The for the children excuse is the most abused one by tyrants. If your kids can't handle the internet then maybe you should be teaching them about the harsh realities of life instead of your own fantasy world where everyone is a loving hipster.
I have to hope that you have not reproduced.
There are things that children cannot and should not have to handle until they're old enough to handle it.
If you're showing your kids (and I hope not, as above) people being burned alive, having their heads cut off, starving to death, etc. etc. then you seriously need to get some professional help.
However, it's also good for the public to have all the facts..and pictures can send a much more accurate description than dry, politically correct speech from some anchorman. Give them the media exposure.. It just shows how degenerate they are.
Is it good for children to accidentally have all the facts?
I'm not talking about where someone deliberately goes to look for it - but youtube (for example) innocent searches sometimes yield not so innocent results.
Personally, I think home schooling is a bad thing for kids since it doesn't teach them the proper socialization they will need as adults.
What about where the socialization they would learn in public school teaches them 'all the bad things' (i.e. doing coke in history class is okay, etc.)?
And before you say that's where the parents come in to teach them - I say yes, but parents lose when it comes to social pressure to fit in.
Do you hold yourself personally responsible for the actions of a handful of inaccessible weirdos in your country? Until they succeed in causing trouble, why bother?
So this 'handful of inaccessible weirdos' that are having laws changed to suit themselves isn't 'causing trouble'?
As far as personally responsible...the only way these people are going to be stopped is if a concerted effort is made by those affected in order to get things headed in a more sensible direction for the society as a whole which makes it everyone's personal responsibility.
Further, the European Union initially demanded that Canada extend the term of copyright in the Canada – EU Trade Agreement, but that too was effectively rebuffed.
The EU wanted the extension too. Maybe the EU alone could not apply enough pressure but it looks like the EU and the US can. The US is such a good target but they are not the only bad actors.
PS. I am Canadian
The 'EU' does not want the extension any more than you do. The corrupt politicians being lobbied by the same business interests, now that's a different story.
The American people don't want this. The music corporations are entirely non-US companies. Copyrights are not beneficial to Search or Share Internet industries. The only remaining beneficiary is the movie industry, a relatively small group of people.
They may be non-US companies but that doesn't mean the shareholders are not American.
What happened to merit? It was re-labeled "privilege". You don't think you actually earned your accompilshments, do you?
That being said, certain people have to work a lot harder than others to achieve the same goal.
I've always been easily annoyed by rich children who think that they earned that 40,000 dollar car by working at Daddy's vineyard over the summer while some of us were working three jobs to pay for tuition and life expenses for the next semester.
Personally, I think a lot of these people should find a desert island somewhere and live there. That way they can have all the unlimited freedoms they want.
Seems like some people in England may have said something similar a couple hundred years ago:-)
Almost all of the design and administration of Apple is done in California. But surprisingly the "Company" is a foreign company where they have no factories, no designers, no corporate officers and just a bank account.
So yes, by using the talent and ingenuity of US workers and then claiming that they're an Irish Company they are stealing the value that US Society has invested into its workforce (and supplied the infrastructure for that workforce to get to the job site etc).
Personally I believe that we should tax not based on where they are located but where most of the value is created. If you are Microsoft and 90% of your workforce is in Washington State but you are incorporate in "Nevada" because you have a PO Box there then you should be taxed at 90% Washington 8% California and 2% Nevada tax rates. Similarly if 80% of your operations are in the US then you are 80% a US company and 80% of your revenue is taxable under US tax law.
Everybody knows that Apple is a California company. To say otherwise is dishonesty. It might legally be correct that Apple is a subsidiary of an Irish shell corporation but they're cheating the system and doing something that doesn't pass any sort of sniff test of truthfulness.
Shouldn't overlook Ikea which is, after all, a not for profit company registered in the Netherlands. http://www.economist.com/node/...
To answer your question though, while I do of course blame the politicians for the fucked up tax laws, I also blame corporations such as Apple or by the wealthy who own such corporations for 'supporting' the politicians who make the laws.
I realize your original intent, I was agreeing and not intending to be argumentative.
I see, okay thank you for the clarification - no doubt I am a bit defensive as I'm kind of used to people on this site being either aggressive or insulting:-)
It's a quarterly profit announcement, not for the year.
So the real questions are what is the declared profit / loss for the entire year and how much actual tax are they actually paying on the year?
Gee, do you really expect Apple report to their annual numbers when they just have finished their 2nd FQ? Not even to mention that the tax they will be actually paying 2014 will be actually mostly for the actual year before, because that's the actually way paying corporate tax works?
Gee, actually since their fiscal year ends in September I guess I would actually expect them to report it, yes.
Tax liability for the year 2014 would be shown as a payable due although as you are obviously a corporate accountant I guess you would know that.
If there were gangs out killing cops, they would not be in need of an application like Waze to do it. The two NYC cops that were killed a couple months ago were not tracked by anything. The killings were by what appears to be a vigilante that wanted to kill "any" cop.
They psychology behind that is a different thread and story, but the point about being "tracked" is valid. Cops drive in marked cars and wear uniforms. Someone actually "hunting" them would not need an application. In fact it would probably be stupid to do so, because of all the data the application tracking (it would limit suspects).
I also said that it wouldn't make any difference in reality, if you read my post to the end, to take the functionality out of waze.
That being said, such an app could be used to find isolated groups of police (i.e. middle of the night speed traps in the middle of nowhere) to attack which means that the idea is not completely invalid.
There is no shortage of stupid or tech ignorant people in the world so I wouldn't exactly use that as a proof that people would not use an app to find police to attack.
Also what is in their annual report isn't necessarily accurate anyway, so don't just throw that link at me.
Apple wasn't even reporting its U.S. taxes accurately, either, the Senate subcommittee found. Its annual report disclosed it paid much higher U.S. taxes than it actually paid to the IRS. To investors, Apple said it paid $6.9 billion in U.S. taxes in 2011. But it actually only paid the IRS $2.5 billion, according to its tax return. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com...
Ontario - Consumer Protection Act. After 30 days they can cancel the sale but they cannot charge extra for executing the sale that would not have been charged otherwise.
But they provided the product to you. The additional charge would be to provide the product to you again should you ever lose it. (ie lose the install software and whatever backup of it)
Ahh that's different than what was stated... 15 days after delivery is different than 15 days after purchase.
No, it's the same in this case as the product is downloadable upon purchase.
Yes, but if someone really wants to kill cops then it should be obvious that you head to where they congregate. So the nearest place to get a meal near the precinct or the nearest precinct will get a large number in one place. Of course it will also lead to your death if you go in guns blazing but that seems to be the purpose behind many of the shootings.
Not at all. They target alone or almost alone cops and then they run away.
Ontario - Consumer Protection Act. After 30 days they can cancel the sale but they cannot charge extra for executing the sale that would not have been charged otherwise.
But they provided the product to you. The additional charge would be to provide the product to you again should you ever lose it. (ie lose the install software and whatever backup of it)
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The for the children excuse is the most abused one by tyrants. If your kids can't handle the internet then maybe you should be teaching them about the harsh realities of life instead of your own fantasy world where everyone is a loving hipster.
I have to hope that you have not reproduced.
There are things that children cannot and should not have to handle until they're old enough to handle it.
If you're showing your kids (and I hope not, as above) people being burned alive, having their heads cut off, starving to death, etc. etc. then you seriously need to get some professional help.
In the end the truth actually hurts the public self interests more
Said every corrupt dictator ever. You somehow think you're qualified to judge what "truth" the public can handle?
Are you?
However, it's also good for the public to have all the facts..and pictures can send a much more accurate description than dry, politically correct speech from some anchorman. Give them the media exposure.. It just shows how degenerate they are.
Is it good for children to accidentally have all the facts?
I'm not talking about where someone deliberately goes to look for it - but youtube (for example) innocent searches sometimes yield not so innocent results.
Queue the music from The Hunt for Red October....
Personally, I think home schooling is a bad thing for kids since it doesn't teach them the proper socialization they will need as adults.
What about where the socialization they would learn in public school teaches them 'all the bad things' (i.e. doing coke in history class is okay, etc.)?
And before you say that's where the parents come in to teach them - I say yes, but parents lose when it comes to social pressure to fit in.
Do you hold yourself personally responsible for the actions of a handful of inaccessible weirdos in your country?
Until they succeed in causing trouble, why bother?
So this 'handful of inaccessible weirdos' that are having laws changed to suit themselves isn't 'causing trouble'?
As far as personally responsible...the only way these people are going to be stopped is if a concerted effort is made by those affected in order to get things headed in a more sensible direction for the society as a whole which makes it everyone's personal responsibility.
It's not a surprise with our cuntservative "leadership" kissing American and Israeli asses all the time. :(
It's easy to blame it on the US but how much lobbying has been done locally by the business interests who would benefit from this?
Further, the European Union initially demanded that Canada extend the term of copyright in the Canada – EU Trade Agreement, but that too was effectively rebuffed.
The EU wanted the extension too. Maybe the EU alone could not apply enough pressure but it looks like the EU and the US can. The US is such a good target but they are not the only bad actors.
PS. I am Canadian
The 'EU' does not want the extension any more than you do. The corrupt politicians being lobbied by the same business interests, now that's a different story.
The American people don't want this.
The music corporations are entirely non-US companies.
Copyrights are not beneficial to Search or Share Internet industries.
The only remaining beneficiary is the movie industry, a relatively small group of people.
They may be non-US companies but that doesn't mean the shareholders are not American.
For those relative few that do significant driving off public roads, they can use a GPS tracker.
Presumably the GPS tracker is so they can be taxed?
Why should people driving pay public roads pay tax when they're off public infra?
What happened to merit? It was re-labeled "privilege". You don't think you actually earned your accompilshments, do you?
That being said, certain people have to work a lot harder than others to achieve the same goal.
I've always been easily annoyed by rich children who think that they earned that 40,000 dollar car by working at Daddy's vineyard over the summer while some of us were working three jobs to pay for tuition and life expenses for the next semester.
Like any number of acquisitions they've made:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Some good, some not so good...but I'm sure that it remains an option.
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Personally, I think a lot of these people should find a desert island somewhere and live there. That way they can have all the unlimited freedoms they want.
Seems like some people in England may have said something similar a couple hundred years ago :-)
Blatant conflict of interest with Uber's minority shareholders. Watching Google tapdance around this one will be loads of fun.
Shrug. Worst case Google can buy them out.
Almost all of the design and administration of Apple is done in California. But surprisingly the "Company" is a foreign company where they have no factories, no designers, no corporate officers and just a bank account.
So yes, by using the talent and ingenuity of US workers and then claiming that they're an Irish Company they are stealing the value that US Society has invested into its workforce (and supplied the infrastructure for that workforce to get to the job site etc).
Personally I believe that we should tax not based on where they are located but where most of the value is created. If you are Microsoft and 90% of your workforce is in Washington State but you are incorporate in "Nevada" because you have a PO Box there then you should be taxed at 90% Washington 8% California and 2% Nevada tax rates. Similarly if 80% of your operations are in the US then you are 80% a US company and 80% of your revenue is taxable under US tax law.
Everybody knows that Apple is a California company. To say otherwise is dishonesty. It might legally be correct that Apple is a subsidiary of an Irish shell corporation but they're cheating the system and doing something that doesn't pass any sort of sniff test of truthfulness.
Shouldn't overlook Ikea which is, after all, a not for profit company registered in the Netherlands.
http://www.economist.com/node/...
Thank you - I find your post to be quite useful -
To answer your question though, while I do of course blame the politicians for the fucked up tax laws, I also blame corporations such as Apple or by the wealthy who own such corporations for 'supporting' the politicians who make the laws.
I realize your original intent, I was agreeing and not intending to be argumentative.
I see, okay thank you for the clarification - no doubt I am a bit defensive as I'm kind of used to people on this site being either aggressive or insulting :-)
It's a quarterly profit announcement, not for the year.
So the real questions are what is the declared profit / loss for the entire year and how much actual tax are they actually paying on the year?
Gee, do you really expect Apple report to their annual numbers when they just have finished their 2nd FQ? Not even to mention that the tax they will be actually paying 2014 will be actually mostly for the actual year before, because that's the actually way paying corporate tax works?
Gee, actually since their fiscal year ends in September I guess I would actually expect them to report it, yes.
Tax liability for the year 2014 would be shown as a payable due although as you are obviously a corporate accountant I guess you would know that.
If there were gangs out killing cops, they would not be in need of an application like Waze to do it. The two NYC cops that were killed a couple months ago were not tracked by anything. The killings were by what appears to be a vigilante that wanted to kill "any" cop.
They psychology behind that is a different thread and story, but the point about being "tracked" is valid. Cops drive in marked cars and wear uniforms. Someone actually "hunting" them would not need an application. In fact it would probably be stupid to do so, because of all the data the application tracking (it would limit suspects).
I also said that it wouldn't make any difference in reality, if you read my post to the end, to take the functionality out of waze.
That being said, such an app could be used to find isolated groups of police (i.e. middle of the night speed traps in the middle of nowhere) to attack which means that the idea is not completely invalid.
There is no shortage of stupid or tech ignorant people in the world so I wouldn't exactly use that as a proof that people would not use an app to find police to attack.
Also what is in their annual report isn't necessarily accurate anyway, so don't just throw that link at me.
Apple wasn't even reporting its U.S. taxes accurately, either, the Senate subcommittee found. Its annual report disclosed it paid much higher U.S. taxes than it actually paid to the IRS. To investors, Apple said it paid $6.9 billion in U.S. taxes in 2011. But it actually only paid the IRS $2.5 billion, according to its tax return.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com...
Couldn't you Google that information in the same amount of time it took you to type the question?
Nope. I did in fact google it and all I saw quickly are quarterly report information results.
Ontario - Consumer Protection Act. After 30 days they can cancel the sale but they cannot charge extra for executing the sale that would not have been charged otherwise.
But they provided the product to you. The additional charge would be to provide the product to you again should you ever lose it. (ie lose the install software and whatever backup of it)
Ahh that's different than what was stated... 15 days after delivery is different than 15 days after purchase.
No, it's the same in this case as the product is downloadable upon purchase.
It's a quarterly profit announcement, not for the year.
So the real questions are what is the declared profit / loss for the entire year and how much actual tax are they actually paying on the year?
Yes, but if someone really wants to kill cops then it should be obvious that you head to where they congregate. So the nearest place to get a meal near the precinct or the nearest precinct will get a large number in one place. Of course it will also lead to your death if you go in guns blazing but that seems to be the purpose behind many of the shootings.
Not at all. They target alone or almost alone cops and then they run away.
Ontario - Consumer Protection Act. After 30 days they can cancel the sale but they cannot charge extra for executing the sale that would not have been charged otherwise.
But they provided the product to you. The additional charge would be to provide the product to you again should you ever lose it. (ie lose the install software and whatever backup of it)