Exon, Shell, Cargill, GE, Siemens, Bayer, BASF, Rockwell, Boeing, and the list goes on and on, and on...
I have not even started the fact that raw materials is now split into three major players; BHP, Glencore, and Rio.
So actually your argument is bogus, and there are way too many large corporations controlling too few resources. BTW google for the control influence poster that showed how few corporations control so much global wealth.
Oh give me a break, Dynabook? Is this Microsoft "marketing" in action? Yes Yes I know the term came somewhere else, but I am doing a jab. I happen to own a tablet (Android and iPad), smart phone (iPhone and Android), and computers (OSX and Linux). The reality of the matter is that the Surface Pro is NOT a device to get things done. It is not a device to program, unless you edit with a text editor, and don't want to compile and debug. I have gone through many of these iterations and the reality is that all of these devices are separate devices. The idea that Microsoft thinks you can create an all in one is just plain stupid.
I have bought more hardware than most and owned my first laptop in 1991. And the reality is that it is like NoSQL databases, where you can have two of three attributes, not all. So you can either have battery and power, but not lightweight ease of carry. Or you can have lightweight and battery, but not power. Only Microsoft would create a half arsed job to try and create something with all three. In fact if I had to critique Microsoft it is their lunatic attitude that you can create software that follows the 80/20 rule and still be cool.
How is, "shorter battery life", "vents", "to warm to hold", "unstable on a lap" FUD? Look if you don't like iPads fine, don't like iPads. But don't go slamming the review for telling the truth. Microsoft creating this abortion of a device to try to marry two technologies, which are separate technologies. We can argue that iPads are too expensive and have other short comings. But there are plenty of Android tablets that can fill the gap. Heck an Asus is much better than this Microsoft device.
I can understand your context, but I would say we did pass smalltalk. Sure at the time it was rocket science, but what bothered me then, and still does today is the fact that small talk wants to rewrite mathematical precedence. As an engineer I thought, "ok screw that language". But for the idea of a running VM, with edit, debug, etc, yeah you can say Smalltalk was the basis, or at least got it going on an industrial level.
Screw YOU! Seriously I was around coding with QuickC, Quick Basic, EMACS, VI (before it became VIM). You know the days when moving the cursor meant using the keyboard not that wussy easy reference called the arrow keys.
I am extremely happy about having code wizards because I remember the days we had to use printf's for debugging as the debugger meant going down to assembly. It was not pretty and it was downright difficult to code, debug, and run. Sure I got hair on my chest, but I would gladly trade it in for actually getting things done!
I don't code in C and C++ anymore because I actually like to get my program to work. I am not dissing C++ as I am telling my brother to learn C++ as his first programming language. For him C++ is excellent because he works with robots, and industrial automation and in that context Java, and non low level languages can have problems. But for application programming its all about Java, C#, etc...
You are such an ignorant person that it is not even funny. The problem here is that people like to stretch things. And even the most intelligent, or knowledgable will get biased towards their own opinions without checking facts. For example I often will debate somebody and that other person will make an assertion, "like most people do this." I ask, really you got facts to back this up? Answer no they don't. Thus by putting the fact checker beside the person talking at least we can get back to the facts.
So how often has spacex flown? Oh yeah once! This is why I dislike musk. He thinks by doing once maybe twice, all problems are solved. Like his tesla cars. You would think from him that all of the world is driving electrical cars. Oh wait they are not, and the 787 has flown more than once.
Yeah I know and this is why I interact as little as possible with expats!!!! I have been a foreigner for most of my life, and even in my "home" country I am a foreigner. But what gets me are expats that come into a country and behave like the locals need to adapt to them. I say F**K YOU! The locals don't need to do squat for you.
I have lived in many countries in vacation or expat areas and have learned that the locals look at you with a double face, nice to you to take your money, but speak ill of you when your back is turned. When you attempt to integrate with them, learn their language you will still be that foreigner, but the foreigner they will say to their friends "he's ok he is one of us."
Of course there are exceptions to the rule (eg Saudi Arabia) and trying to interact with the locals is going to be more complicated. HOWEVER, you can still try, and still hope a bit... Remember as an expat it is your behavior that the locals will remember and propagate. So if you are an Anglo who behaves like an Anglo, they will forever hate Anglo's....
BTW before you say, "Oh Farley Mowatt a man of fiction..." He postulated many things that later proved to be correct. He is a man of history who combines it with some reasoned leap of faith or as I like to call it deduced reasoning.
You are missing the posters point. If we have the ability to reproduce much faster than we are not able to stop the mass of people.
Let me illustrate, and PLEASE nobody call this racism.
How many children are produced in the Western world? How many children are produced in the emerging world? Who is the less ignorant? BTW I use ignorant, and not less intelligent here. Drum roll, less children in western world, and less ignorant people in the western world. You could argue that the western world is being drowned out by ignorant emerging world people. The irony here is that as we become more knowleagable we produce less children, dooming our society so to speak. However, with enough generations that ignorance is removed.
In essence the Neanderthal could have indeed been the one with the more brains or life experience or what you want to call it. But they were drowned out by the number of people reproducing. Remember that back then people used clubs on each other and there was not much civility.
The problem with science and scientists is that they are money losing ventures. Scientists are not rich, they talk in very complicated manners, and do not come to conclusions! Scientists know the world is complex and all problems are complex and solved in a piecemeal manner.
Its much easier to say, "And I am here to tell you 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms!"
There is nothing factual about this. Nothing of value, but gee it sure sounds good and makes a good impression. This is what American society and many other societies have degraded to. So yeah no politician wants to listen to a scientist because this is what a scientist sounds like:
Here is Switzerland meat is expensive, and I mean REALLY expensive. Take for example lean ground beef, which costs around 10 USD per pound. In the US it costs maybe 3 USD per pound? We eat quite a bit less meat here. It does not bother me as I don't eat that much meat in the first place. BUT it bothers my wife who likes her meat. So whenever she goes home to Canada she gorges herself on meat. The point is that because food costs more here, you naturally do eat less food.
I also completely agree with you on how cheap and bad nutrition foods are cheaper than natural and healthy foods. I cook froms scratch and use fresh meats and vegetables all the time. It is expensive. When I look at the processed food I could save money, but also know that the processed food is crap for you body.
I happen to come and live from the number one country, Switzerland. WE work for a living. You guys think you work, but you socialize quite a bit, as my many tell me that English speaker meetings run on, and on and on, and on! Our work week is 42.5 hours a week! We do not have the job protections like other European countries, though we are not quite as willy nilly in terms of firing as the US. Our's is a fine balance between the worker and the employee. Simply put to fire somebody you need a reason, other than "I don't like your face." We have private health care, but everyone is required to pay for it, and we have month long vacations. We have guns like the US, but we control them and try for the most part to make sure that bad people do not get them. Granted not always successful, but we have one the safest societies on this planet.
So stop whining, complaining, and chanting USA, USA, USA, poking fun at others and instead figure out how to improve your own country. Simply put MIND YOUR OWN BEESWAX!
"many" does not imply policy. I have American friends and lived there for a while. The problem is that folks want to earn a living and either they take it from their vacation (which people do not want to do) or they just come to work and hide it as best as they can.
I find your comment quite odd on how society deals with a problem. They punish, instead of just changing policy into a better policy. Either way there are society costs. At least with sick paid leave people will be assured that they can continue to earn a living.
Sorry dude, but you are mistaken. Before I switched into mechanical engineering I took one year of chemical engineering. And during that one year I learned that metric is WAY WAY better than imperial.
You say that things are arbitrary. I say no. Take for example energy. In metric its the joule. Sure that might be "arbitrary" In imperial it is either energy or work. Depends on what you are doing. This is such a big WTF moment that you don't even know where to begin in the explanation. For when you are doing food its the calorie, heat BTU's, work horsepower, or wait we also have foot pounds, oh wait the BTU depends on the region. Guess what in metric, its joule, joule, joule, and joules!
Or how about lumber. What are the dimensions of a 2 x 4? This is not a trick question. It depends on the mill. Sure there are general dimensions (and it is not 2 x 4), but they vary. If I buy a metric piece of lumber 70x70, guess what that is? Oh yeah 70x70! No trick question depending on the mill! When you have to do loading equations knowing the exact dimensions of a 2 x 4 actually matters.
Now about clock? There is a metric clock (don't believe me, there is one!), angles => radians, thermometer => Kelvin.
So please learn more about the metric and the imperial systems before you give an opinion!!!
No I feel you should comment it out for one version, or one iteration.
The problem with deleting code is that you lose functionality and information. Yes yes we have this ideal world where unit tests will ensure that the code only does what it is supposed to. Be that as it may, there is a reason...
Code that needs to be completely rewritten is crap code. We can argue how it came to be, but the reality is that every developer for one reason or another has created crap code. It is unavoidable. Crap code is code that does many things, but quite a bit of it incorrectly. It also is hard to get a grip on because of its complexity. For if it was easy to understand and easy to fix it would not require a rewrite, no?
Thus when you rewrite you are trying to simplify, and restructure. And because you don't have a handle of the original code you are going to introduce bugs in the new code. These bugs are new cases that you have not thought about and thus need thinking about. They are not critical bugs since the rewritten code is easy to understand and easy to fix. BUT these bugs need to be cross referenced with the original code. You need to see if these bugs are bugs, or actually the correct answer. Sometimes I was working on code and thought, "crap, the new code is right even though I thought this was a bug."
If you delete, and need to check it with version control you are adding time, effort and complexity of actions. And then instead of going back to do a cross reference you are going to introduce new bugs that can grow into weeds and cause this cycle of rewriting again.
I have found that often when I rewrite I learn new facets of my code and figure out the critical bugs. It is then I decide to stop the rewrite, and integrate the new code into the old code and fix things up. For the I see in the rewrite that the new rewritten code is going to introduce quite a bit of new code that is going to mean retesting, and assurance that things all work. And maybe this new rewritten code will not be better after all. Deleting the old code means me merging the refactored code, with the old code introducing even more complexity.
Commenting out is ugly, but it has made it easier to experimenting in a short order of time without causing version control havoc.
Here in Switzerland we have done away with them since a very very very long time ago. BTW a Swiss Franc is slightly worth more than a USD or CAD. I personally prefer it that way. Actually I prefer the debit transaction system we have. I can have a 100 CHF in my pockets and it will last me for about 1 to 2 months.
Yeah, and? I wrote clearly, we can argue about the bloat, not about the argument of paying taxes. Vast amount of money goes to things that are harmful? Please check the budget of governments. The stuff you mention is peanuts compared to what really sucks up the cash. It is things like military (depends on the country), and pension benefits (most countries). Unemployment, etc do not suck up much cash. Those are just populist arguments as people and politicians want to keep things the way that they are.
You are raising an argument that does not exist. I wrote very clearly we can argue about a bloated government, but not about taxes. You are saying that I somehow want people to pay high taxes for other people. I did not make this point and thus please stick to the argument.
THANK-YOU!!! I used to work a hedge fund and talked to a guy who lived in Monaco and worked on tax avoidance schemes. He was not happy about the idea, but liked the work because it paid well. The issue here is that governments have to clamping down on this royalty kickback scheme.
It is a really bogus idea. Here is how it works. You have a company, it does not matter what kind of company. This company produces a widget and sells it across the world. You open a subsidiary, and that subsidiary sells your widget. The subsidiary has to pay something for the widget. In the old days it was costs of subsidiary, and wholesale of the widget. Now its, wholesale of the widget, plus a royalty.
The royalty is the kicker here. For it is a nebulous value that the company can define to be any feather I pull out of my arse. In most cases it basically eats all of the profits generated everywhere.
Trying to get rid of this is hard for you would be circumventing tax law where you really need to be able to not be taxed on foreign income. What needs altering is the concept of royalty and the governments have to say, "royalty, see this middle finger, that is your royalty."
Because it is flamebait! Some folks have this fantasy that you can get everything for nothing. Things cost money! As I was writing to the GP, sure we can argue about a bloated government. But to argue that tax avoidance is a good thing is not correct either.
Police, military, firemen, judges, etc, etc all cost money. Adam Smith who was a capitalist wrote in his papers that government and taxes were needed. The question is how much government, not whether or not government there is a government.
Oh so you would like to pay for the police, the firemen, the roads, and everything else? We can argue about a bloated government, no doubt. But to argue that we should pay zero taxes make NO SENSE WHATSOEVER.
For if we don't pay taxes you better be prepared to pay Vinny down the street a bit of money to make sure that you don't get mugged, robbed, or killed.
Simply put, you sir are a nutter! Even Adam Smith knew we had to have a government and had to pay taxes!
Dude here is what you don't get. The insurance industry does not give a rats ass on the foaming mouths of those who are for or against climate change. The only thing that the insurance industry cares about is making money. Let's say that California is in an earthquake zone, which it is, the insurance company says, "hey guess what you are going to pay more for earth quake insurance." When the big one hits they really don't care because they should have covered their butts.
This is why if some hurricane were to flatten New York the only question that the insurance industry will ask is, "how much money will we make or NOT?" Thus by seeing that climate change is starting to hurt their pocket books you can be sure as American Greenbacks being green that they will begin to pay attention and charge you more for insurance.
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Hey here are some other examples:
Exon, Shell, Cargill, GE, Siemens, Bayer, BASF, Rockwell, Boeing, and the list goes on and on, and on...
I have not even started the fact that raw materials is now split into three major players; BHP, Glencore, and Rio.
So actually your argument is bogus, and there are way too many large corporations controlling too few resources. BTW google for the control influence poster that showed how few corporations control so much global wealth.
Oh give me a break, Dynabook? Is this Microsoft "marketing" in action? Yes Yes I know the term came somewhere else, but I am doing a jab. I happen to own a tablet (Android and iPad), smart phone (iPhone and Android), and computers (OSX and Linux). The reality of the matter is that the Surface Pro is NOT a device to get things done. It is not a device to program, unless you edit with a text editor, and don't want to compile and debug. I have gone through many of these iterations and the reality is that all of these devices are separate devices. The idea that Microsoft thinks you can create an all in one is just plain stupid.
I have bought more hardware than most and owned my first laptop in 1991. And the reality is that it is like NoSQL databases, where you can have two of three attributes, not all. So you can either have battery and power, but not lightweight ease of carry. Or you can have lightweight and battery, but not power. Only Microsoft would create a half arsed job to try and create something with all three. In fact if I had to critique Microsoft it is their lunatic attitude that you can create software that follows the 80/20 rule and still be cool.
How is, "shorter battery life", "vents", "to warm to hold", "unstable on a lap" FUD? Look if you don't like iPads fine, don't like iPads. But don't go slamming the review for telling the truth. Microsoft creating this abortion of a device to try to marry two technologies, which are separate technologies. We can argue that iPads are too expensive and have other short comings. But there are plenty of Android tablets that can fill the gap. Heck an Asus is much better than this Microsoft device.
I can understand your context, but I would say we did pass smalltalk. Sure at the time it was rocket science, but what bothered me then, and still does today is the fact that small talk wants to rewrite mathematical precedence. As an engineer I thought, "ok screw that language". But for the idea of a running VM, with edit, debug, etc, yeah you can say Smalltalk was the basis, or at least got it going on an industrial level.
Screw YOU! Seriously I was around coding with QuickC, Quick Basic, EMACS, VI (before it became VIM). You know the days when moving the cursor meant using the keyboard not that wussy easy reference called the arrow keys.
I am extremely happy about having code wizards because I remember the days we had to use printf's for debugging as the debugger meant going down to assembly. It was not pretty and it was downright difficult to code, debug, and run. Sure I got hair on my chest, but I would gladly trade it in for actually getting things done!
I don't code in C and C++ anymore because I actually like to get my program to work. I am not dissing C++ as I am telling my brother to learn C++ as his first programming language. For him C++ is excellent because he works with robots, and industrial automation and in that context Java, and non low level languages can have problems. But for application programming its all about Java, C#, etc...
You are such an ignorant person that it is not even funny. The problem here is that people like to stretch things. And even the most intelligent, or knowledgable will get biased towards their own opinions without checking facts. For example I often will debate somebody and that other person will make an assertion, "like most people do this." I ask, really you got facts to back this up? Answer no they don't. Thus by putting the fact checker beside the person talking at least we can get back to the facts.
So how often has spacex flown? Oh yeah once! This is why I dislike musk. He thinks by doing once maybe twice, all problems are solved. Like his tesla cars. You would think from him that all of the world is driving electrical cars. Oh wait they are not, and the 787 has flown more than once.
Yeah I know and this is why I interact as little as possible with expats!!!! I have been a foreigner for most of my life, and even in my "home" country I am a foreigner. But what gets me are expats that come into a country and behave like the locals need to adapt to them. I say F**K YOU! The locals don't need to do squat for you.
I have lived in many countries in vacation or expat areas and have learned that the locals look at you with a double face, nice to you to take your money, but speak ill of you when your back is turned. When you attempt to integrate with them, learn their language you will still be that foreigner, but the foreigner they will say to their friends "he's ok he is one of us."
Of course there are exceptions to the rule (eg Saudi Arabia) and trying to interact with the locals is going to be more complicated. HOWEVER, you can still try, and still hope a bit... Remember as an expat it is your behavior that the locals will remember and propagate. So if you are an Anglo who behaves like an Anglo, they will forever hate Anglo's....
BTW before you say, "Oh Farley Mowatt a man of fiction..." He postulated many things that later proved to be correct. He is a man of history who combines it with some reasoned leap of faith or as I like to call it deduced reasoning.
Really? Ever read Farley Mowatt and the lost people?
Let me give you the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farfarers:_Before_the_Norse
I did not think that habitat was very crowded in the North...
You are missing the posters point. If we have the ability to reproduce much faster than we are not able to stop the mass of people.
Let me illustrate, and PLEASE nobody call this racism.
How many children are produced in the Western world? How many children are produced in the emerging world? Who is the less ignorant? BTW I use ignorant, and not less intelligent here. Drum roll, less children in western world, and less ignorant people in the western world. You could argue that the western world is being drowned out by ignorant emerging world people. The irony here is that as we become more knowleagable we produce less children, dooming our society so to speak. However, with enough generations that ignorance is removed.
In essence the Neanderthal could have indeed been the one with the more brains or life experience or what you want to call it. But they were drowned out by the number of people reproducing. Remember that back then people used clubs on each other and there was not much civility.
The problem with science and scientists is that they are money losing ventures. Scientists are not rich, they talk in very complicated manners, and do not come to conclusions! Scientists know the world is complex and all problems are complex and solved in a piecemeal manner.
Its much easier to say, "And I am here to tell you 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms!"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2013/jan/08/alex-jones-pro-gun-tirade-piers-morgan-video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyKofFih8Y
There is nothing factual about this. Nothing of value, but gee it sure sounds good and makes a good impression. This is what American society and many other societies have degraded to. So yeah no politician wants to listen to a scientist because this is what a scientist sounds like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anfbjiShjP8
Compare the Youtube count, 6 million vs 100K. Yeah people are interested in facts!!!
BINGO!
Here is Switzerland meat is expensive, and I mean REALLY expensive. Take for example lean ground beef, which costs around 10 USD per pound. In the US it costs maybe 3 USD per pound? We eat quite a bit less meat here. It does not bother me as I don't eat that much meat in the first place. BUT it bothers my wife who likes her meat. So whenever she goes home to Canada she gorges herself on meat. The point is that because food costs more here, you naturally do eat less food.
I also completely agree with you on how cheap and bad nutrition foods are cheaper than natural and healthy foods. I cook froms scratch and use fresh meats and vegetables all the time. It is expensive. When I look at the processed food I could save money, but also know that the processed food is crap for you body.
All that is missing is the chant USA USA USA!!!
I happen to come and live from the number one country, Switzerland. WE work for a living. You guys think you work, but you socialize quite a bit, as my many tell me that English speaker meetings run on, and on and on, and on! Our work week is 42.5 hours a week! We do not have the job protections like other European countries, though we are not quite as willy nilly in terms of firing as the US. Our's is a fine balance between the worker and the employee. Simply put to fire somebody you need a reason, other than "I don't like your face." We have private health care, but everyone is required to pay for it, and we have month long vacations. We have guns like the US, but we control them and try for the most part to make sure that bad people do not get them. Granted not always successful, but we have one the safest societies on this planet.
So stop whining, complaining, and chanting USA, USA, USA, poking fun at others and instead figure out how to improve your own country. Simply put MIND YOUR OWN BEESWAX!
"many" does not imply policy. I have American friends and lived there for a while. The problem is that folks want to earn a living and either they take it from their vacation (which people do not want to do) or they just come to work and hide it as best as they can.
I find your comment quite odd on how society deals with a problem. They punish, instead of just changing policy into a better policy. Either way there are society costs. At least with sick paid leave people will be assured that they can continue to earn a living.
Beep wrong answer in America...
Most workplaces don't have paid sick leave. Honestly, it is what it is, and this what Americans want. Hence this is what America gets.
Sorry dude, but you are mistaken. Before I switched into mechanical engineering I took one year of chemical engineering. And during that one year I learned that metric is WAY WAY better than imperial.
You say that things are arbitrary. I say no. Take for example energy. In metric its the joule. Sure that might be "arbitrary" In imperial it is either energy or work. Depends on what you are doing. This is such a big WTF moment that you don't even know where to begin in the explanation. For when you are doing food its the calorie, heat BTU's, work horsepower, or wait we also have foot pounds, oh wait the BTU depends on the region. Guess what in metric, its joule, joule, joule, and joules!
Or how about lumber. What are the dimensions of a 2 x 4? This is not a trick question. It depends on the mill. Sure there are general dimensions (and it is not 2 x 4), but they vary. If I buy a metric piece of lumber 70x70, guess what that is? Oh yeah 70x70! No trick question depending on the mill! When you have to do loading equations knowing the exact dimensions of a 2 x 4 actually matters.
Now about clock? There is a metric clock (don't believe me, there is one!), angles => radians, thermometer => Kelvin.
So please learn more about the metric and the imperial systems before you give an opinion!!!
No I feel you should comment it out for one version, or one iteration.
The problem with deleting code is that you lose functionality and information. Yes yes we have this ideal world where unit tests will ensure that the code only does what it is supposed to. Be that as it may, there is a reason...
Code that needs to be completely rewritten is crap code. We can argue how it came to be, but the reality is that every developer for one reason or another has created crap code. It is unavoidable. Crap code is code that does many things, but quite a bit of it incorrectly. It also is hard to get a grip on because of its complexity. For if it was easy to understand and easy to fix it would not require a rewrite, no?
Thus when you rewrite you are trying to simplify, and restructure. And because you don't have a handle of the original code you are going to introduce bugs in the new code. These bugs are new cases that you have not thought about and thus need thinking about. They are not critical bugs since the rewritten code is easy to understand and easy to fix. BUT these bugs need to be cross referenced with the original code. You need to see if these bugs are bugs, or actually the correct answer. Sometimes I was working on code and thought, "crap, the new code is right even though I thought this was a bug."
If you delete, and need to check it with version control you are adding time, effort and complexity of actions. And then instead of going back to do a cross reference you are going to introduce new bugs that can grow into weeds and cause this cycle of rewriting again.
I have found that often when I rewrite I learn new facets of my code and figure out the critical bugs. It is then I decide to stop the rewrite, and integrate the new code into the old code and fix things up. For the I see in the rewrite that the new rewritten code is going to introduce quite a bit of new code that is going to mean retesting, and assurance that things all work. And maybe this new rewritten code will not be better after all. Deleting the old code means me merging the refactored code, with the old code introducing even more complexity.
Commenting out is ugly, but it has made it easier to experimenting in a short order of time without causing version control havoc.
What's a penny? What's a nickel? ;)
Here in Switzerland we have done away with them since a very very very long time ago. BTW a Swiss Franc is slightly worth more than a USD or CAD. I personally prefer it that way. Actually I prefer the debit transaction system we have. I can have a 100 CHF in my pockets and it will last me for about 1 to 2 months.
The one dollar bill of the US just confounds me.
Yeah, and? I wrote clearly, we can argue about the bloat, not about the argument of paying taxes. Vast amount of money goes to things that are harmful? Please check the budget of governments. The stuff you mention is peanuts compared to what really sucks up the cash. It is things like military (depends on the country), and pension benefits (most countries). Unemployment, etc do not suck up much cash. Those are just populist arguments as people and politicians want to keep things the way that they are.
You are raising an argument that does not exist. I wrote very clearly we can argue about a bloated government, but not about taxes. You are saying that I somehow want people to pay high taxes for other people. I did not make this point and thus please stick to the argument.
THANK-YOU!!! I used to work a hedge fund and talked to a guy who lived in Monaco and worked on tax avoidance schemes. He was not happy about the idea, but liked the work because it paid well. The issue here is that governments have to clamping down on this royalty kickback scheme.
It is a really bogus idea. Here is how it works. You have a company, it does not matter what kind of company. This company produces a widget and sells it across the world. You open a subsidiary, and that subsidiary sells your widget. The subsidiary has to pay something for the widget. In the old days it was costs of subsidiary, and wholesale of the widget. Now its, wholesale of the widget, plus a royalty.
The royalty is the kicker here. For it is a nebulous value that the company can define to be any feather I pull out of my arse. In most cases it basically eats all of the profits generated everywhere.
Trying to get rid of this is hard for you would be circumventing tax law where you really need to be able to not be taxed on foreign income. What needs altering is the concept of royalty and the governments have to say, "royalty, see this middle finger, that is your royalty."
Because it is flamebait! Some folks have this fantasy that you can get everything for nothing. Things cost money! As I was writing to the GP, sure we can argue about a bloated government. But to argue that tax avoidance is a good thing is not correct either.
Police, military, firemen, judges, etc, etc all cost money. Adam Smith who was a capitalist wrote in his papers that government and taxes were needed. The question is how much government, not whether or not government there is a government.
Oh so you would like to pay for the police, the firemen, the roads, and everything else? We can argue about a bloated government, no doubt. But to argue that we should pay zero taxes make NO SENSE WHATSOEVER.
For if we don't pay taxes you better be prepared to pay Vinny down the street a bit of money to make sure that you don't get mugged, robbed, or killed.
Simply put, you sir are a nutter! Even Adam Smith knew we had to have a government and had to pay taxes!
Dude here is what you don't get. The insurance industry does not give a rats ass on the foaming mouths of those who are for or against climate change. The only thing that the insurance industry cares about is making money. Let's say that California is in an earthquake zone, which it is, the insurance company says, "hey guess what you are going to pay more for earth quake insurance." When the big one hits they really don't care because they should have covered their butts.
This is why if some hurricane were to flatten New York the only question that the insurance industry will ask is, "how much money will we make or NOT?" Thus by seeing that climate change is starting to hurt their pocket books you can be sure as American Greenbacks being green that they will begin to pay attention and charge you more for insurance.