Supernaut

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by Supernaut 2y ago
Nothing brings home quite how much money there was to be made in the music industry in the '80s as seeing the top bands' keyboard rigs. In the video for "The Reflex", Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes is surrounded by a Fai
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by Supernaut 2y ago
The programmer was a commercial product, rather than a custom design made specifically for Eno. It was manufactured by a German company named Jellinghaus: https://reverb.com/item/21724471-jellinghaus-dx-programmer-f...
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by Supernaut 2y ago
Well, "ban guns for everyone because some bad guy might get his hands on one" has always been the law in my country, and it has worked out extremely well. There has never been a mass shooting here, ever.
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Sales, logistics, technical support, administration and accountancy for the entire EU market. Software engineering and some R&D.
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by Supernaut 2y ago
Why do you say that the presence of these companies' EU headquarters in Ireland is "entirely due" to the country's corporate tax rates?
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by Supernaut 2y ago
Which office? The article concerns a factory that built the computers for Apple's European market, during the '80s and '90s.
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by Supernaut 2y ago
Yep. My TV, a 42" Panasonic plasma, dates from 2009 and is still working perfectly. I haven't replaced it, because why would I?
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by Supernaut 2y ago
In certain academic circles, it's been popular for several decades now to exhibit indifference to the general decline in observance of rules such as this. I find that attitude very regrettable. I can't be the only person who has f
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by Supernaut 2y ago
His Technics is used in places, such as "Tower of Song". But "First We Take Manhattan" was recorded using a Synclavier, which at the time was as cutting-edge as you could get.
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by Supernaut 2y ago
> synths and arrangements that might not sound all that palatable to the modern ear Are you referring to I'm Your Man ? Because I'd say that it's his single most accessible collection of songs, and that his adoption of mo
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by Supernaut 2y ago
> it helped a number of children conceived via IVF (he had provided a sample for fertility testing many years before) identify and contact him Wait, so a sample he submitted for fertility testing was used to impregnate a number of women?
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by Supernaut 2y ago
I gather from your disdainful tone that you think you've just schooled me on something really fundamental, but the point you're trying to make is unclear to me. If you're asserting that VAT and the taxes paid on corporate pro
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by Supernaut 2y ago
VAT is a tax paid by the consumer, not the manufacturer. If you buy an iPhone, it's you that pays the VAT on it, not Apple.
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by Supernaut 2y ago
Read it again. The court has not imposed a fine. The €13 billion represents taxation on many years of corporate profits, that the EU's competition authority asserted Apple should have paid to the Irish exchequer, but did not due to a f
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by Supernaut 2y ago
> ultimately the taxes owed should probably be paid out to the countries where the sale occurs. As I wrote in another thread, that's not how business works in the EU. If Volkswagen, incorporated in Germany, sells a car in Poland, th
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by Supernaut 2y ago
VAT is a tax paid by the consumer, not the manufacturer. It's collected at the point of sale by the retailer and passed on by them to the local tax authority.
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That is completely untrue. There are over six thousand people employed in their Irish HQ.
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by Supernaut 2y ago
That is completely untrue.
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by Supernaut 2y ago
That's... literally how every company in the EU operates. If Volkswagen, incorporated in Germany, sells a car in Poland, they're not required to pay a corresponding sliver of their net profits to the Polish exchequer. It all stays
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by Supernaut 2y ago
What I didn't see explained in these videos, and which I'm now curious about, is the mechanism by which the hot dogs convert the radio signal into sound? I understand how a loudspeaker works, but since food products typically don
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by Supernaut 2y ago
I'm not sure what "Hell's Bells" you're thinking of, but the GP is plainly describing the song by AC/DC from 1980. It most definitely does not contain pulsating synth percussion, but is extremely popular.
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by Supernaut 2y ago
NAMA is not in any way responsible for the housing crisis. Its purpose was not ever to fund or incentivize homebuilding and in any case, if I think back a decade, to a point where NAMA had been in operation for five years, there was no hous
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by Supernaut 3y ago
I got a laugh from the author's assertion that the Lewis book examines "the psychology of an impulsive, chaotic, misanthropic genius". I mean, "genius" has long been a ludicrously overused word, but even so, this is
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by Supernaut 3y ago
This. I've got iTunes 12.13 installed on my PC and everything works in exactly the same way that it always has.
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by Supernaut 3y ago
Until I discovered the magic of uBlock, a visit to YouTube always prompted a blizzard of Grammarly ads. I could never understand the premise of these clips, in which native speakers of English - specifically, university students and young w
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by Supernaut 3y ago
I think you're correct. I also think that they're envisioning this tool's potential in terms of the kind of derivative, trite rubbish that makes up 95% of what is played on pop radio stations nowadays. I don't doubt that
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If this case were actually as open-and-shut as you seem to think, would it really have dragged on for seven years? What was issued today isn't even a ruling. It's just an opinion that will now be carried forward into further arbit
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Citation?
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I believe it bears pointing out here that Apple's first factory outside of the US was set up in Ireland in 1979. All of the Apple IIs sold in Europe were built in it. The manufacturing jobs eventually moved on to China, but other roles
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by Supernaut 3y ago
> taxation agreements between countries are a rational strategy to get a better outcome for all That may be the theory, but the reality is that they are bully pulpits whereby the largest nations (in this case Germany and France) force th

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