I'm all for building a massive dam on the Colorado river, but the cost would be ruinous. I think we should instead allow the market to provide a solution by putting buckets by the river and paying people per bucket to scoop out water and throw it into the desert.
Yes, they should take all the bureaucrats, hairdressers and telephone cleaners and tell them there is a big rock coming, then put them all on a spaceship and send them off to crash into Slartibartfast's latest project. What could possibly go wrong.
"Companies get their money from customers" - gfxguy
Is that some sort of primary school answer? What we are discussing is the fact that many of these of companies in fact own hundreds of others companies and pay themselves repeatedly in unscrupulous attempts to evade tax.
If that's what passes for informed debate from you you should really get out more.
Everyone wastes money in someone else's opinion. In fact money is technically worthless anyway. I wouldn't consider it wasted if it was paying for education, healthcare, safe streets etc.
They don't follow the laws, they deliberately manipulate them to their own advantage. You wouldn't be so supportive if, for example, I "scammed" a member of your family out of a lot of money in a manner that was "technically" legal (for example a game of "find the pea" on your ageing parents), but you go out of your way to defend companies that do it to society?
The guy tried to set himself up as some sort of Kurtzian hero loner out there in the jungle. His ramblings seem barely sane to me. Besides if the government was as corrupt as he implies he could have paid them off, instead he's going to lose everything he has there by fleeing trying to avoid being questioned?
Video encoder settings with ffmpeg are pretty intimidating, but they are pretty intimidating if you're given all the options in a GUI as well, in both cases presets are there for a reason, as is the manual.
I found mint with MATE usable for my HTPC, but it still feels like an interim solution. I have high hopes for Enlightenment, the beta looked really nice on extra large size, it was very crashy though.
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You seem to forget that Henry Ford pioneered the living wage. Something you seem keen to do away with by the sound of you rant.
That sounds like a bad design on the part of the installer, it's really quite irrelevant in the context of this larger discussion.
I'm all for building a massive dam on the Colorado river, but the cost would be ruinous. I think we should instead allow the market to provide a solution by putting buckets by the river and paying people per bucket to scoop out water and throw it into the desert.
3270 watts, that almost 2 kettles! Bill Gates has assured me that no village in Africa will ever need more electricity than that.
Yes, they should take all the bureaucrats, hairdressers and telephone cleaners and tell them there is a big rock coming, then put them all on a spaceship and send them off to crash into Slartibartfast's latest project. What could possibly go wrong.
And I was hoping for a stand up fight.
I thought that took zero time, from the perspective of the light.
"Companies get their money from customers" - gfxguy
Is that some sort of primary school answer? What we are discussing is the fact that many of these of companies in fact own hundreds of others companies and pay themselves repeatedly in unscrupulous attempts to evade tax.
If that's what passes for informed debate from you you should really get out more.
Placebos are a proven cure.*
*For some things.
An idiotic question, what kind of corporation? It's a very broad term. You might as well ask where cars get their parts from.
Everyone wastes money in someone else's opinion. In fact money is technically worthless anyway. I wouldn't consider it wasted if it was paying for education, healthcare, safe streets etc.
Not necessarily, your presumptions are akin to a slave saying "The master has to beat us to keep us working hard". It seems to represent a complete inability to think about the situation. http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/dec/07/shop-ensure-your-cash-isnt-tax-haven
I'm glad someone's finally standing up for those poor overtaxed companies, when will they finally be free of the ignominy of paying their fair share?
They don't follow the laws, they deliberately manipulate them to their own advantage. You wouldn't be so supportive if, for example, I "scammed" a member of your family out of a lot of money in a manner that was "technically" legal (for example a game of "find the pea" on your ageing parents), but you go out of your way to defend companies that do it to society?
NSFW tag?
That cost me very nice Sony Vaio...
The guy tried to set himself up as some sort of Kurtzian hero loner out there in the jungle. His ramblings seem barely sane to me. Besides if the government was as corrupt as he implies he could have paid them off, instead he's going to lose everything he has there by fleeing trying to avoid being questioned?
Why am I getting flashbacks to all the guys on here saying Hans Reiser was innocent, were you one of them?
He's a Belizean Billionaire, if he was a real Billionaire he'd still be in America.
Video encoder settings with ffmpeg are pretty intimidating, but they are pretty intimidating if you're given all the options in a GUI as well, in both cases presets are there for a reason, as is the manual.
I found mint with MATE usable for my HTPC, but it still feels like an interim solution. I have high hopes for Enlightenment, the beta looked really nice on extra large size, it was very crashy though.
Do you know where gas comes from?
Of course, and his attack on the risks of biology were equally devastating in that great paper "Jurassic Park".
Hey Einstein, with 10% unemployment you're going to have a surfeit of applicants for almost every job.
http://www.cps-news.com/2012/11/18/the-demise-of-hostess-brands-was-at-the-hands-of-venture-capitalist-not-unions/