Posts by James 51 3426 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jun 2009
'With this being one of my first comments, I expect to set a new record for downvotes to upvotes for an account.'
You forgot the troll icon but as you're new I'll let it go. Asking for upvotes rarely works. Downvotes, well it depends. You'll need to try harder than that though if you want to set any records.
@Dave Quoi?
@TheTick I've worked in companies were this has happened. As for your point about ISAs, no I don't but I do have a pension. The difference is that I'm not employing a small army of accountants and laywers to snake through loopholes so that I am suddenly being paid in a tax haven instead of the country where I work.
Perhaps if you've got nice employers who treat employees/contractors well the system you describe would have merits worth discussing. In a world were even successful companies off shore jobs to temporarily push up share prices, were there are attacks on the ability of those who wish to negotiate collectively by private business and by the government (who is suppose to be looking after their interests, ha), were companies who structure themselves to pay virtually no tax in a territory where they operate payroll taxes are one of the things it is hardest to dodge, were insecurity could prevent reporting of harassment etc etc. In utopia maybe, but this is not a utopia.
'Then again, when you have no less than 28 of the country's highest paid lawyers all focused on trying to tear something apart, you'd be a fool to write off their chances.'
I have often been told that America has the best legal system that money can buy. This would seem to add weight to that quote.
Anyone else noticed that any negative comment about windows 10 is getting a lot more downvotes than that sort of comment usually gets?
MS haven't had to do a xbox one style u-turn yet but they risk losing a lot of the most tech savvy users if they don't. I know it won't concern them that much but it will strengthen the competition which should concern them.
My advice would be to try them if you can. The passport is very different from any other phone out there. The Q10 has the advantage of a removable battery but the passport has the trackpad built into it's keyboard (accurate positioning using the touchscreen is the Q10's only real weakness).
It has the emulator but what about the games? This might explain why all the amiga games disappeared from the blackberry app market. Having bought a few the on screen controls could be a little fiddly when compared to the joystick or keyboard the games were designed to work with. GOG has some amiga games on it now.
I bought a BB10 handset because it had a keyboard and wasn't a privacy invasion tool like Android/Google play and iphones make for good teething rings but I don't need one. I've never needed an app and have not been able to fine something on the BB10 app marketplace and with the Android apps you can't use granular permissions.
When I built my own desktop I picked an AMD chip as it gave the best CPU/GPU performance for my budget. When I went to buy laptop last year the only options with AMD chips were either under powered or more expensive than identical laptops which had Intel inside. Manufacturers or retailers are pushing Intel or they just don't know what to do with AMD.
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