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Quote: Originally Posted by Benjamin Frost Complete rubbish. Governments tax certain foods and drinks heavily because they can use the mantra of health as an excuse to get as much money as possible. So alcohol is taxed heavily, whereas mil…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Benjamin Frost But encouraging certain behaviours is a nanny state. I don't want a nanny state which thinks it knows what is best for me. Tax and government isn't about whats best for you, its about whats best for…
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jbdragon wrote: » Corporations don't pay taxes, YOU do! If they have to fork out more money, they pass the buck to you!!! That's fact and so in the end you're only taxing yourself even more. The price of the product just goes up. It's as simpl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton The iFixit agenda of pushing for "repairability" doesn't fit with what most consumers do when their Apple products break. They aren't hobbyists, and they will never tinker with the innards of their ha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wiggin I'm pretty sure iCloud email isn't running on Exchange server. So if it doesn't support IMAP, how is it connecting to iCloud, Gmail, and Yahoo mail? I can't get to iTunes right now to verify what the descr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley I also don't think it's much of a copy of either Microsoft and/or Apple. From the most superficial angle, yes, it's "flat" and eschews gradients and lighting effects, but it's much more than that, it's a who…
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coolfactor wrote: » This might not be a fair evaluation. Lots of community questions does not necessarily equate to lots of users, but rather lots of problems. Its not exactly an exact way or measuring popularity. You only post on stack overflow…
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paxman wrote: » It's kinda bullshit, actually. Turning lights on and off manually is very easy, precise and fool proof. The potentials savings using 'specialized algorithms to recorded user behavior and data gathered by onboard sensors' are quest…
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badmonk wrote: » seriously Meg Whitman was in the running... Why were any of them in the running? Credit to Tim Cook on the watch, although its not actually out yet. Other than that though did any of these companies do anything significantly d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark If you haven't done anything wrong, please let the cops search your house. That's generally what happens. If your suspected of something. e.g. Having a drug stash, cops will search your house. If you have…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd Again you are missing where the revenue is really created and when. The sales team isn't generating revenue, the pay per view or pay per click is. Pay per view or pay per click is a service being delivere…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd the presence of Google salesmen doesn't prove much, presumably British web services have sales teams abroad. The UK drives a lot of content on the Web. Google claimed either this year or last that they didn't…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd The way to tax companies doing business in your market is ( from 2015) to use VAT. Which is probably a lot more than the profit for many retailers, since very few are making net profit per sale of 20%. What …
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Quote: Originally Posted by diplication I don't see where this affects the developers' revenue. The way that I read it, the VAT is added on after the sale price is set by the developer, so the developer is making the same money no matter where …
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Don't really get what the fuss is about. If Apple haven't done anything wrong then they should just hand over the documents. Sure some competitors might learn some stuff but Apple sells their products by making the best product. At lease that's the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by starbird73 Apple never said you could only buy music from them. As a matter of fact, iPods existed before the iTMS, so that argument is also false. Apple restricted what DRM you could use on an iPod. Ripped from a CD…
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Quote: Originally Posted by starbird73 Here is the thing. A car engine pings because of the use cheap gas, do people complain to the gas station or Honda? Honda. Even though one chose to use cheap gas. Buying a song on a third party site that sa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Michael Scrip This is what I don't get... The iPod would play a variety of unprotected music files (MP3, WAV, AAC, etc)... but the only DRM'd tracks it would play were from Apple's own store. It was like this from…
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carthusia wrote: » I've been a long time Dropbox user, but I also need Microsoft Office applications for work. Exporting .pages files to .docx is not good enough. I want to move to Office 365 (and get the same 1TB storage that I pay for with …
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bestkeptsecret wrote: » Even an Office 365 subscription comes with OneDrive storage. Hell, now you don't even need a subscription for basic editing and storage on the Cloud. With iCloud+iWork and MS Office+OneDrive, I fail to see how Dropbox w…