Tax wealth not work
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It's the same with speeding fines and parking tickets, and the white collar criminals that call themselves car park management companies. Many folk just pay rather than appeal, thinking that the time it takes to appeal will mean they end up paying full price, but I'm pretty sure the clock is paused during the appeal process.
They were council enforcement rather than police. I suspect if she appealed she would have been let off, but some folk think then they'll have to pay the full amount because they missed the early payment discount window, which I don't think is the case.
Also, what's the difference between this and pouring coffee in the kitchen sink at home? Those enforcement officers were just chancing it.
They are supposed to, except that the water companies just chuck half of into rivers, untreated, to protect their profit margins, and until very recently got away with it scot free.
Lemmy needs /c/spicypillows
Whilst I agree with your statement, the research is using this as a measure of wealth inequality. 20 years ago a sudden windfall equal to 38 years of the average salary would put you in the top 10 percent. Now it would take 52 years. It's illustrating the change in wealth gap.
Agreed. I wasn't being dismissive of the problem. It's bad IMO, and it's already widespread.
I can think of another company with microphones all over the place, mostly in living rooms and attached to front doors.
Follow-up to this...
I bought a Ceratech mouse (mou-image-rf-blk) just to try them out. What arrived was branded "Accuratus", and the Ceratech website seems to carry the same branding now too, so it seems like they are going through a rebrand.
The mouse itself feels a bit cheap. The battery cover is a bit flimsy and feels like it might break if not careful with it, and although it clips back in OK it just feels a bit dodgy. There is a slot for the receiver under the battery cover. It slots in sideways, it's not particularly snug, and it's a bit fiddly to get out unless you have something to lever it out with.
I put my first impressions behind me and gave it a try for a couple of weeks, but it didn't get much better. It randomly seems to lag occasionally. It's so slight that the first few times it happened I wasn't sure if it was my imagination, but it's happened enough times now that I'm sure it's not my imagination. The scroll wheel also does something similar: intermittently it just seems to miss a step. For the last few days, the left-click button has started sticking a bit. If it's not been clicked for a few minutes, the first click just seems to stick and needs a bit more pressure to activate.
After giving it a good try I have stopped using it because it's so janky. It's not very expensive for a mouse, but it's not particularly good value either. After trying the mouse, I would not consider buying one of their trackballs unless I found some compelling reviews that suggest they are built better. This is a real shame, because I was really hoping for a quality newcomer to the trackball market!
Whilst this answer is correct, it's not entirely accurate, because it is dismissive of the root cause. The logical follow-up question is: "Why is energy billed in kWh?". If the question/cycle answer continues down this line there will probably be an answer like "because had to make a decision once, and they chose this because of , and now we're all stuck with it because of convention."
Anyone who doesn't understand what joules are probably doesn't understand what kWh are either. If the billing convention (and every other power consumption label) used joules (of course MJ or GJ) instead, then most people would just accept that as the unit of billing and measurement, and those who understand what the units mean would have an easier time of it.
I am glad someone else has noticed this. Why is my TV's power consumption reported in kWh/1000 hours?
Tax assets instead. Then it doesn't matter even if they do leave the country because their assets are still here no matter where the owners go.
Also, if the rich leave because they were told to pay fair tax then good riddance, they were a burden on the country.