How is pausing deliveries different from stopping them? Or just not doing them.This is a new one, attend a funeral to get one's weekly shop:
Brexit, for once some facts.
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and 100 million quid/year
the situation of a large organisation such as ebay, amazon and Philips is substantially different from smaller ones.
1. freight cost. Small organisations have to rely on the post office. Sending a first class large letter (100g) to EU tracked and signed: £8.65, send in a motor wheel to France for example: £19 with Parcel2Go/DPD.
So if you sell a pedal sensor for £6, it will cost you £8.65 to post it to France.
2. Rules of origin. Big organisations don't have a problem with this, small ones do.
Although checks are rare, you still can't operate on the basis that you may or may not be certain about what to put on the shipment when you bought the parts from China to build a bike with them. If you put 'China' as origin, you just hand over the head ache to your customer.
3. VAT payment. If you have already got a VAT account in the EU, your customer don't have to worry about this. Smaller organisations don't, the couriers have to deal with VAT declaration and payment, they'll charge your customer for the service. On my kits, it's about 15 euros on top the the VAT.
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Tweet of the day
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The British Crown legally owns 6.6 billion acres of land across the world. That is a sixth of the earth's surface. Charles is now the world's largest landowner, but I am sure that has nothing to do with colonialism...
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Lowkey
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The British Crown legally owns 6.6 billion acres of land across the world. That is a sixth of the earth's surface. Charles is now the world's largest landowner, but I am sure that has nothing to do with colonialism...
My reaction
The Empire strikes (behind your) back
Does that include seabed?Tweet of the day
Lowkey
@Lowkey0nline
The British Crown legally owns 6.6 billion acres of land across the world. That is a sixth of the earth's surface. Charles is now the world's largest landowner, but I am sure that has nothing to do with colonialism...
My reaction
The Empire strikes (behind your) back
You shouldn't have asked that, now see what you've done!
How the Queen came to own the seabed around Britain
An auction of offshore plots for future windfarms is being held by the Crown Estate
www.theguardian.com
It's meaningless. Neither the Queen nor he personally own the land, nor can either have ever personally managed the land since they have no control over virtually all of it and all of the income from it goes directly into the treasury for our benefit.
There is no way we can ever attempt to take physical possession of it, barring lessons from Putin or ISIS.
And would anyone envy the life of our king or queen, I certainly wouldn't. Harry had the right idea, get the hell out of it ASAP, with plenty of pocket money.
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Even the bloomin' Express is asking about Russia and brexit:
Russian meddling in Brexit claims explored as critics say UK a 'target' of Putin
An official from within the Biden administration claimed on Tuesday the US intelligence community found Russia has spent more than $300million (£260million) on influencing foreign politics since 2014.
By Ollie Corfe
08:25, Thu, Sep 15, 2022 | UPDATED: 11:17, Thu, Sep 15, 2022
Russian meddling in Brexit claims explored as critics say UK a 'target' of Putin
An official from within the Biden administration claimed on Tuesday the US intelligence community found Russia has spent more than $300million (£260million) on influencing foreign politics since 2014.
By Ollie Corfe
08:25, Thu, Sep 15, 2022 | UPDATED: 11:17, Thu, Sep 15, 2022
No mention of how much the USA and CIA spent meddling in other's politics?
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the idea that charles has a hard life is right up there with boris saying "he is a booster rocket for democracy in the uk" or truss presenting herself as "the stabilizer of our currency and economy". But hey, 18 million voters buy that kind of thing.
Prince William inherits £1,000,000,000 estate that draws in £23,000,000 a year
The new heir takes over the Duchy of Lancaster from his father, King Charles.
metro.co.uk
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You make the mistake of connecting true quality of life to wealth, the most miserable people I've met in my life have been the most wealthy.the idea that charles has a hard life is right up there with boris saying "he is a booster rocket for democracy in the uk" or truss presenting herself as "the stabilizer of our currency and economy". But hey, 18 million voters buy that kind of thing.
Prince William inherits £1,000,000,000 estate that draws in £23,000,000 a year
The new heir takes over the Duchy of Lancaster from his father, King Charles.
The life of our King or Queen is certainly not a hard one, but it's without doubt their duties and meeting large numbers of people they wouldn't choose to meet and who are usually acting awkwardly and unnaturally must be both tedious and irritating. Especially when they are expected to always be smiling and welcoming.
And what point is there to wealth when they cannot live the life of their own choice much of the time, or live where they want to most of the time. The Queen was well known to have hated Buckingham Palace and escaped to Sandringham whenever there was a several days gap in duties. The Queen Mother similarly escaped to her favourite Balmoral whenever she could when she was Queen and Charles chose to live far away at Highgrove House.
And Harry showed his true feelings by wanting to get the hell out of all of it and get even further way by leaving the country.
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Intrinsically I agree with you. We live in a narcissistic society in which apparent wealth, success and happiness can become an expensive facade, gilded cage as you describe. Charles (and the royal family) could reduce their role, sell of the royal assets (God knows we need the money) and go and re-educate themselves to do something meaningful). But they choose not to, and it costs taxpayers much more than several regional hospitals.
Idiosyncratic I know, but I bumped into this thread about using solar to charge an ev etc
Advice and Gen 1 24kw vs 30kw
So me again, different forum, same questions. I have solar and I'm exporting a lot of it into the grid, at quite rubbish rates currently, even though I'm on Agile Outgoing I'm sturggling to average 15p/unit. I've considered a Zoe, a first gen ioniq and now I'm looking into Gen 1 Leaf's. I've...
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Actually they can't reduce their role or sell off their wealth, since they are servants of the State, controlled like puppets by "The Palace", the administrative body which controls their lives and sets their entire year's diary a year in advance.
The reason for that is quite simple, the Royals are employees of the UK tourist industry which directly earns some £25 billions per annum plus more than twice that in incidental tourist spending. That's why they can't walk away with the money.
Even if the immediate family ganged up and walked away empty handed, they'd be replaced by the next in line. Either that or foreign nobility would be imported to do the job as has been done before many times.
And they are mentally unable to walk away, having been so thoroughly brainwashed into the role in their upbringing that they are incapable of deciding different.
Harry was lucky. Not being in line for the throne and escaping to the army at a young enough age to experience a different normality, he was able to escape the planned destiny, albeit with very obvious mental distress at times.
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I always feel sceptical about investing money to save money.. Perhaps I, m a cynic at heart but after investing in cars, chargers, electricians, solar systems, heat pumps and batteries I think I, d rather be wasting my money on things I know I enjoy. Bikes, windsurfing, boats and the likes.Idiosyncratic I know, but I bumped into this thread about using solar to charge an ev etc
Advice and Gen 1 24kw vs 30kw
So me again, different forum, same questions. I have solar and I'm exporting a lot of it into the grid, at quite rubbish rates currently, even though I'm on Agile Outgoing I'm sturggling to average 15p/unit. I've considered a Zoe, a first gen ioniq and now I'm looking into Gen 1 Leaf's. I've...
As George Best said," I spent millions on wine, women and song and I wasted the rest"..
Investing in heat pump (or Ripple) is my current study, suspect investing in some more water ski kit will win. The heat pump might (or might not) save me a few quid. I know watching grandkids behind boat wasting money will make some good. memories.???
I don't think many investments give good value for money at moment. Waste it Jonathan. You, ll enjoy it loads more.!??
£1 per kWh!!!
EV charging cost hits record £1 per kWh milestone as energy price crisis hits sector
It is the latest sign of the pressure EV chargepoint operators are under amid the energy price crisis
inews.co.uk
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Largely agree and should probably keep any other thoughts about monarchy to myself (gather a chipshop owner in Scotland was violently expelled from her village for celebrating Elizabeth's passing, were a nation of blind conformists as the Westminster system shows)
A strange déjà vu/premonition - remember when Pope John Paul I was elected then died 33 days later?
I don't think we could take it if CIIIR did that.
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