Only one country in the UK has a government which has just placed a mine under the entire economy and is threatening to detonate it.
First of all, the UK government covers the entire UK, there is no English parliament and issues for the English have to be contended with MPs from the rest of the UK (protip: the English aren't even the majority). Secondly, you have some balls to say that after the damage the European Exhcange Rate Mechanism I and II did (protip: the first lead to a depression and the second leads to something that exasperates the conditions for a depression), or how the common fisheries policy for the last 40 years has been slowly killing off all the fishing waters (protip: Greenland left the Union over seeing how bad it was) or how the Common Agricultural Policy lead to farmers no longer being capable of sustaining themselves because of quotas and have to depend on government hand outs to operate (protip: We have farmers paid to just sit on their hands in Antrim), I could go on about the green polices too that have ruined multiple industries operating in the EU.
Seriously, look at all the long term tends and projections for the EU, there is nothing, nothing at all that shows the EU isn't going to self detonate currently economically and there is plenty to show that EU's governance regulation has lead to the destruction of wealth and the environment (the irony with how the green policies aren't actually helping and in some cases, making it worse).
People are unhappy about the short term instability with the UK, they're unhappy with how the UK government aren't actually looking to give certainty on issues like immigration and that's completely fair people are unhappy with that. But you know what we can do when our government isn't doing it's job? We can vote other people in, which is something we cannot do on the European Union government level (to be fair, I think Jean-Claude Juncker is pretty good guy who recognises many problems in the EU, but I have many reseverations about Donald Tusk and Martin Schulz and all their predecessors and we have no powers to vote or remove them).
You don't even have any data projection ponts to show what state the UK will be in long term and I'm sorry, but considering the UK lobbied for 40 years trying to get the CFP rules changed to sort out the issues (however, many other countries were very happy with the idea of overfishing for profits), the EU just does not simply work in it's current form and there is no sight of reform on the table.
If the EU lived up to it's dream of being unified European nation states that solved the peoples problems (they don't even listen most of the time as can be seen in European Parliament discussions) and brought prosperity (which they have an incredibly terrible track record for) and human rights (don't get me started on the European Arrest Warrant) and didn't leave people penniless with no prospects other than handouts because they annihilated them, many more people would love the EU right now. I personally think that if the EU could problem solve issues in significantly less time, even under it's current structure, people would be happy with it - But it doesn't.
All the European banks (BNPP, DB, SG, DB, ING...) moved to London City
BNPP's HQ is in Paris, DB's HQ is in Frankfurt, SG's HQ is in Paris, ING's HQ is in the Netherlands. Their city of London operations are comparatively small compared to their HQs and are more akine to being slightly larger office head count than the typical presence they need in a given country.
Now, where they'll keep their assets is another story...
but thanks to brexit now they are on the go for a rellocation to some EU stable area.
What part of the EU is a "stable area"?
It's certainly not a location that uses 'Euro' currency for one. Much of Europe even lacks the political stability, which the UK almost uniquely has through a hereditary monarchy at the top, a parliamentary system that is pseudo-democratic and a judiciary that can curb the power of government against the people. Compare this with other countries which have either more populous democracies or those with less democracy.
As UK is moving to be a tax heaven
The pre-eminent global tax haven through the non-domiciled status system in the UK is not changing. It's essentially like a supermarket for tax havens, where you can operate in London and shop out your tax liabilities to any of the convenient offshore tax-free locations around the world. Many of the available tax havens have power structures that connect up with the UK mainland, which gives great confidence in the protection of wealth. The UK won't be any more of a tax haven than it is today.
a unified intervention army to cool down hot spot that endanger our liberty.
I personally think the idea of having an army that answers to a political elite that we as European citizens can't vote in or out directly to be the opposite of protecting our liberty.
Tell you what, you can cryptographically prove me wrong, go on then.
And this is why Bitcoin will never become a contender in the bigger market. I tell you an issue and rather than even try to fix it, you decide to make demands of someone that has made it clear, they have abandoned it.
Look at this from a consumer point of view. This is not working, the consumer doesn't care about your cryptographic plea. The consumer is happy to just call this 'shit' everytime it's brought up now, clearly based on their really poor experiences and will now bring up you as being part of the poor community in resolving this sort of thing.
If someone from within the European Union decided to sign up and make a payment to my business in Canadian Dollars, I now legally have to register for a Tax ID within a European country and remit VAT.
Hopefully we get rid of this dumb crap when the UK leaves the EU. We really shouldn't be charging for import of online services. It really makes competing on the world market really difficult.
By what definition is 300 the lower end of medium?
Just quickly double checked my defintion of "medium sized" on Google and confirmed, a medium sized company is 100 to 999 according to Google, under 300 is certainly closer to 100 than 999, hence lower end.
Traditionally, ignoring user feedback doesn't typicaly lead to much retention, nor will it lead to generating more users, that's your own problem, not mine.
You say it's not a protocol issue, then clearly it's a software issue (Bitcoin Core) or both. Whichever it is, none of it bodes well for your community.
How could ANYONE be stupid enough to not check local laws when opening in a new COUNTRY?
It's a very common thing small and medium sized businesses do.
I see that Valve is privately held, and apparently the owners aren't really very good at the detail work on things like this.
They're also a medium sized company, not even 300 staff (they did peak at 360 at one point I think?) currently to my knowledge, so on the lower end of medium sized companies too.
I've said before that you can't run a company only by listening to lawyers (and quite frequently you need to ignore them when they get too protective), but that doesn't mean you don't need them at all!
You've conviniently forgotten that they had to actually go to court because the situation of Steam sales was not clear and VALVe could have been potentially found to be correct in their interpretation of where sales were taking place.
I applaud Australia for levying a fine high enough that someone will perhaps notice and wish to avoid a repeat.
I will be interested to see how VALVe will increase Australian prices further to make up for the cost of doing business when prices for Australians are already generally high. Do you think Australian gamers will be pleased to recieve even higher prices (compared to the high prices before) to be compliant with Australian refund law?
I personally imagine it's a win-win-win, more money for VALVe in the long term through mitigating their risk through charging higher service charges and the Australian gamers recieve their consumer protection on refunds but can't complain about even higher prices on Steam because it's the law.
I have a general preference for open source software, but not at the cost of usability or certain functionality.
And from a UI design, "clean" is not remotely what the ribbon is
From a UI design, the ribbon is a very clean design compared to previous itterations of Microsoft Office that didn't use it and I would argue, cleaner than OpenOffice.org and libreoffice previously. In my opinion, it's clean.
But if you like it, use it, and then you are stuck on one platform that no one else emulates the UI
I've been running stuff like Microsoft Office for years under Linux (I'm platform agnostic, I use them all) through a variety of different ways, never had your single platform issue.
no one else emulates the UI
Some Adobe software have ribbon UI type software, some Autodesk software does too. On KDE I have Plasma simulating ribbon-type GUIs -- again, not an issue I encounter either.
So, since I don't meet your criteria, I guess it tells me nothing, right?
In my experience, it's not even waiting just for confirmations. I've had people wait ages to see the balance change on their client.
He is talking about the transaction becoming final and non reversible
I've had transactions reversed on Bitcoin after two weeks because some blockchain issue and software updates that lead to a fork in the blockchain. I had no ability to talk to anyone or authority to correct the problem after and eventually the otherside won out. Significantly worse than talking to regulated financial organisations in my opinion.
Yeah, I don't use products that have left mainstream support.
Sure, one can make the Ribbon a drop-down menu(s), but then it's just a glorified drop-down menu, not a ribbon (as I interpret the term).
Microsoft defines this as part of the Ribbon interface, so it still, the Ribbon.
Why should they?
Because it was identified as one of the largest usability issues with Microsoft Office, for both novice and advanced users and made it easier for people to memorize and find functions regardless of who, where they are, so default tabs will be persistent, nothing stopping you from doing custom tabs though!
Preferences are typically per-user, not per-machine.
And you can set certain ribbon preferences that are applied to that user, just not change the default tabs (beyond hiding them).
I like customization of my visible options, and the uniformity of tool-bars enables that. I can hide crap I rarely use.
It's a shame you can't do that in Word Options, right?
Your example takes up the space of 3 tool bars.
My example is using drop downs, so, it really takes up none compared to persistently staying on the screen.
Overflow would produce scroll buttons on the right and/or left.
Seems kinda silly when the Ribbon intelligently rescales the UI elements and text to the size it has to work with.
And in the worst case scenario, it'll resort to drop downs anyway?
I'll be happy as long as I can maintain the Office 97 look and feel...
Oh shit, you'll be missing two of Office 97's biggest features if you want the look and feel!
I better remind Libre Office team to implement frequently used items (which has never been there), where the items constantly reshuffle in the toolbar due to usage and text2speech clippy with really poorly done help tips.
did not to me imply that AMD had open sourced the good stuff
If you look at my other post where I break down into details of what the nVidia proprietary driver did ten years ago, the 'good stuff' just wasn't possible in any sense via the 'good open source citizen' way on Linux.
seeing as how ATI/AMD has had driver issues for like 15 years now (not just Linux, but Windows too), I kinda sorta think they could've done something about it by now if they really put their minds to it.
All I'm going to say is that being open source doesn't magically fix that either, even when you're playing nicely within the open source community. We are sadly not quite there yet.
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Not really, look at the overall EU GDP growth trends for one.
First of all, the UK government covers the entire UK, there is no English parliament and issues for the English have to be contended with MPs from the rest of the UK (protip: the English aren't even the majority). Secondly, you have some balls to say that after the damage the European Exhcange Rate Mechanism I and II did (protip: the first lead to a depression and the second leads to something that exasperates the conditions for a depression), or how the common fisheries policy for the last 40 years has been slowly killing off all the fishing waters (protip: Greenland left the Union over seeing how bad it was) or how the Common Agricultural Policy lead to farmers no longer being capable of sustaining themselves because of quotas and have to depend on government hand outs to operate (protip: We have farmers paid to just sit on their hands in Antrim), I could go on about the green polices too that have ruined multiple industries operating in the EU.
Seriously, look at all the long term tends and projections for the EU, there is nothing, nothing at all that shows the EU isn't going to self detonate currently economically and there is plenty to show that EU's governance regulation has lead to the destruction of wealth and the environment (the irony with how the green policies aren't actually helping and in some cases, making it worse).
People are unhappy about the short term instability with the UK, they're unhappy with how the UK government aren't actually looking to give certainty on issues like immigration and that's completely fair people are unhappy with that. But you know what we can do when our government isn't doing it's job? We can vote other people in, which is something we cannot do on the European Union government level (to be fair, I think Jean-Claude Juncker is pretty good guy who recognises many problems in the EU, but I have many reseverations about Donald Tusk and Martin Schulz and all their predecessors and we have no powers to vote or remove them).
You don't even have any data projection ponts to show what state the UK will be in long term and I'm sorry, but considering the UK lobbied for 40 years trying to get the CFP rules changed to sort out the issues (however, many other countries were very happy with the idea of overfishing for profits), the EU just does not simply work in it's current form and there is no sight of reform on the table.
If the EU lived up to it's dream of being unified European nation states that solved the peoples problems (they don't even listen most of the time as can be seen in European Parliament discussions) and brought prosperity (which they have an incredibly terrible track record for) and human rights (don't get me started on the European Arrest Warrant) and didn't leave people penniless with no prospects other than handouts because they annihilated them, many more people would love the EU right now. I personally think that if the EU could problem solve issues in significantly less time, even under it's current structure, people would be happy with it - But it doesn't.
BNPP's HQ is in Paris, DB's HQ is in Frankfurt, SG's HQ is in Paris, ING's HQ is in the Netherlands. Their city of London operations are comparatively small compared to their HQs and are more akine to being slightly larger office head count than the typical presence they need in a given country.
Now, where they'll keep their assets is another story...
What part of the EU is a "stable area"?
It's certainly not a location that uses 'Euro' currency for one. Much of Europe even lacks the political stability, which the UK almost uniquely has through a hereditary monarchy at the top, a parliamentary system that is pseudo-democratic and a judiciary that can curb the power of government against the people. Compare this with other countries which have either more populous democracies or those with less democracy.
The pre-eminent global tax haven through the non-domiciled status system in the UK is not changing. It's essentially like a supermarket for tax havens, where you can operate in London and shop out your tax liabilities to any of the convenient offshore tax-free locations around the world. Many of the available tax havens have power structures that connect up with the UK mainland, which gives great confidence in the protection of wealth. The UK won't be any more of a tax haven than it is today.
I personally think the idea of having an army that answers to a political elite that we as European citizens can't vote in or out directly to be the opposite of protecting our liberty.
Whatever man, pretend it doesn't happen. I know my experience and this is why I don't use bitcoin on inworldz transactions anymore.
And this is why Bitcoin will never become a contender in the bigger market. I tell you an issue and rather than even try to fix it, you decide to make demands of someone that has made it clear, they have abandoned it.
Look at this from a consumer point of view. This is not working, the consumer doesn't care about your cryptographic plea. The consumer is happy to just call this 'shit' everytime it's brought up now, clearly based on their really poor experiences and will now bring up you as being part of the poor community in resolving this sort of thing.
Good job!
More lies and bullshit.
Whatever dude.
It doesn't, I'm just a very unsatisfied ex-user.
My transaction never took place apparently.
I used Bitcoin and I don't care.
Hopefully we get rid of this dumb crap when the UK leaves the EU. We really shouldn't be charging for import of online services. It really makes competing on the world market really difficult.
Just quickly double checked my defintion of "medium sized" on Google and confirmed, a medium sized company is 100 to 999 according to Google, under 300 is certainly closer to 100 than 999, hence lower end.
Whatever mate, you have feedback from a user.
Traditionally, ignoring user feedback doesn't typicaly lead to much retention, nor will it lead to generating more users, that's your own problem, not mine.
You say it's not a protocol issue, then clearly it's a software issue (Bitcoin Core) or both. Whichever it is, none of it bodes well for your community.
It's a very common thing small and medium sized businesses do.
They're also a medium sized company, not even 300 staff (they did peak at 360 at one point I think?) currently to my knowledge, so on the lower end of medium sized companies too.
You've conviniently forgotten that they had to actually go to court because the situation of Steam sales was not clear and VALVe could have been potentially found to be correct in their interpretation of where sales were taking place.
I will be interested to see how VALVe will increase Australian prices further to make up for the cost of doing business when prices for Australians are already generally high. Do you think Australian gamers will be pleased to recieve even higher prices (compared to the high prices before) to be compliant with Australian refund law?
I personally imagine it's a win-win-win, more money for VALVe in the long term through mitigating their risk through charging higher service charges and the Australian gamers recieve their consumer protection on refunds but can't complain about even higher prices on Steam because it's the law.
Because it takes me weeks to find out about this crap?
Do I really need to, to know that this full of failure?
That's when I found out, yes. Not my fault the software is shit.
I have a general preference for open source software, but not at the cost of usability or certain functionality.
From a UI design, the ribbon is a very clean design compared to previous itterations of Microsoft Office that didn't use it and I would argue, cleaner than OpenOffice.org and libreoffice previously. In my opinion, it's clean.
I've been running stuff like Microsoft Office for years under Linux (I'm platform agnostic, I use them all) through a variety of different ways, never had your single platform issue.
Some Adobe software have ribbon UI type software, some Autodesk software does too. On KDE I have Plasma simulating ribbon-type GUIs -- again, not an issue I encounter either.
So, since I don't meet your criteria, I guess it tells me nothing, right?
In my experience, it's not even waiting just for confirmations. I've had people wait ages to see the balance change on their client.
I've had transactions reversed on Bitcoin after two weeks because some blockchain issue and software updates that lead to a fork in the blockchain. I had no ability to talk to anyone or authority to correct the problem after and eventually the otherside won out. Significantly worse than talking to regulated financial organisations in my opinion.
Yeah, I don't use products that have left mainstream support.
Microsoft defines this as part of the Ribbon interface, so it still, the Ribbon.
Because it was identified as one of the largest usability issues with Microsoft Office, for both novice and advanced users and made it easier for people to memorize and find functions regardless of who, where they are, so default tabs will be persistent, nothing stopping you from doing custom tabs though!
And you can set certain ribbon preferences that are applied to that user, just not change the default tabs (beyond hiding them).
It's a shame you can't do that in Word Options, right?
My example is using drop downs, so, it really takes up none compared to persistently staying on the screen.
Seems kinda silly when the Ribbon intelligently rescales the UI elements and text to the size it has to work with.
And in the worst case scenario, it'll resort to drop downs anyway?
Credit card authorisations are seconds, not 60 days.
I don't use, like some other people, don't use Libre office because it doesn't offer a clean UI like ribbon. Maybe that's why?
Oh shit, you'll be missing two of Office 97's biggest features if you want the look and feel!
I better remind Libre Office team to implement frequently used items (which has never been there), where the items constantly reshuffle in the toolbar due to usage and text2speech clippy with really poorly done help tips.
My parents were skeptical of the ribbon in 2007, but they really loved after a year and I rarely had calls about doing things in Office ever since.
I can always find things in Word or Excel since Office 2007 (Outlook for the longest time wouldn't convert which was irritating).
Some of the old drop down menus required me to do nine clicks to get what I wanted instead of three at most.
For Word, Excel, Outlook etc. I don't see how?
Can you explain to me how the ribbon wastes a lot of space?
People wouldn't be able to instantly use other people's office installs if they did that.
Ribbon sections just look like multiple line toolbars that are well organised in sections to me? I don't see your complaint.
I mean, I understand when people don't read the article, but, not reading the summary!?
Users will be able to choose from several toolbar configurations including the "Notebook bar" which is similar to Microsoft Office's ribbon.
I like how you ignored my suggestion of a "helper", which doesn't remove security. But that's APK for you, always ignoring inconvient truths!
You have failed Agent Smith (Kowalski)!
Hi Amicus, you sound like an interesting and fun person. I was wondering if you were open to some sort of online chat (Telegram? IRC? Skype?).
I have some fun stories regarding APK that you'd probably enjoy. Your linked thread was a really entertaining read!
If you look at my other post where I break down into details of what the nVidia proprietary driver did ten years ago, the 'good stuff' just wasn't possible in any sense via the 'good open source citizen' way on Linux.
All I'm going to say is that being open source doesn't magically fix that either, even when you're playing nicely within the open source community. We are sadly not quite there yet.