I’ve no doubt of this, but at the end of the day it won’t matter. Their legalese and hive of attorneys have rather bulletproof ToS and funding agreement plans which pretty much expressly state you are entitled to fuck all for your faith and devotion even if it implodes.
Not saying it’s right, just stating the facts as I understand them from my limited knowledge of this absurd spectacle.
Much of the ‘wealth’ in the UK is in the form of assets, not salaries, and much of the income derives from this. A high cost of living and low incomes (compared to the US) is somewhat compensated for by the NHS and a massive growth in house-prices that have enriched the home-owning generations of the past.
Sucks to be young and asset-poor in the UK, though.
At last count, it was around 275
Yeah, it is.
It does, my bad.
I typoed, it’s 162k alright. I had a look at HMRCs 2014-2015 breakdown of income tax and £236k would have put Erin in the top 0.3% of earners. Not bad, ey?
$180k = £140k. That would put you in the top 1.1% of earners in the UK or rather, straight out of law school slots you into the top 356,000 earners in the UK and pays you more than a Hospital Consultant with 19 years+ experience.
The legal profession is structured very differently here (especially in the lower rungs), but that’s way, way more than starting commercial lawyers would get here, even at Magic Circle firms, which is more like £70k to £80k pre-tax (with a London cost of living, mind).
But your baby lawyers are straight out of 4-year university, not 4+3 like American lawyers, with the additional barriers to entry that the extra time, costs, and testing requirements impose.
Sure. I’m not saying there aren’t reasons for it (though in practice I think most baby lawyers here do a one-year LPC course after their undergrad degree). Just that the pay scales are very different. See also doctors.
I couldn’t believe how bad NHS salary scales were (from top to bottom) compared to those in Ireland. The first 4 bands don’t look like they could ever be a living wage for someone.
I can’t help wondering if Dual Universe won’t be out sooner, and be better than Star Citizen, with less than 5% of CIG’s budget. Time will tell…
I don’t want that crap either. I want Wing Commander, Tie-Fighter, or Freespace. I want a single-player campaign with a story.
Hard to say. I had high hopes for Infinity Battlespace as well.
Then you’re going to have to settle for Star Wars Battlefront II I’m afraid. Them’s the breaks.
You do have some options:
i have evochron *…how come i don’t have starwraith or have not heard of it before?
It’s actually the latest in a nearly twenty-year long line of space sims that began with Star Wraith, then Arvoch, then Evochron, each having multiple entries.
Actually I’m wrong, older than twenty years - http://www.spacecombat.org/
Any good? Not on Steam…
Arvoch isn’t on Steam, no, just the couple most recent Evochron games.
They’re good but not what you’re looking for.
