Update to what? And how? I don't think there's a free XP -> something else update available anywhere. Except to linux, obviously, but that doesn't meet my main requirement. XP, crappy though it may be, does meet my main requirement.
I have WinXP at home. I use it to play games, and I refuse to give money to Microsoft just because the best games happen to be only released for their platform.
But isn't the entire point of "the cloud" that it's independent of specific desktop software? Will iCloud not work with a normal browser? Will it not have an open API? Will it only work with proprietary Apple software? If so, then what is the entire point?
Stating directly what you want doesn't have to be bad manners if that's the local etiquette. In crowded places, people often leave out the extras to get to the point as fast as possible so the shop can quickly help the next person. It's efficiency. In situations like that, I usually say "Een $foo graag", which is plenty polite.
In places where you can take a bit more time for each other, they often take a bit more time for each other. But you should always be careful with directly translating phrases and manners from one language or culture to another. Efficiency is a large part of Dutch etiquette. This is probably less so in other cultures.
I think the legal documents are likely to be in Dutch. You probably want to hire a local lawyer to help you with that. Pick one that specializes in helping foreigners buy land here. I'm sure those exist. For building as house, it's also worthwhile to hire people with a good command of English. You don't want to risk miscommunication there.
20-30 minutes of what? Parking a car in the center of Amsterdam is hard and expensive, but 30 minutes by train gets you pretty far. 30 minutes by bike less so.
I'm not entirely sure what counts as suburb around here. We have other towns around Amsterdam. I guess Amsterdam's biggest suburb is Almere, in itself the fifth largest 'city' in the country, but most of the people who live there work in Amsterdam. (I put 'city' in quotes because it lacks the cafe's, restaurants, shopping districts, history and atmosphere that I think a city should have. Nobody goes to Almere for a night out. Everybody goes to Amsterdam.) Every morning there's a huge traffic jam from Almere to Amsterdam. Other than that it's apparently quite nice and spaceous if you like designed cities, designed nature, and lack of history.
My choice would be Haarlem, which is older than Amsterdam and every bit as expensive. Or maybe one of the quaint little towns just outside Amsterdam, but those are even more expensive (but gorgeous!).
Depends entirely on the location, of course. I paid 300k euros for a 80m^2, 2 bedroom apartment. Of course that's Amsterdam. I could get a mansion for that if I was willing to move to the middle of nowhere.
I have a similar situation with snail mail. I receive mail for the local swimming pool. The swimming pool used to have my address. They're still located where they always were, but they've been renumbered about 12 years ago, when my house was built. And for some reason, they haven't sent address updates to lots of people.
And I don't mean just unimportant companies harassing them with offers, I mean the national swimming federation, legal look stuff, and when wanted to get my water (or gas?) hooked up when I moved here, the water (or gas?) company wanted to know which of 5 water (or gas?) meters at my address I was talking about. I'm not bankrupt yet, so I assume I'm not paying for the swimming pool's water (or gas).
What's most amazing of all, is that the swimming pool seems to be functioning fine. Apparently all that mail they're missing isn't all that important. Water (or gas)? Apparently as long as they pay, it doesn't matter if the mail goes to me. (Actually, I don't get that much mail, so now I'm worried that maybe they're getting some of my mail.)
Another fun recent discovery: we found an official website about swimming pools that lists our address for that pool. Reminds me of that time the national skiing federation put our phone number in their flyer.
In this case, it's not so much about Google's profits, but about stifling competition with their own services. The already provide voice (phone) and texting (sms). The sewrvices they want to charge for are Skype (voice) and WhatsApp (texting), using their (relatively) cheap data connection, without paying their more expensive voice and sms rates.
There is already plenty of other regulation. This new law is no precedent for government interference in how users can use the net. It does set a precedent for how corporations can restrict usage of the net, so it's all positive, as far as I can see.
VVD is the most corporate-friendly party, and as I understand, they're the only ones who are really against this law. PVV had already had already voice some careful support for it a while back (though that means little of course), but with the CDA on board, there's not much that the PM's party can do to stop it. Except for backroom politics of course. So who knows what will happen.
With Neelie Kroes handling internet and communication for the EU, I think there's a fair chance of this spreading to the rest of the EU. I hope it does.
I can imagine Oregon is to the US what Netherland is to Europe. At least in some aspects. Oregon is a lot less crowded, and probably less of a trade hub.
We're pretty big on telecommuting, but space for horses is rare. Though small farmers keep going out of business, so you might be able to take over a farm.
You'll also find a lot of posts complaining we Dutch are rude.
We're honest and direct. That's what we like to call it. But we're honest and direct to the point of rudeness, and sometimes that gets a bit out of hand. We're also some other things to the point of rudeness. Although some Dutchmen can be very polite and considerate. Mostly we're all different, though. The thing that anooys Dutchmen most of all is other Dutchmen, except for the ones that are somewhat like us.
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Update to what? And how? I don't think there's a free XP -> something else update available anywhere. Except to linux, obviously, but that doesn't meet my main requirement. XP, crappy though it may be, does meet my main requirement.
I have WinXP at home. I use it to play games, and I refuse to give money to Microsoft just because the best games happen to be only released for their platform.
Does it do proper hardware acceleration? That's usually the problem with VMs.
I'd rather not give money to MS just because Apple wants me to.
But isn't the entire point of "the cloud" that it's independent of specific desktop software? Will iCloud not work with a normal browser? Will it not have an open API? Will it only work with proprietary Apple software? If so, then what is the entire point?
Stating directly what you want doesn't have to be bad manners if that's the local etiquette. In crowded places, people often leave out the extras to get to the point as fast as possible so the shop can quickly help the next person. It's efficiency. In situations like that, I usually say "Een $foo graag", which is plenty polite.
In places where you can take a bit more time for each other, they often take a bit more time for each other. But you should always be careful with directly translating phrases and manners from one language or culture to another. Efficiency is a large part of Dutch etiquette. This is probably less so in other cultures.
I think the legal documents are likely to be in Dutch. You probably want to hire a local lawyer to help you with that. Pick one that specializes in helping foreigners buy land here. I'm sure those exist. For building as house, it's also worthwhile to hire people with a good command of English. You don't want to risk miscommunication there.
20-30 minutes of what? Parking a car in the center of Amsterdam is hard and expensive, but 30 minutes by train gets you pretty far. 30 minutes by bike less so.
I'm not entirely sure what counts as suburb around here. We have other towns around Amsterdam. I guess Amsterdam's biggest suburb is Almere, in itself the fifth largest 'city' in the country, but most of the people who live there work in Amsterdam. (I put 'city' in quotes because it lacks the cafe's, restaurants, shopping districts, history and atmosphere that I think a city should have. Nobody goes to Almere for a night out. Everybody goes to Amsterdam.) Every morning there's a huge traffic jam from Almere to Amsterdam. Other than that it's apparently quite nice and spaceous if you like designed cities, designed nature, and lack of history.
My choice would be Haarlem, which is older than Amsterdam and every bit as expensive. Or maybe one of the quaint little towns just outside Amsterdam, but those are even more expensive (but gorgeous!).
That's just because we're a bit slow.
Depends entirely on the location, of course. I paid 300k euros for a 80m^2, 2 bedroom apartment. Of course that's Amsterdam. I could get a mansion for that if I was willing to move to the middle of nowhere.
I have a similar situation with snail mail. I receive mail for the local swimming pool. The swimming pool used to have my address. They're still located where they always were, but they've been renumbered about 12 years ago, when my house was built. And for some reason, they haven't sent address updates to lots of people.
And I don't mean just unimportant companies harassing them with offers, I mean the national swimming federation, legal look stuff, and when wanted to get my water (or gas?) hooked up when I moved here, the water (or gas?) company wanted to know which of 5 water (or gas?) meters at my address I was talking about. I'm not bankrupt yet, so I assume I'm not paying for the swimming pool's water (or gas).
What's most amazing of all, is that the swimming pool seems to be functioning fine. Apparently all that mail they're missing isn't all that important. Water (or gas)? Apparently as long as they pay, it doesn't matter if the mail goes to me. (Actually, I don't get that much mail, so now I'm worried that maybe they're getting some of my mail.)
Another fun recent discovery: we found an official website about swimming pools that lists our address for that pool. Reminds me of that time the national skiing federation put our phone number in their flyer.
It works well enough for me.
In this case, it's not so much about Google's profits, but about stifling competition with their own services. The already provide voice (phone) and texting (sms). The sewrvices they want to charge for are Skype (voice) and WhatsApp (texting), using their (relatively) cheap data connection, without paying their more expensive voice and sms rates.
Only for music and movies. Downloading games is illegal.
green left party (ex communist party).
Not just ex-communist. Also ex-pacifist and ex-Christian. They're still environmentalist, fortunately.
You moron. Stop equating a religion with the people who believe in it.
Tell that to Geert Wilders. He's the one going on constantly about how muslims can never respect democracy and that sort of stuff.
There is already plenty of other regulation. This new law is no precedent for government interference in how users can use the net. It does set a precedent for how corporations can restrict usage of the net, so it's all positive, as far as I can see.
VVD is the most corporate-friendly party, and as I understand, they're the only ones who are really against this law. PVV had already had already voice some careful support for it a while back (though that means little of course), but with the CDA on board, there's not much that the PM's party can do to stop it. Except for backroom politics of course. So who knows what will happen.
With Neelie Kroes handling internet and communication for the EU, I think there's a fair chance of this spreading to the rest of the EU. I hope it does.
It's always been like that. And the end result is always that it's officially illegal and in practice not so much.
I can imagine Oregon is to the US what Netherland is to Europe. At least in some aspects. Oregon is a lot less crowded, and probably less of a trade hub.
No, up to 52% goes to taxes via income tax
That's only the highest scale, paid over only part of your income. With all the tax deductibles, nobody actually pays more than 40% tax here.
Do The Netherlands accept old burnt-out ex-hippies?
Another one? We already have cities full of those.
We're pretty big on telecommuting, but space for horses is rare. Though small farmers keep going out of business, so you might be able to take over a farm.
You'll also find a lot of posts complaining we Dutch are rude.
We're honest and direct. That's what we like to call it. But we're honest and direct to the point of rudeness, and sometimes that gets a bit out of hand. We're also some other things to the point of rudeness. Although some Dutchmen can be very polite and considerate. Mostly we're all different, though. The thing that anooys Dutchmen most of all is other Dutchmen, except for the ones that are somewhat like us.