Hey Angelo, What is this ‘class action suit’ of which you speak? I’m in Belgium, you’re in Germany/Thailand, and I thought class action suits are a US thing.
As I remember, the EU was complaining about non-use of EU-standard USB Micro-B charging ports in its (laudable) efforts to decrease e-waste. This connector is a poor choice for charging since forcing it in reversed often breaks the thin central connector on the device mounted female socket. Then, even when you later plug in correctly, the central connector is bent over, and no longer enters the socket in the center of the male MicroUSB-B plug at the end of the cable.
The Lightning connector is much more physically robust, and works just as well flipped over. the device female socket conductors surround the central, solid male plug.
The Apple standard cables are too fragile. Third-party braided cables are available with better quality.
I think I saw a spark once or twice. On some long-used cables, I can see oxidation on the second or third from the right conductor of the plug. This may be evidence of a grounding issue as suggested by a poster above.

I googled the question, and found this thread: https://www.dpreview.com/forum...

Bill_Turner Veteran Member Posts: 7,532
Re: What is relation between ISO and ASA -- found an old light meter
In reply to elbows2 Nov 5, 2006
John,
ASA is, in fact, ISO. Names have been changes to protect the innocent!

Seriously, ISO values relate directly to ASA values. Many of us "old users" still refer to ISO as "ASA."

After checking all the comments, I didn't see anyone pointing out what seemed very obvious to me when I read the summary: all the countries, USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, are offshoots of the old British empire, and all speak English only (well, Canada does have some francophones). It's like a club of like-minded countries, with the same base culture and language.

There's an interesting article on the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06... which contends that moral judgements depend on what language we're speaking. Within this 5-country native English language club, the emotional strength of their own shared language totally overrides any moral qualms they might have for spying on those foreigners speaking strange languages in primitive countries.

Well, what about a tax (around 0.5%) on every transaction through the banking system? Technically, it would be no different than the usual calculations of changes and fees that banks apply to all their transactions, and would use existing infrastructure. This would eliminate the need for personal income tax. Humans would no longer be taxed on their income.

In my opinion, governments could raise additional tax revenue from excise taxes and duties, corporate taxes, etc. while using the choice and levels of taxation to implement socially desirable behaviour.

I came across this site http://www.apttax.com/ which has an American-centric analysis of the idea.

I'd go a step farther, from my viewpoint in Brussels, and point out that this could be implemented across the countries of the Euro zone. All internal Euro transactions as well as all transactions with the outside would be subject to the APT tax. This would finally make it possible for society - human beings - to drink from the firehouse of human economic activity, by providing a way of skimming a small percentage of the total volume of transactions of the entire economy. It's the ultimate progressive tax: the more money you channel through the system, the greater your contribution to the revenue pool.

But the big behavioural win would be the elimination of having to choose between working "in black" or in the official economy. The current system, with personal income taxes, is the ultimate disincentive - if you're hard-working, the more you work, the more taxes you pay. Or you cheat. Look at the worst-off European economies, like Greece, where corruption is endemic. Once personal income taxes are eliminated, you can do whatever level of work you want to pay for your chosen lifestyle. Rich people certainly don't lose out either - but they can't bribe their way out of paying their share by the simple volume of their transactions.

What do you think?

And what is the problem to network Mac OSX? I haven't yet had the pleasure of yet trying Microsoft's latest and greatest, but I've been networking Macs with Linux servers since Mac OSX public beta, using NFS, SMB, and netatalk, and I haven't found it to be particularly hard. Even now, with Snow Leopard, and the previous netatalk version, I've had no problems at all.

However, I've never tried to integrate Macs into Active Directory, and that could well be a problem.

What kind of issues have you had with Mac OSX? Did they involve Active Directory? What have been your problems with Win7?

In most European countries, they call it "fuel consumption" in their native language, and calculate it as the number of liters of fuel consumed per 100 km driven. Automobile advertising includes CO2 emissions in grams CO2/100km as well as fuel consumption in liters[petrol|diesel|ethanol|LPG]/100km.

I've just wasted my time trying to figure out how to convert between miles/gallons and litres/100km. This should be pretty straightforward, but my basic algebra is so rusty from disuse... Can the guy refreshing his math post how to do the conversion?