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[Gwadien]

You can offset your tax liabilities from losses in previous years; this is extremely common and lots and lots of British businesses do it; quite a few companies will buy a loss making business just to get the tax benefit of their losses. No moral outrage required, go about your business.

So do they sink the loss making business after the tax benefit or do they have to do something with it?

IE can you just go around buying up loss making businesses purely to avoid tax, or is there some positives out of it?

 

[DaGaffer]

So do they sink the loss making business after the tax benefit or do they have to do something with it?

IE can you just go around buying up loss making businesses purely to avoid tax, or is there some positives out of it?

You have to use the asset but that's pretty easy. For instance the online division of GAME became Gameplay ltd. for several years while they wrote down the tax offset (which was enormous, Gameplay had a LOT of losses); they kept Gameplay going on a shoestring in parallel with the main GAME site, but all the tax benefit went to GAME.

 

[Bodhi]

She added that there was "a kind of moral issue there" for the banks, although she acknowledged that bank staff do pay large amounts of UK income tax.

So with that in mind, I don't really get the problem?

 

[Edmond]

You have to use the asset but that's pretty easy. For instance the online division of GAME became Gameplay ltd. for several years while they wrote down the tax offset (which was enormous, Gameplay had a LOT of losses); they kept Gameplay going on a shoestring in parallel with the main GAME site, but all the tax benefit went to GAME.

GAME are in the shit again too, it was on the radio this morning

 

[soze]

Cycle mentalists I have just been watching some videos of bike crashes in London and in some of them the bikes are totally fucked. Where do you stand with damage done to a your bike if a car fucks it up? Can you claim on their insurance or do you have to get your own?

 

[Moriath]

Cycle mentalists I have just been watching some videos of bike crashes in London and in some of them the bikes are totally fucked. Where do you stand with damage done to a your bike if a car fucks it up? Can you claim on their insurance or do you have to get your own?

You should be able to claim on the car drivers insurance.

One of the bug bears is that you dont have to have insurance as a cyclist so if you cause damage to a car then there is no one to get the money back from unless u sue the cyclist.

 

[old.user4556]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx0Lpjm5xcE

 

[Ormorof]

You should be able to claim on the car drivers insurance.

One of the bug bears is that you dont have to have insurance as a cyclist so if you cause damage to a car then there is no one to get the money back from unless u sue the cyclist.

I saw someone had disagreed with this and figured "that sounds reasonable to me who would disagree with that"

Then i realised it was my fat fingers while scrolling

 

[fettoken]

Bought myself a new christmasgift:

By some fluke, they were 45% off just now in ONE online-store. Ti's a pair of Kef X300A. Instead of forking out 750 quid, managed to snag em for 400

 

[Ormorof]

I thought you had bought two washing machines for a second

 

[Edmond]

I thought they were fancy lemon/orange squeezers?

 

[fettoken]

I thought you had bought two washing machines for a second

Might as well be, weighs in at 33 1/2 lb=15 kg for two 'desktop' speakers.

 

[old.user4556]

I'm a huge fan KEF speakers, got two sets.

 

[Bodhi]

Mission ftw!

 

[Moriath]

Yay got my contract through for my new job today. Gave my current employers a xmas pressie of my resignation.

Woot.

 

[Aoami]

 

[Tom]

Kef always sounded a bit flat to me. I had a pair of Rogers LS2a's for years, they were great little units. Now I have a pair of Musical Fidelity speakers that are quite rare. I've always fancied some Quad ESL63's but I don't really have the space.

 

[Job]

I have a golden rule for speaker purchase...just buy the biggest ones you can afford...I've got a huge pair of Goodmans..yes they made goodstuff once.

 

[georgie]

I got it, I got it, nearly there, just hang on...

Spoiler

Awww. Shit.

 

[Lamp]

 

[Shagrat]

nice @Lamp love that top picture

 

[Moriath]

Thermos of tea at -25 or something.

 

[caLLous]

 

[Bodhi]

Kef always sounded a bit flat to me. I had a pair of Rogers LS2a's for years, they were great little units. Now I have a pair of Musical Fidelity speakers that are quite rare. I've always fancied some Quad ESL63's but I don't really have the space.

Dunno if you remember when Rogers did the db101, then Rogers went bust and they sold those 400 quid speakers for 120 in Richer Sounds? Still got a pair going

 

[soze]

All you Audiophiles do your neighbours hate you or can you guys tell the difference between speakers even at a low volume? I sometimes think I am lucky that TV speakers and cheapish audio equipment sounds fine to me when I see the price of some of this stuff.

 

[fettoken]

I'd say, with the right speaker setup, you get more sound out of less volume, so to speak. So you don't have to turn way up to actually get an idea what they are saying on tv if there are no subtitles. Porn excluded. I wish i could go back to being satisfied listening to sound coming from the inside of a tin-can though!

 

[Tom]

All you Audiophiles do your neighbours hate you or can you guys tell the difference between speakers even at a low volume? I sometimes think I am lucky that TV speakers and cheapish audio equipment sounds fine to me when I see the price of some of this stuff.

You can certainly distinguish between different speakers, they're probably the easiest hifi component to differentiate. My ears aren't what they were though and I have constant tinnitus (never listened to loud music) so I don't really follow hifi these days.

 

[Tom]

I'd say, with the right speaker setup, you get more sound out of less volume, so to speak. So you don't have to turn way up to actually get an idea what they are saying on tv if there are no subtitles. Porn excluded. I wish i could go back to being satisfied listening to sound coming from the inside of a tin-can though!

It's called sensitivity and is measured in dB out at 1W at 1 metre distance. It's why people who go on about their "Technics 300W amp" are idiots. A speaker outputting 90dB for 1W in will be at 93dB for 2W (3dB is a doubling of spl), 96dB for 4W, 99dB for 8W, 102dB for 16W, 105dB for 32W, and so on. Most people will never listen above 100dB, so really most people need only about 15W at the most. Obviously though you want an amplifier that can output slightly more than 15W; in just the same way you don't redline a car engine all the time, you also don't want to run your amplifier at full volume all the time, because oddly enough that can damage your speakers, even if they're capable of much more than 15W.

 

[Job]

Woot, theres a dvd screenr of the new Peanuts movie on torrent...watching it now for christmas day...happy

 

[Moriath]

Never could stand peanuts