Really it is the shareholders and owners that should be taxed, not the corporations.
There are all sorts of problems with taxing corporations, one of which this article touches on. There are plenty of others. One of them is that taxation of corporations encourages them to get involved in the political process. Another is that it encourages them to make decisions based on which venue will give them the best "deal".
In the US anyway I think that taxation of corporations should be eliminated. Taxes should be raised on individuals (shareholders and owners) to compensate.
With this in place the idea of corporations as citizens would be weakened considerably.
Ideally this would be combined with a Constitutional amendment reversing the effect of the Citizen's United decision.
Actually peak oil has happened. Why do you think you are paying $4 for gas, and we are drilling EVERYWHERE for the last dregs, not to mention trying to process tar sands. And why do you think economic growth worldwide sucks? Why do you think global oil production is in a downtrend?
1960's big freeze - I call bullshit. There was never a scientific consensus that this would happen.
1970's - Ozone layer was preserved because of a concerted global response to remove the cause of it's shrinkage. Duh.
1980's - Aids has killed 15 million people. Go talk to people living in countries where it is pandemic and then come back and tell me nothing has happened.
You didn't go back far enough. The horse collar is one of the biggest inventions in human history, enabling the production of surplus food and putting an end to feudalism in Europe and was one of the leading factors in putting an end to the Middle Ages.
FACT: Free time is a GOOD thing. Automation will lead to more free time is changing our lives for the better. Yes change is often uncomfortable, but stagnation is far worse.
That's EXACTLY right. Cost and price are really quite unrelated. Price is all about what the market is willing to pay.
However competition does eventually drive costs down. This is why I don't own any Apple stock. Like everything else their bloated margins are gradually going to be driven down by competition from other companies. They are on a treadmill where they have to come out with new products that differentiate themselves in a big way to maintain those margins. I don't think they will be able to do it.
Meh. Capital flight occurs due to taxation and interest rates. For example pretty much everyone rich is bailing out of Britain because of punitive tax rates and low interest rates.
Investment in factories is really is a minor factor in this. In fact capital investment in factories in China is fairly low - simply because low wages keeps suppresses the economic argument for automation.
Capital markets are notoriously cyclical. They have ALWAYS been risky - if you don't believe me, go read "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", which covers this topic. Written in 1841.
The 2007 crash has already been recovered from, as anyone who wasn't stupid enough to sell out at the low can attest. It has always been a Casino if you are stupid.
If the service sector didn't create anything useful people wouldn't pay for it. Duh.
The fact that the US attracts guest workers is a very healthy sign. I'd be very worried if people WEREN'T coming here for work.
Wrong question. The United States has already undergone several industrial revolutions of this sort. The two largest of these have been the loss of farm employment due to farm mechanization that happened the first half of the last century and the loss of manufacturing jobs that happened mostly in the second half of the last century, and continues today.
To understand the scale of what happened consider productivity - in 1900 it took 8 farmers to supply 11 people with food. By 1980 one farmer was supplying 1000 people with food.
In manufacturing the trend is the same. In 1950 some 40% of the US population had direct manufacturing jobs. Now the number is 8%.
The gradual loss of those 8% is not going to be a particular problem to the US economy. Other areas that are growing provide ample potential to provide employment.
The question is how to manage the transition of the individual workers to the newer modes of employment.
> And given the improvement in digital equipment over the last few decades, it doesn't cost much to imitate the Hollywood special effects of the seventies an eighties anymore. It is merely a matter of time before even the so-called modern special effects will become quite cheap.
Film quality has NOTHING to do with special effects.
In fact I'd say that there is somewhat of an inverse correlation.
I just don't like the idea of my mail hosted on somebody else's server. The privacy implications are just not acceptable to me. Not to mention the amount of hacking that this attracts.
What kind of mail store are you using? I have an IMAP server running on an ATOM processor with over 10 years of email on it and I certainly don't find running Thunderbird as a client to be slow at all.
The problem with your scenario is that Bollywood's product quality sucks, even compared with the mainstream Hollywood movie, let alone with the occasional work of real quality that Hollywood manages to produce.
What is needed is a middle road - a model that provides a mechanism that promotes high quality and at the same time doesn't lock up content forever.
1. Take down link as requested. 2. Take down all other links to targeted material. 3. Take down all links to domain originating request. 4. Take down all links to owner of targeted material. 5. Keep links down for at least 30 days.
I haunted Ebay for a while and now have a stable of half a dozen of high quality CD drives in cheap external enclosures. Works great in conjunction with the batch version of dbPoweramp. In particular these older Plextors are great at digging out error free rips of used CDs bought for pennies off Ebay and Amazon.
More like the ECPA of 1986 didn't anticipate that we would en masse turn our private documents over to third party companies who happily data mine our privates for profit and at the same time expect these documents would be considered private in some way.
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While enjoying yourself, don't forget to pick up memorabilia at the NCTC gift shoppe.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-06-14-national-counter-terrorism-center_N.htm
The kids activities at the NCTC web site are cool too.
http://www.nctc.gov/site/kids/index.html
No, it's BS.
There is a lot of truth in what you say.
BUT in a real police state you will NOT beat the rap and any lawyer you see will be part of the police state.
More likely the MPAA is behind this. Space aliens have been torrenting by tapping into the dark nets and now the MPAA is on their tails.
Nothing. All of the profits always end up with the owners. Either in the value of the shares they own or in the form of dividends.
Really it is the shareholders and owners that should be taxed, not the corporations.
There are all sorts of problems with taxing corporations, one of which this article touches on. There are plenty of others. One of them is that taxation of corporations encourages them to get involved in the political process. Another is that it encourages them to make decisions based on which venue will give them the best "deal".
In the US anyway I think that taxation of corporations should be eliminated. Taxes should be raised on individuals (shareholders and owners) to compensate.
With this in place the idea of corporations as citizens would be weakened considerably.
Ideally this would be combined with a Constitutional amendment reversing the effect of the Citizen's United decision.
Ah good point. I'm 62 now. August 2017 is likely to be after my retirement date.
YIPPEE I may NEVER have to figure out an answer to this problem.
> we may enter into a period of global recession while we transition, but we'll get out the other side with some nice tech.
The economics will have to improve for that to happen. Right most alternatives consume more energy than they produce.
Actually peak oil has happened. Why do you think you are paying $4 for gas, and we are drilling EVERYWHERE for the last dregs, not to mention trying to process tar sands. And why do you think economic growth worldwide sucks? Why do you think global oil production is in a downtrend?
1960's big freeze - I call bullshit. There was never a scientific consensus that this would happen.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.htm
1970's - Ozone layer was preserved because of a concerted global response to remove the cause of it's shrinkage. Duh.
1980's - Aids has killed 15 million people. Go talk to people living in countries where it is pandemic and then come back and tell me nothing has happened.
http://www.avert.org/aids-impact-africa.htm
2003 - SARS. Please cite a claim that it was going to wipe us all out.
2005 - Avian Flu - ditto
2012 - Oh BS.
Alarmist predictions are made alarmist by news reporters. The actual predictions have been pretty much accurate.
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-pair-global.html
Well, I'm on 12.04 LTE with Gnome Classic for now. I don't see my next upgrade being Ubuntu.
You didn't go back far enough. The horse collar is one of the biggest inventions in human history, enabling the production of surplus food and putting an end to feudalism in Europe and was one of the leading factors in putting an end to the Middle Ages.
FACT: Free time is a GOOD thing. Automation will lead to more free time is changing our lives for the better. Yes change is often uncomfortable, but stagnation is far worse.
That's EXACTLY right. Cost and price are really quite unrelated. Price is all about what the market is willing to pay.
However competition does eventually drive costs down. This is why I don't own any Apple stock. Like everything else their bloated margins are gradually going to be driven down by competition from other companies. They are on a treadmill where they have to come out with new products that differentiate themselves in a big way to maintain those margins. I don't think they will be able to do it.
Meh. Capital flight occurs due to taxation and interest rates. For example pretty much everyone rich is bailing out of Britain because of punitive tax rates and low interest rates.
Investment in factories is really is a minor factor in this. In fact capital investment in factories in China is fairly low - simply because low wages keeps suppresses the economic argument for automation.
Capital markets are notoriously cyclical. They have ALWAYS been risky - if you don't believe me, go read "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", which covers this topic. Written in 1841.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds
The 2007 crash has already been recovered from, as anyone who wasn't stupid enough to sell out at the low can attest. It has always been a Casino if you are stupid.
If the service sector didn't create anything useful people wouldn't pay for it. Duh.
The fact that the US attracts guest workers is a very healthy sign. I'd be very worried if people WEREN'T coming here for work.
Wrong question. The United States has already undergone several industrial revolutions of this sort. The two largest of these have been the loss of farm employment due to farm mechanization that happened the first half of the last century and the loss of manufacturing jobs that happened mostly in the second half of the last century, and continues today.
To understand the scale of what happened consider productivity - in 1900 it took 8 farmers to supply 11 people with food. By 1980 one farmer was supplying 1000 people with food.
In manufacturing the trend is the same. In 1950 some 40% of the US population had direct manufacturing jobs. Now the number is 8%.
The gradual loss of those 8% is not going to be a particular problem to the US economy. Other areas that are growing provide ample potential to provide employment.
The question is how to manage the transition of the individual workers to the newer modes of employment.
> And given the improvement in digital equipment over the last few decades, it doesn't cost much to imitate the Hollywood special effects of the seventies an eighties anymore. It is merely a matter of time before even the so-called modern special effects will become quite cheap.
Film quality has NOTHING to do with special effects.
In fact I'd say that there is somewhat of an inverse correlation.
> Where's the gain for the user?
Privacy. As the people associated with General Petreaus found out to their chagrin.
Having the mail available wherever is not a problem if you run an IMAP server.
I just don't like the idea of my mail hosted on somebody else's server. The privacy implications are just not acceptable to me. Not to mention the amount of hacking that this attracts.
What kind of mail store are you using? I have an IMAP server running on an ATOM processor with over 10 years of email on it and I certainly don't find running Thunderbird as a client to be slow at all.
The problem with your scenario is that Bollywood's product quality sucks, even compared with the mainstream Hollywood movie, let alone with the occasional work of real quality that Hollywood manages to produce.
What is needed is a middle road - a model that provides a mechanism that promotes high quality and at the same time doesn't lock up content forever.
No doubt about it. They just signed an exclusive contract with Disney for their film catalog streaming rights.
That must have drained every drop of cash, even the hooker and blow fund for lobbyists.
1. Take down link as requested.
2. Take down all other links to targeted material.
3. Take down all links to domain originating request.
4. Take down all links to owner of targeted material.
5. Keep links down for at least 30 days.
Profit!!!!
I haunted Ebay for a while and now have a stable of half a dozen of high quality CD drives in cheap external enclosures. Works great in conjunction with the batch version of dbPoweramp. In particular these older Plextors are great at digging out error free rips of used CDs bought for pennies off Ebay and Amazon.
> Petraeus was appointed with the administration already knowing all about his peccadilloes.
Since these "peccadiloes" did not start until after the appointment you are really looking like an idiot here.
More like the ECPA of 1986 didn't anticipate that we would en masse turn our private documents over to third party companies who happily data mine our privates for profit and at the same time expect these documents would be considered private in some way.
Silly behavior I think.