The point about the Dutch Sandwich is that an amazing array of companies and artist manage to export their earnings to a tax haven with almost any taxation at all.

Rumours has it that U2's 2011 world tour had a turnover of 750 million dollar and a profit of 150 million dollar, which shipped to Bermuda taxed at 0.25%. Thanks to a special deal with one Gerrit Zalm.

Sales tax eats away at the income of the record shop, the wholesale supplier and the CD factory. But the income of the record company and the (BIG) artist goes almost completely untaxed. Likewise, a big party of your Billy's price is intellectual property licensing ending up in other tax havens.

With regards to Ikea: The Delft store, sized 30.000m^2, shares it next to bottom-place with equal sized stores in Hengelo and Zwolle. Only the store in Amersfoort is smaller, with 29.000m^2. The nine other Dutch stores are larger. The store in Utrecht seems to be the fourth largest in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

Ikea's world headquarters are (legally) on top of a smaller Ikea store somewhere in Delft, the Netherlands.

http://franchisor.inter-ikea.c... (down at the bottom..)

Carrying a thousand packages each.

Now imagine not thousands of cars and trucks on the road but literally millions of drones buzzing around, each with a single package.

Imagine the sound, the inevitable crashes, the energy consumption. (I'm lousy at math and making unsound assumptions but the figure I got was ten thousand times more energy to deliver a pound a mile away.. Keep in mind that the price of energy rises, and rises, and rises..)

Top Tip: In Finland the police isn't depending on 'revenue'. Policing Finland as a preset, defined budget. Any fines levied are a surplus to the states income, and police forces do not benefit in any way from their law enforcing activities. Finnish police has to account for security, safety and crimes solved, not for income from speeding tickets.

'All about the new Apple watch in 0:90'

What? 1:30 of advertising? command-W and FO.

As soon as it launches Blendtec will answer the question: Will It Blend?

Because I moved all my stuff from dropbox to mega, a few minutes ago.

You should come here more often.

Tell me, how much can you make with an unauthorised 1:1 copy of Saint Pauls Cathedral or Buckingham Palace?

Do you have room for either one in your garden?

Keyboard, trackpad, storage, battery life. (2.5 hours, versus 12 for the MBA? You kiddin' me?)

By the time this filtered through your TELEX British police already admitted they assume they have the wrong guy:

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/gr...

I still have this fax-to-email service running. For about 25 doctors and lawyers and one banker.

Most of them still use my complimentary email-with-pdf-to-printer-program.

Old technologies emulated by modern equipment.

Drop in a LED (or worse: 'realy sheep shinese HID') and have your car impounded because you used replacement parts that weren't part of the original certificate of road-worthiness, and hence you made your car not roadworthy and thus illegal to drive in. Since you were driving at the time the fine officer stopped you...

(that cool headlight set will cost you several thousand dollars and a six months not having access to your car..)

I wasn't taught anything. I started to disassemble things early on. That was satisfying for about a year. Then I started trying to reassemble what I disassembled. Often things that were broken started working after me reassembling things and replacing broken parts.

When I was 8 my aunt gave me a broken radio. I discovered disco and a few years later punk and electronika. When I was 10 a neighbour gave me a broken TV, and a few weeks later a broken shortwave receiver. I was watching SSTV from half a world away a few months later.

I can't repair my current computer, phone, tablet, tv, etc. I can order the right part and swap that, but swapping sub-assemblies isn't 'repairing'.

Fixing shit is in my competence-envelope but current technology is mostly unfixable, unless you have unlimited facilities available.

Oh, I'm under-fifty.

Because their lacklustre IPv6 GeoIP promises me programs I can't watch for about a year now.

About time, lazy morons!