It will be a return to the younger cooler days.. The Halcon days before Jonny Appleseed was taking over in its ivory tower. Google has created a device that will Connect to your Nexus using the open sources available on the internet. These will let you show birthday invitations to your bioroid friends.
Just watch out for it trying to take over the world by connecting directly to people's brains to make them better.
(Sorry, it's too late and the clever is flickering out)
You silly people complaining about deductions. The whole "fair tax" thing is a scam. Most regular folk under $100k end up about 12-18% income taxes. It's the PAYROLL taxes that get you for another 15% OFF THE TOP with ZERO deductions.
If you do get to $200k then you start hitting the 28% brackets... But realize Mitt or Warren ar like our parent poster... They claim ALL capital gains and only pay 15% with ZERO PAYROLL taxes (SS, FICA, etc) taken out. So like Mitt's numbers last year, he paid a flat 14% after business deductions... On $14 Million. You at $75k or $100k still have that 15% PAYROLL taxes off the top BEFORE you figure your IRS taxes...
In the 1950-1970's capital gains WAS Income Tax.. And it went higher than 50% at the million dollar levels. It wasn't till the late 1970-1980's that the top brackets for capital gains dropped to lower than WORKING WAGE EARNERS. When we talk about something like Social Security being 1/3 the budget, realize that tax used to STOP at $110k in wages. After that people got their 8% back! But realize LITTLE of that money was from "taxing the rich" and worse they borrowed it from the little people to cut taxed the rich did pay.
So stop the whole "fair tax" talk and knock the capital gains to 28% where a $200k computer programmer would pay. That would double the take from Mitt and Warren overnight.
He made $60k on capital gains... Because he runs a corporation that is a Job Creator. We only tax Capital gains at 15% or in his case it would be retained earnings until he "payed" himself dividends.
That is exactly how all these CEOs work for $1 wages... And do exactly what you described with the stock options. They cash out a million or so at the "wages" tax rate and sit in the rest so they only pay 15% capital gains tax and not the OTHER 15% or so in payroll taxes that don't have exemptions.
The only problem in your case is that only claiming $40k effects your long term Social Security if you did need it (or your spouse if you die) you would get way less.
MOST STATES do not require breaks or lunch periods for employees. Or vacation, holiday, sick pay, insurance, minimum hours, max hours, etc...
That's always been the "union" gig so State lawmakers never actually passed those laws.. Unions just negotiated for them by employer. Of course unions never pushed to change the LAW because why should non-union employees benefit.
There was no NEED for a warrant because the police were tracking a DEVICE and not a person. It's offensive that the court didn't recognize this. The police had no GROUNDS to ask for a warrant because they did not have a suspect name nor location. They DID ask for a court order for Verizon to do the work tracking the DEVICE, so that is good enough.
You don't need a warrant in a CHASE. In this case they are crying because the stolen property was tattling from inside their house... It only connected when they were illegally accessing Verizon's network... That's not "spying" by a long shot. That is the risk of using a stolen device.
Except ACCESSING Verizon's network requires agreeing to a TOS that among other things GRANTS THEM PERMISSION to install whatever baseband updates are necessary to work with their network. The suspect was accessing their network via payments from stolen credit cards.. So Verizion had no obligation to even turn the device on. If Verizon wishes to track a stolen device that has "clicked thru" to access THEIR PROPERY they have no legal problems doing so.
Even the whole "transmitting from the location" argument doesn't follow because the suspect was using ILLEGALLY obtained means to pay, and was ACTIVELY USING Verizon's network to continue to commit crimes.
Verizion knew that the ACCOUNT was fraudulently obtained, and they knew the DEVICE registered. To use a car analogy, the police used normal survailance to follow a stolen car, not knowing who stole it. They FOLLOWED the car and observed it driving into a private garage.. Police don't need a warrant to "continue presuit" of criminal activity they are actively observing. Police don't need a warrant to open the garage when they OBSERVED the stolen property entering. It's the same thing here.
An example of the same thing would be YOU activating "Find my iPhone" remotely after somebody took your stuff... But you didn't know WHO. YOU would be activating a big that is not normally active but on YOUR PROPERTY. The AirCard was fraudulently purchased, therefore "Verizon" was the grieved party acting as the owner of the network the card was illegally operating on.
Depending on how the warrant was written... It sounds like it was an "order" to assist the FBI in finding the offender with a specific device they identified as used for criminal activity.
As VERIZON OWNS the towers and the FIRMWARE they modified. It need to be a "warrant" because they were not "following the whereabouts" around town, but trying to pick out where he was staying.
A WARRANT requires that they KNOW who you are and can identify a place to search. In this case they had no PLACE. This is like tracking somebody fleeing a scene (like you see on TV) which doesn't require a warrant at all. Verizon changed the subscribers phone so the FBI could FIND them, not retrieve information FROM the phone. The FBI was tracking a "stolen" or "fraudulently registered" device, not the "owner" of the device.. You only need WARRANTS to collect information about people.
But the flip side is that their network is secure enough VERIZON has to have their engineers actually write a patch for police to use. So while they have low standards for cooperating, it seems like it is a lot of work for Verison to do... EXPENSIVE work police won't want to use too often.
We have had subscription Broadcast TV before. When I was a kid, my neighbors had "IT TV" that ran a scrambled channel, that was in the 1980's.
Maybe If Fox sold off stations, Google could launch a YouTube Network. They could use all 4 Digital channels for maximum effect. They would have to clean up some shows for swearing and such, but they try to do that already. They have mastered short ads every few clips so DVR wouldn't really hurt them.. In fact they could work with TiVo and the built in program guide Digital TV includes to automatically record shows based on keywords.
Like getting caught stopped AT&T?? Didn't they make what the NSA asked for legal after-the-fact AT&T got caught?
There is a technical issue that Apple doesn't support redirecting messages...although they could allow the DEA to have an additional iMessage device. Apple probably "could" do it.
The REAL issue is that there is NO LEGAL MANDATE for Apple to do so. Aple running a chat program is legally no different than YOU running a chat program. Apple is not a telecommunications provider or an ISP, nor do they get the legal protections of those classes. If you are going to hold Apple to this standard, then you would have to tap EVERY instance of Blackberry Messenger or Microsoft Lync... Even PRIVATE ones operated by your company.
The DEA is hijacking the discussion to get something that has Congress has not wanted to pass multiple times. The DOJ has been able to push telcos and Microsoft around because of monopoly rules and applying laws based on their "class" as common carriers or ISPs. This is the classic "there should be a rule" because they have got what they wanted from "lawbreakers" so now non-lawbreaking companies should comply too.
The issue is not that the DEA cannot lawfully acquire the messages... It's that THEY HAVE TO ASK , EVERY TIME.
Most taps are just "wide open" until the warrant expires and the telco turns the tap off... There is very little oversight. Many online services give law enforcement more of an "open ticket" to keep coming back for email or Facebook as often as they need. While the line isn't "tapped" LEOs can refresh every twenty minutes if they want.
They are attepting to bully Apple into allowing a MITM or wide open ticket to people's accounts. The first post on this very carefully NEGLECTED to mention that Apple COMPLIES with lawful requests. Which they most certainly would. The issue is that Apple won't open a giant backdoors and look the other way while LEOs look up their ex-girlfriends, or people with fancy cars to pick on. Apple is probably making them request transcripts with dates and times... And then APPLE SENDS it to them.
Your vacuum doesn't make you WAIT twenty minutes for updates before allowing to vacuum. Even iOS doesn't FORCE you to download new game versions of Angry Birds if you just want to play 20 minutes.
It's gone from "making available" patches online to "requiring" patches EVERY DAY just to play... And now they want more? My Magic:tG cards don't have that problem!
You know how annoying it is to give your kid two hours of play time only to have it eaten up by patches and updates and reboots for every game they try???
I'm not babysitting a kid's toy because it can't be designed to "just work" for the 2 hours I allocate my kids to use it. For some games I don't have that much patience anymore, literally hours of updates that WASTE MY TIME not playing your stupid game.
Except that this brand of vacuum needs to be RUNNING for 15 minutes of "maintenance" before you are allowed to START your housecleaning. So you have to leave it plugged in and TURNED ON all the time so its ready to play the 2-4 hours a day you have available.
His comment was very much like "let them eat cake".
The portion of the USA not on the coasts still has slow, spotty Internet. While you are zipping along the highway on your 4g phone many of the houses right there have no high speed available at all. An XBox or PC is simply too wasteful of bandwidth to use with a 4g modem.
Good devices work within constraints. iPhone/iPads are "always connected" but The phone companies push Apple to make sure they only "sip" the data.... Not gulp it like PCs do.
This whole attitude that game makers have to push 500MB to 5GB of data WEEKLY just to play their game is going to push people right out of the market. It's like 25% of Anericans that don't have bandwidth Avalible for things like always-on games... Or not at REASONABLE prices.
Too many of Microsoft's employees are still running torrents from moms basement or their dorm room and don't have to PAY for their own bandwidth.
The micro lens effect is interesting because observing it proves Einstien's theory that mass and gravity "warp" space and time. My kid was watching history channel about this just last week... It was incredibly hard to find an event that could prove the theory true, AND take measurements with 1910-era equipment.... This was THE meal or break observation for Einstien's theory of General Relativity. And now we have telescopes that find these events "just lying around" the galaxy.
More importantly, who keeps the tens of thousands of employees from stealing from your companies. Who keeps all those employees safely returning to work each day??
That was the KEY vision Henry Ford had... That you couldn't run a company off the least cost labor and have everybody AROUND your employees live in shit. His high wages were to keep more productive employees... And force them to pull up the other people around them... Very Victorian values.
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It will be a return to the younger cooler days.. The Halcon days before Jonny Appleseed was taking over in its ivory tower. Google has created a device that will Connect to your Nexus using the open sources available on the internet. These will let you show birthday invitations to your bioroid friends.
Just watch out for it trying to take over the world by connecting directly to people's brains to make them better.
(Sorry, it's too late and the clever is flickering out)
The issue I that we know they have missles, and we know that have some nukes...so how much of a mess are they going to make?
Yes, we are conducting excersizes, but we do that every year... Until NK wants to call off the war they'll have to deal with it.
You silly people complaining about deductions. The whole "fair tax" thing is a scam. Most regular folk under $100k end up about 12-18% income taxes. It's the PAYROLL taxes that get you for another 15% OFF THE TOP with ZERO deductions.
If you do get to $200k then you start hitting the 28% brackets... But realize Mitt or Warren ar like our parent poster... They claim ALL capital gains and only pay 15% with ZERO PAYROLL taxes (SS, FICA, etc) taken out. So like Mitt's numbers last year, he paid a flat 14% after business deductions... On $14 Million. You at $75k or $100k still have that 15% PAYROLL taxes off the top BEFORE you figure your IRS taxes...
In the 1950-1970's capital gains WAS Income Tax.. And it went higher than 50% at the million dollar levels. It wasn't till the late 1970-1980's that the top brackets for capital gains dropped to lower than WORKING WAGE EARNERS. When we talk about something like Social Security being 1/3 the budget, realize that tax used to STOP at $110k in wages. After that people got their 8% back! But realize LITTLE of that money was from "taxing the rich" and worse they borrowed it from the little people to cut taxed the rich did pay.
So stop the whole "fair tax" talk and knock the capital gains to 28% where a $200k computer programmer would pay. That would double the take from Mitt and Warren overnight.
He made $60k on capital gains... Because he runs a corporation that is a Job Creator. We only tax Capital gains at 15% or in his case it would be retained earnings until he "payed" himself dividends.
That is exactly how all these CEOs work for $1 wages... And do exactly what you described with the stock options. They cash out a million or so at the "wages" tax rate and sit in the rest so they only pay 15% capital gains tax and not the OTHER 15% or so in payroll taxes that don't have exemptions.
The only problem in your case is that only claiming $40k effects your long term Social Security if you did need it (or your spouse if you die) you would get way less.
After the war, the people responsible will be sacked.
Their Ghosts can Shell the enemies?
If Il quit threatening, people would stop reaching for the "retaliation" button.
Somebody is accidentally going to wipe his country off the map if he keeps this up.
MOST STATES do not require breaks or lunch periods for employees. Or vacation, holiday, sick pay, insurance, minimum hours, max hours, etc...
That's always been the "union" gig so State lawmakers never actually passed those laws.. Unions just negotiated for them by employer. Of course unions never pushed to change the LAW because why should non-union employees benefit.
There was no NEED for a warrant because the police were tracking a DEVICE and not a person. It's offensive that the court didn't recognize this. The police had no GROUNDS to ask for a warrant because they did not have a suspect name nor location. They DID ask for a court order for Verizon to do the work tracking the DEVICE, so that is good enough.
You don't need a warrant in a CHASE. In this case they are crying because the stolen property was tattling from inside their house... It only connected when they were illegally accessing Verizon's network... That's not "spying" by a long shot. That is the risk of using a stolen device.
Except ACCESSING Verizon's network requires agreeing to a TOS that among other things GRANTS THEM PERMISSION to install whatever baseband updates are necessary to work with their network. The suspect was accessing their network via payments from stolen credit cards.. So Verizion had no obligation to even turn the device on. If Verizon wishes to track a stolen device that has "clicked thru" to access THEIR PROPERY they have no legal problems doing so.
Even the whole "transmitting from the location" argument doesn't follow because the suspect was using ILLEGALLY obtained means to pay, and was ACTIVELY USING Verizon's network to continue to commit crimes.
Verizion knew that the ACCOUNT was fraudulently obtained, and they knew the DEVICE registered. To use a car analogy, the police used normal survailance to follow a stolen car, not knowing who stole it. They FOLLOWED the car and observed it driving into a private garage.. Police don't need a warrant to "continue presuit" of criminal activity they are actively observing. Police don't need a warrant to open the garage when they OBSERVED the stolen property entering. It's the same thing here.
An example of the same thing would be YOU activating "Find my iPhone" remotely after somebody took your stuff... But you didn't know WHO. YOU would be activating a big that is not normally active but on YOUR PROPERTY. The AirCard was fraudulently purchased, therefore "Verizon" was the grieved party acting as the owner of the network the card was illegally operating on.
Depending on how the warrant was written... It sounds like it was an "order" to assist the FBI in finding the offender with a specific device they identified as used for criminal activity.
As VERIZON OWNS the towers and the FIRMWARE they modified. It need to be a "warrant" because they were not "following the whereabouts" around town, but trying to pick out where he was staying.
A WARRANT requires that they KNOW who you are and can identify a place to search. In this case they had no PLACE. This is like tracking somebody fleeing a scene (like you see on TV) which doesn't require a warrant at all. Verizon changed the subscribers phone so the FBI could FIND them, not retrieve information FROM the phone. The FBI was tracking a "stolen" or "fraudulently registered" device, not the "owner" of the device.. You only need WARRANTS to collect information about people.
But the flip side is that their network is secure enough VERIZON has to have their engineers actually write a patch for police to use. So while they have low standards for cooperating, it seems like it is a lot of work for Verison to do... EXPENSIVE work police won't want to use too often.
We have had subscription Broadcast TV before. When I was a kid, my neighbors had "IT TV" that ran a scrambled channel, that was in the 1980's.
Maybe If Fox sold off stations, Google could launch a YouTube Network. They could use all 4 Digital channels for maximum effect. They would have to clean up some shows for swearing and such, but they try to do that already. They have mastered short ads every few clips so DVR wouldn't really hurt them.. In fact they could work with TiVo and the built in program guide Digital TV includes to automatically record shows based on keywords.
Like getting caught stopped AT&T?? Didn't they make what the NSA asked for legal after-the-fact AT&T got caught?
There is a technical issue that Apple doesn't support redirecting messages...although they could allow the DEA to have an additional iMessage device. Apple probably "could" do it.
The REAL issue is that there is NO LEGAL MANDATE for Apple to do so. Aple running a chat program is legally no different than YOU running a chat program. Apple is not a telecommunications provider or an ISP, nor do they get the legal protections of those classes. If you are going to hold Apple to this standard, then you would have to tap EVERY instance of Blackberry Messenger or Microsoft Lync... Even PRIVATE ones operated by your company.
The DEA is hijacking the discussion to get something that has Congress has not wanted to pass multiple times. The DOJ has been able to push telcos and Microsoft around because of monopoly rules and applying laws based on their "class" as common carriers or ISPs. This is the classic "there should be a rule" because they have got what they wanted from "lawbreakers" so now non-lawbreaking companies should comply too.
The issue is not that the DEA cannot lawfully acquire the messages... It's that THEY HAVE TO ASK , EVERY TIME.
Most taps are just "wide open" until the warrant expires and the telco turns the tap off... There is very little oversight. Many online services give law enforcement more of an "open ticket" to keep coming back for email or Facebook as often as they need. While the line isn't "tapped" LEOs can refresh every twenty minutes if they want.
They are attepting to bully Apple into allowing a MITM or wide open ticket to people's accounts. The first post on this very carefully NEGLECTED to mention that Apple COMPLIES with lawful requests. Which they most certainly would. The issue is that Apple won't open a giant backdoors and look the other way while LEOs look up their ex-girlfriends, or people with fancy cars to pick on. Apple is probably making them request transcripts with dates and times... And then APPLE SENDS it to them.
Your vacuum doesn't make you WAIT twenty minutes for updates before allowing to vacuum. Even iOS doesn't FORCE you to download new game versions of Angry Birds if you just want to play 20 minutes.
It's gone from "making available" patches online to "requiring" patches EVERY DAY just to play... And now they want more? My Magic:tG cards don't have that problem!
You know how annoying it is to give your kid two hours of play time only to have it eaten up by patches and updates and reboots for every game they try???
I'm not babysitting a kid's toy because it can't be designed to "just work" for the 2 hours I allocate my kids to use it. For some games I don't have that much patience anymore, literally hours of updates that WASTE MY TIME not playing your stupid game.
Except that this brand of vacuum needs to be RUNNING for 15 minutes of "maintenance" before you are allowed to START your housecleaning. So you have to leave it plugged in and TURNED ON all the time so its ready to play the 2-4 hours a day you have available.
His comment was very much like "let them eat cake".
The portion of the USA not on the coasts still has slow, spotty Internet. While you are zipping along the highway on your 4g phone many of the houses right there have no high speed available at all. An XBox or PC is simply too wasteful of bandwidth to use with a 4g modem.
Good devices work within constraints. iPhone/iPads are "always connected" but The phone companies push Apple to make sure they only "sip" the data.... Not gulp it like PCs do.
This whole attitude that game makers have to push 500MB to 5GB of data WEEKLY just to play their game is going to push people right out of the market. It's like 25% of Anericans that don't have bandwidth Avalible for things like always-on games... Or not at REASONABLE prices.
Too many of Microsoft's employees are still running torrents from moms basement or their dorm room and don't have to PAY for their own bandwidth.
The micro lens effect is interesting because observing it proves Einstien's theory that mass and gravity "warp" space and time. My kid was watching history channel about this just last week... It was incredibly hard to find an event that could prove the theory true, AND take measurements with 1910-era equipment.... This was THE meal or break observation for Einstien's theory of General Relativity.
And now we have telescopes that find these events "just lying around" the galaxy.
I'd say its more like $100k while raising kids. I pay some taxes at almost double that, but deductions knock it right back down.
More importantly, who keeps the tens of thousands of employees from stealing from your companies. Who keeps all those employees safely returning to work each day??
That was the KEY vision Henry Ford had... That you couldn't run a company off the least cost labor and have everybody AROUND your employees live in shit. His high wages were to keep more productive employees... And force them to pull up the other people around them... Very Victorian values.
They are all pretty skinny... Not enough to go around.