Posts by death&taxes

Re: I hate to be pedantic but...

Did you actually read the information contained in the link you posted? 62/38 seems pretty clear cut, and fairly consistent across the regions on a population basis.

Re: the emotional distress of dealing with Windows 10.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Re: Marketing genius.

"$600 profit per phone"

Naive nonsense.

Re: Forbidden Excitement

Well done - totally contrived, not at all funny and just silly - all in one comment.

Re: Numbers

Err, 10,000,000 x $1,000 x 40% = a slightly bigger hole than the one you suggest...

Re: personalised relationship with the customer

So don't agree to it, it's a choice. And don't shout - it makes you look rabid.

Re: FFS

To pass plod's initial and renewal inspection for a rifle/section 1 you would definitely need an approved gun cabinet fixed to a solid masonry wall. For a single shotgun some forces accept a gun clamp, ideally in the loft as burglars generally avoid entering them for the risk of being trapped.

It is of course total nonsense to suggest that a metal filing cabinet would be acceptable.

Re: Seems you can't sign up

Yes you can, provided you are a BT customer.

Re: Sometimes I can't use a long password

Perhaps you mean Ctrl-V?

@JLV

Mmmm... that didn't really work did it.

Dear Old Timer,

As one dedicated fanboi to another I think you might have been a mite over-sensitive there. I don't mind too much personally but it does make us all look a bit silly, and you know how much the droidboys enjoy that.

All the best,

Your iBuddy.

Re: Consumers..

Mirror.

Re: Testing similar with Safety Cameras?

Have to be a pretty clever camera to recognise you from a very quick glimpse of you from your rear view mirror...

Re: Referendum - stupid idea

Yes, it's exactly like that.

They managed pretty well with their handsets before they became correctly perceived as old-fashioned bricks when the market flew past them.

FIFY

Re: Just a point of clarification...

"Disfuction"

Not a typo I assume.

Re: What ?

...'My Secret Files' then?

Re: What is the obsession

Duh! Obviously not, which is what this is about (for the people who find it useful).

And anyway maybe we'd not be totally happy rummaging around in the boiler cupboard every time we have a schedule change, leave alone forgetting to change the settings (yet again) before we leave.

Re: Pressure sensitive?

@werdsmith

Mostly teenagers...

Re: Isn't this in David Cameron's neck of the woods?

Really, how long would it have taken for you to check whether these areas are 'around Chipping Norton' (they're not).

Silly cliched blather.

Thanks Vince, have an upvote for making me nasally evacuate my coffee - priceless!

Re: OEM encryption

Dear hapticz, you've outshone yourself - that is bonkers on so many levels.

Re: It's unfortunate

All for free speech and all that but I'd prefer he/she didn't...

Re: But... Google is a monopoly

"If you want to search the internet, you have to use Google"

Utter, complete and ignorant tosh.

Duck Duck Go ain't too bad, but if you really want google results without the google slurp then just use Startpage.

Re: But Has Anyone Found something To Do With Them?

Fundamentally disgree about a clear divide between tablet/non-tablet demographics - tablets are a hardware adjunct for many people precisely because they fill usage gaps. It's not either/or.

They facilitate on-line access and use of media/software away from the immovable suitcase-sized brick which is either in the office/study, or is dominating some other shared space; or the bulk and the surface-requiring mode of use of a laptop.

And in response to the original question, a few suggestions: reading your daily paper in bed (without the dirty fingers), checking recipes in the kitchen, gaming on the sofa, sharing photos around the table on a decent sized screen, providing alternative means for other household members to consume their preferred visual media, not having to drop by the desktop or make space somewhere for the laptop when you are expecting to hear from friends or family, amongst thousands...

You may not want one yourself, but if you can't see what roles they could usefully play then you really do have no imagination.

But for work - the desktop in the office and the laptop on the road - of course.

@TRT

Surely 'Batik Died'?

Sad news though I didn't know him/her myself.

Re: What about the VAT?

Sorry but you really have got the wrong end of the stick.

Value added tax is -precisely- a tax on the value added at each stage of a vatable sale or service.

Each supplier charges 20% extra on their price to the next stage. These tax receipts are then netted off against the VAT the supplier has paid to their own suppliers and any excess is passed on to, or deficit is claimed back from, the government through their VAT return.

Actually quite an elegant way of ensuring a tax chunk out of every stage in a given economic activity, reflecting where the margins are being generated.

Re: Here comes the science bit

But 95% of the wee is H2O, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine] which would be indistinguishable from the other 143,850,000 litres already there.

So isn't that 0.15 parts per billion, or 150 parts per (Leftpondian) trillion?

If warm soapy water doesn't work it usually means you have an oil soluble glue to contend with.

Scratch the label all over, rubbing off the top surface as much as poss then rub some cooking oil into it. After a few minutes rubbing, hey presto, the label slides off in slippery bits which you can then wash off with warm soapy water.

Still bloody annoying, although malaria probably pips it.

Keep up the good work, Mr H.

Re: But why are we translating it literally?

...surely 'attempted to dress the cat'?

Not any kind of herbs actually.

For Chinese the rabbit is pounding the elixir of life for the Moon goddess Chang'e. In Japan and Korea it is said to be pounding rice to make 'mochii' or 'chapssalddeok' ricecakes.

*yawn*