Exactly. Rich people are not a stationary target. Every single "soak the rich" scheme has turned into looting the middle class as we get inflated into those tax brackets.
Since when is it "aggression" to keep what you earn?
Every dollar kept out of government hands is a dollar not spent on causing bloody mayhem. As an Apple shareholder, I wish they'd get a lot MORE proactive about saving my money and zero out their tax payments the way that GE does.
Gawker's pretty well disliked for their tabloid journalism,
It's not just the half-assed bullshit "reporting" that landed Gawker on a lot of people's shit lists. I wrote those assholes off for the stunt that got them banned from the CES, years before they tried to destroy the career of the guy they stole that iPhone prototype from.
Gawker is lucky that Apple didn't crush them like a bug and get a dozen of them tossed in jail for theft and attempted extortion.
I get friend requests every week from stock photography models who just want a good man to start a family with! If they're fake, my whole world view will come crashing down!
I've been seeing a lot of messages on twitter about people who can't access their documents and don't have local copies. I guess they won't make that mistake again.
Entirely possible, but showing the device to his daughter was already a firing offense. He might have skated on that if she hadn't gone on a public forum to blab about it, but once it was all over YouTube, Apple had to let him go.
Back when I first joined the company in '02, one of my colleagues explained to me what product secrecy was worth to us in dollar terms. We had just gotten the iMac G4 on the cover of Time magazine, because it was news. It was news, because it was a secret. You can't buy the front cover of Time as an ad placement, but if you could, it would be worth tens of millions of dollars.
Apple has always gotten vast amounts of press attention, worth hundreds of millions, maybe even billions of dollars, because of the secrecy. If some guy drops the ball on maintaining that secrecy and keeps his job, then more people are going to get sloppy about it, and that pisses away a massive benefit to the shareholders.
Sucks for him that he didn't take the NDAs seriously, but Apple did the right thing in showing him the door.
Adding money to a failed institution like our public schools is pointless. If Gates wants to help poor kids escape the school-to-prison pipeline, he needs to create schools that have no government involvement at all.
The entire purpose of unions in the USA, for at least the last eight decades, has been to skim workers' paychecks and shake down corporations to buy hookers and blow for mobsters and politicians.
Tesla is values as if it's going to be a big and profitable as Toyota by 2020.
Meanwhile, Toyota is shipping hydrogen cars. They're the biggest seller of hybrids. Maybe they know something about battery cars that Musk doesn't want to admit.
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They were losing money, they showed no intention of changing that, so how long should he have continued paying them to waste his money?
Get over yourself.
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Exactly. Rich people are not a stationary target. Every single "soak the rich" scheme has turned into looting the middle class as we get inflated into those tax brackets.
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Fuck you, and every other looter. Taxation is theft.
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Since when is it "aggression" to keep what you earn?
Every dollar kept out of government hands is a dollar not spent on causing bloody mayhem. As an Apple shareholder, I wish they'd get a lot MORE proactive about saving my money and zero out their tax payments the way that GE does.
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Fuck you. If you want what he's got, get a job and earn it.
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Gawker's pretty well disliked for their tabloid journalism,
It's not just the half-assed bullshit "reporting" that landed Gawker on a lot of people's shit lists. I wrote those assholes off for the stunt that got them banned from the CES, years before they tried to destroy the career of the guy they stole that iPhone prototype from.
Gawker is lucky that Apple didn't crush them like a bug and get a dozen of them tossed in jail for theft and attempted extortion.
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Joe Ricketts carried those ungrateful, entitled fucks long enough. He has no moral obligation at all to keep paying them when they're not producing.
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I get friend requests every week from stock photography models who just want a good man to start a family with! If they're fake, my whole world view will come crashing down!
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From what I've heard, they have a toxic culture that makes life miserable for most of them, not just women.
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I've been seeing a lot of messages on twitter about people who can't access their documents and don't have local copies. I guess they won't make that mistake again.
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Yeah, lemme know how Kim Fat Ass's Juche Phone is coming along, dipshit.
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I read the NDAs I signed, sparky.
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Gee, that would hurt if I had any reason to value an AC's opinion.
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she claims Apple liked him.
Entirely possible, but showing the device to his daughter was already a firing offense. He might have skated on that if she hadn't gone on a public forum to blab about it, but once it was all over YouTube, Apple had to let him go.
-jcr
Back when I first joined the company in '02, one of my colleagues explained to me what product secrecy was worth to us in dollar terms. We had just gotten the iMac G4 on the cover of Time magazine, because it was news. It was news, because it was a secret. You can't buy the front cover of Time as an ad placement, but if you could, it would be worth tens of millions of dollars.
Apple has always gotten vast amounts of press attention, worth hundreds of millions, maybe even billions of dollars, because of the secrecy. If some guy drops the ball on maintaining that secrecy and keeps his job, then more people are going to get sloppy about it, and that pisses away a massive benefit to the shareholders.
Sucks for him that he didn't take the NDAs seriously, but Apple did the right thing in showing him the door.
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the competition is not going to steal some idea off a YouTube video
Not the point, but feel free to keep guessing.
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Cool story, bro.
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It's because they themselves don't suffer the economic loss of fucking it up.
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There is no way they will be better off without the protection of Spain and the European Union.
They need protection FROM Spain, and the EU isn't helping.
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Adding money to a failed institution like our public schools is pointless. If Gates wants to help poor kids escape the school-to-prison pipeline, he needs to create schools that have no government involvement at all.
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...and I'm keeping copies, too.
I don't trust a company that got their start selling electrocution torture devices to the government as far as I can throw Michael Moore.
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The UK government isn't refunding the taxes that these fat smokers pay for the NHS, are they?
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Unions are rather shortsighted beasts
The entire purpose of unions in the USA, for at least the last eight decades, has been to skim workers' paychecks and shake down corporations to buy hookers and blow for mobsters and politicians.
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Big 3 management was entirely incompetent as well.
Yes, they kept knuckling under to the mobsters posing as union officials.
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Tesla is values as if it's going to be a big and profitable as Toyota by 2020.
Meanwhile, Toyota is shipping hydrogen cars. They're the biggest seller of hybrids. Maybe they know something about battery cars that Musk doesn't want to admit.
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