People don't watch the road right now while they are driving their shitbox cars. Give them driving assist and they'll be reading or working on something else during their commute, oblivious of traffic.
Better get used to unskilled driving. Once autopilots became a thing in aircraft, piloting skills began to deteriorate to the point that handling exceptions is a recognized problem. They call it 'flying the magenta line'. Car drivers will go through the same thing. You might actually have your hands on the wheel of your Tesla, but when it screws up, you haven't developed the skills to brake, change lanes or even evaluate the traffic flow around you.
a learning experience for young impressionable girls
Not really going to happen. There are still people who think girls are supposed to be raised innocent of the realities of life until they are old enough to be married off. At which time, it will be their husband's job to lock them safely away from the big bad world in a castle*. Religious nutjobs, I'm talking to you.
The person who stands to collect 21 Billion thinks it should be paid before any appeal is completed.
"The person" who stands to collect is Ireland. And they don't want the money.
"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing." -- Colbert (Jean Baptiste, not the comedian)
Perhaps the Irish are acquainted with this bit of wisdom. While the rest of the EU is practicing the bucket of crabs mentality.
Otherwise it makes about as much sense as pointing to a tree and saying, 'See that delicious fruit? Don't eat that.'
The forbidden fruit was a test of subservience. Don't eat the stuff that is good for you. Just to prove that people would follow authority figures. And since gods and religions are constructs of men, it was just a lesson to be subservient to the high priests. The metaphor of the "tree of knowledge of good and evil" was just an additional lesson that the people were expected to delegate issues of morality to these priests.
Just leaving a bunch of stone tablets with instructions on another planet would be pointless. We wouldn't be there to take advantage of the natives. And eventually wars would break out as different factions vied for the position of authority that the tablets implied existed.
even if you are a super-genius, there will come a time where management finds a way to not pay you that huge salary regardless of your talent.
"management", "salary"
If you have these kinds of talents, you are doing it wrong. Go to work as a sole proprietor/consultant. You contract to provide a service and are paid a price based on its value to your customer. Or they can go elsewhere.
If unions can successfully sell themselves as the only lever people have against things like the summary
That's the plan. You (the employee) will be loyal to your union rather than your employer or profession. And they will extract value from that relationship in the form of political power.
3: The contractor is not working as a direct report to a company employee. To change what the employee is doing, they need to go through the contracting company.
"the contracting company"
The IRS seems to have trouble wrapping its little pea brain around the fact that some people are sole proprietors and manage their own employment contracts. Same thing for #4. I negotiate the terms of my contract with my customer. As a part of that negotiation, I am "interviewed" by the customer and can be "hired" (enter into a contract with) or "fired" (contract terminated by) them.
The EU courts DECIDED that these rules are basically unfair
But they were legal under Irish law. And Apple complied with the law. The EU had a disagreement with Ireland and finally arm-twisted them into changing their law. But up to that point, Apple complied with Irish law.
It's illegal state aid
Not if the law is applied uniformly to all businesses based in Ireland.
unfair to every other company trading in the EU that doesn't have a) IP it can license to itself
Not Apple's problem. And it has little to do with IP specifically. One of the companies that took advantage of the transfer payments arrangement was Starbucks. Not for its IP but for its franchise structure.
I have one in my house. All of my UPSs, routers, TV antenna amplifiers, VoIP interfaces, etc. sit inside the closet, merrily blinking away. If something goes wrong, I check the lights. Otherwise I don't care.
... an article posted on Slashdot went seriously off course after editors entered data from suspect sources into their publishing system. Search and rescue has been mobilized but it is feared that many readers are already hopelessly lost.
... publish the violating website (GreenStijl.nl) in their court documents? And then make these documents available on-line? Because I can see this coming around to bite them in the ass.
Slashdot Mirror
Cell phone base stations go dead after a few hours of power loss.
People don't watch the road right now while they are driving their shitbox cars. Give them driving assist and they'll be reading or working on something else during their commute, oblivious of traffic.
Better get used to unskilled driving. Once autopilots became a thing in aircraft, piloting skills began to deteriorate to the point that handling exceptions is a recognized problem. They call it 'flying the magenta line'. Car drivers will go through the same thing. You might actually have your hands on the wheel of your Tesla, but when it screws up, you haven't developed the skills to brake, change lanes or even evaluate the traffic flow around you.
a learning experience for young impressionable girls
Not really going to happen. There are still people who think girls are supposed to be raised innocent of the realities of life until they are old enough to be married off. At which time, it will be their husband's job to lock them safely away from the big bad world in a castle*. Religious nutjobs, I'm talking to you.
*More likely a single-wide mobile home.
biggest mistakes become an object of mockery
Windows Mobile.
What's a more valuable statistic: How many people managed to pull the network plug before it downloaded.
n/t
Well, there goes the entirety of Justin Bieber's work.
The person who stands to collect 21 Billion thinks it should be paid before any appeal is completed.
"The person" who stands to collect is Ireland. And they don't want the money.
"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing." -- Colbert (Jean Baptiste, not the comedian)
Perhaps the Irish are acquainted with this bit of wisdom. While the rest of the EU is practicing the bucket of crabs mentality.
Apple is circumventing the headphone jack tax?
By the way Mars has been very visible in the evening sky for the past few months.
Yes. It's just to the East of the sodium vapor streetlight.
Otherwise it makes about as much sense as pointing to a tree and saying, 'See that delicious fruit? Don't eat that.'
The forbidden fruit was a test of subservience. Don't eat the stuff that is good for you. Just to prove that people would follow authority figures. And since gods and religions are constructs of men, it was just a lesson to be subservient to the high priests. The metaphor of the "tree of knowledge of good and evil" was just an additional lesson that the people were expected to delegate issues of morality to these priests.
Just leaving a bunch of stone tablets with instructions on another planet would be pointless. We wouldn't be there to take advantage of the natives. And eventually wars would break out as different factions vied for the position of authority that the tablets implied existed.
even if you are a super-genius, there will come a time where management finds a way to not pay you that huge salary regardless of your talent.
"management", "salary"
If you have these kinds of talents, you are doing it wrong. Go to work as a sole proprietor/consultant. You contract to provide a service and are paid a price based on its value to your customer. Or they can go elsewhere.
If unions can successfully sell themselves as the only lever people have against things like the summary
That's the plan. You (the employee) will be loyal to your union rather than your employer or profession. And they will extract value from that relationship in the form of political power.
3: The contractor is not working as a direct report to a company employee. To change what the employee is doing, they need to go through the contracting company.
"the contracting company"
The IRS seems to have trouble wrapping its little pea brain around the fact that some people are sole proprietors and manage their own employment contracts. Same thing for #4. I negotiate the terms of my contract with my customer. As a part of that negotiation, I am "interviewed" by the customer and can be "hired" (enter into a contract with) or "fired" (contract terminated by) them.
The EU courts DECIDED that these rules are basically unfair
But they were legal under Irish law. And Apple complied with the law. The EU had a disagreement with Ireland and finally arm-twisted them into changing their law. But up to that point, Apple complied with Irish law.
It's illegal state aid
Not if the law is applied uniformly to all businesses based in Ireland.
unfair to every other company trading in the EU that doesn't have a) IP it can license to itself
Not Apple's problem. And it has little to do with IP specifically. One of the companies that took advantage of the transfer payments arrangement was Starbucks. Not for its IP but for its franchise structure.
I have one in my house. All of my UPSs, routers, TV antenna amplifiers, VoIP interfaces, etc. sit inside the closet, merrily blinking away. If something goes wrong, I check the lights. Otherwise I don't care.
So long as it doesn't let one company off of paying that tax
The Irish tax codes that Apple relied upon are available to any company based in Ireland that receives income from outside the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
saw a picture of a naked girl and thought, "Child Porn!!!
So, no concept of context then?
Its turtles all the way down.
out the exhaust valve
What if its a Wankel?