They are registered with Transport for London as a Minicab dispatcher. The difference is that with every other minicab operator, if you call them or use their app, and ask for a cab from for example The Royal Albert Hall to St Pancras Station, they will give you a price for the journey which you can accept or reject. If you accept it, that is the price you will pay for the journey. Über will use their not-a-taximeter thing to work out the actual distance and time taken, and bill you at the end of the journey based on that.
And CPU clock-speed hasn't really increased at all in the last 10 years. We are still at just over 3GHz. Of course we have had massive performance improvements in other areas.
90% of the population of Africa has access to a mobile phone. And you know this Apple pay thing that lets you pay using your mobile. They've been doing this for years using a system called M-Pesa. Yes, there are some backward places in Africa, but it is the same in the USA, with the Indian Reservations, rural villages in Upstate New York with no electricity and so on.
Irish data protection law, not UK, but it is probably pretty much word-for-word the same as it implements the same EU directive. The differences will be basically the name of the regulator and the courts that enforce it, and that fines will be expressed in Euros rather than Pounds.
They already have such a treaty, but they don't want to use it, because it requires an Irish judge to approve it. The Irish judge probably would approve it in this case, but they don't want to set a precedent for other cases.
They are entitled to choose Ireland as their EU base for any reason they want, or for no reason, in exactly the same way that they are entitled to choose Delaware, Washington or whatever for their US base.
Actually, the US authorities do have standing to file suit in Ireland under the Mutual Assistance Treaty, and the Irish Government have filed an Amicus Brief to say so.
My contracts are with Skype Communications S.A.R.L in Luxembourg and Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd in Ireland, both within the EU. They can't change that at will.
They could give every Microsoft shareholder a share in Microsoft Europe for every Microsoft Inc share they currently own. Vodafone / Verizon did that the other way round so Verizon is no longer the US division of the British Vodafone.
That's not the situation here though. The Feds are asking Microsoft to order Irish based employees of Microsoft Operations Ireland Ltd to break the law in their own country. Those employees are obliged to refuse to carry out that instruction, and could claim damages from MS Ireland in the local courts.
1. The off-duty marines wouldn't have been armed. 2. The homocide rate in Europe is way lower than in the USA. This sort of thing happens every day in the US, and isn't really newsworthy.
The pumps in my local petrol station have 4 hoses, marked Regular Unleaded, Premium Unleaded, Regular Diesel and Premium Diesel. I pick up the hose corresponding to the fuel I want. Any other method would lead to cross-contamination of the fuels.
For simple accounting, and for really complex accounting. Supposing you have accounts for 50 divisions around the world in various different currencies and local accounting standards, and you need to put them together as a set of group accounts. There isn't really any alternative to doing it on a spreadsheet.
In other countries, if you take a case to court and lose, you have to pay the other side's legal fees. That does mean that less frivolous cases go to court.
There is this thing called the "cab rank principle", which means that lawyers are supposed to accept any case that comes their way. The only grounds for refusing a case are that they are already working on one and therefore don't have the time, or that they don't have the skills to do it properly.
Is that why the 5th largest French city in the world is London? As in, if all the French people in London lived in a city on their own, it would be larger than all but the 4 largest cities in France. They are there to escape the high taxes in France and to have a chance of actually finding employment.
The VAT MOSS rules came in on 1st January this year, and since then, Amazon has had to charge UK VAT on sales of electronic goods (ebooks, mp3s, apps, videos, etc). They have always had to charge UK VAT on sales of physical goods.
The change here is that since 1st April, they are now paying UK Corporation Tax on their UK profits rather than Luxembourg corporate tax.
They will likely get their first car in about 10 years or so time. Will self-driving cars be ubiquitous by then? I don't think so, because the car development lifecycle doesn't move that quickly. There will be some self-driving cars in 10 years time, as a premium option, but it won't have made its way down to the budget range of models.
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They are registered with Transport for London as a Minicab dispatcher. The difference is that with every other minicab operator, if you call them or use their app, and ask for a cab from for example The Royal Albert Hall to St Pancras Station, they will give you a price for the journey which you can accept or reject. If you accept it, that is the price you will pay for the journey. Über will use their not-a-taximeter thing to work out the actual distance and time taken, and bill you at the end of the journey based on that.
And CPU clock-speed hasn't really increased at all in the last 10 years. We are still at just over 3GHz. Of course we have had massive performance improvements in other areas.
90% of the population of Africa has access to a mobile phone. And you know this Apple pay thing that lets you pay using your mobile. They've been doing this for years using a system called M-Pesa. Yes, there are some backward places in Africa, but it is the same in the USA, with the Indian Reservations, rural villages in Upstate New York with no electricity and so on.
They would if they would give the data to the Garda (Irish police) in similar circumstances, and in this particular case, they almost certainly would.
Irish data protection law, not UK, but it is probably pretty much word-for-word the same as it implements the same EU directive. The differences will be basically the name of the regulator and the courts that enforce it, and that fines will be expressed in Euros rather than Pounds.
They already have such a treaty, but they don't want to use it, because it requires an Irish judge to approve it. The Irish judge probably would approve it in this case, but they don't want to set a precedent for other cases.
They are entitled to choose Ireland as their EU base for any reason they want, or for no reason, in exactly the same way that they are entitled to choose Delaware, Washington or whatever for their US base.
Actually, the US authorities do have standing to file suit in Ireland under the Mutual Assistance Treaty, and the Irish Government have filed an Amicus Brief to say so.
My contracts are with Skype Communications S.A.R.L in Luxembourg and Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd in Ireland, both within the EU. They can't change that at will.
They could give every Microsoft shareholder a share in Microsoft Europe for every Microsoft Inc share they currently own. Vodafone / Verizon did that the other way round so Verizon is no longer the US division of the British Vodafone.
That's not the situation here though. The Feds are asking Microsoft to order Irish based employees of Microsoft Operations Ireland Ltd to break the law in their own country. Those employees are obliged to refuse to carry out that instruction, and could claim damages from MS Ireland in the local courts.
If you the likes of Taboola and Outbrain to be benign. I don't.
1. The off-duty marines wouldn't have been armed.
2. The homocide rate in Europe is way lower than in the USA. This sort of thing happens every day in the US, and isn't really newsworthy.
The pumps in my local petrol station have 4 hoses, marked Regular Unleaded, Premium Unleaded, Regular Diesel and Premium Diesel. I pick up the hose corresponding to the fuel I want. Any other method would lead to cross-contamination of the fuels.
For simple accounting, and for really complex accounting. Supposing you have accounts for 50 divisions around the world in various different currencies and local accounting standards, and you need to put them together as a set of group accounts. There isn't really any alternative to doing it on a spreadsheet.
In other countries, if you take a case to court and lose, you have to pay the other side's legal fees. That does mean that less frivolous cases go to court.
There is this thing called the "cab rank principle", which means that lawyers are supposed to accept any case that comes their way. The only grounds for refusing a case are that they are already working on one and therefore don't have the time, or that they don't have the skills to do it properly.
When you can't riot, overthrow the government. They do that from time to time.
Is that why the 5th largest French city in the world is London? As in, if all the French people in London lived in a city on their own, it would be larger than all but the 4 largest cities in France. They are there to escape the high taxes in France and to have a chance of actually finding employment.
Why would you want to use Ctrl-Q to quit when Alt-F4 is the standard across Windows?
I don't know about New York, but in London, peak hours on the roads are between about 6am and 3am the following morning.
The VAT MOSS rules came in on 1st January this year, and since then, Amazon has had to charge UK VAT on sales of electronic goods (ebooks, mp3s, apps, videos, etc). They have always had to charge UK VAT on sales of physical goods.
The change here is that since 1st April, they are now paying UK Corporation Tax on their UK profits rather than Luxembourg corporate tax.
Oil is cheaper than water out there, so while you probably need more electricity for the air-con, the overall running costs would be a lot less.
So you can't do online banking on an iPad, or a Samsung Galaxy Tab?
They will likely get their first car in about 10 years or so time. Will self-driving cars be ubiquitous by then? I don't think so, because the car development lifecycle doesn't move that quickly. There will be some self-driving cars in 10 years time, as a premium option, but it won't have made its way down to the budget range of models.