they probably added a special exception for paper books at some point for one reason or another that didn't carry over.
just a guess though.
(here in NZ, GST, which is roughly equivalent, applies to Everything, with the exception of personal imports under a certain value. (the reason being that the Businesses collect the tax and pay the difference between the GST they charge and the GST they pay other businesses. foreign businesses are, understandably, not expected to do this, but for big stuff you have to pay it yourself Anyway.) this results in listed prices being, in the usual course of events, Including GST, not plus GST. right up until you go to buy furniture or aeroplane tickets. (the former costs so much that it looks Massively cheaper without the tax, and the latter... let's just say the airlines have got in trouble more than once due to their highly dubious advertising practices reguarding what you Actually end up paying once they charge their many and various different fees and surcharges and deposits and levies and who knows what... all of which are pretty much standard and thus SHOULD, by rights, be part of the base ticket price...)
after all, the vast majority of commonwealth nations will have a King when the current Queen dies. (some of them are republics. not many though. and i Think there's one or two that have their own monarchies that attached themselves to the commonwealth/empire as a better alternative to being snapped up by the US or various other empires.) this includes Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa unless i missed something, the UK, and a number of small island nations who's names escape me at the moment.
there's a few non-commonwealth (i think) pacific island nations that still have active monarchies too.
and that's jut the places i remember off the top of my head.
i assume your XXI meant 21st century?
(it still amuses me that, with the commonwealth, while everyone knew and accepted who would be the next head of it (obviously the next monarch of the vast majority of it's member states) there was some confusion as to Why. succession had never come up before and no one had got around to Bringing it up to make a rule for how it was decided, so there was some confusion as to whether it would be by vote amongst the member states (the ruler of the vast majority of them would win by default) or if the position was hereditary. not actually sure how (if?) that was resolved, to be honest.)
technically, in the UK, the title is not 'Queen of England' but:
"Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of Her other Realms and Territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith"
the title is 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' not 'England'. the status of england and Scotland as Countries or whatever is a bit weird, but they're not separate Kingdoms anymore, as i understand it. (wales was annexed by england before the act of union. it's a principality rather than a kingdom and not independent, to my understanding.)
that said, the Queen's titles in NZ run thusly: "Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith"
though according to Wikipedia, 'and Her other Realms and Territories' can be replaced with a full list of them, excluding the one already named at the beginning, in order they became dominions (starting with the UK) for those that did, then of those that did not, the order i which they became independent countries rather than colonies...
and that's only counting her titles as 'head of state'... then there's all the fun lower ranking ones... various orders and military units ... (i vaguely recall something about having the rank of admiral in a landlocked US state...)
I'm wondering how long it'll take for the entire case to fall through.
and after that, how long it'll take the US to just go with the 'covert ops' team to grab Dotcom Anyway.
... and whether they'll get busted the same way the French agents who blew up the Rainbow Warrior did... even if the enforcement of the sentence was then bungled.
(it's unlikely, because that was something of a fluke, but it was a pretty epic fluke. Random Citizens ftw!)
i have a sneaking suspicion (not that i'm a lawyer or anything) that such tricks would get their case thrown out, or at least significant parts of it rendered inadmissible...
(well, maybe not an appeal, but who knows how far that would actually get?)
fun fact: a New Zealand company (or private entity of some sort at least) was working on a similar sort of project.
they kept running into brick walls trying to get parts due to US regulations about the parts they were after being 'strategic resources' or some such.
their response was to make their own.
what they made was, in many cases, so good, that the suppliers they were not permitted to buy from switched to buying from Them and using Their parts.
they also did some fun stuff with eco-friendly fuel.
from memory, the main problem with their setup was that their first major launch (which was on tv and everything)... the capsule with the test results (and a couple of science experiments or something) was lost at sea. it apparently came down properly and everything but sank or something before they could retrieve it.
though, with the constant budget cuts and reorganizations in the name of 'efficiency' rather than getting things done Properly, i wouldn't be surprised to see that change...
(seriously: when all costs are affordable and the outcome is superior, the less efficient way is better. one boosts efficiency to save on raw materials or increase output without lowering quality. if you're lowering quality in the name of efficiency as if efficiency were some perfect goal, you're doing it wrong.
many governments and businesses need to learn this.)
amusingly, here abouts, at one point government work, at least when it came to construction, was somewhat famous for the exact opposite, causing many complaints about things being over budget or whatever.
'over engineering' they called it.
funny how one such over-engineered building was pretty much the least damaged brick structure in several major earthquakes...
(it was a railway station. built to deal with the vibrations of the trains coming and going and such like. they went a bit nuts with the structural integrity, to the point where, from memory, the sum total damage was a few bricks coming loose from the top of the clock tower. compared to a lot of other stone and brick buildings outright Collapsing, that's pretty impressive.)
about the only area where government work is Known for being sloppy here-abouts is budgets and when ideology or greed gets in the way of facts when it comes to law making.
cutting corners and such Is a lot more common in the private sector here. at least that you hear about. (and again, usually with construction.)
there are a lot of politicians who are very good at being politicians... too bad that's the process of Getting the job, not Doing it, when it comes to government.
heh. too bad This reality's British Library doesn't have a special operations division. this would end very differently, i think :D
(anime reference: R.O.D the TV. the British Library's Special Operations Division: think a bibliophilic version of the various RL intelligence agencies, with super powered agents, who also deal with various paranormal situations. and that's before they go rogue and try to take over the world.)
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just a guess though.
(here in NZ, GST, which is roughly equivalent, applies to Everything, with the exception of personal imports under a certain value. (the reason being that the Businesses collect the tax and pay the difference between the GST they charge and the GST they pay other businesses. foreign businesses are, understandably, not expected to do this, but for big stuff you have to pay it yourself Anyway.) this results in listed prices being, in the usual course of events, Including GST, not plus GST. right up until you go to buy furniture or aeroplane tickets. (the former costs so much that it looks Massively cheaper without the tax, and the latter... let's just say the airlines have got in trouble more than once due to their highly dubious advertising practices reguarding what you Actually end up paying once they charge their many and various different fees and surcharges and deposits and levies and who knows what... all of which are pretty much standard and thus SHOULD, by rights, be part of the base ticket price...)
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after all, the vast majority of commonwealth nations will have a King when the current Queen dies. (some of them are republics. not many though. and i Think there's one or two that have their own monarchies that attached themselves to the commonwealth/empire as a better alternative to being snapped up by the US or various other empires.) this includes Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa unless i missed something, the UK, and a number of small island nations who's names escape me at the moment.
there's a few non-commonwealth (i think) pacific island nations that still have active monarchies too.
and that's jut the places i remember off the top of my head.
i assume your XXI meant 21st century?
(it still amuses me that, with the commonwealth, while everyone knew and accepted who would be the next head of it (obviously the next monarch of the vast majority of it's member states) there was some confusion as to Why. succession had never come up before and no one had got around to Bringing it up to make a rule for how it was decided, so there was some confusion as to whether it would be by vote amongst the member states (the ruler of the vast majority of them would win by default) or if the position was hereditary. not actually sure how (if?) that was resolved, to be honest.)
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Re: The King and Queen
"Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of Her other Realms and Territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith"
the title is 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' not 'England'. the status of england and Scotland as Countries or whatever is a bit weird, but they're not separate Kingdoms anymore, as i understand it. (wales was annexed by england before the act of union. it's a principality rather than a kingdom and not independent, to my understanding.)
that said, the Queen's titles in NZ run thusly: "Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith"
though according to Wikipedia, 'and Her other Realms and Territories' can be replaced with a full list of them, excluding the one already named at the beginning, in order they became dominions (starting with the UK) for those that did, then of those that did not, the order i which they became independent countries rather than colonies...
and that's only counting her titles as 'head of state'... then there's all the fun lower ranking ones... various orders and military units ... (i vaguely recall something about having the rank of admiral in a landlocked US state...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_titles_and_honours_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II
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and after that, how long it'll take the US to just go with the 'covert ops' team to grab Dotcom Anyway.
... and whether they'll get busted the same way the French agents who blew up the Rainbow Warrior did... even if the enforcement of the sentence was then bungled.
(it's unlikely, because that was something of a fluke, but it was a pretty epic fluke. Random Citizens ftw!)
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i did not know that.
and it is both fitting and awesome.
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(well, maybe not an appeal, but who knows how far that would actually get?)
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there's reason US warships don't come here, for one :)
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issue solved.
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attach that line to an Eva wielding a to scale melee weapon (can't remember if it was Actually a hammer or a chain-axe) and bashing evil things.
'tis awesome.
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they kept running into brick walls trying to get parts due to US regulations about the parts they were after being 'strategic resources' or some such.
their response was to make their own.
what they made was, in many cases, so good, that the suppliers they were not permitted to buy from switched to buying from Them and using Their parts.
they also did some fun stuff with eco-friendly fuel.
from memory, the main problem with their setup was that their first major launch (which was on tv and everything)... the capsule with the test results (and a couple of science experiments or something) was lost at sea. it apparently came down properly and everything but sank or something before they could retrieve it.
all the spaceflight bits worked fine.
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though, with the constant budget cuts and reorganizations in the name of 'efficiency' rather than getting things done Properly, i wouldn't be surprised to see that change...
(seriously: when all costs are affordable and the outcome is superior, the less efficient way is better. one boosts efficiency to save on raw materials or increase output without lowering quality. if you're lowering quality in the name of efficiency as if efficiency were some perfect goal, you're doing it wrong.
many governments and businesses need to learn this.)
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'over engineering' they called it.
funny how one such over-engineered building was pretty much the least damaged brick structure in several major earthquakes...
(it was a railway station. built to deal with the vibrations of the trains coming and going and such like. they went a bit nuts with the structural integrity, to the point where, from memory, the sum total damage was a few bricks coming loose from the top of the clock tower. compared to a lot of other stone and brick buildings outright Collapsing, that's pretty impressive.)
about the only area where government work is Known for being sloppy here-abouts is budgets and when ideology or greed gets in the way of facts when it comes to law making.
cutting corners and such Is a lot more common in the private sector here. at least that you hear about. (and again, usually with construction.)
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the reality isn't quite so rosy...
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there are a lot of politicians who are very good at being politicians... too bad that's the process of Getting the job, not Doing it, when it comes to government.
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i know why anonymous posts are allowed here.
i know why there's no real ban system in place.
i actually agree with that whole chain of logic.
comment threads like this make me really wish i didn't
*sigh*
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the old 'claim your posts' thing is no longer about it seems?
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(anime reference: R.O.D the TV. the British Library's Special Operations Division: think a bibliophilic version of the various RL intelligence agencies, with super powered agents, who also deal with various paranormal situations. and that's before they go rogue and try to take over the world.)
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random blogs aren't.
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