If they are making more in profit than the increase in their taxes they are still making a profit.
In order for a tax increase to exceed the companies profits, they would need to be taxed at a rate over 100% on every dollar.
It's impossible for a company to lose money because of a tax increase. Taxes don't work like a bills. Here's the very basics:
Companies pay taxes on net profits.
Gross Profit = Total Revenue - COGS That's the amount of money they brought it less the cost of what they sold.
Net Profit = Gross Profit - Expenses Expenses are things like administrative costs, employee salaries, rent, utilities, etc.
This is why cutting taxes does not give companies "more money" to hire new people or otherwise invest in their business. Those would be expenses, which would reduce their tax liability.
I couldn't agree more. WebOS had a brilliant UI. BB10 as well. It only takes a couple of minutes to learn the gestures, then they're second nature. I still find myself trying BB10 gestures on Android phones.
Both of those UIs were years ahead of the competition. It's a real shame we haven't seen iOS or Android "steal" them.
The parent suggested that Mozilla was doing something nefarious. Specifically, sharing their users browsing data with Google. That's nonsense, of course, as it's trivial to track users across browsers. I'm directly contradicting the parent, not "backing up" what they said.
TGM is fundamentally different from NES Tetris. They might as well be different games. The most important difference is something called 'lock delay' which is how long it takes a piece to 'lock' in to position once it reaches the top of the stack. It's very generous in TGM (30 frames). In NES Tetris, lock delay (I believe) is limited to the time it takes for the piece to fall to another row. Modern "guidelines" Tetris is similar to TGM, though it's far more generous in that it allows you to 'reset' the lock counter on a successful shift or rotation, rather that just on a drop.
This means that you can play modern Tetris and TGM at much higher speeds than NES Tetris. At 20g speeds, pieces don't fall from the top so much as they appear at the top of the stack. In NES Tetris, that would make the game unplayable as you couldn't move the pieces at all! In TGM, 20g speed is perfectly playable as you have an abundance of time (a full half-second) to shift and rotate your piece. By preloading DAS during ARE, you don't even need that long. Strong players will press down to instantly lock their piece once it's in place, saving time.
The minimal lock delay makes NES Tetris very difficult to play. Pieces feel like they're 'sticky'. It takes a lot more speed and precision to play at a high level than the seemingly 'faster' TGM and modern Tetris games you might have seen. I've played TGM for less than a year and I'm an S9 player. I've been playing NES Tetris longer than I can remember, but my best scores are just over 200k.
Joseph Saelee's play is nothing short of remarkable. It's 'next level' play. 4-minute-mile stuff.
Something actually immoral, would be to take pleasure in the suffering of others. The same would go for taking pleasure in the denigration of an out-group.
Building yourself up by putting others down is not a healthy way to go through life. It's bad for everyone.
Good luck with that. You can get away with correcting typos, but changing anything more significant than that is damn near impossible and not worth the hassle. Too many users, with too much free time, have too much of their ego wrapped up in 'their' articles.
You'll get over it. This isn't the first time we've seen Slashdot rendered unreadable by nonsense like this. It'll stop when Nixon gets bored, or his karma drops to the point that he can only post at -1, and we can get back to the ordinary sort of shitposting that passes for discussion these days.
Further, expecting the editorial staff to do anything seems absurd to me. We can't even get them to pay enough attention to the headlines to avoid front page dups, what makes you think they're interested enough notice and ban a specific user?
Why travel at all when you could just watch documentaries? It's less expensive, you get to see more places, and learn about the places directly from experts. The impatient can travel the world with a slideshow screensaver.
There isn't a word to describe these pretend windows. 'Inhuman' doesn't quite fit, as they only we could devise such an abomination.
More disturbing is how few people here seem to have a problem with this. Are we so disconnected from our world that an image on an LCD display is not only suitable but preferable to a window?
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If they are making more in profit than the increase in their taxes they are still making a profit.
In order for a tax increase to exceed the companies profits, they would need to be taxed at a rate over 100% on every dollar.
It's impossible for a company to lose money because of a tax increase. Taxes don't work like a bills. Here's the very basics:
Companies pay taxes on net profits.
Gross Profit = Total Revenue - COGS That's the amount of money they brought it less the cost of what they sold.
Net Profit = Gross Profit - Expenses Expenses are things like administrative costs, employee salaries, rent, utilities, etc.
This is why cutting taxes does not give companies "more money" to hire new people or otherwise invest in their business. Those would be expenses, which would reduce their tax liability.
Yep. A simulated rainstorm won't get you wet.
The problem isn't that obvious truth. The trouble is that it's blasphemy.
I head 47.379
You treat them with the respect they deserve,
Are you insane? NEVER treat a cop with the respect they deserve. That'll get you shot.
I couldn't agree more. WebOS had a brilliant UI. BB10 as well. It only takes a couple of minutes to learn the gestures, then they're second nature. I still find myself trying BB10 gestures on Android phones.
Both of those UIs were years ahead of the competition. It's a real shame we haven't seen iOS or Android "steal" them.
The parent suggested that Mozilla was doing something nefarious. Specifically, sharing their users browsing data with Google. That's nonsense, of course, as it's trivial to track users across browsers. I'm directly contradicting the parent, not "backing up" what they said.
Pure FUD. It's trivial to track users across browsers.
No one believes that. You know, because of all the evidence against it.
Selfishness used to be considered a vice.
So you use a password because you often leave your phone unattended in places filled with untrustworthy strangers?
I'm not sure how that works. Does the thief ask you if your phone is protected by a password before they take it?
TGM is fundamentally different from NES Tetris. They might as well be different games. The most important difference is something called 'lock delay' which is how long it takes a piece to 'lock' in to position once it reaches the top of the stack. It's very generous in TGM (30 frames). In NES Tetris, lock delay (I believe) is limited to the time it takes for the piece to fall to another row. Modern "guidelines" Tetris is similar to TGM, though it's far more generous in that it allows you to 'reset' the lock counter on a successful shift or rotation, rather that just on a drop.
This means that you can play modern Tetris and TGM at much higher speeds than NES Tetris. At 20g speeds, pieces don't fall from the top so much as they appear at the top of the stack. In NES Tetris, that would make the game unplayable as you couldn't move the pieces at all! In TGM, 20g speed is perfectly playable as you have an abundance of time (a full half-second) to shift and rotate your piece. By preloading DAS during ARE, you don't even need that long. Strong players will press down to instantly lock their piece once it's in place, saving time.
The minimal lock delay makes NES Tetris very difficult to play. Pieces feel like they're 'sticky'. It takes a lot more speed and precision to play at a high level than the seemingly 'faster' TGM and modern Tetris games you might have seen. I've played TGM for less than a year and I'm an S9 player. I've been playing NES Tetris longer than I can remember, but my best scores are just over 200k.
Joseph Saelee's play is nothing short of remarkable. It's 'next level' play. 4-minute-mile stuff.
Deciding what people in an out-group "deserve" is dangerous thinking. You can justify some pretty awful things that way.
if I don't really care what people think I think, and my goal is to influence how they think
You must be deeply conflicted!
You're not helping them "back in to reality". You're tearing them down to make yourself feel superior.
I find that reprehensible.
Something actually immoral, would be to take pleasure in the suffering of others. The same would go for taking pleasure in the denigration of an out-group.
Building yourself up by putting others down is not a healthy way to go through life. It's bad for everyone.
The tariffs are designed to help American manufacturing, they make American products cheaper than foreign products.
In the same way that killing everyone smarter than you will make you the smartest person in the world.
Tariffs don't make US products cheaper, they make foreign products more expensive.
It's the "heavy petting" analog to "cyber sex". e-petting sounds better than 'cyber making-out'.
I'm in total shock. Who could have possibly seen this coming?
Good luck with that. You can get away with correcting typos, but changing anything more significant than that is damn near impossible and not worth the hassle. Too many users, with too much free time, have too much of their ego wrapped up in 'their' articles.
You'll get over it. This isn't the first time we've seen Slashdot rendered unreadable by nonsense like this. It'll stop when Nixon gets bored, or his karma drops to the point that he can only post at -1, and we can get back to the ordinary sort of shitposting that passes for discussion these days.
Further, expecting the editorial staff to do anything seems absurd to me. We can't even get them to pay enough attention to the headlines to avoid front page dups, what makes you think they're interested enough notice and ban a specific user?
Why travel at all when you could just watch documentaries? It's less expensive, you get to see more places, and learn about the places directly from experts. The impatient can travel the world with a slideshow screensaver.
There isn't a word to describe these pretend windows. 'Inhuman' doesn't quite fit, as they only we could devise such an abomination.
More disturbing is how few people here seem to have a problem with this. Are we so disconnected from our world that an image on an LCD display is not only suitable but preferable to a window?
Something has gone seriously wrong.
There's Orca. It's not as good as NVDA, but it's on many major distros.
It's been around a while (since 2006), so I'm surprise your friend hadn't run across it.
He was not fired.
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