The most effective way is to actually enforce the law, and be able to go internationally. Start proving that there is nowhere to hide or run, and establish that it's easier to comply and pay the taxes in the US. If said entities want lower tax rates, they can have them if they pay at the existing rate first. Then agree, in writing, without weasel wording, to not go back on any promises related to any tax cuts.
Tariff the foreign "competitors" until they're at a serious disadvantge, and include every form of business relationship possible to count a company as foreign.
That can change, courtesy of the US's presence in about every country in the globe. That, and the US could help Europe deal with the same problem as well.
Yet every single time metering is done, it ends up stifling people, instead of actually getting improvements. It won't provide the money to innovate at all, unless you count additional ways to nickel-and-dime people.
The huge bandwidth excuse rings hollow when you still have the same problems with the metering in place.
That's not what's going to happen here: AT&T is expecting people to just accept whatever usage they decide to bill for, with no recourse whatsoever if it turns out that they're wrong. And this will happen, with monotonous regularity, and most people will just pay because they have no idea what a gigabyte is, and how it relates to what they actually do with their computer online, and because Internet access is becoming less and less of a disposable luxury for millions of people.
While there may be ways to do the same with bandwidth, metering bandwidth has no incentive to be accurate. All it has to do is stifle the people who don't have deep pockets.
See any country that has it, and you will likely find that repeated for about every single case.
These are legitimate issues and something must be done about them. The government can ban stuff, or market-based solutions can be employed, but doing nothing is a recipe for... the situation we're in right now.
Perhaps this should be a model for how to get at companies that are otherwise out of US jurisdiction. It would only be reasonable to discourage them from conducting business with those entities.
How about expanding this a bit more to include other practices, such that it makes a de facto offshoring ban?
I guess they're smarting from some good devices getting 2.3 to work in some form, especially the N900. That, and said devices working a bit early in the 2.3 release.
How about moving to Meego if you want an open platform? Despite the stuff with Nokia/MS, it at least has some promise of being open to the end user.
Given that the tablet models have the features normally seen on older laptops(Flexview/AFFS/IPS being a tablet/ultraportable only item), I'd beg to differ.
Given the low quality of China's manufacturing(and their propensity to copy, not create), the current data would be very suspect. Doubly so for where they use knockoff chips.
At the risk of some modpoints: What China really can't do with computers, they make up with dissidents. The Top500 data from 11/2010 would be suspect, even if that wasnt the cause.
That belongs to the Jaguar Cray XT5-HE, not the overstated specs of the system that "claims" the supposed top slot.
Move it down a bit more and you would truthfully be representing its capability. But then you'd just want to modbomb me into oblivion, since that's easier to do.
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The most effective way is to actually enforce the law, and be able to go internationally. Start proving that there is nowhere to hide or run, and establish that it's easier to comply and pay the taxes in the US. If said entities want lower tax rates, they can have them if they pay at the existing rate first. Then agree, in writing, without weasel wording, to not go back on any promises related to any tax cuts.
Tariff the foreign "competitors" until they're at a serious disadvantge, and include every form of business relationship possible to count a company as foreign.
That can change, courtesy of the US's presence in about every country in the globe. That, and the US could help Europe deal with the same problem as well.
The net providers on the other hand don't want to improve their networks, they'd rather screw their customers.
...and metering bandwidth is another way to do it, with a ready-made excuse.
Yet every single time metering is done, it ends up stifling people, instead of actually getting improvements. It won't provide the money to innovate at all, unless you count additional ways to nickel-and-dime people.
The huge bandwidth excuse rings hollow when you still have the same problems with the metering in place.
That's also why AT&T wanted to buy up T-Mobile. Why let customers go to the remaining national carrier for GSM that provides superior service?
Just kill metering for bandwidth due to all the ways it always goes wrong.
That's not what's going to happen here: AT&T is expecting people to just accept whatever usage they decide to bill for, with no recourse whatsoever if it turns out that they're wrong. And this will happen, with monotonous regularity, and most people will just pay because they have no idea what a gigabyte is, and how it relates to what they actually do with their computer online, and because Internet access is becoming less and less of a disposable luxury for millions of people.
While there may be ways to do the same with bandwidth, metering bandwidth has no incentive to be accurate. All it has to do is stifle the people who don't have deep pockets.
See any country that has it, and you will likely find that repeated for about every single case.
It ends up being a power grab, much like the old days were. That, and it has a not-so-nice way of killing innovation.
These are legitimate issues and something must be done about them. The government can ban stuff, or market-based solutions can be employed, but doing nothing is a recipe for... the situation we're in right now.
...which is quite fine for roads.
It doesn't get rid of the "gas guzzlers", it just restricts them to the few.
How about no tax?
Not only do you still have your Big Brother, you have less control of them.
It's bad enough when applied to bandwidth, applying it here just makes it more obvious that it is a Bad Idea.
Then add language that says knowingly or unknowingly, thus making it a problem even if they don't know or "don't know".
Perhaps this should be a model for how to get at companies that are otherwise out of US jurisdiction. It would only be reasonable to discourage them from conducting business with those entities.
How about expanding this a bit more to include other practices, such that it makes a de facto offshoring ban?
Modbombing the truth here doesn't make things any better.
Take off the zeroes, and you'd probably be right about Berlusconi.
I'm just a satisfied user of the N900, who has used Maemo, Meego, and Android (Nitdroid).
It's that Android seems to be a bit overly friendly to carriers these days.
I guess they're smarting from some good devices getting 2.3 to work in some form, especially the N900. That, and said devices working a bit early in the 2.3 release.
How about moving to Meego if you want an open platform? Despite the stuff with Nokia/MS, it at least has some promise of being open to the end user.
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Given that the tablet models have the features normally seen on older laptops(Flexview/AFFS/IPS being a tablet/ultraportable only item), I'd beg to differ.
Nothing prevented them from obeying the law and handing it to the people in the US who had the same skills.
I did read it.
Given the low quality of China's manufacturing(and their propensity to copy, not create), the current data would be very suspect. Doubly so for where they use knockoff chips.
At the risk of some modpoints:
What China really can't do with computers, they make up with dissidents. The Top500 data from 11/2010 would be suspect, even if that wasnt the cause.
That belongs to the Jaguar Cray XT5-HE, not the overstated specs of the system that "claims" the supposed top slot.
Move it down a bit more and you would truthfully be representing its capability. But then you'd just want to modbomb me into oblivion, since that's easier to do.
If it was done with something a bit more open than Android, it might have a shot at replacing netbooks.
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