As long as you keep the total value of what you are importing under $1000, you don't get hit with GST.
If you were to, say, buy a PC overseas that costs over $1000, prepare to get slugged when it comes in through the post. If you have someone send something over, make sure that they price it as $999 on the customs form. I sent myself a computer from overseas and in my honesty/stupidity, priced it over the magic $1000 value and ended up paying about $200 in duties.
Actually while you are in Australia, prepare to get slugged everywhere for tech. A high Australian dollar, and the fact that we don't locally produce any tech (we just dig rocks out of the ground and sell them), means that overseas tech companies here charge whatever the small Australian market will bear, and usually they typically price it on the side of unreasonable.
Do I really need to talk about how terrible the internet speeds are here? No need to mention that in some places, the best you can get is 2Mbps ADSL? No? OK.
[quote] but this little dance had to go all the way because the moderate Republicans are as terrified of the Tea Party as they are of voters.[/quote]
I think this little dance had to go all the way through to sucker enough opportunists into placing orders on Wall Street. Then Wall street looks at their books and moves the market into the direction that they are most likely to profit on aggregate from the orders.... and if you happened to trade with the banks, good for you.
The trouble is that unless it's going to stay disconnected from the internet, one day it's going to get owned, and then you'll need a upgrade plan and you won't be in any position to make a transition because your PC is toast.
Not really. They've added stuff into their UEK kernel that directly supports their own products. Take OCFS2 and ASM for example. Oracle used to release packages for RedHat EL users so they could get Oracle Databases and Middleware working on their systems.
Then, starting with Red Hat EL 6 (or Oracle UL 6), they decided not to release these anymore and instead build them into THEIR kernel, edging users towards going with Oracle Linux over Redhat.... all because Larry possibly needed another yacht by slurping up more support contracts. This of course, angered a whole lot of RedHat shops who were happy with RedHat support (after all, they add to the kernel heavily and have the resources to really support Linux users), and have a strong aversion to Oracle's "support" (using that term very loosely, in addition to the fact that Oracle adds very little to Linux).
On one hand, if you're going to be an Oracle shop, it makes sense to go all Oracle... but some users have a very low estimation of their support.
That was my experience in the Japanese IT industry as well. Fastidious and near anal retentive attention to detail. Unfortuantely it's also got it's fair share of it's bumbling halfwits that the company can't/won't fire due to the lifetime employment custom.
The head honcho representative of the large Japanese-IT-company-that-many-people-will-have-heard-of at the place I was working once had to apologise for accidently unplugging the wrong production server (Nope he didn't even shut it down or turn it off)
The Japanese actually need the anal retentive planning, because they recognise that they are actually pretty hopeless. The REAL problems begin when something happens OUTSIDE of their plans. They lack a complete inability to think on their feet and respond in a timely manner... preferring to sit on their hands and wait for a roundtable discussion and confirmation from their higher ups. Contrast that with the situation at Fukushima. In fact it was the initial Fukushima engineers at the beginning of the disaster that made some critical calls in defiance of Tepco (who were only interested in saving the plant), that may have prevented a greater catastrophe.
In fact, when the Tepco engineers were starting to explain and reassure people about what had happened at Fukushima on TV on the 12th of March, they sounded just like the voice of the bumbling server engineer, trying to apologize for unplugging the server, that i remembered from years earlier. It was at that time I knew that they had no control over the plant....
FTFA: "Soon after, the $3.5bn facility shifted focus, cutting the amount of time spent on fusion versus nuclear weapons research - which was part of the lab's original mission."
Makes you wonder where we'd be now if we stopped pissing about on weapons research.
Technical progress has enormously boosted productivity worldwide and is still increasing it at a rate of about 2% per year. Theoretically, we needed to work four days less every year for producing the same goods and earning the same income. However it does not happen this way. Producers use productivity boosts for reducing costs - mostly wages and salaries. This is supposed to improve their profits, but it also has an adverse affect. Layoffs, unemployment, subsequent demand shortfall and economic crises eat a large part of the benefits from increased productivity. The remaining excess profits are invested - however not in production of goods, but in financial assets. Hedge funds, investment banks, and trading firms circulate an immense money volume (up to seven trillion US$ per day) through the financial markets, this way creating a shadow economy that largely surpasses the market of real products and services. It consumes most rewards of technical progress, and gives back occasional market crashes and financial crises.
But it also offers the opportunity to redistribute some of the excess profit back from the rich to the poor. Providing many people with a small but regular trading income will take liquidity out of the financial markets and inject it back into the production cycle. This will boost demand worldwide and soften the world's economical problems.
It's the regular trading income thing that has a lot of people stumped though.
Derren Brown did a TV special on religion as an exponent of the placebo effect. This video is, in my opinion, one of the best smackdowns on religion that I have seen. Aside from demonstrating how to brainwash an athiest into having religious belief using neuro-linguistic programming along with auditory and spatial anchors, he mentioned that religious belief was not necessary.
This is why, I think, that just about any kind of religious belief, or any crazy meme for that matter, if dressed up correctly can induce the Placebo Effect (yes, even Scientology).
Hanging on to faith, in absence of evidence, is the only thing that can keep the placebo effect going... but the truth is that religion need not be the placebo!
I had been on Ati and then AMD for a number of years and the only reason I moved away is Sapphire sold me a dud 6970 and didn't replace it, attempted to fix it, took my money, and then sent it back to me broken. And then I managed to fry a new Radeon 6970 HD card to replace that one when it overheated. Then discovered that the Nvidia equivalent GTX 670 not only used less power, took up less space in my PC case, ran a lot, cooler (and thus didn't fry), and actually performed marginally better as well. Also it was supported in a hackintosh unlike the AMD card.
From the Zorro Project:- (I'm not posting a link, use google)
"Technical progress has enormously boosted productivity worldwide and is still increasing it at a rate of about 2% per year. Theoretically, we needed to work four days less every year for producing the same goods and earning the same income.
However it does not happen this way. Producers use productivity boosts for reducing costs - mostly wages and salaries. This is supposed to improve their profits, but it also has an adverse affect. Layoffs, unemployment, subsequent demand shortfall and economic crises eat a large part of the benefits from increased productivity.
The remaining excess profits are invested - however not in production of goods, but in financial assets. Hedge funds, investment banks, and trading firms circulate an immense money volume (up to seven trillion US$ per day) through the financial markets, this way creating a shadow economy that largely surpasses the market of real products and services. It consumes most rewards of technical progress, and gives back occasional market crashes and financial crises.
But it also offers the opportunity to redistribute some of the excess profit back from the rich to the poor. Providing many people with a small but regular trading income will take liquidity out of the financial markets and inject it back into the production cycle. This will boost demand worldwide and soften the world's economical problems."
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As long as you keep the total value of what you are importing under $1000, you don't get hit with GST. If you were to, say, buy a PC overseas that costs over $1000, prepare to get slugged when it comes in through the post. If you have someone send something over, make sure that they price it as $999 on the customs form. I sent myself a computer from overseas and in my honesty/stupidity, priced it over the magic $1000 value and ended up paying about $200 in duties. Actually while you are in Australia, prepare to get slugged everywhere for tech. A high Australian dollar, and the fact that we don't locally produce any tech (we just dig rocks out of the ground and sell them), means that overseas tech companies here charge whatever the small Australian market will bear, and usually they typically price it on the side of unreasonable. Do I really need to talk about how terrible the internet speeds are here? No need to mention that in some places, the best you can get is 2Mbps ADSL? No? OK.
That's MOOT, not mute
You check your watch for incoming messages. You look at your phone to check the time.
So, it has come to this.
http://xkcd.com/1022/
[quote] but this little dance had to go all the way because the moderate Republicans are as terrified of the Tea Party as they are of voters.[/quote]
I think this little dance had to go all the way through to sucker enough opportunists into placing orders on Wall Street. Then Wall street looks at their books and moves the market into the direction that they are most likely to profit on aggregate from the orders. ... and if you happened to trade with the banks, good for you.
Yeah I guess I was a little optimistic there wasn't I?
The trouble is that unless it's going to stay disconnected from the internet, one day it's going to get owned, and then you'll need a upgrade plan and you won't be in any position to make a transition because your PC is toast.
In Soviet Russia, detection escapes you!
Not really. They've added stuff into their UEK kernel that directly supports their own products. Take OCFS2 and ASM for example.
Oracle used to release packages for RedHat EL users so they could get Oracle Databases and Middleware working on their systems.
Then, starting with Red Hat EL 6 (or Oracle UL 6), they decided not to release these anymore and instead build them into THEIR kernel, edging users towards going with Oracle Linux over Redhat.... all because Larry possibly needed another yacht by slurping up more support contracts. This of course, angered a whole lot of RedHat shops who were happy with RedHat support (after all, they add to the kernel heavily and have the resources to really support Linux users), and have a strong aversion to Oracle's "support" (using that term very loosely, in addition to the fact that Oracle adds very little to Linux).
On one hand, if you're going to be an Oracle shop, it makes sense to go all Oracle... but some users have a very low estimation of their support.
Our future wars will resemble StarCraft tournaments
That was my experience in the Japanese IT industry as well. Fastidious and near anal retentive attention to detail.
Unfortuantely it's also got it's fair share of it's bumbling halfwits that the company can't/won't fire due to the lifetime employment custom.
The head honcho representative of the large Japanese-IT-company-that-many-people-will-have-heard-of at the place I was working once had to apologise for accidently unplugging the wrong production server (Nope he didn't even shut it down or turn it off)
The Japanese actually need the anal retentive planning, because they recognise that they are actually pretty hopeless. The REAL problems begin when something happens OUTSIDE of their plans. They lack a complete inability to think on their feet and respond in a timely manner... preferring to sit on their hands and wait for a roundtable discussion and confirmation from their higher ups. Contrast that with the situation at Fukushima. In fact it was the initial Fukushima engineers at the beginning of the disaster that made some critical calls in defiance of Tepco (who were only interested in saving the plant), that may have prevented a greater catastrophe.
In fact, when the Tepco engineers were starting to explain and reassure people about what had happened at Fukushima on TV on the 12th of March, they sounded just like the voice of the bumbling server engineer, trying to apologize for unplugging the server, that i remembered from years earlier.
It was at that time I knew that they had no control over the plant....
Opening the wrong pipe mistakenly believing it to be a different one is a 'small mistake'/mishap.
That's one small mistake for man, one giant leap for mutantkind
FTFA:
"Soon after, the $3.5bn facility shifted focus, cutting the amount of time spent on fusion versus nuclear weapons research - which was part of the lab's original mission."
Makes you wonder where we'd be now if we stopped pissing about on weapons research.
Technical progress has enormously boosted productivity worldwide and is still increasing it at a rate of about 2% per year. Theoretically, we needed to work four days less every year for producing the same goods and earning the same income. However it does not happen this way. Producers use productivity boosts for reducing costs - mostly wages and salaries. This is supposed to improve their profits, but it also has an adverse affect. Layoffs, unemployment, subsequent demand shortfall and economic crises eat a large part of the benefits from increased productivity. The remaining excess profits are invested - however not in production of goods, but in financial assets. Hedge funds, investment banks, and trading firms circulate an immense money volume (up to seven trillion US$ per day) through the financial markets, this way creating a shadow economy that largely surpasses the market of real products and services. It consumes most rewards of technical progress, and gives back occasional market crashes and financial crises.
But it also offers the opportunity to redistribute some of the excess profit back from the rich to the poor. Providing many people with a small but regular trading income will take liquidity out of the financial markets and inject it back into the production cycle. This will boost demand worldwide and soften the world's economical problems.
It's the regular trading income thing that has a lot of people stumped though.
Was the Swiss Navy involved in the war games?
Seriously, just live near an airport, save up enough money and fly the hell out of the country. That's what all the rich people will be doing.
Yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkEYnXd5VkY
The fact that you got kicked out for installing Wolf3D shows your age.
Back in my day, we got in trouble and banned from the computers for sneaking into the classroom during lunchtime to play Karateka on the Apple IIs
I remember installing the first Fedora on my Pentium 4 machine with 1G of RAM.
Ten years ago!? Say it ain't so. Feels like only yesterday.
Microsoft needs to burn money here to drop the price point on these devices to compete with everything else.
otherwise they are toast.
Derren Brown did a TV special on religion as an exponent of the placebo effect. This video is, in my opinion, one of the best smackdowns on religion that I have seen. Aside from demonstrating how to brainwash an athiest into having religious belief using neuro-linguistic programming along with auditory and spatial anchors, he mentioned that religious belief was not necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ust-pJC-9j8
This is why, I think, that just about any kind of religious belief, or any crazy meme for that matter, if dressed up correctly can induce the Placebo Effect (yes, even Scientology).
Hanging on to faith, in absence of evidence, is the only thing that can keep the placebo effect going... but the truth is that religion need not be the placebo!
Same here.
I had been on Ati and then AMD for a number of years and the only reason I moved away is Sapphire sold me a dud 6970 and didn't replace it, attempted to fix it, took my money, and then sent it back to me broken. And then I managed to fry a new Radeon 6970 HD card to replace that one when it overheated.
Then discovered that the Nvidia equivalent GTX 670 not only used less power, took up less space in my PC case, ran a lot, cooler (and thus didn't fry), and actually performed marginally better as well. Also it was supported in a hackintosh unlike the AMD card.
Not going back.
From the Zorro Project:- (I'm not posting a link, use google)
"Technical progress has enormously boosted productivity worldwide and is still increasing it at a rate of about 2% per year. Theoretically, we needed to work four days less every year for producing the same goods and earning the same income.
However it does not happen this way. Producers use productivity boosts for reducing costs - mostly wages and salaries. This is supposed to improve their profits, but it also has an adverse affect. Layoffs, unemployment, subsequent demand shortfall and economic crises eat a large part of the benefits from increased productivity.
The remaining excess profits are invested - however not in production of goods, but in financial assets. Hedge funds, investment banks, and trading firms circulate an immense money volume (up to seven trillion US$ per day) through the financial markets, this way creating a shadow economy that largely surpasses the market of real products and services. It consumes most rewards of technical progress, and gives back occasional market crashes and financial crises.
But it also offers the opportunity to redistribute some of the excess profit back from the rich to the poor. Providing many people with a small but regular trading income will take liquidity out of the financial markets and inject it back into the production cycle. This will boost demand worldwide and soften the world's economical problems."
At least they still get to use a Commodore 64, and an Amiga :D