You named a completely different and unrelated company that has nothing to do with the story and still you get modded up.
Did you even read the article? The headline? Does this place consist of anything more than bots and chimps these days?
"The maker of the iPhone is the latest prominent corporation to become the target of a tax inquiry in Italy amid a global crackdown aimed at preventing companies such as Google, Amazon and others from avoiding taxes."
If you are talking GUIs then you are talking about Macintosh same main processor as Amiga but two fewer custom processors... guess who was cheaper. Atari had a graphical GUI too hardware cheaper... apples always been able to get a gullible subset of computer users to buy there over inflated hardware/software. Now with the marketing wizard dead, it feels like the 90s all over again.
Coincidently, both the ST and the Amiga were designed as successors to the C64, thus the cheapness. And not so coincidently, both ultimately failed after a few years at (or near) the top, just like the C64.
If the iMac doubled up as a standard monitor (ie without having to be actually running OSX to function as an external display), then it could be worth it.
Target Display Mode supported over Thunderbolt. Also works with PCs that can hook up monitors over Thunderbolt (not Mini DisplayPort).
The internet has come to expect companies to display criticism and things that are generally detrimental to themselves on their web sites. Amazon is the leader in this area, often having overwhelmingly negative reviews of products displayed as the "most helpful".
Sure.Too bad that Amazon often deletes "most helpful" negative comments when it pleases them, often en masse. Like against Dianetics.
The latest tweak to Android is fitting badly onto Google's own hardware, with the Nexus 4 reportedly fudging Wi-Fi, crashing out and refusing to run previously compatible applications.
Actually, WMDs WERE found in Iraq; I remember reading in the newspaper that a (U.S?) soldier found a gas grenade on the side of the road somewhere in Iraq. I guess it wasn't widely reported, though...
Of course the US knew that there were WMD in Iraq - they gave them to Saddam. But they also knew they become useless after about a decade.
Ironically, you're pretty much pulling a Derp Derp Derp yourself by ignoring scientific facts... like climate cycles. The point of a study about those changes would probably be to... determine what causes those changes, don't you think?
Why is it AGW fanboys get so upset about someone just doing research to try and disprove their theories. If you're so sure you are right, why are you concerned with what this study might result in.
Too bad this "study" isn't about causes, but about effects. And by only looking at "cyclical" changes, it becomes a waste of tax payer money. Because its denialism in its purest form. The fact that you can't even tell is , well, telling.
Optimally designed? They went from a machine that could run eight monitors to one that can, as near as we can tell from the marketing materials, do three;
They sound pretty much the same to me, slight difference in resolution and since manufacturers always exaggerate battery life it's safe to assume 8 hours is reasonable for the iPad Air as well.
So because Sony won't even tell us what battery life their tablet has (apart from vague promises about "Significantly improve battery life" when not doing anything), you claim that the new iPad Air has just the same battery life, despite the old one outlasting the Sony in all tests, calling the Sony's mediocre at best? Not to mention it's slow and finicky charging (using your beloved Micro-USB) - for which you have to peel it out of the waterproof cover each time.
The OP said the iPad seem so much better then anything out there.
My point is both tablets are in the same class. Not arguing the new iPad edges out the competition. It should, it's the newest high end tablet, but it's not revolutionary or anything. It will quickly lose the spec crown when the next round of high end Android tablets come out.
So because the Sony is only a little thicker and a little heavier, but not even close in other specs,it's basically as good as the iPad Air?
I can read. I don't own an iOS or OS X device. That's what I meant by "Linux or windows user" - one who uses these operating systems rather than apple ones.
And yet it works on Windows and Linux. If you know somebody who can help you - but you don't now anybody who can help you. That isn't Apple's fault.
The thing that is questionable is if Apple isn't legally liable to pay those taxes. What isn't questionable is that they are clearly going beyond the intent of the law to avoid paying those taxes.
Tell mel, how the hell is anybody supposed to know the intent of a law if the damn idiots writing it weren't able to just write it so that the intent is the law?
Personally, I support any and all means of tax avoidance
Why? Okay, maybe you oppose taxation in general or whatever, but the undeniable reality is that you have to pay it. Every dollar a corporation avoids paying has to come out of someone else's pocket, i.e. yours.
While the tax money you avoid to pay comes from where?
Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique known as the “Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich,” which reduces taxes by routing profits through Irish subsidiaries and the Netherlands and then to the Caribbean. Today, that tactic is used by hundreds of other corporations — some of which directly imitated Apple’s methods, say accountants at those companies.
Apple literally invented the technique.
Others followed to compete.
Personally, I support any and all means of tax avoidance, so I don't count it against them. But I love bursting Apple Fanboys bubbles.
Also funny your claim that "Apple was a pioneer" suddenly proves they invented it. Next you'll claim they have a patent on it. And then that this proves that somebody else did it first. And then your head will explode.
Actually, it's the awful commenters that are turning people away.
For example, you only had to do a search in the Slashdot Search bar for 'Google Tax' to see half a dozen published stories about Google's tax exploits.
So lets see: Out of 5, 2 say Google is paying taxes, 1 Google helps find tax cheats, 1 Google is paying little taxes but it's okay, and 1 Google is paying little taxes but would pay more if they were asked. Out of 5, 1 says Apple pays taxes, 1 about the Irish wanting Apple to pay more taxes (but nobody else it seems), 1 about the US wanting Apple to pay more taxes (but nobody else it seems), 1 about the Brits wanting Apple to pay more taxes (but nobody else it seems), and 1 about how its obviously Apple's fault that everybody else but Apple pays so little taxes.
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You named a completely different and unrelated company that has nothing to do with the story and still you get modded up.
Did you even read the article? The headline? Does this place consist of anything more than bots and chimps these days?
"The maker of the iPhone is the latest prominent corporation to become the target of a tax inquiry in Italy amid a global crackdown aimed at preventing companies such as Google, Amazon and others from avoiding taxes."
RTFA indeed.
If you are talking GUIs then you are talking about Macintosh same main processor as Amiga but two fewer custom processors... guess who was cheaper. Atari had a graphical GUI too hardware cheaper... apples always been able to get a gullible subset of computer users to buy there over inflated hardware/software. Now with the marketing wizard dead, it feels like the 90s all over again.
Coincidently, both the ST and the Amiga were designed as successors to the C64, thus the cheapness. And not so coincidently, both ultimately failed after a few years at (or near) the top, just like the C64.
The more Android phones sold now, the more iPhones next year.
If the iMac doubled up as a standard monitor (ie without having to be actually running OSX to function as an external display), then it could be worth it.
Target Display Mode supported over Thunderbolt. Also works with PCs that can hook up monitors over Thunderbolt (not Mini DisplayPort).
The internet has come to expect companies to display criticism and things that are generally detrimental to themselves on their web sites. Amazon is the leader in this area, often having overwhelmingly negative reviews of products displayed as the "most helpful".
Sure.Too bad that Amazon often deletes "most helpful" negative comments when it pleases them, often en masse. Like against Dianetics.
The difference is that those other phones "just work".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/22/nexus_users_cursed_by_latest_upgrade/
The latest tweak to Android is fitting badly onto Google's own hardware, with the Nexus 4 reportedly fudging Wi-Fi, crashing out and refusing to run previously compatible applications.
Actually, WMDs WERE found in Iraq; I remember reading in the newspaper that a (U.S?) soldier found a gas grenade on the side of the road somewhere in Iraq. I guess it wasn't widely reported, though...
Of course the US knew that there were WMD in Iraq - they gave them to Saddam. But they also knew they become useless after about a decade.
Ironically, you're pretty much pulling a Derp Derp Derp yourself by ignoring scientific facts ... like climate cycles. The point of a study about those changes would probably be to ... determine what causes those changes, don't you think?
Why is it AGW fanboys get so upset about someone just doing research to try and disprove their theories. If you're so sure you are right, why are you concerned with what this study might result in.
Too bad this "study" isn't about causes, but about effects. And by only looking at "cyclical" changes, it becomes a waste of tax payer money. Because its denialism in its purest form. The fact that you can't even tell is , well, telling.
Optimally designed? They went from a machine that could run eight monitors to one that can, as near as we can tell from the marketing materials, do three;
http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/ - "Connect up to ... Six Thunderbolt displays"
And that's "out-of-the-box", without any extra graphics cards connected via Thunderbolt.
They sound pretty much the same to me, slight difference in resolution and since manufacturers always exaggerate battery life it's safe to assume 8 hours is reasonable for the iPad Air as well.
So because Sony won't even tell us what battery life their tablet has (apart from vague promises about "Significantly improve battery life" when not doing anything), you claim that the new iPad Air has just the same battery life, despite the old one outlasting the Sony in all tests, calling the Sony's mediocre at best? Not to mention it's slow and finicky charging (using your beloved Micro-USB) - for which you have to peel it out of the waterproof cover each time.
The OP said the iPad seem so much better then anything out there.
My point is both tablets are in the same class. Not arguing the new iPad edges out the competition. It should, it's the newest high end tablet, but it's not revolutionary or anything. It will quickly lose the spec crown when the next round of high end Android tablets come out.
So because the Sony is only a little thicker and a little heavier, but not even close in other specs,it's basically as good as the iPad Air?
I can read. I don't own an iOS or OS X device. That's what I meant by "Linux or windows user" - one who uses these operating systems rather than apple ones.
And yet it works on Windows and Linux. If you know somebody who can help you - but you don't now anybody who can help you. That isn't Apple's fault.
I went here and tried to log in with my AppleID. It said:
Set up iCloud on a device to use iCloud.com. Your Apple ID must be used to set up iCloud on an iOS or OS X device before you can use iCloud.com.
So for Linux and windows users, no, iWork doesn't work.
It does if you "set up iCloud on an iOS or OS X device" first - it sure helps if you can read.
Now repeat it so it makes even the slightest sense.
What does Bermuda get out of having Apple "based" in Bermuda if they don't get any tax revenue?
The question should be "What wouldBermuda get out of having Apple "based" in Bermuda, if that were the case."
The thing that is questionable is if Apple isn't legally liable to pay those taxes. What isn't questionable is that they are clearly going beyond the intent of the law to avoid paying those taxes.
Tell mel, how the hell is anybody supposed to know the intent of a law if the damn idiots writing it weren't able to just write it so that the intent is the law?
Full-size USB, micro USB, and USB 3.0 versions of the same. (Mini-USB is deprecated; they stopped letting people make those years ago.)
I guess if you count both ends of the cable that's a lot of varieties...
And of course the new high-power versions - which look the same, but need brand new cables.
And the answer to your question is YES Everyone pays more tax than we are "legally obligated to". Because we don't know all the loopholes!.
You mean there is no "Paying less taxes for DUMMIES" book? Or are you just too dumb to find it?
Except that that value is NOT GOING TO STOCKHOLDERS.
Yes it is, in the form of stock price.
Personally, I support any and all means of tax avoidance
Why? Okay, maybe you oppose taxation in general or whatever, but the undeniable reality is that you have to pay it. Every dollar a corporation avoids paying has to come out of someone else's pocket, i.e. yours.
While the tax money you avoid to pay comes from where?
Loss.
Denial.
And now Anger.
IKYABWAI
It's worse that that: http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/16-giant-corporations-have-basically-stopped-paying-taxes GE, Boeing, Verizon, Kraft, Citigroup, Dow Chemical, IBM, Chevron, Fedex, Honeywell (really?), Lockheed Martin, Merck, Apple (as we see), Pfizer, Google, Microsoft. None of the these non-job creators pay shit in taxes.
Yeah, because $6 billion ain't shit. That's what Apple paid in US corporate tax in 2012.
Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique known as the “Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich,” which reduces taxes by routing profits through Irish subsidiaries and the Netherlands and then to the Caribbean. Today, that tactic is used by hundreds of other corporations — some of which directly imitated Apple’s methods, say accountants at those companies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states-and-nations.html?_r=0
Apple literally invented the technique. Others followed to compete.
Personally, I support any and all means of tax avoidance, so I don't count it against them. But I love bursting Apple Fanboys bubbles.
Also funny your claim that "Apple was a pioneer" suddenly proves they invented it. Next you'll claim they have a patent on it. And then that this proves that somebody else did it first. And then your head will explode.
Well, if the NYT starts a meme, it must be true.
Actually, it's the awful commenters that are turning people away. For example, you only had to do a search in the Slashdot Search bar for 'Google Tax' to see half a dozen published stories about Google's tax exploits.
Ohh? Let's compare the first 5 hits.
First Google:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/06/22/1716232/server-farms-flourish-in-iowa-microsoft-plows-700m-more-into-des-moines - "Google said it would put another $400 million into its facility in Council Bluffs. Why Iowa? Aggressive tax incentives" - mentioned after Microsoft and Facebook
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/31/1721232/google-maps-used-to-find-tax-cheats - In Lithuania - Not about Google at all.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/22/1549218/eric-schmidt-google-will-continue-investing-in-uk-even-if-taxes-raised - sort of
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/2213205/nsa-data-center-the-focus-of-tax-controversy - imagine, the NSA has to pay taxes for their data centers, like Google - so not about Google at all
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/19/1322225/amazon-google-and-apple-wont-need-to-pay-tax-despite-goverment-threats - all of the big ones
Now Apple:
First this article
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/07/02/2150217/apple-powering-nevada-datacenter-with-solar-farm - also pays tax for it
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/05/21/0222210/web-of-tax-shelters-saved-apple-billions-inquiry-finds - Sure, Google does the same, but we grill Apple because Google lobbies more.
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/01/23/1421200/tech-firms-keep-piles-of-foreign-cash-in-us - Well, that's odd, there is no mention of Apple in the summary nor in TFA, but Google is in there - yet it is found when searching for Apple
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/11/04/2226236/apple-pays-only-2-corporate-tax-outside-us - summary quotes almost the full article but the part about other companies, like Google
So lets see: Out of 5, 2 say Google is paying taxes, 1 Google helps find tax cheats, 1 Google is paying little taxes but it's okay, and 1 Google is paying little taxes but would pay more if they were asked.
Out of 5, 1 says Apple pays taxes, 1 about the Irish wanting Apple to pay more taxes (but nobody else it seems), 1 about the US wanting Apple to pay more taxes (but nobody else it seems), 1 about the Brits wanting Apple to pay more taxes (but nobody else it seems), and 1 about how its obviously Apple's fault that everybody else but Apple pays so little taxes.