among those mac vs pc.. Only mac users are under the delusion that macs are not PCs, and secondly... The "mac" fonts were OTF and the "pc" fonts TTF.... yeah.. those working on that are pretty deluded, and if it is designed on macs the hinting is probably also completely fucked, though with my hidpi screen I can't tell bad hinting anymore.
Really? You honestly thing a company with virtually unlimited resources didn't think of that? (Or the Parent's "changing a pixel" comment?) I realize that what they are doing doesn't follow the definition of "hash" as we traditionally think about it, where changing one bit in the source changes the hash. But I'm pretty sure FB didn't just get outsmarted by two ACs on Slashdot.
Well, the YouTube video ID for instance, is easily defeated by picture-in-picture, or sufficient noise on the image.
Try reading it. It's kind of its own source.
In short, countries like China and India don't have to do a damn thing about their pollution for 10+ years
Try reading it yourself or get away from fake news. What you are describing is the Kyoto agreement, and that one was from 1999, and the 10 years tehy didn't have to do much ran out in 2009.
The US is the only country that would actually have to do anything under the Paris Climate Deal.
Nope. The treaty is non-binding. No country has to do anything. That part was specifically included because teh US demanded it.
Huh, in the US, when I was a kid, we had something vaguely similar: Dead Baby Jokes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yeah, that is pretty similar. Though you probably didn't have them popularized by show hosts on children's programming on NPR? Which was basically the case in Denmark.
I guess you are a resident of a non-EU country then, because I definitely ordered from Amazon to Italy and got billed from Luxembourg (i.e. zero VAT). When shipping to Norway, instead, the customs apply the VAT (none on books, but 25 % on most items).
Nope. EU
I even remember when the rule was activated in the 2000 because before then it was very common for everybody to order on amazon and not pay VAT, though we should, then customs started catching the packages and adding VAT, but you could get around it by ordering gift-wrapping, and then finally Amazon had to collect VAT for other EU countries based on the location of the buyer.
Wise words..
And better expressed that I usually do: "Everybody is an idiot! Including you and me!"