This isn't about expats living/earning wages overseas, it's about Americans using overseas bank accounts to hide income that they earned in the US, in order to avoid paying taxes on that.
That might be the way they sell it on that side of the pond, but the fact of the matter is that US citizens living abroad are still required to file, and (generally, if they live in a low-tax country) pay, US taxes. If I in Switzerland earn an income based entirely within the borders of Switzerland, the US still wants a cut, and the law is designed to catch such foreign residents in addition to US residents.
Oh, how I miss self-righteous Americans. I'll renounce as soon as I have a new passport, thank you very much. In the meantime, perhaps you should consider why other countries don't charge their citizens, who also happily travel home once in while.
If my company had stock and you asked me how it'd been doing, I'd know that you hadn't bothered with even the most basic of research prior to the interview, and you'd fail. Not a smart question!
The GP is right; whether they disregard parts of the constitution themselves or not has no bearing on their own constitutional protection. Even convicted criminals (the NSA is only accused by some) are protected by law.
Why does she need to have made the dish in order to know what is in it? She just needs to know who to ask. And in my experience, regarding peanut allergies and cherry allergies, if they don't know off the top of their head, they've always known who to ask.
Given that she didn't know there was ground beef in the three bean soup, she clearly didn't know who to ask....
You can have me at 9am at the office. Don't expect me to do any meaningful work before 12pm, though. But you may rest assured that I'll be gone by 6pm, because I don't want to fall asleep at the wheel while driving home. I tend to be kind grumpy, too, if you pull me out of bed before noon.
Top management needs to learn that there are more important things than their ego. Like productivity. I don't give a shit about my superior's ego. I don't care whether he needs that feeling that he can dictate my life. If he does, he should get someone else to be his lap dog, I'm there to get some work done, not to stroke his ego.
So you're categorically stating that you'll work a 6 hour day (noon to 6pm) and yet it's someone else's ego that is the problem?
The law specifies nothing of the kind in any jurisdiction that I'm aware of - in the first case, without any sexual intent, local law is in sync with common sense and would not define that as child porn. You also appear to assuming that "the law" is constant, whereas definitions of child porn will vary from region to region.
Well, that's a bit puerile. If company X steals your data, is it ok to steal intellectual property from company Y? Or do you only download films produced by Google?
Indeed. And given that fear is what caused most of our nuclear near-misses with apocalypse, it means the next generation is much less likely to end the world than your generation.
Maybe no one can pass because they're taking a multiple guess test rather than a multiple choice test.
Actually, since moving overseas I've learned that such tests are only known as multiple guess tests over here. The term "multiple choice" simply isn't used. It could be because such tests aren't widely used in Europe, or it could be British influence, perhaps - I don't know, but I've always found it a bit odd!
I much prefer working with Swiss or Germans - many of the ones I've worked with won't do much more than a 9 hour day, but they'll work very hard during those 9.
Are you really suggesting that a 9 hour day is some kind of acceptable norm or am I misunderstanding you? You guys should be aiming for a maximum of 40 hours / wk for a decent work/life balance.
You're certainly welcome to your opinion.;-) But I imagine you don't work in professional services - a 9 hour day is quite short for us. And a 40-45 hour week is actually standard in Switzerland.
As a guy who worked for a company with its headquarters in France, I'm siding with the CEO on this.
As a guy who worked for a Swiss company with developers in France, whom I had to visit every week for 4-5 days a week for 6 months.... yeah, I'm siding with him too. Don't get me wrong, they stayed in the office till 7 pm... but the early ones came in at 9am, and almost everyone spent their entire day bitching.
I much prefer working with Swiss or Germans - many of the ones I've worked with won't do much more than a 9 hour day, but they'll work very hard during those 9.
No... it is not. Using an ending of 'i' for the plural form from words where the singular form ends in 'us' comes from Latin, and is as such only applicable to Latin plurals. Virus is originally a Latin word, but in Latin could not itself possess a plural, because it did not denote a single thing. It is best likened to an English noun which does not have a quantity associated with it, such as "happiness" or "everything", and so does not make any sense to try to pluralize. If you are a native English speaker, trying to pluralize such words is going to probably sound sort of odd. That's because it's wrong. In modern English, we have have altered the conceptual meaning of the word virus so that it can refer to a unique thing, but because that is an English invention and not Latin, the plural follows English convention for pluralization and not Latin. Hence, viruses.
Best explanation I've read yet for the virii-viruses issue. Thanks!
My personal favorite is the last article linked in TFS.
we’re frankly smarter than most people in society (the PhD and doing original research is kind of a baseline test for that ). I know, that’s probably not ‘nice’ to say but it’s true.
There is a point that we realize we’re idiots for committing ourselves to a life of functional poverty (because seriously, we’re never going to pay off our student loans)
Apparently the author has a different definition of smarter than I do. I know better than to take on more debt than I can handle. But then, I only have an MBA, not a PhD.
It's matter of principle[...]I'll gladfully spend hours finding a way to get it for free than pay even 1p, even though a hour of my time is worth much more than that.
Don't look now, but I just figured out why you're not rich.
Many share their good and bad interview experiences with {Google, FB, MS, Apple etc} on a daily base. Why is this one getting any extra attention?
Because Slashdot figured out years ago that in order to monetize the use base, they needed to keep people coming back as often as possible, and in order to do that they need stories.
Unfortunately, most of the original and competent editors are long gone, and the current batch of editors posts pretty much anything they receive (additionally, many digg-level intellects now have accounts here to vote on the firehose, perpetuating the editors' mistaken belief that we want this crap).
While the only argument every kneejerker gives is,"If you can't make money on media, no one would ever write a book again! We might as well just abandon civilization."
Which, if taken as true, pretty much undermines every argument that you made, as media and textbooks would never advance and people would be stuck using 2012 textbooks forever. Just sayin'. It's not the quantity of arguments that counts, it's the quality.
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This isn't about expats living/earning wages overseas, it's about Americans using overseas bank accounts to hide income that they earned in the US, in order to avoid paying taxes on that.
That might be the way they sell it on that side of the pond, but the fact of the matter is that US citizens living abroad are still required to file, and (generally, if they live in a low-tax country) pay, US taxes. If I in Switzerland earn an income based entirely within the borders of Switzerland, the US still wants a cut, and the law is designed to catch such foreign residents in addition to US residents.
Oh, how I miss self-righteous Americans. I'll renounce as soon as I have a new passport, thank you very much. In the meantime, perhaps you should consider why other countries don't charge their citizens, who also happily travel home once in while.
If my company had stock and you asked me how it'd been doing, I'd know that you hadn't bothered with even the most basic of research prior to the interview, and you'd fail. Not a smart question!
70 lbs, near enough. Achieved through dieting and deciding to train for a marathon at the age of 26. Good enough for you?
Fat = lazy.
The GP is right; whether they disregard parts of the constitution themselves or not has no bearing on their own constitutional protection. Even convicted criminals (the NSA is only accused by some) are protected by law.
She would not know, she did not make it.
Why does she need to have made the dish in order to know what is in it? She just needs to know who to ask. And in my experience, regarding peanut allergies and cherry allergies, if they don't know off the top of their head, they've always known who to ask.
Given that she didn't know there was ground beef in the three bean soup, she clearly didn't know who to ask....
Apparently the most important function of Google Glass is to summon "Internet Tough Guys" to post on Slashdot.
And then there are smartass cock-gobblers like you who are obviously in
search of a good beating which is obviously overdue.
Brilliant. Even just mentioning the topic works!
You can have me at 9am at the office. Don't expect me to do any meaningful work before 12pm, though. But you may rest assured that I'll be gone by 6pm, because I don't want to fall asleep at the wheel while driving home. I tend to be kind grumpy, too, if you pull me out of bed before noon.
Top management needs to learn that there are more important things than their ego. Like productivity. I don't give a shit about my superior's ego. I don't care whether he needs that feeling that he can dictate my life. If he does, he should get someone else to be his lap dog, I'm there to get some work done, not to stroke his ego.
So you're categorically stating that you'll work a 6 hour day (noon to 6pm) and yet it's someone else's ego that is the problem?
Sorry for my misunderstanding, but I had assumed that one was completed as well as far as DPR knew.
You assumed that murder had happened because you hadn't heard that one hadn't?
Man, I hope you're not on MY jury!
The law specifies nothing of the kind in any jurisdiction that I'm aware of - in the first case, without any sexual intent, local law is in sync with common sense and would not define that as child porn. You also appear to assuming that "the law" is constant, whereas definitions of child porn will vary from region to region.
Well, that's a bit puerile. If company X steals your data, is it ok to steal intellectual property from company Y? Or do you only download films produced by Google?
Indeed. And given that fear is what caused most of our nuclear near-misses with apocalypse, it means the next generation is much less likely to end the world than your generation.
But they can afford 800 dollar smartphones and expensive cell plans to use these apps?
"multiple-guess"
Maybe no one can pass because they're taking a multiple guess test rather than a multiple choice test.
Actually, since moving overseas I've learned that such tests are only known as multiple guess tests over here. The term "multiple choice" simply isn't used. It could be because such tests aren't widely used in Europe, or it could be British influence, perhaps - I don't know, but I've always found it a bit odd!
Wives? Girlfriends? Obviously, you've never met anyone who plays EVE Online.
But to be a useful one-time pad, don't you have to be able to repeat the results to decode the message?
No. You have to distribute matched pads - one to the encoder, one to the decoder.
Thus, if someone gets his or her hands on a copy of the pad, decryption is trivial.
That said, I think this light-based encryption solution is brilliant in the lab.
I much prefer working with Swiss or Germans - many of the ones I've worked with won't do much more than a 9 hour day, but they'll work very hard during those 9.
Are you really suggesting that a 9 hour day is some kind of acceptable norm or am I misunderstanding you? You guys should be aiming for a maximum of 40 hours / wk for a decent work/life balance.
You're certainly welcome to your opinion. ;-) But I imagine you don't work in professional services - a 9 hour day is quite short for us. And a 40-45 hour week is actually standard in Switzerland.
As a guy who worked for a company with its headquarters in France, I'm siding with the CEO on this.
As a guy who worked for a Swiss company with developers in France, whom I had to visit every week for 4-5 days a week for 6 months.... yeah, I'm siding with him too. Don't get me wrong, they stayed in the office till 7 pm... but the early ones came in at 9am, and almost everyone spent their entire day bitching.
I much prefer working with Swiss or Germans - many of the ones I've worked with won't do much more than a 9 hour day, but they'll work very hard during those 9.
No... it is not. Using an ending of 'i' for the plural form from words where the singular form ends in 'us' comes from Latin, and is as such only applicable to Latin plurals. Virus is originally a Latin word, but in Latin could not itself possess a plural, because it did not denote a single thing. It is best likened to an English noun which does not have a quantity associated with it, such as "happiness" or "everything", and so does not make any sense to try to pluralize. If you are a native English speaker, trying to pluralize such words is going to probably sound sort of odd. That's because it's wrong. In modern English, we have have altered the conceptual meaning of the word virus so that it can refer to a unique thing, but because that is an English invention and not Latin, the plural follows English convention for pluralization and not Latin. Hence, viruses.
Best explanation I've read yet for the virii-viruses issue. Thanks!
My personal favorite is the last article linked in TFS.
we’re frankly smarter than most people in society (the PhD and doing original research is kind of a baseline test for that ). I know, that’s probably not ‘nice’ to say but it’s true.
There is a point that we realize we’re idiots for committing ourselves to a life of functional poverty (because seriously, we’re never going to pay off our student loans)
Apparently the author has a different definition of smarter than I do. I know better than to take on more debt than I can handle. But then, I only have an MBA, not a PhD.
It's matter of principle[...]I'll gladfully spend hours finding a way to get it for free than pay even 1p, even though a hour of my time is worth much more than that.
Don't look now, but I just figured out why you're not rich.
So, what you're saying is, you'll happily pay that Microsoft Tax, so that you can play games? Interesting . . .
So what you're saying is that people will pay money for in order to do something they want to do? Interesting...
Many share their good and bad interview experiences with {Google, FB, MS, Apple etc} on a daily base. Why is this one getting any extra attention?
Because Slashdot figured out years ago that in order to monetize the use base, they needed to keep people coming back as often as possible, and in order to do that they need stories.
Unfortunately, most of the original and competent editors are long gone, and the current batch of editors posts pretty much anything they receive (additionally, many digg-level intellects now have accounts here to vote on the firehose, perpetuating the editors' mistaken belief that we want this crap).
While the only argument every kneejerker gives is,"If you can't make money on media, no one would ever write a book again! We might as well just abandon civilization."
Which, if taken as true, pretty much undermines every argument that you made, as media and textbooks would never advance and people would be stuck using 2012 textbooks forever. Just sayin'. It's not the quantity of arguments that counts, it's the quality.