You make up 50c a week and use it as an arguing point for raising everyones taxes, and then you dont want to be insulted?
You dont deserve kid gloves because you dont want a fair argument. The tax revenue shortfall from the Bush cuts is $2.6 trillion dollars over 10 years (2011 to 2020), or $260 billion per year... 5 billion per week. Are you imagining that there are 10 billion people in the United States, therefore its only 50 cents per person per week? Its $43.86 per week per taxpayer on top of what they already pay.
There is this amazing thing called math. You can use it so that you don't have to make numbers up. An added bonus is that you can be right instead of completely wrong. Now stop being a partisan cunt.
You are not printing money because the Eurozone made it impossible. Greece, Italy, and Spain would not be in trouble if they stayed out of the zone... they could monetize their debt if it wasnt for that.
England is clearly the brightest country in the EU, having the foresight to stay out of the zone of doom.
The whole "fiscal cliff" doom the fox network is spreading (check who owns redneck eh discovery) just means that if congress digs in its heels and does nothing the President gets his way by default because tax breaks that the repubicans want to extend and increase for the rich will END!
Yes, and by 'rich' you mean '98% of tax payers' right? When the Bush tax cuts phase out, 98% of tax payers see a tax increase.
Your problem is that the Democrats have been telling you that the Bush tax cuts were a "rich thing" for so long that you now believe it. The Bush tax cuts were pretty much across the board, rich, poor, middle class.. everyone got a cut.
You are cheering on Obama "winning by default" where winning = tax hike on 98% of Americans.
Somehow most European countries manages to have a social security safety net, and a public health system without spending more than their entire tax revenues on it.
The fact you are missing is that we too currently have these nets in place without spending more than our tax revenue. That does not change the fact that the population pyramid is flipping upside down here, and there,
The average EU country would need to have 434 percent its current annual gross domestic product earning interest at the EU government’s borrowing rates, in order to fund current policies indefinitely. They don't. They are net negative on these savings just like us.
SS and MC can be for both "better living for society as a whole" AND an obvious money pit at the same time!
Good intentions don't magically fill in the pit. I'm sure that it makes you feel good though..
The problem isnt simply that we dont currently have sustainable projections, the problem is that the projections show such an enormous shortfall when it comes to these programs that the solution cannot possibly be more taxes, that the only solution besides radical reform is slaves at gunpoint working for that precious security of yours.
We are talking about a hundred and twenty trillion dollars, over half of the entire worlds net worth. The unfunded liability of the U.S. Social Security and Medicare is currently 60% of the entire worlds net worth. That percentage goes up every year that we dont radically reform these programs, every year that people like you blather on and on about "security" and "think of the old people", paving the road all the way to hell with your good intentions.
That is the fact that I think the progressives don't understand. They really do not realize that more taxes isn't a solution at all, that they have let these numbers grow so enormous that there arent any solutions left that they can sign off on for lack of any "feel good" in them. They let the numbers grow while they had their fingers in their ears saying "thats not true thats not true thats not true" as if the act fo saying it makes it true. Guess what. It's true and worse than ever because of people like you.
Not even for Homo sapiens? Okay, we aren't going extinct. But civilization as we know it might during the stress of dealing with climate change
Yes, lets not mention that fact that 'civilization as we know it' for the readers of slashdot is quite a bit different from the global median already. The fact is that civilization as WE know it is not perpetually sustainable regardless of the climate.
I for one hope we can sustain it for the rest of my life, and the way to do that is to continue exploiting cheap energy. As far as I am concerned, future generations are imaginary people, and in my imagination they too will exploit the cheapest form of energy available.
Preventing increased adoption of fossil fuels in most of the world will kill lots of humans (who already die by the lots because of poverty) so yeah, "thats okay"
Why call it "deep learning" when "multilevel" or "multilayered" might better describe the process?
..because the 'might' in this case is 'wrong.' Multi-layer Networks was all the rage as early as 1966 (perhaps quite a bit earlier.) The only resemblance Deep Learning has to Multi-Layer Networks is a somewhat similar organizational topology. The methodology is quite different. "Deep' in this case is comparative to other learning methods. You train one layer, then the next, and so on.. never going back. The learning propagates straight down to the depths. Its a very radical advance in that other methods arent even close to the rate at which learning can be propagated downwards, that they are in fact 'shallow' in comparison.
Then how about something like "multilevel" or "multilayer adaptive networks
Taken.
How about this. First there was the Genetic Algorithm (GA), and then came many variants with different names.. Messy GA, Linkage Learning GA, and so on and on.
Then along comes the Compact Genetic Algorithm, which is actually a variant of an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) rather than a variant of a GA, but it was so named because it propagates the same information at the same rate as a simple GA with its crossover parameter set to 0.5 (called Uniform Crossover) so thats the provenance of the GA term, but the new algorithm uses significantly less space than any other GA, hence the provenance of the 'Compact' term.
Now here is the great stuff...
The Extended Compact Genetic Algorithm comes along, and it doesnt use less space at all (it uses slightly more space than a bog standard GA!), and its still actually an EDA instead of a GA, but make no mistake.. this is currently the Gold Standard of evolutionary optimization algorithms.
The reason this happens is because people doing the research are not married to methodology. They are married to the field of optimization. They care more about the rate of information propagation and the amount of storage space required rather than they do the technical details of how it happens. The Compact Genetic Algorithm propagates the same information at precisely the same rate as a Simple GA with Uniform Crossover, and uses less space.. and that information is more important than the methodology.
In the case of evolutionary optimization algorithms, they jumped onto the Bayesian bandwagon in 1999 but they jumped off it only one year later.. onto the much larger Shannon bandwagon.
You are confusing notation with representation. Just because we truncated all those zeros on the left and right of the number in our notation is irrelevant. The infinite number of 0's to the left and to the right are encoded, implicitly, in the notation that we use.
As far as/usr/bin vs/usr/local/bin vs/bin vs/opt, windows doesnt have a conceptual differentiation between 'official' parts of the 'distribution' and programs the user installs that are not an 'official' part of it, although quite a few things that I guess would be considered 'expected to always be there' are in %WINDIR% such as regedit, notepad, explorer, etc.. but more than a few times I've seen Microsoft employees lament the fact that its necessary to keep those programs there because so much legacy software hardcodes that path that its just not worth breaking so many programs.
Pretty much all programs static data (executables, and so on) should be going under %ProgramFiles% while dynamic data shared by all users that normally shouldnt be tinkered with by the user should be going under %ProgramData% and if its per-user stuff then %APPDATA%.. and if its machine-specific (avoiding network mount) then %LOCALAPPDATA%
...and 'documents', that being user generated content, should be under %USERPROFILE% or %ALLUSERSPROFILE%
I know the naming kinda sucks (but these are just the environment variable names) and the actual locations that these token point to are inconsistent between versions of the OS..
In C++ (or most other HLL's) you would use SHGetSpecialFolderPath() with the proper CSIDL or the newer (not supported in XP and earlier) SHGetKnownFolderPath() with the proper KNOWNFOLDERID
You will note that Windows has attempted to standardize across applications the locations of various common document types (pictures, videos, etc..) There are both pro's and con's to this.. it is what it is, good or bad.
The point I was trying to make is that a linux developer was fairly careless, even reckless, when it came to dumping files in his windows port. At the time this was an issue, the recommendation on the Electric Sheep forums was to run the screensaver as administrator or turn off UAC on Vista because otherwise it failed to work (worked fine on XP only running as administrator, of course.) The screensaver went for months in this insane state, even though the solution was trivial and obvious. This is a programmer that had no problem loading up a video codec and leveraging it.. a good programmer turned into a moron as soon as he was targeting windows.
You would only try padding by 8 extra bytes if you knew that that was a problem to begin with, so no need trying it.. you just do it at that point. Its when you have no idea why the program is behaving incorrectly, not doing what its told, that its now a nightmare that does not suggest 'pad by 8 extra bytes in that custom allocator we wrote 6 years ago that never ever gave us a problem before'
Funny that the data doesnt shows a "dismantling [of] our manufacturing industry."
Our manufacturing industry simply evolved towards automation. We make more than we ever did before, its just that we use fewer man hours than we used to. Even small machine shops that used to employ a few dozen people now employ only a couple of people total who monitor CNC machines, but these small machine shops now output more product than they ever did using manual labor, and its made to tighter specifications than ever before too.
I worked in a shop where many employees were grinding some carbide cutting tools that needed to be within a spec of +/- 2 ten thousandths of an inch destined for Pratt and Whitney's jet engine manufacturing facility. There was lots of waste because it was exceedingly difficult to consistently make parts with such a tight specification. That same shop now uses a single CNC machine to make the same part, has almost no waste at all, and only needs a single person to oversee the machine periodically (the person can oversee dozens of machines.)
That, my friend, is what happened to American manufacturing. We didn't stop making stuff. We just stopped using people to do it.
The crazy non-intuitive part is that the decline of freedom didnt really happen until the American civil war, a war that was on the face of it all about expanding freedom to include all men and women.
The problem with the civil war was that it was the usurping of States rights by the Federal government. Everything changed from that point forward. The States could no longer over-rule the Federal government, completely contrary to the constitution, which didnt give the Federal government rule over anything not explicitly defined within, in fact making any other authority completely verboten.
Sure, its easily argued that freeing the slaves was a good thing, but good intentions are exactly how rights are eroded.
..because when a developer uses windows, they suddenly do really stupid shit.
I recall a programmer porting from linux to windows that decided it was a good idea to install to and write data out to a system folder (I think it was/windows/system32/).. it was the author of the electric sheep screensaver that did this really boneheaded thing. They wouldnt even dream of doing something like that under a *nix, but there they are doing it on windows...
Anyways, I suspect many of the bugs in mozillas 64-bit build that arent in the 32-bit build stem from the fact that in win32 the malloc alignment is 8 whereas on win64 the malloc alignment is 16, and that some API calls expect pointers aligned to these.
So suppose they have a custom allocator that prefixes memory blocks with 8 bytes of awesomeness (reference count, etc..).. which I suspect is likely considering their battle with memory leaks.. so it allocates an extra sizeof(awesomeness) and returns (byte *)pointer + sizeof(awesomeness).. well thats fine in win32, but can break in win64 if the resulting pointer makes it way to a picky api that require alignment to the 16 byte boundary expected on 64-bit systems.
If the picky api raises an exception then its easy to troubleshoot and solve, but not all api's are allowed to throw exceptions at their callers, so instead they return an error code that was perhaps unexpected and thus maybe handled improperly and now its not an easy troubleshoot, instead its a debugging nightmare.
Your sense of scale is somewhat out of whack if you are comparing tax deductions on child care (which allows people to work while providing jobs for child carers) to industrial tax evasion by some of the largest companies in the world (which allows tens of thousands of people to work and provides jobs for many dozens of specialties.)
Fixed that vitriol for you.
In the United States, 35 million families (I looked it up) each getting $5000 per year in nontaxable daycare compensation (95% of employers offer it), which would have been at the individuals highest marginal rate (its off the top, after all), well thats a lot of fucking missing tax revenue, and just one kind of domestic tax shelter that individuals exploit.
I think your sense of scale is whats in doubt, or that you really don't understand why tax policies are what they are, including the taxes on corporations. Taxes are used to reward and punish the behaviors of both individuals and corporations. This is most often implemented as a high base rate (punishment by default) with deductions (reward if the behavior qualifies.) Businesses are ALLOWED to do what they do, just like individuals are ALLOWED to do what you do, AS A REWARD.
Not only is she 9 years old, but she never actually SUCCESSFULLY pirated anything. She never broke any law.
Says who?
Someone on the local side of these peoples internet connection joined the swarm for the file in question. Thats how the RIAA/MPAA got their IP address. This could not have been done without a torrent client. The file was, in fact, being downloaded by someone at their IP address. Maybe it never completed, but I find that kinda far fetched.
The most likely scenario is that the girl downloaded some songs that she wanted, the father later found out about it and scolder her while deleting the files, and then he went out and legally purchased the music that she wanted in order to reinforce the "just ask us" mode. Everything else is just the father and the content owners telling each other to go fuck themselves in the best way they can (lies by one, and police involvement by the other)
No, they funnel their money through domestic tax shelters.
Pretty much any 'fringe benefit' you get at work is not counted as gross income and thus not taxable from the employees perspective. At the same time the cost of these fringe benefits is tax deductible by the employer.
Drive a company car? You are avoiding payroll taxes by accepting a portion of your income as reduced personal costs.
Use the companies daycare? You are avoiding payroll taxes by accepting a portion of your income as reduced personal costs.
Does your company provide food and/or beverages? You are avoiding payroll taxes by accepting a portion of your income as reduced personal costs.
Does your company have a fitness center, or contract out for preferred rates at the local gym? You are avoiding payroll taxes by accepting a portion of your income as reduced personal costs.
The fact is that individuals do not consider these benefits 'income' but they are, none-the-less, part of your compensation package and should be taxable under your fucked up sense of morality.
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You make up 50c a week and use it as an arguing point for raising everyones taxes, and then you dont want to be insulted?
You dont deserve kid gloves because you dont want a fair argument. The tax revenue shortfall from the Bush cuts is $2.6 trillion dollars over 10 years (2011 to 2020), or $260 billion per year... 5 billion per week. Are you imagining that there are 10 billion people in the United States, therefore its only 50 cents per person per week? Its $43.86 per week per taxpayer on top of what they already pay.
There is this amazing thing called math. You can use it so that you don't have to make numbers up. An added bonus is that you can be right instead of completely wrong. Now stop being a partisan cunt.
You are not printing money because the Eurozone made it impossible. Greece, Italy, and Spain would not be in trouble if they stayed out of the zone... they could monetize their debt if it wasnt for that.
England is clearly the brightest country in the EU, having the foresight to stay out of the zone of doom.
The whole "fiscal cliff" doom the fox network is spreading (check who owns redneck eh discovery) just means that if congress digs in its heels and does nothing the President gets his way by default because tax breaks that the repubicans want to extend and increase for the rich will END!
Yes, and by 'rich' you mean '98% of tax payers' right? When the Bush tax cuts phase out, 98% of tax payers see a tax increase.
Your problem is that the Democrats have been telling you that the Bush tax cuts were a "rich thing" for so long that you now believe it. The Bush tax cuts were pretty much across the board, rich, poor, middle class.. everyone got a cut.
You are cheering on Obama "winning by default" where winning = tax hike on 98% of Americans.
What an ignorant cunt you are.
Somehow most European countries manages to have a social security safety net, and a public health system without spending more than their entire tax revenues on it.
The fact you are missing is that we too currently have these nets in place without spending more than our tax revenue. That does not change the fact that the population pyramid is flipping upside down here, and there,
The average EU country would need to have 434 percent its current annual gross domestic product earning interest at the EU government’s borrowing rates, in order to fund current policies indefinitely. They don't. They are net negative on these savings just like us.
Ah yes, security at any cost.
SS and MC can be for both "better living for society as a whole" AND an obvious money pit at the same time!
Good intentions don't magically fill in the pit. I'm sure that it makes you feel good though..
The problem isnt simply that we dont currently have sustainable projections, the problem is that the projections show such an enormous shortfall when it comes to these programs that the solution cannot possibly be more taxes, that the only solution besides radical reform is slaves at gunpoint working for that precious security of yours.
We are talking about a hundred and twenty trillion dollars, over half of the entire worlds net worth. The unfunded liability of the U.S. Social Security and Medicare is currently 60% of the entire worlds net worth. That percentage goes up every year that we dont radically reform these programs, every year that people like you blather on and on about "security" and "think of the old people", paving the road all the way to hell with your good intentions.
That is the fact that I think the progressives don't understand. They really do not realize that more taxes isn't a solution at all, that they have let these numbers grow so enormous that there arent any solutions left that they can sign off on for lack of any "feel good" in them. They let the numbers grow while they had their fingers in their ears saying "thats not true thats not true thats not true" as if the act fo saying it makes it true. Guess what. It's true and worse than ever because of people like you.
Not even for Homo sapiens? Okay, we aren't going extinct. But civilization as we know it might during the stress of dealing with climate change
Yes, lets not mention that fact that 'civilization as we know it' for the readers of slashdot is quite a bit different from the global median already. The fact is that civilization as WE know it is not perpetually sustainable regardless of the climate.
I for one hope we can sustain it for the rest of my life, and the way to do that is to continue exploiting cheap energy. As far as I am concerned, future generations are imaginary people, and in my imagination they too will exploit the cheapest form of energy available.
Preventing increased adoption of fossil fuels in most of the world will kill lots of humans (who already die by the lots because of poverty) so yeah, "thats okay"
Why call it "deep learning" when "multilevel" or "multilayered" might better describe the process?
Then how about something like "multilevel" or "multilayer adaptive networks
Taken.
How about this. First there was the Genetic Algorithm (GA), and then came many variants with different names.. Messy GA, Linkage Learning GA, and so on and on.
Then along comes the Compact Genetic Algorithm, which is actually a variant of an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) rather than a variant of a GA, but it was so named because it propagates the same information at the same rate as a simple GA with its crossover parameter set to 0.5 (called Uniform Crossover) so thats the provenance of the GA term, but the new algorithm uses significantly less space than any other GA, hence the provenance of the 'Compact' term.
Now here is the great stuff...
The Extended Compact Genetic Algorithm comes along, and it doesnt use less space at all (it uses slightly more space than a bog standard GA!), and its still actually an EDA instead of a GA, but make no mistake.. this is currently the Gold Standard of evolutionary optimization algorithms.
The reason this happens is because people doing the research are not married to methodology. They are married to the field of optimization. They care more about the rate of information propagation and the amount of storage space required rather than they do the technical details of how it happens. The Compact Genetic Algorithm propagates the same information at precisely the same rate as a Simple GA with Uniform Crossover, and uses less space.. and that information is more important than the methodology.
This BBC video on the McGurk Effect will knock your socks off. What you 'see' effects what you 'hear.'
In the case of evolutionary optimization algorithms, they jumped onto the Bayesian bandwagon in 1999 but they jumped off it only one year later.. onto the much larger Shannon bandwagon.
You are confusing notation with representation. Just because we truncated all those zeros on the left and right of the number in our notation is irrelevant. The infinite number of 0's to the left and to the right are encoded, implicitly, in the notation that we use.
Sony Online Entertainment? No thanks.
As far as /usr/bin vs /usr/local/bin vs /bin vs /opt, windows doesnt have a conceptual differentiation between 'official' parts of the 'distribution' and programs the user installs that are not an 'official' part of it, although quite a few things that I guess would be considered 'expected to always be there' are in %WINDIR% such as regedit, notepad, explorer, etc.. but more than a few times I've seen Microsoft employees lament the fact that its necessary to keep those programs there because so much legacy software hardcodes that path that its just not worth breaking so many programs.
.. and if its machine-specific (avoiding network mount) then %LOCALAPPDATA%
...and 'documents', that being user generated content, should be under %USERPROFILE% or %ALLUSERSPROFILE%
Pretty much all programs static data (executables, and so on) should be going under %ProgramFiles% while dynamic data shared by all users that normally shouldnt be tinkered with by the user should be going under %ProgramData% and if its per-user stuff then %APPDATA%
I know the naming kinda sucks (but these are just the environment variable names) and the actual locations that these token point to are inconsistent between versions of the OS..
In C++ (or most other HLL's) you would use SHGetSpecialFolderPath() with the proper CSIDL or the newer (not supported in XP and earlier) SHGetKnownFolderPath() with the proper KNOWNFOLDERID
You will note that Windows has attempted to standardize across applications the locations of various common document types (pictures, videos, etc..) There are both pro's and con's to this.. it is what it is, good or bad.
The point I was trying to make is that a linux developer was fairly careless, even reckless, when it came to dumping files in his windows port. At the time this was an issue, the recommendation on the Electric Sheep forums was to run the screensaver as administrator or turn off UAC on Vista because otherwise it failed to work (worked fine on XP only running as administrator, of course.) The screensaver went for months in this insane state, even though the solution was trivial and obvious. This is a programmer that had no problem loading up a video codec and leveraging it.. a good programmer turned into a moron as soon as he was targeting windows.
You would only try padding by 8 extra bytes if you knew that that was a problem to begin with, so no need trying it.. you just do it at that point. Its when you have no idea why the program is behaving incorrectly, not doing what its told, that its now a nightmare that does not suggest 'pad by 8 extra bytes in that custom allocator we wrote 6 years ago that never ever gave us a problem before'
Plenty of electric cars and hybrids are coming from Japan... Nissan Leaf, Mitsubishi i-MiEV, Toyota Prius plug-in, etc.
Funny that you should mention Toyota.. whose EV engine design do you think is in the second generation Toyota RAV4 EV?
Toyota went to Tesla for their EV engine. Thats whose engine is in the RAV4 EV.
Funny that the data doesnt shows a "dismantling [of] our manufacturing industry."
Our manufacturing industry simply evolved towards automation. We make more than we ever did before, its just that we use fewer man hours than we used to. Even small machine shops that used to employ a few dozen people now employ only a couple of people total who monitor CNC machines, but these small machine shops now output more product than they ever did using manual labor, and its made to tighter specifications than ever before too.
I worked in a shop where many employees were grinding some carbide cutting tools that needed to be within a spec of +/- 2 ten thousandths of an inch destined for Pratt and Whitney's jet engine manufacturing facility. There was lots of waste because it was exceedingly difficult to consistently make parts with such a tight specification. That same shop now uses a single CNC machine to make the same part, has almost no waste at all, and only needs a single person to oversee the machine periodically (the person can oversee dozens of machines.)
That, my friend, is what happened to American manufacturing. We didn't stop making stuff. We just stopped using people to do it.
The crazy non-intuitive part is that the decline of freedom didnt really happen until the American civil war, a war that was on the face of it all about expanding freedom to include all men and women.
The problem with the civil war was that it was the usurping of States rights by the Federal government. Everything changed from that point forward. The States could no longer over-rule the Federal government, completely contrary to the constitution, which didnt give the Federal government rule over anything not explicitly defined within, in fact making any other authority completely verboten.
Sure, its easily argued that freeing the slaves was a good thing, but good intentions are exactly how rights are eroded.
..because when a developer uses windows, they suddenly do really stupid shit.
/windows/system32/) .. it was the author of the electric sheep screensaver that did this really boneheaded thing. They wouldnt even dream of doing something like that under a *nix, but there they are doing it on windows...
.. which I suspect is likely considering their battle with memory leaks .. so it allocates an extra sizeof(awesomeness) and returns (byte *)pointer + sizeof(awesomeness) .. well thats fine in win32, but can break in win64 if the resulting pointer makes it way to a picky api that require alignment to the 16 byte boundary expected on 64-bit systems.
I recall a programmer porting from linux to windows that decided it was a good idea to install to and write data out to a system folder (I think it was
Anyways, I suspect many of the bugs in mozillas 64-bit build that arent in the 32-bit build stem from the fact that in win32 the malloc alignment is 8 whereas on win64 the malloc alignment is 16, and that some API calls expect pointers aligned to these.
So suppose they have a custom allocator that prefixes memory blocks with 8 bytes of awesomeness (reference count, etc..)
If the picky api raises an exception then its easy to troubleshoot and solve, but not all api's are allowed to throw exceptions at their callers, so instead they return an error code that was perhaps unexpected and thus maybe handled improperly and now its not an easy troubleshoot, instead its a debugging nightmare.
a 32-bit tablet, of course.
Your sense of scale is somewhat out of whack if you are comparing tax deductions on child care (which allows people to work while providing jobs for child carers) to industrial tax evasion by some of the largest companies in the world (which allows tens of thousands of people to work and provides jobs for many dozens of specialties.)
Fixed that vitriol for you.
In the United States, 35 million families (I looked it up) each getting $5000 per year in nontaxable daycare compensation (95% of employers offer it), which would have been at the individuals highest marginal rate (its off the top, after all), well thats a lot of fucking missing tax revenue, and just one kind of domestic tax shelter that individuals exploit.
I think your sense of scale is whats in doubt, or that you really don't understand why tax policies are what they are, including the taxes on corporations. Taxes are used to reward and punish the behaviors of both individuals and corporations. This is most often implemented as a high base rate (punishment by default) with deductions (reward if the behavior qualifies.) Businesses are ALLOWED to do what they do, just like individuals are ALLOWED to do what you do, AS A REWARD.
If your 5 year old kid still pees his pants, then you are probably a bad parent and perhaps the law should get involved.
Not only is she 9 years old, but she never actually SUCCESSFULLY pirated anything. She never broke any law.
Says who?
Someone on the local side of these peoples internet connection joined the swarm for the file in question. Thats how the RIAA/MPAA got their IP address. This could not have been done without a torrent client. The file was, in fact, being downloaded by someone at their IP address. Maybe it never completed, but I find that kinda far fetched.
The most likely scenario is that the girl downloaded some songs that she wanted, the father later found out about it and scolder her while deleting the files, and then he went out and legally purchased the music that she wanted in order to reinforce the "just ask us" mode. Everything else is just the father and the content owners telling each other to go fuck themselves in the best way they can (lies by one, and police involvement by the other)
No, they funnel their money through domestic tax shelters.
Pretty much any 'fringe benefit' you get at work is not counted as gross income and thus not taxable from the employees perspective. At the same time the cost of these fringe benefits is tax deductible by the employer.
Drive a company car? You are avoiding payroll taxes by accepting a portion of your income as reduced personal costs.
Use the companies daycare? You are avoiding payroll taxes by accepting a portion of your income as reduced personal costs.
Does your company provide food and/or beverages? You are avoiding payroll taxes by accepting a portion of your income as reduced personal costs.
Does your company have a fitness center, or contract out for preferred rates at the local gym? You are avoiding payroll taxes by accepting a portion of your income as reduced personal costs.
The fact is that individuals do not consider these benefits 'income' but they are, none-the-less, part of your compensation package and should be taxable under your fucked up sense of morality.
I mean, what problems are they trying to solve?
The problem they are tackling is finding a justification for ever increasing budgets.