for MOST people that don't work in health care or around sick people, the flu shot is wasted on them. The resources required to vaccinate that many people are better spent other places versus fight what for the vast majority of people is a nuisance. In the past "qualified medial personnel" have specifically told healthy children and adults that the flu shots were resource intensive and getting the flu wasn't bad for normal healthy people. I've said before, I'm 36 and always been told the flu shot "wasn't for me"... why the fuss now?
The question is what's changed now? Personally, I think the issue is entirely political. The last year of Bush's presidency was a clusterfuck and there was big media noise that enough "old people" weren't going to get their shots... then of course there was a run on doctor offices for said shots... creating panic where there was a minor problem. I'm sure it was on the agenda for the "new powers" to fix that problem from last year and the media is right there gobbling up the hype they created last year. I don't see the big push because the vaccine for the dangerous stuff like Swine Flu isn't available to the general public or even outside medically necessary groups yet.. meaning all those people pushed thru line have to do it all over again! That's a colossal waste of resources.
"For the last 18 years getting a flu shot has been a federally mandated condition of my employment and I don't even work in a health care related field--what the heck is the big deal with getting a flu shot?"
If you're not at medical risk from the effects of the flu beyond it being a nuisance and needing a few days off work then it's unnecessary medicine. This idea that schools and workplaces can't close for a few days for a minor inconvenience is alarming even more than the medical reasons given. Being sick from a minor seasonal bug isn't a bad thing, it's natures way of thinning the herd during the winter when food is scarce. Something corporate gottta-fix-it-now types need to understand that not every bad thing can be fixed. Since 9/11 we've had way to much emphasis on preventing minor problems.. yet let whole cities flood because we won't spend a few bucks on dam repair.
That's pretty much the MO for most flu, except for being harsher on overweight/out of shape people that would normally just "thin out" from a few days of being sick.
To be blunt, in 36 years of being alive and having kids in their teens this is the second flu season where anybody gave a damn about flu shots for anybody in my target age groups... even doctors in previous years would specifically say that the vaccine was "wasted" on me or my kids against "nuisance" illness, not life threatening, that was merely inconvenient.
They're doing a good job of stirring up hype this year, but not a good job of explaining why. At this point people getting "flu" shot aren't even getting the vaccines for Bird or Swine flu because those aren't widely available yet... what's the point of the hype outside medical circles?
counterpoint is that traditionally Flu Vaccine has been purely voluntary, to the point that most insurance for most people not in narrowly defined risk groups won't pay for it. For the vast majority of people seasonal flu is a "nuisance" in that it takes a few days out of your life that you probably should have been resting anyway. Medical professionals have discouraged regular folks from rushing out or even worrying about flu vaccines for years.
It's only in the 9-11/HPV/Bird Flu/Swine Flu world that every body suddenly thinks they need to be "safe" from something that comes around every year. Unless there's something really nasty coming round they're not telling us about this sudden push for Flu Vaccines is more political than medical. Even the Swine Flu isn't that nasty, and to date most of the critical cases have been in countries with very poor health performance...and those vaccines aren't even available for the general public (and again 6 months ago we were told "don't worry about it")
I never understood that idea of not hiring people because they "don't have a job". People that don't have job are cheaper as they're hungry. What is your opinion of YOUR employees looking for other jobs? After all, YOU only hire people with jobs, who's trying to hire YOUR employees? Or is that "disloyalty"?
on the other hand my company typically hires so few people they only post publicly as the "last resort". Each department has their favorite recruiter (different for engineers or IT folks) they can call up for 10 applicants sent to HR in a week. Between the recruiters and the stack of resumes they get from family and friends of people that are already working there 95% of open jobs are NEVER advertised to regular job seekers.
not really because most of these "agencies" are just taking your resume off Monster and stripping your name off the top and turning it in for jobs they can see but "applicants" can't see directly. The last job I was applying for 4 years ago the situation was so bad half the jobs had "no recruiters" posted because companies were tired of this kind of lying.
The trouble is that most of these "agencies" are really just a couple of business partners that "mill" the internet. They throw all the s*** against the wall and get their commission 4 times out of 10 they're doing good. I've seen in my bosses hiring pile where two different resumes come in, one from the applicant and one from an agency (and it's obviously the same thing but edited).. but if all the company sees is the agency they don't have time to deal with "liars"... move along. Even in that case the company is "obligated" to deal with the agent that lied rather than you directly... they don't have time to deal with that.
Worst is that this is the crap that gets people fired 5 years later when their job gets political and they make "enemies" in Accounting or HR and the company "reviews" their paperwork.
but the idea is that MySpace most likely has a giant master list of songs published by the RIAA labels and if a song with the same name is on the list, they will only talk to the "publisher".
This is how the deals MySpace signed work... in exchange for not being sued to death, they won't post stuff that "might" be infringing without consulting their corporate masters for permission... since the corporate masters can't find the paper to give permission (guy's contract expired, imagine that) no publishing for you.
It's not malice. It's the beautiful combination of corporate CYA from MySpace and Bureaucratic "lost paperwork" from the one overworked secretary in the label's basement.
I briefly skimmed TGDMFCSA and it looks like they're worried about privacy concerns. These things are nearly as "open" to the public as those old FM baby monitors they used to sell..but with video, audio and wheels! It would be trivial for the neighbor kid to find your robot on wifi and start driving around your house "peeping". They were pointing out that many of them do not turn off wireless when they are docked and have trivial password security... there's little to stop somebody driving your bot around taking pics/audio inside your house in the middle of the night. (that could be embarrassing to say the least)
NOW this comment is worded exactly as intended. See, I fixed that for you!
I'd agree, it demonstrates a classic misunderstanding of the problem by one of the leading law enforcement agents in the country.
"Online banking" is here to stay whether you personally go on the internet or not. If you write a paper check at a department store, it's electronically presented via ACH while you are in line. If you have Direct Deposit the transactions to pay you go online from your employer and they can be "broken" to take money "back" quite easily. IF you use a credit card for anything but the old stamped paper, it's transmitted over the internet by people you don't know from adam. Sure these are encrypted to various degrees, but things like ACH don't know Walmart from a 419 scammer with your checkbook.
You're already out there, "not using the internet" in no way means you're not at risk.. you're just ignoring the risk. Unless you use cash-only at which point you're automatically suspect (cash=criminal according to the FBI because you're hiding something from them)
I suppose you could use only cash + money orders/Cashier's checks for large/mail purchases but you're paying a premium and many places won't accept those payments from "customers".
it's not quite that obvious. MySpace can prove a label once published the guys music, so it MUST be under copyright to them... unless you can find the one overworked guy that handles over-the-hill artists rights management that will send an original copy via Registered Snail Mail, with a letter from the head of a music label (OK those are easy to find). You might as well push a rock uphill in San Francisco, it's possible for this guy to get what he needs... and it's possible for the government to have a balanced budget and have efficient happy workers with short lines at the License department too.
A vanilla Macbook is appropriately priced for what you get. You have to buy Sony or go online to get an equivalent laptop.. if anything the problem is that Apple doesn't make CHEAP computers like $300 netbooks so that cuts out the poor/cheap folks looking only at price. Even the maligned Mac Mini is a pretty good machine for MOST sub $700 machine buyers. The majority of PC users don't open their computers over the life of the machine. The majority don't even add ram or video cards. They pay $600 for Last Year's parts in an empty plastic box that makes them feel good. A Mini has nearly all the same features as a stock Dell, plus bluetooth, two video ports and firewire... all items adding $75 more each to that "budget" PC. Again, the problem is that Apple doesn't sell a "stripped out" model to hit a lower price point like Dell does... then you find out that the Windows PC was TOO stripped out and won't use all the features of your new OS (hint: THAT is why Vista bombed.. Microsoft caving to cheap OEMs)
I'd look at these numbers differently. Most people own a PC because the workplace DEMANDS it. 12% of people that own a Mac in addition to a PC went out of their way to seek it out because they didn't like Windows.... that's a huge and growing dissatisfaction rating.
Microsoft isn't entirely spotless. The only reason they're so "open" is that OEMs and carriers have the right to lock down the individual phones much more than Microsoft would like. They can ban Microsoft's app store from their phone/users and force their own if they wish... that's not "better" than iPhone because in the past it means not only are WinMo phones fractured by version and processor, AND individual models of popular phones have apps limited by carrier preference/branding as well.
In short the critical mass of "get this app now" doesn't apply to enough WinMo users to get DEVELOPER support because dealing with many carriers and OEMs is too expensive. You folks with "clean install" versions of WinMo don't count because technically you're "cheating" and not following your carrier's TOS/ "evil plans" and paid developers can't support you.
While "vanilla" WinMo is cool stuff, Microsoft's OEM partners have been ruining the platform with petty lock-in and Apple mopped up.
Exactly, banks weren't interested in "reasonable" terms... that's what fueled the boom. Realtors and Mortgage officers are paid on percent commission.. so they want more bucks. If the banks started denying the outrageous loans sooner, the big markups would have slowed a long time ago. When I bought my house, I had the banker and realtor trying to get me to "go bigger"' so the loan would be "easier" to get. It was supposedly a "sure thing" because housing prices were going up, so pick your neighborhood now while you can still afford to get in.
And when Microsoft moves all those jobs to India and posts their profit anywhere BUT Redmond where will the state be. That's my point. The state already can't build highways and can't fix big problems because while they have one of the single richest companies in the world, they're not really getting any tax income from all those profits as their elsewhere. Michigan is a good comparison, because in another 10 years when the novelty of being in Washington has worn off, all the profitable companies will leave their employees behind for the state to deal with.
It will look just like Michigan with big companies "running the world" but not actually employing anybody or building anything IN the state... and hence not paying taxes because "profit" is an elusive thing and can be held as "retained earnings" in a subsidiary (like Nevada or Ireland or India) where it's not paid to the parent and not taxed so "profit tax" is never paid. But it counts on the books to pump up the stock price, except investors/owners don't actually get to touch it either to spend on stuff.
Unlike the federal or even California budget it's BALANCED and the state is not in debt. They've had multiple years of 10%+ reductions in tax revenue taken in and have managed to keep cutting and it's ILLEGAL for them to borrow to run the state. It's terribly painful to watch them come up short whole pieces of pie, but it's what a bunch more people should be doing and makes the state that much stronger.
Another poster mentioned that perhaps it's an order to get at money "offshore" that the court can't touch. One of the problems with offshore accounts is that even WITH a legal court order they won't turn over money, or even information. This is probably a way to lock him up until he pays up. Like you said, the only way they'll get any money to pay anybody back is if the guy goes and gets it to pay off this house. Otherwise he goes "bankruptcy" on his US assets, and pulls start up money from the bank offshore when he gets out of country-club prison.
see.... Skynet already knew about this!! But Skynet missed the one that goes off in Planet of the Apes.
Radiological signature of a nuclear attack is very specific. Sure, it could be faked... but it also can be detected miles away and will send agents from every country scurrying to find out who's the problem. In the 80's the idea of "total security" was starting to take hold over diplomacy. Many of those guys were STILL running the show under Bush, that's how entrenched the ideas were. SDI meant we weren't assuming the same risk of war as the Russians were... we were trying to weasel out of certain doom while at the same time insisting they cut back on delivering said doom. It's said the "best offense is a good defense" but in politics at that scale it was playing with loaded dice.
exactly, the idea of contempt is that you are holding up the court from making fair judgment.... so the court will wait for you to do your duty... you'll have nothing better to do.
That's one other thing about US courts is that it's your Legal DUTY to provide the information the court needs. While you can't testify against yourself in CRIMINAL cases, that's exceedingly narrow in that testifying and something "very bad" happening because of it isn't really the court's problem. In this case he was ordered to produce ownership documents, he's already convicted of a crime and sentenced to turn over fines and fees.... now he's attempting to "hide" them from the court, so they will wait for him to cough up the documents per his sentence....THEN he can finish being sentenced to whatever prison time he'll be getting (contempt doesn't count!)
news flash, "conservative" cases use contempt just as much as "liberal" ones do... several of Clinton's aides sat in jail for contempt for years because they wouldn't parrot what the prosecution wanted to hear in the various cases against him.
In the US system Contempt is one of the few "absolute" powers that judges have. It's the only thing they have when they play referee in that they can make ANYBODY appearing in their court sit for contempt... juries, DAs, witnesses, defendants, etc. It's their only way to really get somebody's attention.
why does the judge even need the Title. If a court orders it forfeit, can't they just issue something like a "court's lien" to the county department of deeds... the feds seem to do it all the time with no trouble.
The word is "Value Added Tax" boys and girls. This is why states like Michigan have them. Companies can "move the cheese" all they want, but each organizational unit has to account for it's "productivity" i.e. the added value of their step, not just whether they made "cash profit" in order to satisfy SEC and GAPP rules. Manufacturing states learned long ago that the parent company will always make manufacturing into "cost centers" that always lose money on their operations because they don't "sell anything", both to stiff workers and the taxman. They learned to make each part of the company rate the "value" of it's incoming raw goods versus the "upstream" items. The numbers have to add up on "somebody's" books so it's easier to get the tax money where the work is done.
VAT is closer to what we plebs pay as "income tax" rather than just pure "profits tax".
At this point a good portion of the state would probably prefer to see them go...listen to the various posters just here and there's no money in the state to pay for all the traffic and public works needed... it's too late for them to pay up. Where WOULD Microsoft go? About the only other low-tax states are Nevada and Utah... both isolated and miserable desert except for the already populated (expensive) parts, moving an entire "Microsoft" (and all it's ancillary business) anywhere would crush even major cities. No doubt it could be done, but they would squander more than the $107M trying to get out of paying it.
it's genetic... just like breeding LOL cats with spots instead of stripes. Some gene make people just a "little bit more" resistant to some germ meaning they don't die when somebody else does.
it's called natural selection bitches. It's not "acquired" it was already there and chance happens that some people resist the disease because of a certain gene and the weaker ones are "culled" from the herd.
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for MOST people that don't work in health care or around sick people, the flu shot is wasted on them. The resources required to vaccinate that many people are better spent other places versus fight what for the vast majority of people is a nuisance. In the past "qualified medial personnel" have specifically told healthy children and adults that the flu shots were resource intensive and getting the flu wasn't bad for normal healthy people. I've said before, I'm 36 and always been told the flu shot "wasn't for me"... why the fuss now?
The question is what's changed now? Personally, I think the issue is entirely political. The last year of Bush's presidency was a clusterfuck and there was big media noise that enough "old people" weren't going to get their shots... then of course there was a run on doctor offices for said shots... creating panic where there was a minor problem. I'm sure it was on the agenda for the "new powers" to fix that problem from last year and the media is right there gobbling up the hype they created last year. I don't see the big push because the vaccine for the dangerous stuff like Swine Flu isn't available to the general public or even outside medically necessary groups yet.. meaning all those people pushed thru line have to do it all over again! That's a colossal waste of resources.
"For the last 18 years getting a flu shot has been a federally mandated condition of my employment and I don't even work in a health care related field--what the heck is the big deal with getting a flu shot?"
If you're not at medical risk from the effects of the flu beyond it being a nuisance and needing a few days off work then it's unnecessary medicine. This idea that schools and workplaces can't close for a few days for a minor inconvenience is alarming even more than the medical reasons given. Being sick from a minor seasonal bug isn't a bad thing, it's natures way of thinning the herd during the winter when food is scarce. Something corporate gottta-fix-it-now types need to understand that not every bad thing can be fixed. Since 9/11 we've had way to much emphasis on preventing minor problems.. yet let whole cities flood because we won't spend a few bucks on dam repair.
That's pretty much the MO for most flu, except for being harsher on overweight/out of shape people that would normally just "thin out" from a few days of being sick.
To be blunt, in 36 years of being alive and having kids in their teens this is the second flu season where anybody gave a damn about flu shots for anybody in my target age groups... even doctors in previous years would specifically say that the vaccine was "wasted" on me or my kids against "nuisance" illness, not life threatening, that was merely inconvenient.
They're doing a good job of stirring up hype this year, but not a good job of explaining why. At this point people getting "flu" shot aren't even getting the vaccines for Bird or Swine flu because those aren't widely available yet... what's the point of the hype outside medical circles?
counterpoint is that traditionally Flu Vaccine has been purely voluntary, to the point that most insurance for most people not in narrowly defined risk groups won't pay for it. For the vast majority of people seasonal flu is a "nuisance" in that it takes a few days out of your life that you probably should have been resting anyway. Medical professionals have discouraged regular folks from rushing out or even worrying about flu vaccines for years.
It's only in the 9-11/HPV/Bird Flu/Swine Flu world that every body suddenly thinks they need to be "safe" from something that comes around every year. Unless there's something really nasty coming round they're not telling us about this sudden push for Flu Vaccines is more political than medical. Even the Swine Flu isn't that nasty, and to date most of the critical cases have been in countries with very poor health performance...and those vaccines aren't even available for the general public (and again 6 months ago we were told "don't worry about it")
I never understood that idea of not hiring people because they "don't have a job". People that don't have job are cheaper as they're hungry. What is your opinion of YOUR employees looking for other jobs? After all, YOU only hire people with jobs, who's trying to hire YOUR employees? Or is that "disloyalty"?
on the other hand my company typically hires so few people they only post publicly as the "last resort". Each department has their favorite recruiter (different for engineers or IT folks) they can call up for 10 applicants sent to HR in a week. Between the recruiters and the stack of resumes they get from family and friends of people that are already working there 95% of open jobs are NEVER advertised to regular job seekers.
not really because most of these "agencies" are just taking your resume off Monster and stripping your name off the top and turning it in for jobs they can see but "applicants" can't see directly. The last job I was applying for 4 years ago the situation was so bad half the jobs had "no recruiters" posted because companies were tired of this kind of lying.
The trouble is that most of these "agencies" are really just a couple of business partners that "mill" the internet. They throw all the s*** against the wall and get their commission 4 times out of 10 they're doing good. I've seen in my bosses hiring pile where two different resumes come in, one from the applicant and one from an agency (and it's obviously the same thing but edited).. but if all the company sees is the agency they don't have time to deal with "liars"... move along. Even in that case the company is "obligated" to deal with the agent that lied rather than you directly... they don't have time to deal with that.
Worst is that this is the crap that gets people fired 5 years later when their job gets political and they make "enemies" in Accounting or HR and the company "reviews" their paperwork.
but the idea is that MySpace most likely has a giant master list of songs published by the RIAA labels and if a song with the same name is on the list, they will only talk to the "publisher".
This is how the deals MySpace signed work... in exchange for not being sued to death, they won't post stuff that "might" be infringing without consulting their corporate masters for permission... since the corporate masters can't find the paper to give permission (guy's contract expired, imagine that) no publishing for you.
It's not malice. It's the beautiful combination of corporate CYA from MySpace and Bureaucratic "lost paperwork" from the one overworked secretary in the label's basement.
But they did force IBM to loosen the strings just a bit when creating the PC... that created Microsoft... Wow we won!!!
I briefly skimmed TGDMFCSA and it looks like they're worried about privacy concerns. These things are nearly as "open" to the public as those old FM baby monitors they used to sell..but with video, audio and wheels! It would be trivial for the neighbor kid to find your robot on wifi and start driving around your house "peeping". They were pointing out that many of them do not turn off wireless when they are docked and have trivial password security... there's little to stop somebody driving your bot around taking pics/audio inside your house in the middle of the night. (that could be embarrassing to say the least)
NOW this comment is worded exactly as intended. See, I fixed that for you!
I'd agree, it demonstrates a classic misunderstanding of the problem by one of the leading law enforcement agents in the country.
"Online banking" is here to stay whether you personally go on the internet or not. If you write a paper check at a department store, it's electronically presented via ACH while you are in line. If you have Direct Deposit the transactions to pay you go online from your employer and they can be "broken" to take money "back" quite easily. IF you use a credit card for anything but the old stamped paper, it's transmitted over the internet by people you don't know from adam. Sure these are encrypted to various degrees, but things like ACH don't know Walmart from a 419 scammer with your checkbook.
You're already out there, "not using the internet" in no way means you're not at risk.. you're just ignoring the risk. Unless you use cash-only at which point you're automatically suspect (cash=criminal according to the FBI because you're hiding something from them)
I suppose you could use only cash + money orders/Cashier's checks for large/mail purchases but you're paying a premium and many places won't accept those payments from "customers".
it's not quite that obvious. MySpace can prove a label once published the guys music, so it MUST be under copyright to them... unless you can find the one overworked guy that handles over-the-hill artists rights management that will send an original copy via Registered Snail Mail, with a letter from the head of a music label (OK those are easy to find). You might as well push a rock uphill in San Francisco, it's possible for this guy to get what he needs... and it's possible for the government to have a balanced budget and have efficient happy workers with short lines at the License department too.
A vanilla Macbook is appropriately priced for what you get. You have to buy Sony or go online to get an equivalent laptop.. if anything the problem is that Apple doesn't make CHEAP computers like $300 netbooks so that cuts out the poor/cheap folks looking only at price. Even the maligned Mac Mini is a pretty good machine for MOST sub $700 machine buyers. The majority of PC users don't open their computers over the life of the machine. The majority don't even add ram or video cards. They pay $600 for Last Year's parts in an empty plastic box that makes them feel good. A Mini has nearly all the same features as a stock Dell, plus bluetooth, two video ports and firewire... all items adding $75 more each to that "budget" PC. Again, the problem is that Apple doesn't sell a "stripped out" model to hit a lower price point like Dell does... then you find out that the Windows PC was TOO stripped out and won't use all the features of your new OS (hint: THAT is why Vista bombed.. Microsoft caving to cheap OEMs)
I'd look at these numbers differently. Most people own a PC because the workplace DEMANDS it. 12% of people that own a Mac in addition to a PC went out of their way to seek it out because they didn't like Windows.... that's a huge and growing dissatisfaction rating.
Microsoft isn't entirely spotless. The only reason they're so "open" is that OEMs and carriers have the right to lock down the individual phones much more than Microsoft would like. They can ban Microsoft's app store from their phone/users and force their own if they wish... that's not "better" than iPhone because in the past it means not only are WinMo phones fractured by version and processor, AND individual models of popular phones have apps limited by carrier preference/branding as well.
In short the critical mass of "get this app now" doesn't apply to enough WinMo users to get DEVELOPER support because dealing with many carriers and OEMs is too expensive. You folks with "clean install" versions of WinMo don't count because technically you're "cheating" and not following your carrier's TOS/ "evil plans" and paid developers can't support you.
While "vanilla" WinMo is cool stuff, Microsoft's OEM partners have been ruining the platform with petty lock-in and Apple mopped up.
Exactly, banks weren't interested in "reasonable" terms... that's what fueled the boom. Realtors and Mortgage officers are paid on percent commission.. so they want more bucks. If the banks started denying the outrageous loans sooner, the big markups would have slowed a long time ago. When I bought my house, I had the banker and realtor trying to get me to "go bigger"' so the loan would be "easier" to get. It was supposedly a "sure thing" because housing prices were going up, so pick your neighborhood now while you can still afford to get in.
And when Microsoft moves all those jobs to India and posts their profit anywhere BUT Redmond where will the state be. That's my point. The state already can't build highways and can't fix big problems because while they have one of the single richest companies in the world, they're not really getting any tax income from all those profits as their elsewhere. Michigan is a good comparison, because in another 10 years when the novelty of being in Washington has worn off, all the profitable companies will leave their employees behind for the state to deal with.
It will look just like Michigan with big companies "running the world" but not actually employing anybody or building anything IN the state... and hence not paying taxes because "profit" is an elusive thing and can be held as "retained earnings" in a subsidiary (like Nevada or Ireland or India) where it's not paid to the parent and not taxed so "profit tax" is never paid. But it counts on the books to pump up the stock price, except investors/owners don't actually get to touch it either to spend on stuff.
Unlike the federal or even California budget it's BALANCED and the state is not in debt. They've had multiple years of 10%+ reductions in tax revenue taken in and have managed to keep cutting and it's ILLEGAL for them to borrow to run the state. It's terribly painful to watch them come up short whole pieces of pie, but it's what a bunch more people should be doing and makes the state that much stronger.
Another poster mentioned that perhaps it's an order to get at money "offshore" that the court can't touch. One of the problems with offshore accounts is that even WITH a legal court order they won't turn over money, or even information. This is probably a way to lock him up until he pays up. Like you said, the only way they'll get any money to pay anybody back is if the guy goes and gets it to pay off this house. Otherwise he goes "bankruptcy" on his US assets, and pulls start up money from the bank offshore when he gets out of country-club prison.
see.... Skynet already knew about this!! But Skynet missed the one that goes off in Planet of the Apes.
Radiological signature of a nuclear attack is very specific. Sure, it could be faked... but it also can be detected miles away and will send agents from every country scurrying to find out who's the problem. In the 80's the idea of "total security" was starting to take hold over diplomacy. Many of those guys were STILL running the show under Bush, that's how entrenched the ideas were. SDI meant we weren't assuming the same risk of war as the Russians were... we were trying to weasel out of certain doom while at the same time insisting they cut back on delivering said doom. It's said the "best offense is a good defense" but in politics at that scale it was playing with loaded dice.
exactly, the idea of contempt is that you are holding up the court from making fair judgment.... so the court will wait for you to do your duty... you'll have nothing better to do.
That's one other thing about US courts is that it's your Legal DUTY to provide the information the court needs. While you can't testify against yourself in CRIMINAL cases, that's exceedingly narrow in that testifying and something "very bad" happening because of it isn't really the court's problem. In this case he was ordered to produce ownership documents, he's already convicted of a crime and sentenced to turn over fines and fees.... now he's attempting to "hide" them from the court, so they will wait for him to cough up the documents per his sentence....THEN he can finish being sentenced to whatever prison time he'll be getting (contempt doesn't count!)
news flash, "conservative" cases use contempt just as much as "liberal" ones do... several of Clinton's aides sat in jail for contempt for years because they wouldn't parrot what the prosecution wanted to hear in the various cases against him.
In the US system Contempt is one of the few "absolute" powers that judges have. It's the only thing they have when they play referee in that they can make ANYBODY appearing in their court sit for contempt... juries, DAs, witnesses, defendants, etc. It's their only way to really get somebody's attention.
why does the judge even need the Title. If a court orders it forfeit, can't they just issue something like a "court's lien" to the county department of deeds... the feds seem to do it all the time with no trouble.
The word is "Value Added Tax" boys and girls. This is why states like Michigan have them. Companies can "move the cheese" all they want, but each organizational unit has to account for it's "productivity" i.e. the added value of their step, not just whether they made "cash profit" in order to satisfy SEC and GAPP rules. Manufacturing states learned long ago that the parent company will always make manufacturing into "cost centers" that always lose money on their operations because they don't "sell anything", both to stiff workers and the taxman. They learned to make each part of the company rate the "value" of it's incoming raw goods versus the "upstream" items. The numbers have to add up on "somebody's" books so it's easier to get the tax money where the work is done.
VAT is closer to what we plebs pay as "income tax" rather than just pure "profits tax".
At this point a good portion of the state would probably prefer to see them go...listen to the various posters just here and there's no money in the state to pay for all the traffic and public works needed... it's too late for them to pay up. Where WOULD Microsoft go? About the only other low-tax states are Nevada and Utah... both isolated and miserable desert except for the already populated (expensive) parts, moving an entire "Microsoft" (and all it's ancillary business) anywhere would crush even major cities. No doubt it could be done, but they would squander more than the $107M trying to get out of paying it.
it's genetic... just like breeding LOL cats with spots instead of stripes. Some gene make people just a "little bit more" resistant to some germ meaning they don't die when somebody else does.
it's called natural selection bitches. It's not "acquired" it was already there and chance happens that some people resist the disease because of a certain gene and the weaker ones are "culled" from the herd.