Paypal in the Asia-Pacific region is PayPal Singapore Pte Ltd, which apparently "does not need to comply with regulations of the monetary authority of Singapore". so we have the same unregulated bullshit as the US does.
Except that apart from the name, there is no detail that both eBay and the government are guaranteed to both have, and names are the one attribute you can guarantee huge collision rates with. Like in NZ, there is no "ID number" that you can match. You have a tax number, but you aren't required to give that to eBay for obvious reasons. So how exactly are they going to do it without then ending up requesting the detailed records for metric fucktons of individuals who aren't on welfare?
Far simpler is to simply request the details of all individuals making over $20K. All of the resulting group are either on welfare and rorting the system, or are required to file GST returns and are either doing so in which case their details are discarded or are not doing so and are rorting another system. Were I an Australian taxpayer I would fully support such a move.
Perhaps you should tell the US Government that then, since as a phone application developer to get paid to me in NZ, I am required to prove to the US Government that I am not a US citizen, and get an ITIN or EIN from the IRS and file returns each year to the IRS, and then I have to file returns with my own government via the IRD and pay taxes on that.
Of course I can't complain to your government about it because I have no voice there or voter rights.
Wow. You're lucky they don't look across the ditch at Work and Income New Zealand. Signing up for a benefit requires an accounting of any assets you own, and they may require you to sell any liquid assets prior to giving you a benefit (they don't consider a house a liquid asset though, but second cars may be fair game).
Wow. That message is almost comically insulting. If I saw that, you can be sure I'd abandon the purchase and send the company a quick email telling them to go fuck themselves. "It appears you've been in a coma"? Fuck you, Kogan,
No, it wouldn't. Without Windows, I shudder to imagine what we would have nowadays. You may not like Windows or Microsoft, but half of the reason that Linux and OSX are as good as they are is because they have that competition to keep them on their toes. Without it, all our operating systems would probably be like Amiga Workbench still.
This is precisely the right answer. Just write your pages, test them in the latest version of browsers foo and bar, and if it works then release. Don't go to crazy efforts to support old versions, hell don't even test them. But charging a tax? That's just bullshit.
Thank fuck that here in NZ we have special laws protecting our right to parallel import. Companies like Apple couldn't do what GP describes here if they tried.
Developers and publishers, yes. But you vastly overestimate how much users give a shit about "standards" (by which I mean you think users give a shit at all).
No, the reason that browser had any market at all was that Netscape was fucking awful. And don't get me started on the whole $20 for a browser thing. And Netscape's non-standard support (<blink> anyone?)
But hey, don't let facts get in the way of your anti-MS bullshit-fest. And you call the MS-fans shills.
No, IE is not part of the OS. No component of IE is part of the OS either. IE is a standard userspace application composed of a UI, and a bunch of shared libraries - it's the GUI wrapper for Trident. Just as Safari is not part of OSX either, but merely a standard userspace application that wraps WebKit. Ditto for Chrome, or Konqueror/KHTML.
Now, the preloading thing you refer to is another red herring, because Windows will actually preload any application you use frequently (and just after freshly installing Windows, the only apps installed to preload are the Microsoft shipped ones, so what do you expect?) You can negate this effect by turning off something called SuperFetch, which prevents Windows preloading anything, even IE.
Viagra is an accident. They were trying to make heart pills. In fact, I'd say easily quite a few of these "drugs that work" are actually drugs that didn't work, but just so happened to do something else as a useful side effect. And as it happens, a lot of the drugs that work are actually the result of university or other publicly funded medical research organisations.
Unfortunately I do have credentials saved (it's not like it's using the same password as my bank after all) and that doesn't solve the issue. Thanks for the suggestion though - I'd really like to actually get it working some day, since so many games are coming out with SteamWorks as DRM, and I'm dreading the day that when the connection dies I won't be able to play anything as it will all be Steam.
My experience is none of the above, douche. Every single time my connection dies (which is relatively frequently unfortunately due to the competence of the telco network technicians) I get the message "The Steam network is unavailable. Would you like to start in Offline Mode?" and selecting "Start in Offline Mode" results in the error "Cannot connect to the Steam network" and Steam exiting, making all my Steam games unplayable.
And this has happened to me three times in the last three months. This is why my ISP refuses to give me an SLA.
I'm still wondering why the thousands of people who've purchased my account haven't paid yet. I mean, the emails clearly say I've been selling my account.
I keep hearing of this phenomenon, but have never been able to reproduce it. From my experience, to go offline in Steam you have to be online to do it, or it just says "cannot connect to Steam network" and dies.
For a start, I didn't say I had problems with Linux. But I did say some people do. And then you proceeded to demonstrate the problem with Linux, by which I mean the key reason it doesn't catch on with regular people. You can't admit that Linux could possibly have a problem, so you proceed to claim it's the user's fault. This user-hostile behaviour is the reason average users reject Linux. YOU are the reason Linux is not more popular.
Last I checked, you can't move a VM image from a server in your datacenter to another server in your datacenter without ethernet or being physically present.
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Paypal in the Asia-Pacific region is PayPal Singapore Pte Ltd, which apparently "does not need to comply with regulations of the monetary authority of Singapore". so we have the same unregulated bullshit as the US does.
Except that apart from the name, there is no detail that both eBay and the government are guaranteed to both have, and names are the one attribute you can guarantee huge collision rates with. Like in NZ, there is no "ID number" that you can match. You have a tax number, but you aren't required to give that to eBay for obvious reasons. So how exactly are they going to do it without then ending up requesting the detailed records for metric fucktons of individuals who aren't on welfare?
Far simpler is to simply request the details of all individuals making over $20K. All of the resulting group are either on welfare and rorting the system, or are required to file GST returns and are either doing so in which case their details are discarded or are not doing so and are rorting another system. Were I an Australian taxpayer I would fully support such a move.
Perhaps you should tell the US Government that then, since as a phone application developer to get paid to me in NZ, I am required to prove to the US Government that I am not a US citizen, and get an ITIN or EIN from the IRS and file returns each year to the IRS, and then I have to file returns with my own government via the IRD and pay taxes on that.
Of course I can't complain to your government about it because I have no voice there or voter rights.
Wow. You're lucky they don't look across the ditch at Work and Income New Zealand. Signing up for a benefit requires an accounting of any assets you own, and they may require you to sell any liquid assets prior to giving you a benefit (they don't consider a house a liquid asset though, but second cars may be fair game).
Wow. That message is almost comically insulting. If I saw that, you can be sure I'd abandon the purchase and send the company a quick email telling them to go fuck themselves. "It appears you've been in a coma"? Fuck you, Kogan,
No, it wouldn't. Without Windows, I shudder to imagine what we would have nowadays. You may not like Windows or Microsoft, but half of the reason that Linux and OSX are as good as they are is because they have that competition to keep them on their toes. Without it, all our operating systems would probably be like Amiga Workbench still.
This is precisely the right answer. Just write your pages, test them in the latest version of browsers foo and bar, and if it works then release. Don't go to crazy efforts to support old versions, hell don't even test them. But charging a tax? That's just bullshit.
Thank fuck that here in NZ we have special laws protecting our right to parallel import. Companies like Apple couldn't do what GP describes here if they tried.
The second. God you "OMG MS shill11!!" people need to get over yourselves.
IE10 won't be available without Windows 8 though.
Developers and publishers, yes. But you vastly overestimate how much users give a shit about "standards" (by which I mean you think users give a shit at all).
No, the reason that browser had any market at all was that Netscape was fucking awful. And don't get me started on the whole $20 for a browser thing. And Netscape's non-standard support (<blink> anyone?)
But hey, don't let facts get in the way of your anti-MS bullshit-fest. And you call the MS-fans shills.
No, IE is not part of the OS. No component of IE is part of the OS either. IE is a standard userspace application composed of a UI, and a bunch of shared libraries - it's the GUI wrapper for Trident. Just as Safari is not part of OSX either, but merely a standard userspace application that wraps WebKit. Ditto for Chrome, or Konqueror/KHTML.
Now, the preloading thing you refer to is another red herring, because Windows will actually preload any application you use frequently (and just after freshly installing Windows, the only apps installed to preload are the Microsoft shipped ones, so what do you expect?) You can negate this effect by turning off something called SuperFetch, which prevents Windows preloading anything, even IE.
Apparently they're taking pricing advice from New Zealand telcos. That's about what my provider charges me.
I think it actually works like so
1) Subscribe to their service
2) Leave
3) ???
4) Loss
Viagra is an accident. They were trying to make heart pills. In fact, I'd say easily quite a few of these "drugs that work" are actually drugs that didn't work, but just so happened to do something else as a useful side effect. And as it happens, a lot of the drugs that work are actually the result of university or other publicly funded medical research organisations.
I have not tried disabling the NIC - but I'll give that a shot next time my connection goes out, thanks.
Unfortunately I do have credentials saved (it's not like it's using the same password as my bank after all) and that doesn't solve the issue. Thanks for the suggestion though - I'd really like to actually get it working some day, since so many games are coming out with SteamWorks as DRM, and I'm dreading the day that when the connection dies I won't be able to play anything as it will all be Steam.
My experience is none of the above, douche. Every single time my connection dies (which is relatively frequently unfortunately due to the competence of the telco network technicians) I get the message "The Steam network is unavailable. Would you like to start in Offline Mode?" and selecting "Start in Offline Mode" results in the error "Cannot connect to the Steam network" and Steam exiting, making all my Steam games unplayable.
And this has happened to me three times in the last three months. This is why my ISP refuses to give me an SLA.
The servers are not players computers. Diablo III runs on Battle.net servers.
I'm still wondering why the thousands of people who've purchased my account haven't paid yet. I mean, the emails clearly say I've been selling my account.
Steam lets you play games offline.
I keep hearing of this phenomenon, but have never been able to reproduce it. From my experience, to go offline in Steam you have to be online to do it, or it just says "cannot connect to Steam network" and dies.
For a start, I didn't say I had problems with Linux. But I did say some people do. And then you proceeded to demonstrate the problem with Linux, by which I mean the key reason it doesn't catch on with regular people. You can't admit that Linux could possibly have a problem, so you proceed to claim it's the user's fault. This user-hostile behaviour is the reason average users reject Linux. YOU are the reason Linux is not more popular.
It's on a phone, I'm pretty sure he meant "make a phone call".
Last I checked, you can't move a VM image from a server in your datacenter to another server in your datacenter without ethernet or being physically present.