Most Americans pay their fair share.
Couple weasels who hate America think they are so smart, creating and using tax loopholes for their own benefit.
Not surprise here, seeing Saudis, Russian and American oligarchs vacationing together and sending kids to the same Swiss schools.
For them USA is just a place to suck money from.
Errm, apart from the fact that Apple does pay billion in US taxes - you also want rich people around the world to pay US taxes?
Meh. As the other replier noted, there are also crises that governments can cause, which the vast majority of private businesses can't. Wars tend to be an awfully good example of that, unfortunately.
Yeah, the arms dealers fueling those conflicts are actually government agents, not business men.
While it is technically true that both sides have some non-zero amount of money, one side has enough of it to afford the worlds biggest PR firm along with 4 companies in the Fortune 10 (that would be 4 of the top 10 US companies by revenue.
Oh, give me a frigging break. Yes, energy companies (not just oil) spent millions of dollars on research and campaigns contrary to global warming alarmism. Some estimates go as high as $40 and even $50 million.
But according to a recent GAO report, our own government spent $106 Billion dollars on "climate change" research, and that was by 2010, 4 years ago.
Nowhere in that report does that number show up. And oddly enough, the biggest share of the money spend by far (even more than the money going to NASA, IOW weather satellites and sending them into space) is going to the Department of Energy. Including research into better ways to burn fossil fuels and "climate change" unrelated things like "energy conservation" and "electricity delivery".
Changing "free" to "get" is removing information from the consumer. "Get" applies to apps that aren't free, too. "Free" means "get" and "you don't have to pay to get"; "get" simply means "click this to get the app" -- what you pay for it is revealed later.
Nope. "Get" is only for apps you can get without paying. If the app costs money to "get", you have to click on the amount it costs.
Also - couldn't you actually just sign the drivers that are needed for trim? What prevents that?
As the author of the popular "trim enabler" software (which patches the original apple drivers and so causes the original drivers to fail the kext signing check) puts it:
"all of Apple’s AHCI SATA drivers are closed source and undocumented, which makes it impossible for me to create my own Trim driver and get it signed."
Which is also the reason why there are no trim drivers available from hardware manufacturers like Samsung, etc. No access to Apple's driver documentation - no signed trim drivers.
"Secret appendices to the 2011 accounts break down some of Apple’s costs. It shows that Apple takes a third of iTunes’ revenues as its gross profit margin. "
Why don't all corporations get to pay zero taxes then? Why only those who can afford a horde of lawyers? Or do you think that the system is great as it is?
Apart from the obvious "Which corporations get to pay zero taxes" - if you pay less taxes than it costs to pay the lawyers that make you pay "no" taxes, doing so would be stupid.
I wish them the best of luck in sales to the good people of Luxembourg, Ireland, and small carribean islands. I'm sure their total revenues after dropping the costly US market will improve tremendously.
And the US will do just fine without the billions of dollars Apple pays.
You are of course aware that Apple does pay billions in taxes in the US every year?
So why does temperature only go up? I thought it was an oscillation? Or is it actually that that oscillation only hides the temperature increase caused by CO2?
And a slight drop since 1997. If you look at RSS, it was essentially flat from 1979 to 1996, then the big 1998 spike happened, then flat since then. It's not really an increasing trend, but a flat/stable with a single big step function that happened in 1998. If it was driven by man, we'd expect to see a relatively consistent, ongoing rise, wouldn't we? Rather than two basically flat/declining periods with one big step function year between...
Obviously you know nothing of the power of CLIs. No GUI file manager comes close to the power of bash, find and related tools.
Microsoft has been promising such features for years (and has even improved their own CLI for obvious reasons -- its very useful).
Its not *my* GUI, its any GUI.
Obviously you know nothing of the power of GUIs. That's because you are a neckbeard nerd with no clues what happened in the real world of computing for the last three decades.
I've never used "proud" that for that instance. I use the word "glad". I'm not glad when the U.S. does something bone-headed or short-sighted or misuses its power, but not ashamed either as it wasn't my decision/action. I also am not an American, I'm a citizen of the United States. Continent != Country.
So I win my bet - you never "corrected" anyone who actually said it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - "Foreign slaves and their posterity became the perpetual property of the owner's family,[9] except in the case of certain injuries.[10]"
And I'm not even going to go any further in this - you've already discredited yourself.
Your 99 cent theology sucks. Jesus claimed to be God in the flesh and as such, he was the one who created man and woman as part of the created order. Therefore, the OT stated exactly how strongly God felt about homosexuality and Jesus never redefined that.
So Jesus was also okay with slavey, incest, killing of infidels, and human sacrifices?
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Most Americans pay their fair share. Couple weasels who hate America think they are so smart, creating and using tax loopholes for their own benefit.
Not surprise here, seeing Saudis, Russian and American oligarchs vacationing together and sending kids to the same Swiss schools. For them USA is just a place to suck money from.
Errm, apart from the fact that Apple does pay billion in US taxes - you also want rich people around the world to pay US taxes?
It's time for having 3 categories. Paid, in-app-purchases, free.
I would add a fourth. Thus the list would be Paid, in-app-purchases, free with ads, FREE. FREE would be really free. Not even ads.
Would this include Apps that harvest data like Google's?
Didn't Keystone XL die in senate the other day?
That's just propaganda.
Meh. As the other replier noted, there are also crises that governments can cause, which the vast majority of private businesses can't. Wars tend to be an awfully good example of that, unfortunately.
Yeah, the arms dealers fueling those conflicts are actually government agents, not business men.
While it is technically true that both sides have some non-zero amount of money, one side has enough of it to afford the worlds biggest PR firm along with 4 companies in the Fortune 10 (that would be 4 of the top 10 US companies by revenue.
Oh, give me a frigging break. Yes, energy companies (not just oil) spent millions of dollars on research and campaigns contrary to global warming alarmism. Some estimates go as high as $40 and even $50 million. But according to a recent GAO report, our own government spent $106 Billion dollars on "climate change" research, and that was by 2010, 4 years ago.
Nowhere in that report does that number show up. And oddly enough, the biggest share of the money spend by far (even more than the money going to NASA, IOW weather satellites and sending them into space) is going to the Department of Energy. Including research into better ways to burn fossil fuels and "climate change" unrelated things like "energy conservation" and "electricity delivery".
They redefined the word "free" to avoid confusion?
You just redefined the word "redefined" to crate confusion.
Changing "free" to "get" is removing information from the consumer. "Get" applies to apps that aren't free, too. "Free" means "get" and "you don't have to pay to get"; "get" simply means "click this to get the app" -- what you pay for it is revealed later.
Nope. "Get" is only for apps you can get without paying. If the app costs money to "get", you have to click on the amount it costs.
I can tell you what was great about HTML 2. You didn't have a bunch of annoying shit going on in a web page.
Apart from BLINK-tags and animated GIFs in neon colors.
Why does everybody add those .9" all of a sudden? (Purely rhetorical question. Don't answer)
> I heard something about too much Rs breaking the internet.
Yeah, they promote piracy.
Arrrrrr!
Also - couldn't you actually just sign the drivers that are needed for trim? What prevents that?
As the author of the popular "trim enabler" software (which patches the original apple drivers and so causes the original drivers to fail the kext signing check) puts it:
"all of Apple’s AHCI SATA drivers are closed source and undocumented, which makes it impossible for me to create my own Trim driver and get it signed."
Which is also the reason why there are no trim drivers available from hardware manufacturers like Samsung, etc. No access to Apple's driver documentation - no signed trim drivers.
So some tiny Austrian company manages to do something Samsung can't - http://www.tomshardware.com/ne...
Actually, it's 30% - the "secret" 30% everybody keeps whining about.
Why don't all corporations get to pay zero taxes then? Why only those who can afford a horde of lawyers? Or do you think that the system is great as it is?
Apart from the obvious "Which corporations get to pay zero taxes" - if you pay less taxes than it costs to pay the lawyers that make you pay "no" taxes, doing so would be stupid.
I wish them the best of luck in sales to the good people of Luxembourg, Ireland, and small carribean islands. I'm sure their total revenues after dropping the costly US market will improve tremendously.
And the US will do just fine without the billions of dollars Apple pays.
You are of course aware that Apple does pay billions in taxes in the US every year?
Yeah, I'm a troll - but you still have no clue about GUIs. They can do anything a CLI can - only faster.
The thing that always amazes me in that story is they put Captain Bligh on a row boat in the Pacific and somehow he made it back to England.
And to keep on topic - he continued his log. http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/disco...
. I'm like Gay Blade.
Ah, the both-sides-of-the-aisle-walker.
So why does temperature only go up? I thought it was an oscillation? Or is it actually that that oscillation only hides the temperature increase caused by CO2?
So what's the magic by which both El Nino/La Nina "events" drive climate?
And a slight drop since 1997. If you look at RSS, it was essentially flat from 1979 to 1996, then the big 1998 spike happened, then flat since then. It's not really an increasing trend, but a flat/stable with a single big step function that happened in 1998. If it was driven by man, we'd expect to see a relatively consistent, ongoing rise, wouldn't we? Rather than two basically flat/declining periods with one big step function year between...
Oh, you mean like so? http://woodfortrees.org/plot/r.... What does that remind me of?
Oh, yeah, The Escalator - "Global Warming" is nothing but long periods of stagnant temperatures with ignorable jumps in between, right?
Obviously you know nothing of the power of CLIs. No GUI file manager comes close to the power of bash, find and related tools.
Microsoft has been promising such features for years (and has even improved their own CLI for obvious reasons -- its very useful).
Its not *my* GUI, its any GUI.
Obviously you know nothing of the power of GUIs. That's because you are a neckbeard nerd with no clues what happened in the real world of computing for the last three decades.
I've never used "proud" that for that instance. I use the word "glad". I'm not glad when the U.S. does something bone-headed or short-sighted or misuses its power, but not ashamed either as it wasn't my decision/action. I also am not an American, I'm a citizen of the United States. Continent != Country.
So I win my bet - you never "corrected" anyone who actually said it.
And I'm not even going to go any further in this - you've already discredited yourself.
Your 99 cent theology sucks. Jesus claimed to be God in the flesh and as such, he was the one who created man and woman as part of the created order. Therefore, the OT stated exactly how strongly God felt about homosexuality and Jesus never redefined that.
So Jesus was also okay with slavey, incest, killing of infidels, and human sacrifices?
These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them."
So I should let someone with questionable personal hygiene tell me what makes me "dirty"?