Dividends are usually also taxed twice. The company has paid taxes on it's profits, and the shareholder pays income tax on the dividend payment. Whereas taking your gain from selling the stock is independent of any tax the company has paid.
Wrong. Dividends can be paid even where there is NO profit. See WWE for the last few years.
Dividends also give this false impression of extra profit. When a company pays a dividend, the stock reduces by virtually the same amount of the dividend that was paid. Thus you aren't theoretically getting anything extra. If your share was worth $30 and the dividend is $3, you receive $3 in cash and now your stock is worth $27.
Wrong again. That might happen in an ultra-efficient market, but in reality - no. Investors looking for income, see a dividend-paying stock as good. Apple formerly at, say, $500 and no dividend looks better at $500 with dividend.
If anything, it forces you to manually rebalance your portfolio to account for the dividend.
If you see this as a problem, there are dividend reinvestment programs (DRIP). Yes you pay taxes on the dividend, but it is canceled by the basis. Of course, tax preferential treatment of capital gains tilts the field.
No, but if you're streaming it, it will take longer than 24 seconds, unless you like to watch in ultra-fast-foward.
Ok, so it'll take an hour to exceed your monthly cap instead of 24 seconds. Do you have a point or are you just being pedantic?
Being pedantic? The OP said you could exceed your cap in 24 seconds. My point was that I could see no legitimate use of 72 Mbps for 24 consecutive seconds. The point of having an ultra-fast 72 Mbps rate would be to decrease time for real usage.
You mean as in MacBook Pro? So it will be iPad Pro?;) The point is, the name is something Steve would never have forgotten... it's the heart of the marketing ploy... Steve would use it in many sentences. A linguistic analysis of the past Steve performances would have been a ood idea for Tim.
Actually, look at the iPods. They were always referred to by "generation," as in "fourth generation ipod."
each one of you needs to have a cell phone "receiver" with a semi directional antenna (just needs to be able to detect the freqs not decode).
you just sit on opposite ends of the bus and sweep for the strongest signal (third to Nth person just finds decent seats)
when you lock on to the signal do the math.
after you find the jammer your actions are "an exercise left to the student".
I imagine that anyone using a jammer wouldn't be dumb enough to leave it on for too long; I'd keep it on just long enough for loudmouth to give up on his call. There's no point in making it easy for the feds to find you.
"People's water wells are being poisoned "
there is exactly zero evidence that it's cause by fraking. Wells have gone bad for as long as their have been wells.
" there water is now flammable "
in some ares well water has methane in it, and has been 'flammable' well before fraking.
I suspect you say that horrid documentary that specifically lies? Yeah, the example there is many. many miles from any fraking.
In what universe do they live in where they don't realize pressuring an oil-producing country is going to raise oil prices (and hence gas prices, it doesn't fall from the sky)?
They live in a universe where the only goal is to get Obama out of office. The cost in dollars, integrity, and hypocrisy do not matter.
1) cut subsidies and watch prices go up, you think the oil companies are going to just eat that cost?
Actually, those subsidies do very little to the price of gas - they just prop up the oil companies profits. Most of the cost of gas is due to the market price of oil. Yes, it would inch up if we removed the subsidies, but it has far greater swings due to prospects of war, supply, demand, and other factors.
thanks to technological advances such as "fracking" (hydraulic fracturing using horizontally injected water).
If only it were just water they were injecting. They are pushing all their toxic sludge back down there to avoid having to clean things up. People's water wells are being poisoned and there water is now flammable (no joke).
Disclaimer: As an American living abroad, let me say my view of the US has radically changed in just over 10 years. We were raised in the US that we were the best country in the world at practically everything. Let me tell you, most of it was dead wrong. Yes, there are some really good things about the US but on the whole, I have to say I'm happier, less overworked and enjoying life more in Europe. I would not move back the the US permanently at this point, it would be a downgrade in practically every category.
I think pretty much all countries tell their citizens that they live in the best country in the world. It helps keep them in their place. And everyone believes it until they can see the truth for themselves.
So with a very derisive snort, it was used correctly.
I'd say the "derisive snort" proves my point of "hater." As to the so-called "definition," the entire wikipedia page was created in 2010, example "Apple iOS" was added in 2011, and all references on the page are December 2011, so clearly the term is recent (post-iOS and -Android), so my claim "used by haters" is completely accurate.
You could also use Google's walled garden, or Microsoft's walled garden, or RIMs walled garden.
Google doesn't have a walled garden. it's an open park you can walk into and out of all of your own accord.
I think you need to look up the definition of "walled garden" or actually use Android for yourself. It's nothing like Apple's system of lockdown.
The definition seems to be "A term used derisively by Apple haters."
If you don't need a smart phone, and only get a basic one, then why the hell do you need one every 2 years? More landfill for everyone, I suppose.
I don't need a new one every two years. I don't even get one every two years. However, any time my phone breaks, I get a new one for free so long as I don't break more than one every two years. So far, I have never paid for a phone in the ten years I've had one.
Yes. I consign you to multiple gadget hell for ever and ever.
I call it multiple-gadget heaven. If you lose your gadget, you lose everything at once. I have an iPad for on-the-go internet and mobile games (a phone screen is NOT big enough), a digital camera because phone cameras have shitty flashes and poor zoom, and my monster music collection would never fit on a phone.
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Not if you only charge your phone at work. Let your employer pay that extra energy cost!
Or your Mom (in her basement).
Dividends are usually also taxed twice. The company has paid taxes on it's profits, and the shareholder pays income tax on the dividend payment. Whereas taking your gain from selling the stock is independent of any tax the company has paid.
Wrong. Dividends can be paid even where there is NO profit. See WWE for the last few years.
Dividends also give this false impression of extra profit. When a company pays a dividend, the stock reduces by virtually the same amount of the dividend that was paid. Thus you aren't theoretically getting anything extra. If your share was worth $30 and the dividend is $3, you receive $3 in cash and now your stock is worth $27.
Wrong again. That might happen in an ultra-efficient market, but in reality - no. Investors looking for income, see a dividend-paying stock as good. Apple formerly at, say, $500 and no dividend looks better at $500 with dividend.
If anything, it forces you to manually rebalance your portfolio to account for the dividend.
If you see this as a problem, there are dividend reinvestment programs (DRIP). Yes you pay taxes on the dividend, but it is canceled by the basis. Of course, tax preferential treatment of capital gains tilts the field.
Apple is one of the small handfuls of companies that has never had a stock split...
Wow, do some research before you post - AAPL has split 2-1 on three separate occasions.
Commenting to undo incorrect mod. Sorry.
You are my hero.
No, but if you're streaming it, it will take longer than 24 seconds, unless you like to watch in ultra-fast-foward.
Ok, so it'll take an hour to exceed your monthly cap instead of 24 seconds. Do you have a point or are you just being pedantic?
Being pedantic? The OP said you could exceed your cap in 24 seconds. My point was that I could see no legitimate use of 72 Mbps for 24 consecutive seconds. The point of having an ultra-fast 72 Mbps rate would be to decrease time for real usage.
Sure, you could. But what are you trying to do? Torrent a DVD to your mobile device?
I might just want to stream a movie in HD from Netflix to my mobile device. Is that so terribly wrong?
No, but if you're streaming it, it will take longer than 24 seconds, unless you like to watch in ultra-fast-foward.
Which means you'll be able to exceed your monthly cap in 24 seconds.
Sure, you could. But what are you trying to do? Torrent a DVD to your mobile device?
You mean as in MacBook Pro? So it will be iPad Pro? ;) The point is, the name is something Steve would never have forgotten... it's the heart of the marketing ploy... Steve would use it in many sentences. A linguistic analysis of the past Steve performances would have been a ood idea for Tim.
Actually, look at the iPods. They were always referred to by "generation," as in "fourth generation ipod."
Ha! They're competing with Apple's product release. Are they trying to be ignored?
easy to do if you have friends.
each one of you needs to have a cell phone "receiver" with a semi directional antenna (just needs to be able to detect the freqs not decode).
you just sit on opposite ends of the bus and sweep for the strongest signal (third to Nth person just finds decent seats) when you lock on to the signal do the math.
after you find the jammer your actions are "an exercise left to the student".
I imagine that anyone using a jammer wouldn't be dumb enough to leave it on for too long; I'd keep it on just long enough for loudmouth to give up on his call. There's no point in making it easy for the feds to find you.
You're ignorant.
"People's water wells are being poisoned " there is exactly zero evidence that it's cause by fraking. Wells have gone bad for as long as their have been wells.
" there water is now flammable " in some ares well water has methane in it, and has been 'flammable' well before fraking.
I suspect you say that horrid documentary that specifically lies? Yeah, the example there is many. many miles from any fraking.
No, you're ignorant. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking for a complete roundup of the well-polluting literature.
Speculators never get there hands dirty by touching oil - they are thousands of miles away!
In what universe do they live in where they don't realize pressuring an oil-producing country is going to raise oil prices (and hence gas prices, it doesn't fall from the sky)?
They live in a universe where the only goal is to get Obama out of office. The cost in dollars, integrity, and hypocrisy do not matter.
1) cut subsidies and watch prices go up, you think the oil companies are going to just eat that cost?
Actually, those subsidies do very little to the price of gas - they just prop up the oil companies profits. Most of the cost of gas is due to the market price of oil. Yes, it would inch up if we removed the subsidies, but it has far greater swings due to prospects of war, supply, demand, and other factors.
thanks to technological advances such as "fracking" (hydraulic fracturing using horizontally injected water).
If only it were just water they were injecting. They are pushing all their toxic sludge back down there to avoid having to clean things up. People's water wells are being poisoned and there water is now flammable (no joke).
Disclaimer: As an American living abroad, let me say my view of the US has radically changed in just over 10 years. We were raised in the US that we were the best country in the world at practically everything. Let me tell you, most of it was dead wrong. Yes, there are some really good things about the US but on the whole, I have to say I'm happier, less overworked and enjoying life more in Europe. I would not move back the the US permanently at this point, it would be a downgrade in practically every category.
I think pretty much all countries tell their citizens that they live in the best country in the world. It helps keep them in their place. And everyone believes it until they can see the truth for themselves.
Funny, up until there, it almost sounded like you were a rational, sentient being.
I disagree. I thought the possibility of rational, sentient being went out the window with "Trust me, with our current socialist trends,..."
So with a very derisive snort, it was used correctly.
I'd say the "derisive snort" proves my point of "hater." As to the so-called "definition," the entire wikipedia page was created in 2010, example "Apple iOS" was added in 2011, and all references on the page are December 2011, so clearly the term is recent (post-iOS and -Android), so my claim "used by haters" is completely accurate.
The definition seems to be "A term used derisively by Apple haters."
Yeah, that's the definition in common use on the inside of the reality distortion field.
--Jeremy
Nice try, but truly, only haters even use the term.
Please don't confuse the right-wingers with facts.
Except for this http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/07/is-poll-scientific-if-it-excludes-more.html
You could also use Google's walled garden, or Microsoft's walled garden, or RIMs walled garden.
Google doesn't have a walled garden. it's an open park you can walk into and out of all of your own accord. I think you need to look up the definition of "walled garden" or actually use Android for yourself. It's nothing like Apple's system of lockdown.
The definition seems to be "A term used derisively by Apple haters."
If you don't need a smart phone, and only get a basic one, then why the hell do you need one every 2 years? More landfill for everyone, I suppose.
I don't need a new one every two years. I don't even get one every two years. However, any time my phone breaks, I get a new one for free so long as I don't break more than one every two years. So far, I have never paid for a phone in the ten years I've had one.
Yes. I consign you to multiple gadget hell for ever and ever.
I call it multiple-gadget heaven. If you lose your gadget, you lose everything at once. I have an iPad for on-the-go internet and mobile games (a phone screen is NOT big enough), a digital camera because phone cameras have shitty flashes and poor zoom, and my monster music collection would never fit on a phone.