Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
>Starbucks didn't pay profit tax because they were paying too much in rent in the UK
Starbucks didn't pay profit tax because they were losing money on every cup having to buy $$$$ coffee beans from their Swiss subsidiary and pay Starbucks Brand Services (Bermuda) $$$$ for the rights to use the logo.
All perfectly reasonable
So why do you need a law?
Goodd employers that want to keep staff will have to have work from home anyway
It's obviously going to be full of so many exemptions that bad employers can force anyone back into to the office for 'security' or 'reasons'.
It's going to become an excuse for that one person to insist on working from home, then goes sick for 6months because their kitchen table wasn't ergonomic
None of this is going anywhere near kids.
It let's them spec a £££££ enterprise class router for each classroom and then charge ££££££ for supporting it while charging ££££££££ delivering a PowerPoint showing how they are dynamically enabling dynamics.
All for 10x the cost of a school employing some local bofh
It's funny how a Tory government all about market efficiency seems to always want some all encompassing national plan worthy of Stalinist tractor production. You would almost think that there was some ulterior motive to hand out govt cash
It doesn't have to affect US supply at all, it doesn't even have to impact anybody outside Australia.
News Corp's mighty organ of truth and balance will run stories, people will panic buy, they will then run stories of empty shelves and shortages with pictures from a single store.
Their 'journalists' will run stories asking how Obama is doing this to turn everyone into vegan gay muslims
I'm assuming that because of German Tank Problem you wouldn't give troops sequential numbers
So you could issue all soldiers with multiple serial numbers to confuse a statistically advanced enemy.
The US 'ban' on Korea building missiles?
S. Korea was on the US side in the MASH war, so it isn't a defeated Germany can't have fighter planes deal.
It's not like the US didn't want to upset relations with N. Korea
Although S. Korea was a military dictatorship until recently (1980s?) it was a very pro-America military dictatorship and hardly like to be a geo-political threat to the USA
Even his later rockets didn't really survive the trip, only a tiny crew module came back.
It's like a jet fighter where the pilot successfully ejects at the end of each flight rather than landing.
Took surprisingly long for a rocket to land properly - like Thunderbirds intended
> Some people and countries are still impressed by this sort of thing.
Yes and all we need to do is find some 3rd world country are in the market for whatever Britain still exports (high-tech pharmaceuticals, complex financial instruments, royal wedding tea-towels), has a coastline, and would prefer a visit from white-mans-giant-canoe than a straight forward bribe.
This is a Boris distraction announcement - if this is the best they can do, then either Cummings revelations aren't really that devastating, or they left the work placement kid in charge on friday afternoon.
The original royal yacht probably made sense. In 1952 it wasn't easy to get a Queen, a few 100 VIPs and their security to some small British Caribbean island and if you did the costs of hosting them would have been a huge drain on the local resources. Turning up with your own stage set and roadies made a lot of sense.
The idea that showing up in China with a yacht smaller than Bezos's backup boat is going to awe them into a trade deal isn't even Farage level idiocy.
Yes that's the point.
If you have consistent needs for a fixed amount of infrastructure you build your own.
If you are growing quickly or have spiky demand you pay proportionally more for flexible cloud services
It's the reason your company probably doesn't run it's own airline or fleet of delivery trucks.
> the fact the FCC might have requirements becomes just irrelevant.
Unless you want to use US technology, sell to US customers, raise money from US investors, be listed on the US stock exchange or have any of your executives ever visit a US ally without being extraordinarily renditioned.
If you are China you can probably ignore the rules, if you are a smaller country than China you have to do what Washington says.
Cray 1, 80 Mflops, cost = unless sir has a nuclear weapons program sir can't buy it, but say $35M in todays money
Sony P5, 20TMFlops, $399 = 50MFlops/$
So close to Cray1 / $
(OK so Cray was 64bit double only and Sony is 20TF at FP32, but the Cray doesn't include the cost of a lot of programmers in brown corduroy with pipes)
Intel's new CEO have announced that their new share buy-back scheme will be implemented under a new Rule 483 Part B clause which reduces tax-withholding in off-shore accounts by 15 bpp !
This was made possible by replacing all their semiconductor engineers with world class MBAs
>If you want to operate your business in a country, you must follow their laws
Or just hire a couple of the Prime Minister/President/Grand Vizier's children as advisors
Then remember to have a big unveiling of the new HQ dedicated to the wise beneficence of the current great leader.
ps. If you are a major European organisation and the great leader in question wears a uniform with too many medals and has penchant for throwing opposition leaders out of helicopters you may have to plant some ivy in front of the the plaque commemorating this event.
The Challenger disaster happened because there were O rings joining together bits of rocket
There were joints in the rockets because they had to be shipped from landlocked Utah
They were built in Utah instead of Texas because Texas already had mission control. But Utah didn't get any Nasa spending and so wouldn't vote for the Shuttle budget.
Houston has mission control because in the Apollo era it didn't have industry that could be used in Apollo but needed some Nasa spending to get Texas to vote for Apollo.
Fortunately all that has changed today with the Senate Launch System which is made in 33 states
I was always suspicious that the Gay Wedding Cake case was a Republican stalking horse.
1, Fund the case against the baker and get a ruling that anyone discriminating against a customer gets a huge fine.
2, Get a list of Muslim owned business and demand that they make a T-shirt with Muhammad on it, when they refuse fine them out of business
3, Book every synagogue function room for your Hitler's birthday celebration. Similar..
Repeat for every group you don't like
