Be sure and read the directions carefully. The mirrors need to be polished daily. Smoke modules need to be replaced every three months, and the snake oil should not be allowed to fall below 3/4 full.
And never, ever, feed it after midnight.
What's to get away with? There is no law that says you can't pay yourself whatever you want. If you take it all as dividends, you still your fair share of taxes. The only difference is that you don't pay FICA, and due to not paying in, you also don't get any out. So, what is the issue?
An LLC is not a recognized entity in the eyes of the IRS. It is treated as a pass through corporation, in which all of the profits of the company are just dealt with on the individual members tax returns. But maybe this is what you were suggesting. Sad that the guy ran into trouble for forming a more recognized entity and then operating exactly within the specifications of the law. Nowhere does the law state exactly how much you much have to pay yourself.
What would be funny is if they really were sent to Mars but only THOUGHT it was an experiment, but I would imagine the lack of gravity and the unfiltered sun blasting in the windows would be a dead giveaway.
The problem is that back in the days when the "average" person didn't write, the average person did at least read what the above average person wrote. So at least they were receiving exposure to proper grammar, spelling, and so forth. Now, everyone is immersed in examples of poor quality writing of all types, in what will likely become a downward spiraling feedback loop.
In fact, I would argue that there is more communication coming from people of below average writing skills, and using technology that is grossly inefficient as a communications medium, which acts a s a catalyst to encourage poor writing.
Several of the bits in your standard Home Depot X-piece bit sets will work. They won't seat as comfortably as the real tool, but they will get the job done. Sure, you might scratch the finish on your fancy iScrews, but if you were really hoping to keep your iPhone in mint condition, you probably would have left it in its original packaging.
When it comes to Apple and screwing, there is no mystery.
The next step will just be to permanently fuse the case shut. If you want a new battery, just send them a couple hundred bucks for a new iPhone. A true Apple fanbois wouldn't even blink at that requirement.
To the performers of this study:
Do you ever spend a large amount of time performing studies to try to prove that playing video games is bad for people rather than spending time socializing with friends and family?
Have you ever continued analyzing children playing video games when you knew that you should be finishing your PhD thesis?
Have you ever been banned from performing law in a state due to filing too many frivolous lawsuits?
Has a video game developer ever written a caricature of you into a video game due to your anti-video game behavior?
They name a new disorder defined by playing video games a lot, then find some kids who play video games a lot, then decide that a high percentage of them have this disorder. Finally, an actual correct usage of begging the question.
And how was that more efficient than prying open Gamestops door? Well, I suppose Gamestop probably has an active alarm system, but most people would assume it also had a motion sensor. Unless of course, one was an ex-employee or friend of an employee who happens to know that their was no motion sensor on their alarm system.
Smells like inside job to me.
Actually, it turns out the DMCA was behind the heist. Since congress wouldn't make secondhand sale illegal, DMCA had to take the law into their own hands.
My contract states that my company will reimburse me for my cell phone up to a certain amount. Some people at work do not have that in their contract. If I did not get reimbursed for my cell phone, then I would not feel obligated to share my cell phone with my employer and if they had the number, I would not feel obligated to answer if they called.
I absolutely agree with you, but I wanted to share an extreme counter-example. We have offshore keying done in Mexico (ending soon as I have conclusively proven that the management of that personnel more than offsets any supposed savings from having the keying done here), and the facility had very high expenses of keyboards getting worn out very quickly by people that just didn't care for them. Now, they require their employees to bring their own keyboards. They still pay them the same crappy wage, and they still charge us the same amount, but now they don't have to shell out as much for keyboards.
Not embezzlement. Most likely they were offered the phone as a perk of the job. By taking away this perk, they have effectively reduced the income package of these employees, but I bet they will not be raising their salaries to compensate for the removal of the phone and the increased cost of the employees having to buy their own phone post-tax.
In my experience, the larger the group, the harder they are getting screwed. From something as small as a "Family Plan", where they say it is only $10 per additional line, but when you look at the bill, it is costing about $60 a month per line, to huge corporate cell phone farms where I found out that they were paying $90 per person for plain old no-text cell service with about 800 minutes per month.
Agreed. I don't care for an mp3 player, bluetooth, internet radio, OnStar or any of that crap. GPS is a feature I like, but I'm not willing to pay what they ask for a GPS unit, because they simply don't cost that much, even the ones with internal gyros to keep you on track in tunnels and under bridges.
I most certainly would NOT purchase a car that had that crap over a car that had more power and better handling.
BMWs used to be very nice looking, with European styling. Now, they have boring American styling. Meanwhile, American cars have gotten more European in styling, but not enough to make me buy one. For the last 10 years I have not been able to find a new car under $100,000 USD that I would buy. The Lexus IS was close, though. Really, I guess what I am looking for is a European Styling 4 door sports sedan with stick shift and a diesel engine. Something like the Audis that are only available in Europe.
Hopefully the weight of all that crap goes away when you turn them off. Somehow I doubt it.
I second your choice on the R8. I was looking into a used one, until I found that even the used ones are over 100,000 USD. Oddly I have seen several around here in Oklahoma City, and who would have thought so many people could afford a $100,000+ car? I don't see a lot of used Ferraris or Lambos, which can be gotten for far less and are more unique than the R8.
You have the right to play the work, you just have to pay royalties.
I don't understand the carpenter example. Of course I would expect a carpenter to tell you you can't copy his work that is how he makes a living. The same thing as a musician. They make their living by writing and performing songs. How can you expect them to stop accepting money for writing a song and instead let someone who didn't write it accept it?
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Be sure and read the directions carefully. The mirrors need to be polished daily. Smoke modules need to be replaced every three months, and the snake oil should not be allowed to fall below 3/4 full.
And never, ever, feed it after midnight.
If this does work, how long before Al Gore starts berating us for our Hydrogen Footprint?
Actually, copper is probably the more evil of the two. It, like most heavy metals, is poisonous in relatively small doses.
What's to get away with? There is no law that says you can't pay yourself whatever you want. If you take it all as dividends, you still your fair share of taxes. The only difference is that you don't pay FICA, and due to not paying in, you also don't get any out. So, what is the issue?
An LLC is not a recognized entity in the eyes of the IRS. It is treated as a pass through corporation, in which all of the profits of the company are just dealt with on the individual members tax returns. But maybe this is what you were suggesting. Sad that the guy ran into trouble for forming a more recognized entity and then operating exactly within the specifications of the law. Nowhere does the law state exactly how much you much have to pay yourself.
What would be funny is if they really were sent to Mars but only THOUGHT it was an experiment, but I would imagine the lack of gravity and the unfiltered sun blasting in the windows would be a dead giveaway.
The problem is that back in the days when the "average" person didn't write, the average person did at least read what the above average person wrote. So at least they were receiving exposure to proper grammar, spelling, and so forth. Now, everyone is immersed in examples of poor quality writing of all types, in what will likely become a downward spiraling feedback loop.
In fact, I would argue that there is more communication coming from people of below average writing skills, and using technology that is grossly inefficient as a communications medium, which acts a s a catalyst to encourage poor writing.
Several of the bits in your standard Home Depot X-piece bit sets will work. They won't seat as comfortably as the real tool, but they will get the job done. Sure, you might scratch the finish on your fancy iScrews, but if you were really hoping to keep your iPhone in mint condition, you probably would have left it in its original packaging.
When it comes to Apple and screwing, there is no mystery.
The next step will just be to permanently fuse the case shut. If you want a new battery, just send them a couple hundred bucks for a new iPhone. A true Apple fanbois wouldn't even blink at that requirement.
To the performers of this study:
Do you ever spend a large amount of time performing studies to try to prove that playing video games is bad for people rather than spending time socializing with friends and family?
Have you ever continued analyzing children playing video games when you knew that you should be finishing your PhD thesis?
Have you ever been banned from performing law in a state due to filing too many frivolous lawsuits?
Has a video game developer ever written a caricature of you into a video game due to your anti-video game behavior?
They name a new disorder defined by playing video games a lot, then find some kids who play video games a lot, then decide that a high percentage of them have this disorder. Finally, an actual correct usage of begging the question.
And how was that more efficient than prying open Gamestops door? Well, I suppose Gamestop probably has an active alarm system, but most people would assume it also had a motion sensor. Unless of course, one was an ex-employee or friend of an employee who happens to know that their was no motion sensor on their alarm system.
Smells like inside job to me.
Actually, it turns out the DMCA was behind the heist. Since congress wouldn't make secondhand sale illegal, DMCA had to take the law into their own hands.
And ironically, although the police consider this a crime, the game companies feel that he owns legitimate copies of all of those games.
My contract states that my company will reimburse me for my cell phone up to a certain amount. Some people at work do not have that in their contract. If I did not get reimbursed for my cell phone, then I would not feel obligated to share my cell phone with my employer and if they had the number, I would not feel obligated to answer if they called.
I absolutely agree with you, but I wanted to share an extreme counter-example. We have offshore keying done in Mexico (ending soon as I have conclusively proven that the management of that personnel more than offsets any supposed savings from having the keying done here), and the facility had very high expenses of keyboards getting worn out very quickly by people that just didn't care for them. Now, they require their employees to bring their own keyboards. They still pay them the same crappy wage, and they still charge us the same amount, but now they don't have to shell out as much for keyboards.
Not embezzlement. Most likely they were offered the phone as a perk of the job. By taking away this perk, they have effectively reduced the income package of these employees, but I bet they will not be raising their salaries to compensate for the removal of the phone and the increased cost of the employees having to buy their own phone post-tax.
In my experience, the larger the group, the harder they are getting screwed. From something as small as a "Family Plan", where they say it is only $10 per additional line, but when you look at the bill, it is costing about $60 a month per line, to huge corporate cell phone farms where I found out that they were paying $90 per person for plain old no-text cell service with about 800 minutes per month.
Is this the same Verizon that a month or so back we had an article where they were ending their unlimited data plans in the next 6 months.
Agreed. I don't care for an mp3 player, bluetooth, internet radio, OnStar or any of that crap. GPS is a feature I like, but I'm not willing to pay what they ask for a GPS unit, because they simply don't cost that much, even the ones with internal gyros to keep you on track in tunnels and under bridges.
I most certainly would NOT purchase a car that had that crap over a car that had more power and better handling.
BMWs used to be very nice looking, with European styling. Now, they have boring American styling. Meanwhile, American cars have gotten more European in styling, but not enough to make me buy one. For the last 10 years I have not been able to find a new car under $100,000 USD that I would buy. The Lexus IS was close, though. Really, I guess what I am looking for is a European Styling 4 door sports sedan with stick shift and a diesel engine. Something like the Audis that are only available in Europe.
Hopefully the weight of all that crap goes away when you turn them off. Somehow I doubt it.
I second your choice on the R8. I was looking into a used one, until I found that even the used ones are over 100,000 USD. Oddly I have seen several around here in Oklahoma City, and who would have thought so many people could afford a $100,000+ car? I don't see a lot of used Ferraris or Lambos, which can be gotten for far less and are more unique than the R8.
I'd rather drive on the road with someone going 25 over than someone going the speed limit while distracted by all the unnecessary gadgets.
I would pay as much as $0 for all 6 movies, or I would pay up to $40 for episodes 4-6 and would accept as low as $40 in payment to take episodes 1-3.
You have the right to play the work, you just have to pay royalties.
I don't understand the carpenter example. Of course I would expect a carpenter to tell you you can't copy his work that is how he makes a living. The same thing as a musician. They make their living by writing and performing songs. How can you expect them to stop accepting money for writing a song and instead let someone who didn't write it accept it?