VAT is Value Added Tax, not Sales Tax like what you have in the US. You charge 20% VAT on your sales, claim back the VAT charged on purchases and pay the difference to HMRC.
Your roughly 1 mile apart main streets would now be roughly 1.6 km apart main streets. But does it really matter? In the UK, Milton Keynes has roughly 1 km apart main streets, and that was done long before we switched to metric, but in most of the country, the main streets tend to follow a radial pattern rather than a grid pattern, largely because the roads were there before the city, ie since the Romans built our highway network, and the city was built around a road junction.
Around 1/3 of the worlds population lives in countries where they drive on the left, most notably India, the second largest country in the world with around 1bn people. Ireland looked at the possibility of changing to driving on the right a few years back. The conclusion was that it would cost a lot of money and there would be no benefits from doing so.
The UK is the last hold-out of the imperial system in Europe, and even there, there are only a very few things that are still done in imperial units. Beer is one, in a pub it must be sold as 1/3 of a pint or multiples of 1/2 pint, if it is on tap, but if it is sold in a bottle or can, it will be in ml. Every other drink is sold in ml. Every other liquid is sold in m^3, litres or ml. Road signs for motor vehicles show distances in miles or yards and speeds in mph. Anything for pedestrians or cyclists is generally in meters and km. When a road is being built, the engineers use metric units to measure things. Anything sold by weight is required to be sold in grammes, kg etc, it is illegal to use imperial units. You are allowed show the imperial equivalent less prominently than the metric measurement, but most retailers don't. Cannabis is apparently sold in fractions of an ounce, but they are breaking more serious laws than the weights and measures act.
So there are only two areas where metric is not used in the UK. Beer sold on tap in a pub, and road signs and speed limits for motor vehicles.
The Euro is in trouble in Europe because it doesn't have a single government controlling it, but rather 17 different Eurozone country members with different economic circumstances. What is suitable for Germany in the one extreme isn't suitable for Greece at the other extreme. I'm not sure exactly when the Euro will collapse (revert back to Marks, Drachma, Pseta and so on), but it will.
Yes there is a similar difference in the economies of the 55 or so states, territories and districts in the US that use the dollar, but there is a single federal government and federal tax system to hold it all together.
Looks very much like a PR stunt from Nike to me, to get out the message "our shoes are so good that people are fighting and killing each other to get them".
I don't think that's the case in the UK. Most Blackberry users here tend to be teenage girls who like the fact you can send unlimited free texts using Blackberry messenger.
Price is certainly one reason why the iPad so completely dominates the market at the moment. You can either buy a cheap rubbish tablet, or you can buy a decent tablet for the same price as the iPad. People look at the Galaxy Tab and say, "it is the same price as the iPad, so I may as well buy an iPad." At the Black Friday sales (in the UK where we don't celebrate Thanksgiving and most retailers don't do Black Friday Sales), the iPad was cheaper than the Galaxy Tab because Apple had a Black Friday sale, and the main retailers of Galaxy Tabs such as Currys PC World did not.
Linux isn't dead. Pretty much every TV I see for sale except for the very basic ones runs linux. Digital video recorders - most of them run linux. Wifi routers, again, pretty much every one except the Airport runs linux. Telephones - The Blackberry and iPhone don't run linux, nor do the few remaining dumb-phones, but a fairly significant number of them do.
Linux is also alive and well in the server space. I administer both linux and windows servers. When I want to do something on the linux boxes, a single command line entry over ssh will generally do the trick. On windows, I have to log in using RPD and click around a load of places to do the same thing. Obviously the average Joe User isn't going to be comfortable with ssh, but the average Joe User doesn't administer servers.
Linux isn't very popular on the desktop, I see it in a few corporate locations where it is set up as a single purpose device, and it works as well as windows would doing the same thing, except that linux allows them to use much cheaper hardware, but linux is no more dead because it isn't that popular on the desktop than windows is dead because it isn't very popular in the mobile space.
Section 512(c)(3)(vi) of the DMCA says that the complainant must provide "A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
So why has nobody been prosecuted for perjury yet?
It costs something like $200 to get an attorney to write a letter. How many attorneys letters do you require per year to make your $27 per month LegalShield worthwhile?
That means the final assembly screwdriver plant is in China. The expensive high tech stuff is done elsewhere. For example the read-write heads are made in Northern Ireland.
Jury nulification means finding the defendant innocent regardless of the evidence against them. This is something jurors have a constitutional right to do. If you don't think the act the defendant was charged with should be against the law, you can find them not innocent even if it is absolutely obvious they did it.
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It is Customs Duty they are on about, also known as Import Duty. Duty is a type of tax, so it is not wrong to refer to it as such.
VAT is Value Added Tax, not Sales Tax like what you have in the US. You charge 20% VAT on your sales, claim back the VAT charged on purchases and pay the difference to HMRC.
Actually, write to your MEP, as customs duties are set by the EU.
And Visual Studio is an important part of what makes Microsoft successful today.
In Powershell you can write scripts that access and manipulate those objects. You can't do that in Bash.
Actually it does have one mouse button. The entire trackpad is a button.
Denmark is doing fine (10 year bond rate 1.71%), as is Sweden (1.66%). Both rates from here http://markets.ft.com/RESEARCH/Markets/Government-Bond-Spreads at time of typing this, they will have changed by the time you read it.
Of course, what those countries have in common is that they are not in the Euro, so they can control their own monetary policy.
Another thing with a coffee is that you see other people buying and you can see their reactions when they start to drink it.
Your roughly 1 mile apart main streets would now be roughly 1.6 km apart main streets. But does it really matter? In the UK, Milton Keynes has roughly 1 km apart main streets, and that was done long before we switched to metric, but in most of the country, the main streets tend to follow a radial pattern rather than a grid pattern, largely because the roads were there before the city, ie since the Romans built our highway network, and the city was built around a road junction.
Around 1/3 of the worlds population lives in countries where they drive on the left, most notably India, the second largest country in the world with around 1bn people. Ireland looked at the possibility of changing to driving on the right a few years back. The conclusion was that it would cost a lot of money and there would be no benefits from doing so.
The UK is the last hold-out of the imperial system in Europe, and even there, there are only a very few things that are still done in imperial units. Beer is one, in a pub it must be sold as 1/3 of a pint or multiples of 1/2 pint, if it is on tap, but if it is sold in a bottle or can, it will be in ml. Every other drink is sold in ml. Every other liquid is sold in m^3, litres or ml. Road signs for motor vehicles show distances in miles or yards and speeds in mph. Anything for pedestrians or cyclists is generally in meters and km. When a road is being built, the engineers use metric units to measure things. Anything sold by weight is required to be sold in grammes, kg etc, it is illegal to use imperial units. You are allowed show the imperial equivalent less prominently than the metric measurement, but most retailers don't. Cannabis is apparently sold in fractions of an ounce, but they are breaking more serious laws than the weights and measures act.
So there are only two areas where metric is not used in the UK. Beer sold on tap in a pub, and road signs and speed limits for motor vehicles.
I call it a bull trap or a dead cat bounce.
The Euro is in trouble in Europe because it doesn't have a single government controlling it, but rather 17 different Eurozone country members with different economic circumstances. What is suitable for Germany in the one extreme isn't suitable for Greece at the other extreme. I'm not sure exactly when the Euro will collapse (revert back to Marks, Drachma, Pseta and so on), but it will.
Yes there is a similar difference in the economies of the 55 or so states, territories and districts in the US that use the dollar, but there is a single federal government and federal tax system to hold it all together.
Looks very much like a PR stunt from Nike to me, to get out the message "our shoes are so good that people are fighting and killing each other to get them".
This video explains it even better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcMC8aUkvq0
I would guess better coverage, but you have to pay more for it.
I don't think that's the case in the UK. Most Blackberry users here tend to be teenage girls who like the fact you can send unlimited free texts using Blackberry messenger.
Price is certainly one reason why the iPad so completely dominates the market at the moment. You can either buy a cheap rubbish tablet, or you can buy a decent tablet for the same price as the iPad. People look at the Galaxy Tab and say, "it is the same price as the iPad, so I may as well buy an iPad." At the Black Friday sales (in the UK where we don't celebrate Thanksgiving and most retailers don't do Black Friday Sales), the iPad was cheaper than the Galaxy Tab because Apple had a Black Friday sale, and the main retailers of Galaxy Tabs such as Currys PC World did not.
Linux isn't dead. Pretty much every TV I see for sale except for the very basic ones runs linux. Digital video recorders - most of them run linux. Wifi routers, again, pretty much every one except the Airport runs linux. Telephones - The Blackberry and iPhone don't run linux, nor do the few remaining dumb-phones, but a fairly significant number of them do.
Linux is also alive and well in the server space. I administer both linux and windows servers. When I want to do something on the linux boxes, a single command line entry over ssh will generally do the trick. On windows, I have to log in using RPD and click around a load of places to do the same thing. Obviously the average Joe User isn't going to be comfortable with ssh, but the average Joe User doesn't administer servers.
Linux isn't very popular on the desktop, I see it in a few corporate locations where it is set up as a single purpose device, and it works as well as windows would doing the same thing, except that linux allows them to use much cheaper hardware, but linux is no more dead because it isn't that popular on the desktop than windows is dead because it isn't very popular in the mobile space.
Section 512(c)(3)(vi) of the DMCA says that the complainant must provide "A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
So why has nobody been prosecuted for perjury yet?
Bug reports are often "when I do this, it doesn't do what it is supposed to do (or what I would like it to do)" rather than crashes or error messages.
It costs something like $200 to get an attorney to write a letter. How many attorneys letters do you require per year to make your $27 per month LegalShield worthwhile?
My first computer, an Acorn Electron, had an audio cassette drive for storage.
That means the final assembly screwdriver plant is in China. The expensive high tech stuff is done elsewhere. For example the read-write heads are made in Northern Ireland.
Jury nulification means finding the defendant innocent regardless of the evidence against them. This is something jurors have a constitutional right to do. If you don't think the act the defendant was charged with should be against the law, you can find them not innocent even if it is absolutely obvious they did it.