The intent not to pay tax to any meaningful degree is the same as the intent not to give money to an armed robber to any meaningful degree. Being a government does not excuse an entity from ethical behaviour.
Apple has to jack up their prices to pay for this huge financial hit. Every future consumer of Apple products is hurt.
The EU gains power from a legal precedent, which it will use to abuse other companies.
The EU gains $21 billion, equal to 9% of Ireland's GDP. This money will be used to grow the EU bureaucracy, enabling it to further abuse everyone living in the EU.
Another tax haven, where decent people can escape thieving government, is lost.
And you consider that a good thing.
Apple dealt in good faith with the Irish government and paid the taxes Ireland demanded. At no time was the tax rate hidden from the EU. Thus this is entrapment by the EU, and the appropriate EU officials should be jailed for it.
TFA states that once an area ceases to be wilderness, it can never be wilderness again.
By about 1840, nearly all of New England was farmland. No wilderness, except for areas too steep or rocky for agriculture. Now, most has reverted to forest. Keeping an area open requires constant effort; trees colonize unmowed areas pretty quickly.
Mankind must leave this planet eventually, or go extinct.
On that timescale, there are other alternatives. 1. With the heat death of the universe, mankind goes extinct anyway. 2. Mankind evolves into something else, so mankind ceases to exist (well, I guess that's "extinct", but it's hardly catastrophic.)
Elon Musk is for freedom for himself, and limited freedom for those who agree with him. He opposes freedom for those with whom he disagrees and especially those whose livelihood involves existing energy technology not in line with his personal environmental preferences.
Not protecting access to your images and other content (many sites use such protection) is akin to scattering money on the sidewalk instead of keeping it in your pocket. They have no just cause for complaint and the court decision is insane.
Banks do not exist solely for your convenience; they exist to make money. Free checking accounts will lose the bank money unless enough money can be earned on the interest charged by loaning the money in the account to other people. For a moderate activity checking account, the breakeven point will be several hundred dollars. That covers the cost of processing checks, sending a monthly statement, paying employees and paying rent on the office.
Banks have booklets of their fees, either out in the open or available on request.
Nonetheless, big name banks should be avoided if at all possible.
No artificial hip or knee joints for you when your natural ones wear out. No heart valves from a pig.
You can suffer or die early, or you can take advantage of "modding humans" to improve your life.
There is some evidence that a fair portion of autism cases are caused by chemical influences in the womb, such as Tylenol. If continuing research confirms this, looking for genetic influences may be pointless.
We can't even create relatively simple medicines that don't have side effects,
You are asking for the impossible. All chemicals have effects, "side" effects are effects that are other than the primary effect. They are simply a matter of viewpoint. For example: aspirin's original main intended effect is to reduce pain. It has the side effect of improving circulatory health. (is that a bad thing?) Should circulatory health be considered the main effect and pain reduction the side effect? To some extent it's a foolish distinction. Aspirin in some cases has the side effect of causing gastro-intestinal bleeding. (it's a bad thing.) Are you going to call it a side effect just because it's bad? Do you object to aspirin improving circulatory health because it's a side effect?
Note also that many medicines have reduced unintended consequences compared to the herbs and foods from which they were derived.
Some people are for changing some aspects of some people. They're not insisting that everyone grow a carapace, and that's the sort of thing that your "altering our foundational existence" implies.
Modern farming methods are intensive farming methods that drastically reduce the area required to grow food. The remaining land often goes back to nature in a few decades.
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Statute of limitations.
The intent not to pay tax to any meaningful degree is the same as the intent not to give money to an armed robber to any meaningful degree. Being a government does not excuse an entity from ethical behaviour.
Your comment is irrelevant. Somebody else getting away with a bad deed doesn't make it OK for you to do so also.
Apple has to jack up their prices to pay for this huge financial hit. Every future consumer of Apple products is hurt.
The EU gains power from a legal precedent, which it will use to abuse other companies.
The EU gains $21 billion, equal to 9% of Ireland's GDP. This money will be used to grow the EU bureaucracy, enabling it to further abuse everyone living in the EU.
Another tax haven, where decent people can escape thieving government, is lost.
And you consider that a good thing.
Apple dealt in good faith with the Irish government and paid the taxes Ireland demanded. At no time was the tax rate hidden from the EU. Thus this is entrapment by the EU, and the appropriate EU officials should be jailed for it.
TFA states that once an area ceases to be wilderness, it can never be wilderness again.
By about 1840, nearly all of New England was farmland. No wilderness, except for areas too steep or rocky for agriculture. Now, most has reverted to forest. Keeping an area open requires constant effort; trees colonize unmowed areas pretty quickly.
Ever since the Challenger explosion, the inclusion of O-rings in rockets has been mandatory to give an excuse for failure.
On that timescale, there are other alternatives. 1. With the heat death of the universe, mankind goes extinct anyway. 2. Mankind evolves into something else, so mankind ceases to exist (well, I guess that's "extinct", but it's hardly catastrophic.)
That's The Trouble with Tribbles.
Your alternative is what? A really tall ladder? Psychics? Magnetic repulsion with the Earth's magnetic field?
Elon Musk is for freedom for himself, and limited freedom for those who agree with him. He opposes freedom for those with whom he disagrees and especially those whose livelihood involves existing energy technology not in line with his personal environmental preferences.
Wolf in sheep's clothing.
The GOP attempts to suppress illegal voting, as should everybody.
Not protecting access to your images and other content (many sites use such protection) is akin to scattering money on the sidewalk instead of keeping it in your pocket. They have no just cause for complaint and the court decision is insane.
Banks do not exist solely for your convenience; they exist to make money. Free checking accounts will lose the bank money unless enough money can be earned on the interest charged by loaning the money in the account to other people. For a moderate activity checking account, the breakeven point will be several hundred dollars. That covers the cost of processing checks, sending a monthly statement, paying employees and paying rent on the office.
Banks have booklets of their fees, either out in the open or available on request.
Nonetheless, big name banks should be avoided if at all possible.
Many young males will have sex with any healthy cooperative female. I don't think the separation you forecast is likely.
How do you class baldness? Skin color?
No artificial hip or knee joints for you when your natural ones wear out. No heart valves from a pig.
You can suffer or die early, or you can take advantage of "modding humans" to improve your life.
Dear Ned Ludd:
Drop dead. Civilization will be better without your interference.
How many people have to die before your standards of caution are met?
There is some evidence that a fair portion of autism cases are caused by chemical influences in the womb, such as Tylenol. If continuing research confirms this, looking for genetic influences may be pointless.
Sperm bank. Adoption. Don't let your dream of being a responsible parent be derailed by the knowledge that your own genes have problems.
Africanized killer bees have proven to be all too effective at surviving in the world without our assistance.
You are asking for the impossible. All chemicals have effects, "side" effects are effects that are other than the primary effect. They are simply a matter of viewpoint. For example: aspirin's original main intended effect is to reduce pain. It has the side effect of improving circulatory health. (is that a bad thing?) Should circulatory health be considered the main effect and pain reduction the side effect? To some extent it's a foolish distinction. Aspirin in some cases has the side effect of causing gastro-intestinal bleeding. (it's a bad thing.) Are you going to call it a side effect just because it's bad? Do you object to aspirin improving circulatory health because it's a side effect?
Note also that many medicines have reduced unintended consequences compared to the herbs and foods from which they were derived.
Some people are for changing some aspects of some people. They're not insisting that everyone grow a carapace, and that's the sort of thing that your "altering our foundational existence" implies.
How many species have become extinct in the last 4 billion years? Those species had no shortfalls?
Funny. What's it going to do, think us to death?
Modern farming methods are intensive farming methods that drastically reduce the area required to grow food. The remaining land often goes back to nature in a few decades.