Ireland is one of Europe's tax havens. In fact, the Maasticht treaty (the start of the Euro) still forces the European countries to compete in tax giveaways to foreign corporations. So the Irish are used to being screwed over. Just not by the weather.
Well, that's the beauty of a world-wide network. A person can be sitting in front of a terminal in the U.S. and do business from, say, Europe because he has put a web server there that does all his transactions. I am really curious as to what would happen if he put his web server in orbit, outside any country. Or on an asteroid.
In fact, pilots of armed drones can kill someone in another country. The law can only make sense if the owner/controller has to comply with laws of both the residential country AND the country the action took place. When selling something on the internet, that would also include the laws of the person at the other end of the transaction.
Exactly. Wouldn't it have made more sense to file the patents as prior art? As it is now, those patents are like nuclear weapons: never to be used, but always ready to fall into the wrong hands.
The dollar is good for all debts public and private.
That may be true, but the bail-outs learn us that your dollar is good for someone else's debts. Cutting out the evil middle men can only improve the situation.
People that start their analysis with Marx puzzle me. Why?
I don't know why that puzzles you.
"Das Kapital" has a few sections. The first, pompous theoretical section is all right to skip. But after that, he gives awful examples of the situation is his days, with references. Some of these references are government studies, which are now available on-line if you want to check them. This section really shows what the background was against which the book was written.
Also, the book describes the situation in the 19th century UK. Our economic theory is largely based on that situation, because it was so extreme. But that was what it really was: extreme. The reason to put goods over people in the 19th century was a simple one: the steam engine. A steam engine cannot be switched on and of at will. Yes you can stop the machine and let the steam escape, but it takes a night of burning fuel before the vast amount of water is boiling to produce the steam.
Other countries (the Netherlands, for example), were not so dependent on coal as the UK, and mainly used wind and water for their power. There is a big difference between the power sources: you can easily stop a wind- or water mill. It is not a coincidence that the steam engine was perfected in the UK.
It is the steam engine that has directly led to mass production and mass consumption. In fact, the British steam engines have disrupted world-wide markets, as the British traded (and exploited) around the globe. They had to. Their engines dictated it. It is therefore quite funny that modern economics are still preaching mass consumption and production, even though we can now use diesel power which is more powerful and again gives us the flexibility to re-introduce the human perspective again. In other words: you can easily shut down a diesel engine and call it a day, starting it again the next morning when you go to work.
I don't know if it is controversial. More jobs is just a number, and numbers aren't holy. In "Das Kapital", Marx describes that in 19th century England machines existed to wipe chimneys, but little boys were cheaper. Common sense tells us that a too high minimum wage will make people unemployed, and a too low minimum wage will exploit them. Exploited people are still dependent on welfare and crime, thereby destabilizing society. Nothing new here.
It would surprise me if the relation was anything else than social. The same social groups that drink energy drinks also use more drugs. If there is a hard reason for this, my first guess would be to look at the income.
If the users asked for all the privacy-invading anti-features of Firefox, then why do the Firefox users always ask how to disable them? I can't imagine anyone asking for the AwfulBar, disappearing of menues, lots of code for site subscriptions you'll never want anyway, and so on.
"The most volcanism that is going in the world at present is in regions that have only recently lost their glacier covering – after the end of the last ice age. These places include Iceland and Alaska. Theory suggests that this is occurring because, without ice sheets on top of them, there is a release of pressure on the regions’ volcanoes and they become more active."
And the same lesson is learned over and over again: Google got away with it. What are laws worth if the big privacy criminals have no reason whatsoever to follow them?
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Ireland is one of Europe's tax havens. In fact, the Maasticht treaty (the start of the Euro) still forces the European countries to compete in tax giveaways to foreign corporations. So the Irish are used to being screwed over. Just not by the weather.
Well, that's the beauty of a world-wide network. A person can be sitting in front of a terminal in the U.S. and do business from, say, Europe because he has put a web server there that does all his transactions. I am really curious as to what would happen if he put his web server in orbit, outside any country. Or on an asteroid.
In fact, pilots of armed drones can kill someone in another country. The law can only make sense if the owner/controller has to comply with laws of both the residential country AND the country the action took place. When selling something on the internet, that would also include the laws of the person at the other end of the transaction.
Hey, nobody said it would be easy.
... you no longer consent ...
I don't think that anyone consented to share their data with Equifax in the first place.
But the only drawback is that, as it is an existing type of aircraft, nobody would call it a flying car.
But I worry when Oracle buys them someday...
Exactly. Wouldn't it have made more sense to file the patents as prior art? As it is now, those patents are like nuclear weapons: never to be used, but always ready to fall into the wrong hands.
You can't stop progress
Nonsense, the president of the U.S. is doing exactly that and is world famous for it.
"the time has come for Open Markets and (New) America to part ways."
Apart from the spelling error (either America or "the New World"), I'd mod this a slow news day...
The dollar is good for all debts public and private.
That may be true, but the bail-outs learn us that your dollar is good for someone else's debts. Cutting out the evil middle men can only improve the situation.
Yet another reason to switch to Pale Moon if you haven't already done so.
Hate Crime
Is that a bellythinkful thoughtcrime?
So true. It is a waste of drinking water.
People that start their analysis with Marx puzzle me. Why?
I don't know why that puzzles you.
"Das Kapital" has a few sections. The first, pompous theoretical section is all right to skip. But after that, he gives awful examples of the situation is his days, with references. Some of these references are government studies, which are now available on-line if you want to check them. This section really shows what the background was against which the book was written.
Also, the book describes the situation in the 19th century UK. Our economic theory is largely based on that situation, because it was so extreme. But that was what it really was: extreme. The reason to put goods over people in the 19th century was a simple one: the steam engine. A steam engine cannot be switched on and of at will. Yes you can stop the machine and let the steam escape, but it takes a night of burning fuel before the vast amount of water is boiling to produce the steam.
Other countries (the Netherlands, for example), were not so dependent on coal as the UK, and mainly used wind and water for their power. There is a big difference between the power sources: you can easily stop a wind- or water mill. It is not a coincidence that the steam engine was perfected in the UK.
It is the steam engine that has directly led to mass production and mass consumption. In fact, the British steam engines have disrupted world-wide markets, as the British traded (and exploited) around the globe. They had to. Their engines dictated it. It is therefore quite funny that modern economics are still preaching mass consumption and production, even though we can now use diesel power which is more powerful and again gives us the flexibility to re-introduce the human perspective again. In other words: you can easily shut down a diesel engine and call it a day, starting it again the next morning when you go to work.
I don't know if it is controversial. More jobs is just a number, and numbers aren't holy. In "Das Kapital", Marx describes that in 19th century England machines existed to wipe chimneys, but little boys were cheaper. Common sense tells us that a too high minimum wage will make people unemployed, and a too low minimum wage will exploit them. Exploited people are still dependent on welfare and crime, thereby destabilizing society. Nothing new here.
It would surprise me if the relation was anything else than social. The same social groups that drink energy drinks also use more drugs. If there is a hard reason for this, my first guess would be to look at the income.
That can't be right. If James Bond's gadgets ran Windows, he would have died in the first movie.
If the users asked for all the privacy-invading anti-features of Firefox, then why do the Firefox users always ask how to disable them? I can't imagine anyone asking for the AwfulBar, disappearing of menues, lots of code for site subscriptions you'll never want anyway, and so on.
Well, since corporations are legally people or at least people-ish, why can't they have an opinion?
From the article:
"The most volcanism that is going in the world at present is in regions that have only recently lost their glacier covering – after the end of the last ice age. These places include Iceland and Alaska. Theory suggests that this is occurring because, without ice sheets on top of them, there is a release of pressure on the regions’ volcanoes and they become more active."
Not entirely unimportant, I think.
But it can free us from dependence on Russian gas.
Single Cow Burger? I prefer my meat to be decently married.
I think that if you look at a drug dealer's income, you will find him very honourable.
And the same lesson is learned over and over again: Google got away with it. What are laws worth if the big privacy criminals have no reason whatsoever to follow them?
You must be the one watering the plants.
If you can read Dutch, this article explains you only need a chair and a plant to use the Dutch tax haven.
It could just be that buying the elections from the Russians is cheaper than buying the politicians directly.
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(pun intended)