Ok I finnaly ordered my Pandora , my father is concerned that the shipping was not including on the "ridiculous price" of 380 dollars. Is the shipping included? Or Is the Pandora basically 400 bucks now?
Line O' Sevens meant that shipping is not included in the regular Pandora price. Obviously it's included in your invoice total though. They're not going to send a second invoice for shipping now, are they?
Sales tax is the same thing.
I don't understand why the government doesn't have all the money yet. Taxing income *and* spending, should result in all money being in the govt's hands eventually right?
Sales tax is the same thing.
I don't understand why the government doesn't have all the money yet. Taxing income *and* spending, should result in all money being in the govt's hands eventually right?
The government then spends that money paying road workers, firefighters and police, buying supplies, hiring contractors to build parks.
The funny thing is that the government takes your money for taxes, pays a firefighter, and then takes some of the money they paid back as more taxes
If my math is right it would cost more than 300 USD to ship a Pandora's worth of GB pennies (pence?) from California (don't ask why I would have 280 BGP in pennies in the US, I don't). Please pardon my use of commas as thousands separators.
Weight of 28,000 pennies (in pounds so I can enter it into the UPS website) = 3.56g/penny * 28,000pennies/pandora * 1kg/1000g * ~2.2lbs/kg = 219 lbs of pennies/Pandora.
Volume of said pennies = <pi * (10.16mm)^2 * 1.52mm> * 28,000 * (1cm^3/1,000mm^3) = 13,801 cm^3
Dimensions of a cube shaped box to hold said pennies (in inches for UPS website) = cuberoot(13,801 cm^3) * 1inch/2.54cm * [1/0.75] = 12.59inches per side.
The value in square brackets [] above is a guess to correct for the volume of the box that can be occupied by coins stacked in cylinders.
In total it comes to 302.50 USD for 7-day shipping or 1485.40 USD for 3-day shipping.
Never thought about it before, almost certainly just historical usage that was never overcome. According to wiki the official name is "cent" or "one cent piece" depending on who you ask, but I've never heard it referred to as such. Also didn't know they changed the reverse side, looks very odd without the Lincoln memorial.