You really have to allow deductions though. Otherwise, you're taxing revenue, not profits.
Let's say I own a corporation. Said corporation has an income of $1,000,000. However, between research and development costs, manufacturing, and other overhead, my expenses are $900,000. If you tax my corporation's income at 25% (without being able to deduct any expenses) I'm $150,000 in the red after taxes, despite running a fairly successful business.
My cousin has no nipples due to a double mastectomy. Is she not a citizen?
But seriously, "that specific industry" has no "special constitutional treatment." See Freedom of the press in the United States. All rights are inherent to individuals and when individuals organize, as in the formation of the LA Times, these rights are not lost. As such, it appears that the LA Times has rights, but these are simply the rights of the individuals it is composed of. Furthermore, the Constitution does not place limits upon citizens, it places limits on the government.
So, while we are clearly in agreement that an impartial fourth estate is essential to a healthy society, I still find your insistence that the Constitution mandates impartiality from the press laughable.
... they are shirking their Constitutionally specified duty, despite the legal privileges they enjoy in furtherance of that obligation.
What?!? I don't know which constitution you're referring to, but the Constitution of the United States of America certainly doesn't specify duties or obligations for citizens.
While I would agree that this kind of behavior is undesirable, to imply that it is unconstitutional is laughable.
I was under the impression the FAA was pretty clear about their stance regarding aircraft safety, and it basically amounts to, "Commercial aircraft must be certified. We don't currently have a certification process for UAVs. We will have one by sometime in 2015. Hobbyists, don't make a nuisance of yourselves and we won't bother you."
While these issues may still need to be ironed out, they really are not within the purview of the FAA. The FAA's only real interest with drones should be keeping the skies orderly and safe. Privacy issues and liability are the legislative, not bureaucratic, problems.
mSATA isn't mPCIe. They may be the same form-factor, but mSATA is hooked up to a SATA bus and mPCIe is connected to a PCIe bus. They aren't interchangeable.
Long-term? I don't think so. But, no one really likes Verizon anyhow and they are currently dealing with a competitor who is aggressively trying to poach their customers. Add to that their claim that 20% of their customers are still on unlimited plans and it does become understandable why they might opt for the path their taking.
They haven't offered unlimited plans for years now. This is about customers who are still on unlimited plans and haven't yet "upgraded" to a paid usage plan. These people are not in any sort of long term contract. Verizon could simply tell them, "Your unlimited plan is gone, pick a currently offered plan," but they don't want to deal with the PR nightmare that would spawn.
The thing is, you're on a month to month contract. The honest thing for Verizon to do is simply cancel those contracts, admit that they are not willing to invest enough in infrastructure to accommodate unlimited plans, and take the temporary PR hit.
Instead they have chosen the path of a thousand papercuts. Every so often them try to screw those still on unlimited plans, and every time it causes some sort of PR headache.
They won't be "deleting" anything. They simply won't be indexing it. The ruling makes absolutely no demand that the content actually be removed from the internet.
It's also worth noting that these requests are not coming from the content owners, they are coming from people that the content is "about"
Are most phones taken by force? I know at least a dozen people who have had phones stolen, but not one was taken forcefully.
Not to mention, they will need a warrant force entry and seize the phone. Combined with the fact that they will probably only be able charge the perp with possession stolen property, it the whole exercise a rather expensive proposition.
Legally, photographing a woman in a state of partial or complete undress is explicitly illegal. Photographing a fully clothed woman from an angle that exposes her undergarments (or lack there of) is not.
Expect to see this law amended very shortly, as most residents that state probably already thought upskirtting was illegal.
I'm not saying corruption is good, I'm just saying fraud != corruption. Medicare fraud, where bills are issued and paid for services that did not take place, is not the same as corruption. The article cited even mentioned that basically all bills are paid, and that they try to find the fraud after the fact. So, no preferential treatment, no deliberate intervention by officials, not corruption. Not good, but not corruption.
Also of note, the $130 billion is not the amount of corruption, it is the cost to the economy in loss of growth.
Yes, 70% of browsers supported regions, but that leave 30% that don't. If you're designing a website that ~1/3 of users can not view properly, I think we can assume you're doing something wrong.
This brings us to an issue that the article doesn't seem to address, just how widely used are regions? Is the average Chrome user even going to notice the loss of support?
"You can die because you ran out of money, or donate an organ," is most definitely coercion.
This also allows the family to object post-mortem. Without the next-of-kin signing off the harvest doesn't happen. There simply isn't time to wait for a court order enforcing the deceased's wishes
Chickens will respond just fine to 3k~4k fluorescents (metal halide or high pressure sodium work fine too, but I don't need that much light).
Houses built in the 30s were pretty rarely insulated, and even more rarely wrapped with a vapor barrier. This was a relatively common building practice until after WWII. (Remember, building codes and inspections didn't really begin until the 60s) The engineering necessary to circulate air using nothing but the convection currents caused by light bulbs would be daunting even with today's computing power.
Modern homes are wrapped up pretty tightly, but they rely on mechanical air movement (either forced air heating, or a whole house fan).
But, what happens when the stupid meat-bag in the "driver's" seat decides to hit the brakes, or fiddle with the steering wheel while in a train? Or a tire blows out? By the time you're close enough to draft the car in front of you, I would imagine you are too close for even a computer to avoid an accident (mechanical limits vs. reaction times).
As much as I would love to see this, I don't think we will until there are no manual controls inside the car.
Google doesn't add permissions to anything. That's done by the developer. And any app that adds permissions will not auto-update until you have reviewed the new permissions and accepted them again.
But, how does it do that. The article and even the Safeplug website do not explain the mechanism it uses to redirect your traffic to Tor. There aren't even any pictures of the back off the device that I can find.
Does it sit between your gateway and your router, and transparently redirect all packets to the tor network?
Do you just plug it into a router port and point your devices at it as a proxy?
Where is the source code? If we're going to be paranoid enough to use Tor for everything, shouldn't we demand to audit the code for security holes and possible backdoors?
It just seems like a product without a niche. Most users have no desire to use Tor, and those that do are typically savvy enough to set it up themselves.
With regards to #2, the 2008 FISA amendment explicitly indemnified telecoms for cooperating with law enforcement. There's no backroom dealing going on. It's all there in black and white.
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Let's say I own a corporation. Said corporation has an income of $1,000,000. However, between research and development costs, manufacturing, and other overhead, my expenses are $900,000. If you tax my corporation's income at 25% (without being able to deduct any expenses) I'm $150,000 in the red after taxes, despite running a fairly successful business.
But seriously, "that specific industry" has no "special constitutional treatment." See Freedom of the press in the United States. All rights are inherent to individuals and when individuals organize, as in the formation of the LA Times, these rights are not lost. As such, it appears that the LA Times has rights, but these are simply the rights of the individuals it is composed of. Furthermore, the Constitution does not place limits upon citizens, it places limits on the government.
So, while we are clearly in agreement that an impartial fourth estate is essential to a healthy society, I still find your insistence that the Constitution mandates impartiality from the press laughable.
... they are shirking their Constitutionally specified duty, despite the legal privileges they enjoy in furtherance of that obligation.
What?!? I don't know which constitution you're referring to, but the Constitution of the United States of America certainly doesn't specify duties or obligations for citizens.
While I would agree that this kind of behavior is undesirable, to imply that it is unconstitutional is laughable.
I was under the impression the FAA was pretty clear about their stance regarding aircraft safety, and it basically amounts to, "Commercial aircraft must be certified. We don't currently have a certification process for UAVs. We will have one by sometime in 2015. Hobbyists, don't make a nuisance of yourselves and we won't bother you."
While these issues may still need to be ironed out, they really are not within the purview of the FAA. The FAA's only real interest with drones should be keeping the skies orderly and safe. Privacy issues and liability are the legislative, not bureaucratic, problems.
mSATA isn't mPCIe. They may be the same form-factor, but mSATA is hooked up to a SATA bus and mPCIe is connected to a PCIe bus. They aren't interchangeable.
Long-term? I don't think so. But, no one really likes Verizon anyhow and they are currently dealing with a competitor who is aggressively trying to poach their customers. Add to that their claim that 20% of their customers are still on unlimited plans and it does become understandable why they might opt for the path their taking.
They haven't offered unlimited plans for years now. This is about customers who are still on unlimited plans and haven't yet "upgraded" to a paid usage plan. These people are not in any sort of long term contract. Verizon could simply tell them, "Your unlimited plan is gone, pick a currently offered plan," but they don't want to deal with the PR nightmare that would spawn.
Instead they have chosen the path of a thousand papercuts. Every so often them try to screw those still on unlimited plans, and every time it causes some sort of PR headache.
It's also worth noting that these requests are not coming from the content owners, they are coming from people that the content is "about"
Not to mention, they will need a warrant force entry and seize the phone. Combined with the fact that they will probably only be able charge the perp with possession stolen property, it the whole exercise a rather expensive proposition.
Legally, photographing a woman in a state of partial or complete undress is explicitly illegal. Photographing a fully clothed woman from an angle that exposes her undergarments (or lack there of) is not.
Expect to see this law amended very shortly, as most residents that state probably already thought upskirtting was illegal.
Not for me. Without a $35/month phoneline, it costs me $45. Not significantly cheaper than my Comcast bill.
Don't I also need to know that the other person is breaking the law? I don't have a radar system in my car, how an I to know if they are speeding?
Also of note, the $130 billion is not the amount of corruption, it is the cost to the economy in loss of growth.
So, that doesn't really put anything in perspective.
This brings us to an issue that the article doesn't seem to address, just how widely used are regions? Is the average Chrome user even going to notice the loss of support?
They were fined 5 weeks worth of profit, not income (revenue). While it may still sting, it is quite different from 5 weeks of revenue.
This also allows the family to object post-mortem. Without the next-of-kin signing off the harvest doesn't happen. There simply isn't time to wait for a court order enforcing the deceased's wishes
You do realize that rags like The National Enquirer and The Sun are "traditional" journalists.
Chickens will respond just fine to 3k~4k fluorescents (metal halide or high pressure sodium work fine too, but I don't need that much light).
Houses built in the 30s were pretty rarely insulated, and even more rarely wrapped with a vapor barrier. This was a relatively common building practice until after WWII. (Remember, building codes and inspections didn't really begin until the 60s) The engineering necessary to circulate air using nothing but the convection currents caused by light bulbs would be daunting even with today's computing power.
Modern homes are wrapped up pretty tightly, but they rely on mechanical air movement (either forced air heating, or a whole house fan).
As much as I would love to see this, I don't think we will until there are no manual controls inside the car.
Google doesn't add permissions to anything. That's done by the developer. And any app that adds permissions will not auto-update until you have reviewed the new permissions and accepted them again.
Does it sit between your gateway and your router, and transparently redirect all packets to the tor network?
Do you just plug it into a router port and point your devices at it as a proxy?
Where is the source code? If we're going to be paranoid enough to use Tor for everything, shouldn't we demand to audit the code for security holes and possible backdoors?
It just seems like a product without a niche. Most users have no desire to use Tor, and those that do are typically savvy enough to set it up themselves.
With regards to #2, the 2008 FISA amendment explicitly indemnified telecoms for cooperating with law enforcement. There's no backroom dealing going on. It's all there in black and white.