I have a feeling you didn't click the link in my post, since you posted the exact same one. Incidentally, the Peruvian Tourism Ministry created a very entertaining video in Peru, Nebraska for a tourism campaign.
What's misleading is that the advertised price should be equal to the amount of money that you have to pay for it. Where that money ultimately goes is irrelevant when you're calculating the costs to you. Using your logic they may as well just display the business' markup, and say "oh no, the rest of the price is the wholesale price, we're not charging you, just collecting it on behalf of them, like the taxes on behalf of the government."
Obviously the amount of taxes ought to be shown on the receipt for businesses with input credits and for general information, but the pre-tax price isn't the main consideration when you're actually making a purchase, as demonstrated by the grandparent's complaint re: airline pricing.
It's not just airlines that do this though, everything in the US is advertised at a misleading price. You go into a news agent and the packet of gum that says $2 on the shelf actually costs $2.20 or something. It's baffling to me how advertising as if taxes and other charges don't exist can be legal and not fall afoul of consumer protection laws that prohibit misleading and deceptive conduct.
Airlines in Australia have to advertise their flights at the actual price that you have to pay, whereas in the US you have to click through 3-5 pages in the ordering process, possibly registering beforehand before they'll actually tell you the real price, as opposed to the price for some imaginary world where you don't have to pay taxes or airport fees or anything else.
I haven't flown on Air Canada but I imagine that the system on V Australia planes is quite similar. There the USB port can be used for charging, but you can also connect a remote storage device (probably intended for a thumb drive, but a phone in USB storage mode would work the same) in order to playback photos, mp3s and videos (divx I guess) through the seat-back entertainment system.
Do you really think that the number of people just 'discovering' Facebook via a Google search now is significant? Maybe it would cause problems for some older people who don't understand the difference between the Google search bar on their homepage and the address bar.
I think (hope) the GP was a joke, based on the different definitions of falsify. But really, it would've been better of the GGP to say 'proven false' since 'falsify' more usually means something else.
Yeah, except that is just random speculation from a random blogger (who by the way was just summarizing the Google Blog post, why wasn't that the article linked to on/. instead?). I doubt Google would be dumb enough to ever make this mandatory for all the reasons people have already listed here.
Wikipedia says the plan for SpaceShipThree will be point-to-point sub-orbital flights rather than orbital as previously planned. But obviously that's contingent on their continuing success.
I'm truly amazed that they're this far along, I've previously written this stuff off as fantasy but it really is happening. There aren't hovercars but we're almost living in the future.
I have some pretty awesome convertible fingerless gloves that have a flip up pocket, essentially changing between fingerless gloves and mittens. I don't know where you can get them other than a random handicrafts market somewhere in Peru though:P.
Australia is a federation and education is a state power, so it would be rather useful to specify in the summary which Department of Education, given that there are 9 of them (one for each state and territory and the federal government). The article clearly states that it's the NSW Department.
Nope, that one would get you arrested. You can't take pictures at Australian customs and immigration. They even told my friend to turn off his phone and put it away one time when he was sending a text message!
The title has been edited, it initially had an apostrophe. As the poster above stated, apostrophes in this scenario are frowned upon unless they avoid confusion.
Australian residents (residents for tax purposes) pay tax on their Australian-source and foreign income. There are credits provided for tax paid in foreign jurisdictions to avoid double taxation. I guessed that was the norm but really don't know. Just a counter-point to your "every country other than the US" claim.
So there's no official sanctions, e.g. removal of positions or expulsion from the party, but surely an MP with ambition (almost all) would strongly consider the unofficial penalties before crossing the floor. Surely when the ministerial positions are being handed out, being a "team player" would be a strong factor in the decisions.
True, but the Liberals and Nationals have plenty of religious nutjobs that don't understand technology and why this is a gigantic fail as well (e.g. their leader), so I wouldn't rule out a deal being made, and Labor and the Libs obviously have the numbers to pass it together.
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I have a feeling you didn't click the link in my post, since you posted the exact same one. Incidentally, the Peruvian Tourism Ministry created a very entertaining video in Peru, Nebraska for a tourism campaign.
Yeah, they actually have a pretty complete map of all of Peru.
Yeah, Bing is awesome. Did anybody else know that Lima, one of the world's largest cities has approximately 3 streets?
What's misleading is that the advertised price should be equal to the amount of money that you have to pay for it. Where that money ultimately goes is irrelevant when you're calculating the costs to you. Using your logic they may as well just display the business' markup, and say "oh no, the rest of the price is the wholesale price, we're not charging you, just collecting it on behalf of them, like the taxes on behalf of the government."
Obviously the amount of taxes ought to be shown on the receipt for businesses with input credits and for general information, but the pre-tax price isn't the main consideration when you're actually making a purchase, as demonstrated by the grandparent's complaint re: airline pricing.
It's not just airlines that do this though, everything in the US is advertised at a misleading price. You go into a news agent and the packet of gum that says $2 on the shelf actually costs $2.20 or something. It's baffling to me how advertising as if taxes and other charges don't exist can be legal and not fall afoul of consumer protection laws that prohibit misleading and deceptive conduct.
Airlines in Australia have to advertise their flights at the actual price that you have to pay, whereas in the US you have to click through 3-5 pages in the ordering process, possibly registering beforehand before they'll actually tell you the real price, as opposed to the price for some imaginary world where you don't have to pay taxes or airport fees or anything else.
Alternatively, old beach-front property. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific
I haven't flown on Air Canada but I imagine that the system on V Australia planes is quite similar. There the USB port can be used for charging, but you can also connect a remote storage device (probably intended for a thumb drive, but a phone in USB storage mode would work the same) in order to playback photos, mp3s and videos (divx I guess) through the seat-back entertainment system.
Do you really think that the number of people just 'discovering' Facebook via a Google search now is significant? Maybe it would cause problems for some older people who don't understand the difference between the Google search bar on their homepage and the address bar.
Wikipedia says they're recyclable so they'll probably end up doing that.
It means both (see above wiktionary link), but in my experience 'fake (verb)' is more common.
I think (hope) the GP was a joke, based on the different definitions of falsify. But really, it would've been better of the GGP to say 'proven false' since 'falsify' more usually means something else.
Yeah, except that is just random speculation from a random blogger (who by the way was just summarizing the Google Blog post, why wasn't that the article linked to on /. instead?). I doubt Google would be dumb enough to ever make this mandatory for all the reasons people have already listed here.
Wikipedia says the plan for SpaceShipThree will be point-to-point sub-orbital flights rather than orbital as previously planned. But obviously that's contingent on their continuing success.
I'm truly amazed that they're this far along, I've previously written this stuff off as fantasy but it really is happening. There aren't hovercars but we're almost living in the future.
I have some pretty awesome convertible fingerless gloves that have a flip up pocket, essentially changing between fingerless gloves and mittens. I don't know where you can get them other than a random handicrafts market somewhere in Peru though :P.
Australia is a federation and education is a state power, so it would be rather useful to specify in the summary which Department of Education, given that there are 9 of them (one for each state and territory and the federal government). The article clearly states that it's the NSW Department.
Man that doesn't even give credit to the (awesome) creator. www.qwantz.com
Nope, that one would get you arrested. You can't take pictures at Australian customs and immigration. They even told my friend to turn off his phone and put it away one time when he was sending a text message!
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Indeed. Nor in any country other than the US.
You're doing it wrong. He has no rights.
The title has been edited, it initially had an apostrophe. As the poster above stated, apostrophes in this scenario are frowned upon unless they avoid confusion.
Australian residents (residents for tax purposes) pay tax on their Australian-source and foreign income. There are credits provided for tax paid in foreign jurisdictions to avoid double taxation. I guessed that was the norm but really don't know. Just a counter-point to your "every country other than the US" claim.
So there's no official sanctions, e.g. removal of positions or expulsion from the party, but surely an MP with ambition (almost all) would strongly consider the unofficial penalties before crossing the floor. Surely when the ministerial positions are being handed out, being a "team player" would be a strong factor in the decisions.
True, but the Liberals and Nationals have plenty of religious nutjobs that don't understand technology and why this is a gigantic fail as well (e.g. their leader), so I wouldn't rule out a deal being made, and Labor and the Libs obviously have the numbers to pass it together.
New Zealand was suggested because it's an English speaking country; they speak Dutch in the Netherlands.