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walshemj
7y ago
In the UK at a large company, I took TOIL for out of hours working at OT rates 1.25 up to 8pm 1.5 up to midnight and Saturday and I think it was 2x plus a day on Sunday.
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walshemj
7y ago
I bet Nigella Lawson has the similar problem on her cookery sites :-)
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walshemj
7y ago
Relatively rich Lewis Hamilton cane form a well off middle class family - but not a family that 100's of millions.
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walshemj
7y ago
That's interesting I worked with some one who had done A PHD in music and was a London session musician. After an accident when they where laid up in hospital after breaking most of the bones in their feet - they taught then selves pr
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walshemj
7y ago
Why do you need a new term?
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walshemj
7y ago
Um that's a consumer coop and they have been around from almost the start.
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walshemj
7y ago
Which country ? you probably want to talk to the local coop movement in your country about how they are setup
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walshemj
7y ago
Looking at headline levels doesn't always work especially if your middle class, Share options are taxed much less harshly you get pension tax relief at your effective rate. we don't have to pay some one to do our taxes either.
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walshemj
7y ago
The max council tax on say a 10 million pound mansion is around £4k - which from chats with some one living in one of the cheaper states is less than a basic 4 bed house.
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walshemj
7y ago
US property taxes (even in lower cost states) are huge compared to the UK's council tax.
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walshemj
7y ago
I have a friend who used to work for the defence civil service and one time he was out in the desert in the USA with no proper internet connection just email - he emailed his techie friends to ask how you did some arcane vbscript stuff as
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walshemj
7y ago
HP has a track record of buying companies and destroying them, 20 years ago the Concert JV between several big Telcos is another example.
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walshemj
7y ago
Is that the speed of light in copper/fiber? that's about .5c where c is the speed of light in a vacuum
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walshemj
7y ago
Quantum entanglement maybe - that's certainly the line id have gone for.
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walshemj
7y ago
Liquidity can be a very serious problem for open ended funds and they have to keep cash on had to meet redemptions unlike closed ended funds like investment trusts.
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walshemj
7y ago
Interesting - would be interesting to see Levannas take on this> - She is a Northern soul dancer and DJ, and some times works with Craig Charles AKA Lister from Red Dwarf
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walshemj
7y ago
Only up to a point there is a lot of legal case law that defines what an employee is and uber is on the wrong side of this.
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walshemj
7y ago
No its not that is exactly what is happening, that's why previous UK Tory chancellors where keen on increasing the minimum wage - to reduce the £ spent on tax credits.
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walshemj
7y ago
Yes why should I pay taxes to support a private company that is not profitable without taxpayer support I am in the UK so I don't mind paying to support Medical Training, and training in stem skills those jobs are a net benefit to th
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walshemj
7y ago
JMS's Centauri republic is kind of how I imagine the Empire
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walshemj
7y ago
Stealing is a major problem in telecoms design in Africa - you also get it (cable thefts) in developed countries when the coper price is high.
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walshemj
7y ago
Both the older electrostars where far better
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walshemj
7y ago
Why are they not on battery at all times in ICU
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walshemj
7y ago
Its shockly poor procurement - those new trains are not fit for purpose.
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walshemj
7y ago
Ah I wondered why the ST Pancras line was in such a mess hours later
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walshemj
7y ago
But how do you know that its superfluous?
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walshemj
7y ago
That is interesting I regularly used to do a 65 mile commute to London which can take just over an hour on the slower train and 35 min on the intercity. (Bedford to St Pancras) Not sure id have done one at double the time.
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walshemj
7y ago
As opposed to a SCIF or going for a DV Clearance Interview a lot less strict.
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walshemj
7y ago
Even working in prisons they are strict on equipment, I have a mate who does Air Con work and he had to account for very tool he took in to make sure they went out with him.
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walshemj
7y ago
Yes is does seem silly to save a few thousands now when your going to get stung for a lot more when your parents die. Maybe some very good (but shady) lawyers are enrolling the parents in dodgy schemes. A bit like how some "self emplo
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