Posts by Bob Wheeler 381 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Oct 2007
In fact, no gods anywhere play chess. They prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do
Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight to Oblivion; a key to the understanding of
all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters)
Not quite. This panel may well heavily influence tax policies in the EU for the next few years. But the issue of internataional tax is dealt with at International Law & Trade treaties level.
I suspect that when a lot of this was done back in the day when international trade involved selling cars, or food, or raw products (coal, steel) etc around the world rather than thse more intangiable 'electronic goods'
One thing that strikes me is the big numbers being thrown around, 900,000 documents, 1.7 million etc.
How long does it take to read that number of documents, let alone fully digest.understand what they talking about, and then decide if they should be published?
If you take the 900k number,
At one page per document, and a reading time of 30 seconds per page that still takes just shy of 4 working years (8 hours per day, 5 days per week, 48 weeks per year)
given that the 'interesting' documents are morel ikly to be a lot longer than 1 page, you do the maths!
If (a big if) I remember correctly, with operation Black Buck, the logisitics of setting a rolling relay of in-flight refueling points, where the tankers had to be refuled in mid flight, to refuel the Vulcan's (I think there where two on the mission??) was mind blowing.
At one air show I went to (late 70's) a Vulcan flew down the runway at 200/300 ft then the pilot pulled the stick back so far that it looks like it was standing on it's tail. The afterburners were lit up and the ground shook as the Vulcan went up veritcally.
God it was a beautiful sight and sound!!!!!
"Sample didn't have a neat answer, but did admit that Microsoft's use of Irish tax arrangements are in decline because the product line that was given the “Double Irish Dutch Sandwich” treatment is in decline"
Can anyone say which product of MS is in decline? Is there something they are not telling us?
I remember watching the first BTTC race on the telly and one of the wag commentators saying words to the effect of "Do they know this is the Touring car race, not the TOWING car race?"
Anyways, I was so impressed the next year I bought a 850 with the 2.5 20V engine, the T5 did not come out till 96 (I think).
So 20 years later, I still have the 850, still going strong.
I guess this starts to blur the lines from traditonal (Turner, DeVinchi etc) art, through modern (Herst etc) art into political statement.
but when you get statements like this "... enables us to focus on often difficult-to-grasp questions about who owns our digital data and the right to privacy .."
For myself (YMMV) it just seems to more of a political point than art.
"The ten Colossi built between 1943 and 1945 and put to work at Bletchley Park were all dismantled and completely destroyed immediately after the conclusion of the conflict"
I'm sure I read/heard that after the war in 1945, not all of the Colossi where destroyed. but that some of them where moved to places such as RAF Eastcote and used by the American's for breaking of Soviet codes, as the Soviet's used the ex-German egnigma machines.
I know I'm being a tad dim witted here, but why is the government involved in this at all?
If the energy supplies think that having smart meters are good for their business, then they should pay to install them, not the customer.
If the energy companies can convince the customers that this is good for them, then they can offer a CHOISE to the customer to pay to install them.
So back to my original question, what does this have to do with the government?
On the grounds that the people in US government are not stupid, misguided maybe, but not totally stupid, how can they think/believe that they have the legal/moral right to utterly trounce over any overseas legal jurisdictions without a howl of protest from the rest of the world.
How many times have you seen a pilot of a wonderfully new complex system being trailed by IT savvy/power users who know how to use computers.
Is it not a valid idea to trail a new system on those with the lowest level of technology engagement, IF they get it to work for them, then everyone else is easy?
Business secretary Vince Cable said the £19m government-funded driverless car projects underway in Greenwich, Bristol, Milton Keynes and Coventry will contribute to the "£900bn industry by 2025".
If this industry is going to be worth £900bn in 10 years’ time, then is the £19m a tad light weight in investment terms? I mean, for £19m (which is loose change in government terms) how much of the £900bn market are we going to get?
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