The point is that if you get WAGES of $10MM then you pay 35%. If you get stock options you pay 0% until you cash them out. All these people riding Apple and Google at $$$$ per share aren't PAYING anything on the increase in wealth... As long as they keep money in the game. Working people pay the tax as soon as they get the money, up front. If a person has wages at $100k a year, they are hitting 50% range when all the taxes of daily life add up. Somebody getting capital gains is ONLY getting hit for the 35% once... On millions.
If you have ten workers at $100k you are getting $500k in taxes. If you have one guy with a million in capital gain you get $350k-400k in taxes. There is no way that person is going to blow another $100k of their money on "sales tax" for anything.
The entire argument misses the entire point of people that sit on BILLIONS but don't actually "make money" because taxes are only paid when CASH comes out. I can have $1 billion in the bank, but if I only take a few million out a year for expenses, the rest sits untaxed. That's the REAL PROBLRM, all the wealth sitting around being protected, but not taxed. It's tied up in corporate vaults and not.moving around where it can be taxed.
Capitalism is the term Karl Mark used to define a system where aggregation of Capital was used to leverage working terms over labor. For instance one fashion dress is artistic, 100 of the same dress, using the same materials, is a sweatshop. What one person calls economy of scale is getting more value for lower cost labor.
It's the idea that because I have more money, I deserve some kind of better deal than somebody else. In short, it is the definition of trying to break the rules of a Free Market system.
But Apple wasn't the damager. They paid for and were granted a legal design patent. British Judges should understand how grants and titles work. Apple made a legally sound claim that Samsung's tablet infringed on the Patent the Government granted them. That's a very specific, defensible claim. It stands as valid, even if a Judge disagrees.
In fact, saying the device was "not as cool" completely misses the point that Samsung intentionally did a few things differently to avoid a legal challenge. Wait for it... Now that Sansung is winning these cases, the next tablets will move the configuration to be just like iPad's because that's a "common" way of doing things.
But Samsung DID copy iPad. Flat out. The judge was only ruling on the legality of PATENTS Apple applied for that would prevent Samsung from selling the device... That's a much higher standard of evidence. He was not ruling on the INTENT that Samsung TRIED to copy as close as they could while leaving the legal minimum of differences.
He's a JUDGE. Such a lack of basic judicial understanding is reckless. His proposal is LESS factual than Apple's claim that their design patent was infringed.
The new owner failed from internal CORRUPTION 90 days after the deal was signed. Somebody wasn't paying attention!
I'm surprised Dagon couldn't get the company right back in bankrupcy court because essentially they were paid with fraudulent terms. If the terms were worthless, why couldn't the court just unroll the deal.
The red flag was changing to all stock near the end of the deal. If they had the cash, they could have bought their piece back. Alternately, you do a staggered buyout where the whole deal takes a year to complete. If somebody can't pay, or books are cooked the thing comes apart.
That Goldman didnt show up for meetings where these thing occurred, and tell them to pull out immediately is where the negligence lies.
No, but I'd make sure I swindled the producer out of half their contractual take. Then claim that since I paid them "a lot" of money there was no need for ALL of it....
Not to be picky, but Islam wasn't founded until a few hundred years after Christianity. They have nothing to do with the Ishmael in the Bible.
The descendants of Ishmael include some peoples of the Arabian peninsula, but the other groups in the region have been distinct since before Abraham's time. Egypt, Babylon (Iraq), Persia (Iran), Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine are all ancient races. there are also other groups descended from Abraham. Issac had Jacob and Esau, Esau is still a "child" of Abraham even if not part of "Israel" (Jacob's new name).
There is a large movement that everything in the world is the boggeyman or Satan in disguise. So it's only safe to buy stuff if you can't be tempted by bad things. This company is a large Christian book seller and publisher, just catering to their market.
The people that would buy this wouldn't set foot in Barnes and Noble anyway because the have all sorts of "unholy" books there, even books about SEX. They certianly wouldn't be going to Amazon (on their 56k dial-up).
Does that apply to the OTA networks as well? Cable doesn't have any contracts with NBC, ABC, CBS OTA stations... They get those for retransmission FREE. Why would Hulu need proof of cable for those?
All the rest of the stuff is "Web Only" 1/2 the time. Great.
But there are only so many customers of that stuff. Microsoft has failed to build any of that into CONSUMER devices. Microsoft wants $100+ checks per user for each of those...
If no CONSUMERS have the tools, there are no kids out there doing great stuff... That aren't tied to some company payroll. Even if kids were out there, consumer devices would compete with the enterprise devices where the big checks get written.
Microsoft made the CHOICE to be an INSTITUTIONAL sales organization, not a consumer one a decade ago. They wanted the fat steady checks from 1000 PCs at a time, or from selling tools to developers, websites, etc... Those tools are now SO EXPENSIVE that there is little GROWTH for $100,000 solutions.
Apple lost the business and school market a decade ago. They had to make due selling to EACH PERSON, not just winning one boss with 1000 workers over.
Well Apple's Mountain Lion is $19 for starts. Even if you had to buy Lion at $29 at's still less than the traditional Windows upgrade.
I think there will be FEW upgrades this round because Microsoft wants Windows 8 tied to the proper hardware. I think they are making the consumer push first to grab some hardware sales, companies aren't going to upgrade for 6-12 months anyway.
But drones are flown by operators in windowless offices... They don't have a sense of "space". They get number from ABC agency and maybe a Satillite picture.. They don't "need to know" the rest.
All you'd have to do is keep corrupting some of the GPS signals. Just "lean" it off course. The operator only has numbers... They won't KNOW they are not flying in a line, which is why it wouldn't work for airplanes so well because pilots usually know where they are going by sight.
Also, they use drones specifically because they use a lot of non-military hardware. Mostly because it's cheaper, but also so the truly secret stuff doesn't get lost. While a plane may have those security features, I'd doubt they put that on drones.
If this was a speeding ticket it would have at least 100% in fees and interest added. Microsoft made money on the appeal, more in just interest than the lawyers got paid.
That said the EU could do some REAL HARM if they string armed the money in the next 30 days. That would upset the decision makers enough to bungle all the Win8 launches.
If they were really serious, the first crew would be for setup. You would be able to give them 100% + extra resources for establishing the base up front.
I think the problem is that much like founding America, trailblazers are supposed to be followed by supplies and crew at regular intervals. There were lots of problems where one crew would come ahead, then the crew to follow would never have LEFT to bring supplies.
Mixing manned missions and supply missions might help too. You can pack a lot of supplies of you don't have to keep people alive in space 2 years. if they were really clever, they would launch supply and robot scouting missions first so the settlers had plenty of equipment on the ground when they got there.
Personally, they should also build a space station over Mars before landing people. Again. They might not have fuel to return, but the "could" be rescued. And they can verify equipment is working befor landing it. A chain of Solar-synchronous stations in the orbit between Eatrh and Mars might not be bad either... Basically glorified lifeboats at the mission halfway points.
That's bull. Their Nation claimed land to roam. It wasnt always fixed but it was "theirs". That's like saying Yellowstone isn't "American" because very few people populate the area. Right, fair is fair? In reality, Americans wanted vast tracts of land for their ANIMALS to roam.
Most of the settlers were no better. They drug their "dick in the dirt" and made a square rather than marking from thatbriver to those rocks.
Texans were clearly illegal American immigrants to Mexico. The handful at the Alamo were legal, but not following Mexican law, and actively encouraging more Americans to "just come". And the US Army refused to stop them, just like they refused to stop American settlers from setting up shop on Indian lands by treaty. The USA was BUILT on immigration... A fair share illegal takeover by white people AFTER boundaries were established.
But they wouldn't be here if there wasn't good money doing your laundry, grooming the country club, mowing you lawn, building your McMansions, etc. they wouldn't stay there unless the citizens were taking advantage of their status to evade taxes. Which would recover good chunk of those benefits.
But you can't GET one unless you are here legally to give the DMV the correct paperwork. And that is something anybody legal would have handy. So that is reasonable.
But we know this isn't about pulling folks in nice cars over on the interstate. This is about street patrols SPECIFICALLY in Hispanic neighborhoods for "papers please" checks. I can WALK down any street in the USA without ID and am ASSUMED to be a CITIZEN and treated as such. You can play the game of detaining people for "papers please" but when it's walkers on the street or on their block you are WAY overstepping... And they know it. Cops certainly aren't going to pool parties in gated communities for "ID checks" but the law is INTENDED. To set up shop when illegals take their little US Citizen to school the first day.
Except that means ALL state issued licenses should be valid because States are CONSTITUTIONALLY required to do so. THAT is where the law gets VERY sticky. They clearly INTEND to hassle a Mexican resident with a Michigan license. THAT is the denial of Constitutionally guaranteed "fair passage" of citizens between states.
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If you make $40k a year it's only about 3 hours of work per month.
The point is that if you get WAGES of $10MM then you pay 35%. If you get stock options you pay 0% until you cash them out. All these people riding Apple and Google at $$$$ per share aren't PAYING anything on the increase in wealth... As long as they keep money in the game. Working people pay the tax as soon as they get the money, up front. If a person has wages at $100k a year, they are hitting 50% range when all the taxes of daily life add up. Somebody getting capital gains is ONLY getting hit for the 35% once... On millions.
If you have ten workers at $100k you are getting $500k in taxes. If you have one guy with a million in capital gain you get $350k-400k in taxes. There is no way that person is going to blow another $100k of their money on "sales tax" for anything.
The entire argument misses the entire point of people that sit on BILLIONS but don't actually "make money" because taxes are only paid when CASH comes out. I can have $1 billion in the bank, but if I only take a few million out a year for expenses, the rest sits untaxed. That's the REAL PROBLRM, all the wealth sitting around being protected, but not taxed. It's tied up in corporate vaults and not.moving around where it can be taxed.
Capitalism is the term Karl Mark used to define a system where aggregation of Capital was used to leverage working terms over labor. For instance one fashion dress is artistic, 100 of the same dress, using the same materials, is a sweatshop. What one person calls economy of scale is getting more value for lower cost labor.
It's the idea that because I have more money, I deserve some kind of better deal than somebody else. In short, it is the definition of trying to break the rules of a Free Market system.
But Apple wasn't the damager. They paid for and were granted a legal design patent. British Judges should understand how grants and titles work. Apple made a legally sound claim that Samsung's tablet infringed on the Patent the Government granted them. That's a very specific, defensible claim. It stands as valid, even if a Judge disagrees.
In fact, saying the device was "not as cool" completely misses the point that Samsung intentionally did a few things differently to avoid a legal challenge. Wait for it... Now that Sansung is winning these cases, the next tablets will move the configuration to be just like iPad's because that's a "common" way of doing things.
But Samsung DID copy iPad. Flat out. The judge was only ruling on the legality of PATENTS Apple applied for that would prevent Samsung from selling the device... That's a much higher standard of evidence. He was not ruling on the INTENT that Samsung TRIED to copy as close as they could while leaving the legal minimum of differences.
He's a JUDGE. Such a lack of basic judicial understanding is reckless. His proposal is LESS factual than Apple's claim that their design patent was infringed.
The new owner failed from internal CORRUPTION 90 days after the deal was signed. Somebody wasn't paying attention!
I'm surprised Dagon couldn't get the company right back in bankrupcy court because essentially they were paid with fraudulent terms. If the terms were worthless, why couldn't the court just unroll the deal.
The red flag was changing to all stock near the end of the deal. If they had the cash, they could have bought their piece
back. Alternately, you do a staggered buyout where the whole deal takes a year to complete. If somebody can't pay, or books are cooked the thing comes apart.
That Goldman didnt show up for meetings where these thing occurred, and tell them to pull out immediately is where the negligence lies.
No, but I'd make sure I swindled the producer out of half their contractual take. Then claim that since I paid them "a lot" of money there was no need for ALL of it....
That is similar to copying a DVD.
Not to be picky, but Islam wasn't founded until a few hundred years after Christianity. They have nothing to do with the Ishmael in the Bible.
The descendants of Ishmael include some peoples of the Arabian peninsula, but the other groups in the region have been distinct since before Abraham's time. Egypt, Babylon (Iraq), Persia (Iran), Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine are all ancient races. there are also other groups descended from Abraham. Issac had Jacob and Esau, Esau is still a "child" of Abraham even if not part of "Israel" (Jacob's new name).
There is a large movement that everything in the world is the boggeyman or Satan in disguise. So it's only safe to buy stuff if you can't be tempted by bad things. This company is a large Christian book seller and publisher, just catering to their market.
The people that would buy this wouldn't set foot in Barnes and Noble anyway because the have all sorts of "unholy" books there, even books about SEX. They certianly wouldn't be going to Amazon (on their 56k dial-up).
And only properly married, monogamous couples.
Does that apply to the OTA networks as well? Cable doesn't have any contracts with NBC, ABC, CBS OTA stations... They get those for retransmission FREE. Why would Hulu need proof of cable for those?
All the rest of the stuff is "Web Only" 1/2 the time. Great.
But there are only so many customers of that stuff. Microsoft has failed to build any of that into CONSUMER devices. Microsoft wants $100+ checks per user for each of those...
If no CONSUMERS have the tools, there are no kids out there doing great stuff... That aren't tied to some company payroll. Even if kids were out there, consumer devices would compete with the enterprise devices where the big checks get written.
Microsoft made the CHOICE to be an INSTITUTIONAL sales organization, not a consumer one a decade ago. They wanted the fat steady checks from 1000 PCs at a time, or from selling tools to developers, websites, etc... Those tools are now SO EXPENSIVE that there is little GROWTH for $100,000 solutions.
Apple lost the business and school market a decade ago. They had to make due selling to EACH PERSON, not just winning one boss with 1000 workers over.
A year late.
Kinect was hacked to run on darn near anything in a few WEEKS after it shipped. It took Microsoft a year to admit it was useful for other things.
Apple's Mountian Lion Gold Master was released today as well.
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/07/09/apple-releases-mountain-lion-gold-master-to-developers/
It will probably SHIP this month too.
There are only 192-194 countries... Who's left out?
Well Apple's Mountain Lion is $19 for starts. Even if you had to buy Lion at $29 at's still less than the traditional Windows upgrade.
I think there will be FEW upgrades this round because Microsoft wants Windows 8 tied to the proper hardware. I think they are making the consumer push first to grab some hardware sales, companies aren't going to upgrade for 6-12 months anyway.
Wonder if they could set the "Slashdot green" to get "hotter" as the discussion goes on?
But drones are flown by operators in windowless offices... They don't have a sense of "space". They get number from ABC agency and maybe a Satillite picture.. They don't "need to know" the rest.
All you'd have to do is keep corrupting some of the GPS signals. Just "lean" it off course. The operator only has numbers... They won't KNOW they are not flying in a line, which is why it wouldn't work for airplanes so well because pilots usually know where they are going by sight.
Also, they use drones specifically because they use a lot of non-military hardware. Mostly because it's cheaper, but also so the truly secret stuff doesn't get lost. While a plane may have those security features, I'd doubt they put that on drones.
If this was a speeding ticket it would have at least 100% in fees and interest added. Microsoft made money on the appeal, more in just interest than the lawyers got paid.
That said the EU could do some REAL HARM if they string armed the money in the next 30 days. That would upset the decision makers enough to bungle all the Win8 launches.
If they were really serious, the first crew would be for setup. You would be able to give them 100% + extra resources for establishing the base up front.
I think the problem is that much like founding America, trailblazers are supposed to be followed by supplies and crew at regular intervals. There were lots of problems where one crew would come ahead, then the crew to follow would never have LEFT to bring supplies.
Mixing manned missions and supply missions might help too. You can pack a lot of supplies of you don't have to keep people alive in space 2 years. if they were really clever, they would launch supply and robot scouting missions first so the settlers had plenty of equipment on the ground when they got there.
Personally, they should also build a space station over Mars before landing people. Again. They might not have fuel to return, but the "could" be rescued. And they can verify equipment is working befor landing it. A chain of Solar-synchronous stations in the orbit between Eatrh and Mars might not be bad either... Basically glorified lifeboats at the mission halfway points.
That's bull. Their Nation claimed land to roam. It wasnt always fixed but it was "theirs". That's like saying Yellowstone isn't "American" because very few people populate the area. Right, fair is fair? In reality, Americans wanted vast tracts of land for their ANIMALS to roam.
Most of the settlers were no better. They drug their "dick in the dirt" and made a square rather than marking from thatbriver to those rocks.
Texans were clearly illegal American immigrants to Mexico. The handful at the Alamo were legal, but not following Mexican law, and actively encouraging more Americans to "just come". And the US Army refused to stop them, just like they refused to stop American settlers from setting up shop on Indian lands by treaty. The USA was BUILT on immigration... A fair share illegal takeover by white people AFTER boundaries were established.
But they wouldn't be here if there wasn't good money doing your laundry, grooming the country club, mowing you lawn, building your McMansions, etc. they wouldn't stay there unless the citizens were taking advantage of their status to evade taxes. Which would recover good chunk of those benefits.
But you can't GET one unless you are here legally to give the DMV the correct paperwork. And that is something anybody legal would have handy. So that is reasonable.
But we know this isn't about pulling folks in nice cars over on the interstate. This is about street patrols SPECIFICALLY in Hispanic neighborhoods for "papers please" checks. I can WALK down any street in the USA without ID and am ASSUMED to be a CITIZEN and treated as such. You can play the game of detaining people for "papers please" but when it's walkers on the street or on their block you are WAY overstepping... And they know it. Cops certainly aren't going to pool parties in gated communities for "ID checks" but the law is INTENDED. To set up shop when illegals take their little US Citizen to school the first day.
Except that means ALL state issued licenses should be valid because States are CONSTITUTIONALLY required to do so. THAT is where the law gets VERY sticky. They clearly INTEND to hassle a Mexican resident with a Michigan license. THAT is the denial of Constitutionally guaranteed "fair passage" of citizens between states.