I think you are confusing bookkeeping and accounting.

A legal agreement needs An Offer, Acceptance, Consideration, Capacity, and Legality of Purpose. A signature is a form of written acceptance - which is harder to dispute, but verbal agreement or conduct (accepting and using a good or service) is just as binding. A handshake is also just as binding as a signature.

Except its the other way around (at least in most countries) they have to prove that it was you.

There will most likely be more people reading this article than it actually affects.

I find it extraordinary that Americans still regularly use cheques. And still get paid that way too. Someone should do the math on how much productivity is lost through producing and processing of cheques. Producing, Depositing, Processing, Verifying - easily over an hour per cheque, so over $5b per year before you add in fees and any time wasted travelling to somewhere to deposit it. A quick google shows that $66m in fees was spent to cash the stimulus cheques. Mind-blowing stuff.

They launched the data centres here in 2012. They registered the new trading company in 2021. Obviously two unrelated events.

Amazon has already setup new trading companies in at least the signed up countries to be able to declare income in those countries. So while Ireland will be able to keep the 2.5%, it will be 2.5% of a much smaller revenue pool.

Reading these comments makes you realise how far behind the USA is compared to the rest of the world in some aspects. This conversation seems like it should have happened 10 years ago. I didn't know they still made air-conditioners that weren't reverse cycle any more.

In the system used in the London canals, the larger fish just swim through it. Much like fish swim through the aerator in a fish tank.

You could help train the engine..? Try going into your viewing history and deleting things you've watched that you didn't like.

At least not at a planatary scale. It's core is near frozen solid. Leaving it's magnetosphere too weak to protect the planet from solar wind. So, unless they plan to reignight it's core, better start looking at Venus as a new home.

I bought my iPad from JB Hi-Fi about two weeks ago without any accessories. I was asked if I would like a screen protector. I said no. He said "OK, follow me to the register so I can disarm the security for you." That was it.

Also of note: The list displayed is apparently about twice the size of the official list. - This, of course, is the claim of the Government. I would like to see some proof that this is or isn't the official list. From either the Government or WikiLeaks (Un)fortunately, the only way to do this is for the official list to be released.