For crying out loud. You talk about UTC but you ignore the elephant in the room! What we need is good, hard metrication not this pantywaist dabbling! Do it once and do it properly, goddammit!
Quite right. The only thing these companies disrupt is 200 years of hard fought employment protections. If you use their services you're enabling that and your job is next on the line.
The argument is the loophole did not, in fact, exist. The Irish government allowed Apple to think such provisions existed but the EU have now ruled the arrangement constituted illegal state aid. Consequently the EU is leaning on Ireland to collect the taxes it should rightly have collected in the first place. Apple, with the help of the Irish government, evaded tax, not avoided it.
Things are rarely black and white. It's why these lawyers get paid so much.
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I think that's arguable. The UK abolished the death penalty for murder in 1965 but there was a vote to reinstate it in each parliament until 1997. That meant a consistent refusal to act on majority opinion. You're right we technically retained it for various crimes (Treason, piracy and queue jumping) but I'm not sure it would or could've been acted on.
It's funny though. The Brexit vote was about the primacy of parliament yet when it threatens to exercise that by not acting on a non-binding, knife edge, existential referendum, Brexit leaders get quite agitated.
It depends what kind of democracy you want and what kind of democracy you have. Democracy isn't a Model T. It doesn't just come in one colour. In the UK we have a representative democracy. It's intended to act as a shield against the temporary whim of the people. It's why we don't have the death penalty. We elect people to arbitrate between the interests of the nation and the people.
Referendums on the other hand are just mob rule. "A device for dictators and demagogues". It's also worth bearing in mind that while most people who voted, voted to leave, it was a minority of the electorate.
"We" the Slashdot crowd that understand that are not opposed to modifying things that can't go at speeds that can kill someone if operated wrongly. "We" instead understand that vehicles are something that need to be well regulated due to their nature.
Oh. If only that were true. Have you read the comments on here before?
Also, perhaps someone should dig deeper into this "start-up", because this almost smells State-sponsored. Can't think of too many other entities that would be data-mining like this.
Are you kidding? Landlords would chew their arm off to use this service. No sinister state sponsored motive required.
I wonder if it's time to look at legislation to prevent discrimination by social media. Housing is too important to be allocated on whether you were a dick on Twatterbook a decade ago. It's not even like you can withdraw.
"No social media presence? Well, I'm sorry sir, but we just don't know who you are..."
Can I say the RRS It's Bloody Cold Here has the ring of a Culture ship and would make a nice epitaph for one of the finest science fiction authors of the last fifty years. Given the poll options though, I'd like to suggest the GCU Experiencing a Significant Gravitas Shortfall instead.
Well. That's fine if you're able bodied but what if you're in a wheelchair, have a pushchair, a disability, carrying heavy shopping? Public transport means all the public not just the ones able to nimbly hop from moving platform to moving platform.
We could slow down other traffic. Perhaps by having snipers shooting out the tyres of every hundredth car? That should have the same effect of encouraging people onto public transport.
Seriously. Sometimes thinking the unthinkable is stupid.
She's not especially clever. She's not especially wise. She's not especially respected or trusted. She's not well liked. She's not good at giving speeches. She's not good at leading people. She's not good at managing things.
And with that, Goldilocks put her "x" in the box for the candidate who was just right...
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Heh, At least you don't have to worry about war with Russia any more...!
Ha-ha! 4 years? No chance. He'll be out of office by Christmas 2017. Resigned or impeached is my guess.
Enjoy the decline of American power folks.
For crying out loud. You talk about UTC but you ignore the elephant in the room! What we need is good, hard metrication not this pantywaist dabbling! Do it once and do it properly, goddammit!
Quite right. The only thing these companies disrupt is 200 years of hard fought employment protections. If you use their services you're enabling that and your job is next on the line.
Pfft. Get back to me when hours worked equals productivity.
Yeah. It's the new "I'm not racist, but..."
Oh God. I'm fascinated. What on earth makes one qualified to be a school nurse in the US if not a valid nursing qualification?
The argument is the loophole did not, in fact, exist. The Irish government allowed Apple to think such provisions existed but the EU have now ruled the arrangement constituted illegal state aid. Consequently the EU is leaning on Ireland to collect the taxes it should rightly have collected in the first place. Apple, with the help of the Irish government, evaded tax, not avoided it.
Things are rarely black and white. It's why these lawyers get paid so much.
Following the Brexit vote, I suggest we use the phrase Schengenfreude for when those that vote for stupid get it good and hard.
Agreed. I also see:
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VC, Entrepreneur Says Basic Income Would Work Even If 90% People 'Smoked Pot' and Didn't Work
Yelp Employee Posts Open Letter About Cost Of Living And Low Wages, Gets Fired
Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive
Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages
Linked to virtually every story.
And you can read the source on github.
I think that's arguable. The UK abolished the death penalty for murder in 1965 but there was a vote to reinstate it in each parliament until 1997. That meant a consistent refusal to act on majority opinion. You're right we technically retained it for various crimes (Treason, piracy and queue jumping) but I'm not sure it would or could've been acted on.
It's funny though. The Brexit vote was about the primacy of parliament yet when it threatens to exercise that by not acting on a non-binding, knife edge, existential referendum, Brexit leaders get quite agitated.
It depends what kind of democracy you want and what kind of democracy you have. Democracy isn't a Model T. It doesn't just come in one colour. In the UK we have a representative democracy. It's intended to act as a shield against the temporary whim of the people. It's why we don't have the death penalty. We elect people to arbitrate between the interests of the nation and the people.
Referendums on the other hand are just mob rule. "A device for dictators and demagogues". It's also worth bearing in mind that while most people who voted, voted to leave, it was a minority of the electorate.
Oh look, A Ford Pinto... *KERBLAM*
"We" the Slashdot crowd that understand that are not opposed to modifying things that can't go at speeds that can kill someone if operated wrongly. "We" instead understand that vehicles are something that need to be well regulated due to their nature.
Oh. If only that were true. Have you read the comments on here before?
That's why I keep Googling protein powders, effective marathon training and where the nearest iron man race is...
Also, perhaps someone should dig deeper into this "start-up", because this almost smells State-sponsored. Can't think of too many other entities that would be data-mining like this.
Are you kidding? Landlords would chew their arm off to use this service. No sinister state sponsored motive required.
I wonder if it's time to look at legislation to prevent discrimination by social media. Housing is too important to be allocated on whether you were a dick on Twatterbook a decade ago. It's not even like you can withdraw.
"No social media presence? Well, I'm sorry sir, but we just don't know who you are..."
Man rich enough to transcend politics tells those who aren't to stop worrying about it.
Things that are transformative usually involve transforming things for the worse as well as the better. Politics should protect people from that.
Can I say the RRS It's Bloody Cold Here has the ring of a Culture ship and would make a nice epitaph for one of the finest science fiction authors of the last fifty years. Given the poll options though, I'd like to suggest the GCU Experiencing a Significant Gravitas Shortfall instead.
Well. That's fine if you're able bodied but what if you're in a wheelchair, have a pushchair, a disability, carrying heavy shopping? Public transport means all the public not just the ones able to nimbly hop from moving platform to moving platform.
We could slow down other traffic. Perhaps by having snipers shooting out the tyres of every hundredth car? That should have the same effect of encouraging people onto public transport.
Seriously. Sometimes thinking the unthinkable is stupid.
Well said. There might be problems with this paper but it's sure as shit not the stuff blarted out in TFA.
She's not especially clever. She's not especially wise. She's not especially respected or trusted. She's not well liked. She's not good at giving speeches. She's not good at leading people. She's not good at managing things.
And with that, Goldilocks put her "x" in the box for the candidate who was just right...