The right wing party (actually a coalition of 2 right wing "mainstream" parties) was the most voted party but fell way short of a majority (they control 102 seats out of 230) and failed to get parliamentary support.

As I'm sure you know, VAT is paid by the customer and you're simply collecting it, it's never your money to begin with. And if you are selling to businesses, they can rebate all or part of it.

Tell that to my customers in EU who see 23% higher prices than nonEU, doing vat calculations and returns also adds time to my already busy workload.

It is also misleading and annoys customers when you show prices exVAT, it is you who gets blamed for this tax not the government or EU

Most of the competition who are outside of the EU dont have to worry about this VAT shit and can have lower prices hence shown to endusers

Regarding Turkey negotiations, I guess you know why.

Human rights issues ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Turkey ), Cyprus, death penalty.

The cynic in me sometimes wonders if this argument is used as a red herring, and that there are other issues that need sorting out (involving money and control).

Of course there are control issues as well, turkey has 73 million population and so would instantly be the 2nd largest voting bloc, very likely to become the biggest due to demographics in the future. It would make sense to have a much stricter standard for accepting large than tiny countries as new members.

[Honest question] By doing that aren't you allowing any app that uses the Twilio API to open your mic/camera without permission?

You should try living a country with high inflation. People lookup exchange rates every single day.

And those people do not willingly use that currency - they are forced to by their government.

Whatever currency it is that they are comparing to is the currency they really want to use, and probably do on the black market. I'm also confident that that is the currency they keep (or try to keep) their savings in.

And you see real currencies being used in many of them as black market currencies instead of the national currency. You can also see countries trying to stop inflation by indexing to other, stable, currencies.

You could also use something like http://www.soocial.com/

Disclaimer: I used to work there and they're working really hard on solving this kind of issues.

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Yes. As the GP stated, all data added/updated/deleted since last snapshot will be lost. If your data is that critical you can use AOF with "appendfsync always" which will fsync every write operation into a log that will replayed on startup (at a speed cost). Setting it to fsync every second (instead of always) is a good compromise.

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I'd recommend this one on architecture:

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach - Hennessy and Patterson