Well, for me ANY tax evasion is fair and reasonable. US federal government has grown so big it is scary when one reads constitution and wonders how the hell they managed to justify this growth and still claim to be following our constitution.
If they can do that they can do anything...
BTW. Microsoft is just responding any way they can to this Byzantine tax system... It is not their fault, they are not the ones who set the rules here.
"Corporate welfare" - what a bullshit term.
Remember, this is Microsoft money that they keep instead of forking over to support insane federal programs.
They are not stealing from you.
I don't want my taxes to be used on this stuff. Who the hell are you to force me to support it ?
PS.
Nelson Mandela was a terrorist and basically not much different than your typical soviet-supported "revolutionary" yet you don't see people mentioning that..
Come on, these tests are NOT biased, they do test skills most people will need in college.
If what you saying is true then what we have here is entire system being biased - starting with preschools and ending in your typical corporate job.
It is rather funny that people complain about email and other stuff while their ability to freely discuss and explore various ideas is severly limited due to rampart Political Correctness.
"The Unix community didn't restrict their OS to a single platform or tie it to the eccentricities of a 20 year old piece of hardware"
Yeah, instead they went out of their way to make their products incompatible with each other.
"Jobs and Wozniak did not keep their OS trapped on obsolete CISC technology and did not stunt the development of easy to use end user interfaces (both hardware and software). "
Apple products suck. Their kernel is stuck in where Windows was in 80s. They rely on user base, which is even more clueless than your typical Windows user.
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What the hell are you talking about ?
Well, for me ANY tax evasion is fair and reasonable. US federal government has grown so big it is scary when one reads constitution and wonders how the hell they managed to justify this growth and still claim to be following our constitution.
... It is not their fault, they are not the ones who set the rules here.
If they can do that they can do anything...
BTW. Microsoft is just responding any way they can to this Byzantine tax system
Sure it is. Just look at the cooperative organizations ( mainly located in eastern Europe) and how well they fared against western economy.
"Corporate welfare" - what a bullshit term.
Remember, this is Microsoft money that they keep instead of forking over to support insane federal programs.
They are not stealing from you.
How is this arrogant to optimize your chip to perform best on systems run by about 90% of your users ?
How many schools would have enough courage to stand up to professional troublemakers like Jessie Jackson?
I don't want my taxes to be used on this stuff. Who the hell are you to force me to support it ?
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PS.
Nelson Mandela was a terrorist and basically not much different than your typical soviet-supported "revolutionary" yet you don't see people mentioning that
I don't remember no TradeWars, I have never used or even seen BBS etc ..
Is my life worthless ?
Yeah, replace bible with something else and see what happens ( hint.. Russia)
Obviously you know nothing about US.
"worse on the test because of the bias "
Come on, these tests are NOT biased, they do test skills most people will need in college.
If what you saying is true then what we have here is entire system being biased - starting with preschools and ending in your typical corporate job.
Well, Europe was ravaged many more times and somehow they managed to "catch-up" every time.
Well, then OS is like communism.
I would rather live under Hitler than Stalin .
"ompanies have to invent new things (oh the horror) '
What would be their incentive to invent if they cannot make money out of it ?
You are going to lose.
After all, with large library of free software who needs so many developers ?
"when they're independantly "scratching an itch" (free software). It rarely happens in mainstream software development."
Show me one single innovative piece of software that was created by open source folks.
Can you ?
It is rather funny that people complain about email and other stuff while their ability to freely discuss and explore various ideas is severly limited due to rampart Political Correctness.
You said that.
You are one sick couple.
You shoudn't be posting.
You are emotionally unstable.
Who is an idiot here ?
Certainly not them.
Precisely, Katz is equivalent of these communist apologists who used to be so common in intellectual circles in 30s and 40s.
"The Unix community didn't restrict their OS to a single platform or tie it to the eccentricities of a 20 year old piece of hardware"
Yeah, instead they went out of their way to make their products incompatible with each other.
"Jobs and Wozniak did not keep their OS trapped on obsolete CISC technology and did not stunt the development of easy to use end user interfaces (both hardware and software). "
Apple products suck. Their kernel is stuck in where Windows was in 80s. They rely on user base, which is even more clueless than your typical Windows user.
To use a quote from "Braveheart":
It matters not.
He is your president.
No he did not.
Show me some official paper that says so.