Support doesn't just mean phone calls. Software updates are a very big part of the support package, and it is the one most people use most of the time. Coming out of support means there won't be any software updates for new DST rules.
A network time server isn't going to work. It gives the time in GMT or UTC, and the local computer uses the timezone information to work out what time it should be where it is. Windows stores local time and timezone offset, most other systems store GMT or UTC and timezone offset. So while you could get the local time stored on the computer to be correct, the timezone offset will be wrong, and that will affect things like timestamps on emails; and calendar appointments either side of the old/new DST changeover dates.
Well IP addresses aren't always useful. If you connect to the Internet using a cellphone, the cellphone is allocated an IP address typically in the 10/8 range and connects to the internet via a NAT connection. There are more cellphones in the world than routeable IP addresses. Then all the IP address logged by the website would tell you is which network they used and approximately which county they were in, or for a larger city, which district or group of districts.
Facebook profiles do sometimes produce useful information, and they don't know whether it will or not until they get it; and they have to try all lines of enquiry in the hope that one of them will lead to something.
If you read the Boston Phoenix article, it was actually the IP address he used to sign up for his throwaway hotmail account, followed by the street address associated with that from Comcast that identified him. Then they did further field work to establish that it was him, and not a neighbour or passer-by who had hacked into his wifi network. The Facebook profile in this case didn't produce any useful information.
Amazon will probably exceed that threshold in an less hour for each country, so they do need to pay local VAT.
That, however, does not apply to electronically supplied goods, such as Kindle Books, the MP3 store or software supplied by means of download rather than shipped on physical media, so they can and do sell these from Luxembourg which has the lowest VAT rate in the EU. The iTunes store is also based in Luxembourg for that reason.
They file a tax return in the UK because they have warehouses there. However the UK operation is structured so that sales money from customers goes to Luxembourg, and Amazon Luxembourg pays Amazon UK a fee to send the item out to the customer on their behalf. After deducting all the warehouse, staff costs, payments to couriers and so on, there is no profit left to pay tax on.
It is not a novel issue at all. It is a pretty straightforward transfer pricing issue - how much Amazon Luxembourg should pay Amazon UK for fulfilling the orders. Amazon employs 2256 people in the UK, and 134 people in Luxembourg, so you would expect most of the profit to be made in the UK, not Luxembourg, because that's where the people who work to make the profit are actually based.
The other issue, selling e-books from Luxembourg where the sales tax is 3% rather than from the UK where it is 20% is probably not something the government can do anything about.
I can only vote at my local Synagogue as their hall is what was chosen for the local polling station. In other places it might be a church hall or a school.
Firstly, having the date change during the middle of the working day would be a pain.
Secondly, before phoning up someone outside Europe, I look to see what time it is there, That lets me know whether I'm going to wake them up in the middle of the night, or if they are likely to be at work.
BBC Monitoring employs humans to translate foreign news articles. Knowing what newspapers around the world are saying about political stuff can be useful.
The problem is that Kodak never really made much money from cameras. They made it selling film, not necessarily used in Kodak cameras. If you were a professional photographer, you would probably buy your camera from Canon or Nikon, but you would put Kodak film in it. The professional photographers still use Canon and Nikon cameras, but they now put memory cards in them.
It is perfectly possible for one company to own the patent on an invention, and another completely separate company to own the copyright on the data used in that invention.
You have to complain to the relevant police department first, in this case SOCA, and be dissatisfied with their response before you can take it to the IPCC.
Be warned though that complaining to the IPCC is no more likely to change anything than complaining to Madame Tussauds.
Regulations and corrupt officials in India make it a lot more difficult to start a business there. That doesn't mean China is perfect in that respect, but it is a lot better than India.
Having said that, there are a lot of factories in India. They are pretty strong in the pharmaceuticals sector.
Twitter is very useful for letting rescuers know where people are and what problems/dangers they are facing; and for rescuers to let people on the ground know what to do to prepare for their arrival, eg get out of a particular area of flat land so the helicopter can land on it, get outside and wave so that they can find them etc.
In London, taxis are allowed to use the bus lanes. The buses there have had cameras to issue fines for quite a few years now.
The idea of having bus lanes is that one bus can take about 60 cars[1] off the road, and takes the same space as about 4 cars. If you can encourage more people to take the bus by making journeys faster, that reduces congestion for everyone.
[1] Based on the capacity of the Enviro 400 bus a pretty common choice of bus in London.
The box would be properly installed in the car when it was towed away to the garage and there would be a record of you driving into the signal blackspot. If for example you had a crash in the Dartford Tunnel, there would be a record of you driving along the M25 or one of the local roads and the signal would drop out at the entrance to the tunnel.
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Last time I looked at buying a car - in 2007, a diesel was more fuel efficient than a hybrid, and cheaper to buy as well; so that's what I bought.
Support doesn't just mean phone calls. Software updates are a very big part of the support package, and it is the one most people use most of the time. Coming out of support means there won't be any software updates for new DST rules.
A network time server isn't going to work. It gives the time in GMT or UTC, and the local computer uses the timezone information to work out what time it should be where it is. Windows stores local time and timezone offset, most other systems store GMT or UTC and timezone offset. So while you could get the local time stored on the computer to be correct, the timezone offset will be wrong, and that will affect things like timestamps on emails; and calendar appointments either side of the old/new DST changeover dates.
Some people go to universities to learn things, rather than, for example, to get drunk every night of the week.
Support is for people who want their computer to show the correct time when their government changes the daylight savings times rules yet again.
You still have another year of mainstream support.
The motorway junction near me was upgraded about 2 years ago. Openstreetmaps shows the new upgraded junction, Google maps does not.
Well IP addresses aren't always useful. If you connect to the Internet using a cellphone, the cellphone is allocated an IP address typically in the 10/8 range and connects to the internet via a NAT connection. There are more cellphones in the world than routeable IP addresses. Then all the IP address logged by the website would tell you is which network they used and approximately which county they were in, or for a larger city, which district or group of districts.
Facebook profiles do sometimes produce useful information, and they don't know whether it will or not until they get it; and they have to try all lines of enquiry in the hope that one of them will lead to something.
If you read the Boston Phoenix article, it was actually the IP address he used to sign up for his throwaway hotmail account, followed by the street address associated with that from Comcast that identified him. Then they did further field work to establish that it was him, and not a neighbour or passer-by who had hacked into his wifi network. The Facebook profile in this case didn't produce any useful information.
For physical goods, you have to charge VAT etc in the customer's country if your sales to that country exceed the "distance selling threshold" for that country. It is £70,000 in the UK, and typically around €10,000 elsewhere in the EU. http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/taxation/vat/traders/vat_community/vat_in_ec_annexi.pdf
Amazon will probably exceed that threshold in an less hour for each country, so they do need to pay local VAT.
That, however, does not apply to electronically supplied goods, such as Kindle Books, the MP3 store or software supplied by means of download rather than shipped on physical media, so they can and do sell these from Luxembourg which has the lowest VAT rate in the EU. The iTunes store is also based in Luxembourg for that reason.
They file a tax return in the UK because they have warehouses there. However the UK operation is structured so that sales money from customers goes to Luxembourg, and Amazon Luxembourg pays Amazon UK a fee to send the item out to the customer on their behalf. After deducting all the warehouse, staff costs, payments to couriers and so on, there is no profit left to pay tax on.
It is not a novel issue at all. It is a pretty straightforward transfer pricing issue - how much Amazon Luxembourg should pay Amazon UK for fulfilling the orders. Amazon employs 2256 people in the UK, and 134 people in Luxembourg, so you would expect most of the profit to be made in the UK, not Luxembourg, because that's where the people who work to make the profit are actually based.
The other issue, selling e-books from Luxembourg where the sales tax is 3% rather than from the UK where it is 20% is probably not something the government can do anything about.
I can only vote at my local Synagogue as their hall is what was chosen for the local polling station. In other places it might be a church hall or a school.
In the UK, you don't need a stamp to send a letter to the House of Parliament. It has a freepost address.
Firstly, having the date change during the middle of the working day would be a pain.
Secondly, before phoning up someone outside Europe, I look to see what time it is there, That lets me know whether I'm going to wake them up in the middle of the night, or if they are likely to be at work.
The evidence from the Working Time Directive in Europe suggests that it doesn't work like that. Shorter hours leads to higher unemployment.
BBC Monitoring employs humans to translate foreign news articles. Knowing what newspapers around the world are saying about political stuff can be useful.
The problem is that Kodak never really made much money from cameras. They made it selling film, not necessarily used in Kodak cameras. If you were a professional photographer, you would probably buy your camera from Canon or Nikon, but you would put Kodak film in it. The professional photographers still use Canon and Nikon cameras, but they now put memory cards in them.
It is perfectly possible for one company to own the patent on an invention, and another completely separate company to own the copyright on the data used in that invention.
Independent Police Complaints Commission.
You have to complain to the relevant police department first, in this case SOCA, and be dissatisfied with their response before you can take it to the IPCC.
Be warned though that complaining to the IPCC is no more likely to change anything than complaining to Madame Tussauds.
Regulations and corrupt officials in India make it a lot more difficult to start a business there. That doesn't mean China is perfect in that respect, but it is a lot better than India.
Having said that, there are a lot of factories in India. They are pretty strong in the pharmaceuticals sector.
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I'm thinking major natural disaster like an earthquake, not someone calling mountain rescue because they are in difficulties.
For 1 to 1 contact, yes, but not for general announcements and for getting an overall assessment of the situation.
Twitter is very useful for letting rescuers know where people are and what problems/dangers they are facing; and for rescuers to let people on the ground know what to do to prepare for their arrival, eg get out of a particular area of flat land so the helicopter can land on it, get outside and wave so that they can find them etc.
In London, taxis are allowed to use the bus lanes. The buses there have had cameras to issue fines for quite a few years now.
The idea of having bus lanes is that one bus can take about 60 cars[1] off the road, and takes the same space as about 4 cars. If you can encourage more people to take the bus by making journeys faster, that reduces congestion for everyone.
[1] Based on the capacity of the Enviro 400 bus a pretty common choice of bus in London.
The box would be properly installed in the car when it was towed away to the garage and there would be a record of you driving into the signal blackspot. If for example you had a crash in the Dartford Tunnel, there would be a record of you driving along the M25 or one of the local roads and the signal would drop out at the entrance to the tunnel.