Re: Not sure I'd like to work there
One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires
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Possibly more inventory in the chromebook supply chain.
If you are making cutting edge laptops with the latest screens, GPUs and processors you don't have a lot of stock on hand because production is ramping up and the models change rapidly.
If you are making bog standard chromebooks by the million you are likely to have longer stable production runs of parts and so much bigger parts stocks.
>It's touching that you think the dead tree press has that sort of influence any more.
With young hip el'reg reading IT professionals = no
With people that write to their congressperson = yes
>That approach didn't work for Bezos. He bought the Washington Post and there's plenty of critcism of that vile gazillionaire.
Although it's stance on unions seems to have shifted recently
>The lender knows that you should be good for it, as you have that worth in stock.
If the bank is convinced the stock has long term value they will take the stock as collateral.
You never pay back the loan and the bank takes the stocks when you die.
Effectively you get tax-free money for life in return for considering the bank in your will
>for my casual needs Inkscape is a breeze to use.
Yes but there are professional users that need Illustrator, or Photoshop or Autocad.
It's like saying electric scooters are good enough for my casual use, great I'm happy for you, but if I drive an excavator for a living that doesn't really help me.
Ironically I use a bunch of software for work that only runs on Linux, so I have to have a separate windows laptop for minor corporate stuff - mostly outlook plugins - that only works on Windows
>What, you mean like MS' changes in UI and the "Where is the control panel today?" game from XP - Vista - Win7 - 8 - 10 - 11?
At least when you buy Windows it doesn't ask you if you prefer Cinnamon or MATE before you can download.
Or rather than full blown Ubuntu I'll install the simple xfce desktop, first thing it asks me on login - "do I want gdm3 or lightdm"
I've been using Linux since it came on Soft Landing System floppies, and Unix for 10 years before that and I don't want to care / know / have an opinion on desktop login manager daemons.
>It does not stop you doing your *existing* British domiciled work, - even for US clients - just from there.
You have to be careful, you can work for NeilPost's independent traders (New York-Paris-Peckham) while at DisneyLand, but you can't go into the New York office and claim you are doing your London work
>- Disclosure of income tax records without consent or a court order is a crime.
Where?
If you claim all your income is earned in the Narnia Islands and you are tax resident in Morder you can hardly run to the feds to claim USA law should protect you.
Similarly if somebody hacks the bank accounts in Narnia and publishes it in the independant republic of Sealand whose laws are broken ?
What are they going to pay in? Rusty warships?
Soon Ericson could have the 6th largest navy
But now there's no need for any government regulation because they are self regulating.
Except there will need to be a regulation making it illegal to report on any cyber-attack (for national security reasons) and to prevent companies being sued for any damage caused to their customers