Just say you bought it for use in the USA. And then brought it back home. Then you pay no customs are you are allowed to buy tools for work abroad without paying UK sales tax. You just pay sales sax when you import for cumsumtion in the UK.
I am living in Europe and buy nothing but region 1 DVDs. My DVD drive is region free, but why but region 2 when I can buy region 1.
Also you can just state you bought the laptop abroad for use there and then brought it home. Then you have to pay no tax as you bought it for use abroad.
I would recommend some social anthropology courses at university level. Globalization and culture/rights might be good starting subjects.
Then do some field studies by visiting the countries you have read about. Write up a good paper and discuss it with your professor and see if you can agree (or agree to disagree) on the observations you made.
The kinship relationsships within family and caste groups in India are different than family relationsships in the USA. Poverty takes different shapes and have different results in different part of the world.
You cannot use a universial rule of thumb when measuring things as wealth, poverty, social life, rights and so on. To look from within the group and using a relative approach, while still of course keeping the universial rules in mind, might help you to better understand how different groups of people define their way of life and what they treasure and feel.
An Indian citizen may feel very priviledged and happy in the way she lives her life. But that may be differerent from the way of life an American citizen would feel comfortable with.
This doesn't mean India is without poverty, but neither is the USA. Question is, how is poor (according to an Indian definition, not an American) taken care of in India? And how are poor people (according to American standards) taken care of in the USA? Maybe a poor Indian thinks her (his) life is much better, relative to Indian standards, than the American thinks her (his) is to American standards.
Relatively, a poor American might always be wealthier than a poor (or rich) Indian, according to the American way of measurement. But in the end, you need to adopt relativism and ask the Indian how she (he) experience her (his) situation and her (his) way of life.
This of course also means that is wrong to ask an Indian citizen how an American would define their way of life and how an American feel about living in the USA.
When it comes to rights (universial human rights, rights to edcuation, wealth and so on) it is more correct to adopt a view where you are relative to culture instead of universialism. But then, cultural rights must never become a trumph card when it comes to universial rights. A balance between the two might be the correct approach.
The discussion was about how anyone ever would want to move to India as nothing there could be equal good or better than in the USA. Maybe some things are better in the USA, and maybe some things are better in India. Thinking the USA is nirvana is ignorance.
I'll pass this one so an Indian citizen to answer as he/she should know best. Just as you Americans know best why the USA is better than India in every post.
I know many countries where the poorest enjoy better life than the poorest in the USA.
Last I checked, people were killing eachother off on regular basis in the streets of the USA as well. How many Americans have a gun in their home to protect themselves against intruders?
I am just saying; remove the cover form your eyes about your own backyard before starting to complain. I am pretty sure a lot of Americans would have it better in India than they have it in the USA today.
It is quite common you think your own country is the best ever. Most governments spread this nationalistic propagana to their citizens. USA, Canada, European countries, well everybody...
So just look at your own country with the same eyes you look at India before you starting judging which is better or worse. Maybe some things you value more than others are better in India than in the USA. Maybe not. People differ in what they value, so you can't make a universal judgment that applies to all Americans or Indians. Same thing as that there would be something like universial rights...
Seems to me Americans are constantly afraid of terrorism, hence the terrorism is working. Lack of "attacks" does not mean absence of effects of terrorism. Question is, do you feel safer in the USA from terrorism than you would in India?
This is why one of the founding stones of the European Union is free movement of workers. Any EU citizen can go anywhere in the union and work. Market economy means workers move where there is currently available work.
This is why you have scheduled 5 minutes breaks every hour during the work day when you have sitting down terminal work (like computer work).
If there isn't a law that allows you this already (worker's protection), then make sure your employer understands how much more efficient you will work with these breaks, even though he/she is paying for them. In the end, your boss will benefit from you having 5 minutes break every hour.
Yes, a good start would be to rip out the useless junk you normall won't need in a laptop. Like CD drive, DVD drive, 20 different ports (USB, video, SVHS, Firewire). Then of course offering 10 inch screens and also a smaller form factor by using smaller components.
It is quite sad how few options you have concerning the above when it comes to Apple. Youi can basically choose if you want more memory and a WiFi card or not. There is no way to choose you do not want a optical drive.
Not much liberal politics in the USA. Both Republicans and Democrats has conservative (right) politics. And other parties are pretty non-existant when it comes to Congress seats.
Neolibralism (capitalism) is the basic ideology behind their actions. Just as any other company out there, their goal is to maximize their shareholder's profit. A board of directors that do not maximize profit are doing a bad job.
What kind of sick country tracks "race" in a database? What use will that ever have? I can understand tracking age and so on, but race!? Racism by the government is no better than by anybody else.
So if somebody sells weapons to terrorists, then this person is without guilt, as it is the terrorists that are using the weapons against innocent people, not the one that sold them?
This is not the current USA policy in this matter.
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Just say you bought it for use in the USA. And then brought it back home. Then you pay no customs are you are allowed to buy tools for work abroad without paying UK sales tax. You just pay sales sax when you import for cumsumtion in the UK.
I am living in Europe and buy nothing but region 1 DVDs. My DVD drive is region free, but why but region 2 when I can buy region 1.
Also you can just state you bought the laptop abroad for use there and then brought it home. Then you have to pay no tax as you bought it for use abroad.
It is called freedom of speech. Making speech criminal will cause only criminals to speak.
I would recommend some social anthropology courses at university level. Globalization and culture/rights might be good starting subjects.
Then do some field studies by visiting the countries you have read about. Write up a good paper and discuss it with your professor and see if you can agree (or agree to disagree) on the observations you made.
The kinship relationsships within family and caste groups in India are different than family relationsships in the USA. Poverty takes different shapes and have different results in different part of the world.
You cannot use a universial rule of thumb when measuring things as wealth, poverty, social life, rights and so on. To look from within the group and using a relative approach, while still of course keeping the universial rules in mind, might help you to better understand how different groups of people define their way of life and what they treasure and feel.
An Indian citizen may feel very priviledged and happy in the way she lives her life. But that may be differerent from the way of life an American citizen would feel comfortable with.
This doesn't mean India is without poverty, but neither is the USA. Question is, how is poor (according to an Indian definition, not an American) taken care of in India? And how are poor people (according to American standards) taken care of in the USA? Maybe a poor Indian thinks her (his) life is much better, relative to Indian standards, than the American thinks her (his) is to American standards.
Relatively, a poor American might always be wealthier than a poor (or rich) Indian, according to the American way of measurement. But in the end, you need to adopt relativism and ask the Indian how she (he) experience her (his) situation and her (his) way of life.
This of course also means that is wrong to ask an Indian citizen how an American would define their way of life and how an American feel about living in the USA.
When it comes to rights (universial human rights, rights to edcuation, wealth and so on) it is more correct to adopt a view where you are relative to culture instead of universialism. But then, cultural rights must never become a trumph card when it comes to universial rights. A balance between the two might be the correct approach.
The discussion was about how anyone ever would want to move to India as nothing there could be equal good or better than in the USA. Maybe some things are better in the USA, and maybe some things are better in India. Thinking the USA is nirvana is ignorance.
There are a lot of good things with the USA. Just as there are a lot of good things with India. And bad for both.
I am not critizing the USA. I am critizing the (common) American view to think they are and know the best every time. Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
I have negative things to say about all nationstates on Earth. And good things too.
I'll pass this one so an Indian citizen to answer as he/she should know best. Just as you Americans know best why the USA is better than India in every post.
I know many countries where the poorest enjoy better life than the poorest in the USA.
Last I checked, people were killing eachother off on regular basis in the streets of the USA as well. How many Americans have a gun in their home to protect themselves against intruders?
Shit happens everywhere. In the USA too.
I am just saying; remove the cover form your eyes about your own backyard before starting to complain. I am pretty sure a lot of Americans would have it better in India than they have it in the USA today.
It is quite common you think your own country is the best ever. Most governments spread this nationalistic propagana to their citizens. USA, Canada, European countries, well everybody...
So just look at your own country with the same eyes you look at India before you starting judging which is better or worse. Maybe some things you value more than others are better in India than in the USA. Maybe not. People differ in what they value, so you can't make a universal judgment that applies to all Americans or Indians. Same thing as that there would be something like universial rights...
Seems to me Americans are constantly afraid of terrorism, hence the terrorism is working. Lack of "attacks" does not mean absence of effects of terrorism. Question is, do you feel safer in the USA from terrorism than you would in India?
This is why one of the founding stones of the European Union is free movement of workers. Any EU citizen can go anywhere in the union and work. Market economy means workers move where there is currently available work.
And why would you want to come back? Considering conditions in India are far better than in the USA (crime, violence, poverty, terrorism).
I guess you need to have a discussion about working conditions with the federal prison board.
This is why you have scheduled 5 minutes breaks every hour during the work day when you have sitting down terminal work (like computer work).
If there isn't a law that allows you this already (worker's protection), then make sure your employer understands how much more efficient you will work with these breaks, even though he/she is paying for them. In the end, your boss will benefit from you having 5 minutes break every hour.
Yes, a good start would be to rip out the useless junk you normall won't need in a laptop. Like CD drive, DVD drive, 20 different ports (USB, video, SVHS, Firewire). Then of course offering 10 inch screens and also a smaller form factor by using smaller components.
It is quite sad how few options you have concerning the above when it comes to Apple. Youi can basically choose if you want more memory and a WiFi card or not. There is no way to choose you do not want a optical drive.
Yeah, the main selling point to me is that it is smaller. If I wanted to maximize hard drive space for the dollar I could drag around a IDE tower.
Size and weight is _everything_.
Not much liberal politics in the USA. Both Republicans and Democrats has conservative (right) politics. And other parties are pretty non-existant when it comes to Congress seats.
Kerry isn't liberal.
Neolibralism (capitalism) is the basic ideology behind their actions. Just as any other company out there, their goal is to maximize their shareholder's profit. A board of directors that do not maximize profit are doing a bad job.
Yeah, I learned this is school many years ago. This isn't news at all.
What kind of sick country tracks "race" in a database? What use will that ever have? I can understand tracking age and so on, but race!? Racism by the government is no better than by anybody else.
Vulcans...
Well, neither is normal automatic weapons. You would still get your ass kicked by the US government if you sold these to terrorists.
So if somebody sells weapons to terrorists, then this person is without guilt, as it is the terrorists that are using the weapons against innocent people, not the one that sold them?
This is not the current USA policy in this matter.