At the border you pay tariffs on all the costs up to that point, because they are all considered to be part of the value of the shipment as it crosses the border. So the price of good, plus the price of packaging (as far as it was packaged in China), plus the price of the freight shipping are tariffed together, which makes the result of the calculation a little worse, but fundamentally you’re right.

“The extraordinary thing is that lie detector tests are being threatened not to uncover potential anti-President Trump civil servants but to catch political appointees suspected of leaking classified or sensitive information,” a source in defense told the paper.

Sorry what? How is that extraordinary? The opposite, which seems like the sources preferred suggestion, seems way worse?! Loyalty tests are not justified by anything, leaking classified information could at least be a crime providing some justification.

By the way, only some concentrations camps in Nazi Germany were exterminations camps. So even without any mass murder this can easily be regarded as equivalent in function to a concentration camp.

I tried reading the original opinion piece by John Ullyot, and god damn what a sad lackey. It was hard to read.

If anyone really cares, that’s because Pope Francis was from the Jesuit Order. The first pope to be one. They swear poverty among other things, so the golden chair wouldn’t look appropriate.

he and his wife are Lebanese

The article only says that Bachir Atallah was originally from Lebanon, his wife, only referred to as Jessica, might not be.

Not that I disagree with the fundamental notion, I just noticed that it was never said where she was from.

I mean 26 separate sets of law regarding what is taxed and how highly in each of the 26 cantons. Not one law with 26 paragraphs.

Here in Switzerland, tax law is different per canton. So for our ~9 million people we have 26 tax laws! We pay taxes on three levels, communal, cantonal and federal taxes. And who collects which part depends on your canton. In mine the commune collects the communal and the cantonal part, and the canton collects the federal part. Yeah… it makes no sense to me either.

Though regarding the filing that part is not so bad;you only make one tax declaration from which the taxes on all three levels are calculated. And as far as I’m aware each canton offers a free software application for filing. The filings are a little complicated compared to some European neighbours from what I hear. For instance we aren’t source taxed directly out of our pay-checks, so we have to list our earnings and possessions manually and list various deductions.

Still, from what I gather we have it a little better than the US Americans

You’re not alone in this:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/usb-tethering-stopped-working-after-f42-update/148809

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-42-tethering-from-my-phone-stopped-working-after-upgrade-device-recognized-as-wwan/148927

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220002

https://lore.kernel.org/all/e0df2d85-1296-4317-b717-bd757e3ab928@heusel.eu/

When Debian upgrades to this kernel version you might run into the issue again. Unless there is a fix deployed before then.

I wanted a mainstream option but not Ubuntu, and one that was preferably offered with KDE Plasma pre-packaged.

So I ended up deciding between Debian and Fedora, and what tipped me to Fedora was thinking: Well SELinux sounds neat, quite close to what I learned about Mandatory Access Control in the lectures, and besides, maybe it will be useful in my work knowing one that is close to RHEL.

Now I work in a network team that has been using Debian for 30 years, lol. Kind of ironic, but I don’t regret it, now I just know both.

And fighting SELinux was kind of fun too. I modified my local policies so that systemd can run screen because I wanted to create a Minecraft service to which I could connect as admin, even if it was started by systemd.

2. Ah that makes sense then. I was confused why you would wipe your ESP over and over when it was shared.

I don’t know why it comes off as hostile, it wasn’t intended that way. Sorry for not expressing it better!

If the last sentence came across badly, that was more meant to be incredulous that people accept all these workaround instead. There are other comments in here that go to ridiculous lengths to enforce separation, like using the UEFI boot menu to select a disk manually. To me even having two ESPs seems overly cautious, and against the design philosophy. Sharing one ESP is really not an issue (at least as long as you know you’re doing it, as you unfortunately found out the hard way).

No he could not pay an extra fee, they just told him no. And different banks also declined. He was just holding onto an account he had for a while already from a bank that somehow never asked him about being a US Person, even though all banks usually do these days.

The he started working for a bank and they did give him an account, because they only want to pay wages onto an account in their own system. But that bank is now getting merged into one who didn’t want to give him an account, and he’s likely losing his job when the merger finishes, so we’ll see what happens to that account then.

Well, yes, because you’re still changing direction and have to indicate this. Our street traffic laws in Switzerland do not make exceptions for turn lanes.

First of all: You don’t have to reinstall Windows to get it’s bootmgr EFI and supporting files back into the ESP. Installing those from the CLI in from a booted install media is possible, I did it before. You can even install all of Windows manually if you ever need to, it’s just annoying to do with the windows command line tools.

Secondly: I’m not familiar with all distro installers, but surely you can just not format the ESP? Worst case scenario you’d have to use manual disk formatting I guess, but it’s not that difficult.

Thirdly: You said Grub doesn’t show the disk. If you mean the Grub command interface didn’t show the disk, then the issue is deeper, at a UEFI or hardware level. If you mean there are no boot entries for a Windows install to be selected, then it could be that they were not generated because the Windows bootmgr EFI was not found when Grub got installed. Sometimes just booting back into Linux and running os-prober again might be enough, if the Windows bootmgr EFI is still around. On my distro the os-proper is automatically run when I run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

I’ve always used a shared ESP for my dual boot systems and I certainly don’t reinstall one OS as the result of a change with the other.

Well they didn’t want my friend because he wasn’t worth the trouble. But apparently rich Americans are opening accounts here without significant issues. So I’m seeing a clear difference based around the amount of assets someone has.

My friend has dual citizenship (Switzerland & USA) because his mom is from the USA, but he has always lived in Switzerland. One of his bank accounts got closed when they found out he wasn’t just Swiss, but had US American citizenship too. I guess this is another case of things that only work if you’re rich.

He’s getting so annoyed with the USA’s tax overreach. He can’t get banking easily, can’t do the standard retirement savings, because they usually invest in bonds and using “foreign” bonds from the perspective of the USA’s IRS would cost him extra and he has to file taxes. Apparently even getting rid of US American citizenship is expensive and slow, and they don’t offer the “Service” in the embassy in Switzerland, he’d have to go to Paris.

earth has been segragated into 10 foot x 10 foot squares

I think you’re inadvertently advertising a cylindrical model of the earth 😁

Since you mention states and the site mentions federal taxes and the IRS, I assume this is for the tax system of the USA, it’s funny that it isn’t stated anywhere though.

Well I’m curious to find out what discovery will show.

This is a month old. That’s not news anymore.

There is also a preliminary injuction against that shut down, from District Judge J. Paul Oetken on the 28th of March.

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