and now the EU wants a huge fucking amount of Apple's money
Actually, the EU has no rights to Irish income taxes. VAT is another thing, but not an issue here. The EU wants Ireland to collect it and, oh I don't know, pile it up in an old potato warehouse someplace. Ireland doesn't want the money*.
No doubt, this is about tax 'fairness'. If some welfare states in the EU want to collect 35% from everyone, those companies have a motive to locate in Ireland. It's not that EU members want $14.5 Billion. They just want it taken from Apple as a lesson that they can't hide.
*The moment Ireland ends up with $14.5 Billion in a bank account that they have to disperse somehow, the European equivalent of GibsMeDats will wash up on their shores. No thanks, they say.
It's my understanding that Ireland's not collecting 'unitary' taxes on foreign earnings is uniformly available to all Irish companies. Apple Ireland (and many other companies) just happen to earn the majority of their profits from foreign sales. How many iPhones can the Irish buy?
Define 'assistance for corporations'. As long as Ireland applies their rules and rates uniformly, are they 'assisting' anyone? Or is this an EU-wide issue? Is a country that charges less than Belgium's 34% corporate tax rate 'assisting' corporations? Because that would be a race to the bottom: Allowing the sloppiest and most inefficient governments to dictate tax and fiscal policy to the rest of the EU.
Ireland doesn't want the money. Perhaps they want to live within their means and not hve piles of cash sitting around as a magnet for the continent's deadbeats. Its their choice and I believe they have a right to make it.
... does the EU have over member nations' INCOME tax rates and collection policies? I know they have regulations covering the collection of VAT. But Ireland doesn't want big corporate income taxes since they are burden on growth and economic health. Ireland already has a low income tax rate on domestic profits. So what's to stop them from setting it at 1% or 0.1% and just telling the EU to mind their own business?
to try to steer it while AutoPilot makes you believe you're safe in it's control.
If AutoPilot is engaged and I'm hanging onto the wheel, I won't be making any steering corrections. Because the car is probably holding the lane better than I can. What it might be sensing is some resistance that my hanging on is creating to its steering. So to fool it, bungee cord tied to door handle and wheel.
To demonstrate compliance. Also, one of the primary charges levied against people the gov't doesn't like is making false statements to a federal agent. There may be nothing actionable in the online ramblings of a visitor to this country. At most, they might be asked to leave. But if you can catch them in a lie, there's jail time involved.
... company store. Face it, every regulatory agency from the FDA to US Customs exists for one reason: To keep us funneling our paychecks back to our masters. Screw them. The FDA says I need their 'protection' to ensure my safety. But what if I'm willing to accept the judgement of Health Canada and buy products certified to their standards? Or those of the EU? Or the Good Housekeeping seal of approval? We don't see Canadians dropping dead from poor drug quality control and that's good enough for me. The only people the FDA is protecting are their friends on the other side of the revolving door.
Same thing applies to NHTSA. If I want to drive a car built to EU standards, I should be able to ship one over*. And the crappy US manufacturing and dealership mafia can go straight to hell with their regulatory buddies who try to tell me who I should be doing business with. It's no different than what the mob used to do in NYC with garbage collection. Those responsible at the regulatory agencies need to be shuttled off to John Gotti's old cell ASAP.
*But muh safety! I can legally import USED European vehicles into this country. And non-EPA compliant as well, so long as they are old enough. So evidently, bringing in a smoke-belching death trap isn't the issue. It's me having money for a new vehicle but not spending it at the local dealership.
So this thing produces 'steam'. Or more accurately it speeds up the evaporation of water above the base case of a pond sitting out in the sunlight. But how much more evaporation does it produce? And assuming we want to do something other than dry up puddles, what about the rest of the system? To utilize this steam for generation, you need to do a lot more than produce water vapor at 100 C.
I'd like to see some numbers that relate the energy captured per unit time to the insolation rate. The Arstechnica article didn't have any specifics and the Nature web site appears to be Slashdotted.
Not for anything security related. DNS as an example of a hierarchical database is useful. But if you have to be certain that you are talking to the correct remote host (due to possible corruption of the DNS system) it's better to use an authentication system based on something external to that. And there are better models than hierarchical for managing key and certificate exchange and peer to peer trust.
Actually, I can presume anything I want about anyone I want. I just can't act on it. That's when the evidence has to be presented to a court (usually via law enforcement authorities, but that's not a hard and fast rule). The court can then issue warrants, if they believe the evidence constitutes sufficient justification for further investigation or arrest.
I have security cameras on the front of my house. They snap pictures of everything that passes in front of them. Should a burglary of my house or the neighbors occur, it is quite reasonable that the police/courts will base further action upon the stored video that might reasonably be related to the crime. Same idea with the iPhone.
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As long as Ireland applies their rules and rates uniformly
They don't, that's the point.
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-microsoft-avoids-taxes-loopholes-irs-2013-1
Old game. Many multinationals play it to one extent or another. No special 'deals' needed.
*foot stomp*
Go to your room for a time out, Jimmy. And stop peeking in people's windows.
Porsche was bad for a whle.
356, 356A, 356B, 356C
901
911 (too many variants to enumerate)
912, 912E
914, 914/6
916
918*
924
928
944
959
964
968
980
993
986
996
I may have forgotten a few. I'll check my garage.
*Because logically and/or chronologically, this fits between the 916 and 924. Yeah, right.
and now the EU wants a huge fucking amount of Apple's money
Actually, the EU has no rights to Irish income taxes. VAT is another thing, but not an issue here. The EU wants Ireland to collect it and, oh I don't know, pile it up in an old potato warehouse someplace. Ireland doesn't want the money*.
No doubt, this is about tax 'fairness'. If some welfare states in the EU want to collect 35% from everyone, those companies have a motive to locate in Ireland. It's not that EU members want $14.5 Billion. They just want it taken from Apple as a lesson that they can't hide.
*The moment Ireland ends up with $14.5 Billion in a bank account that they have to disperse somehow, the European equivalent of GibsMeDats will wash up on their shores. No thanks, they say.
no specific tax breaks for specific companies
It's my understanding that Ireland's not collecting 'unitary' taxes on foreign earnings is uniformly available to all Irish companies. Apple Ireland (and many other companies) just happen to earn the majority of their profits from foreign sales. How many iPhones can the Irish buy?
Define 'assistance for corporations'. As long as Ireland applies their rules and rates uniformly, are they 'assisting' anyone? Or is this an EU-wide issue? Is a country that charges less than Belgium's 34% corporate tax rate 'assisting' corporations? Because that would be a race to the bottom: Allowing the sloppiest and most inefficient governments to dictate tax and fiscal policy to the rest of the EU.
Ireland doesn't want the money. Perhaps they want to live within their means and not hve piles of cash sitting around as a magnet for the continent's deadbeats. Its their choice and I believe they have a right to make it.
fiscal dumping
Do you actually have a legal definition for that? Particularly as it applies to taxes?
to try to steer it while AutoPilot makes you believe you're safe in it's control.
If AutoPilot is engaged and I'm hanging onto the wheel, I won't be making any steering corrections. Because the car is probably holding the lane better than I can. What it might be sensing is some resistance that my hanging on is creating to its steering. So to fool it, bungee cord tied to door handle and wheel.
A way will be figured out how to fool it. The ingenuity of stupidity knows no bounds.
I'm sure we can rig up some sort of clamp that will take care of this.
Selective service is not tied to your voter registration
This. But Slashdot is the Group W bench.
Personally, when I registered for the War of the Sexes, they gave me a 4-F classification.
then why ask individuals for their ID's?
To demonstrate compliance. Also, one of the primary charges levied against people the gov't doesn't like is making false statements to a federal agent. There may be nothing actionable in the online ramblings of a visitor to this country. At most, they might be asked to leave. But if you can catch them in a lie, there's jail time involved.
Same thing applies to NHTSA. If I want to drive a car built to EU standards, I should be able to ship one over*. And the crappy US manufacturing and dealership mafia can go straight to hell with their regulatory buddies who try to tell me who I should be doing business with. It's no different than what the mob used to do in NYC with garbage collection. Those responsible at the regulatory agencies need to be shuttled off to John Gotti's old cell ASAP.
*But muh safety! I can legally import USED European vehicles into this country. And non-EPA compliant as well, so long as they are old enough. So evidently, bringing in a smoke-belching death trap isn't the issue. It's me having money for a new vehicle but not spending it at the local dealership.
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HAARP is not mind control. Please don't look up.
So this thing produces 'steam'. Or more accurately it speeds up the evaporation of water above the base case of a pond sitting out in the sunlight. But how much more evaporation does it produce? And assuming we want to do something other than dry up puddles, what about the rest of the system? To utilize this steam for generation, you need to do a lot more than produce water vapor at 100 C.
I'd like to see some numbers that relate the energy captured per unit time to the insolation rate. The Arstechnica article didn't have any specifics and the Nature web site appears to be Slashdotted.
I'll bet that dirty hippies burn pretty well what with all that patchouli oil.
celebrations at 25 years
This is just Slashdot being 10 years late.
Do you use Directory Services of any kind
Not for anything security related. DNS as an example of a hierarchical database is useful. But if you have to be certain that you are talking to the correct remote host (due to possible corruption of the DNS system) it's better to use an authentication system based on something external to that. And there are better models than hierarchical for managing key and certificate exchange and peer to peer trust.
Actually, I can presume anything I want about anyone I want. I just can't act on it. That's when the evidence has to be presented to a court (usually via law enforcement authorities, but that's not a hard and fast rule). The court can then issue warrants, if they believe the evidence constitutes sufficient justification for further investigation or arrest.
I have security cameras on the front of my house. They snap pictures of everything that passes in front of them. Should a burglary of my house or the neighbors occur, it is quite reasonable that the police/courts will base further action upon the stored video that might reasonably be related to the crime. Same idea with the iPhone.