If they're going to assign addresses, they should do it for every PERSON and COMPANY in the U.S., not every physical address
Now, if we could just get the same thing with phone numbers also, we would be set
Well we do here in Australia, and elsewhere in the world. Mobile phones are assigned a non-geogrpahic number. I can move all over Australia and keep the same number.
I have moved around a bit. Changing postal addresses is a pain. I still get the occassional piece of mail forwarded from an address I lived in ages ago. I have always thought that the Post should offer a service of a non-geographic address. Any mail addressed this way would be picked up early in the sorting process and readdressed with my current geographic address. Current forwarding is usually done once the mail item reaches the final sorting step, where it is readdressed and sent through the same process.
Don't forget that the UK has a public health system. When the government is having to pay for medical care then prevention is better than cure. The less number of accidents, the less you have to spend on health care.
Or even simpler, do as in the EU, where they have Value-Added Tax instead of sales tax, and the tax is payable according to the where the company is, not where the buyer is...
It still is not that simple. VAT should not charged when the product/service is exported. So if I had a business in London. If I sell over the net then I should only be charging VAT to people who live in the EU. Though I am sure a lot of the time it is still being charged.
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What a thought. I am sure it has been done. Imagine ejaculating in zero G. Without gravity it would shoot straight out.
Don't worry, I'm plenty pissed with the guys in Congress, too, but I know if that bill with the Ten Commandments in every classroom passed the Supreme Court would throw it out so fast it would make your head spin. Thank God we have the Bill of Rights, without it, our country would've gone down the tubes long ago.
Some would say the USA (the land of guns in the hands of youths) has already gone down the tubes, or on its way there.
I wouldn't call the USA a model country. Or maybe I would, as a model not to follow.
I suppose this is something the recording industry will have to live with. Just like they are going to have to live with the fact that DVD players will play all regions. This already happens.
Peaple will always find ways to get around restrictions placed on them.
They should make separate roads for the morons who insist on rummaging around in their cars, putting on makeup, talking on the phone, eating, or changing their CDs while driving. That way, they can all kill themselves off and leave the rest of us the hell out of it.
You forgot to mention drinking from mugs which are more common now since car companies have placed cup holders in cars.
This would excluded all the vending machines which reside in air-conditioned environments. The price would never change, unless the air-conditioning failed.
Thank you. I am getting sick of everyone that is so pro-metric. Metric makes sense with our number system, but necessarily the way we think. We think in terms of fourths and thirds, and they are better divisors anyway. Converting to metric would not be easy for the current generation. My parents grew up with imperial measurements. I grew up with the metric system. Of course I find it much easier than they do. However they have coped pretty well. Think of how it will be in the future, not of the time of the change over.
One of the strangest uses of both metric and imperial measurements was when I was in Ireland about 5 years ago. The speed limits were shown in miles per hour while the distances on signs were shown in kilometres. I am not sure whether it is still like that.
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I thought a number was even if its least significant bit was clear.
A number was odd if its least significant bit was set.
Now, if we could just get the same thing with phone numbers also, we would be set
Well we do here in Australia, and elsewhere in the world. Mobile phones are assigned a non-geogrpahic number. I can move all over Australia and keep the same number.
I have moved around a bit. Changing postal addresses is a pain. I still get the occassional piece of mail forwarded from an address I lived in ages ago. I have always thought that the Post should offer a service of a non-geographic address. Any mail addressed this way would be picked up early in the sorting process and readdressed with my current geographic address. Current forwarding is usually done once the mail item reaches the final sorting step, where it is readdressed and sent through the same process.
This is a service I would pay for.
Don't forget that the UK has a public health system. When the government is having to pay for medical care then prevention is better than cure. The less number of accidents, the less you have to spend on health care.
It still is not that simple. VAT should not charged when the product/service is exported. So if I had a business in London. If I sell over the net then I should only be charging VAT to people who live in the EU. Though I am sure a lot of the time it is still being charged.
What a thought. I am sure it has been done. Imagine ejaculating in zero G. Without gravity it would shoot straight out.
You don't need guns to get rid of the government. All you need is another election. It is the people who decide who will be the government.
Some would say the USA (the land of guns in the hands of youths) has already gone down the tubes, or on its way there.
I wouldn't call the USA a model country. Or maybe I would, as a model not to follow.
Peaple will always find ways to get around restrictions placed on them.
You forgot to mention drinking from mugs which are more common now since car companies have placed cup holders in cars.
This would excluded all the vending machines which reside in air-conditioned environments. The price would never change, unless the air-conditioning failed.
Thank you. I am getting sick of everyone that is so pro-metric. Metric makes sense with our number system, but necessarily the way we think. We think in terms of fourths and thirds, and they are better divisors anyway. Converting to metric would not be easy for the current generation. My parents grew up with imperial measurements. I grew up with the metric system. Of course I find it much easier than they do. However they have coped pretty well. Think of how it will be in the future, not of the time of the change over.
One of the strangest uses of both metric and imperial measurements was when I was in Ireland about 5 years ago. The speed limits were shown in miles per hour while the distances on signs were shown in kilometres. I am not sure whether it is still like that.