At least over here it's a bit different. Thanks laws to speed up the move to "green" energy, you can sell the "clean" power from your solar cells for quite a bit more than you have to pay to buy back the same amount of "dirty" grid energy. So you definitly don't want any power to go from your solar cells into your house during regular conditions.
That remark was targetted at one of the guys who complained the loudest. Vince Cable, British Secretary of Business, who definitly should be in a position to get changes to the tax code rolling.
No. If you have a sense of ethics and are slightly more intelligent than lettuce, you'd pay as few taxes as possible, and donate those 5 billion dollar instead of leaving it to gouvernment..
From what orifice did they pull that number from? Giving a number of how much tax has been "avoided" means that there is a number of how many taxes SHOULD HAVE been paid. Where did you get that number from?
Paying your due taxes is the very definition of legal - and obviously all those schemes were legal. You obviously could throw the book at them if they were paying a penny less than they should, which they didn't do.
So if you compare the tax they pay to the tax they have to pay, the difference is going to be zero! Zero does not equal 2.5 billion. In whatever currency.
Some author might have made up tax scenarious where the due tax would have been 2.5 billion GBP higher (if they were an all american company, an all british company, no offices abroad, even perhaps an if the cayman islands weren't a tax haven) - but they are what they are - what if scenarios.
So much for the legal aspect. We could discuss the moral aspect and the fact that there are specific loopholes for big international companies that aren't open to SMB or the ordinary taxpayer. That's definitly not fair, but what really makes me sick if the same politicans, whose job would be to create a fair tax code, now start to complain when companies play by those very unapt rules!
So if someone thinks that gogle *should* pay 2.5 billions more, create a tax code that MAKES THEM.
I don't want Google to give me what it thinks I want, or SHOULD want, or even what "most people" want - I want a pure result set basic on simple pattern matching in the dataset.
Well, google dwarfed Altavista by giving back the results people usually wanted. and NOT the results of simple pattern matching because even back in those days the results of pattern matching always were random junk, created to specifically match common patterns. It's called search engine spam.
Creating a useful metric for "relevance" is what makes a good search engine.
Does any of the mentioned "existing third party products" really DETECT malware? Or do they only check apks against lists of manually compiled checksums?
I didn't intend to connect charisma with any result in beeing chosen for something or not. I just picked examples of charismatic persons that (by most standards) wouldn't be considered as sexually attractive. Of course I know people where charisma and good looks go together, but I also know people who are only one of both.
But examples from my personal life would be rather difficult to follow....
Technically, it's sexual attractiveness. Charisma is just a generic term for someone that is sexually attractive as well as knowing how to use it to their advantage.
I think that's a bit short sighted. I think most people would agree that e.g. the Dalei Lama or Queen Elizabeth II are charismatic leaders, but would not rate them anywhere near "attractive"
Terrorists don't want to kill people. Terrorists want to spread fear. (one is a method, the other a goal)
You can ease the fear after a plane incident by increased security theater. But if security checkpoints actually CREATE vulnerabilitys (read: long lines), you can't add more security to help that kind of fear.
So yes, rethink your ideas on the basis that the teachers are employed BY the students, and accountable TO the students.
I come to the same conclusion: Badges may have been a neccessary security measure(*), recording class attendance is a neccessary routine.
I haven't read before that the no-rfid-badge would have come with limitations to freedom of speech, that shines a different light on that offer, but at least the school was offering a comprimise at all.
(*) or plain security theatre. can't rule that out from my armchair, too.
And the difference between a school and the cops, is that you have at least a few alternatives to choose for school for special needs. And it seems that here we have some rather special religous needs.
>I doubt that this system here is much different from clocking in to the lessons.
It's massively different. Do you know why ? Because you are PAID to be at work, while you (or your parents but it amounts to the same thing) PAY to go to school.
The roles of authority are in fact, exactly, reversed. A school is there to serve YOUR need to get an education. We allow them to institute a measure of discipline so that one selfish kid cannot interfere with the other kids wanting the same. But this is no different than a shop putting up a "one per customer" sign on a special, they are merely protecting the rights of their OTHER customers. But the school is the CUSTOMER here, moreso - they are a STATE customer paid for by TAX money - that makes them public SERVANTS.
The school RECEIVES money. That makes them the SHOP, and not the customer. The parents are paying the school (either directly or with their taxes) to educate and teach their kids. Recording attendance is a part of that. And as you said, keeping up a level of discipline that allows them to actually do what they are paid for is part of that package.
And providing security for the kids is also an important factor.
I doubt that badges are the only way to do so. (The school offered a non-RFID-badge to that student!) but i'd give the the benefit of doubt that they're in a situation where strangers on the school grounds pose a possible danger and the school is big enough that you couldn't know anyone who has business in beeing there on sight without a badge.
And if their religion is strict enough to see wearing badges as sin, they're free to find some bible school. As with any shop: take your business elsewhere. Or did you ever hear of a public school that closes friday (holy day of the muslim) AND saturday (jewish shabbat) AND sunday (christian day of rest)?
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At least over here it's a bit different. Thanks laws to speed up the move to "green" energy, you can sell the "clean" power from your solar cells for quite a bit more than you have to pay to buy back the same amount of "dirty" grid energy. So you definitly don't want any power to go from your solar cells into your house during regular conditions.
That remark was targetted at one of the guys who complained the loudest. Vince Cable, British Secretary of Business, who definitly should be in a position to get changes to the tax code rolling.
And what moral three-ring-binder tells us how much tax payments are "morally acceptable?"
No. If you have a sense of ethics and are slightly more intelligent than lettuce, you'd pay as few taxes as possible, and donate those 5 billion dollar instead of leaving it to gouvernment..
The tax code is designed to fund the operation of the government, not to "fairly" tax all.
"Fair Taxes" tend to extract an equal amount from each individual (a head tax), but that is seen as "unfair" to lower-income workers.
extracting the same PERCENTAGE from everyone might also be considered as 'fair'.
And some might even consider raising that percentage depending on the available income as "fair"
From what orifice did they pull that number from? Giving a number of how much tax has been "avoided" means that there is a number of how many taxes SHOULD HAVE been paid. Where did you get that number from?
Paying your due taxes is the very definition of legal - and obviously all those schemes were legal. You obviously could throw the book at them if they were paying a penny less than they should, which they didn't do.
So if you compare the tax they pay to the tax they have to pay, the difference is going to be zero! Zero does not equal 2.5 billion. In whatever currency.
Some author might have made up tax scenarious where the due tax would have been 2.5 billion GBP higher (if they were an all american company, an all british company, no offices abroad, even perhaps an if the cayman islands weren't a tax haven) - but they are what they are - what if scenarios.
So much for the legal aspect. We could discuss the moral aspect and the fact that there are specific loopholes for big international companies that aren't open to SMB or the ordinary taxpayer. That's definitly not fair, but what really makes me sick if the same politicans, whose job would be to create a fair tax code, now start to complain when companies play by those very unapt rules!
So if someone thinks that gogle *should* pay 2.5 billions more, create a tax code that MAKES THEM.
I don't want Google to give me what it thinks I want, or SHOULD want, or even what "most people" want - I want a pure result set basic on simple pattern matching in the dataset.
Well, google dwarfed Altavista by giving back the results people usually wanted. and NOT the results of simple pattern matching because even back in those days the results of pattern matching always were random junk, created to specifically match common patterns. It's called search engine spam.
Creating a useful metric for "relevance" is what makes a good search engine.
It's rather the database that can generate those panels instead of enetering them manually....
It's a graph. You know, that maths stuff. Not some lazy typing for graphic.
But yell, math is hard. Let's go shopping, uh?
... can not radiate in the two hours after sunrise or two hours before sunset.
Who came up with THAT ridiciulous stuff? Or is there a reason?
So it would be like steel coated porcelaine?
Publishing this seems like a pretty pathetic move to boost Win8 Sales
"Look! You now even can get Apps for free for Win8"
Does any of the mentioned "existing third party products" really DETECT malware? Or do they only check apks against lists of manually compiled checksums?
I didn't intend to connect charisma with any result in beeing chosen for something or not. I just picked examples of charismatic persons that (by most standards) wouldn't be considered as sexually attractive. Of course I know people where charisma and good looks go together, but I also know people who are only one of both.
But examples from my personal life would be rather difficult to follow....
Technically, it's sexual attractiveness. Charisma is just a generic term for someone that is sexually attractive as well as knowing how to use it to their advantage.
I think that's a bit short sighted. I think most people would agree that e.g. the Dalei Lama or Queen Elizabeth II are charismatic leaders, but would not rate them anywhere near "attractive"
But it's not completly unrelated.
Wouldn't Hydarzine mustle just burn in an explosion?
No. Just clever enough to pay for their stuff when they're surrounded by cameras....
Most individuals can't funnel their money through foreign tax shelters.
There.. fixed that for you.
So you paid as much as you had to and as few as you could.
That's the same those here are doing, too.
Your wrath should be directed at the politicians worldwide who take care of that Google's "as much as they had to" is so insanely low.
Yes... but this is doomed to fail as e.g. the 9-11 terrorists behaved pretty normal until that day.
It's hard to find a repeating suicide bombers...
already posted, but that's +1 insightfull
I should report that kind of terrorist scheming somewhere.
IMHO that's a fallacy.
Terrorists don't want to kill people. Terrorists want to spread fear. (one is a method, the other a goal)
You can ease the fear after a plane incident by increased security theater. But if security checkpoints actually CREATE vulnerabilitys (read: long lines), you can't add more security to help that kind of fear.
Cook turkey-tv-diner in microwave.
eat alone.
So yes, rethink your ideas on the basis that the teachers are employed BY the students, and accountable TO the students.
I come to the same conclusion: Badges may have been a neccessary security measure(*), recording class attendance is a neccessary routine.
I haven't read before that the no-rfid-badge would have come with limitations to freedom of speech, that shines a different light on that offer, but at least the school was offering a comprimise at all.
(*) or plain security theatre. can't rule that out from my armchair, too.
And the difference between a school and the cops, is that you have at least a few alternatives to choose for school for special needs. And it seems that here we have some rather special religous needs.
>I doubt that this system here is much different from clocking in to the lessons.
It's massively different. Do you know why ?
Because you are PAID to be at work, while you (or your parents but it amounts to the same thing) PAY to go to school.
The roles of authority are in fact, exactly, reversed. A school is there to serve YOUR need to get an education. We allow them to institute a measure of discipline so that one selfish kid cannot interfere with the other kids wanting the same. But this is no different than a shop putting up a "one per customer" sign on a special, they are merely protecting the rights of their OTHER customers.
But the school is the CUSTOMER here, moreso - they are a STATE customer paid for by TAX money - that makes them public SERVANTS.
The school RECEIVES money. That makes them the SHOP, and not the customer.
The parents are paying the school (either directly or with their taxes) to educate and teach their kids. Recording attendance is a part of that. And as you said, keeping up a level of discipline that allows them to actually do what they are paid for is part of that package.
And providing security for the kids is also an important factor.
I doubt that badges are the only way to do so. (The school offered a non-RFID-badge to that student!) but i'd give the the benefit of doubt that they're in a situation where strangers on the school grounds pose a possible danger and the school is big enough that you couldn't know anyone who has business in beeing there on sight without a badge.
And if their religion is strict enough to see wearing badges as sin, they're free to find some bible school. As with any shop: take your business elsewhere. Or did you ever hear of a public school that closes friday (holy day of the muslim) AND saturday (jewish shabbat) AND sunday (christian day of rest)?