As a Sydney (NSW, Australia) resident, I wish our electricity prices ONLY rose 33% over 3 years. Electricity prices here have DOUBLED in the past 5 years.
"Electricity prices have more than doubled over the past five years according to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal"
I don't think the distinction between avoidance & evasion is lost on most of us here on Slashdot.
However, what we ARE is pleased that Google "avoiding" paying tax on billions of Euro will now be considered Google "evading" paying tax on billions of Euro.
As was summed-up so nicely by First Post: loophole closed. (After too many years !)
For the record, I am not loyal to any party. Each election I review each party's policies and go with my gut. I think those who blindly follow a party have helped ruin this once fine country.
We cannot muscle companies around just because we can.
100% agree with you. However I believe unions have a role to play in society. Historically they have been critical to balancing the power between powerful industrialists and the lowly worker. (BTW: why is it that those who most adore free markets object to workers freely uniting?)
Also, it's worth noting that the real world isn't digital, it's analogue. And this is where politics resides. Should workers have more rights? Or fewer? There's no universal answer, just opinion.
Toyota is now in a fierce battle with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union over the attempt to reduce workers' conditions at the plant.
How DARE the union object to conditions being reduced! Perhaps you would also like to see the minimum wage scrapped?
Through creative accounting, large companies are very adept at crying poor to the government, while at the same time telling their shareholders that they're expecting bumper profits. You need to grow up, mate.
Ahhh... thank you !!! You have finally clarified for me something no pro-vaccination person had managed to yet explain. (Not that I particularly pursued an answer, mind you.)
I had previously enquired as to why pro-vaccination parents got all worked-up about whether or not other parents vaccinated their kids: if one's kids were vaccinated, one had nothing to fear, right? But apparently that's not always true.
Overall I think Google's various interfaces are very clean and generally work very well.
However, I have consistently found that when I log-into Google AdWords via Firefox, the cursor will jump from the password field to the email field while I'm still entering the password. I've never encountered this in Chrome. Strange.
* Same here: excessive white-space down the left & right-hand side of the page. * As others have said, the presentation of comments is off-putting. * Images at the top of each article are a waste of space; dump them and display the full bloody summary instead !
Let me put it this way: I used to visit Engadget a couple of times a day (I currently visit Slashdot more often). However after Engadget adopted their current design, I'd say I now visit them about once every 1 or 2 weeks. I love the content, I just detest how it's being presented to me. And now you guys are going down the same path ?!
Apple churns-out some kick-ass products; but we also know how proud they can be.
I'm sure Apple would love to ignore this issue, but if it gets more coverage in the mainstream press I'm sure they'll quickly (and quietly) release an update.
+1 to the AC I'm a big fan of clarifying that government money is, in fact, our money.
Pisses me off when politicians gloat during fancy press conferences that they are allocating billions of dollars here and there, as if they were spending their own cash.
But then I think: What do we do with all the kids that have been expelled? Would they be roaming the streets during school hours? Shoplifting / mugging seniors? (Most of the expelled kids wouldn't be from the maths / chess clubs.)
Do we conscript them? Lock 'em up in detention?
Tough... very tough. It'd take a government with an iron will to fix this problem.
I don't think simply raising their pay is the answer
Funny, however, that paying CEO's many millions of dollars is justified because it allows companies to better attract 'talent' from other companies, other industries and other countries.
And whenever someone here in Australia bitches about politicians getting $200,000 - $400,000 per annum, the standard response is "but these people would be making many times that in private industry... we need to encourage them to work in public life". Then those people can fuck off to the private sector if they're not ready for public service.
I do agree that you will get some improvement in quality of teachers if you started paying them more, but I don't think it will be significant.
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Wallah!
It's "voilà".
He could have been quoting Arabic ... in which case that word fits quite well.
(However I agree he probably meant "voila".)
As a Sydney (NSW, Australia) resident, I wish our electricity prices ONLY rose 33% over 3 years.
Electricity prices here have DOUBLED in the past 5 years.
I don't think the distinction between avoidance & evasion is lost on most of us here on Slashdot.
However, what we ARE is pleased that Google "avoiding" paying tax on billions of Euro will now be considered Google "evading" paying tax on billions of Euro.
As was summed-up so nicely by First Post: loophole closed.
(After too many years !)
In the context of parent's comment, yes, that matters very much.
After all, what is the average cost of living in India or China?
For the record, I am not loyal to any party. Each election I review each party's policies and go with my gut. I think those who blindly follow a party have helped ruin this once fine country.
100% agree with you. However I believe unions have a role to play in society. Historically they have been critical to balancing the power between powerful industrialists and the lowly worker. (BTW: why is it that those who most adore free markets object to workers freely uniting?)
Also, it's worth noting that the real world isn't digital, it's analogue. And this is where politics resides. Should workers have more rights? Or fewer? There's no universal answer, just opinion.
FYI: Wrong, I ain't no whipper-snapper.
Bwahahahahahahaha yourself.
From this article:
How DARE the union object to conditions being reduced! Perhaps you would also like to see the minimum wage scrapped?
Through creative accounting, large companies are very adept at crying poor to the government, while at the same time telling their shareholders that they're expecting bumper profits. You need to grow up, mate.
Ahhh ... thank you !!!
You have finally clarified for me something no pro-vaccination person had managed to yet explain. (Not that I particularly pursued an answer, mind you.)
I had previously enquired as to why pro-vaccination parents got all worked-up about whether or not other parents vaccinated their kids: if one's kids were vaccinated, one had nothing to fear, right? But apparently that's not always true.
Cheers bud.
Do Persians (Iranians?) even consider themselves to be Arabs?
Disclaimer: IANAP(I).
Also: driving is usually necessary, skydiving rarely is.
FTFY.
Are you serious?! I think the OP is intelligent enough to know shooting wouldn't be his first option.
Personally, I think it was quite a good hypothetical to illustrate a very important function of government.
Overall I think Google's various interfaces are very clean and generally work very well.
However, I have consistently found that when I log-into Google AdWords via Firefox, the cursor will jump from the password field to the email field while I'm still entering the password. I've never encountered this in Chrome. Strange.
Homosexual.
* Same here: excessive white-space down the left & right-hand side of the page.
* As others have said, the presentation of comments is off-putting.
* Images at the top of each article are a waste of space; dump them and display the full bloody summary instead !
Let me put it this way:
I used to visit Engadget a couple of times a day (I currently visit Slashdot more often). However after Engadget adopted their current design, I'd say I now visit them about once every 1 or 2 weeks. I love the content, I just detest how it's being presented to me. And now you guys are going down the same path ?!
You've been told. The rest is up to you.
Spot on.
Apple churns-out some kick-ass products; but we also know how proud they can be.
I'm sure Apple would love to ignore this issue, but if it gets more coverage in the mainstream press I'm sure they'll quickly (and quietly) release an update.
+1 Wise
You stuffed-up a famous saying.
This is the correct form.
Australian politicians have accommodated that issue
1) Poor Mr Greenwald: so young and healthy and yet he suffered a fatal heart attack.
2) Poor Mr Greenwald: his vehicle careening off the road like that.
3) Poor Mr Greenwald: killed last night while being mugged for cash and his cell phone.
4) Poor Mr Greenwald: left a note saying he decided to go backpacking around the world but no one's seen him since.
etc
Of course, I hope he lives a long and healthy life ...
+1 to the AC
I'm a big fan of clarifying that government money is, in fact, our money.
Pisses me off when politicians gloat during fancy press conferences that they are allocating billions of dollars here and there, as if they were spending their own cash.
Aww, that's so cute that you think we can exploit a contradiction like this against the government.
In reality, they have our cake and eat it as well.
We, as a society, need to become much (much) more politically active before we can start to effect real change.
Well that's your fault if you live in a screwed-up country that allows that to occur.
In Australia, we take pride in having a much more ethical police force.
Err, scrap that last statement.
My first instinct is to agree with you.
But then I think:
What do we do with all the kids that have been expelled? Would they be roaming the streets during school hours? Shoplifting / mugging seniors? (Most of the expelled kids wouldn't be from the maths / chess clubs.)
Do we conscript them? Lock 'em up in detention?
Tough ... very tough. It'd take a government with an iron will to fix this problem.
I don't think simply raising their pay is the answer
Funny, however, that paying CEO's many millions of dollars is justified because it allows companies to better attract 'talent' from other companies, other industries and other countries.
And whenever someone here in Australia bitches about politicians getting $200,000 - $400,000 per annum, the standard response is "but these people would be making many times that in private industry ... we need to encourage them to work in public life". Then those people can fuck off to the private sector if they're not ready for public service.
I do agree that you will get some improvement in quality of teachers if you started paying them more, but I don't think it will be significant.
Let's find out.
At one point, swimming was much less "pure" than even running.
I don't know what would constitute a "pure" sport: wrestling? gymnastics? judo?