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  1. Re: Why..... on "Double Irish" Tax Loophole Used By US Companies To Be Closed · · Score: 1

    I'm "cringing in pain" thinking of the fact that they exist.

  2. Re: Why..... on "Double Irish" Tax Loophole Used By US Companies To Be Closed · · Score: 1

    well the conglomerate (family) has effectively less total (before taxes) income. "Google" the conglomerate has the exact same income (again before taxes).

  3. Re: Why..... on "Double Irish" Tax Loophole Used By US Companies To Be Closed · · Score: 1

    that was exactly my point, extra money is not worth it b/c of all the expenses that ensues, not because " hey we can pay less taxes this way".

  4. Re: Why..... on "Double Irish" Tax Loophole Used By US Companies To Be Closed · · Score: 1

    The mom that stays home has no revenue. Corporation X, that is doing what you described has overall has revenue (and fucking big one to boot). It is legal, but still a tax evasion, may not the legal definition of it, but the dictionary one: avoid paying taxes (in full or partially) on revenue. the mom staying at home does pay taxes (on X% of $0 is still $0).

  5. Re: Why..... on "Double Irish" Tax Loophole Used By US Companies To Be Closed · · Score: 2

    I personally know families in which the wife does not work and is stay-home mom because is "cheaper" vs. two working parents and kids in day care. This is because two spouses working would put them in a higher taxable income bracket which will also make them receive less or none of some tax deductions. Plus they will have to pay for day care. With the wife staying home, taxable income of just one working spouse is lower, there are higher tax deductions, and no day care costs. Tax evasion? No, simply a personal example of tax optimization.

    Very bad example. even if they're in a higher tax bracket they'l probably still have more money. And I doubt that the reasoning goes like the way you described it. Most of the time it's because daycare is so expensive that the stay at home is the better choice (economically).

  6. Re:Is there no commandline? on ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards · · Score: 1

    nexus 5 (tried on galaxy nexus too). works with an otg cable and any USB flash drive. Lately I got one of those dual tiny thinggies (Normal USB on one end and OTG on the other). It's a bit slow (or so it seemed) but works. Using my own build (nothing custom except for the signing keys to lock the device)

  7. Re:Biased summary on Four Dutch Uberpop Taxi Drivers Arrested, Fined · · Score: 1

    here's what might happen to her: http://www.lapresse.ca/actuali... (in french )

  8. Re:Is there no commandline? on ChromeOS Will No Longer Support Ext2/3/4 On External Drives/SD Cards · · Score: 1

    Luckily there's Cyanogenmod. Hopefully they will take up USB OTG as a cause one day.

    it *just* works. I didn't have to install anything.

  9. Re:Missing one key point on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 1

    debian (unstable, which is a rolling release if you want) is not immune, you'll have to deal with upgrades that break things. The only difference is you'll deal with theme one (or few) at a time, which is not ideal but way better than what you encountered.
    Plus, AFAIK, when dpk installs a new packages that has a different configuration file (in /etc/) it will stop and ask what to do (use new use old merge ...etc).

  10. Re:Slackware on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 1

    did the same, although I was considering Gentoo too.

  11. Re:Quality of life in Sweden on Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services · · Score: 1

    the citation would cost you a flight to Stockholm!

  12. Re:Cost of government-provided services on Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services · · Score: 1

    have you seen Swedish roads?

  13. Re:Will they also ban passengers? on Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers · · Score: 1

    If you're fumbling around looking for the cigarette you dropped or looking for the pack of cigarettes you have in the glove box, especially, when it is crowded , then you deserve a distracted driving ticket.

    With that emphasis added,
    The only incident I had was like you said, dropped a lite cigarette, stopped on the next corner and throw it away. That was just the drop that spilled the glass. I stopped smoking in the car since then.
    As I said above, usually, it is not much the "insert any action" that is the problem, it is the timing of said action. Drivers need to know when to do and when to not do! with the obligation of driving courses (where I live anyways) that could be an opportunity to educate new drivers in that sense, and stop the moral superiority ground bullshit approach that we have now. if the end goal is safe driving and not ticket's cash that is.

  14. Re:Will they also ban passengers? on Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers · · Score: 1

    you sure seem to have non reading sense at all!

  15. Re:Will they also ban passengers? on Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers · · Score: 1

    never a bee (knocking on wood). Flies/Mosquitos? yeah a pain in the ass !!!

  16. Re:Will they also ban passengers? on Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers · · Score: 1

    have you seen the latest models?
    with that said, it is not the distraction per say, it is the timing of the distraction that is the problem.
    On a long, empty, straight stretch of a highway, during a sunny day, that is usually no problem.

  17. Re:Hardly surprising on Why Do Contextual Ads Fail? · · Score: 1

    amen to that!
    Ads are supposed to convey useful information, which they don't (understandable given the constraints). The trend from what I gathered, is unfortunately, even from the supposedly unconstrained source (website, package ...etc) there is absolutely no useful information (specs, use cases, ingredients ...etc).
    the overwhelming message is generally : buy my shit! Why? BECAUSE!
    that's borderline insulting, as it is saying: "you're an idiot, we know better than you (in the absolute sense) so buy and shut up or just shut up!"

  18. Re:latest update! on Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers · · Score: 1

    what about road signs, especially not well written ones ?

  19. Re:Will they also ban passengers? on Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    fiddeling with the radio is distracting too. smoking is potentially more dangerous (had one episode, never smoked again in the car, no need for a law)

  20. Re:So.. on Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers · · Score: 1

    except one of them enables milking of some cash cow!

  21. Re: TFA on The Single Vigilante Behind Facebook's 'Real Name' Crackdown · · Score: 1

    yes, anything that is exposed to the internet and calls "system(), popen() or exec() with a imported environment under the control of a potential attacker.

  22. Re:Signed Firmware on Hacking USB Firmware · · Score: 1

    well, he did say "the USB host controller chip on the motherboard."

  23. Re:What about legitimate uses? on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    android device manager? Cerberus? and anything that "find my phone" would yield in the play store would do more or less the same thing.

  24. size of IS NOT a function. it is a unary OPERATOR that get's replaced at compile time not at runtime by the size in bytes of what ever you passed to it (generate assembly of simple code using size of and you'll see that it sizeof(int) gets replaced by the constant 4 but as of C99 if the operand is a variable length array things get complicated as it will compute the size at runtime, so the assembly code is way more complicated )

  25. Re:Because the open source drivers suck so badly on AMD Develops New Linux Open-Source Driver Model · · Score: 1

    ? "tainted" is just a flag, nothing more. It's there in case womeone sends them a bug report (a crach for instance), if the kernel is "tainted" their answer will probabaly be : try again without the "tainting" module and see what happens : if the problem goes a way they'll send you crying to the one responsible for THAT module, periode.
    There's absolutely NO denying anything to any module.