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  1. India's IT industry is worried? on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Good.

  2. I say that they're probably not going to solve either problem.

    If they can, the rest of the world would certainly want to know HOW!

  3. Re:Yeah, Apple is so happy that Ireland didn't IRE on 'It's Tricky': Apple Misses the Deadline To Pay $13.9 Bn To Ireland in Illegal Tax Benefit (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU decided to harmonize tax laws across the union to avoid exactly this, member states racing their corporate taxes to the bottom in an attempt to attract international companies.

    In other words, you want to sell all over the union to the same conditions, you will produce all over the union to the same conditions.

  4. Re:Does Ireland wan't the money? on 'It's Tricky': Apple Misses the Deadline To Pay $13.9 Bn To Ireland in Illegal Tax Benefit (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The very LAST thing Ireland really wants is to enforce this law. For good reason. Right now they get a bit of the cake, but they get a bit of the cake from everyone because every company, from Apple to Amazon to MS to Google, is hiding in their tax shelter.

    If they now actually fold (and yes, that would be Ireland folding to EU pressure), what reason is there for them to stay in Ireland? The weather?

  5. And still, if this wasn't Apple but Paddy O'Random not paying his tax, he'd find his home raided and emptied out tonight.

  6. It's not like you have to stuff greenbacks into coffers, you ain't bribing politicians to avoid taxes, you're paying taxes. I know you're not used to this, Apple, but trust me, this can be done by a simple wire transfer.

    Cough up the dough! Under normal circumstances a horde of officials would now storm your house and steal everything in sight but a bed and maybe a TV. Why not this time? Tax officials are usually not very approachable when it comes to seizures.

  7. Re:Creative high on Why An LSD High Lasts For So Long (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    Yay, mushroom power!

  8. Re:Placebo? on Why An LSD High Lasts For So Long (pbs.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    5HT-2A antagonists aren't really something you should hand out like candy. Those receptors are all over your body, not just your brain, and they deal with a LOT of body functions. Particularly blood clotting.

    Using it as a "safety switch" to cancel horror trips is something I would not recommend!

  9. They were about to when they notice that blacking out the vision of a driver looking at an oncoming truck is counter productive.

  10. Re:Bible ReWrite In The Works? on Scientists Find 'Oldest Human Ancestor' -- A Big-Mouthed Sea Creature With No Anus (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Reinvent the facts. Not only is it the current fad but religion is actually pretty good at it.

  11. Re:Evidence of Evolution on Scientists Find 'Oldest Human Ancestor' -- A Big-Mouthed Sea Creature With No Anus (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But lots and lots of dicks.

  12. Re:540 Million years ... on Scientists Find 'Oldest Human Ancestor' -- A Big-Mouthed Sea Creature With No Anus (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they make yet another human centipede movie?

  13. Odd. I never encountered a signal cable that didn't want to transport my content. You only got to tell it what it wants to hear and presto, it does what it is supposed to do. ;)

  14. Why should I give a shit about that DMCA? I love it, if it means the US competition has to resign before they may even start!

    --signed, European security researcher.

  15. Re:Cue the POTUS jokes.... on Scientists Find 'Oldest Human Ancestor' -- A Big-Mouthed Sea Creature With No Anus (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why?

    At least read the summary, it clearly said NO ASSHOLE.

  16. Re:"A Big-Mouthed Sea Creature With No Anus" on Scientists Find 'Oldest Human Ancestor' -- A Big-Mouthed Sea Creature With No Anus (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It certainly had to be from a time before politicians if they couldn't find an asshole.

  17. Re:Are there more or do we just find more? on Asteroid Whizzing By Earth 6 Times Closer Than the Moon (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is. But I doubt that's the reason.

  18. Please re-read the subthread.

  19. I could easily pretend to not be gay for the right money, that's what I said and that's what the whole sub-thread is about. What Notabadguy said a few posts up the hill was that if she wins this, he'll go ahead and pretend to be some genderfluid opponent of rape culture. He chose to word it in such a way that he would actually be this, but the context makes it very obvious that he would pretend for the money.

    That's what the whole deal is about.

  20. If it's a choice, you should have no problem fucking a guy (provided you're a straight guy). You can choose to, so go ahead and do it.

  21. Re:Oh PLEASE let her get elected on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It's amazing how confusing a single line of text can be.

    In other words, is there a chance that you might elaborate, so I have a chance to actually understand what you're saying?

  22. Sorry, we're busy working. Protesting is a pastime for those that have, you know, time.

  23. Only if he really wants to make that H-1B move irrelevant to the IT industry, because the first thing you'll see happening if encryption becomes illegal is a sudden move of everyone and their dog out of the US with their data.

  24. Dead and buried. Go with the times, will ya? We have evolved part capitalism and communism, we have incorporated the best of both worlds! Governments get to prop up companies like in communism while they get to fleece you without any defense from your side as in capitalism.

  25. Oh so wonderful we have Trump, NOBODY ELSE ever had that idea!

    Sadly it's still impossible to find a $obscure_language specialist with 20 years experience (probably because the language was only invented 10 years ago) for less than 2k bucks, so I guess we'll have to hire that guy from Bangalore who is that specialist. Really. We promise. After all we're hiring and why would we hire him if he wasn't exactly what we're looking for?