You voted for Trump because you identify with his white nationalism and you blindly hate the left. You feel like you're losing all the entitlements and benefits you had as a white male and you blame it on women and minorities....
As a white male, this is the funniest thing I've read all day!
In all seriousness, though, THIS is the reason why Trump won. Average people who go to work every day, spend time with the family, and try to be involved in their communities are tired of being labeled, called names, told they're meanies, etc. when they don't agree with mouth-foaming liberals. Liberals have nobody to blame but yourselves for Trump.
So you knowingly elect a moron not fit to be President - yeah that will make sure nobody ever calls you names again [rolls eyes]
What does a lie about not paying taxes have to do with market capitalisation?
Amazon is the biggest tax dodger in the world, as well as the company using government provided services the most. Any whiney discussion about "not paying taxes" must necessarily also be about Amazon - unless of course you are one of their paid shills.
Anyone got a number on how much tax money they would owe the US if they paid?
How can you owe taxes after you paid them?
Anyway, they currently don't owe the US any taxes. Because keeping the money offshore is totally legal, else the Senate would actually do something about it but simply to bitch and moan.
Only if the market ever learns that Apple was overvalued. Otherwise shorting Apple stock won't ever make GP a cent. It's even likely to cost him money.
Yeah, it's pretty damn hard to convince the market that Apple is overvalued. Wonder why that is. Could it be... nah. It's probably because you are simply not trying hard enough.
With their share buy-back program, they've already paid more mony back to the shareholders than Dell was ever worth. No need to shut it down, even if weren't so damn profitable.
When you pay off a loan early the bank loses interest.
No they don't. They have your cash in hand and can gain interest on it directly, rather than waiting for you to pay it. In fact, if you financed your mortgage at a rate below the current rate, they stand to gain by having you pay early, since the interest they'll get on the cash is higher than the interest they'll get from your payments.
Sure. but why would you pay back your mortgage when you could invest your money with higher interest than you pay on your mortgage?
Were you one of the 3.5 million customers who purchased an Apple Watch in the first quarter of 2017? If so, how do you like Apple's approach to wearables?
Do we get a $25 iTunes gift card if we answer your marketing survey?
Nope, you get two Samsung Gears. Gotta get rid of inventory somehow.
Maybe Tim Cook is not a sufficiently capable CEO.
Remove Tim Cook as CEO of Apple. (Oct 31, 2016) Quote: "Many products are announced in one quarter and released in another quarter."
I guess you are one of the 108 people who signed that petition since October. And that also answers your question.
Did you read about what happened to that sapphire glass company a couple years back? Apple made them sign a deal that they couldn't sell their glass to other customers.
No they didn't. Which you can easily tell by the fact that the company made furnaces, not glass. At least before Apple asked them to make sapphire glass for them with their own furnaces.
There's not necessarily a business advantage, it's that Apple wants to do everything itself, just like Sony did in its heyday. That's always been the devil's bargain with Apple, you can sell/license your stuff to them at a good rate, but the party only lasts as long as it takes them to move your magic dingus tech in-house. After that, you'd better not be in a position where you've committed 95% of your business to selling to Apple...
Well, you just could have chosen not to do business with Apple. Then your company may have died years ago. Much better that way.
I'm not liking Apple right now. Destroying several companies in their quest to gain more cash.
Errm, how exactly is Apple crushing anybody here? They should be about where they were before they started making lots of money by selling to Apple, probably in a much better position actually, since the market has grown massively since then.
Unless of course either A) Apple saved them by doing business with them back then, or B) their product is too bad for Apple's competition to buy. Then they are blaming Apple for either not dragging their dead body along any more, or for no longer buying something from them that is substandard and makes Apple's products look bad. Boo-fucking-hooh.
To someone who needs 32GB of RAM, having 32GB of RAM is more important than the slight battery savings of using DDR4L. What's your excuse for not understanding that?.
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You voted for Trump because you identify with his white nationalism and you blindly hate the left. You feel like you're losing all the entitlements and benefits you had as a white male and you blame it on women and minorities....
As a white male, this is the funniest thing I've read all day! In all seriousness, though, THIS is the reason why Trump won. Average people who go to work every day, spend time with the family, and try to be involved in their communities are tired of being labeled, called names, told they're meanies, etc. when they don't agree with mouth-foaming liberals. Liberals have nobody to blame but yourselves for Trump.
So you knowingly elect a moron not fit to be President - yeah that will make sure nobody ever calls you names again [rolls eyes]
What does Amazon have to do with this?
What does a lie about not paying taxes have to do with market capitalisation?
Amazon is the biggest tax dodger in the world, as well as the company using government provided services the most. Any whiney discussion about "not paying taxes" must necessarily also be about Amazon - unless of course you are one of their paid shills.
Anyone got a number on how much tax money they would owe the US if they paid?
How can you owe taxes after you paid them?
Anyway, they currently don't owe the US any taxes. Because keeping the money offshore is totally legal, else the Senate would actually do something about it but simply to bitch and moan.
so they paid less than half the rate than I did in income tax
those poor babies
Hey, you probably also paid more taxes overall than Amazon did. Why don't you complain about that?
Only if the market ever learns that Apple was overvalued. Otherwise shorting Apple stock won't ever make GP a cent. It's even likely to cost him money.
Yeah, it's pretty damn hard to convince the market that Apple is overvalued. Wonder why that is. Could it be... nah. It's probably because you are simply not trying hard enough.
and give the money back to the shareholders.
Or not.
With their share buy-back program, they've already paid more mony back to the shareholders than Dell was ever worth. No need to shut it down, even if weren't so damn profitable.
When you pay off a loan early the bank loses interest.
No they don't. They have your cash in hand and can gain interest on it directly, rather than waiting for you to pay it. In fact, if you financed your mortgage at a rate below the current rate, they stand to gain by having you pay early, since the interest they'll get on the cash is higher than the interest they'll get from your payments.
Sure. but why would you pay back your mortgage when you could invest your money with higher interest than you pay on your mortgage?
Oh right, I forgot that a few people still use their smartphones to make phone calls.
Even not so tall women will drop their phones from 6 feet when it slips while making a duckface selfie.
Duh, you don't DROP a car
Tell that to the guy I just (*) saw driving his car over a ca. 18 inch high ledge
(*) okay, two hours ago.
By signing his comment he is proving his identity so that you know it is really him.
Then he should PGP sign it.
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Both Brexit and Trump are examples of votes where there were designated "right" solution and designated "wrong" solution.
And they found the third option and went for the "dumb" solution.
Were you one of the 3.5 million customers who purchased an Apple Watch in the first quarter of 2017? If so, how do you like Apple's approach to wearables?
Do we get a $25 iTunes gift card if we answer your marketing survey?
Nope, you get two Samsung Gears. Gotta get rid of inventory somehow.
Maybe Tim Cook is not a sufficiently capable CEO. Remove Tim Cook as CEO of Apple. (Oct 31, 2016) Quote: "Many products are announced in one quarter and released in another quarter."
I guess you are one of the 108 people who signed that petition since October. And that also answers your question.
I used to work with Moses. Guy over-engineered everything.
Building a ship by making a wooden box is the opposite of over-engineering.
Did you read about what happened to that sapphire glass company a couple years back? Apple made them sign a deal that they couldn't sell their glass to other customers.
No they didn't. Which you can easily tell by the fact that the company made furnaces, not glass. At least before Apple asked them to make sapphire glass for them with their own furnaces.
And at one time "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" was a saying. Not so much anymore however. apple is the new IBM.
So when has anybody ever said "Nobody ever got fired for choosing Apple"?
There's not necessarily a business advantage, it's that Apple wants to do everything itself, just like Sony did in its heyday. That's always been the devil's bargain with Apple, you can sell/license your stuff to them at a good rate, but the party only lasts as long as it takes them to move your magic dingus tech in-house. After that, you'd better not be in a position where you've committed 95% of your business to selling to Apple...
Well, you just could have chosen not to do business with Apple. Then your company may have died years ago. Much better that way.
I'm not liking Apple right now. Destroying several companies in their quest to gain more cash.
Errm, how exactly is Apple crushing anybody here? They should be about where they were before they started making lots of money by selling to Apple, probably in a much better position actually, since the market has grown massively since then.
Unless of course either A) Apple saved them by doing business with them back then, or B) their product is too bad for Apple's competition to buy. Then they are blaming Apple for either not dragging their dead body along any more, or for no longer buying something from them that is substandard and makes Apple's products look bad. Boo-fucking-hooh.
What is 306/438? Not 56.5 you idiot.
438? That is one hundred fewer votes than are in the electoral college.
And 306 is 2 higher than the number of electoral votes Trump actually got.
I can forgive missing that one, but really, did nobody teach you how many members the electoral college has?
He learned all he needs to know about it at Trump Electoral University.
Trump is the Antichrist and worships Satan!
Nope, he only worships himself. Are you calling him Satan?
The church of Climatology needs to follow the same rules of separation of church and state as all the others.
So impeach the head of the Church of Trump.
As long as science is politicized, science does not exist as science.
When politicians listen to scientists, science is "politicized". When politicians don't listen to scientists, life goes to hell. Pick your poison.
I top 32 quite frequently on my workstation .
Apart from your sexual fetish - we were talking about notebooks. But you already made clear that professionals can't use notebooks anyway.
Stop changing the subject. Trees are nice to have, but they are not a solution.
To someone who needs 32GB of RAM, having 32GB of RAM is more important than the slight battery savings of using DDR4L. What's your excuse for not understanding that?.
And who needs 32 GB RAM? And no, your sexual fetish doesn't count. https://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=6355