Read what I wrote again. She was pining for the nobility from the time of the Tsars. Your "central control is central control" is a very strange take on very different systems of government. Perhaps you could understand it better if I described the situation as that of King Georges aristocrats only with a far, far less representation and far more taxation. Remember that the "great men" in Rand were born that way and the ones that got somewhere on their own ability like the slimy little chief scientist are figures to hold in contempt and be bullied by the "great men".
Invade Latvia? Not just go in to "help" after Latvia "revolts" as is more Putin's style?
With your sig I'm amazed you don't like Putin. That weird anti-democratic screed with Galt in it was about Rand's wish for Tsarist nobility to come back and run things "properly" but in a American setting. Consider Rand's upbringing and a bit of Russian history and it will suddenly both make sense and look very sad and pathetic. The USA in the 1950s was a shitload better than Russia under the Tsars but that is what Rand was pining for - the "perfect world" of her parent's youth. She had utterly no clue about capitalism and democracy but railed against them with her tale of the adventures of a jailbait princess among the "great men".
He doesn't really care about America's grave. To him America is just a distant whining voice and occasional mosquito bite. If someday the US congress can have some sort of agreement about Syria or Ukraine he may pay more attention, but I can't see either of those things happening any day soon.
Instead of continuing to make those I suggest you read something on this topic instead of just making incredibly naive guesses which you have decided to share with us for some strange reason. The story starts in 1991 in County Cork with Apple making threats to a small local government.
But what are Johnston and Stein going to do for Rupert Murdoch? The mainstream media have reasons to pick winners which is why it's a threat to democracy when it is owned by so few.
Even Reagan was openly mocked in his last few months, but that was by people in the USA and is usual for outgoing Presidents. In the Philippines it is the USA that is seen as so weak due to the massive decline since 2000 or so and it's the USA that is being mocked.
I'm a bit confused on why they keep saying Trump is working with them
Trump is being financed by Russian banks with very close ties to Putin, which is not the same thing but that's why people are saying Trump is working with them.
Trump is working for Trump and is not going to work for either the Russians or the American people.
Nope. There isn't. That's one of peoples' objections to how DCMA works: it wasn't realized back in 1997 that millions of bogus, negligent, bad-faith or frivolous DMCA notices could simply be spammed without any consequences for the attackers.
It was realized but it was pretended that the perjury clause would stop it and that anyone who disputed that it would not was just a foaming at the mouth geek software pirate. Some of the early stories on this site were about it.
Why bother investigating? The overt stuff is bad enough. It's as if Trump is ticking every box to do whatever he had ever accused someone else of doing. The "truther" thing of 2011 was to imply that Obama was a "Manchurian Candidate" (watch the movie of that name if you haven't - good even if the science is wildly wrong) under the control of another power. So what does Trump do in 2016 - puts himself deep in debt with Russian banks tied very closely to Putin to theoretically put himself under the control of another power. Trump is probably going to default on those loans and tell the Russians to piss off just like the US banks he's done the same to, but in some ways that's even worse. Also Trump himself is already going on about how the election will be rigged - he's deliberately sowing distrust in the election.
Keep in mind that those kickbacks have to include the Irish voter too
Do you really think that's the way it happened?
Ireland gets a lot more of it than if it found its way back to the States
No, that money did all "find it's way back the the States" apart from a very tiny percentage.
I suggest you read something on this topic instead of just making incredibly naive guesses which you have decided to share with us for some strange reason.
If you are not being serious and not informing others of the fact I do not see how you can be critical just because others cannot tell the difference between you pretending to be stupid and the real thing.
How incredibly naive. That money does not stay in Ireland. The money "invested locally" is from that 0.005% tax rate that they agreed to pay and whatever kickbacks had to be paid to get that 0.005% tax rate.
OK then - here is the real thing, from the internet instead of dusty memory:
Prosecutor: Something must be done! War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes.
Chicolini: Hey, I got an uncle lives in Taxes.
Prosecutor: No, I'm talking about taxes - money, dollars!
Chicolini: Dollars! There's-a where my uncle lives! Dollars, Taxes!
- Ireland will have huge losses - jobs, tax revenue, etc;
Not as such. The Irish government has been looking the other way with taxes and the jobs are only enough to retain a "paper presence" as the headquarters instead of actually being the real headquarters. Even if the "6000 jobs" is real (which I very much doubt) there are layoffs bigger than that all the time that hardly make the papers.
Apple product prices could increase even more
Profits have been staggering, so a reduction isn't going to kill Apple while attempting to retain staggering profits while competing with Samsung etc selling for less may hurt Apple a lot. I doubt the product prices will increase much. Would you buy the latest iPhone if the latest Galaxy or whatever was less than half the price?
Actually it was in the US. Look up "transfer pricing". It's where things happen like Apple USA buy an iPhone from Apple EIRE at very close to retail price and so on paper make almost zero profit in the USA. The profit then happens in Ireland where the difference between say $10 per unit and $500 per unit is not taxed much at all due to personal agreements with Irish politicians and some other financial games involving Holland.
The EU is extremely pissed off because they have been propping up Ireland financially while Ireland has been looking the other way at vast amounts of tax revenue that Irish laws say they should be collecting. It's not about 6000 jobs (the usual excuse and most likely an outright lie about the number Apple employ in Ireland), the unpaid taxes could provide that a hundred times over, it would be a money trail leading into the pockets of those Irish politicians who are loudly damning the EU this week for suggesting they tax Apple.
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That stupid act is so cute. Do you do balloon animals too Pogo?
Read what I wrote again. She was pining for the nobility from the time of the Tsars.
Your "central control is central control" is a very strange take on very different systems of government.
Perhaps you could understand it better if I described the situation as that of King Georges aristocrats only with a far, far less representation and far more taxation.
Remember that the "great men" in Rand were born that way and the ones that got somewhere on their own ability like the slimy little chief scientist are figures to hold in contempt and be bullied by the "great men".
Invade Latvia? Not just go in to "help" after Latvia "revolts" as is more Putin's style?
With your sig I'm amazed you don't like Putin. That weird anti-democratic screed with Galt in it was about Rand's wish for Tsarist nobility to come back and run things "properly" but in a American setting. Consider Rand's upbringing and a bit of Russian history and it will suddenly both make sense and look very sad and pathetic. The USA in the 1950s was a shitload better than Russia under the Tsars but that is what Rand was pining for - the "perfect world" of her parent's youth. She had utterly no clue about capitalism and democracy but railed against them with her tale of the adventures of a jailbait princess among the "great men".
Rand would be cheering Putin on.
What do you mean? Russia just about held the EU to ransom with gas a while back - they HAVE that natural gas concession to Western Europe.
He doesn't really care about America's grave. To him America is just a distant whining voice and occasional mosquito bite. If someday the US congress can have some sort of agreement about Syria or Ukraine he may pay more attention, but I can't see either of those things happening any day soon.
Instead of continuing to make those I suggest you read something on this topic instead of just making incredibly naive guesses which you have decided to share with us for some strange reason.
The story starts in 1991 in County Cork with Apple making threats to a small local government.
Gaddafi was up to the same tricks right until the day he died.
Bzzt - fail.
Get a grownup to tell you about the bombing raid on Libya after the terrorist attack on a Pan-Am flight.
But what are Johnston and Stein going to do for Rupert Murdoch?
The mainstream media have reasons to pick winners which is why it's a threat to democracy when it is owned by so few.
Even Reagan was openly mocked in his last few months, but that was by people in the USA and is usual for outgoing Presidents.
In the Philippines it is the USA that is seen as so weak due to the massive decline since 2000 or so and it's the USA that is being mocked.
Trump is being financed by Russian banks with very close ties to Putin, which is not the same thing but that's why people are saying Trump is working with them.
Trump is working for Trump and is not going to work for either the Russians or the American people.
WTF?
You've got a million real reasons to hate her without going into tinfoil hat territory.
So Reagan was wrong in opposing Gaddafi as well?
It was realized but it was pretended that the perjury clause would stop it and that anyone who disputed that it would not was just a foaming at the mouth geek software pirate. Some of the early stories on this site were about it.
Why bother investigating? The overt stuff is bad enough.
It's as if Trump is ticking every box to do whatever he had ever accused someone else of doing.
The "truther" thing of 2011 was to imply that Obama was a "Manchurian Candidate" (watch the movie of that name if you haven't - good even if the science is wildly wrong) under the control of another power. So what does Trump do in 2016 - puts himself deep in debt with Russian banks tied very closely to Putin to theoretically put himself under the control of another power.
Trump is probably going to default on those loans and tell the Russians to piss off just like the US banks he's done the same to, but in some ways that's even worse.
Also Trump himself is already going on about how the election will be rigged - he's deliberately sowing distrust in the election.
Do you really think that's the way it happened?
No, that money did all "find it's way back the the States" apart from a very tiny percentage.
I suggest you read something on this topic instead of just making incredibly naive guesses which you have decided to share with us for some strange reason.
If you are not being serious and not informing others of the fact I do not see how you can be critical just because others cannot tell the difference between you pretending to be stupid and the real thing.
I'm describing their operations in Ireland where they have a "paper presence", please try to keep up.
How incredibly naive. That money does not stay in Ireland.
The money "invested locally" is from that 0.005% tax rate that they agreed to pay and whatever kickbacks had to be paid to get that 0.005% tax rate.
My point is he was blocked as has happened with many things and many leaders because we don't have a fucking King with absolute power.
OK then - here is the real thing, from the internet instead of dusty memory:
Prosecutor: Something must be done! War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes.
Chicolini: Hey, I got an uncle lives in Taxes.
Prosecutor: No, I'm talking about taxes - money, dollars!
Chicolini: Dollars! There's-a where my uncle lives! Dollars, Taxes!
While that is the excuse there are hardly any jobs at stake - what to look for is a money trail into specific pockets.
Pretty fucking sordid isn't it?
Not as such. The Irish government has been looking the other way with taxes and the jobs are only enough to retain a "paper presence" as the headquarters instead of actually being the real headquarters. Even if the "6000 jobs" is real (which I very much doubt) there are layoffs bigger than that all the time that hardly make the papers.
Profits have been staggering, so a reduction isn't going to kill Apple while attempting to retain staggering profits while competing with Samsung etc selling for less may hurt Apple a lot. I doubt the product prices will increase much. Would you buy the latest iPhone if the latest Galaxy or whatever was less than half the price?
Huge flaw in that - since the EU is financially propping up Ireland they would be charging themselves!
Actually it was in the US.
Look up "transfer pricing".
It's where things happen like Apple USA buy an iPhone from Apple EIRE at very close to retail price and so on paper make almost zero profit in the USA.
The profit then happens in Ireland where the difference between say $10 per unit and $500 per unit is not taxed much at all due to personal agreements with Irish politicians and some other financial games involving Holland.
The EU is extremely pissed off because they have been propping up Ireland financially while Ireland has been looking the other way at vast amounts of tax revenue that Irish laws say they should be collecting. It's not about 6000 jobs (the usual excuse and most likely an outright lie about the number Apple employ in Ireland), the unpaid taxes could provide that a hundred times over, it would be a money trail leading into the pockets of those Irish politicians who are loudly damning the EU this week for suggesting they tax Apple.
C: Sure I know how to spell Taxes - my cousin lives in Taxes.
G: No - dollars, dollars!
C: Atsa right - he lives in Dollars Taxes.