if you sell an mp3 player in the UNITED STATES to a customer in the UNITED STATES and have to ship it from CHINA, it makes no difference if the financial transaction funnels through Ireland, the sale was made in the UNITED STATES ergo the tax burden is THERE.
THAT is how it is SUPPOSED to work.
Get some fucking reading comprehension skills.
So why do you complain that Apple pays all taxes due for the business they do in TFUSA?
You have to make up your mind. Either central banks are fundamentalist free market advocates, or they aren't. In this post you seem to be agreeing with my point that they aren't. So, which is it?
There is a difference between "fundamentalist" and "extremist". You know, like Iran actually fighting ISIS, while "moderate" Turkey supports them (to fight Assad). Or Adam Smith speaking favorably about the Bank of England.
“We immigrant citizens have the holy duty topreserve the Union and the Constitution . The native Americans are demoralized physically and spiritually. Love, true attachment for this land is entirely lacking [in the native born], They are unworthy of the freedom . They do not understand free institutions because to them the difference between freedom and despotism is unknown. To us immigrants is reserved to save this land from destruction. And we will do it.”
Sorry, but Svensmark has long been debunked , by simply showing the data after his cut-off date he omitted because his beautiful correlation went to shit. And we are not talking about models slightly disagreeing with future data, we see massive discrepancies in data readily available when the claim was made.
And of course your little - how would you call it - PROPAGANDA blog makes big claims I'll counter with mine:
CERN scientist Jasper Kirkby, about his recent cosmic ray experiment:
"At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first step"
But what about now? Well, instead of a "warming hiatus", according to the Gospel of Svensmark we should actually see massive cooling: Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High
"In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we've seen in the past 50 years," says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech.
Was 2009 anywhere near the coldest year since the 1959? No? Then we can just forget about including Cosmic Voodoo Rays in any climate models if we want them to be acceptable to you.
Thanks, I liked that article. It expresses many of the same criticisms I have to Rothbard, better than I myself could.
However, that has no bearing on the issue at hand. Central banks are state monopolies that prevent the free market of private currencies.
Wait, what? "Private currencies"? Is that something like ocean shells? PostIts with "IOU" written on them? Look at non-cash payment system and who does and who doesn't support which combination of them, and tell me something like an unregulated private currency could work. Even as a reasonable alternative to a real currency, let alone as an replacement. And don't even get me started on "gold currency".
The problem with FREE free markets is, that they don't work. Period.
I know exactly what I'm talking about, you seem to have some wires crossed.
Yeah, I have asome wires crossed because you have no fucking clue about what you are talking about on several levels. What the hell do you think we are talking about here? Why don't you tell is, if you please?
Sounds like it. Apple and 5 publishers tried to raise the price of new "e-books from the $9.99 price that Amazon had made standard".
So why does Amazon get to set the price, and not Apple or the publishers?
Apple and the publishers were sellers who tried to raise the price. If they'd arrived at that price individually, then there's no problem. But they colluded to set it at that price, which is absolutely illegal since it breaks this fundamental market mechanic.
Which price did they arrive at? Oh, yeah, right. You are blowing smoke. There was no fixed price. Let alone that prices fell everywhere but at Amazon which was selling at a loss before.
Except that's not what happened in this case. Apple said, "You set the price You want; We just take a percentage," as is done in the App Store, is done by traditional publishing companies, and is done anywhere else the agency model is used.
And coincidently it's the way Amazon's own Kindle Direct Publishing works - just that they took 60% initially before Apple ruined their business model.
Back to the propaganda again? You don't have any other records to play? Critical thinking failure. You obviously didn't read the paper. It establishes a much better correlation between certain types of radiation that reaches the earth than has been shown in recent observations than CO2 can show.
Very interesting indeed - and all without mentioning the word "radiation" anywhere in its text.
Why do people keep referencing a propaganda site? Rather than point out all the fallacies present in their arguments, I'll just point you to some more current research showing how poorly climate models have been doing: Overestimated global warming over the past 20 years.
And even that paper acknowledges that there was warming in that period. Why don't you?
Apple is, and has been, the greenest computer company on the planet.. They just didn't advertise it until the green peace terrorist started lying about it.
Doesn't this logic mildly upset you. Apple wasn't "green" until someone called them out on being "not green", that someone was a grass roots longstanding activist organization.(mabey with some questionable methods, but thats not relivant to the conversation). Then all of a sudden they are the "greenest company in tech".
Jobs was a hippie.
and the real hippies are terrorists.
I love this logic.
You hate reality. When Greenpeace first issued its "Guide to Greener Electronics" report in 2006 they gave Apple bad marks, because they didn't give out any information on their environmental policies, while giving good marks to the likes of HP because they promised to stop using certain chemicals. IOW they made up their scores on the PR blurbs by the companies, instead of their actions.
Next year they had to up Apple's score because they had long stopped using those chemicals, while HP's actually dropped because they didn't follow through.
or make a simple rule: if you have ANY commercial presence in a country, YOU PAY TAXES. PERIOD. If you sell an mp3 player with a warranty card and ship it direct from Sweatshop China to an address in Hackensack NJ, you pay US corporation tax on your gross profit, asshole.
But you are actually complaining that if you ship directly from China to Uruguay, you should still pay US corporation tax on it.
This is the exact opposite of the truth. Amazon allowed ebooks as low as 99 cents, the itunes price fixing explicitly prevented that from being a possibility.
So there were no more ebooks at Amazon for 99 cents? Prove it or we know you are lying.
BTW, there are Books on the iBook Store for 99 cents. Obviously Apple only keeps Amazon from selling ebooks cheap. It's fucking magic.
You should know that the $14 billion is for all Samsung Electronics products, everything from TV's to speakers to DVD players to car audio. It also covers things like sports team sponsorships (local and national). Of that $14 billion, only $401 Million was spent on phone advertising,
Way to prove your point by mixing world wide spending with US spending, deliberately or not.
they only have a monopoly though because they are good at what they do, not because of some evilness. There are plenty of other search providers out there.
It doesn't matter if you got your monopoly by being evil or not - we are talking about abuse of that monopoly.
Slashdot Mirror
https://www.apple.com/recycling/ipod-cell-phone/
oh for...
if you sell an mp3 player in the UNITED STATES to a customer in the UNITED STATES and have to ship it from CHINA, it makes no difference if the financial transaction funnels through Ireland, the sale was made in the UNITED STATES ergo the tax burden is THERE.
THAT is how it is SUPPOSED to work.
Get some fucking reading comprehension skills.
So why do you complain that Apple pays all taxes due for the business they do in TFUSA?
You have to make up your mind. Either central banks are fundamentalist free market advocates, or they aren't. In this post you seem to be agreeing with my point that they aren't. So, which is it?
There is a difference between "fundamentalist" and "extremist". You know, like Iran actually fighting ISIS, while "moderate" Turkey supports them (to fight Assad). Or Adam Smith speaking favorably about the Bank of England.
“We immigrant citizens have the holy duty topreserve the Union and the Constitution . The native Americans are demoralized physically and spiritually. Love, true attachment for this land is entirely lacking [in the native born], They are unworthy of the freedom . They do not understand free institutions because to them the difference between freedom and despotism is unknown. To us immigrants is reserved to save this land from destruction. And we will do it.”
The Europeans saved America. You are welcome.
And of course your little - how would you call it - PROPAGANDA blog makes big claims I'll counter with mine:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/cern-cloud-proves-cosmic-rays-causing-global-warming.htm
CERN scientist Jasper Kirkby, about his recent cosmic ray experiment:
"At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first step"
But what about now? Well, instead of a "warming hiatus", according to the Gospel of Svensmark we should actually see massive cooling: Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High
"In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we've seen in the past 50 years," says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech.
Was 2009 anywhere near the coldest year since the 1959? No? Then we can just forget about including Cosmic Voodoo Rays in any climate models if we want them to be acceptable to you.
Thanks, I liked that article. It expresses many of the same criticisms I have to Rothbard, better than I myself could.
However, that has no bearing on the issue at hand. Central banks are state monopolies that prevent the free market of private currencies.
Wait, what? "Private currencies"? Is that something like ocean shells? PostIts with "IOU" written on them? Look at non-cash payment system and who does and who doesn't support which combination of them, and tell me something like an unregulated private currency could work. Even as a reasonable alternative to a real currency, let alone as an replacement. And don't even get me started on "gold currency".
The problem with FREE free markets is, that they don't work. Period.
I know exactly what I'm talking about, you seem to have some wires crossed.
Yeah, I have asome wires crossed because you have no fucking clue about what you are talking about on several levels. What the hell do you think we are talking about here? Why don't you tell is, if you please?
The European Central Bank is one of the most fundamentalist free-market
That's funny! You user "central bank" and "fundamentalist free-market" in the same sentence as if they weren't opposed! Amazing!
Here's a critic of an other of his books - the title says it all: http://blog.rongarret.info/2013/03/murray-rothbard-was-idiot.html " I read The Ethics of Liberty and found it completely, utterly, and transparently intellectually bankrupt. "
Apple and the publishers were sellers who tried to raise the price. If they'd arrived at that price individually, then there's no problem. But they colluded to set it at that price, which is absolutely illegal since it breaks this fundamental market mechanic.
Which price did they arrive at? Oh, yeah, right. You are blowing smoke. There was no fixed price. Let alone that prices fell everywhere but at Amazon which was selling at a loss before.
Except that's not what happened in this case. Apple said, "You set the price You want; We just take a percentage," as is done in the App Store, is done by traditional publishing companies, and is done anywhere else the agency model is used.
And coincidently it's the way Amazon's own Kindle Direct Publishing works - just that they took 60% initially before Apple ruined their business model.
Back to the propaganda again? You don't have any other records to play? Critical thinking failure. You obviously didn't read the paper. It establishes a much better correlation between certain types of radiation that reaches the earth than has been shown in recent observations than CO2 can show.
Very interesting indeed - and all without mentioning the word "radiation" anywhere in its text.
So you admit you have no idea what we (let alone you yourself) are talking about.
Why do people keep referencing a propaganda site? Rather than point out all the fallacies present in their arguments, I'll just point you to some more current research showing how poorly climate models have been doing: Overestimated global warming over the past 20 years.
And even that paper acknowledges that there was warming in that period. Why don't you?
Apple is, and has been, the greenest computer company on the planet.. They just didn't advertise it until the green peace terrorist started lying about it.
Doesn't this logic mildly upset you. Apple wasn't "green" until someone called them out on being "not green", that someone was a grass roots longstanding activist organization.(mabey with some questionable methods, but thats not relivant to the conversation). Then all of a sudden they are the "greenest company in tech".
Jobs was a hippie.
and the real hippies are terrorists.
I love this logic.
You hate reality. When Greenpeace first issued its "Guide to Greener Electronics" report in 2006 they gave Apple bad marks, because they didn't give out any information on their environmental policies, while giving good marks to the likes of HP because they promised to stop using certain chemicals. IOW they made up their scores on the PR blurbs by the companies, instead of their actions.
http://technicalconclusions.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/greenpeace_apple/
Next year they had to up Apple's score because they had long stopped using those chemicals, while HP's actually dropped because they didn't follow through.
What is "fuel" for a war? Weapons don't shoot themselves. Well, at least not yet.
Things like spreading falls claims of aggression, or rumors of WMDs. Selling arms to both sides.
or make a simple rule: if you have ANY commercial presence in a country, YOU PAY TAXES. PERIOD. If you sell an mp3 player with a warranty card and ship it direct from Sweatshop China to an address in Hackensack NJ, you pay US corporation tax on your gross profit, asshole.
But you are actually complaining that if you ship directly from China to Uruguay, you should still pay US corporation tax on it.
Apple Inc are incorporated in Ireland and operate and trade in the USA: they pay NO TAX in either country.
Liar, liar crotch on fire. Apple paid over 6 billion $ US-taxes in 2012, and 1.5 billion from 2009 to 2012 in Ireland.
This is the exact opposite of the truth. Amazon allowed ebooks as low as 99 cents, the itunes price fixing explicitly prevented that from being a possibility.
So there were no more ebooks at Amazon for 99 cents? Prove it or we know you are lying.
BTW, there are Books on the iBook Store for 99 cents. Obviously Apple only keeps Amazon from selling ebooks cheap. It's fucking magic.
See that? It says "raise ebook prices".
And Snowden is a traitor. Fuck you, and the company that pays you to post here.
If you're profiting off giving charity, then it's not really charity.
How exactly would Apple profit from giving charity?
Apple donate it to something that will matter. Like a charity that does actual research on terminal diseases.
Yeah Apple, save the Slashdot posters - find a cure for terminal stupidity.
So your complaint is that Apple doesn't give you a tax deduction?
You should know that the $14 billion is for all Samsung Electronics products, everything from TV's to speakers to DVD players to car audio. It also covers things like sports team sponsorships (local and national). Of that $14 billion, only $401 Million was spent on phone advertising,
Way to prove your point by mixing world wide spending with US spending, deliberately or not.
they only have a monopoly though because they are good at what they do, not because of some evilness. There are plenty of other search providers out there.
It doesn't matter if you got your monopoly by being evil or not - we are talking about abuse of that monopoly.
There would not have been a problem if Apple had tried to lower the price of ebooks.
Actually they did. Ebook prices dropped everywhere but Amazon.