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  1. Re:Wheres the source of the cash? on Apple, Google and Microsoft Are Hoarding $464 Billion In Cash (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not that anyone would know anyway. However it is one example of how much the tax system in the US is broken.

  2. Re:Wheres the source of the cash? on Apple, Google and Microsoft Are Hoarding $464 Billion In Cash (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that they make that cellphone in the PRC and bring it to the US and do not pay tariffs and taxes are adjusted based on some other office in a tax haven.

  3. Maybe dividends on Apple, Google and Microsoft Are Hoarding $464 Billion In Cash (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Corporations sit on this much cash because execs get paid in stock and the dividends have lower taxes. "Qualified dividends" and long-term capital gains benefit from a lower rate. Qualified dividends are those paid by domestic or qualifying foreign companies that have been held for at least 61 days out of the 121-day period beginning 60 days prior to the ex-dividend date.

  4. Re:Wheres the source of the cash? on Apple, Google and Microsoft Are Hoarding $464 Billion In Cash (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I think history disagrees. For example, GE made a profit of 14B last year and has not paid any taxes to the US for the last 7 years and they are not the only ones.

  5. When will the indictments come for Ajit Pai? on FCC Refuses To Release Text of More Than 40,000 Net Neutrality Complaints (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What should be obvious for anyone with eyes is that Ajit Pai, the FCC Chair is on the take and is feathering his nest for a cushy job at one of the service providers after he is done destroying privacy and gilding the Internet at the FCC. He needs to be kicked out of the FCC and investigated for fraud.

  6. Re:O Canada on Canada's Play For Immigrant Tech Talent (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    In Newfoundland which has become a economic desert since the Swedes and the Russians came in a scooped up all of the cod and the of course with the loss of the brick works the last thing we needed was to give away work, especially something that could add up to a career to a foreign national whose only qualifications are that he can be extorted more and paid less.

  7. Re:Ultimately it could be good for all of us on Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    This is just another form of PRC protectionism. The CPC may say that the rules apply to everyone but they will only be enforced on imports giving domestic manufactures another advantage.

  8. Kraft Foods when it was still called that encouraged staff to work from home at least one day a week. After a few months someone in upper management decided that anyone working from home much not be contributing so they laid them all off.

  9. O Canada on Canada's Play For Immigrant Tech Talent (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Perhaps the same corrupt bonus culture that has dominated the US is now looking north.
    It is sad that Canada wants to gut its middle class.
    It should make for some interesting elections there.

  10. The problem this kind of Socialism runs into is human nature.
    You are always going to have a portion of the population become shiftless as they see living off the dole is better than working
    They have free (as in paid for by taxpayers not as in beer) cell phones, land lines, computers, television, apartment, food stamps.
    They get part of their food stamps as cash for liquor or drugs.
    Because they do not have to work for anything single parent families are the norm, usually with everyone in Section 8 and on the dole. Poverty is not the only contributor to crime, in this Socialist utopia it is also boredom.

  11. I'd like to think that Edge hobbled itself because of the removal of privacy features.
    Then again, Chrome.

  12. Expensive on Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    One wonders where Perez obtained a $1500 semi-automatic for this pathetic cry for attention and of course commit murder.
    “Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.” - William S. Burroughs

  13. Remember, its your FCC on US Ranks 28th In the World In Average Wireless Broadband Speeds (dslreports.com) · · Score: 2

    The FCC of late seems to work for the broadband providers.
    The fiasco with net neutrality is plenty of evidence

  14. Bonus time already? on Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone is shopping for a big fat bonus.
    Too bad that Lowes stock holders and employees have to pay for it by hiring some incompetent Indian maggots.

  15. Re:If it's the left, just a narrative will do. on Ask Slashdot: How Do News Organizations Keep Track of So Much Information? · · Score: 1

    They should restore the restriction where some nameless oligarch could only monopolize one type of media in a given area. When they took this restriction away they said the Internet would keep the discussion open, boy were they wrong.

  16. Re:So much for free speech on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    No it was not Harvard but Aaron Swartz did get kicked out at MIT for all of that and committed suicide while under indictment (maybe he was helped?).

  17. Re:So much for free speech on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ, if you re-read the story, they had already been accepted so I see no difference.
    They could be held accountable for using Facebook, it is a chilling lesson that you no longer have the right to be wrong in America.
    I can't, but do you remember every possibly offensive thing you typed on social media, into your computer or smart phone or even on this blog?

  18. Re:Some numbers from Geico on US Insurer Hikes Tesla Premiums Due To 'Higher-Than-Average' Claim Rates (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Insurance premiums are also set by credit rating in all but 2 states.
    A Tesla is marketed as a luxury car and has a complex drive system and a expensive battery and also very few third party parts so repairs are probably expensive.
    It is kind of the cost of doing business with this kind of car
    Prems should go down if/when Tesla's become more common and/or license parts

  19. Re:Not really an issue on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The degree on which the secondary stuff is done and the quality of the work depends on the patients physical characteristics and how much cash thye have to spend.

    Sure, its not easy, but jails already determine placement by pre or post op. so it has precedence.
    The thing is that the person looking to expose him/herself knows.
    So if the person does something like provocatively exposing themselves they should go to jail.
    Maybe an extra charge should jsut be slapped on to a flasher/chomo who gets caught with the wrong genitals in the wrong place?

    "Compelling quote" - Famous Person

  20. So much for free speech on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 0

    Universities used to be considered a bastion of free speech.
    I think it is safe to say that seems to not be the case anymore.

  21. Re:News? on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but neither would the Paris accord though at least cats reduce smog.

  22. Re:What do catalytic converters have to do with it on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    GW? I suppose breathing a catalytic converter could give you lung cancer but orange air is probably the culprit.
    Those like you and the pop media with their own agenda should realize that even if Trump nukes the Paris accord that it does not make a difference.

    The agreement has no teeth, it was all voluntary.

    The puzzling thing is why Trump even bothers to create drama like this except maybe to slip his big tow up the ass of the Democrats.
    One of the very do nothing things beside replicating Medicare, the very do nothing Obama achieved was siging this meaningless accord.

    So there you go.

    About the best thing you could say about it was that it got leaders talking but that's all they did.

  23. I don't see what he big deal is, nothing has stopped visa/outsourcing maggots from calling themselves engineers especially things like education or experience.

  24. Most of the Paris accord was voluntary and the monetary reparations for damages related to climate change sought by the LDNs seem to not have been implemented so it leaves one puzzled why President Trump would even bother giving an answer on this and just toe the line. Anyway, I'll believe that the world cares about climate change when nations that have nuclear and space programs put catalytic convertors on their cars.

  25. This is a mainly a matter of political fodder or flann.
    Really, if you are post op then you are female (or a male going the other way) and thus ladies room and pre-op you are really a male and so mens room.
    If a pre-op enters the Ladies room and someone notices because he is exposing himself then there is a problem.
    If there is a real concern it is that some non trans-gender chomo is going to use this to obscure his real intent but the chomo could jsut as easily have done this before.