The UK has effectively been this way for a while. The reason is that the total taxes paid with an employer/employee arrangement are greater than a contract arrangement would pay. Thus HM Revenue and Customs has been cracking down on "disguised emplyees" for decades, re-defining their employment arrangements as a traditional employment contract.
HMR&C also crack down on "fake intermediaries", where people set up their own company which employs them (and perhaps their spouse), while that company contracts with the original employer. However, I don't think the tax advantages of this are as great as they used to be.
If you distribute a app that contains GPL code, you must make your source code available,
That depends on how your app "contains" the GPL code. This part of the GPL V2 is applicable:
If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works.
Acquisition cost of an A10: ~ zero. They aren't building any more. Yes, there will be upgrades, but even the upgrades are not going to cost as much as the cost to build a new jet.
What about running costs? The cost to fly an F35 for one hour is much, much higher than that of an A10.
OMG, you can own a muzzle loader in the UK, that totally changes things. I am sure that taxi drivers carrying muzzle loaders is a major problem! Incidentally, a taxi driver carrying a muzzle loader while working would almost certainly be illegal anyway. Firearms certificates in the UK are very specific about where the firearm should be stored and used.
Realistically, look at all the statements that "handguns are effectively banned in the UK".
You started the condescending tone, with your implication that I got my information from the NRA. In fact, I got my information from reading UK newspapers at the time and the fact that my father (living in the UK) had to relinquish the handgun that he owned under the 1997 regulations.
There will be appeal process to this. During appeal process finally THE logic, the legal logic, will be used and the ruling of the lower court will be thrown away. It is that simple.
I wish I lived in your simplistic world, where everything worked the way I think it should work. But I don't and neither do you.
Your comment about "THE logic, the legal logic" is ridiculous. Did you not understand that this decision was rendered, not by a jury, but by judges?
Yes, it's possible that one or more appeals may overturn this, but Uber will be swimming against the current. It's also quite likely that the judges hearing the appeals will agree with the tribunal (you didn't even get that right, did you?)
Hmmm. Sounds almost like they're just contracting with an independent car owner and offering a match-making co-ordination app to them for a fee.
Nice cherry-picking.
Uber sets the prices, sets the commission rate and collects the payment, while also determining the relationship between the driver and the passenger. Note that it's not a fee, it's a commission. Does eBay tell me how much I must sell something for?
If they had real jobs, they wouldn't be uber drivers. They are trying to turn their side gig into a real job. That's not going to happen because the economics just isn't there.
This is the UK and HMR&C (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) are very keen on classifying people as employees and collecting the relevant taxes. So, one of four things will happen:
1. Uber will shut down in the UK.
2. Uber will drastically change their contracts with their drivers so that they can qualify as contractors.
3. Uber will suck it up and treat the drivers as employees.
4. Uber will close all offices in the UK, fire any local staff and pretend that all transactions are international.
Remember, it's not just the drivers pushing this: HMR&C will start demanding that Uber pay the necessary taxes. Even if Uber picks option 4, I still see HMR&C going after Uber.
Did it occur to you that the laws may be different in the UK and the third alternative (work as an employee) might be the best option?
Your argument can be re-written as: you have no power, so suck up the crumbs were are prepared to drop for you. Well, perhaps the drivers do have more power.
Also, since this wasn't a class action, it doesn't affect anyone except the two drivers who sued. However, all the other drivers can now sue, secure in the knowledge that they will win and that Uber will have to pick up both sides' legal costs.
Perhaps, also, this is bad for the economy as a whole as the current situation leads to Uber not paying the taxes that would otherwise have to be paid. In other words it is just another example of socializing the costs while privatizing the profits.
I think that almost any other candidate would have beaten Hillary quite easily, but, instead, they chose the racist, misogynist, groper-in-chief, failure in business, tax avoider, non-profit abuser with ludicrous ideas and no detailed plans.
The GOP has got exactly what it asked for: to lose the presidential election and, quite possibly, also the Senate. That's what the Republicans asked for when they voted for Trump. He is the representative of ignorance.
Money isn't really the issue. But what do you do when you realize that you have lost or left your dongle behind? It's another device to carry, to lose, to break. It's the opposite of "just works".
If the Republicans keep espousing a business before citizen privacy position, I might have to stop voting Republican.
Did I near a "whoosh" sound, or are you really serious?
If you are serious and you think that, in the past decade, the republicans have put citizen privacy before businesses, then I have a very nice bridge to sell you.
The ironic thing is Macs are pushed as productivity machines for professionals. That is one of the reasons they are supposed to fetch a premium price is because they aren't just "home" machines for the masses.
Macs are for professionals... just not your sort of profession!
Simply put they were far too late to market to compete with the already established iphone & Android.
They were not too late: there were phones running some form of Windows long before the iPhone and Android.
No, they had the wrong vision for a phone. Their vision was Windows running on a small platform and it did not resonate with mass market buyers. Perhaps they saw the market as corporate buyers, not the consumers who buy phones today.
What annoys me the most is the effect of all those scripts on web pages. It's not possible to start reading many web pages for several seconds after it is initially rendered: I need to scroll down to read the text past the lead paragraph, but the scripts keep causing the page to be re-rendered and hence jump back up to the top again. Ugh!
* The background used to be black on white, aka "light" themes.
And it was excruciating to look at for longer than a few minutes.
White on black used to be unreadable in CRT days, unless you had a really good monitor. Once your monitor was a couple of years old, white on black hurt the eyes more than any other theme.
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The UK has effectively been this way for a while. The reason is that the total taxes paid with an employer/employee arrangement are greater than a contract arrangement would pay. Thus HM Revenue and Customs has been cracking down on "disguised emplyees" for decades, re-defining their employment arrangements as a traditional employment contract.
HMR&C also crack down on "fake intermediaries", where people set up their own company which employs them (and perhaps their spouse), while that company contracts with the original employer. However, I don't think the tax advantages of this are as great as they used to be.
That depends on how your app "contains" the GPL code. This part of the GPL V2 is applicable:
Trolling, much?
The GPL is about 15 pages (including the preamble). It's much more readable than most contracts and licenses.
Not every reply has to dispute the parent.
Acquisition cost of an A10: ~ zero. They aren't building any more. Yes, there will be upgrades, but even the upgrades are not going to cost as much as the cost to build a new jet.
What about running costs? The cost to fly an F35 for one hour is much, much higher than that of an A10.
OMG, you can own a muzzle loader in the UK, that totally changes things. I am sure that taxi drivers carrying muzzle loaders is a major problem! Incidentally, a taxi driver carrying a muzzle loader while working would almost certainly be illegal anyway. Firearms certificates in the UK are very specific about where the firearm should be stored and used.
Realistically, look at all the statements that "handguns are effectively banned in the UK".
You started the condescending tone, with your implication that I got my information from the NRA. In fact, I got my information from reading UK newspapers at the time and the fact that my father (living in the UK) had to relinquish the handgun that he owned under the 1997 regulations.
Yes, I am sure. I know because my father used to have a handgun.
You can get an air pistol, or a rifle, but not a handgun.
The name of the club pre-dates the banning of handguns in the UK.
I wish I lived in your simplistic world, where everything worked the way I think it should work. But I don't and neither do you.
Your comment about "THE logic, the legal logic" is ridiculous. Did you not understand that this decision was rendered, not by a jury, but by judges?
Yes, it's possible that one or more appeals may overturn this, but Uber will be swimming against the current. It's also quite likely that the judges hearing the appeals will agree with the tribunal (you didn't even get that right, did you?)
Nice cherry-picking.
Uber sets the prices, sets the commission rate and collects the payment, while also determining the relationship between the driver and the passenger. Note that it's not a fee, it's a commission. Does eBay tell me how much I must sell something for?
This is the UK and HMR&C (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) are very keen on classifying people as employees and collecting the relevant taxes. So, one of four things will happen:
1. Uber will shut down in the UK.
2. Uber will drastically change their contracts with their drivers so that they can qualify as contractors.
3. Uber will suck it up and treat the drivers as employees.
4. Uber will close all offices in the UK, fire any local staff and pretend that all transactions are international.
Remember, it's not just the drivers pushing this: HMR&C will start demanding that Uber pay the necessary taxes. Even if Uber picks option 4, I still see HMR&C going after Uber.
I am pretty sure that, where this legal action took place, the Police do that (handguns are banned in the UK).
Did it occur to you that the laws may be different in the UK and the third alternative (work as an employee) might be the best option?
Your argument can be re-written as: you have no power, so suck up the crumbs were are prepared to drop for you. Well, perhaps the drivers do have more power.
Also, since this wasn't a class action, it doesn't affect anyone except the two drivers who sued. However, all the other drivers can now sue, secure in the knowledge that they will win and that Uber will have to pick up both sides' legal costs.
Perhaps, also, this is bad for the economy as a whole as the current situation leads to Uber not paying the taxes that would otherwise have to be paid. In other words it is just another example of socializing the costs while privatizing the profits.
Are you suggesting that sewage outflow raises the level of the ocean?
No, because Bernie has a clue. Jill Stein, not so much.
I laugh at Republicans this election cycle.
I think that almost any other candidate would have beaten Hillary quite easily, but, instead, they chose the racist, misogynist, groper-in-chief, failure in business, tax avoider, non-profit abuser with ludicrous ideas and no detailed plans.
The GOP has got exactly what it asked for: to lose the presidential election and, quite possibly, also the Senate. That's what the Republicans asked for when they voted for Trump. He is the representative of ignorance.
He reliably embraces the wrong solution to any problem.
Money isn't really the issue. But what do you do when you realize that you have lost or left your dongle behind? It's another device to carry, to lose, to break. It's the opposite of "just works".
There must be Oracle employees who actively post here at /..
What do you think of this? What should the rest of us think of you and your employer?
Did I near a "whoosh" sound, or are you really serious?
If you are serious and you think that, in the past decade, the republicans have put citizen privacy before businesses, then I have a very nice bridge to sell you.
Whoosh ..
Macs are for professionals ... just not your sort of profession!
They were not too late: there were phones running some form of Windows long before the iPhone and Android.
No, they had the wrong vision for a phone. Their vision was Windows running on a small platform and it did not resonate with mass market buyers. Perhaps they saw the market as corporate buyers, not the consumers who buy phones today.
The days between monchrome CRT monitors and LCD monitors.
What annoys me the most is the effect of all those scripts on web pages. It's not possible to start reading many web pages for several seconds after it is initially rendered: I need to scroll down to read the text past the lead paragraph, but the scripts keep causing the page to be re-rendered and hence jump back up to the top again. Ugh!
White on black used to be unreadable in CRT days, unless you had a really good monitor. Once your monitor was a couple of years old, white on black hurt the eyes more than any other theme.
You mean the company that is outselling BMW and Mercedes in the luxury car market? That niche company?