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Why don't they just scrap corporation tax and increase sales tax/VAT? That way, rather than being based on country of residence, it is purely based on sales per country.
Great, and the poor s*ds who buy their stuff end up financing the clowns in government, and the corporatioms have a field day!
(Hint - businesses don't pay VAT on their purchases, they just collect it on their sales!)
" simply charge them and throw them in jail." Sorry, old chap, it doesn't work this way - it's " simply charge them, _try them_ and throw them in jail _if they are found guilty_." And you can bet your boots that they can afford top lawyers at a lower cost than actually paying the taxes!
Just read your own post again, Mike. Look at it from the police point of view - wouldn't it be a lot easier and safer to apprehend a 16-year old girl than to go seriously into the mountains and try to round up armed 'survival' players? Another case solved with minimal exertion, and file closed. Bring on the 'donuts'!
Problem with your thought experiment: prior to carrying out the experiment, you have to get the rod into place. This would probably vitiate your attempt to actually do the experiment. As mentioned in another comment, tapping the end of the rod would set up a wave in the rod travelling at the speed of sound to the other end, not superluminal transfer of info!
It's like the famous twins paradox often cited in discussions of relativity, or at least the Lorentz equations, where the twin travelling at the speed of light does not age while his pedestrian brother gets old. What is not usually included in this anecdote is the fact that the travelling twin, on leaving his brother, will then have to accelerate up to the speed of light, and at the end of his journey, decelerate back down again, and these two phases of his journey will probably occupy as much time as would have been passed in the interim by his stationary brother. The relativity relevance of the story merely deals with their relative velocities once the moving twin has achieved light speed and before he comes "down to earth" from it.
I'll post this as a pedant - which I am - not as a 'simplicius'* enquirer.
*cf Galileo's dialogues.
So one could assemble this modified drive plus microcontroller plus software for a couple of hundred dollars. Look at the original article. Did you notice how the authors described the preparation of the disks? The test kit may be $200, but I should think the disks wi9ll be up to $50 each, and would be 'use once only' since later or further uses would suffer from contamination from previous uses.
Me again! Never really understood - were angels created before physical reality? If so how come the chief angel was called Lucifer - Light-bearer - before there was any light to bear?
Also. why do angels have names? Most of the angels whose names are 'known' have Hebrew names though Lucifer 's name is Latin, long before Latin was invented. I suppose it is possible to imagine that when God spoke to Adam in Eden, Hebrew might have been the language of communication, but surely there wasn't any Latin being used?
Got the triple interlinear in my pocket.
In my day, "pears" abbreviated from "Apples and pears" meant "Stairs".
There's a great example of Cockney rhyming slang morphisms in Anthony Burgess's "The Doctor is Sick":
Actual word "Arse" morphs to "Bottle and Glass", shortens to "Bottle" which again morphs to "Aristotle" which then shortens to "Aris" which is so near the original word as to make one wonder why bother?
I marvel at all the erudite comments posted as a result of this article. However, my big problem is: How does an x-ray telescope work? Don't x-rays just pass through it? And how do boffins know that the images produced on film(?) or CCD or whatever are the result of focused x-rays rather than photons of other frequencies/energies?