Financial institutions and regulations are very different from postcodes or freeview. Other companies may have finance setups through institutions which do offer IOM services, sure. Like it or not, it’s a small place, and maybe Dell have decided it’s not somewhere worth targeting (didn’t the Manx government threaten to switch over to entirely open source software not long ago?)
Look on the bright side. All that time saving money, you’d otherwise spend uninstalling crap off that Dell which they insist on putting there (I went through this with my parents’ recent bottom-end XP laptop, which was unusable with the rubbish piled onto it, but runs fine now)
I see that others have already spoken up about this point, but I’m still curious about something: I thought that one of the proximate causes of the Falkland Islands War was the fact that residents there weren’t considered citizens of the Commonwealth, for the purposes of immigration between the various Commonwealth countries and territories. The point being made in the reading I’d done on the subject that Falkland Islanders were the only European stock people who were in that particular boat, rather than, say, residents of Hong Kong, who were considered too Asian to be proper Commonwealth citizens.
Does this mean that Manxmen and women aren’t Commonwealth citizens, either?
The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are treated as part of the UK under British nationality legislation. It’s too early in the morning for me to get my head around the concept of British Overseas Territories citizenship, but you’re welcome to try!
Nor do any number of financial and legal services, I often wondered if people on the “mainland” think us to be too much at risk from terrorist attacks to be financially viable
I can’t buy any yummy smoked meat from Schwartz’s in Montreal because of the U.S. embargo or rules or whatever on foreign meat. I can drive there and bring it back across the border for personal consumption, but I can’t have it shipped here for personal consumption. :mad:
On Wiki, it says you can order it into the States, but when we e-mailed them not three weeks ago they said no.
They put a stop to that. The TT course had no speed limit but now it does.
FYI I got fined one hundred and sixty for 15mph over a speed limit (30) on a long straight wide un-suburban road immediately after a 40mph roundabout.
I’d say about 60% of manx drivers break the speed limit by about 10mph on average. I guess they know where the likely speed traps are. Personally I don’t because I don’t want another f**koff fine.
£160? Ouch. Assuming it’s also a three-points-and-insurance-hike issue. If it’s just the fine, I’d pay up front. Set up toll booths at Douglas ferry port, dammit!
I did get the three points. I forgot to mention that. But apparently the points disappear after two years.
I did ask the lady at the court why the fine is so ridiculously much higher than it is in England. Her polite response was ‘different judicial system’.
No shit.
My favorite is when the ad says “only good in the Continental United States.” Friend of mine in Anchorage (I rented his basement) was an attorney and he regularly got the discount / deal given that Alaska is on the North American Continent.
The CONTIGUOUS US is just the lower 48, but the CONTINENTAL includes Alaska, but dumps Hawaii.
I can drive there and bring it back across the border for personal consumption, but I can’t have it shipped here for personal consumption. 
:mad: