I think VAT is supposed to be charged at the point of sale. I say supposed because at least Amazon exploited some loophole at least a couple years ago where they basically charged customers the VAT in their area but actually paid a much lower rate. Which is not supposed to be how it happens.
So because the air is cleaner with less particulates it rains less and because it rains less there's more moisture in the air which makes the storms larger. Well time to remove the scrubbers from those coal power plants then. No wait. Like a couple dozen people might die with the hurricane compared to the hundreds of thousands (or millions) who would get a reduced lifespan from the particulate pollution. Great.
I doubt it's about patents. Although HTC has been in the market for a really long time. They manufactured smartphones, before they were even called that, like the HTC P3330. They were probably the best Windows Mobile manufacturer around. Back when Microsoft made a phone OS worth considering. They are a Taiwanese company and these typically do not have a lot of experience with patent warfare.
What would make this sale weird to me though was that HTC is owned by the daughter of the founder of the Formosa Plastics Group. He's one of the richest men in the island. Their family could probably keep HTC as a going concern indefinitely if they wanted to. I have heard many times in the past of a buyout of HTC when they were in similar dire straits but they were never interested in selling the company at all.
Actually a lot of the rocket pioneers like Von Braun actually started building rockets outside the military industrial complex. At one time in Germany (1930s) there was a lot of competition between different teams to provide fast commercial delivery of mail with rockets. The work on that was forbidden by the Nazis during WWII.
If you compare Intel's prices while they had competition and while they didn't, CPU prices easily went double because of it. AMD had their main CPU factories in Dresden, Germany, so yes it did impact the EU directly when Intel managed to reduce AMD's sales with uncompetitive practices.
Well AMD had a factory in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, which manufactured CPUs. In fact had Intel not screwed them over perhaps they would still own the plant instead of spinning it off as Globalfoundries.
Unless I actually need to call someone. There's a good solution to the issue with alerts and Trump tweets. Just uninstall those applications. Personally I think of the smartphone as a communication device and occasional location tracker. News is something you can browse at home on your desktop or something.
It's usually a good idea to have separate work spaces and devices for separate tasks. If you can't have that then have separate application profiles and even desktops. It helps alleviate stress a lot.
SPARC *is* open and Fujitsu (formerly HAL) also designs high-end SPARC processors. There are several vendors of low end SPARC systems for space and military applications. Heck even the Russians have a SPARC CPU clone.
You sound like the typical uniformed dumbass German internet user. That's why those idiots keep burning brown coal and claim they're running on green energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Anthracite is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster. It has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest energy density of all types of coal except for graphite.... The principal use of anthracite today is for a domestic fuel in either hand-fired stoves or automatic stoker furnaces. It delivers high energy per its weight and burns cleanly with little soot, making it ideal for this purpose. Its high value makes it prohibitively expensive for power plant use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Lignite, often referred to as brown coal... is a soft brown combustible sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat. It is considered the lowest rank of coal due to its relatively low heat content.... carbon dioxide emissions from traditional brown-coal-fired plants are generally much higher per megawatt generated than for comparable black-coal plants,
They'll use 6 billion money to build 700 MW? AFAIK you could have between 2x and 4x the same generating capacity with nuclear with the same amount of money. And it would work rain or shine.
I can't explain why the Finns decided to involve the Russians at all.
Because the Russians build the reactors (relatively) cheaply and they actually meet the accorded schedules and budget (yes, surprising, I know). To a large degree this is because the Russians haven't lost their construction expertise. The Russians didn't spend nearly as much time without building new reactors like a lot of Western nations. Also because of the failure at Chernobyl, for quite some time there was an impetus in Russia to replace ancient RMBK (graphite) reactors with more modern VVER (pressurized water) reactors and that resulted in new construction.
Typically the control systems for the exported Russian reactors are actually built elsewhere, like in Western Europe, so the Russians would only actually build the large mechanical parts. The fuel also doesn't need to come from Russia, there are 3rd party sources, and they can train local staff. So that isn't that much of a big deal.
In the old times they required larger safety margins in parts, but part certification was a lot easier to get, if there was any certification at all, and reactors were built all the time. That meant there were a lot less delays. I suppose this way might be safer, or at least things will be better documented with a proper audit trail, but expedient it is not.
There's anthracite (glossy black coal) and there's lignite (brown coal). Anthracite is relatively clean burning yes, but brown coal, which is used in a lot of places like Germany, is really dirty.
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I think VAT is supposed to be charged at the point of sale. I say supposed because at least Amazon exploited some loophole at least a couple years ago where they basically charged customers the VAT in their area but actually paid a much lower rate. Which is not supposed to be how it happens.
Try watching "1492: Conquest of Paradise" sometime. It shows a pretty nasty tropical storm.
So because the air is cleaner with less particulates it rains less and because it rains less there's more moisture in the air which makes the storms larger. Well time to remove the scrubbers from those coal power plants then. No wait. Like a couple dozen people might die with the hurricane compared to the hundreds of thousands (or millions) who would get a reduced lifespan from the particulate pollution. Great.
So you are assuming these companies are being taxed adequately in the US. Interesting.
Those crimes were trialed in an International Court with supra-national jurisdiction. It's not the same thing.
Was one of the richest men I guess. I didn't know he had deceased in 2008. Still her family, as well as she Cher Wang personally, are quite rich.
I doubt it's about patents. Although HTC has been in the market for a really long time. They manufactured smartphones, before they were even called that, like the HTC P3330. They were probably the best Windows Mobile manufacturer around. Back when Microsoft made a phone OS worth considering. They are a Taiwanese company and these typically do not have a lot of experience with patent warfare.
What would make this sale weird to me though was that HTC is owned by the daughter of the founder of the Formosa Plastics Group. He's one of the richest men in the island. Their family could probably keep HTC as a going concern indefinitely if they wanted to. I have heard many times in the past of a buyout of HTC when they were in similar dire straits but they were never interested in selling the company at all.
Actually a lot of the rocket pioneers like Von Braun actually started building rockets outside the military industrial complex. At one time in Germany (1930s) there was a lot of competition between different teams to provide fast commercial delivery of mail with rockets. The work on that was forbidden by the Nazis during WWII.
So it can't be intercepted. Another possibility is they use it for spying on other satellites in orbit and don't want anyone else to know about it.
If you compare Intel's prices while they had competition and while they didn't, CPU prices easily went double because of it. AMD had their main CPU factories in Dresden, Germany, so yes it did impact the EU directly when Intel managed to reduce AMD's sales with uncompetitive practices.
Oh AMD did sue Intel alright. It's just that the lawsuit was settled out of court for a huge payment by Intel (Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion in antitrust settlement).
Well AMD had a factory in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, which manufactured CPUs. In fact had Intel not screwed them over perhaps they would still own the plant instead of spinning it off as Globalfoundries.
For that I pre-schedule a time where the other person is supposed to be connected. Or I just e-mail them.
Unless I actually need to call someone. There's a good solution to the issue with alerts and Trump tweets. Just uninstall those applications. Personally I think of the smartphone as a communication device and occasional location tracker. News is something you can browse at home on your desktop or something.
It's usually a good idea to have separate work spaces and devices for separate tasks. If you can't have that then have separate application profiles and even desktops. It helps alleviate stress a lot.
SPARC *is* open and Fujitsu (formerly HAL) also designs high-end SPARC processors. There are several vendors of low end SPARC systems for space and military applications. Heck even the Russians have a SPARC CPU clone.
The EPOC OS based Psion series 3 was launched in 1991.
Anthracite can have more than 32.5 MJ/kg while low grade Lignite can have less than 14.6 MJ/kg.
You sound like the typical uniformed dumbass German internet user. That's why those idiots keep burning brown coal and claim they're running on green energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Anthracite is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster. It has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest energy density of all types of coal except for graphite.... The principal use of anthracite today is for a domestic fuel in either hand-fired stoves or automatic stoker furnaces. It delivers high energy per its weight and burns cleanly with little soot, making it ideal for this purpose. Its high value makes it prohibitively expensive for power plant use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ... carbon dioxide emissions from traditional brown-coal-fired plants are generally much higher per megawatt generated than for comparable black-coal plants,
Lignite, often referred to as brown coal... is a soft brown combustible sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat. It is considered the lowest rank of coal due to its relatively low heat content.
So you were saying?
They'll use 6 billion money to build 700 MW? AFAIK you could have between 2x and 4x the same generating capacity with nuclear with the same amount of money. And it would work rain or shine.
I can't explain why the Finns decided to involve the Russians at all.
Because the Russians build the reactors (relatively) cheaply and they actually meet the accorded schedules and budget (yes, surprising, I know). To a large degree this is because the Russians haven't lost their construction expertise. The Russians didn't spend nearly as much time without building new reactors like a lot of Western nations. Also because of the failure at Chernobyl, for quite some time there was an impetus in Russia to replace ancient RMBK (graphite) reactors with more modern VVER (pressurized water) reactors and that resulted in new construction.
Typically the control systems for the exported Russian reactors are actually built elsewhere, like in Western Europe, so the Russians would only actually build the large mechanical parts. The fuel also doesn't need to come from Russia, there are 3rd party sources, and they can train local staff. So that isn't that much of a big deal.
In the old times they required larger safety margins in parts, but part certification was a lot easier to get, if there was any certification at all, and reactors were built all the time. That meant there were a lot less delays. I suppose this way might be safer, or at least things will be better documented with a proper audit trail, but expedient it is not.
Their EPR nuclear reactor (Olkiluoto 3) will finally go online? Sure took them long enough.
There's anthracite (glossy black coal) and there's lignite (brown coal). Anthracite is relatively clean burning yes, but brown coal, which is used in a lot of places like Germany, is really dirty.
I know that. You can also call ANSI C from a bunch of languages. But it smells like retconning to me. See the post I made below.