Posts by nsld

risk versus return

The 'gig economy' workers are usually not far above benefits level, deem them inside IR35 and you open up a whole can of tax credit worms and the potential that they will stop working and claim many other benefits so a net tax loss overall.

A skilled IT contracter making £600+ per day is a soft target and is unlikely to fall back on the state in the same way. They are also a lot easier to find and manage as they typically do submit tax returns etc.

Add in that the many and varied gig economy companies have tongues firmly buried up politicians and have open doors to post political careers for them and its little wonder they are not heavily targetted.

Re: It's all verry simple

Not so easy with many sealed unit items without removable batteries.

Re: Wait a minute

The icon on the top right was an indication of the seriousness of the comment.......

Re: Only the second week @Gumby

Ending of a visa waiver just means you need a visa.

Even countries within the visa waiver programme still have visa requirements.

So your comparison is nothing of the sort, you need to remember your audience here is clearly better educated than the shitkickers you drink with.

As for his plan to "counter the threat" its just going to be the same extreme vetting which already takes place for many people trying to get a US visa of any sort.

Re: IMHO, any modified vehicle should become immediately unfit for the road...@LDS

Your comment is all kinds of stupid.

Most "modification" to vehicles, for example changing the brakes means using stuff that is engineered to fit and work with the car to improve it. The same also applies to engine re mapping which is an extremely common thing to improve performance, economy, emmissions etc.

Putting better brakes on a car doesn't require type approval or crash testing, and neither does allowing an ECU overwrite or a new chip being added, the most dangerous thing in all the article if the fact the damn thing is connected to the internet!

Both our Land Rovers are chipped or remapped, as is one classic Lotus (which also has 8 pot calipers to stop it rather than the OEM Vauxhall crap that Lotus used in the 90's) and the 9 litre diesel horse lorry, the Landies to make them less rubbish, the Lotus to make full use of the turbo and the horse lorry because its now bearably crap. None of them are dangerous per se, they just work better.

However if you connected them to the internet and let the world loose on them that would be a different matter altogether.

Trade deals

I did see on Twatter that Daniel Hannan the MEP had shipped himself off to Colombia to flog some "innovative jams" or whatever we have to offer.

The sad reality is that we don't set the world on fire with physical goods production and what we do build like cars, steel, chips etc are primarily foreign owned and ultimately can be relocated.

Most of our "exports" are service based and again are easily movable.

Our food production is driven by low skilled EU migration and again the larger food producing agro industries can move to fields in mainland Europe as we don't have any unique climate crops.

Apparently according to UKIP's Suzanne Evens we have some massive trade advantage as we buy lots of stuff, I get the feeling she, like many kippers doesn't understand how global trade actually works or how the UK economy is so dependent on easily movable businesses.

So its not just tech thats rising in price, food and energy is as well.

Re: What I don't get @2+2=5

Are you suggesting some kind of tapered relief approach?

I don't think the carrot mafia are going to be ok with a slow depletion of the animal stock and a bacon taper do you?

Re: PWEI

Given what we have heard from our new home secretary Obersturmbannfuhrer Rudd and her penchance for lists is anyone surprised by this?

I think this is possibly a more appropriate PWEI track given the current state of the nation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xef60FAN6Vk

@Boltar

The UK has a partial membership of the WTO with much of its common agreements dependent on membership of the EU.

This gives a good overview from some legal experts in the field of the challenge the UK faces in re establishing full membership of the WTO if we do leave the EU/EEA/EFTA

https://www.monckton.com/brexit-mean-uk-wto/

visa free travel

As we are not part of the Schengen area of mainlaind Europe we currently rely on EU membership for Visa free travel within Schengen.

My colleagues from outside the EU (Australia, South Africa, India) have to purchase a Schengen visa to travel in Europe, currently France is the best value and once you have had a couple they will give you a longer duration one. Costs about £80 a pop!

Once we leave the EU and have 'taken control' of our borders we will be subject to Schengen rules and will need to get a visa unless a deal on that is done.

As for work, that will require work visa's for each country!

Less paperwork if we leave apparently, and £350 million a week to spend on roast beef, warm sturdy ale and the NHS!

Re: "Journal of the American Osteopathic Association."??????

I think you are confusing Chiropractors with Osteopaths.

Re: Meanwhile @ inmypjs

"Isn't it amazing that poor uneducated oiks tup north think democracy is more important than money - unlike so many wealthy toss pots sitting in their metropolitan echo chambers."

Let me know how you get on at Tesco's when you offer to pay in this new currency of "democracy" for your kids food.

The real irony is that the "wealthy toss pots" wont suffer as a result of this as they aren't working in the car factories but those democracy loving Northerners probably will.

Re: Brexit bonus @ Dr Jones

"Try Googling "European Investment Bank" and "corruption" to get an idea of how much fraud and waste goes on. By contrast we sort of managed to do the Olympics on budget and on time."

Are you a Doctor of Bistromath?

If by "on budget" you mean an everchanging budget which magically meets the final price then yes, unfortunately thats not how budgets work.

All governmental organisations have levels of corruption from Parish councils upwards but try to erect an SEP around the Olympics (think G4S) isn't going to fly.

Re: Bah!

no, based on 20+ years experience as a personal trainer.

If you fill yourself full of sugars and sit on your arse all day you will achieve your goal of making a bigger dent in the sofa, alternatively eat a sensible diet and do some exercise and you won't.

Re: WTF?

In the joyous world of SaaS customer experience* which I inhabit we love these kind of buzzwords, here is a short glossary:

omnichannel - basically a list of all the ways the customer can contact you eg phone, live chat, email, facebork, twatter, Google + (yes I know), Instagram, viber and which ever shiny new insecure upstart pops up to "disrupt" the world of comms.

360 degree view - hoping you have pulled all the data into one place so when the client says "my sales rep said......" the agent has a vague hope of finding the email or call notes. And if you have outsourced the operation more stuff for them to steal and sell on.

Empower your agents - give them a tool with a better uptime than sex panther in the vague hope they can find the answer to the obscure question from the anorak on the freemium package.

*in the good old days it was service but now we want it to be an experience........