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  1. Re:Bad actors? on Airbnb To Hand Over Data On 124 Hosts To New York Attorney General · · Score: 0

    The hotel industry in NYC is a 10billion a year industry. Preventing 1% of competition means approximately 100million in additional income, therefore unless they paid a whole lot for those lobbyists I would say they were worth their money.

  2. Re:Okay... and? on For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit · · Score: 2

    Fail.

    They are paying taxes on them. In the domiciles abroad. Near the end of TFA is:

    The report also found that “28 these corporations reveal that they have paid an income tax rate of 10 percent or less to the governments of the countries where these profits are officially held, indicating that most of these profits are likely in offshore tax havens.”

    It is conveniently politically correct to refer to other countries with lower tax rates as "tax havens". The reality is if the US tax rates were at (or at least near) the foreign rates than funds which could be repatriated would be. Note the word could. No company would bring home 100% as they are operating businesses overseas and need to invest there too.

    0 is 10% or less

  3. Re:The real crime here on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1
    The employer cannot refuse if they are employing him in the US. It does not matter if they have a bank account. If they are paying him when they take out the rest of his taxes they have to garnish that amount and send it to the government. If they are paying him under the table that is a different matter.

    I dont think it is a matter of it being wrong for white collar, but copyright infringement should never be anything other than civil.

  4. Re:The real crime here on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1

    They have this program by where they can remove the money directly from your check.

  5. Re:Just doin' business on Comcast Training Materials Leaked · · Score: 3

    Wait so this is similar because when you go to a store, whose employees sole job to sell you something, it is like when you go to technical support, expecting someone whose sole job is to support your issue? They are 2 distinct types of employees. When I go to a store I expect to be upsold. When I contact customer service for a problem I do not expect to be sold something.

  6. Re:Just don't deal with Americans on Comcast Training Materials Leaked · · Score: 1

    Only so many areas that are covered by fios, and only so many houses in those areas, or good jobs in those areas.. Even then we would be dealing with Verizon which is just as bad.... I mean when you have 2 of the lowest rated it is not hard to beat them...

  7. Re:McDonallds should sue ... on Comcast Training Materials Leaked · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mc Donalds cashiers are there to sell stuff.. That is different from the people in the back making the food. How fast would they start losing customers if the cooks started coming up and tried to pressure you into buying stuff before they would make the food you already ordered and paid for... Or if you came to the manager with a mistake and instead of fixing the mistake they tried to sell you more stuff...

  8. Re:Very subjective on Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay For Websites Without Trolls? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So pretty much everyone.

  9. Re:Why dont we on The Billion-Dollar Website · · Score: 1

    You can prove that 10% of the feature set is done. when you agree to a contract you agree to a timeline and a feature set.

  10. Why dont we on The Billion-Dollar Website · · Score: 2

    Put the money for the contract, plus 10% into escrow. Every 10% into the projects completion you get 10% of the money. If you cannot complete it for that price, that is on you, not the tax payers, learn to better account for your work. If you can show that it was due to the government itself then that is what the extra 10% is for, if not and you fail the project we still got that amount of work done and can pass it to the next contractor in the bid to start working on. I am so tired of hearing about these massive cost overruns.

  11. Re:Screwed... on California May Waive Environmental Rules For Tesla · · Score: 1
    You do realize that most of what that site defined as welfare is not welfare right?

    UI is NOT welfare, it is an insurance

  12. Re:Screwed... on California May Waive Environmental Rules For Tesla · · Score: 1

    There are still chip plants in CA, at last count at least 3.

  13. Re:So, such rules are bad for keeping people worki on California May Waive Environmental Rules For Tesla · · Score: 1

    A coke oven is a chemical? Or did you not read the sentence fully?

  14. Re:Not So Fast... on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 1

    So if I tell you to stop the race you failed and I did not make you fail?

  15. Re:seriously? on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 1

    it is not less, it is different. no branch has more power than the others, although that is debatable I am sure.

  16. Re:Politicians - Ignorant, Stupid, or Conmen? on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 1

    I think the shuttle uses Hydrazine (internal) and Aluminum with PBAN or HTPB (SRB)

  17. Re:seriously? on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 1

    Actually the president has lots of power outside the laws congress makes. He can veto as you stated. He can pardon people of crimes against those laws. He can direct how money is spent at the micro level below what congress states. He can appoint people who will make decisions on how the law is implemented.

  18. Re:Are they "small government" republicans ? he he on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am pretty sure the centralist argument is raise revenue and cut spending, not borrow money from china, that is pretty extreme.

  19. Re:Not So Fast... on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 1

    What satellite blew up on spaceX. And if spaceX is using private money to develop the rocket where is that kicking taxpayers? also thanks to the stupidity of the patent system not everything developed and paid for by the taxpayers can be used without paying other private companies.

  20. Re: Politicians - Ignorant, Stupid, or Conmen? on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 1

    When the problem relates to what they get the money for you will have a point. But as long as the company is spending its own money on the product the government should have no say so in it as long as it is not breaking the law.

  21. Re:Figure, Figure, Figure on Patents That Kill · · Score: 1

    He never stated that the Republicans came up with it, but that it is currently their strategy...

  22. Re:will not stop repeating the obvious on Patents That Kill · · Score: 1

    And how do you make an informed decision if everything is a trade secret and there is no FDA to make people tell you what is win their crap? Here rub this egg all over you, you will not get cancer, I promise.

  23. Re:You go girl on California Man Sues Sony Because Killzone: Shadowfall Isn't Really 1080 · · Score: 1
    "Own on" implies you own the content, not just the medium after the on.

    If I say eat cheese on crackers that implies that I actually get to eat the cheese and the crackers

  24. Re:Moving information for Freedom.... on Judge: US Search Warrants Apply To Overseas Computers · · Score: 1

    Except that is not the claim here. The claim here is for a search warrant of those computers, not a subpoena for the the data, which is what you are talking about. I have no issues with the subpoenas, as that would not violate the other countries rights, but a search warrant does.

  25. Re:Murica on Judge: US Search Warrants Apply To Overseas Computers · · Score: 2

    Actually it is. this is not an subpoena compelling them to give them the information, this is a SEARCH warrant, which is giving them the right to actually physically look through those servers in another jurisdiction..