The same way you "prove" that I am not a 10,000-year-old "evil archmage" dedicated to bringing about the eternal triumph of Ultimate Chaos by driving all Slashdotters INSANE with my cleverly-disguised, "scare-quote"-and-GRATUITOUS-caps-and-boldface-filled "anonymous" posts about Hosts Files, that's how!
In this era of teeny touchscreen keyboards, the occasional typo is inevitable. I try to overlook such things, and expect others to do likewise.
People who insist on writing grammatical horrors such as "You should of been more careful" or "Obvious typos are obvious to you and I" are not making typos, Grasshopper.
My national tax rate here* is roughly double what it was in the US. Sweden also has a 25% GST.
it is just that the taxpayers get fewer benefits from those taxes than Swedes get.
That does seem to be the case, yes.
Add up your federal, state and local taxes and see what that gets you.
Perhaps having to do all that paperwork makes it seem like more, but it really is not.
The US mail postal service and census doesn't record your address?
AFAIK, the US Postal Service does not. The US Census takes place only once every ten years. In any case, these things are completely irrelevant to the matter of being required by law to register your current address with a central government authority (the Folkbokföring). IIRC, you're obliged to do so within 10 days of moving to a new residence. You are also required to have a national ID card here, and you cannot access any government services without it.
You can't even pick up your mail here if you don't have a national ID card or passport issued by the government of Sweden or another EU or Schengen member state. US passport doesn't count, even with a Swedish-issued visa incorporating your photo attached. In theory, they're not even supposed to deliver mail to you if your name does not appear on the door and it's not a name that's registered to that address, but they do honour "c/o" addresses, and in practise there's some additional slack given in this regard.
The point I'm trying to make is that the national government here knows who and where you are pretty much at all times, and that many if not most Americans who are accustomed to living semi-anonymously/semi-"off-grid" are likely to find this a bit uncomfortable. I know that I did when I first moved here.
I used to think of myself as a Grammar Nazi, but these days I'm jusr grateful to make it through an entire thread without hitting at least one "must of". When we see/. users with 16-digit IDs, you'll likely feel the same.
Perceptions change a lot in 9 years. 9 years ago I honestly thought Windows was superior to Linux on a technical level, at least for desktop purposes. Now, I'm quite convinced of the opposite.
Um, hello? It's called "Let's not only block the thing we're against, let's block any mention of that thing as well". Sort of like what the Russian government seems to be trying to do the LGBT community there.
So, far from being "collateral damage", this means the (censorship) system is working just as intended.
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Weather is chaos theory. Theoretically you do not need much power at all, just infinitely precise and detailed knowledge.
TFTFY.
The same way you "prove" that I am not a 10,000-year-old "evil archmage" dedicated to bringing about the eternal triumph of Ultimate Chaos by driving all Slashdotters INSANE with my cleverly-disguised, "scare-quote"-and-GRATUITOUS-caps-and-boldface-filled "anonymous" posts about Hosts Files, that's how!
--APK
In this era of teeny touchscreen keyboards, the occasional typo is inevitable. I try to overlook such things, and expect others to do likewise.
People who insist on writing grammatical horrors such as "You should of been more careful" or "Obvious typos are obvious to you and I" are not making typos, Grasshopper.
US has much higher taxes,
My national tax rate here* is roughly double what it was in the US. Sweden also has a 25% GST.
it is just that the taxpayers get fewer benefits from those taxes than Swedes get.
That does seem to be the case, yes.
Add up your federal, state and local taxes and see what that gets you.
Perhaps having to do all that paperwork makes it seem like more, but it really is not.
The US mail postal service and census doesn't record your address?
AFAIK, the US Postal Service does not. The US Census takes place only once every ten years. In any case, these things are completely irrelevant to the matter of being required by law to register your current address with a central government authority (the Folkbokföring). IIRC, you're obliged to do so within 10 days of moving to a new residence. You are also required to have a national ID card here, and you cannot access any government services without it.
You can't even pick up your mail here if you don't have a national ID card or passport issued by the government of Sweden or another EU or Schengen member state. US passport doesn't count, even with a Swedish-issued visa incorporating your photo attached. In theory, they're not even supposed to deliver mail to you if your name does not appear on the door and it's not a name that's registered to that address, but they do honour "c/o" addresses, and in practise there's some additional slack given in this regard.
The point I'm trying to make is that the national government here knows who and where you are pretty much at all times, and that many if not most Americans who are accustomed to living semi-anonymously/semi-"off-grid" are likely to find this a bit uncomfortable. I know that I did when I first moved here.
*(Yes, "here" now; flew home yesterday.)
"Fun" != "satisfying".
Looks like this has potential. Thanks for the link.
The task was *getting the machine online*. You might want to try again.
I'm a very native English-speaker, and I had no problems parsing the GP. You are attempting to pick nits where there are none.
They've managed not to grease the right palms in the mobile space so far, or so it would seem.
I used to think of myself as a Grammar Nazi, but these days I'm jusr grateful to make it through an entire thread without hitting at least one "must of". When we see /. users with 16-digit IDs, you'll likely feel the same.
Didn't you mean, "Shouldn't be, but already is"?
Perceptions change a lot in 9 years. 9 years ago I honestly thought Windows was superior to Linux on a technical level, at least for desktop purposes. Now, I'm quite convinced of the opposite.
You are either INCREDIBLY naïve, or that was a troll of stellar brilliance.
Maybe you need to adjust your naïveté quotient.
I find myself thinking, "Thank goodness I'm a legal resident of an EU member state."
Followed by, "Oh, shit--I'm still a US citizen, and most of my family still live there."
I did not miss the point.
Yes, it's a real bloody tragedy that your kids can't access Facebook in China, like they can in Canada.
I merely pointed out some facts. You're free to interpret them as you wish.
I did read TFA.
It makes the news interesting when you see it from both sides.
Notice how easily they convinced you that there were only two sides...
I'm not sure which represents the greater tragedy--that, or the fact anyone could mistake NBC for being "leftist".
This time I was able to detect an APK "MY LEET HOSTS FILE YADDA YADDA" post after reading just the very first line.
Damn, I'm getting good.
Might this be what you're looking for?
the UK is now in the leauge of China, and Iran as far as internet access goes.
You might want to try that again.
I'm in China right now, and I've no trouble accessing either TorrentFreak or TPB.
(And no, I'm not using a proxy or VPN, just a bog-standard residential connection.)
For the second time in less than a week, I get to pull out my trusty "Gee, you must be great fun at parties".
Thanks for that.
Um, hello? It's called "Let's not only block the thing we're against, let's block any mention of that thing as well". Sort of like what the Russian government seems to be trying to do the LGBT community there.
So, far from being "collateral damage", this means the (censorship) system is working just as intended.