I live in Queensland, Australia. Not totally OT, but this is one of the main states in australia, but doesn't go to daylight savings with other states that are normally on the same time zone.
The end result is that we have the sun rising at 4-30am, going down at 5-30pm, and the locals (I'm a recent addition there) see it as perfectly reasonable. Personally, time with a little sunshine in the evening is more useful than getting up at an unholy hour of the morning to "enjoy" the sunshine, as much as it is possible to so early in the day.
The concept of doing "anything" that requires daylight after work seems lost on people who haven't lived where such things are seen as normal.
I get about 9 months per set of AA batteries for my MS wireless optical mouse. Not something I'd complain about given that I really don't expect the thing to last five years or beyond
It is charged on most things that are bought or sold. The tax lawyers went to town on it and some things are covered and some things are not.
The fun is when you get charged GST on top of the price of petrol, as a large portion of the price of petrol in Australia comes from Government levies and charges. Taxed on the price of something that has already been taxed
was that you paid GST on new items, but not on second hand items. I may be totaly wrong, as I'm not a tax expert, but the thinking was that it was not right for something to have tax paid on it again and again and again.
The interesting thing would be buying something interenationally, where you normally are exempt from local sales taxes. Not sure how that would be played out
Then again, being fair isn't really the role of the taxman.
IBM commits the same crimes all over Lotus Notes. The program was nearly useless for general users who wanted an email program, and could not navigate through menu choices that were nothing like all the other windows programs they used.
I was grateful when I moved jobs to somewhere that uses outlook
I upgraded to 7.0 for the new virtual reality PDFs that our CAD guys can make. version 7.0 wouldn't open up when a link to a PDF in excel was clicked. It had lost functionality as far as I could tell. I rolled back as quick as I could to 6
Dude. I left NZ to avoid Aunty Helen's nanny state, and the thought police. It may not be wonderful here in queensland, but at least you can express a view without being labelled as a backwards red-neck.
It's bad enough that Petone in wellington has had its signs altered to be Pe-tone (or something like that).
Governments everywhere legislate what is and what is not objectionable material. This is just part of australia saying that this is material that they do not want published in australian websites. Your views may differ as to whether it is right to or not, but it is not unreasonable for governments to object to sites showing how to do illegal things.
Different in terms of why it is objectionable, but the same reasons lie behind why governments legislate against kiddy pr0n, pull down sites with bomb making instructions, incitements for hatred (in many countries).
And the crazy thing is that the government was happier to let an unpredictable lahar occur than to let contractors onto the mountain to breach the wall when it was possible (not possible any more due to the height of the water behind it now).
Got to love the political correctness back in Aotearoa.
I'm not a UKian either. as far as i know, the house of lords can send legislation back to the commons to be reviwed if they don't like it. they can't throw it out altogether. i don't know if they have rules like if the lords throws down the same piece so many times then the commons is dissolved and an election is called.
cabinet solidarity is something that is common with most of the commonwealth. i know that in new zealand and australia it is the norm.
i'd not intended to say the magna carta was a constitution, only that it forms part of their constitutional law.
Similarly New Zealand has no constitution, only the same common law that the UK operates on.
I have no idea what the australian constitution says, and i'd wager that 99% of australians have no idea either.
metal weakens when it gets about 600 celcius. Other posters have noted that finite element analysis is done that takes this into account, but for a car crash i think that there are bigger concerns than finding the temperature of the metal (until the car bursts into flames, or engine manifold gases are exhausting onto structural componenets) is not critical
you had me agreeing with you until you questioned the UK constitution. It takes more than the whim of the Prime Minister to change significant legislation. The house of Lords is made up of people who are there for life. They have less interest in short term politics than the senate and congress in the states.
IANAL. Does the UK even have a constitution? I know it is founded on the magna carta, but didn't know of any other constitutional documents that really mattered over there.
It is weird. over here in australia, many retailers have minimum transactions on both CC and eftpos/debit card transactions. I had NEVER encountered this in new zealand. I'm wondering if it is legal or if it is just a way to try and make people pay a minimum (WTF should i need to spend $20 at a bar before tehy will accept my plastic?)
As an engineer who has two HP calculators, and lives and dies with them at work, I was gutted when they discontinued some of the older lines, and "dolled up" the replacements so that they lookdd prettier but weren't as well laid out for the monotony of day in and day out calculation work.
In the engineering office I work in, all the CAD drafters are moving / have moved to LCD, and swear by them. They aren't massive 30" screens, but are still clear enough for what they need to use it for, and I have yet to hear them complain as there are still CRTs in the office they could migrate back to if tehy really wanted to
pity their "hifi" is a better demonstration as to what marketting will do for people believing they have "quality" product for inflated prices.
Go to any decent discussion of hifi and mention bose and stand back lest you are overwhelmed by all the unfavourable comparisons.
I did an audition of one of their systems and was amazed at how muddy and poor it sounded. And incredulous that it sold at all. If only people knew what similar money could buy at other companies. If only...
As far as I can tell, no cats were harmed in the making of these quantum cryptographic devices, although if you look inside the box, the act of looking at the cat inside may (or may not) kill it
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I live in Queensland, Australia. Not totally OT, but this is one of the main states in australia, but doesn't go to daylight savings with other states that are normally on the same time zone.
The end result is that we have the sun rising at 4-30am, going down at 5-30pm, and the locals (I'm a recent addition there) see it as perfectly reasonable. Personally, time with a little sunshine in the evening is more useful than getting up at an unholy hour of the morning to "enjoy" the sunshine, as much as it is possible to so early in the day.
The concept of doing "anything" that requires daylight after work seems lost on people who haven't lived where such things are seen as normal.
Sigh. Damn banana benders.
thank you :)
I'd never seen that option (or really gone looking for it).
really - how many posters put tags in their posts, as a percentage of the total number of posts?
Even if the system could remember that a particular user used text rather than HTML, it'd be an improvement.
pity GL didn't make such a pact for episode 1 and 2.
I get about 9 months per set of AA batteries for my MS wireless optical mouse. Not something I'd complain about given that I really don't expect the thing to last five years or beyond
It is charged on most things that are bought or sold. The tax lawyers went to town on it and some things are covered and some things are not.
The fun is when you get charged GST on top of the price of petrol, as a large portion of the price of petrol in Australia comes from Government levies and charges. Taxed on the price of something that has already been taxed
was that you paid GST on new items, but not on second hand items. I may be totaly wrong, as I'm not a tax expert, but the thinking was that it was not right for something to have tax paid on it again and again and again.
The interesting thing would be buying something interenationally, where you normally are exempt from local sales taxes. Not sure how that would be played out
Then again, being fair isn't really the role of the taxman.
IBM commits the same crimes all over Lotus Notes. The program was nearly useless for general users who wanted an email program, and could not navigate through menu choices that were nothing like all the other windows programs they used.
I was grateful when I moved jobs to somewhere that uses outlook
I upgraded to 7.0 for the new virtual reality PDFs that our CAD guys can make. version 7.0 wouldn't open up when a link to a PDF in excel was clicked. It had lost functionality as far as I could tell. I rolled back as quick as I could to 6
Dude. I left NZ to avoid Aunty Helen's nanny state, and the thought police. It may not be wonderful here in queensland, but at least you can express a view without being labelled as a backwards red-neck.
It's bad enough that Petone in wellington has had its signs altered to be Pe-tone (or something like that).
Governments everywhere legislate what is and what is not objectionable material. This is just part of australia saying that this is material that they do not want published in australian websites. Your views may differ as to whether it is right to or not, but it is not unreasonable for governments to object to sites showing how to do illegal things.
Different in terms of why it is objectionable, but the same reasons lie behind why governments legislate against kiddy pr0n, pull down sites with bomb making instructions, incitements for hatred (in many countries).
And the crazy thing is that the government was happier to let an unpredictable lahar occur than to let contractors onto the mountain to breach the wall when it was possible (not possible any more due to the height of the water behind it now).
Got to love the political correctness back in Aotearoa.
I'm not a UKian either. as far as i know, the house of lords can send legislation back to the commons to be reviwed if they don't like it. they can't throw it out altogether. i don't know if they have rules like if the lords throws down the same piece so many times then the commons is dissolved and an election is called.
cabinet solidarity is something that is common with most of the commonwealth. i know that in new zealand and australia it is the norm.
i'd not intended to say the magna carta was a constitution, only that it forms part of their constitutional law.
Similarly New Zealand has no constitution, only the same common law that the UK operates on.
I have no idea what the australian constitution says, and i'd wager that 99% of australians have no idea either.
metal weakens when it gets about 600 celcius. Other posters have noted that finite element analysis is done that takes this into account, but for a car crash i think that there are bigger concerns than finding the temperature of the metal (until the car bursts into flames, or engine manifold gases are exhausting onto structural componenets) is not critical
you had me agreeing with you until you questioned the UK constitution. It takes more than the whim of the Prime Minister to change significant legislation. The house of Lords is made up of people who are there for life. They have less interest in short term politics than the senate and congress in the states.
IANAL. Does the UK even have a constitution? I know it is founded on the magna carta, but didn't know of any other constitutional documents that really mattered over there.
It is weird. over here in australia, many retailers have minimum transactions on both CC and eftpos /debit card transactions. I had NEVER encountered this in new zealand. I'm wondering if it is legal or if it is just a way to try and make people pay a minimum (WTF should i need to spend $20 at a bar before tehy will accept my plastic?)
As an engineer who has two HP calculators, and lives and dies with them at work, I was gutted when they discontinued some of the older lines, and "dolled up" the replacements so that they lookdd prettier but weren't as well laid out for the monotony of day in and day out calculation work.
i'm not a power / elec engineer. would a power conditioner help in this case?
excellent. i display, once more, my ignorance and my tendency to jump to conclusions. thank you.
backwards for mankind.
It's a pity to lose such an excellent scientific tool without a replacement either in train or already deployed
better than the thought police who are ruling the nanny state in NZ though.
i love what global warming has done for NZ - if it ever happened, a little more warm would be a wonderful thing (tongue in cheek) for NZ.
I've relocated permanently to Aussie, and year round sunshine. Hard to be depressed when the sun is out and the surf is up
In the engineering office I work in, all the CAD drafters are moving / have moved to LCD, and swear by them.
They aren't massive 30" screens, but are still clear enough for what they need to use it for, and I have yet to hear them complain as there are still CRTs in the office they could migrate back to if tehy really wanted to
pity their "hifi" is a better demonstration as to what marketting will do for people believing they have "quality" product for inflated prices.
Go to any decent discussion of hifi and mention bose and stand back lest you are overwhelmed by all the unfavourable comparisons.
I did an audition of one of their systems and was amazed at how muddy and poor it sounded. And incredulous that it sold at all. If only people knew what similar money could buy at other companies. If only...
As far as I can tell, no cats were harmed in the making of these quantum cryptographic devices, although if you look inside the box, the act of looking at the cat inside may (or may not) kill it