Apple in Australia pays an Irish subsidiary the Australian market price for apple products. This means that Apple Australia it makes no profit from selling them on the Australian market: even a loss. Of course Apple in Ireland makeas a huge profit. So Apple Australia pays no tax to the Australian Government.
This is tax evasion at its very worst. Australia has to find a way to string Apple up by its balls.
he best technical answer is for the President to order a mass psychoanalysis for the entire American population by a panel of expert Psychiatrists and academics. The objective would be to find out why Americans are so irationally afraid, discover the root causes of this fear psychosis, and recommend cognitive behavioral therapy. Perhaps these irrational fears are the result of: The War of Independence and 1812, the Civil War, the Cold War, Vietnam, Korea etc. We seem to be terrified of : Muslims, Communists, Mexicans, LGBTI, gangs, and even our God. Many of us very afraid of divine retribution, the End Days, and what will happen to us when we die. We are afraid of being driven into poverty by injury or disease. Some are even developing a survivalist mentality, planning how best to shoot their starving neighbours.
The peresident would then ask his experts top propose cognitive behavioural therapy: possibly in the form of education, advertising, and individual counselling. When Americans are not so shit-scared of everything, including each other, then perhaps they will not feel so obliged to own powerful firearms. Better gun laws will never be the answer to a paranoid psychosis
It is not possible for a Non American who is living outside of the USA, and not visiting here, to break a US law. The USA has no jurisdiction to make laws that are binding on citizens of another country in their homeland. So no crime was committed under a US Law. Why was he extradited?
"Dictator" was actually an elected position in the Roman Republic. It was an emergency measure to be used by the senate in times of a national crisis when the shared two consuls administration (elected for one year) system could not produce strong decisive leadership. This allowed them to elect one powerful general to make the tough decisions and lead them against an approaching enemy. Sadly there were no limits on the power of the dictator, and he could even "proscribe": that is, post a list of names of Romans he wanted dead. Any citizen who killed these people could have their property. Most proscribed people got out of Rome fast, and maybe came back when the dictator was gone and things had cooled down.
Julius Caesar was never elected dictator. Hie enemies, the right wing Bonii (good men), put it about that he intended to declare himself one, but that was really impossible for him because he was a jurist, a legislator, and a very law abiding man. The propaganda against him is still working.
You are all missing the point. It is being done to silence Islamic State. That org is not just another unpopular voice in a healthy pluralistic society. IS is a murder machine, and it should be destroyed by whatever means possible. This is not an insidious thin end of the wedge issue threatening free speech in a democratic society, it is just common sense.
Crispr sounds like that big drawer at the bottom of the fridge. Everything I put in there rots away to a disgusting mess quite quickly: much like old people really. Perhaps they should call their age-reversing conference ROTTER . Really Old Tiny Tots Evading Reality.
Hate to remind you guys, but space is outside of the Jurisdiction of the US Government. It can only make laws that apply to US Citizens up there.
A treaty is a solemn and formal agreement between countries. It does not have to be enforced by military power. It can be broken, but a signatory country that does that becomes a rogue and a pariah that cannot be trusted in any contract or agreement. The USA is not quite that bad: yet.
Trespass is not a criminal offense. The home-owner would need to take him to court for a tort. However, he would not find a lawyer interested enough to attempt to make a court booking. In my opinion no court would waste its time on a trivial trespass case. It would be sent to an arbitrator who would talk them out of it and send them both a bill.
Why cant we learn the real lesson from 911? Sometimes the passengers desperately need weapons to save themselves from terrorists.
That day could not have ended worse if everyone on board had a gun.
In Australia, if we don't turn up to vote (we don't have to actually cast a vote) we get a small fine.
In the USA if you don't turn up to vote, you get George W Bush.
Why all this prejudice agains minors. They should be free to have consenting sex any way they like: provided that they turn off that light thingy on their hat.
You check your history. The armed mob that founded America was the French Army and Navy. American arms were irrelevant. Norfolk was an artillery siege battle, and the Americans had no big guns there.
"There are a LOT of.45 submachine guns floating around this country, plus other heavy weapons like Browning Automatic Rifles (BAR)."
All the more reason to confiscate them, whenever they are seen.
>But a negative correlation can Disprove cause-and-effect.
No the same other thing could be causing the negative correlation, or two other things, or three...
Not alarming at all, but quite sensible. THe DOJ has limited resources so it has to make judgements about how best to employ them. It should aim where it thinks it has the best chances of detecting breaches of federal laws. I think aiming at these dubious business is a good strateg. People dealing with drugs, porno, sex, ponzi scams, gambling, telemarketing etc, do seem to me to be more likely to reward some DOJ investigation.
I respond very negatively to advertising. It irritates and offends me so much that I am prepared to pay more for a similar product that I have not seen advertised.
Agreed, but notice how the long Aldi conveyor ends abruptlyat the cash register after which is a very short counter that can hold only a couple of items. There the fast swiping check out chick expects you to quickly load your own bags (or buy new bags) to stop items piling up on your side and falling off the edge. There is no bag loading service. This means that you cannot watch the prices going through the till because you are too busy trying to keep up, and they will snap nastily at you if you fail. There is always a long queue on each register at my Aldi. If one ever it becomes short, the operator closes that lane to make the other queues longer. You cannot time your visits better, because even during slack periods of the week there will be a long queue on the only register operating. A quick purchase of one item is never possible.
If the queues are all too long I will dump my pile anywhere and walk out: in the hope that the manager will realize that this policy is costing sales and re-stacking time.
Aldi charges a fee for providing a cart, even though some are usually available for free outside in the car park. And, it charges a percentage fee for using your credit card. Traditions from Germany, I guess.
Yep, that is the phony "discount store" model that undercut and killed the old "department store" model. Now that too is failing because it is being undercut by on-line shopping. I can no longer suspend my disbelief at the hyped-up discount store sales promotions. Pull the other one: it has bells on. Tell it to the Marines: they are thick enough to believe you.
Most "Loss leaders" are items that would not sell when formerly pitched above market price, or they are items that are even cheaper from Asian on-line stores.The sooner that fake discount model is gone the better. I only use Walmart to physically inspect the products that I am considering purchasing on-line. I expect to get things about 30% cheaper, including shipping, providing that I can avoid the big retail on line stores like Amazon. Give me the Chinese copies every time -- more reliable as well as cheaper.
I don't care about the jobs that will be lost when the likes of Walmart are gone. The bulk of the wages that should be going to their workers are being stolen by the obscenely rich Walton family. Something better will replace those jobs when the fake discount stores are killed off. Both Waltons and the Government have to learn that we will not stand for this kind of exploitation any longer.
Most businesses rely on people using credit cards. If they had to use cash instead, their costs would rise and sales would decrease. Airlines for example, are totally dependent on their customers credit cards because they now have no other method for taking payments. And yet they charge consumers a big fee for using them. It should be the other way around because the cards cost the owner plenty. Pay me for maintaining and using my credit card, or go back to cash, bank transfers, cashier's checks and personal checks.
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Apple in Australia pays an Irish subsidiary the Australian market price for apple products. This means that Apple Australia it makes no profit from selling them on the Australian market: even a loss. Of course Apple in Ireland makeas a huge profit. So Apple Australia pays no tax to the Australian Government. This is tax evasion at its very worst. Australia has to find a way to string Apple up by its balls.
he best technical answer is for the President to order a mass psychoanalysis for the entire American population by a panel of expert Psychiatrists and academics. The objective would be to find out why Americans are so irationally afraid, discover the root causes of this fear psychosis, and recommend cognitive behavioral therapy. Perhaps these irrational fears are the result of: The War of Independence and 1812, the Civil War, the Cold War, Vietnam, Korea etc. We seem to be terrified of : Muslims, Communists, Mexicans, LGBTI, gangs, and even our God. Many of us very afraid of divine retribution, the End Days, and what will happen to us when we die. We are afraid of being driven into poverty by injury or disease. Some are even developing a survivalist mentality, planning how best to shoot their starving neighbours. The peresident would then ask his experts top propose cognitive behavioural therapy: possibly in the form of education, advertising, and individual counselling. When Americans are not so shit-scared of everything, including each other, then perhaps they will not feel so obliged to own powerful firearms. Better gun laws will never be the answer to a paranoid psychosis
It is not possible for a Non American who is living outside of the USA, and not visiting here, to break a US law. The USA has no jurisdiction to make laws that are binding on citizens of another country in their homeland. So no crime was committed under a US Law. Why was he extradited?
"Dictator" was actually an elected position in the Roman Republic. It was an emergency measure to be used by the senate in times of a national crisis when the shared two consuls administration (elected for one year) system could not produce strong decisive leadership. This allowed them to elect one powerful general to make the tough decisions and lead them against an approaching enemy. Sadly there were no limits on the power of the dictator, and he could even "proscribe": that is, post a list of names of Romans he wanted dead. Any citizen who killed these people could have their property. Most proscribed people got out of Rome fast, and maybe came back when the dictator was gone and things had cooled down. Julius Caesar was never elected dictator. Hie enemies, the right wing Bonii (good men), put it about that he intended to declare himself one, but that was really impossible for him because he was a jurist, a legislator, and a very law abiding man. The propaganda against him is still working.
You are all missing the point. It is being done to silence Islamic State. That org is not just another unpopular voice in a healthy pluralistic society. IS is a murder machine, and it should be destroyed by whatever means possible. This is not an insidious thin end of the wedge issue threatening free speech in a democratic society, it is just common sense.
Crispr sounds like that big drawer at the bottom of the fridge. Everything I put in there rots away to a disgusting mess quite quickly: much like old people really. Perhaps they should call their age-reversing conference ROTTER . Really Old Tiny Tots Evading Reality.
Hate to remind you guys, but space is outside of the Jurisdiction of the US Government. It can only make laws that apply to US Citizens up there. A treaty is a solemn and formal agreement between countries. It does not have to be enforced by military power. It can be broken, but a signatory country that does that becomes a rogue and a pariah that cannot be trusted in any contract or agreement. The USA is not quite that bad: yet.
Trespass is not a criminal offense. The home-owner would need to take him to court for a tort. However, he would not find a lawyer interested enough to attempt to make a court booking. In my opinion no court would waste its time on a trivial trespass case. It would be sent to an arbitrator who would talk them out of it and send them both a bill.
Why cant we learn the real lesson from 911? Sometimes the passengers desperately need weapons to save themselves from terrorists. That day could not have ended worse if everyone on board had a gun.
Irrelevant. Australian states are many times larger than US states, and that country (continent) is bordered by none.
Bumgravy! Recreational drug use never improved the life of anyone.
In Australia, if we don't turn up to vote (we don't have to actually cast a vote) we get a small fine. In the USA if you don't turn up to vote, you get George W Bush.
Why all this prejudice agains minors. They should be free to have consenting sex any way they like: provided that they turn off that light thingy on their hat.
You check your history. The armed mob that founded America was the French Army and Navy. American arms were irrelevant. Norfolk was an artillery siege battle, and the Americans had no big guns there.
"There are a LOT of .45 submachine guns floating around this country, plus other heavy weapons like Browning Automatic Rifles (BAR)."
All the more reason to confiscate them, whenever they are seen.
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
>But a negative correlation can Disprove cause-and-effect.
No the same other thing could be causing the negative correlation, or two other things, or three...
Not alarming at all, but quite sensible. THe DOJ has limited resources so it has to make judgements about how best to employ them. It should aim where it thinks it has the best chances of detecting breaches of federal laws. I think aiming at these dubious business is a good strateg. People dealing with drugs, porno, sex, ponzi scams, gambling, telemarketing etc, do seem to me to be more likely to reward some DOJ investigation.
You could die from a Boolean error in your logic.
FFS it is just a kids show: intended for 9 year old boys. Get over it!
I respond very negatively to advertising. It irritates and offends me so much that I am prepared to pay more for a similar product that I have not seen advertised.
Agreed, but notice how the long Aldi conveyor ends abruptlyat the cash register after which is a very short counter that can hold only a couple of items. There the fast swiping check out chick expects you to quickly load your own bags (or buy new bags) to stop items piling up on your side and falling off the edge. There is no bag loading service. This means that you cannot watch the prices going through the till because you are too busy trying to keep up, and they will snap nastily at you if you fail. There is always a long queue on each register at my Aldi. If one ever it becomes short, the operator closes that lane to make the other queues longer. You cannot time your visits better, because even during slack periods of the week there will be a long queue on the only register operating. A quick purchase of one item is never possible.
If the queues are all too long I will dump my pile anywhere and walk out: in the hope that the manager will realize that this policy is costing sales and re-stacking time.
Aldi charges a fee for providing a cart, even though some are usually available for free outside in the car park. And, it charges a percentage fee for using your credit card. Traditions from Germany, I guess.
Forget price matching. There is no point in getting the same price. If you find it cheaper somewhere else just buy it there.
Yep, that is the phony "discount store" model that undercut and killed the old "department store" model. Now that too is failing because it is being undercut by on-line shopping. I can no longer suspend my disbelief at the hyped-up discount store sales promotions. Pull the other one: it has bells on. Tell it to the Marines: they are thick enough to believe you.
Most "Loss leaders" are items that would not sell when formerly pitched above market price, or they are items that are even cheaper from Asian on-line stores.The sooner that fake discount model is gone the better. I only use Walmart to physically inspect the products that I am considering purchasing on-line. I expect to get things about 30% cheaper, including shipping, providing that I can avoid the big retail on line stores like Amazon. Give me the Chinese copies every time -- more reliable as well as cheaper.
I don't care about the jobs that will be lost when the likes of Walmart are gone. The bulk of the wages that should be going to their workers are being stolen by the obscenely rich Walton family. Something better will replace those jobs when the fake discount stores are killed off. Both Waltons and the Government have to learn that we will not stand for this kind of exploitation any longer.
Most businesses rely on people using credit cards. If they had to use cash instead, their costs would rise and sales would decrease. Airlines for example, are totally dependent on their customers credit cards because they now have no other method for taking payments. And yet they charge consumers a big fee for using them. It should be the other way around because the cards cost the owner plenty. Pay me for maintaining and using my credit card, or go back to cash, bank transfers, cashier's checks and personal checks.