Go to microsoft.com and look at their liabilities and stockholders' equity section of the financial statement. It shows that MS had income taxes payable of 2.022 billion dollars.
"by using a deduction for employee stock dividends paid"
How can that be possible? You can usually only pay dividends after net income, which comes after deducting expenses, including tax expenses. Besides, the employees have to pay tax on dividends anyways so the government gets it money from MS only way or the other.
BTW, S-Corporations don't pay taxes either but the tax liability gets passed down to the stockholders so in the end, the government end up collecting taxes after all.
Do you have links to your sources to back up your claims that the middle class pays the most tax? Besides, if many of the people in the "middle" class who pay ungodly amounts of taxes do some research on the IRS site instead of playing UT or Evercrack all day, they would learn about the "loopholes" that would reduce their tax liability. But I guess it's easier to bitch than doing some research.
Consumer: I need to get the recall work done on my car for broken seat belts.
Dealer: We'll do them for you only if you agree to not to say anything bad about us and we are allowed to inspect your car at any time.
And windows never crash. They simply replaced their desktop page with the statement, which provides debugging information (A.K.K BSOD). Hardly crashing.
" before you write your senator, know how to do it right."
Do you honestly think that your average geek will take the time to write to a senator? If all the geeks got together and formed a PAC, we would be better prepared to fight the likes of Microsoft but most geeks would rather spend their time and money on gaming. Why do you think that there is multi-billion dollar gaming industry?
geek 1: All big parties suck because they receive handouts from mega corps. We should all vote for Bob Right because he's free form the influence of the evil businesses.
geek 2: He does seem like an idea person to be the next congressman/senator/president, but looks like he can't afford to buy air and radio time. Did you make any donations?
geek 1: I had spare $2000 but I decided to buy a phat gaming machine and play Evercrack so I can support another mega corp.
And you wonder why geeks don't make any difference.
Not really, may people don't have the discipline to sit through two years of classes. I have several friends that I consider intelligent but they'd rather spend their time and money on weed and video games.
Where can I get the E-mail addresses of those 6,000 people who ordered the pills? I'm a classmate of a roomate who's sister's boyfriend's father's 3rd cousin is a banker in Nigeria who's looking for someone to help him get 300 million dollars out of Nigeria for a cut.
"I have a very simple, quite moral reason for supporting this: People are demonstrably violent, and a minority (but a significant one) will attack those who are weaker."
And you call business majors amoral... And since when did U.S. become weaker than Al Quaeda?
You like weapons design? I guess you are out of luck as idiot managers (as they were too stupid to become engineers) will deny funding to your brillent idea as they'll never be bright enough to see the value of it.
And when did I say democrats are more evil than republicans? Republicans are pro big business, democrats are pro trial lawyers. Heck, I supported Sen. McCain during the last election as I find him to be more moderate than Bush or Gore.
And you are a moron if you think that the alternatives are any better. Democrats are for pro greedy trial lawyers. why do you think that Trial Lawyers association endorses Democrats? If you want proof, do a research on the battle between the doctors group and trial laywers group regarding the malpractice insurance issue.
Most people won't do it because it's easier to bitch about it and hope that someone else do it for them.
I did volunteer work for a state rep when I was majoring in CS. The state rep would ask me about technology related issues and I had great influence on how he votes on technology related issues/bills. He also took me to technology related meetings and conferences and I was able to better understand how things worked in government.
There are plenty of people on/. who gripe about how government is crooked, and how more things need to be done to help the poor, yet most of them will spend their time and money on gaming, drinking, smoking pot, etc than volunteering or donating.
How about this? Since business majors are like highschool++ get yourself a business degree in 1 or 2 years (shouldn't be hard for you if idiots can do it in 4 or 5 years), and you can be the one who gets to control other people's money.
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Go to microsoft.com and look at their liabilities and stockholders' equity section of the financial statement. It shows that MS had income taxes payable of 2.022 billion dollars.
"by using a deduction for employee stock dividends paid" How can that be possible? You can usually only pay dividends after net income, which comes after deducting expenses, including tax expenses. Besides, the employees have to pay tax on dividends anyways so the government gets it money from MS only way or the other. BTW, S-Corporations don't pay taxes either but the tax liability gets passed down to the stockholders so in the end, the government end up collecting taxes after all. Do you have links to your sources to back up your claims that the middle class pays the most tax? Besides, if many of the people in the "middle" class who pay ungodly amounts of taxes do some research on the IRS site instead of playing UT or Evercrack all day, they would learn about the "loopholes" that would reduce their tax liability. But I guess it's easier to bitch than doing some research.
Consumer: I need to get the recall work done on my car for broken seat belts. Dealer: We'll do them for you only if you agree to not to say anything bad about us and we are allowed to inspect your car at any time.
I'd mod you funny but I can't mod my own thread...
I signed up for it but I still get calls from my in-laws.
And windows never crash. They simply replaced their desktop page with the statement, which provides debugging information (A.K.K BSOD). Hardly crashing.
Then tell me, why did est. 10,000 die in Frence in the heat wave dispite all their wonderful regulations?
It is. Vonage will win because according to the U.S. Constitution, only Congress can pass the law regulating inter state commerce.
" before you write your senator, know how to do it right." Do you honestly think that your average geek will take the time to write to a senator? If all the geeks got together and formed a PAC, we would be better prepared to fight the likes of Microsoft but most geeks would rather spend their time and money on gaming. Why do you think that there is multi-billion dollar gaming industry? geek 1: All big parties suck because they receive handouts from mega corps. We should all vote for Bob Right because he's free form the influence of the evil businesses. geek 2: He does seem like an idea person to be the next congressman/senator/president, but looks like he can't afford to buy air and radio time. Did you make any donations? geek 1: I had spare $2000 but I decided to buy a phat gaming machine and play Evercrack so I can support another mega corp. And you wonder why geeks don't make any difference.
"and have appropriate hygeine." That explains why a lot of slashdotters are unemployed.
Heck, a person can request a subpoena for minor traffic cases so I don't sell why a corporation cannot request one for a copyright suite.
Who knows? Maybe humans aren't being used as batteries, rather their collective brain powers are used (like clustered computers) for creating Matrix.
But the IT guy of the company is responsible for wiping harddrives, not the CEO. And it's the same IT guy who ratted them out.
A disgruntled employee or contractor can easily rat your company out to BSA.
Give me just one billion dollars and I'll act like a robot with capabilities of a 5-year-old.
Not really, may people don't have the discipline to sit through two years of classes. I have several friends that I consider intelligent but they'd rather spend their time and money on weed and video games.
Clinton did consider pre-emptive strikes against North Korea so he's not exactly a peace activist.
Where can I get the E-mail addresses of those 6,000 people who ordered the pills? I'm a classmate of a roomate who's sister's boyfriend's father's 3rd cousin is a banker in Nigeria who's looking for someone to help him get 300 million dollars out of Nigeria for a cut.
"I have a very simple, quite moral reason for supporting this: People are demonstrably violent, and a minority (but a significant one) will attack those who are weaker." And you call business majors amoral... And since when did U.S. become weaker than Al Quaeda?
You like weapons design? I guess you are out of luck as idiot managers (as they were too stupid to become engineers) will deny funding to your brillent idea as they'll never be bright enough to see the value of it.
And when did I say democrats are more evil than republicans? Republicans are pro big business, democrats are pro trial lawyers. Heck, I supported Sen. McCain during the last election as I find him to be more moderate than Bush or Gore.
"Some of us have morals."
Then can you tell me why engineerers in the defense industroy don't have problems with developing weapons of mass distruction for paycheck?
And you are a moron if you think that the alternatives are any better. Democrats are for pro greedy trial lawyers. why do you think that Trial Lawyers association endorses Democrats? If you want proof, do a research on the battle between the doctors group and trial laywers group regarding the malpractice insurance issue.
I guess engineers are so intelligent that they enjoy working for businesses run by idiots for less pay.
Most people won't do it because it's easier to bitch about it and hope that someone else do it for them.
/. who gripe about how government is crooked, and how more things need to be done to help the poor, yet most of them will spend their time and money on gaming, drinking, smoking pot, etc than volunteering or donating.
I did volunteer work for a state rep when I was majoring in CS. The state rep would ask me about technology related issues and I had great influence on how he votes on technology related issues/bills. He also took me to technology related meetings and conferences and I was able to better understand how things worked in government.
There are plenty of people on
How about this? Since business majors are like highschool++ get yourself a business degree in 1 or 2 years (shouldn't be hard for you if idiots can do it in 4 or 5 years), and you can be the one who gets to control other people's money.