* Posts by Triggerfish

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Brexit judgment could be hit for six by those crazy Supreme Court judges, says barrister

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Re: Should I Stay or Should I Go? @ Codejunky

Yes Codejunky

But it's not forcing the non right shaped banananas to be thrown out.

It was sold like this was some draconian law that says bananas can't be sold if they are not of this standard. It is a good example of the leave campaigns use of misinformation. The law actually being broken btw is a consumer protection law, not a banana law. Triggered by the bananas not being of correct standard but sold as such.

And a note on standards, weirdly enough they are good things. I have worked in manufacturing of duvets, pillows etc, lets address that because one of the other lies was about all the regulations on pillows. You know what? Some of those things are handy, for example if you do not have standards then you can get some really dodgy fills, I have seen pillows where weight is made up of dust, or they use chciken feather that has not been properly cleaned or curled. This means you get chicken feather rather than what the standard might say for example duck, you may even get broken chicken feather where the shafts are broken, good for causing allergies, good for attracting dust mites. How about thread count on ticks (outer fabric casing on pillows and duvets, basically the fabric that holds the stuffing in), to low you get dust mites through, lets not have standards requiring that to matter.

Course we could get rid of these daft standards and consumer protection and just go rogue on it all, should be fun next time you plug in something electrical without standards I reckon.

As for Farage, when your EU MP is interested in leaving the EU, does not vote on any issue that he then gets on his high horse about claiming we have no say when we would if he actually voted, and you still hold him up as a shining example of honesty and have no doubs about his ulterior motivations then I have to wonder how? why? Surely thats like saying I know he did it to sell these lies and I am cool with beliveing them? Thats just nuts.

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Re: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Should be noted the banana law is not a law really it's guidelines for retailers to class quality, you can still buy misshapen bananas just they can't be sold as class 1. Half this sort of regulation bollocks on things like bananas as well is driven by the supermarkets idea of perfect fruit and veg.

Also Farage was no bloody help in the EU, because things like fishing quotas which he should have been present to vote about (since he showed how much he cared about them during the Brexit campaign), he didn't even bother to turn up.

Your weekends may be safe, admins – IT giants tout 'zero outage' tech

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Re: "Your weekends may be safe"

Oh, so the kit can also stop cleaners unplugging servers, road diggers cutting cables, and office busy bodies tidying up nests of wires?

Was exactly my thought, they getting rid of the humans then?

Whoosh! China shows off J-20 'stealth' fighters and jet drones

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Re: Stealth..

Thanks. I did sort of wonder that it implied you would only catch them when they were so near it was pointless.

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Re: Tiger vs T-34 tank / Space Pen vs pencil / engineering schools of thought

I think the pencil one is wrong, pretty sure small bits of graphite, floating arund on a zero g environment with lots of electronics is not optimal, also NASA was a little worried about flammable stuff up in space to the point of obsession.

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Re: Stealth..

Is this still valid?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/20/stealth_detection_system_disappears/

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Re: Where did they get their ideas from?

I can't work out whether its stolen, or natural progression for 5th gen airframes to look like this or similar because they are optimal for the current knowledge / build abilities. I suspect it's a bit of both.

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Re: Stealth.. @Voland

You are about right think it's about a 1/3rd again longer than a F22 or F35.

Brexit may not mean Brexit at all: UK.gov loses Article 50 lawsuit

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Re: "Moral" and "Promise" ??

Not sure how talking about moral right considering the amount of lies in the campaigns is appropriate.

Windows 10 market share stalls after free upgrade offer ends

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To be fair the OP has a point (although Fthr Ted Crilly nails why IMO). Results here will be a bit skewed the average reader of the register doesn't mind poking around their PC, the average home user or even office worker well that may be different.

Windows is entrenched and will be hard to shift, and the average user starting a Linux PC has to relearn some things just to use it, some people will just not do that, or want to, it's a strange new world to learn. You can get frustrated at this attitude, but it's not going to change anytime soon in large numbers.

However with also the average user only doing a few things on a PC, like a bit of word processing, email, web browsing and such (which is probably one of the reasons tablets are taking over), something like the remix OS* (but non spying), a linux build with a dead simple interface (like android I feel people learnt that because they had to to use smartphone, and lets be honest there's lots there people do not know about) a easy to reach app store, and some basic halfway decent word processor etc, could be a killer install for the average home user buying a PC.

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Re: Genuine curiosity...

It's not just the data collection.

It insists on re-install of things like Bing news, and the Xbox app, if i do not want them I should not have them forced upon me, and also they should not make them bloody awkward to unistall.

It has apps you have to disable in the background (and they are ones i do not want - see above) otherwise it kills your bandwidth, noticed this when at home, my other PC was freezing playing the TV.

Now I know you can go through and disable all this, I did then the anniversary update re-installed the buggers. They have tweaked the pro version to stop you being able to edit certain parts of the group policy editor to stop this shit*, even though a lot of people would have bought pro for these sort of reasons.

You can't stop the updates, you can't choose what updates you want and you can't trust the updates. A OS that has been paid for should not do this.

Win7 is nowhere near as bad. (yet I guess, lets see what happens now with the updates from them).

*http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/29/windows_10_pro_anniversary_update_tweaked_to_stop_users_disabling_cloud_ads/

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Re: As long as Win10 continues to be a piece of spyware...@Jess

You seem to be missing the bit were I pointed out I need a working OS while I learn Linux to an adequate degree to switchover.

Never said I trust it, I trust it more than Win 10 is what I am saying.

The setting up Linux for dual boot is frankly a peice of piss, the making sure it runs AUTOCAD for example nicely and doesn't bork out 3 hrs into a drawing well thats different... Or even setting it up so it runs nicely, lot's of buggering about and not much spare time to do so at the moment, refer back to point 1. Like any software I'd rather test it a bit first.

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Re: As long as Win10 continues to be a piece of spyware...@Jess

Oh probably, but I need some sort of OS I can use, while getting myself up to speed on Linux, and figuring out what programs run things well like getting AUTOCAD working properly on Linux and such means I need something I can use now.

I don't have the time to spend mucking around with Linux straight off the bat at the moment, the time spent on that get's in the way of the time spent earning cash to pay my bills etc.

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Re: As long as Win10 continues to be a piece of spyware...

I've got it, it came with my laptop, have ordered win 7 though.

I did think I would try win 10 inbetween since it came with the laptop, the annoying thing is it could be a reasonable OS apart form the fact it's microssofts OS and not mine.

At least this the impression I got, greyed out options to unistall things like xbox link, bing news etc, you have to do it by powershell, and then first major update they restore it all. WTF? Let alone the spying which means you end up crippling some of the bits that would make it a good OS otherwise. You can't trust any of these changes are not going to be reverted in the next update, which you can't stop so you have to start again.

There's no way I'd pay for it (and I once paid for Vista!), for the reasons above.

I'd like my computer back to feeling like it's mine tbh, so Win 7 and Linux are going on.

Microsoft ends OEM sales of Windows 7 Pro and Windows 8.1

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Re: Now the the future is closer than ever.

Yes that precisely, but you come up across cash flow arguements, it's daft short term thinking IMO.

I am currently using Office 2010 on my PC and the only issues I run into are when someone sends me a 2016 file that hasn't been saved with backwards capacity.

Office 2013 was alright as well once I got used to the ribbon it was fine.

But I only use office for writing out bog standard docs, excel spreadsheets and outlook, most of the extra funciionality is wasted on me, and probably a large amount of the user base is the same.

I think the only possible downside for older office versions would be the end of the support date, but not sure how much of a difference that makes.

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Re: Now the the future is closer than ever.

Ahah and yes a good point that also is worth while, but you can probably pick up a cheaper copy of the old office thats is perfectly adequate. (Thinking I always get told the cost of Office 365 is cheaper, compared to 2016)*.

*Yes yes I know it isn't in the long run, tell the beancounters.

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Re: Now the the future is closer than ever.

You can also see this with the buy it as a subscription office choice, personally I think anyone would be better off buying an older copy of Office 2010 / 2013 that remains theirs.

Cheap, lousy tablets are killing the whole market says IDC

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Re: Think of all that extra landfill

Why do you think you are needing to replace the cheaper tablet every two years? My Asus is about that, can't see it needing replacing soon, and a lot less cost than an ipad.

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Yep bought a cheap Asus, that was an old model for about 70 quid. It gets used for browsing the web when laying on the sofa, controlling VLC on the pc, few bits like this. Why do I need something that costs five times the cost? Not even sure the lower resolution in comparison with the big names even effects me that much, I don't notice it.

Smart Meter rollout delayed again. Cost us £11bn, eh?

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Re: Smart meters have only ONE purpose

At the same time, these smart meters allow the cost to be hiked up so as to introduce price rationing so "poor people" will sit in the dark because they can't afford the lecky.

Yeah well since they were told to stop being twats with prepayment meters they need another way to tax the poor.

Hell desk thought PC fire report was a first-day-on-the-job prank

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Re: Metaphors

Once persuaded a psychology studying housemate in the days of dialup that they would get better signal if they massaged the line to help straighten it out, electron flow etc.

They got half way down the stairs before they called me an arsehole. :)

Self-driving cars doomed to be bullied by pedestrians

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Re: Non-issue.

It does helps it's mainly moped I'll agree and generally they tend to drive pretty slowly for the most part so dodging traffic is not to bad in some places but I have been hit by a kid who was texting while riding his scooter luckily he was going slow and I saw him coming so was dodging, I think the roads in Vietnam seem safer than Thailand where it can be a bit more scary in general.

Higher road deaths, doesn't surprise me at all I seem to remember being told in Thailand road deaths was one of the biggest killers, also wouldn't surprise me Nam is the same.

TBH I think one of the biggest problems they have is a pretty lax driving standards and tests, there seemed to be no road rules enforcement, drunk driving, an unwillingness of some to think lights at night are a good idea (this includes big sodding trucks full of coconuts driven by crazed drivers fueled on red bull on country roads), insane overtaking, shit road quality surfaces (I have seen a hole big enough to swallow pickups at the bottom of a steep mountain road just around the blind spot on a hairpin) etc as well to add to the fun.

I have ridden in both places and it's amazing after getting in the habit from the UK of always checking the mirror to find that it's often used more as an accessory for checking your hair than an actual tool for safe driving.

Kids who are so young they have to stand in the footwell to reach the handlebars, things like full size fridge-freezers being balanced on the back of bikes...

I once went to get a scooter taxi in BKK near a friends and the guys who were the drivers were sitting knocking back whisky, but apparently it was OK because they offered us a shot each before getting on board. I've seen cabbies turn round for conversations while driving, still keeping their foot down, motorcycle accidents where someone comes off and the first thing people do is run over and try and remove the helmet (which often are pretty shite anyway) and stand them up and give them a shake. The stories can go on and on...

Hell of a lot of the scooters in both countries I have seen ridden also have had pretty manky general states of repair ( and some of the hills and mountain roads are scary steep), brakes that seem to be non existent is a good one - hire a bike over there and watch the surprise when you return it and ask for one with decent brakes for example.

Road use in SEA can damn scary, apparently from friends who have ridden across India that's even worse.

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Re: Non-issue.

Vietnam can be quite weird as well, you pretty much just step out and expect them to drive round you on most roads, or if it's a car or bus they tend to stop. Don't do this on the big roads with coach drivers though, they worship a god that's a cross between Mad Max and Kali.

Web devs want to make the Internet of S**t worse. Much worse

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Re: Why the F...

I am not one for wearing a hairshirt for environmentalism, while still thinking it's a good idea we use a bit less energy etc, so in this time when we are supposed to be worrying about energy usage to some degree, why the hell are we also making devices that suck more power, especially when you are going to hit the ERROR_BREAD_STILL_IN_BAG / WATER_STILL_IN TAP problem as well?

Also occasionally standing up and moving could be a good thing for you.

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Re: If this takes off

RE the car one of our guys had his car robbed recently parked in Mayfair, BMW no smashed windows, when he went to the police they asked the model and said it would have been thieves who had cracked the remote locking system.

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Re: If this takes off

I agree, the thing is I think there is a boiling the frog effect going on with a lot of people. I commented on another thread about how I have techs here (I'm the least techy I'm more engineer turned PM and such, than a computer bod, the techs here have computer degrees, and cisco quals etc), who absolutely have no qualms about Win 10 spyware (I have been accused of tinfoil hattery), or leaving themselves logged into facebook and the commenting on how products they have browsed on their pc are now being advertised on their phones. Their response to these issues is mainly meh, or I just live with it. (Seriously even things like the Xbox app on win 10 start menu being greyed out in add/remove programs - unistall, five minutes google for the powershell script sorted it FFS).

There was a guy here who wants his Cisco security and his response to a conversation about IOT I brought up was I was worrying to much and it wont happen, non issue etc

I genuinely think they have been trained by companies and the world around them that this is the new normal, and us older buggers are just paranoid.

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Why the F...

Do I need a bluetooth kettle and toaster anyway?

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Re: If this takes off

I'm thinking if your technical you will be going crude in the future, y'know locks with real keys, dumb fridges, kettles whose only switch is on and off etc.

Let's praise Surface, not bury it

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Re: Bah!

There are still laptops out there with optical drives, in fact I was looking at some when I bought my new laptop, I can still see the point of an optical for a lot of uses, and even if not some of those the optical drive can be taken out and you can slot an extra SSD in for a nice cheap upgrade.

I'll agree with you though Win10 is amazingly shit.

MS seems to think they own my laptop and the choices I make on it, having to unistall things through powershell because MS thinks I want Bing News, or the X Box app running, because they have greyed out the options in "add/remove programs", and it giving app ads on the start menu peeved me immensley, it's a bit like buying a dell and having to remove the crap freeware expcept thats now part of the OS experience, never had to nuke so much of an OS before.

Funnily enough the younger users in my office are just like meh I live with it, or it doesn't bother me this makes me sad since they are supposed to be far techier than me.

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Re: Your looking at the market wrong

Inclined to agree with the posters here, we have i3 desktops at work, and they don't need a massive upgrade, they could do with a bit more ram (they came with min ram config), because we use a lot of web apps like google docs and multiple tabs eats memory but that's it really the only other thing that would be nice would be larger screens.

Home PC, that's been ticking over nicely on an i5, geforce 560 and SSD for ages (I agree jason the SSD is definitely a game changer) , and it runs anything up to xcom2 and elite not fussed enough about ultra HD settings to need to upgrade they are more than good enough, possibly if I bought some of the latest AA titles it might but doubt it (and not enough of a gamer to care), only upgrade that had recently was a shiny new screen.

Only real PC purchase I have made this year was a new laptop because I needed one, even then I did not shop for an i7, a decent i5 with SSD has been fine, in fact it boots ridiculously quick, quicker than my phone.

I remember the constant upgrade cycle, comparing which chip was better between AMD and intel, flip flopping between radeons and geforce to get that last bit of grunt out of a PC to make it usable for a new title or to keep up with the latest software, it's just not needed anymore, office has been fine since office 2010, CAD I do not use the hardcore enough end of it to need to care beyond CAD running 2013 model, and I suspect the average photoshop user is probably quite comfortable with a version a few years back for everything they do.

Barring the average reg reader or hardcore gamer, I am probably more demanding of a decent PC than 90% of users out there.

I don't miss the upgrade cycle, my bank balance certainly doesn't.

New MacBook Pro beckons fanbois to become strip pokers

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Fingerprints

Doesn't this mean photo editing through a screen full of smudge marks?

Adobe emits emergency patch for Flash hole malware is exploiting right this minute

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Re: Unbelievable, lets just correct this

There's so many websites still using it, it's not sheeple it's just people who are non techy do not know better, log in to my online banking fiirst message window/bar that comes up please enable flash, it doesn't actually have anything to do with the log in process ignore it you have no problems, far as I can see it's just so they can have a whizzy effect on an advert from them.

Hows the average non tech, non cynical user going to know that? They probably trust their bank security explicitly and believe the bank expends plenty of money on making sure they are secure tech wise. So if they are using flash it must therefore be safe.

It needs killing and companies and website operators need to be the ones sharpening the stakes.

Possible reprieve for the venerable A-10 Warthog

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Yeah I think it's a great plane as well, plus can survive a fair bit of fire on it, which is exactly what you want for a ground attack craft. I can't help thinking that BRRRT of the gun going as well must discourage any people on the wrong side.

Swedes ban camera spy-drones for anything but crime fighting

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Re: The Swedes are right

Sputnik news and Breibart..... really?

Uber's robo-truck makes first delivery of ... Budweiser in Colorado

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This and AI

Just means we are a few short steps from a bad Stephen King movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Overdrive

Microsoft: We're hiking UK cloud prices 22%. Stop whining – it's the Brexit

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"Blaming someone never solved a problem."

Oh I dunno I think it at least points to the person who should work towards sorting it out, I mean if someone pisses on your carpet you don't stand there saying well blaming someone never solved a problem, you say "Oi you twat clean it up"

Where are the leaders of our Brexit 'victory'?

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Re: Pixelated

Can't say for a DTP program, but i find Irfanview is pretty handy for manipulating images before sticking them in something like word, it's free and always seems to me to be pretty low overhead on resources for what you can get out of it, tends to be a always install program on any system I use/ build.

Kids today are so stupid they fall for security scams more often than greybeards

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Re: The latest trend I'm seeing...

Working a temp job covering benefits. I have had

Twenty something year old request a workman out to change a light bulb, to dangerous to do it herself, health and safety issue.

A girl again same sort of age, requesting a exterminator out at 3am because ant's were coming into her house and she was worried they would go upstairs and eat her baby, followed by her parents phoning me and going apeshit over the fact I said no.

A guy phone up say his daughter of 17 was pregnant didn't know who the father was and he was buying her a house so how much could he charge for rent so she could claim benefits.

So yeah there are some that are really molly coddled, (to be fair met plenty who are the same in far better off situations at Uni, everything done for them never had to learn to stand on their own two feet).

It's not all though, I can't think of any of my younger relatives in my family who if they came up with any of that would not be getting mocked for being useless, or a severe talking to in the case of the last one.

In fact one of my little cousins fresh out of college is trying to choose between Tanzania and India for where she wants to do some of her nursing course, neither place is going to be an easy ride.

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Re: Wisdom comes with the years?

Dunno about wisdom, I'd often say caution though, there's things you do in your early years risk wise when you're older you tend to have second thoughts about.

LG’s V20 may be the phone of the year. So why the fsck can’t you buy it?

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Re: Nice upgrade from the G4 @AC

So it's you! You're the one the marketing people keep phoning to ask if we want stupidly thin phones, stop it. :)

British jobs for British people: UK tech rejects PM May’s nativist hiring agenda

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@AC

I worked for a company in an area that did not have great employment rates, we actually had a high paying factory jobs going (high paying due to piece work bonus, it actually made them some of the more attractive wages in the area - which otherwise was mostly farmiland, and tourist hotels) with a stroppy union to protect them as well, we could not get one candidate to apply from the local area, it was a bit depressing really, in the end we had a couple of Romainian guys come over from one of our suppliers abroad and they worked their arse off.

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Re: @qwertyuiop

Actually you could possibly stall Brexit by getting the exiters debating what they actually want, there's enough partisanship in that camp that they might never come to an agreement.

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@ qwertyuiop

This is also my impression, I think if you split the brexit vote into how many want full hard brexit; no free trade no movement, how many want delusional brexit; we get free trade and free movement but EU countries do not, how many just do not want Syrians turning up, how many want a soft brexit, how many want a Rupert Murdoch brexit etc, the vote would have been all over the place.

Pound falling, Marmite off the shelves – what the UK needs right now is ... an AI ethics board

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Re: Slightly off topic but...

Not just them, as someone who used to work for a supplier of duvets to another large chain, the price offered per unit wouldn't have even covered the materials they required.

Hey, you know what Samsung is also burning after the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco? $2.3bn

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The South Korean giant decided to glue the handheld's battery in place in this model, rather than make it easily replaceable. When it turned out.....

...Planned obsolescence...

....had a serious design flaw, it was impractical to unglue and replace the power packs again and again – simply, the whole line had to be recalled and destroyed.

Smell burning? Samsung’s 'Death Note 7' could still cause a contagion

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Re: Disagree with general consensus here...

Is it not bit of a pain to wander round with a phone and a removable battery pack attached in your pocket, seems somewhat inconvenient to me?

Facebook pays, er, nope, gets £11m credit from UK taxman HMRC...

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@AC

Aaah you always hear that Ayn Rand bit of if we tax them they will bugger off.

Lets look at that, if say a you have a company that makes massive sales selling stuff over the net and you are making 4 billion in profit a year but only paying taxes of 3 million.

Are you seriously telling me that if this company now ended up paying 100 million in taxes on the same profit they would spit their dummy out and go home?

Fine let them.

I'm sure there are a few people in the world who would be happy to have a business that only makes them just under 4 billion instead. I am actually pretty sure most people could put up with that when it comes to making a living.

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Re: The grew the business...

You see your mistake is thinking accountants aren't good with numbers because they aren't doing higher maths functions, thats not what you hire them for, you hire them to be good with numbers in what they do, and know tax laws etc inside out.

Speaking as an engineer, the first time an accountant took me through double entry bookeeping I was totally lost.

Good God, we've found a Google thing we like – the Pixel iPhone killer

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Re: Yep - this is the phone to convert iOS users

Talked to an iphone user and their first response at the price was, "why would anyone pay that much for an andriod phone?"

That's what they have to overcome, don't think the specs have much to do with it.

WikiLeaks claims 'significant' US election info release ... is yet to come

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Re: How the US election operates....

Actually I think Bill Hicks said it, you choose who you vote for, just after they are elected they are taken in a room with loads of shadowy fat cats smoking cigars, who run a reel of the Kennedy assasination from some angle you have never seen the before, then they ask "Any questions?".