Originally, the tax location for a corporation was where the offices of the CEO were (not explicitly, but in practice). A large English trading company was treated like all sales were made at the corporate HQ. Of course, back then, the taxes were also structured differently.
If Apple sells an iPhone in Germany, it should pay taxes in Germany on that profit. But how much profit was really generated there? What's the "right" cost of that iPhone to Apple's German subsidiary?
I think the general agreement is that there is no easy answer to that, but that the current answer is "Not Fucking Ireland".
All of that money is money earned overseas. So it's not "funneled" anywhere,
It's funneled to Ireland to not funnel it to the US.
the government makes it absurdly expensive to bring money back to the U.S.
That's why arbitrage should be illegal. I don't care if you don't want to bring money back to the US, but if that's your stance, then move your offices to Ireland. Having a PO box in Ireland (and maybe some accounting contractors) isn't a nexus. Apple is so proud of "designed in Cupertino" until the sale is made, then it's "based in Ireland".
How do you get Fast Ring? It looks to be opt in. So if you opt in for the newest fastest deployment of patches and your complaint is that the patches come in too fast, that seems a user error. Pick a slower ring, and don't worry so much about updates.
When you turn it off, you also have to stop updating, or re-turn it off on every update.
The point wasn't how to do it, or how hard it is to do it, but that someone paid to do it should have done it.
This guy's complaints are the same as if a plumber comes out and is missing a tool. He blames Home Depot for selling a toolkit set that didn't include it. I don't care about your excuses. It's your job. If you aren't an effective plumber if you can't keep your tool inventory, then it doesn't matter if logistics is unrelated to pipes, it's a required part of the job of plumbing.
This professional gamer doesn't know how to work his computer. Race car drivers are all "experts" in tires, suspension and engine. You have to be to work out the details of race driving. So a gamer who doesn't know how to work his gaming rig is as good at his job as a race driver that doesn't know the difference between slicks and rain tires.
This idiot announced "look how big an idiot I am!" and is looking for more publicity for it. And Slashdot is giving it to him.
The toughest trick I learned was to load TSR drivers (not usable while terminated, but resident allows them to restart over objections of other programs), so you'd load up the drivers you need, terminate them, then load the application, then load the drivers back in, Leaving the drivers active prevents the application from loading. Loading the drivers after the application prevented the drivers from being used in the application.
The hardest part of the trick was counting bits, and loading the drivers at a specific memory location, for optimization.
So it's the same as the complaining gamer, where the reboot broke his game, but not his stream of the game, and not his voice-over. Apparently 70% of your applications work while rebooting. Why isn't anyone talking about that magic?
Company buys trademark in 2002, squats and doesn't sell a single item under that name until 2009, after someone else registers the name and starts using it. Seems like a reasonable result.
Also, the country of origin must be listed, not the city or location of manufacture. So Usa (as a town) would be illegal to list as the only identifier of manufactured location.
You didn't shred it. The same holds true for companies that have a policy to delete emails over 90 days old. If they are sued on day 91, they aren't punished for shredding the emails. The proof they didn't shred them is that they had a pre-existing policy, so it was provably not done to avoid that specific action.
Though that doesn't save them if they are notified of an action at day 15 into the cycle, and they don't protect the data on day 90. If something like that is closer to how you see your USB key working, it would still be illegal shredding.
People who know more about this than you or me have thought about it, and they still have centralised generation for a reason.
Yes. And the reason is profit. Not technical superiority, not better in any way. It may be, or it may not be, but profit and control is the reason centralized generation is ubiquitous.
That you don't understand the basics indicates you don't understand any of the issues at hand.
You power your house from diesel? Or is this a lame attempt at a strawman?
You generate power in your car for your car. The largest consumption of power for an average person is their personal transport, and the primary generation for the primary power use is distributed generation. Again, you are so focused on hating renewables that you can't grasp the basics of the conversation.
If I have this wrong, please provide a link to a location that relies solely on distributed rooftop solar panels, with no central generation, and everyone gets electricity for free.
the location is millions of off-grid locations. Plenty of people live off grid (in many 3rd world countries, they do so by necessity, not choice). That you've never heard of "off grid" doesn't mean it doesn't exist. By definition, someone "off grid" doesn't pay for centralized generation.
But it still has a "g" in there, so "g" can't be replaced in gigantic. The first, yes, but the second, no. So "g" would be a required letter. "j" is one of the most recent additions to the language. It looks like "i" because that's what it derived from.
At the time (of peak use), a sextant would be considered a "gadget" (or equivalent period word). You are using the fact that "gadget" is a new word to influence the age of the items selected.
If you think a wheel is a gadget, can you name a specific wheel brand that was influential?
I can't think of a specific brand of TV that was influential, and that's #2 on the list, so I'm confused how that's a requirement for "gadget", also, generally "gadget" means something small enough it can be casually carried, like a sextant, binoculars, gun, iPhone, and other personal object. TV doesn't seem to fit the definition of "gadget" unless you broaden the definition of "gadget" to include almost anything, in which case phone (without the "i") would be much more influential. Though the Time article TFA was based on indicates it's a list of the most important tech that can be identified by maker, not device. So it's a single product, not "gadget".
The wording in TFA doesn't agree with the original article, but is an Apple fan blog focusing on the #1 spot and making it sound more important and sweeping. And the commenters here haven't read TFA, let alone TOA (the original article).
Personally, I'd exclude the Simple Machines from the category of "gadget". They may have been more influential, but aren't "gadgets". The list given seems slanted towards "electronic gadget".
And pays for it, so it's not free. Do you get this now?
I had it from the beginning. It's being done now, and you are acting like it's an insane idea. I'm just talking about expanding it, and changing the thinking of the central electric companies.
They won't lose a cent, because they're not buying into your harebrained scheme.
It's not my scheme. It's being done now. That you are too ignorant to know about it, and too stupid to understand it doesn't change the fact that it's happening now.
Centralised power distribution, which is why every single developed country has chosen that model.
Nobody has chosen it. We have decentralized power distribution. You are just being disingenuous again, ignoring all power other than electric. Or do you consider wide-spread decentralized gasoline/diesel power distribution to not count?
Replacing a decentralized distribution of power for cars with a centralized one is a larger change than what I'm talking about. That you don't understand doesn't change reality.
Someone has to own and maintain the hardware, or do you think it just magically appears out of thin air? And when parts break, they magically fix themselves? These are operational costs.
The owner of the land owns it.
Um no. Commercial sites might peak during work hours, but residential peaks at night.
Combined peak is generally during work hours, though it changes based on climate and users.
But the line charges also now cost more than your total bill now, because instead of hiring a few hundred people to maintain a large static power plant, you need thousands of people, parts, and administrators to maintain 50 million installations, all constantly changing and breaking at inconvenient times and in inconvenient locations. So it's a net loss.
You don't have 50 million plants. You have 50 million suppliers. If the suppliers don't supply, they will lose money. The line charges will drop, because electricity doesn't have to go as far, so interties and such will be smaller, with less capital cost and less efficiency loss. And generation cost will drop, because you are a generator of electricity.
You are assuming the worst of any possible implementation, and picking and choosing the worst possible view from consumer or electric company. Take a deep breath. Leave your ego aside, where you've decided you need to pick a fight. And think of the best possible result. What is that?
The problem is when you are following along and you go North-south. E-W pages are generally adjacent. N-S are generally separated by 10 or 20 pages, so you have to go flipping. When using those, it requires a dedicated navigator, not like phone which displays less information, but mainly what you need to follow a known (or marked) route.
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Thank using roads without paying for them is theft.
If Apple sells an iPhone in Germany, it should pay taxes in Germany on that profit. But how much profit was really generated there? What's the "right" cost of that iPhone to Apple's German subsidiary?
I think the general agreement is that there is no easy answer to that, but that the current answer is "Not Fucking Ireland".
Apple is already the top taxpayer in [...] the whole fucking country!
Then why does Forbes list Exxon and Chevron as paying more tax? http://www.forbes.com/pictures...
All of that money is money earned overseas. So it's not "funneled" anywhere,
It's funneled to Ireland to not funnel it to the US.
the government makes it absurdly expensive to bring money back to the U.S.
That's why arbitrage should be illegal. I don't care if you don't want to bring money back to the US, but if that's your stance, then move your offices to Ireland. Having a PO box in Ireland (and maybe some accounting contractors) isn't a nexus. Apple is so proud of "designed in Cupertino" until the sale is made, then it's "based in Ireland".
That is a fraud, and should be punished as such.
How do you get Fast Ring? It looks to be opt in. So if you opt in for the newest fastest deployment of patches and your complaint is that the patches come in too fast, that seems a user error. Pick a slower ring, and don't worry so much about updates.
Disabling automatic updates is the "no". Enabling automatic updates (even automatic downloads of manual updates) turns it into a "later" button.
When you turn it off, you also have to stop updating, or re-turn it off on every update.
The point wasn't how to do it, or how hard it is to do it, but that someone paid to do it should have done it.
This guy's complaints are the same as if a plumber comes out and is missing a tool. He blames Home Depot for selling a toolkit set that didn't include it. I don't care about your excuses. It's your job. If you aren't an effective plumber if you can't keep your tool inventory, then it doesn't matter if logistics is unrelated to pipes, it's a required part of the job of plumbing.
This professional gamer doesn't know how to work his computer. Race car drivers are all "experts" in tires, suspension and engine. You have to be to work out the details of race driving. So a gamer who doesn't know how to work his gaming rig is as good at his job as a race driver that doesn't know the difference between slicks and rain tires.
This idiot announced "look how big an idiot I am!" and is looking for more publicity for it. And Slashdot is giving it to him.
If your job is playing video games on Windows, one would presume you'd learn the step of manually updating before starting an important paid stream.
The toughest trick I learned was to load TSR drivers (not usable while terminated, but resident allows them to restart over objections of other programs), so you'd load up the drivers you need, terminate them, then load the application, then load the drivers back in, Leaving the drivers active prevents the application from loading. Loading the drivers after the application prevented the drivers from being used in the application.
The hardest part of the trick was counting bits, and loading the drivers at a specific memory location, for optimization.
So it's the same as the complaining gamer, where the reboot broke his game, but not his stream of the game, and not his voice-over. Apparently 70% of your applications work while rebooting. Why isn't anyone talking about that magic?
http://www.privatehealth.co.uk... Seems trivial to find a hospital that will take your money.
Your idea was sold on distributed generation being cheaper (free electricity!) now you're saying it's not.
No, I'm not saying that. When your best argument is to lie about what I said, then the discussion is over.
Company buys trademark in 2002, squats and doesn't sell a single item under that name until 2009, after someone else registers the name and starts using it. Seems like a reasonable result.
Also, the country of origin must be listed, not the city or location of manufacture. So Usa (as a town) would be illegal to list as the only identifier of manufactured location.
You didn't shred it. The same holds true for companies that have a policy to delete emails over 90 days old. If they are sued on day 91, they aren't punished for shredding the emails. The proof they didn't shred them is that they had a pre-existing policy, so it was provably not done to avoid that specific action.
Though that doesn't save them if they are notified of an action at day 15 into the cycle, and they don't protect the data on day 90. If something like that is closer to how you see your USB key working, it would still be illegal shredding.
People who know more about this than you or me have thought about it, and they still have centralised generation for a reason.
Yes. And the reason is profit. Not technical superiority, not better in any way. It may be, or it may not be, but profit and control is the reason centralized generation is ubiquitous.
That you don't understand the basics indicates you don't understand any of the issues at hand.
You power your house from diesel? Or is this a lame attempt at a strawman?
You generate power in your car for your car. The largest consumption of power for an average person is their personal transport, and the primary generation for the primary power use is distributed generation. Again, you are so focused on hating renewables that you can't grasp the basics of the conversation.
If I have this wrong, please provide a link to a location that relies solely on distributed rooftop solar panels, with no central generation, and everyone gets electricity for free.
the location is millions of off-grid locations. Plenty of people live off grid (in many 3rd world countries, they do so by necessity, not choice). That you've never heard of "off grid" doesn't mean it doesn't exist. By definition, someone "off grid" doesn't pay for centralized generation.
But it still has a "g" in there, so "g" can't be replaced in gigantic. The first, yes, but the second, no. So "g" would be a required letter. "j" is one of the most recent additions to the language. It looks like "i" because that's what it derived from.
If you think a wheel is a gadget, can you name a specific wheel brand that was influential?
I can't think of a specific brand of TV that was influential, and that's #2 on the list, so I'm confused how that's a requirement for "gadget", also, generally "gadget" means something small enough it can be casually carried, like a sextant, binoculars, gun, iPhone, and other personal object. TV doesn't seem to fit the definition of "gadget" unless you broaden the definition of "gadget" to include almost anything, in which case phone (without the "i") would be much more influential. Though the Time article TFA was based on indicates it's a list of the most important tech that can be identified by maker, not device. So it's a single product, not "gadget".
The wording in TFA doesn't agree with the original article, but is an Apple fan blog focusing on the #1 spot and making it sound more important and sweeping. And the commenters here haven't read TFA, let alone TOA (the original article).
G is, which can often be replaced by J. Or the letter E, which can easily be replaced by Y.
So Gigantic would be what? Jijjntic? Jieantic? How would someone spell gigantic without "g" There's on "juh" g in there and on "guh" g in there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Personally, I'd exclude the Simple Machines from the category of "gadget". They may have been more influential, but aren't "gadgets". The list given seems slanted towards "electronic gadget".
And pays for it, so it's not free. Do you get this now?
I had it from the beginning. It's being done now, and you are acting like it's an insane idea. I'm just talking about expanding it, and changing the thinking of the central electric companies.
They won't lose a cent, because they're not buying into your harebrained scheme.
It's not my scheme. It's being done now. That you are too ignorant to know about it, and too stupid to understand it doesn't change the fact that it's happening now.
Centralised power distribution, which is why every single developed country has chosen that model.
Nobody has chosen it. We have decentralized power distribution. You are just being disingenuous again, ignoring all power other than electric. Or do you consider wide-spread decentralized gasoline/diesel power distribution to not count?
Replacing a decentralized distribution of power for cars with a centralized one is a larger change than what I'm talking about. That you don't understand doesn't change reality.
Someone has to own and maintain the hardware, or do you think it just magically appears out of thin air? And when parts break, they magically fix themselves? These are operational costs.
The owner of the land owns it.
Um no. Commercial sites might peak during work hours, but residential peaks at night.
Combined peak is generally during work hours, though it changes based on climate and users.
But the line charges also now cost more than your total bill now, because instead of hiring a few hundred people to maintain a large static power plant, you need thousands of people, parts, and administrators to maintain 50 million installations, all constantly changing and breaking at inconvenient times and in inconvenient locations. So it's a net loss.
You don't have 50 million plants. You have 50 million suppliers. If the suppliers don't supply, they will lose money. The line charges will drop, because electricity doesn't have to go as far, so interties and such will be smaller, with less capital cost and less efficiency loss. And generation cost will drop, because you are a generator of electricity.
You are assuming the worst of any possible implementation, and picking and choosing the worst possible view from consumer or electric company. Take a deep breath. Leave your ego aside, where you've decided you need to pick a fight. And think of the best possible result. What is that?
Yes, but so far, almost all such leaks have turned out to be genuine. So one must ask, why would someone question them without evidence?
But they cannot enforce "sole franchise", because that would make that franchise exclusive.
But they do. When your opinion and reality conflict, believing your opinion to be more correct is a mental illness called "neurosis".
The problem is when you are following along and you go North-south. E-W pages are generally adjacent. N-S are generally separated by 10 or 20 pages, so you have to go flipping. When using those, it requires a dedicated navigator, not like phone which displays less information, but mainly what you need to follow a known (or marked) route.