Program testing can be used very effectively to detect the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
-- E. G. Dijkstra (original emphasis)
as quoted in The Dawn of Software Engineering: from Turing to Dijkstra.
I live in Belgium, and I am required to pay the tax for the radio...
Move to the North.
It is basically the same everywhere, let's steal money from people
Right, the motto is: if it moves, tax it. Oh, and did you think about declaring private use of that company laptop in your tax form? That's another ~$100 please... more if it comes with internet access.
Where all the tax money goes? As an illustration: the Parti Socialiste, very powerful in the South, has just decided in the face of evidence that Mr. Daerden is too corrupt to be mayor of a small town... but he can stay as a minister of federal government. Maybe they don't have anyone less corrupt to succeed him. Maybe Happart. Oh, wait...
Large radio stations currently have to pay 2.968% of gross income up to 1.46 euro per head of the population in their broadcast area. Income over that is "taxed" at 1.59%. That tariff includes only FM radio. Anything else, e.g. online streaming, is extra. The rules for small radio stations are somewhat more complicated -- available in Dutch here: http://www.sabam.be/website/data/tariffs/Tarief_webradio.pdf
There is no US port in the worldwide top-five by any measure. By the 2006 numbers, there isn't even one in the top-ten gross tonnage anymore.
"May your future be limited only by your dreams." -- Christa McAuliffe
