BEcause we have experience with women. He was told it was "ugly" and moved it to a hidden cabinet position. Then it was too noisy. If he replaced the box with one the same size and power, but silent, then the complaint will be "too many cords" After going wireless for everything, it will be "too big" After replacing it with a smaller box that's quiet and wireless, she'll complain that he spends all his money on gaming and wants him to stop gaming.
The problem isn't anything wrong with that box. The problem is that she sees gaming as "competition" and is jealous of it.
There exist some problems for which no technical solutions exist.
That, and it doesn't work. "Give up all your hobbies" was followed 2 years later with "get some new hobbies, you need to get out of the house more" I have no idea what she really wants. But when I did have hobbies, she complained. When I gave them up at her insistence, she complained. Doing what someone says doesn't work. And I haven't figured out what she really meant.
It's not too ugly, it was hidden and still drew complaint. As for too noisy, I'd put a fanless media player in place, and say that's the new gaming PC. Maybe have a few videos of a game and have a controller or something handy to sell the lie.
The next comments will be "still too noisy" "Still too ugly", or "I don't like to see the cords".
I'm not saying *she* is like that, but that in most cases, that's what happens.
I've seen video of Android devices playing WoW over an RDP-like connection (may have even been RDP). Blizzard would probably never make it official, as the support on the wide variety of devices would be troublesome, but people have wanted it enough, some have managed it.
So if they are profiting from the Android ecosystem (Play and other parts), then how is that dumping? The true test to dumping is if everyone bought all they could of it, would the company stop pupplying it or go out of business? No? Then it's not dumping. Dumping is a temporary loss targeting future profits off the same thing. If Google never sells Android, it's provably not dumping, the problem is that proof requires a time machine.
I use what's currently called the Google Play Store only for pulling reviewed applications for my smartphone down to it, as opposed to having to browse random developers' websites to find apps without having even a basic review process for them. I've never bought anything through it,
So you don't believe in a $0 purchase? They don't link you to a non-play web download. So the terms and conditions are set by Play. And those conditions treat all Play orders, even $0 ones, as "purchases". One of the important reasons for that is if you "buy" something for $0, when the price goes up to $5, you still own it. You don't have to re-buy updates, upgrades, or price changes (unless it's re-published as a new title).
Google doesn't make any money from me directly in doing that. I suppose they may manage to extract some advertising dollars through data-mining my session, but that's still not going to make me buy something.
So you assert that because they don't extract cash from you, they don't extract value from you. I assert you are wrong.
I am an expat. That your expat friends don't know the rules doesn't change them. The moment you renounce citizenship (provided the renunciation is valid) you owe no taxes to the IRS. Now, if you leave the US to take a $10,000,000 per year job, then the IRS could rule that you fraudulently renounced for tax evasion purposes, rescinding your renunciation. Perhaps your friends wrongly heard that there's a 10 year statute of limitations to that. There isn't, even if the IRS informally targets only recent renouncers for audit.
I have relocated myself and my business away from a tax happy, regulation happy, business destroying state. More than half a decade later, I'm still finding out there's another bureau I didn't inform I moved, I pay those fees, and fix that issue and there's another one. The DMV has three different branches who needed notifying and want to know my new address, my new business location, my new Drivers License, and everything else.
That's because you didn't file proper paperwork. That's not a moving fee, and from your wording, that was within the US, not outside. So the fact that a state goes after people that leave doesn't mean the feds do.
Can you tell me its any different if you leave the country?
Yes. I didn't notify the DMV or anyone else. Nobody but the IRS cared. I filed the proper $0 return, 100% deductable income, $0 taxes paid, as is the case with most expats. Though, yes, you can find the few trying to screw the system that complain how they were targeted for violating US law. Poor criminals, sad because they committed crimes.
Or did you leave the country for some other reason?
Less crime, lower taxes, greater services, lower corruption (and, in my case, greater income). That, and the USA will enter the Great Depression II soon. The growing debt leaves no other option. The economic collapse and ensuing post-apocolypsic landscape is what drove me away. And yes, I know that the USA's fall will affect the rest of the world, but I think I'm in a position where it won't hurt nearly as bad.
And the schools are better and such so it's much better for a family than in the US. Where things like my sister sued the school district because her son was listed as "retarded" (lowest 15%) and kicked out of school every time there was a standardized test (so they didn't have him pulling down averages), and putting him back in the moment the test was over so that they didn't have to give him any aid to help him. The effect was that he was suspended from school for one month every time there was a standardized test. Stuff like that doesn't happen here.
Leaving the US is actually pretty easy. Much easier than getting accepted somewhere better than the US, most of them are very selective.
The Google haters say that having a free Play account, and free Google+ account provisioned with every Gmail account is unfair to the competitors to Play, though I'm not sure who that would be, since the MS store and Apple stores don't compete on the same devices with it. Maybe Amazon's store is disadvantaged? But that one is linked to a book sales site, so buy a book get a free included store account, so I don't see how they could really complain.
And nobody uses Google+. Google does it because it uses Google+ as the social background for YouTube and other things. Even if users don't really use Google+ as a social media platform.
The issue is that Google has got the same business unit that handles their web search operation also pushing Google services. The result is that Google is actively discriminating against competing services
What discriminating is Google doing? If you search for MS Office, you get Google Docs as the only result?
I've heard lots of complaints, but no examples. When Google returns "google glass" as the only result for "wearable computing" then I'll believe it. But bundling isn't discriminating.
Instead Googles army of fanboys is now out in force again trying to paint a big yellow smiley over the whole thing.
I'm not a Google fanboy, but I'm accused of being one for simply asking for examples of wrongdoing. Or maybe that's the chant of the Google haters who can't come up with a reason they hate Google.
That, and it's a bad decision. Breaking up MS makes sense. The Office division is a separate business unit from Hardware, which is different from OS. So you have separate business units that have different goals and are very divisible.
Google has much less internal separation, and at this point, no real independence. The advertising pays for everything. So if you split advertising from the rest, everything else will die.
We have lots of people who have families in Africa, they come over with their friends ALL the time, and they attend the same schools as the natives do, it's just a matter of time before this becomes a uncontrollable problem.
I've never seen that problem. Maybe in NYC around the UN or around DC where there are embasssys or such. But most of the US doesn't have places with "lots" or people with families in Africa, and if they did, they don't visit that often.
Proper hygiene needs to be taught,
It is. It just isn't followed.
and before we know how to control this, we should limit the traveling from and to infected countries.
We already know how to control it, and we already have travel restrictions in place.
Its not that difficult to catch. If it was really difficult to catch then why the need for biosafety level four containment for decades around the world.
Because it has a high death rate, and no vaccine. It's not because of the ease of catching, but what happens after.
Also its a PR myth about the only catchable in the final stages.
It's a mostly correct simplification. It's theoretically possible to catch it earlier. But nobody ever has. You are arguing that your theory is more important than reality. Sorry, but I'll trust reality over you. And the experts don't agree with you either. Or is there a global conspiracy to infect the USA with Ebola? And you are the lone champion on the side of the USA to keep out blood pure?
Blockades cost money and the politicians think of money first, people second, plus some see a pandemic as a means of population control without looking closely enough at what damage it'll do to their own countries and families as well.
The blockade would stop workers and aid from getting in, and former workers from getting home. Travel restrictions are in place now. If you are going to fully blockade a place because it's infected, you should pull out all the non-locals, close the borders, and nuke it from space. You are doing the same, but slower, by issuing a full global blockade of the place.
If you were infected and had the finacial means to do so, wouldn't you try to get to somewhere else that had a better medical system? This will help spread the virus further.
Those aid workers who contracted it in Africa who were flown to the US (and other places) all got better and lived, and none infected another person. So, it wasn't their financial means that did it, but the medical community helping the sick that did it, and it provably didn't "spread" the virus, as the virus may have left the country, but died shortly after, with no spread.
Most packaging in a supermarket can't be heated to 150 degrees!
So you are asserting that Frosted Flakes will go bad at 150 degrees? Or is it the Doritos that go bad at 150? There's more to supermarkets than bananas and milk.
Nope. Because the disease runs its course in 46 days. So it's 10 cases today, and 20 cases in 46 days (cumulative), but the first 10 are either cured and immune or dead. Never more than 10 sick at one time in those 46 days, so not exponential.
Read Animal Farm. Nobody liked the cat. But the cat didn't kill anyone. If Animal Farm were written today, the pigs would have blamed all the problems on the cat, despite no problem ever having been caused by the cat. That's the country we live in today.
Nope. The lazy people who are financially well off, and not punished for working, actually get more active, and start doing more things. When weaned off the support, they turn their interest into a job. The capitalist stays home and faps, while waiting for his portfolio to increase 1/10th of a basis point, before selling, shorting, and twitting a false and damaging rumour about the company.
Giving to the poor and lazy makes more jobs than giving to the rich.
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BEcause we have experience with women. He was told it was "ugly" and moved it to a hidden cabinet position. Then it was too noisy. If he replaced the box with one the same size and power, but silent, then the complaint will be "too many cords" After going wireless for everything, it will be "too big" After replacing it with a smaller box that's quiet and wireless, she'll complain that he spends all his money on gaming and wants him to stop gaming.
The problem isn't anything wrong with that box. The problem is that she sees gaming as "competition" and is jealous of it.
There exist some problems for which no technical solutions exist.
That, and it doesn't work. "Give up all your hobbies" was followed 2 years later with "get some new hobbies, you need to get out of the house more" I have no idea what she really wants. But when I did have hobbies, she complained. When I gave them up at her insistence, she complained. Doing what someone says doesn't work. And I haven't figured out what she really meant.
It's not too ugly, it was hidden and still drew complaint. As for too noisy, I'd put a fanless media player in place, and say that's the new gaming PC. Maybe have a few videos of a game and have a controller or something handy to sell the lie.
The next comments will be "still too noisy" "Still too ugly", or "I don't like to see the cords".
I'm not saying *she* is like that, but that in most cases, that's what happens.
I've seen video of Android devices playing WoW over an RDP-like connection (may have even been RDP). Blizzard would probably never make it official, as the support on the wide variety of devices would be troublesome, but people have wanted it enough, some have managed it.
So if they are profiting from the Android ecosystem (Play and other parts), then how is that dumping? The true test to dumping is if everyone bought all they could of it, would the company stop pupplying it or go out of business? No? Then it's not dumping. Dumping is a temporary loss targeting future profits off the same thing. If Google never sells Android, it's provably not dumping, the problem is that proof requires a time machine.
I use what's currently called the Google Play Store only for pulling reviewed applications for my smartphone down to it, as opposed to having to browse random developers' websites to find apps without having even a basic review process for them. I've never bought anything through it,
So you don't believe in a $0 purchase? They don't link you to a non-play web download. So the terms and conditions are set by Play. And those conditions treat all Play orders, even $0 ones, as "purchases". One of the important reasons for that is if you "buy" something for $0, when the price goes up to $5, you still own it. You don't have to re-buy updates, upgrades, or price changes (unless it's re-published as a new title).
Google doesn't make any money from me directly in doing that. I suppose they may manage to extract some advertising dollars through data-mining my session, but that's still not going to make me buy something.
So you assert that because they don't extract cash from you, they don't extract value from you. I assert you are wrong.
I have relocated myself and my business away from a tax happy, regulation happy, business destroying state. More than half a decade later, I'm still finding out there's another bureau I didn't inform I moved, I pay those fees, and fix that issue and there's another one. The DMV has three different branches who needed notifying and want to know my new address, my new business location, my new Drivers License, and everything else.
That's because you didn't file proper paperwork. That's not a moving fee, and from your wording, that was within the US, not outside. So the fact that a state goes after people that leave doesn't mean the feds do.
Can you tell me its any different if you leave the country?
Yes. I didn't notify the DMV or anyone else. Nobody but the IRS cared. I filed the proper $0 return, 100% deductable income, $0 taxes paid, as is the case with most expats. Though, yes, you can find the few trying to screw the system that complain how they were targeted for violating US law. Poor criminals, sad because they committed crimes.
Or did you leave the country for some other reason?
Less crime, lower taxes, greater services, lower corruption (and, in my case, greater income). That, and the USA will enter the Great Depression II soon. The growing debt leaves no other option. The economic collapse and ensuing post-apocolypsic landscape is what drove me away. And yes, I know that the USA's fall will affect the rest of the world, but I think I'm in a position where it won't hurt nearly as bad.
And the schools are better and such so it's much better for a family than in the US. Where things like my sister sued the school district because her son was listed as "retarded" (lowest 15%) and kicked out of school every time there was a standardized test (so they didn't have him pulling down averages), and putting him back in the moment the test was over so that they didn't have to give him any aid to help him. The effect was that he was suspended from school for one month every time there was a standardized test. Stuff like that doesn't happen here.
Leaving the US is actually pretty easy. Much easier than getting accepted somewhere better than the US, most of them are very selective.
And that practice involves pricing a product below its cost to produce in order to essentially drive your competitors out of business.
A defense to "dumping" is profit. And Google is making a profit on Android, so it's provably not "dumping"
I tried the same search and got Google as 14th. Outlook.com was on the list well ahead of it.
The Google haters say that having a free Play account, and free Google+ account provisioned with every Gmail account is unfair to the competitors to Play, though I'm not sure who that would be, since the MS store and Apple stores don't compete on the same devices with it. Maybe Amazon's store is disadvantaged? But that one is linked to a book sales site, so buy a book get a free included store account, so I don't see how they could really complain.
And nobody uses Google+. Google does it because it uses Google+ as the social background for YouTube and other things. Even if users don't really use Google+ as a social media platform.
Adwords were #9 on the list. Is that supposed to be shocking? Bing ads showed up before it did.
I just typed in "office suite" and got MS office as #3.
The issue is that Google has got the same business unit that handles their web search operation also pushing Google services. The result is that Google is actively discriminating against competing services
What discriminating is Google doing? If you search for MS Office, you get Google Docs as the only result?
I've heard lots of complaints, but no examples. When Google returns "google glass" as the only result for "wearable computing" then I'll believe it. But bundling isn't discriminating.
Instead Googles army of fanboys is now out in force again trying to paint a big yellow smiley over the whole thing.
I'm not a Google fanboy, but I'm accused of being one for simply asking for examples of wrongdoing. Or maybe that's the chant of the Google haters who can't come up with a reason they hate Google.
That, and it's a bad decision. Breaking up MS makes sense. The Office division is a separate business unit from Hardware, which is different from OS. So you have separate business units that have different goals and are very divisible.
Google has much less internal separation, and at this point, no real independence. The advertising pays for everything. So if you split advertising from the rest, everything else will die.
We have lots of people who have families in Africa, they come over with their friends ALL the time, and they attend the same schools as the natives do, it's just a matter of time before this becomes a uncontrollable problem.
I've never seen that problem. Maybe in NYC around the UN or around DC where there are embasssys or such. But most of the US doesn't have places with "lots" or people with families in Africa, and if they did, they don't visit that often.
Proper hygiene needs to be taught,
It is. It just isn't followed.
and before we know how to control this, we should limit the traveling from and to infected countries.
We already know how to control it, and we already have travel restrictions in place.
Personally I've stacked up like crazy,
Crazy being the operable word.
Its not that difficult to catch. If it was really difficult to catch then why the need for biosafety level four containment for decades around the world.
Because it has a high death rate, and no vaccine. It's not because of the ease of catching, but what happens after.
Also its a PR myth about the only catchable in the final stages.
It's a mostly correct simplification. It's theoretically possible to catch it earlier. But nobody ever has. You are arguing that your theory is more important than reality. Sorry, but I'll trust reality over you. And the experts don't agree with you either. Or is there a global conspiracy to infect the USA with Ebola? And you are the lone champion on the side of the USA to keep out blood pure?
Blockades cost money and the politicians think of money first, people second, plus some see a pandemic as a means of population control without looking closely enough at what damage it'll do to their own countries and families as well.
The blockade would stop workers and aid from getting in, and former workers from getting home. Travel restrictions are in place now. If you are going to fully blockade a place because it's infected, you should pull out all the non-locals, close the borders, and nuke it from space. You are doing the same, but slower, by issuing a full global blockade of the place.
If you were infected and had the finacial means to do so, wouldn't you try to get to somewhere else that had a better medical system? This will help spread the virus further.
Those aid workers who contracted it in Africa who were flown to the US (and other places) all got better and lived, and none infected another person. So, it wasn't their financial means that did it, but the medical community helping the sick that did it, and it provably didn't "spread" the virus, as the virus may have left the country, but died shortly after, with no spread.
Most packaging in a supermarket can't be heated to 150 degrees!
So you are asserting that Frosted Flakes will go bad at 150 degrees? Or is it the Doritos that go bad at 150? There's more to supermarkets than bananas and milk.
a biosafety level four pathogen
That's related more to the lethality and treatment, rather than the contagion. Contagion isn't the sole determinant of safety level required.
Nope. Because the disease runs its course in 46 days. So it's 10 cases today, and 20 cases in 46 days (cumulative), but the first 10 are either cured and immune or dead. Never more than 10 sick at one time in those 46 days, so not exponential.
I had the backed message pop up once for me, and I was never logged into any of the affected sites.
Nuke them from orbit?
Read Animal Farm. Nobody liked the cat. But the cat didn't kill anyone. If Animal Farm were written today, the pigs would have blamed all the problems on the cat, despite no problem ever having been caused by the cat. That's the country we live in today.
Nope. The lazy people who are financially well off, and not punished for working, actually get more active, and start doing more things. When weaned off the support, they turn their interest into a job. The capitalist stays home and faps, while waiting for his portfolio to increase 1/10th of a basis point, before selling, shorting, and twitting a false and damaging rumour about the company.
Giving to the poor and lazy makes more jobs than giving to the rich.
I kept my doctor and saw my premiums go down. Who do I complain to?