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- Anyone can re/claim any symbol - No other symbols have been banned
You may not like or agree with it, but symbols do have owners and they do matter. Look at today's news around the USA football team and the Iranian flag today for an example.
You set up an umbrella company with yourself as a shareholder
You pay yourself minimum wage, thus paying little income tax and national insurance
You then pay yourself and any other shareholders a dividend based on profits but this is taxed at a much lower rate than employee income and without national insurance
Advanced players set up their umbrella company in another country where the company taxes are even lower
Contrast with Google or a specialist electronic service
With Uber you don't pay the driver directly. The price is set by a third party and so is the recommended route. Tricky to swindle the rate, route or tips. In areas where drivers have to be licensed, that is enforced so passenger and driver identity has some verification
"Some 74 per cent of the 114,000 convictions for licence fee dodging in 2019 were for women" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/decriminalis...
TV licence prosecutions are more than 1 in 10 UK court cases https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10256679/...
So hundreds of thousands of people a year are being criminally prosecuted and convicted in service of this funding model, at the tax payer's expense.
We wouldn't stand for this for any other media organisation because it's fundamentally wrong. No amount of PR puff about the BBC changes that.
If your answer is that 'it's just part of the story'. Well that's precisely the complaint.
Circumference Radius Tangent
In that context, but 'CRT is banned'
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/android-12-the-ars-t...
Private Compute Core—Running AI code in a virtual machine?
Is not targeting median consumer grade laptops
At my org the PO's had to upgrade from MacBook air to MacBook Pro in order to be able to screenshare Jira via Ms Teams with slack and outlook open
Yeah, you missed the part where I'm zoning out on reddit and checking my phone during the boring bits of video calls, didn't you? The real world isn't imaginary and I don't want my entire reality susbsumed in my employer's walled garden. Also f*k packing everything in a bag. I work from home 99% of the time. The other 1% external monitors are provided but I'm not doing any proper workstation-based work.