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Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam

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Post by fennecbutt »

crtasm wrote: post #495
coldpie wrote: post #466

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The window tax features prominently in a visual novel video game (The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles), which also contains a bunch of wildly outlandish historical nonsense and characters like mad-scientist inventors, teleportation devices, and Sherlock Holmes types. I was blown away to learn the window tax was actually a real thing, not something silly just made up for the game.

Taxes were also part of the reason newspapers got so large: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadsheet#History

And also the reason that houses in Amsterdam are so narrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Netherlands#Arc...

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Post by fennecbutt »

petepete wrote: post #308
magicalhippo wrote: post #197

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Or when the makers of Jaffa Cakes baked a giant 12 inch version[1] and brought it to the court to argue they were cakes and not biscuits to get lower VAT. [1]: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/10/time-compan...

I wish supermarkets would put them on the cake aisle instead and keep the biscuit aisle pure.

Most UK bikkies are meh, though. I have to import ones from NZ here to survive.

Mallowpuffs are so much better than tea cakes. Squiggles, Tim tams, chit chats, sultana pasties, griffins macaroons, toffee pops, hundreds and thousands, mint slice.

Whereas here it's mostly shortbread or bourbons/custard creams.

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lazide wrote: post #507
dnh44 wrote: post #443

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Yes; former communist but not former soviet union. Old habits die hard I guess.

Not sure if we’re talking about the same situation, but the last time I was in Bulgaria, there was massive brain drain and a lot of, eh, ‘false nostalgia’ for a very different past. But tons of money coming in from the EU. I can imagine a lot of public quiet, private ‘angst’ about the kind of situation you’re describing. Wild guess - Romania? (If not Bulgaria)

Your guess is correct. However I've not personally witnessed any nostalgia for communism in Romania though.

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Post by fennecbutt »

alibarber wrote: post #20

I also discovered that I couldn't use my Canon SLR to record more than 30 minutes of video continuously. The problem however wasn't Canon, but that I lived in a region (EU) that would have imposed a customs tariff on cameras that could do that, but by keeping it under that, the camera would be classed as a 'stills' camera and so was therefore exempt. Admittedly this is different from the case in the article - but it…

The problem wasn't canon? Sounds like the problem was canon...trying to make more money.

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sampullman wrote: post #376
ted_bunny wrote: post #139

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And in some, it's a tourist attraction. Don't drink "White Elephant" in Vietnam unless you want to wake up blind and pissing blood, at least according to a friend!

I don't know exactly what "White Elephant" refers to, but I've had plenty of homemade liquor in Vietnam and am mostly fine.

Methyl alcohol. Bad shit. Not unique to VN, a lot of desperate people drink it.
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