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16:27, 6 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page VAT Amount - Emissions Annex Provision (Redirected page to Value Added Taxes - Emissions Annex Provision) Tag: New redirect
16:26, 6 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page VAT - Emissions Annex Provision (Redirected page to Value Added Taxes - Emissions Annex Provision) Tag: New redirect
15:35, 6 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page (d)(viii) - Emissions Annex Provision (Redirected page to Value Added Taxes - Emissions Annex Provision) Tag: New redirect
15:34, 6 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Value Added Taxes - Emissions Annex Provision (Created page with "{{euamanual|(d)(viii)}}")
15:28, 6 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium EUA Annex (c) (Created blank page)
15:24, 6 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M summ EUA Annex (c) (Created page with "The mechanism allows a single {{euaprov|Confirmation}} with {{euaprov|Multiple Delivery Dates}} to operate as a series of discrete {{euaprov|Transactions}}, each with its own separate {{euaprov|Delivery Date}}. As to the precise consequence, or intended consequence they were driving at: perhaps seeing as {{euaprov|Disruption}}s tend to be {{euaprov|Delivery Date}}-dependent, should there be a {{euaprov|Suspension Event}} or some such thing on ''one'' {{euaprov|Deliver...")
15:17, 6 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M comp disc EUA Annex (c) (Created page with "A spot of scene-setting from Carbon Squad. This allows for multiple delivery Dates, perhaps imagining a world where financially literate carbon polluters enter into longer term EUA delivery mechanisms to allow them to finance, hedge and manage their annual compliance obligations years in advance.")
14:54, 6 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Talk:Working from home to Talk:The future of office work
14:54, 6 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Working from home to The future of office work
13:57, 6 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M comp disc EUA Annex (d)(xii) (Created page with "Fun fact: one of the few significant points of difference between the EUA Annex and the UK Emissions Annex, in that this section does not appear in the UK Emissions Annex.")
11:02, 6 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Statute of Frauds to Statute of Frauds 1677
18:34, 4 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Local maximum (Created page with "{{a|systems|{{image|Extrema_example_original|svg|A local maximum yesterday.}}}}In mathematics it probably means something telling about a function, but in systems theory it means a place to where things may tend, and get stuck, even though it would be possible to go higher if only you could go lower first. If your system drives components relentlessly up, you get stuck at local maximums. {{sa}} *Working from home")
18:25, 4 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page The Man (Created page with "{{a|plainenglish|}} {{quote| “The Man is something that will be overcome. The Man is a rope, tied between jerk and jobsworth — a rope over an abyss.” ''Hunter Barkley'', {{br|MiFID 2: Reloaded}}}} {{dpn|/ðə mæn/|abstract n|}}Any figure of authority, employer, record company exec, capitalist or governing politician that, by accident or design, is preventing you ''becoming''.")
17:47, 4 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Pyjamas (Redirected page to Working from home) Tag: New redirect
17:47, 4 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page System effect (Created page with "{{a|systems||}}{{dpn||n|}} An emergent property of a system created by the flows, feedback loops, stocks and flows within the system that create incentives and opportunities for system components to behave in ways that produce a given result, especially an unexpected one. For example, the JC has a theory that over time, the fundamental structure of the modern service economy — and not just embittered boomers — will encourage people out of their pyjamas and bac...")
10:21, 3 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:Leopress2.jpg
10:21, 3 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Leopress2.jpg
17:22, 2 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:Void claims.jpg
17:22, 2 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Void claims.jpg
12:52, 2 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Void claims (Created page with "{{a|repack|}}Part of the time honoured boilerplate on a debt security is the “void claims” term in the terms and conditions along the following lines: {{quote| Claims against Issuer for payment under the Notes will become void unless made within five years from the due date for payment.}} This ism apparently, to work around a funny in the Limitation Act 1980 which provides that a cause of action for “demand loans”, only begins to run from the point of wr...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
12:38, 2 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:S6 Limitation Act 1980 nutshell (Created page with "6 '''Special time limits for demand loans''' :(1) The limitation period for simple contracts as set out in Section 5 will not apply to “demand loans”. Instead, the cause of action on a demand loan will accrue, and the limitation period will begin to run as if it were a simple contract, from the date on which a creditor first demands repayment in writing. :(2) A “'''demand loan'''” is a loan with no defined repayment date and that is repayable on demand,...")
12:04, 2 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:S6 Limitation Act 1980 (Created page with "6. '''Special time limit for actions in respect of certain loans'''. :(1) Subject to subsection (3) below, section 5 of this Act shall not bar the right of action on a contract of loan to which this section applies. :(2) This section applies to any contract of loan which— ::(a) does not provide for repayment of the debt on or before a fixed or determinable date; and ::(b) does not effectively (whether or not it purports to do so) make the o...")
19:04, 1 November 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Followers (Created page with "{{a|work|}}{{quote| What? You are searching? You want to multiply yourself by ten, by a hundred? You seek followers? — Seek ''zeroes''! {{br|Götzen-Dämmerung|Die Götzen-Dämmerung}}<ref>“Was? du suchst? du möchtest dich verzehnfachen, verhundertfachen? du suchst Anhänger?— Suche ''Nullen''!”</ref> :—Nietzsche, {{br|Twilight of the Idols}}, ''Maxims and Arrows'', 14.}} {{quote| Beyond books, consider this simple heuristic: your w...")
12:10, 29 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Talk:Working from home (Created page with "Kyla's argument. In agrarian societies people worked during daylight hours. Great! with industrial revolution, things were mechanised and it went to 16 hours a day. That got whittled down to 8 through various labour reforms> then H Ford - not usually a Gen Z pin up, but still - reognised you got more work if paid more for people to do less. Now things have changed again: Break work down to *Job *Commute *Community This can feel like a hamster wheel. (The insight, hone...")
11:58, 28 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Desire lines capsule (Created page with "{{d|Desire lines|/dɪˈzaɪə/ /laɪnz/|n}} The informal pathways we make when our “built environment” lets us down.<ref>Nicely put by Steve Bates in “Lines of Desire”, ''{{plainlink|https://issuu.com/warrendraper/docs/doncopolitan_rosy2_issue__online_|Doncopolitan}}'', July 2014 </ref> They cross open ground, emerging over time as individuals make their own judgments as to the best and most convenient routes, often ignoring central planning and its designed path...")
18:13, 27 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Desire line (Redirected page to Desire lines) Tag: New redirect
17:37, 27 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page 121 (Redirected page to One-to-one) Tag: New redirect
16:09, 27 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:Desirelines.jpg
16:09, 27 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Desirelines.jpg
15:14, 27 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Ignorantia juris non excusat (Redirected page to The business owns legal issues) Tag: New redirect
11:06, 27 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Cheapest to deliver (Redirected page to Cheapest-to-deliver) Tags: New redirect Visual edit: Switched
18:22, 25 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Barter (Created page with "{{a|banking|}}{{d|Barter||n., v|}} In the absence of a common framework for exchange of abstract value, the exchange of one good or service for another. In a particularly entertaining passage is particularly entertaining book, {{br|Debt: The First 5,000 Years}}, the late {{author|David Graeber}} addresses the commonplace wisdom that fiat currency grew out of a system of barter between “savages”. Not only is the necessary widespread “double coincidence” of needs...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
16:05, 25 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium EUA Annex Receiving Party’s Replacement Cost (Created page with "*The JC spent a day with a cold towel and an excel spreadsheet to work all this out. It wasn’t fun. The fruits of his pain are available to lovely premium subscribers.")
11:29, 25 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:EUA Annex (d)(i)(5)(D) (Created page with ":(D) '''{{euaprov|Continuing Suspension Event}}''': Where: ::[(I)]<ref>We think this number is superfluous, in that there is not a (II).</ref> a {{euaprov|Suspension Event}} continues to exist on the {{euaprov|Long-Stop Date}}, then an [Additional Termination Event]/[Illegality] shall be deemed to have occurred in respect of which the relevant {{euaprov|EU Emissions Allowance Transaction}} is the sole Affected Transaction [,]/[and] both parties are Affected Parties [an...")
10:52, 25 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa EUA Annex Delivery Date (Created page with "*Delivery *Delivery under the GMSLA")
10:48, 25 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium EUA Annex Delivery Date (Created page with "*The JC’s theory on why this is not stipulated to be also adjusted to account for a Settlement Disruption Event under Section (d)(i)(iv) as well")
17:30, 22 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Desire lines (Redirected page to Org chart) Tag: New redirect
17:11, 21 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page One-to-one (Created page with "{{a|hr|}}{{d|One-to-one|(also “121”) /wʌn tuː wʌn/|n|}}The weekly “window” for a meeting with one’s line manager which neither party wants or cares for, whose point is to discharge formal evidential requirements that the manager is managing and her report is being managed. The 121 agenda is designed to reassure: everything is running smoothly, all projects are on track, all SMART objectives in the process of being met. However the information that m...")
15:24, 21 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Span of control (Redirected page to Spans and layers) Tag: New redirect
15:05, 21 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Hoffnung on cricket (Created page with "''HOFFNUNG'': I enjoy watching sports occasionally, you know. ''RICHARDSON'': What sports do you, ah — ? ''HOFFNUNG'': Yes! I like that sport where a lot of people are asleep on a lawn, you know, and they sit around in deck chairs. And there are some people in the middle of the lawn, and they do something. There’s a chap with a barber’s coat on. ''RICHARDSON'': You consider that — sport? ''HOFFNUNG'': Yes, Oh, yes! And then it starts raining,...")
09:36, 21 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Spans and layers (Created page with "{{a|hr|}}There is much management theory around the relationship of “spans” and “layers”<ref>[https://www.google.com/search?q=spans+and+layers Let me google that for you].</ref> in the optimal organisation. There should be no more than 5 “layers” of hierarchy in an organisation, and each manager in that organisation should “span” no more than 5 direct reports. Why? Apparently, ''To make performance appraisal easier''. This, from [https://peoplepuzzles....")
09:31, 21 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Nld (Created page with "{{c|Newsletter draft}}")
13:43, 20 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M summ EUA Annex Close-out Cost of Carry (Created page with "Note the {{euaprov|Close-out Cost of Carry Amount}} is a per-allowance amount. This is important when factoring it into {{euaprov|Receiving Party’s Replacement Cost}}, and other things.")
10:49, 20 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Emissions Allowance Price comp (Created page with "{{emissions comparison|{{euaprov|Allowance Purchase Price}} or {{euaprov|Allowance Strike Price}}, as the case may, from time to time, be, though the JC uses the term “{{euaprov|Allowance Price}}” to cover both).|{{efetaprov|Contract Price}}|{{ietaprov|Allowance Price}}}}")
10:09, 20 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Default Rate - Emissions Annex Provision (Created page with "{{euamanual|Default Rate}}")
08:50, 20 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Eighteenth law of worker entropy (Created page with "{{a|work|}}{{Eighteenth law of worker entropy}} {{c|Laws of worker entropy}} {{sa}} *Legal evolution")
08:41, 20 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Eighteenth law of worker entropy (Created page with "The JC’s eighteenth law of worker entropy, also known as {{buchstein}}’s special theory of Parkinson’s Law, states that “work does not expand to fit the ''time'' available as much as the amount of ''money'' available.” There is a “commercialogical constant” between the amount of money at risk and the amount of money agents will extract from the principals who, risk free, for ensuring its safe conveyance.")
08:22, 20 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page Legal quantum indeterminacy to Fifteenth law of worker entropy over redirect
08:22, 20 October 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs deleted redirect Fifteenth law of worker entropy by overwriting (Deleted to make way for move from "Legal quantum indeterminacy")