Nothing unique about Luxembourg or Benelux. Britain has numerous overseas territories (Cayman Islands, Channel Islands) that are autonomous enough that, although they depend on the home country for their continued existence, there just doesn't seem to be anything anyone can do pierce banking privacy laws and tax shelters. France has Monaco. The USA has Delaware and Texas.
Nobody is stupid enough to actually strangle the classes that create wealth by not giving them a foot out of the tax door, so to speak.
That's not how taxes work. If I do a bit of artful tax planning and manage to pay less, you don't have to pay more. The gov't just has to get by on less.
... actually spoof the customer service number. But I've never seen an instance where my bank will call me from that number. So I don't answer. If it's actually my bank, they can leave voice mail. And then I'll call back. Spoofing does nothing for outgoing calls.
OK. But plastic/rubber roads will still wear. And we don't need to change the subject to 'overweight trucks'. Bicycles will wear a road surface, cars will wear a road surface and trucks will wear a road surface. The plastic and rubber might reduce that wear but the resulting debris from all uses will end up floating in the oceans and get into our food supply. No thanks.
I'm going to pass on a web site that includes "justice" and "empowerment" as factors in road maintenance. I'm also going to ignore anyone who doesn't actually look at tire loading per square inch as a more important factor than big trucks vs little trucks.
Bicycles wear surfaces just like autos do. Sometimes even more. We had an abandoned Nike missile site near me that was used for decades by four-wheel drivers. No problems. The county closed off motor vehicle access and turned it into a mountain bike trail park. Now the place is seriously rutted and the soil runoff into nearby salmon creeks is significant.
A lot of the volume of blacktop is gravel and sand. Which, when worn down becomes sand. When that gets into water ways, it just settles to the bottom with the other sand. The tar and other heavy petrochemical products do enter the environment, but at a pretty slow rate where they are broken down by biological activity*.
*We had a city park near me that was found to be an old (WWII era) fuel tank farm. With plumes of fuel soaking into the soil. The solution was to remove the sod, till up the dirt underneath and mix it with some specialized bacteria strains and let it sit for about a year. After that, all the petroleum waste was gone and it's now a park again.
So, no patents? Simple solution: contract with some other drug makers to duplicate it.
As much of the money to buy these drugs comes out of the public's pocket, perhaps it would be a better idea to invest public funds in the supply chain up front. Set up a gov't funded manufacturing unit to produce orphaned drugs and steer around patents on things like EpiPens.
... as you all discuss this that McDonnell-Douglas management effectively pushed aside Boeing management when the two companies merged. Take a look at how McDonnell treated Douglas aircraft for a clue as to how the commercial unit will be treated.
But Boeing's problems are being aggravated by that silly-assed moving assembly line they implemented*. The out of sequence work is just that much more difficult to do once an incomplete plane moves off the end of the line**.
*In manufacturing, you move the parts when they are small in comparison to the tooling. This is not the case with aircraft. The problem at Boeing was that managers were not capable of looking at the shop floor and judging progress with the old fixed position system. Because they were too stupid to read a bar chart on a PC.
**Boeing implemented this at about the same time as that TV ad showing an airplane being built while in flight. Everyone in engineering was laughing their asses off.
But for a VPN there are a just a few enumerable things it actually needs to do correctly.
In the *NIX world: Build a bunch of simple utilities that do one thing each very well. If you need complex setup/configuration abilities, wrap it all in some administrative shell scripts.
In the Windows world: It all has to be bundled into a one-size-fits-all hairball of point and click administrative functions.
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Nothing unique about Luxembourg or Benelux. Britain has numerous overseas territories (Cayman Islands, Channel Islands) that are autonomous enough that, although they depend on the home country for their continued existence, there just doesn't seem to be anything anyone can do pierce banking privacy laws and tax shelters. France has Monaco. The USA has Delaware and Texas.
Nobody is stupid enough to actually strangle the classes that create wealth by not giving them a foot out of the tax door, so to speak.
Oh, this is about daylight savings time. I thought they wanted to dial them back to 1941.
Never mind.
Last December, the FCC
Not their job. Congress makes laws.
made clear that broadband is just such an information service.
Telecommunications carrier. Google and Netflix are information services. AT&T, Verizon and Comcast just move it from point A to B.
getting them to pay your share of the tax bill
That's not how taxes work. If I do a bit of artful tax planning and manage to pay less, you don't have to pay more. The gov't just has to get by on less.
adding rubber/plastic recycled materials improves durability
OK. But plastic/rubber roads will still wear. And we don't need to change the subject to 'overweight trucks'. Bicycles will wear a road surface, cars will wear a road surface and trucks will wear a road surface. The plastic and rubber might reduce that wear but the resulting debris from all uses will end up floating in the oceans and get into our food supply. No thanks.
I'm going to pass on a web site that includes "justice" and "empowerment" as factors in road maintenance. I'm also going to ignore anyone who doesn't actually look at tire loading per square inch as a more important factor than big trucks vs little trucks.
this is for bicycling trails
Bicycles wear surfaces just like autos do. Sometimes even more. We had an abandoned Nike missile site near me that was used for decades by four-wheel drivers. No problems. The county closed off motor vehicle access and turned it into a mountain bike trail park. Now the place is seriously rutted and the soil runoff into nearby salmon creeks is significant.
Which is nothing but an oil product.
A lot of the volume of blacktop is gravel and sand. Which, when worn down becomes sand. When that gets into water ways, it just settles to the bottom with the other sand. The tar and other heavy petrochemical products do enter the environment, but at a pretty slow rate where they are broken down by biological activity*.
*We had a city park near me that was found to be an old (WWII era) fuel tank farm. With plumes of fuel soaking into the soil. The solution was to remove the sod, till up the dirt underneath and mix it with some specialized bacteria strains and let it sit for about a year. After that, all the petroleum waste was gone and it's now a park again.
until the Important People can get away
So, The Marching Morons?
Contract the html out.
you get presented with a list of possible Apple-approved carriers you can register for service
FTFY.
Unlock, yes. But is your provider legally required to provision the eSIM phone of your choice?
Push me and I'm going to say something about teeth.
So, no patents? Simple solution: contract with some other drug makers to duplicate it.
As much of the money to buy these drugs comes out of the public's pocket, perhaps it would be a better idea to invest public funds in the supply chain up front. Set up a gov't funded manufacturing unit to produce orphaned drugs and steer around patents on things like EpiPens.
This.
But Boeing's problems are being aggravated by that silly-assed moving assembly line they implemented*. The out of sequence work is just that much more difficult to do once an incomplete plane moves off the end of the line**.
*In manufacturing, you move the parts when they are small in comparison to the tooling. This is not the case with aircraft. The problem at Boeing was that managers were not capable of looking at the shop floor and judging progress with the old fixed position system. Because they were too stupid to read a bar chart on a PC.
**Boeing implemented this at about the same time as that TV ad showing an airplane being built while in flight. Everyone in engineering was laughing their asses off.
Oi, mate. Ave you got a loicense for dat post?
If you open Edge and search ..... using Bing
There is no separate UK internet.
Really? Try streaming Netflix in Germany. Or the BBC in the USA. Or watching a YouTube video in "your region".
So they've come up with a way to identify that silhouette of the guy with the big nose?
But for a VPN there are a just a few enumerable things it actually needs to do correctly.
In the *NIX world: Build a bunch of simple utilities that do one thing each very well. If you need complex setup/configuration abilities, wrap it all in some administrative shell scripts.
In the Windows world: It all has to be bundled into a one-size-fits-all hairball of point and click administrative functions.