More stuff we're all paying for...

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realityhack replied

15 July 2008, 13:12
Do you think we've taken this off-topic enough? Let's see what else we can geekify...
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realityhack replied

15 July 2008, 13:09
Originally posted by TheBigYinJames View Post

Agents would ask.... yes I know you have JPEG on your CV, but do you know anything about image compression?

Indeed - and on Friday lunchtimes you would go out and get completely rasterized.
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TheBigYinJames replied

15 July 2008, 13:08
Originally posted by realityhack View Post

Accountancy firms would be experts in using colour tables, interlacing and smoothing.

Agents would ask.... yes I know you have JPEG on your CV, but do you know anything about image compression?
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realityhack replied

15 July 2008, 13:06
And then there's AtW, who, while having fewer posts, doesn't know how to optimise a gif properly, so would owe £37,393.09.

Accountancy firms would be experts in using colour tables, interlacing and smoothing.
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realityhack replied

15 July 2008, 13:00
sas and zeity will have to watch out, as they would owe £19,306.35 and £32,194.02 respectively.
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TheBigYinJames replied

15 July 2008, 12:58
Originally posted by realityhack View Post

Hmm... tricky one, as it's possible for you to be paying up to £2.93 per post, and yet you haven't chosen to have an avatar - but you could. HMRC could well hold you liable for the potential value of all your posts at a total of £2411.39 and you'd have to prove you don't use avatars to avoid paying...

There are companies who will take your avatar, and keep it securely in an offshore holding facility. These have been untested in court, though.
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realityhack replied

15 July 2008, 12:56
Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post

Am I a gif tax evader or avoider since I browse the forum with avatars off?

Or will you pay tax at source?

Hmm... tricky one, as it's possible for you to be paying up to £2.93 per post, and yet you haven't chosen to have an avatar - but you could. HMRC could well hold you liable for the potential value of all your posts at a total of £2411.39 and you'd have to prove you don't use avatars to avoid paying...
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Peoplesoft bloke replied

15 July 2008, 12:51
Originally posted by realityhack View Post

You'd owe him £1.02 per post then.
I'd have to fork out 31p per post.

Meaning: £762.96 and £1080.97 respectively!

Am I a gif tax evader or avoider since I browse the forum with avatars off?

Or will you pay tax at source?
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TheBigYinJames replied

15 July 2008, 12:38
Originally posted by realityhack View Post

You'd owe him £1.02 per post then.

Yeh I'm going to change that. Animated graphics lose their novelty after a few seconds. I need a decent picture of Tony Harrison.
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realityhack replied

15 July 2008, 12:36
Originally posted by TheBigYinJames View Post

What have I started!

I think GB should introduce a GIF tax. 10p per K on homepage graphics.

You'd owe him £1.02 per post then.
I'd have to fork out 31p per post.

Meaning: £762.96 and £1080.97 respectively!
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TheBigYinJames replied

15 July 2008, 12:34
Originally posted by realityhack View Post

Hmm... needlessly large (14KB) gif here:
Nah... just nitpicking...

What have I started!

I think GB should introduce a GIF tax. 10p per K on homepage graphics.
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realityhack replied

15 July 2008, 12:32
Originally posted by Lockhouse View Post

5% of all tax credits are in error or fraudulent. And that's just the target they want to get to by 2011!

Here

Hmm... needlessly large (14KB) gif here: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...baby_promo.jpg

Nah... just nitpicking...
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sasguru replied

15 July 2008, 12:19
Don't be silly. Adminsitering the complex tax-credits scheme provides lots of people with a living. Simplifying it by raising the tax threshold would pointlessly shed jobs.
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Lockhouse started a topic More stuff we're all paying for...

15 July 2008, 12:10
More stuff we're all paying for...

5% of all tax credits are in error or fraudulent. And that's just the target they want to get to by 2011!

Here
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