Posts by jswinterburn 13 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Apr 2011
I don't disagree that the majority of instances aren't going to be that kind of spec, I'm just surprised that it's not available at all - There are quite a few things which need a machine of that size. If you want to de novo assemble a reasonably sized genome for instance it would be quite difficult with only 244GB of RAM.
What happens when you put all your jobs competing for the same people in a place where it's vastly too expensive and not that nice to live - this is why places like Cambridge, Manchester or Edinburgh do all the real heavy lifting. Of course that doesn't fit with the London centric obsession of politicians.
Bla bla bla, saying the same thing again doesn't make it true.
The key point in the above paragraphs being "minimum rates" If they can raise tax on wages, alcohol, cigarettes, fuel, pasties etc they can do it on this. The regulations above are to stop countries lowering rates to tax haven levels not making new taxes.
It's like you saw my point about validation by anti-EU types and thought, wait! that's me!
I'm sure everyone likes a bit of EU bashing, but that shouldn't be used to mask a rubbish argument. As has been pointed out above, VAT is not a turnover tax. The EU may be trying to harmonise VAT rates, but that doesn't stop you introducing something different. Additionally we're part of the EU, we can change laws there too, that's the point of MEPs.
Oh no, so "Tax expert Heather Self" says we cant possibly close the tax loopholes via which she makes her money so we shouldn't even bother trying. We can make whatever laws we want, that's the point of society! The EU argument is a load of rubbish put up so that her opinion gets validated by Anti-EU types.
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