Tritium is not a neutron emitter. It emits electrons, and even those at energies much lower than most other forms of radioactivity. They do not transmute elements, and don't even have much momentum. They have negligible penetrating power and tritium's decay product is even chemically inert.
Okay, sir, since I can't accomodate you, I'll cancel your service right now. Hang on a moment and I'll get your confirmation number.
If only! Half the times I've had to complain to a company it has been because I already cancelled, but they mysteriously "forgot" and kept billing me.
Australia's government-provided student loans are repaid through the tax system. They only need to be repaid once your income goes over a certain threshold, and there is no real interest rate - it is merely indexed with inflation so that you repay the same amount in real terms. It is also discharged upon death.
Some typical figures: if your taxable income for this year is $38,000 or less, you do not need to pay anything this year. The maximum rate you might need to repay is 8% of your taxable income (if you earn more than $71,000). Compulsory payments can be deferred under circumstances of financial hardship.
There is also Youth Allowance, a government payment of up to $10k/yr (depending upon parental income) for living expenses while studying or other activities likely to increase employability. This does not require repayment.
Taxes are paid on profits, not revenues. Evading taxes allows them more profit (which goes directly and indirectly to investors), but does not affect their costs.
If their prices (and hence revenues) are low enough that they would fold if they had to pay tax, then they are not making a profit and would not have had to pay company tax anyway!
You seem to have missed my entire point. Corporations do not pay taxes, at all!
Correct: it is the investors in the company who pay the company taxes, by slowing of share price increases and reduced dividends. So yes, as I do have some investments, I am arguing for higher taxes on myself. But not by the mechanism you describe.
And guess who winds up paying for the taxes companies pay? Yep, the people that buy the products
No, company taxes are paid on profits, not revenue. Those profits generally affect share prices and dividends, both of which benefit investors. So it is a tax primarily on those who invest in companies, not on those who merely buy from them.
One fact missing from the above that might be fairly pertinent, is that Three Rings currently derives most of their income from in-game items bought with real cash.
For example, their Puzzle Pirates game used to be straight subscription only. Then they opened up new servers based on tradable micropayment tokens instead, and it took off like a rocket. Not just in number of players, but also in revenue - apparently without greatly increasing overheads.
That isn't true RMT, but fills the same demand. I think if game developers go the way of creating true RMT markets, they're abdicating any moral position they might have had on keeping real cash out of the game, but also missing out on any of the potential benefits of abandoning that position. So I think it's a pretty dumb idea.
I can imagine that a heavy Photoshop user would want every bit of RAM he can get too. The Word-wielding-office-worker? I don't think so.
Given the tendency of Word-wielding-office-workers to put dozens of pictures straight from their 10 megapixel digital cameras into documents without trimming or downsampling, you better believe that they'll eat up tons of RAM rather quickly. Then they'll leave them open all day while they just open up a new Word document for each new thing they work on.
Thrashing is just virtual crashing.
