By international treaty and law, all copyrights are honored worldwide.
This is only true in a very broad sense that a work will be covered by copyright laws in multiple countries without having to be specifically identified in those countries as a copyrightable work.
The actual content of those copyright laws can vary significantly from one country to another. Here in Australia, for example, time- and format-shifting only became legal in 2006.
The only reason the proertpy bubble in Australia will decline [same with rental rates] is with a massive increase in housing, as the prices are high becuase of a lack of supply, not simply artificial inflation of prices.
This is incorrect. Outside of a few isolated areas (generally to do with the mining boom) there is no real shortage of housing (more than sufficient housing to contain the population growth has been built over the last ~15 years, and Victoria in particular is looking down the barrel of an enormous housing oversupply at the moment). This is why rents have risen only marginally faster than inflation, while actual house prices have vastly eclipsed it, and the bubble has been nation-wide, rather than constrained to a few small supply-limited locales (as it has been in Canada).
The real culprits behind the housing bubble are lax lending policies, property development restrictions, and a tax system substantially biased - primarily via negative gearing and CGT concessions - towards speculation on real estate.
The bubble will burst because the driving force has been people's ability to easily borrow too much money (a consequence of the global, multi-decade credit bubble), which is rapidly disappearing. The same thing will happen in Australia that has happened everywhere else a real estate bubble has burst so far - Ireland, most of the US, etc - and for the same reason: easy credit has dried up.
Build 300,000 new houses that people want to live in and the prices may drop otherwise we are in for the long haul and they will only go up.
In most of the country, house prices have been steadily dropping for 18+ months, with total decreases varying from 5-20% over that period. There's still a solid 40-50% to go (in real terms), however, before they're back to something resembling normal and sustainable. Hopefully, this happens in a short and very painful couple of years (like Ireland and the USA), rather than a long and still quite painful couple of decades (like Japan).
This is certainly not the case as any qualified tax profesional will tell you. Business are generally allowed a deduction for "ordinary and necessary" expenses incurred in the pursuit of earning a profit. Not just any "operating expense" will do.
Any "qualified tax professional" will also be able to make pretty much any cost from a CEO's car park to flying their family to Europe for a holiday as an "ordinary and necessary" business expense.
Again, you have to be careful with these sweeping statements. In Massachusetts you can deduct two of the three!
Really ? Any person, regardless of who they are or what they're doing, can tax-deduct (and carry forward losses) all expenses related to whichever two it is of food, shelter and transport ? Colour me sceptical.
Even if it is true, it merely drives home the point. It's trivial for businesses to arrange their affairs to take advantage of localised tax concessions, yet nearly impossible for individuals to do the same.
Apple currently look ok because they recently did a currency adjustment. Historically you'd be looking at a solid 30-40% price difference between buying the same Apple product in Australia vs the USA (even after accounting for local USA sales taxes).
With tax, a $30 item in the US should cost $33, maybe you could stretch that to $40 with shipping.
It's not shipping you need to account for (most of this stuff is going to be coming from Asia anyway, so shipping to Australia should be cheaper), it's the higher wages and better working conditions in Australia, and the insane rents vendors have to pay thanks to our world-leading real estate bubble (last time I checked, Sydney had the most expensive commercial real estate *in the world*, beating out places like London, Paris, Zurich, New York and Tokyo - how crazy is that ?).
(Side note: when this finally pops - and the consequent economic catastrophe has passed - the reduction in rents should go a long way towards normalising prices).
Personally, I'm prepared to pay up to about 15-20% premium to support the local economy and living standards (in as much as buying imported goods from local vendors can do that). However, the problem is that prices here aren't 15-20% higher, they're 50-100% higher.
By what magic force should a company charge the same for a product (accounting for PPP) throughout the world?
Actual free trade. Hence the reason so many corporations (and their pocket Governments) hate it.
This is already happening in Australia. Local retailers are getting smashed because so many people are buying everything from socks to laptops from foreign sellers.
What you looked up for 11.5k was the total payable at customs.That is only a fraction of what it will cost you to import a vehicle. We get ripped off here, but you are deluding yourself if you think you are going to get the car registered and on the road here 30-40% cheaper by importing yourself, that is if they even let you import what you want as there are plenty of local protection systems in place that prevent you from purchasing new cars and importing them if they are available here.
Then why can Volkswagen sell a VW Golf R here for basically the same price as the UK, but BMW's 135i and Audi's S3 cost ~40% more (that's just one example, the price differential is pretty constant across their entire lineups) ?
Note that the prices for these cars in the UK are all within a few hundred quid of each other.
Your BMW example isn't the best example as that BMW M3 will have both import tariffs and fees (designed to protect what is left of the local car manufacturing industry) and luxury car tax (introduced by the Howard government in order to ensure the difference in the tax rate between luxury cars and normal cars remained the same under the GST as it did under the old wholesale sales tax system)
No, the LCT doesn't even come close to explaining the price difference.
It's just flat-out gouging by BMW (Mercedes, Audi and the super-expensive brands like Ferrari, etc, do the same).
Some Euro brands do not do this - for example, Volkswagen. Their cars cost basically the same in Australia as they do in the UK. I believe Volvo are also quite competitively priced in Australia, but since they don't have any vehicles I'm interested in I don't know any specific examples.
You are mad to buy any of the luxury Euro brands in Australia - BMW, Audi, Mercedes, et al. They're just reaming you with 20-150%+ markups over other countries.
Uhhhh...you haven't actually BEEN to any of the OCing forums of late, have you friend? the guys on those sites are frankly spending more on their liquid coolers than I did on my whole PC. they are RAIDing SSD, dual and triple SLI or Xfire is the norm many are sporting 24 and 32Gb of RAM, hell check the top 30 leaderboards of any OCing forums these guys are NOT cheap.
I'd be astounded if any more than a vanishingly tiny proportion of people overclocking did this.
It's like going to a $CAR forum and concluding everyone who owns $CAR is hotrodding them.
Not to mention most top-end CPUs (which presumably this tiny portion of money-is-no-object people you're talking about are buying) aren't locked.
But what you are talking about is not because the market is large, quite the contrary, it is because Intel knows that the market isn't large and wants to be able to force an upsell on those that are into OCing.
If you think Intel don't let you overclock so they can upsell to some single-digit (being _very_ generous) percentage of customers (who are nearly entirely budget-driven in their purchasing), you're off in la-la land.
Intel wouldn't be actively fighting OC in his products if it was only 2-3%.
Intel don't block overclocking because of some insignificant number of computer enthusiasts, they do it to help prevent widespread fraud by unscrupulous operators who pass off overclocked chips as genuine.
The fact that you personally can spend your profits on food, housing, transportation, travel, or mostly what the fuck ever has about uh no relevance to the fact that your deductions and corporate deductions are roughly comparative.
The claim made was: "Not really. It's your income minus expenses (deductions) which is your *net income* ie. profit.".
Companies can deduct any "operating expense". People cannot (the most obvious ones being food, shelter and transport. They're not even remotely comparable.
Or, to put it another ways, companies are taxed on their net income. Individuals are taxed on their not-entirely-but-still-mostly gross income.
I don't understand this comment - I have never been to a restaurant where my credit card (or debit card) leaves my possession. And I always pay by either one of them. You actually give someone else your credit card and they then leave your sight with it?
Yes. Completely normal in Australia [for restaurants that have table service].
Also par for the course in other places I've lived and/or spent any significant amount of time - UK, Switzerland, France, USA.
Those are not only the people in the greatest position to hurt the company, but also those with the greatest incentive not to do so - why hurt a company that is paying you millions of dollars a year?
Because most of those millions are tied up in stock, options and contractual termination payouts.
No-one who has made it seriously far into upper management is enough of a chump to have their salary as their main form of remuneration.
Top management positions aren't that common that one would risk losing one.
They don't need to be. It's the same small group of people rotating between them all.
In my experience Unions are run by people who want to be Wealth influential people. They don't really care about the works they are supposed to represent.
Though, with that said, aligning yourself with the people who are at least pretending to help everyone is more likely to produce a positive result for you than aligning with the people just blatantly fucking everyone else over.
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This is only true in a very broad sense that a work will be covered by copyright laws in multiple countries without having to be specifically identified in those countries as a copyrightable work.
The actual content of those copyright laws can vary significantly from one country to another. Here in Australia, for example, time- and format-shifting only became legal in 2006.
This is incorrect. Outside of a few isolated areas (generally to do with the mining boom) there is no real shortage of housing (more than sufficient housing to contain the population growth has been built over the last ~15 years, and Victoria in particular is looking down the barrel of an enormous housing oversupply at the moment). This is why rents have risen only marginally faster than inflation, while actual house prices have vastly eclipsed it, and the bubble has been nation-wide, rather than constrained to a few small supply-limited locales (as it has been in Canada).
The real culprits behind the housing bubble are lax lending policies, property development restrictions, and a tax system substantially biased - primarily via negative gearing and CGT concessions - towards speculation on real estate.
The bubble will burst because the driving force has been people's ability to easily borrow too much money (a consequence of the global, multi-decade credit bubble), which is rapidly disappearing. The same thing will happen in Australia that has happened everywhere else a real estate bubble has burst so far - Ireland, most of the US, etc - and for the same reason: easy credit has dried up.
In most of the country, house prices have been steadily dropping for 18+ months, with total decreases varying from 5-20% over that period. There's still a solid 40-50% to go (in real terms), however, before they're back to something resembling normal and sustainable. Hopefully, this happens in a short and very painful couple of years (like Ireland and the USA), rather than a long and still quite painful couple of decades (like Japan).
Very much corner cases, however. Only things like RC5 that could fit into the L2 cache.
Any "qualified tax professional" will also be able to make pretty much any cost from a CEO's car park to flying their family to Europe for a holiday as an "ordinary and necessary" business expense.
Really ? Any person, regardless of who they are or what they're doing, can tax-deduct (and carry forward losses) all expenses related to whichever two it is of food, shelter and transport ? Colour me sceptical.
Even if it is true, it merely drives home the point. It's trivial for businesses to arrange their affairs to take advantage of localised tax concessions, yet nearly impossible for individuals to do the same.
Which pretty much proves my point.
Unless you think every Tom, Dick & Harry who chips his car's engine or puts on a high-flow exhaust is a street racer ?
Apple currently look ok because they recently did a currency adjustment. Historically you'd be looking at a solid 30-40% price difference between buying the same Apple product in Australia vs the USA (even after accounting for local USA sales taxes).
It's not shipping you need to account for (most of this stuff is going to be coming from Asia anyway, so shipping to Australia should be cheaper), it's the higher wages and better working conditions in Australia, and the insane rents vendors have to pay thanks to our world-leading real estate bubble (last time I checked, Sydney had the most expensive commercial real estate *in the world*, beating out places like London, Paris, Zurich, New York and Tokyo - how crazy is that ?).
(Side note: when this finally pops - and the consequent economic catastrophe has passed - the reduction in rents should go a long way towards normalising prices).
Personally, I'm prepared to pay up to about 15-20% premium to support the local economy and living standards (in as much as buying imported goods from local vendors can do that). However, the problem is that prices here aren't 15-20% higher, they're 50-100% higher.
Actual free trade. Hence the reason so many corporations (and their pocket Governments) hate it.
This is already happening in Australia. Local retailers are getting smashed because so many people are buying everything from socks to laptops from foreign sellers.
Then why can Volkswagen sell a VW Golf R here for basically the same price as the UK, but BMW's 135i and Audi's S3 cost ~40% more (that's just one example, the price differential is pretty constant across their entire lineups) ?
Note that the prices for these cars in the UK are all within a few hundred quid of each other.
No, the LCT doesn't even come close to explaining the price difference.
It's just flat-out gouging by BMW (Mercedes, Audi and the super-expensive brands like Ferrari, etc, do the same).
Some Euro brands do not do this - for example, Volkswagen. Their cars cost basically the same in Australia as they do in the UK. I believe Volvo are also quite competitively priced in Australia, but since they don't have any vehicles I'm interested in I don't know any specific examples.
You are mad to buy any of the luxury Euro brands in Australia - BMW, Audi, Mercedes, et al. They're just reaming you with 20-150%+ markups over other countries.
I'd be astounded if any more than a vanishingly tiny proportion of people overclocking did this.
It's like going to a $CAR forum and concluding everyone who owns $CAR is hotrodding them.
Not to mention most top-end CPUs (which presumably this tiny portion of money-is-no-object people you're talking about are buying) aren't locked.
If you think Intel don't let you overclock so they can upsell to some single-digit (being _very_ generous) percentage of customers (who are nearly entirely budget-driven in their purchasing), you're off in la-la land.
Intel don't block overclocking because of some insignificant number of computer enthusiasts, they do it to help prevent widespread fraud by unscrupulous operators who pass off overclocked chips as genuine.
When the 300A was released, you could already buy a full Pentium 2 at 450Mhz.
The claim made was: "Not really. It's your income minus expenses (deductions) which is your *net income* ie. profit.".
Companies can deduct any "operating expense". People cannot (the most obvious ones being food, shelter and transport. They're not even remotely comparable.
Or, to put it another ways, companies are taxed on their net income. Individuals are taxed on their not-entirely-but-still-mostly gross income.
What country do you live in where every expense (food, housing, transport, etc) is a tax deduction ?
Yes. Completely normal in Australia [for restaurants that have table service].
Also par for the course in other places I've lived and/or spent any significant amount of time - UK, Switzerland, France, USA.
If a scheduled restart causes you any problems, your system architecture is broken.
Right. Because VMware would never audit their own code.
Given you would only see it for the purpose of starting another application, how can it be a waste of space ?
Because most of those millions are tied up in stock, options and contractual termination payouts.
No-one who has made it seriously far into upper management is enough of a chump to have their salary as their main form of remuneration.
They don't need to be. It's the same small group of people rotating between them all.
Though, with that said, aligning yourself with the people who are at least pretending to help everyone is more likely to produce a positive result for you than aligning with the people just blatantly fucking everyone else over.
For example ?
Your criticism hinges on the premise that said assets do not generate a return, which is in direct conflict with reality.
Especially when you live in a community of rich white people.