Apple also is taking action against HTC and Motorola, both bit players in the market. Motorola is having problems selling the small number of Xooms shipped, and the HTC Flyer isn't doing well either.
So it can't be that the Galaxy is good enough to have Apple scared.
LG for the majority, plus Samsung and Innolux, with other suppliers in the pipeline.
I think Apple is scared, that it might not be getting the next generation of screens if Samsung has need for it themselves.
Apple doesn't need them, see above.
iPhone sales are lower then Android sales and Samsung sells a lot of Android phones.
Apple is still the #1 smart phone manufacturer in the world, although Samsung is a close second. Android wins when you combine the sales of a dozen or so companies.
Apple is trying to get rid of the competition.
Context. Microsoft strong-arming Android phone manufacturers was obvious, they couldn't compete because of an inferior product, so used the legal system to hurt the competition.
Right now Apple is on top. Apple has the hottest-selling products and makes the most profit by far. Apple got to this position purely through making and marketing a better product.
To me the context says not "We can't compete on product so we'll sue" but instead says "Quit copying our stuff!"
That 38% number is meaningless out of context, as it doesn't take into account whether that 1% brings in more or less than 38% of all the taxable income.
I've noticed a trend here that people think the rich pay a less proportionate share. I guess the liberal media is doing well in its class warfare campaign. I thought/. folks were smarter than to believe what they've been fed. In 2008:
The top 1% earned only 20% of all income and paid 38% of all income taxes.
The top 5% earned 35% of all income and paid 59% of all income taxes.
The top 10% earned 46% of all income and paid 70% of all income taxes.
As you go below that it starts inverting, percentage of taxes paid equals out, and then percentage of income becomes greater than taxes paid, so that the lower-earning half in this country make 13% of the income, but pay 3% of the taxes.
Although it's not on the chart, given the trend it's most likely that when you get into the bottom third no taxes are paid, and in fact they receive money in federally-funded benefits.
Note that's adjusted gross income, not gross. A single guy earning over $40,000 could easily be in this last category. This doesn't count that a large percentage of the below 50% mark are receiving welfare benefits that do not apply to the AGI, resulting in a net far negative taxes paid.
And don't forget, that when most of us die our money simply goes straight to our kids. When the ultra rich die, the government will take about 35% (used to be 50%) yet again of the money it's already taxed at least once, if not more.
Why pussyfoot around. Just confiscate all their money and be done with it. That's what you want afterall, isn't it? Do we get to shoot them, too? Or are you going to leave out that traditional aspect of the great proletariat revolution?
Back in the early days of the USA political discourse was very often not civilized. The Hamilton-Burr duel didn't come out of nowhere. It was the culmination of extreme vitriol in public between the two.
Some pretty nasty cartoons and articles were put forth as evidence in the Hustler v. Falwell trial at the Supreme Court.
However, making threats across state lines, that's a different animal altogether. It doesn't need stalking laws to prosecute.
Per the Virginia Declaration of Rights, on which the Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence are based:
That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
By nature, inherent. Natural rights. And that was written by a Christian, George Mason.
It has no legal enforcement, no legal ramifications. An atheist isn't excluded from anything due to IGWT.
An overly sensitive atheist may have his feelings hurt because the majority expresses its belief in the Judeo/Christian deity through the coinage, but that's about as far as it goes.
This is why we don't listen to your rants
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let those poor 1%ers keep on NOT PAYING TAXES
Their income tax rate is already far higher than anyone else. In fact, those 1%ers pay 38% of all federal income tax.
because if they get taxed if they keep it the rich will invest in businesses rather than pay the higher tax
Which is why we have the lower capital gains tax. If they re-invest their income, then income derived from that investment is taxed at a lower rate, and one that makes up for the inherent government tax known as inflation. This serves your purpose of encouraging investment.
Oh, wait, you probably have a rant somewhere else complaining about the low capital gains taxes.
Then after that you of course start blurring the lines between individual income taxes and corporate taxes, and foreign corporate taxes. And then
but then take advantage of dodges like the "double dutch" or incorporating in Ireland
You don't even know the terminology. It's called the "double Irish" to which you can add a "Dutch sandwich." Get an education, then get back.
Let's also not forget that Republicans controlled the executive branch for 20 of the last 30 years. Control of Congress has vacillated back and forth though Republicans essentially had full control of the US government from 2003 through 2006.
You started with Reagan to pad your stats. The slide started well before him. Don't remember the Carter recession? Rampant inflation?
The Democrats ran the House from 1955 to 1995 (40 years solid!). During that same time, Democrats held the Senate for all but three terms. In fact, from 1933 to 1955, the Republicans held the House and Senate each for only two terms. After 1995 the Senate is mixed, and the House is Republican except for two terms. The presidents are pretty much mixed during this entire period.
But let's go post-war, which excludes the Roosevelt/Democrat domination. Of the 34 sessions since:
Democrats in charge of Senate: 24 terms, 71% Democrats in charge of House: 25 terms, 74% Democrats in as President: 16 terms, 47%
It's quite apparent, Democrats have been running our legislature, while presidents have been pretty much equal. In addition, through this history Democratic presidents far more often had the luxury of working with a Democrat-dominated Congress.
They didn't care one whit about budget deficits until Democrats controlled Congress and the White House
It's quite simple, and, no, it's not about Obama or the Democrats (as the singer says, "you're so vain").
The grassroots Tea Party movement got several well-established Republicans thrown out of office in 2010, and narrowly missed many others, which they are aiming for in 2012. This seriously shocked the Republican establishment. The current lot of wasteful Republicans are afraid they'll lose their jobs if they don't at least make a grand showing of an attempt at fiscal responsibility.
So you have some new Republicans in office who actually want to fix things, but they're new, with little actual power. The rest don't really care, they just want to keep their jobs. It's all a show.
I don't anticipate I'll ever see a genuine Progressive run for the Oval Office
Dual-processor, two SATA hard drives, 12V PSU, 12V Lithium battery. It's not even sealed in a case, just a frame holding a board, with the PSU, battery and hard drives held on with Velcro.
Most of these will be about that spec.
Can't touch the Democrat third rail
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No, no, no, don't even THINK about suggesting we stop the taxpayer funding of the biggest baby killing machine in the country.
The pro-abortion people will be all over you. Yes, pro-abortion. I'm pro-choice, believing I don't have the right to force my views onto a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body. Most of your PP supporters are actually pro-abortion.
Apple currently has $63 billion is in securities, which mainly means stocks and bonds. That's most of their money that you are referencing.
Apple also has $12 billion in cash and cash equivalents. This is the highly liquid assets you refer to. Now of course no reasonable company just lets that sit. Almost all of that is invested in short-term treasury bills, preferred stock, commercial paper, money markets, etc.
When we do pull out they will be missing all of those local jobs.
I've seen a couple communities in Germany devastated by the loss of US military bases. Aside from local national jobs on the base, many local businesses cater to the now-missing Americans, and many landlords depend on Americans to keep their units full.
However, when a smaller US base is in the middle of an otherwise large and successful city, they can't wait for the Americans to leave. The property is usually quite valuable, and either the government, a university or a business wants to use it.
And I don't care about that end. If we do not need that base for a clear strategic reason, get rid of it.
Where is that wealth?
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The top 1%ers, where is that top 1% of wealth?
Is it under a mattress?
No, for the most part it's invest in companies, keeping business going, keeping people employed.
Bill Gates, most of the wealth in Microsoft. Warren Buffet, most of the wealth in various stocks and dozens of companies under Berkshire Hathaway. Larry Ellison, most in Oracle stock. Walton family, Wal-Mart stock. Koch brothers, stock in a large number of companies under the Koch umbrella. Michael Bloomberg, most of the wealth in Bloomberg L.P., a financial news and services company he started in the 80s. That's the top 10.
Let's see, employees: Microsoft: 89,000 Berkshire: Many tens of thousands Koch: 70,000 Walmart: 2,100,000 Bloomberg: 13,000
I know, let's confiscate everything and put all those people out of work
The first Gulf War was over oil. The second one was Junior finishing what Daddy didn't have the balls to finish. Family pride is a stupid, but not unprecedented, reason to go to war.
Because that's how our press spins it
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Our press supports the Democrats.
FTR, I'm not a Republican. It's just obvious to any rational observer without party allegiance.
I am endlessly entertained by Jackon Lee's ability to pull the race card for pretty much any situation. She just shot someone in cold blood on the Capitol steps, she's arrested, she'll claim she's only being arrested because she's black.
It's like watching a comedy sketch, only it's a congressional hearing.
But from what I hear in person, she's about one of the nastiest people you could ever encounter. She screams at her aides as if she were an 18th Century slave master. She's superior, they're sub-human dog meat to be abused at will.
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I think Oliver did get suspended for that.
But it was better than getting raided by the DEA over illegal cat sweat scalp tonic.
Apple also is taking action against HTC and Motorola, both bit players in the market. Motorola is having problems selling the small number of Xooms shipped, and the HTC Flyer isn't doing well either.
So it can't be that the Galaxy is good enough to have Apple scared.
LG for the majority, plus Samsung and Innolux, with other suppliers in the pipeline.
Apple doesn't need them, see above.
Apple is still the #1 smart phone manufacturer in the world, although Samsung is a close second. Android wins when you combine the sales of a dozen or so companies.
Context. Microsoft strong-arming Android phone manufacturers was obvious, they couldn't compete because of an inferior product, so used the legal system to hurt the competition.
Right now Apple is on top. Apple has the hottest-selling products and makes the most profit by far. Apple got to this position purely through making and marketing a better product.
To me the context says not "We can't compete on product so we'll sue" but instead says "Quit copying our stuff!"
When for the science fair Oliver Wendell Jones built a functioning nuclear bomb out of the glowy stuff on a couple thousand glow in the dark watches.
I've noticed a trend here that people think the rich pay a less proportionate share. I guess the liberal media is doing well in its class warfare campaign. I thought /. folks were smarter than to believe what they've been fed. In 2008:
The top 1% earned only 20% of all income and paid 38% of all income taxes.
The top 5% earned 35% of all income and paid 59% of all income taxes.
The top 10% earned 46% of all income and paid 70% of all income taxes.
As you go below that it starts inverting, percentage of taxes paid equals out, and then percentage of income becomes greater than taxes paid, so that the lower-earning half in this country make 13% of the income, but pay 3% of the taxes.
Although it's not on the chart, given the trend it's most likely that when you get into the bottom third no taxes are paid, and in fact they receive money in federally-funded benefits.
Source, with links to original IRS data.
Our tax system is already quite progressive.
Now you're talking about other taxes, not income tax. Of course, the things they do buy are often subject to the higher luxury taxes.
How does that diminish your constitutional rights?
It isn't neutral, but then our country wasn't based on total neutrality towards religion. It was part of their lives, their culture.
Top 1%, over $380,354, 38.02%
Top 5%, over $159,619, 58.72%
Top 10%, over $113,799, 69.94%
Bottom 50%, under $33,048, 2.7%,
Note that's adjusted gross income, not gross. A single guy earning over $40,000 could easily be in this last category. This doesn't count that a large percentage of the below 50% mark are receiving welfare benefits that do not apply to the AGI, resulting in a net far negative taxes paid.
And don't forget, that when most of us die our money simply goes straight to our kids. When the ultra rich die, the government will take about 35% (used to be 50%) yet again of the money it's already taxed at least once, if not more.
Why pussyfoot around. Just confiscate all their money and be done with it. That's what you want afterall, isn't it? Do we get to shoot them, too? Or are you going to leave out that traditional aspect of the great proletariat revolution?
She is a major Buddhist public figure in the US.
A quick Google shows Alyce Zeoli donating to Democrats, and it looks like the right Alyce.
I'd bet her organization, the Kunzang Palyul Choling, donates heavily Democrat too.
Back in the early days of the USA political discourse was very often not civilized. The Hamilton-Burr duel didn't come out of nowhere. It was the culmination of extreme vitriol in public between the two.
Some pretty nasty cartoons and articles were put forth as evidence in the Hustler v. Falwell trial at the Supreme Court.
However, making threats across state lines, that's a different animal altogether. It doesn't need stalking laws to prosecute.
Per the Virginia Declaration of Rights, on which the Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence are based:
By nature, inherent. Natural rights. And that was written by a Christian, George Mason.
It has no legal enforcement, no legal ramifications. An atheist isn't excluded from anything due to IGWT.
An overly sensitive atheist may have his feelings hurt because the majority expresses its belief in the Judeo/Christian deity through the coinage, but that's about as far as it goes.
Their income tax rate is already far higher than anyone else. In fact, those 1%ers pay 38% of all federal income tax.
Which is why we have the lower capital gains tax. If they re-invest their income, then income derived from that investment is taxed at a lower rate, and one that makes up for the inherent government tax known as inflation. This serves your purpose of encouraging investment.
Oh, wait, you probably have a rant somewhere else complaining about the low capital gains taxes.
Then after that you of course start blurring the lines between individual income taxes and corporate taxes, and foreign corporate taxes. And then
You don't even know the terminology. It's called the "double Irish" to which you can add a "Dutch sandwich." Get an education, then get back.
You started with Reagan to pad your stats. The slide started well before him. Don't remember the Carter recession? Rampant inflation?
The Democrats ran the House from 1955 to 1995 (40 years solid!). During that same time, Democrats held the Senate for all but three terms. In fact, from 1933 to 1955, the Republicans held the House and Senate each for only two terms.
After 1995 the Senate is mixed, and the House is Republican except for two terms. The presidents are pretty much mixed during this entire period.
But let's go post-war, which excludes the Roosevelt/Democrat domination. Of the 34 sessions since:
Democrats in charge of Senate: 24 terms, 71%
Democrats in charge of House: 25 terms, 74%
Democrats in as President: 16 terms, 47%
It's quite apparent, Democrats have been running our legislature, while presidents have been pretty much equal. In addition, through this history Democratic presidents far more often had the luxury of working with a Democrat-dominated Congress.
It's quite simple, and, no, it's not about Obama or the Democrats (as the singer says, "you're so vain").
The grassroots Tea Party movement got several well-established Republicans thrown out of office in 2010, and narrowly missed many others, which they are aiming for in 2012. This seriously shocked the Republican establishment. The current lot of wasteful Republicans are afraid they'll lose their jobs if they don't at least make a grand showing of an attempt at fiscal responsibility.
So you have some new Republicans in office who actually want to fix things, but they're new, with little actual power. The rest don't really care, they just want to keep their jobs. It's all a show.
I hope you're right.
Dual-processor, two SATA hard drives, 12V PSU, 12V Lithium battery. It's not even sealed in a case, just a frame holding a board, with the PSU, battery and hard drives held on with Velcro.
Most of these will be about that spec.
No, no, no, don't even THINK about suggesting we stop the taxpayer funding of the biggest baby killing machine in the country.
The pro-abortion people will be all over you. Yes, pro-abortion. I'm pro-choice, believing I don't have the right to force my views onto a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body. Most of your PP supporters are actually pro-abortion.
Apple currently has $63 billion is in securities, which mainly means stocks and bonds. That's most of their money that you are referencing.
Apple also has $12 billion in cash and cash equivalents. This is the highly liquid assets you refer to. Now of course no reasonable company just lets that sit. Almost all of that is invested in short-term treasury bills, preferred stock, commercial paper, money markets, etc.
Apple also has 49,400 employees.
When we do pull out they will be missing all of those local jobs.
I've seen a couple communities in Germany devastated by the loss of US military bases. Aside from local national jobs on the base, many local businesses cater to the now-missing Americans, and many landlords depend on Americans to keep their units full.
However, when a smaller US base is in the middle of an otherwise large and successful city, they can't wait for the Americans to leave. The property is usually quite valuable, and either the government, a university or a business wants to use it.
And I don't care about that end. If we do not need that base for a clear strategic reason, get rid of it.
The top 1%ers, where is that top 1% of wealth?
Is it under a mattress?
No, for the most part it's invest in companies, keeping business going, keeping people employed.
Bill Gates, most of the wealth in Microsoft. Warren Buffet, most of the wealth in various stocks and dozens of companies under Berkshire Hathaway. Larry Ellison, most in Oracle stock. Walton family, Wal-Mart stock. Koch brothers, stock in a large number of companies under the Koch umbrella. Michael Bloomberg, most of the wealth in Bloomberg L.P., a financial news and services company he started in the 80s. That's the top 10.
Let's see, employees:
Microsoft: 89,000
Berkshire: Many tens of thousands
Koch: 70,000
Walmart: 2,100,000
Bloomberg: 13,000
I know, let's confiscate everything and put all those people out of work
When we get pretty much no oil from Iraq?
The first Gulf War was over oil. The second one was Junior finishing what Daddy didn't have the balls to finish. Family pride is a stupid, but not unprecedented, reason to go to war.
Our press supports the Democrats.
FTR, I'm not a Republican. It's just obvious to any rational observer without party allegiance.
You have a girlfriend?
Fixing the system is just too hard, real financial solvency is just too hard, let's invent ways to get around it and pretend we're still solvent.
Then when we crash, we'll crash even harder.
I am endlessly entertained by Jackon Lee's ability to pull the race card for pretty much any situation. She just shot someone in cold blood on the Capitol steps, she's arrested, she'll claim she's only being arrested because she's black.
It's like watching a comedy sketch, only it's a congressional hearing.
But from what I hear in person, she's about one of the nastiest people you could ever encounter. She screams at her aides as if she were an 18th Century slave master. She's superior, they're sub-human dog meat to be abused at will.
Democrats, by not being willing to reign in the spending that is killing our economy. But, to be honest, they're being aided by many Republicans.
Democrats, remember when Obamacare cut $500 billion from Medicare?