No thinks they should be excused for what they did. However 5000+ employees all doing the same thing tells me this came from much higher up the food chain. Probably all the way to level where if you get caught doing a bad thing you get a big severance package on your way out the door.
They've been told to pay the taxes they owe. Same thing happens in the US all the time. What do you think happens when you get audited and find out you owe taxes from years ago. You have to pay it.
If you work in a business that regularly moves large sums of money around like this everyday, multiple times a day, it's easy to get conned. That's why they go after these types of accounts.
Wires are instant and depending on the account $40 million wouldn't necessarily throw up a red flag.
I'm sure Apple doesn't mind. Even if they pay it back, they still ended up with a fantastic tax deferment subsidy for years. The interest gained alone would have made it worth while.
You are absolutely crazy if you think Apple lawyers hadn't considered this possibility. Note that Apple isn't being fined here. The EU ordered Ireland to collect back taxes. Taxes that would have been owed had the subsidy deal not been made.
Apple basically got a decades worth of tax deferments here. Still a good deal for them.
They were going to put in an exception to the CFC bans for inhalers, but Pharma lobbied to have it banned since the replacement devices would all have brand new patents and therefore exclusivity and higher prices for years.
Oh there are plenty of costs behind the Epi-pen price. It's just that most of them have nothing to do with actually making it. The highest costs are in marketing and lobbying.
Lobbying for purchase requirements, Lobbying for generic fda rejections, marketing to create extra demand. That doesn't come cheap.
Again the problem isn't with excel. When you simply open a csv file, you're asking excel to try and guess what data type each field is. And when a field has data that looks like a date, surprise surprise excel sets it as a date field.
Or simply use the import function and set the data types manually, like you should be doing, instead of leaving it up to excel to try and figure out what the data types are supposed to be based on the data in the field.
The data looks like a date so excel sets it as date field. It's doing exactly what it is supposed to do. If you have complex data tables in a csv format you should be using import.
Well seeing as how the engine isn't permanently fixed to the frame or body, you could replace a ford engine with a honda engine if you really wanted to.
To add a networked printer in my office you have to call tech support and open a ticket and wait for someone to remote in and add it because the users don't have the rights to add it. Younger workers are quite frustrated by this, the older workers don't seem to care.
After so many years of investigations about emails, one would think these people would know better than to say foolish things in an email. How incredibly stupid are these people?
Yes it is. It's exactly the kind of thing that is turning people away from the party. If they were smart they'd use this as an opportunity to clean house and demonstrate their supposed ideals. The fact that they aren't only proves how corrupt they really are.
I think the fact that no one is contesting the veracity of the emails says a lot. If they were edited/altered it would have been pointed out right away to discredit the entire dump.
The fact that hasn't happened only tells me they are real, and the "Russian" is a misdirection to deflect the conversation away from the contents.
This is not a normal election though. We have 2 of the most hated candidates ever. I'd say there is a better than average chance that the VP could end up serving a partial term as president.
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No thinks they should be excused for what they did. However 5000+ employees all doing the same thing tells me this came from much higher up the food chain. Probably all the way to level where if you get caught doing a bad thing you get a big severance package on your way out the door.
It's not retroactive punishment.
They've been told to pay the taxes they owe. Same thing happens in the US all the time. What do you think happens when you get audited and find out you owe taxes from years ago. You have to pay it.
Apple isn't being punished. No penalty is being levied. They've been order to pay the back taxes they owe. Taxes that should have been paid all along.
Apple still made out pretty sweet on this deal even with having to pay back taxes. Interest accrued on billions is a nice chunk of change.
If you work in a business that regularly moves large sums of money around like this everyday, multiple times a day, it's easy to get conned. That's why they go after these types of accounts.
Wires are instant and depending on the account $40 million wouldn't necessarily throw up a red flag.
Congrats on the magnificent trolling.
But on the off chance you actually believe what you're saying, you should probably read this:
http://www.livescience.com/214...
I'm sure Apple doesn't mind. Even if they pay it back, they still ended up with a fantastic tax deferment subsidy for years. The interest gained alone would have made it worth while.
You are absolutely crazy if you think Apple lawyers hadn't considered this possibility. Note that Apple isn't being fined here. The EU ordered Ireland to collect back taxes. Taxes that would have been owed had the subsidy deal not been made.
Apple basically got a decades worth of tax deferments here. Still a good deal for them.
It could if not for the fact that they've all been patented. They'd have to design a new delivery device, or license one, good luck with that.
They were going to put in an exception to the CFC bans for inhalers, but Pharma lobbied to have it banned since the replacement devices would all have brand new patents and therefore exclusivity and higher prices for years.
Oh there are plenty of costs behind the Epi-pen price. It's just that most of them have nothing to do with actually making it. The highest costs are in marketing and lobbying.
Lobbying for purchase requirements, Lobbying for generic fda rejections, marketing to create extra demand. That doesn't come cheap.
The problem is they aren't importing at all. They're simply opening the csv in excel and getting upset when it doesn't guess the data type correctly.
User error, simple as that.
Again the problem isn't with excel. When you simply open a csv file, you're asking excel to try and guess what data type each field is. And when a field has data that looks like a date, surprise surprise excel sets it as a date field.
This is why you use import.
Or simply use the import function and set the data types manually, like you should be doing, instead of leaving it up to excel to try and figure out what the data types are supposed to be based on the data in the field.
The data looks like a date so excel sets it as date field. It's doing exactly what it is supposed to do. If you have complex data tables in a csv format you should be using import.
Actually many people asked for this functionality.
Just because you don't know the proper way to load data into excel (import) not simply open, is not the fault of the program, but the user.
Well seeing as how the engine isn't permanently fixed to the frame or body, you could replace a ford engine with a honda engine if you really wanted to.
Again he screwed over big money not the peons.
Anecdote:
To add a networked printer in my office you have to call tech support and open a ticket and wait for someone to remote in and add it because the users don't have the rights to add it. Younger workers are quite frustrated by this, the older workers don't seem to care.
That or Bob ran into clippy and became Cortana accidentally.
After so many years of investigations about emails, one would think these people would know better than to say foolish things in an email. How incredibly stupid are these people?
Yes it is. It's exactly the kind of thing that is turning people away from the party. If they were smart they'd use this as an opportunity to clean house and demonstrate their supposed ideals. The fact that they aren't only proves how corrupt they really are.
I think the fact that no one is contesting the veracity of the emails says a lot. If they were edited/altered it would have been pointed out right away to discredit the entire dump. The fact that hasn't happened only tells me they are real, and the "Russian" is a misdirection to deflect the conversation away from the contents.
Or using Trump tactic of "people are saying" as if that actually holds any real weight.
Lucky for us we can only hear an analogue signal.
Until they can beam the signal directly into our brains there will always be an analogue hole.
This is not a normal election though. We have 2 of the most hated candidates ever. I'd say there is a better than average chance that the VP could end up serving a partial term as president.