Your insistence on using the word slave to categorize people who are free to live their lives how they wish is one of the stupidest and most disgusting fixations I've seen on slashdot.
Slaves have very different lives, and the historic injustice of the way the were forced to live is one of the most horrible and shameful elements in human history.
Conflating taxpaying to slavery is a vile, repugnant insult to the memory of people who were treated in this way, and trivializes the horror of what slavery really was.
You were in a minority. I had an 8100. These POS machines were horribly unstable, and much of the software running on them was emulated making performance crap. Not only that but there were few add ons available because of the poorly supported NuBus.
And despite the nice CPU the OS architecture was still based on an schlock memory and multitasking model.
The fact is these were the worst architected and poorest performing machines I've ever owned.
Not necessarily. The amounts of radioactivity used in some medical procedures is quite large. It is inevitable that any practical radiation screening is going to catch people who have recently undergone some of these procedures.
Annoying to some, but it really isn't an erosion of the constitution - which protects against unreasonable searches. Only the truly wacko would view this as unreasonable.
Saverin was part of a process that added $80 billion in economic value to the US economy based on the estimated market value of Facebook. He isn't doing anything illegal by cashing in the personal wealth he generated doing it, and I'm sure he will pay the taxes he's legally obligated to pay.
He should congratulated for the accomplishment. I am sure Facebook employees like having jobs. Now he believes he can repeat the process in other ventures and has decided that Singapore is the best place to do it from.
Everyone is assuming this is solely a tax question, however I really doubt it. With his personal net worth taxes will make no difference in how he lives. It would be very interesting to hear his reasons.
It will work because what he is doing is not expatriating for the purpose of avoiding US taxes on US earnings, but for future earnings on new ventures outside the US which he would have to pay US taxes on if he remained a US citizen.
>Are you a slave? Are you property of IRS or any other part of the US government?
Real slaves do not pay taxes.
If you are a slave or are property of someone else you get hung, tortured, crucified or in some cases burned alive if you try to escape. You cannot own property of your own, and you certainly don't get to vote or pay taxes or renounce citizenship.
Yes, I am sure that the decline in manufacturing employment is the root of the idea that America is not capable of manufacturing, when in fact manufacturing is a core competency.
It's the natural evolution of capitalism. Just like farming became more automated and the percentage of people living on farms declined, the same process is well underway in manufacturing.
The idea that there is something wrong with a society that needs to devote perhaps 12% of its workforce to satisfying its material needs is just not right. It is profoundly liberating to have a society that can devote its energies to so many more creative endeavors.
NJ as a state is #2 in family income in the US and is #7 by % of graduate degrees held. These are more important factors than whether or not teachers are unionized.
Fact: success of a student is a school is primarily dependent on the socioeconomic background of the student.
American suburban schools results rank in the top percentiles world-wide. Up there with results from Finland and Asia. Yes even in places where the schools are unionized.
The problem is what to do about the cities in order to make America work for everyone.
Naked annuities don't have an insurance product tied to them.
They are a good place to put the bond component of a diversified portfolio because bond income would be taxed at ordinary income rates. As such bond income can grow tax free in these instruments once you have maxed out your 401K. Once you get to be a certain age you will probably, like me, find yourself with a lot of excess income, a maxed out 401K contribution and a desire to have a substantial fixed income investment component.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking of a house as an investment. It isn't. For you it's an expense and an illiquid asset in your estate.
In California the percentage of children with one or more immigrant parent is 49%.
Supposing ALL of these children failed the exam, that STILL means that something like 60% on the children with non-immigrant parents failed the exam.
California is one fscked state.
No wonder it is the headquarters of woo-woo and has problems with epidemics of preventable diseases.
By the way, my children have an immigrant parent. She is a Fullbright Scholar who speaks 7 languages and is a polymath with multiple advanced degrees one of which is a Masters in Medieval English Literature. I am sure she speaks English better than 99% of Americans. I think that my children did not have any problem scoring well in assessment exams.
That means MORE than 60% of children of non-immigrant parents failed this test.
California = FAIL. All of its institutions need to be zeroed out.
It's a problem alright. But not with science. If you get a positive result that appears useful, publish it so others can try to repeat it to see if it's valid.
The problem is that every old exploratory result is breathlessly slammed into the mass media by journalism majors who think if it's published in a peer reviewed journal it must be Graven in Imperishable Stone and one of the Fundamental Laws of the Universe.
Science is a much slower process than all that. But journalists don't care, their need is to sell ad impressions.
Seems to me it's more likely that somebody now owns the Twitter password server and is now trying to get everyone to change their password so he'll have all the twitter user passwords.
Actually what works best is a combination of diet and exercise. Just reducing caloric intake will be in large part compensated for by the body reducing its rate of metabolism. You will feel tired an hungry as a result. Not a pleasant situation and the reason most dieters are unsuccessful.
Exercise counters this by increasing your metabolism plus adding muscle, again increasing metabolism. Increased muscle also increases the caloric effect of exercise, both by energy expended but also by the metabolic effects of rebuilding muscle during recovery after exercise. Adding muscle also slightly increases rest metabolism, however this is not a big factor.
Then there is the fact that while you are losing weight, if you don't exercise the weight you lose will be both fat and muscle when you really just want to lose fat.
Nothing stops everything, but your cheepie device just has a few MOVs and doesn't stop 1/10th of what a Surgebreaker Plus does. It doesn't do any good to block a surge on one line and have it come in on the cable or phone. In fact I've lost more gear to surges coming in on non-electrical lines than electrical lines.
As far as AC and fridge I just gave two examples. Not meant to be exhaustive as to the possibilities. Suppose a computer power supply gives up the magic smoke and spitzensparken?
The fact of the matter is that it is still a standard recommendation to have local surge protection when you have a whole house surge protector. And that local surge protection should cover ethernet and coax too.
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That's so 19th century.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSQOMUm1C1M
Your insistence on using the word slave to categorize people who are free to live their lives how they wish is one of the stupidest and most disgusting fixations I've seen on slashdot.
Slaves have very different lives, and the historic injustice of the way the were forced to live is one of the most horrible and shameful elements in human history.
Conflating taxpaying to slavery is a vile, repugnant insult to the memory of people who were treated in this way, and trivializes the horror of what slavery really was.
You were in a minority. I had an 8100. These POS machines were horribly unstable, and much of the software running on them was emulated making performance crap. Not only that but there were few add ons available because of the poorly supported NuBus.
And despite the nice CPU the OS architecture was still based on an schlock memory and multitasking model.
The fact is these were the worst architected and poorest performing machines I've ever owned.
I call bullshit. Racial profiling can get a police organization into all sorts of shit.
Example: The NJ State Police got into big trouble for racial profiling.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/dec2000/race-d02.shtml
They are subject to all sorts of monitoring as a result.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/gov_corzine_signs_racial_profi.html
Yes, and when they do that hopefully they get charged for committing serious crimes, which is what happened in this case.
1. There is no threshold below which radiation becomes 'safe'.
2. Some medical procedures include use of large amounts of very active isotopes with short half-lives. This guy could have been very radioactive.
Not necessarily. The amounts of radioactivity used in some medical procedures is quite large. It is inevitable that any practical radiation screening is going to catch people who have recently undergone some of these procedures.
Annoying to some, but it really isn't an erosion of the constitution - which protects against unreasonable searches. Only the truly wacko would view this as unreasonable.
1. Your writing sucked.
2. Your post was too long.
I call bullshit.
A Singapore passport is pretty good, but a US passport, Japan and some EU passports have fewer countries that require a visa before entering.
https://www.henleyglobal.com/citizenship/visa-restrictions/
Saverin was part of a process that added $80 billion in economic value to the US economy based on the estimated market value of Facebook. He isn't doing anything illegal by cashing in the personal wealth he generated doing it, and I'm sure he will pay the taxes he's legally obligated to pay.
He should congratulated for the accomplishment. I am sure Facebook employees like having jobs. Now he believes he can repeat the process in other ventures and has decided that Singapore is the best place to do it from.
Everyone is assuming this is solely a tax question, however I really doubt it. With his personal net worth taxes will make no difference in how he lives. It would be very interesting to hear his reasons.
It will work because what he is doing is not expatriating for the purpose of avoiding US taxes on US earnings, but for future earnings on new ventures outside the US which he would have to pay US taxes on if he remained a US citizen.
Apple ... never ... crappy....?
I guess you never owned a Nubus PowerPC Mac running MacOS 8.
>Are you a slave? Are you property of IRS or any other part of the US government?
Real slaves do not pay taxes.
If you are a slave or are property of someone else you get hung, tortured, crucified or in some cases burned alive if you try to escape. You cannot own property of your own, and you certainly don't get to vote or pay taxes or renounce citizenship.
It's worse than that. The US is the ONLY country that taxes income it's citizens earn while they are residing in another country.
It is a stupid policy which pretty much forces people who earn substantial income in foreign countries to renounce their citizenship.
It makes your life a living hell if you are an expatriate working for a foreign company abroad.
In general I'm in favor of a more progressive tax system than the US has now, but this particular policy is BROKEN.
Yes, I am sure that the decline in manufacturing employment is the root of the idea that America is not capable of manufacturing, when in fact manufacturing is a core competency.
It's the natural evolution of capitalism. Just like farming became more automated and the percentage of people living on farms declined, the same process is well underway in manufacturing.
The idea that there is something wrong with a society that needs to devote perhaps 12% of its workforce to satisfying its material needs is just not right. It is profoundly liberating to have a society that can devote its energies to so many more creative endeavors.
NJ as a state is #2 in family income in the US and is #7 by % of graduate degrees held. These are more important factors than whether or not teachers are unionized.
Fact: success of a student is a school is primarily dependent on the socioeconomic background of the student.
American suburban schools results rank in the top percentiles world-wide. Up there with results from Finland and Asia. Yes even in places where the schools are unionized.
The problem is what to do about the cities in order to make America work for everyone.
The NSA is probably quite evil, however they are OUR evil, not the evil belonging to the the Yellow Peril.
Or so I have been told.
Naked annuities don't have an insurance product tied to them.
They are a good place to put the bond component of a diversified portfolio because bond income would be taxed at ordinary income rates. As such bond income can grow tax free in these instruments once you have maxed out your 401K. Once you get to be a certain age you will probably, like me, find yourself with a lot of excess income, a maxed out 401K contribution and a desire to have a substantial fixed income investment component.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking of a house as an investment. It isn't. For you it's an expense and an illiquid asset in your estate.
I call bullshit on the teacher's union correlation. In fact it is the states with the lowest scores that do not have binding collective bargaining.
Five states do not allow collective bargaining for educators, effectively prohibiting teacher unions.
Those states and their SAT/ACT rankings are as follows:
South Carolina â" 50th
North Carolina â" 49th
Georgia â" 48th
Texas â" 47th
Virginia â" 44th
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2011/03/5-states-where-teachers-unions-are-illegal-have-the-lowest-test-scores-in-america/
And in general studies show a small positive correlation.
http://shankerblog.org/?p=1941
Of course correlation is not causation, and in this case I really doubt it is a factor either way,
The only factor that really counts is the economic status of the parents.
In California the percentage of children with one or more immigrant parent is 49%.
Supposing ALL of these children failed the exam, that STILL means that something like 60% on the children with non-immigrant parents failed the exam.
California is one fscked state.
No wonder it is the headquarters of woo-woo and has problems with epidemics of preventable diseases.
By the way, my children have an immigrant parent. She is a Fullbright Scholar who speaks 7 languages and is a polymath with multiple advanced degrees one of which is a Masters in Medieval English Literature. I am sure she speaks English better than 99% of Americans. I think that my children did not have any problem scoring well in assessment exams.
That means MORE than 60% of children of non-immigrant parents failed this test.
California = FAIL. All of its institutions need to be zeroed out.
It's a problem alright. But not with science. If you get a positive result that appears useful, publish it so others can try to repeat it to see if it's valid.
The problem is that every old exploratory result is breathlessly slammed into the mass media by journalism majors who think if it's published in a peer reviewed journal it must be Graven in Imperishable Stone and one of the Fundamental Laws of the Universe.
Science is a much slower process than all that. But journalists don't care, their need is to sell ad impressions.
Call up Fidelity and ask them about naked annuities.
401ks are not the only way.
Seems to me it's more likely that somebody now owns the Twitter password server and is now trying to get everyone to change their password so he'll have all the twitter user passwords.
Hello, FBI, is that you??
Actually what works best is a combination of diet and exercise. Just reducing caloric intake will be in large part compensated for by the body reducing its rate of metabolism. You will feel tired an hungry as a result. Not a pleasant situation and the reason most dieters are unsuccessful.
Exercise counters this by increasing your metabolism plus adding muscle, again increasing metabolism. Increased muscle also increases the caloric effect of exercise, both by energy expended but also by the metabolic effects of rebuilding muscle during recovery after exercise. Adding muscle also slightly increases rest metabolism, however this is not a big factor.
Then there is the fact that while you are losing weight, if you don't exercise the weight you lose will be both fat and muscle when you really just want to lose fat.
http://muscleevo.net/muscle-metabolism/
Nothing stops everything, but your cheepie device just has a few MOVs and doesn't stop 1/10th of what a Surgebreaker Plus does. It doesn't do any good to block a surge on one line and have it come in on the cable or phone. In fact I've lost more gear to surges coming in on non-electrical lines than electrical lines.
As far as AC and fridge I just gave two examples. Not meant to be exhaustive as to the possibilities. Suppose a computer power supply gives up the magic smoke and spitzensparken?
The fact of the matter is that it is still a standard recommendation to have local surge protection when you have a whole house surge protector. And that local surge protection should cover ethernet and coax too.