...life forms that are non-organic. But after a few thousands of years processing data in their core CPUs, they decide they need to propagate across the Universe. The end solution is to create self-replicating nanites. The re-indroduction of the "cell" programed in DNA was the ultimate solution. What's old is now new again.
Half of America doesn't even know there's more than two parties.
I don't know if that's true, but what is true is that about 40% of eligible voters typically don't even both to vote. If someone could excite that 40% (probably by coming up with a real plan for making government a lot cheaper, a lot less invasive of personal privacy, and a lot more effective), then you could have a powerful 3rd party.
A very exciting idea would be to get the government out of the business of constantly inspecting your personal finances, by radically restructuring the tax code.
End the wars, legalize and tax drugs, practice fiscal responsibility.
I might be wrong, but I've always thought that if you remove the "legalize and tax drugs" plank from the platform, the Libertarian party would be one of the most successful overnight. A huge percentage of people would vote for smaller, less expensive government and fewer (or no) wars - right? Unfortunately, I think the legalization of drugs is a deal-killer for a lot of moderate independents who would otherwise vote for a Libertarian agenda, just as the D & R positions on abortion (for and against) turn off huge numbers of people.
Simply changing the attitude about illegal drugs to advocating a more "fiscally responsible" response to the illegal drug problem would make a lot of sense, as that is the Libertarian policy for so many other government activities.
The system is not going to change until we ALL stop voting D and R.
Most eligible voters do NOT vote either D or R. In 2008, the voter turnout was the highest it had been in nearly 50 years, at about 63% - meaning that 37% of eligible voters did not vote for anyone (http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/2008turnout-report_final11.pdf). When you consider on average 3-5% of voters vote for an independent or 3rd party candidate, then you can see that more eligible voters do NOT vote for either a D or an R than those who vote for either major candidate.
Keep in mind that Obama took 55% of the popular vote in 2008, but with a 62% turnout, only about 34% of eligible citizens supported him enough to go vote for him. The two major parties simply do not represent majorities in this country.
Exactly - and a large percentage of those that voted for him did not identify themselves as D's - they were "Independents". As of 2010, Gallup polling found that 31% of Americans identified as Democrats, 29% as Republicans, and 38% as independents (http://www.gallup.com/poll/145463/Democratic-Party-Drops-2010-Tying-Year-Low.aspx). So no party has even close to a majority of voters, and independents are the largest portion.
The interesting thing is that independent voters continue to allow R's and D's to make all national elections referendums almost exclusively about their own candidates. The most successful independent or 3rd party candidates in the past 100 years were Ross Perot (18.9% in 1992), and Teddy Roosevelt (27% as a Progressive in 1912).
As an accountant myself, I think it's important to point out that a number of countries (and US states - including my home state of Texas) offer significant tax incentives for businesses that will move more of their operations to their location and create jobs. TFA does not say whether or not this was the case, but an article from Forbes this past March pointed out that Ireland lured significant Apple business to the country through creative tax reduction incentives: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2012/03/18/ireland-continues-to-flex-tax-haven-muscles-will-their-luck-run-out/
The article points out that Microsoft, Dell, Pfizer, and Wyeth have also taken advantage of Irish corporate tax incentives. So, a lot of this isn't "beancounter magic" at all - its a carefully negotiated corporate strategy that benefits the company as well as the host country.
I once had a DPS trooper chase me on 35 while I was on my Ninja all the way from Kyle to school in San Marcos without my knowing it (extreme speed). He finally caught me at the Aquarina Springs drive exit. What a bad day that was.
Hahaha - cops around here love a good chase! As you can imagine, I live way out in the countryside. About once a year, someone tries to run from the police out towards our neck of the woods, and they invariably wreck their car and try to run into the corn fields. The police bring a team with dogs and machine guns and dig them out. Happened again about 6 weeks ago - three 19-year old burglars from Buda and South Austin. One stayed in the car and two others took off into the fields and hid - one of them hid out for 5 hours before getting caught. Crazy stuff!
I don't own a smartphone myself because I haven't found anything to justify an extra several hundreds of dollars per year, and I haven't seen anyone post a smartphone screenshot yet.
No, it doesn't load in my Android in portraid mode. It only shows up if I scale the size to where the lettering is so small I can't read anything on the entire page except "iPad Mini".
You're right - I just tried it. No scaling on the US site. The UK site is definitely scaling - no matter how I change the resolution, it is filling the page with the Mini ad, until I go to a very high resolution setting.
When I was young, Congress was trying to decide if AC/DC's rock music and games of Dungeons and Dragons were causing all us youth to kill each other. Somehow I survived all the death and devastation - I have no idea how.
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Hint they don't do it for the money.
Neither does Apple.
...Wait - what???...
How old is your "kid"?
My kid is 19 and pays for her own iPhone, which is a lot more expensive than my Android.
Just wondering.
It costs big bucks to turn all that volunteer FreeBSD coding into Apple Gold.
FIFY.
You know -- for the FreeBSD project providing all that free coding that helps pay for those gigantic bonuses?
So - intelligent life is actually made up of real bits of panther then? Fascinating!
...it works every time??
...life forms that are non-organic. But after a few thousands of years processing data in their core CPUs, they decide they need to propagate across the Universe. The end solution is to create self-replicating nanites. The re-indroduction of the "cell" programed in DNA was the ultimate solution. What's old is now new again.
Hahaha! Can you bend a spoon?
...full of advanced life forms...
Half of America doesn't even know there's more than two parties.
I don't know if that's true, but what is true is that about 40% of eligible voters typically don't even both to vote. If someone could excite that 40% (probably by coming up with a real plan for making government a lot cheaper, a lot less invasive of personal privacy, and a lot more effective), then you could have a powerful 3rd party.
A very exciting idea would be to get the government out of the business of constantly inspecting your personal finances, by radically restructuring the tax code.
End the wars, legalize and tax drugs, practice fiscal responsibility.
I might be wrong, but I've always thought that if you remove the "legalize and tax drugs" plank from the platform, the Libertarian party would be one of the most successful overnight. A huge percentage of people would vote for smaller, less expensive government and fewer (or no) wars - right? Unfortunately, I think the legalization of drugs is a deal-killer for a lot of moderate independents who would otherwise vote for a Libertarian agenda, just as the D & R positions on abortion (for and against) turn off huge numbers of people.
Simply changing the attitude about illegal drugs to advocating a more "fiscally responsible" response to the illegal drug problem would make a lot of sense, as that is the Libertarian policy for so many other government activities.
The system is not going to change until we ALL stop voting D and R.
Most eligible voters do NOT vote either D or R. In 2008, the voter turnout was the highest it had been in nearly 50 years, at about 63% - meaning that 37% of eligible voters did not vote for anyone (http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/2008turnout-report_final11.pdf). When you consider on average 3-5% of voters vote for an independent or 3rd party candidate, then you can see that more eligible voters do NOT vote for either a D or an R than those who vote for either major candidate.
Keep in mind that Obama took 55% of the popular vote in 2008, but with a 62% turnout, only about 34% of eligible citizens supported him enough to go vote for him. The two major parties simply do not represent majorities in this country.
Exactly - and a large percentage of those that voted for him did not identify themselves as D's - they were "Independents". As of 2010, Gallup polling found that 31% of Americans identified as Democrats, 29% as Republicans, and 38% as independents (http://www.gallup.com/poll/145463/Democratic-Party-Drops-2010-Tying-Year-Low.aspx). So no party has even close to a majority of voters, and independents are the largest portion.
The interesting thing is that independent voters continue to allow R's and D's to make all national elections referendums almost exclusively about their own candidates. The most successful independent or 3rd party candidates in the past 100 years were Ross Perot (18.9% in 1992), and Teddy Roosevelt (27% as a Progressive in 1912).
As an accountant myself, I think it's important to point out that a number of countries (and US states - including my home state of Texas) offer significant tax incentives for businesses that will move more of their operations to their location and create jobs. TFA does not say whether or not this was the case, but an article from Forbes this past March pointed out that Ireland lured significant Apple business to the country through creative tax reduction incentives: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2012/03/18/ireland-continues-to-flex-tax-haven-muscles-will-their-luck-run-out/
The article points out that Microsoft, Dell, Pfizer, and Wyeth have also taken advantage of Irish corporate tax incentives. So, a lot of this isn't "beancounter magic" at all - its a carefully negotiated corporate strategy that benefits the company as well as the host country.
I once had a DPS trooper chase me on 35 while I was on my Ninja all the way from Kyle to school in San Marcos without my knowing it (extreme speed). He finally caught me at the Aquarina Springs drive exit. What a bad day that was.
Hahaha - cops around here love a good chase! As you can imagine, I live way out in the countryside. About once a year, someone tries to run from the police out towards our neck of the woods, and they invariably wreck their car and try to run into the corn fields. The police bring a team with dogs and machine guns and dig them out. Happened again about 6 weeks ago - three 19-year old burglars from Buda and South Austin. One stayed in the car and two others took off into the fields and hid - one of them hid out for 5 hours before getting caught. Crazy stuff!
I want one! I work from home - so if there's room for groceries, this would handle 80% of my driving, and give me a workout while I'm at it.
Trust me - no corporation in the world is losing 10% of profit without shedding jobs.
The court isn't going to destroy any Apple employee jobs. They'll just keep slapping the lawyers around.
You're right - NoScript completely gets rid of the scaling. That guy's previous screenshot was made with NoScript enabled!
I've never seen anyone using a Mac or an Apple laptop of any sort in rotated mode. I'm sure its got its fans, but certainly a very rare occurrence.
I don't own a smartphone myself because I haven't found anything to justify an extra several hundreds of dollars per year, and I haven't seen anyone post a smartphone screenshot yet.
No, it doesn't load in my Android in portraid mode. It only shows up if I scale the size to where the lettering is so small I can't read anything on the entire page except "iPad Mini".
All of them.
Yes, even Including the laptops and iMacs. Although obviously the primary displays on those are not portrait displays.
Of course the fact that you changed the topic from the tablets and smartphones that my post was about means you can't argue against that point.
How many people stand sideways to work on their laptop? Your argument is absurd.
Yeah, I rotated the image on my 26 inch monitor 90 degrees into portrait mode - still no-go.
You're right - I just tried it. No scaling on the US site. The UK site is definitely scaling - no matter how I change the resolution, it is filling the page with the Mini ad, until I go to a very high resolution setting.
10% of profits would cost hundreds, if not thousands of jobs. You wouldn't be a UK judge for very long with rulings like that.
When I was young, Congress was trying to decide if AC/DC's rock music and games of Dungeons and Dragons were causing all us youth to kill each other. Somehow I survived all the death and devastation - I have no idea how.