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  1. Re:Proves there's strong incentive for tax avoidan on Google Settles Decade-Long Tax Dispute In UK (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    What kind of crazy definition of 'loophole' are you using?

    Loophole is a pejorative for a deduction/credit you don't like. That is all.

    You are morally required to 'starve the beast'. Even if you lose money on taking the deduction, cost of preparation etc, morally you should still take it.

  2. The things that power traders don't know about operations could fill a book. A big book.

    There is nothing preventing a link from being marginal. You see it in price data (when the price of two areas is exactly the same, plus or minus the link losses).

  3. Re:Might as well start calling him President Trump on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    It's a mess.

    But invading would just set them all into Poncho Villa mode (now with meth and tequila).

    It will take decades, but they will sort it out.

    I believe it was 'The Economist' that sorted the raid statistics against who was in charge of the police. As I recall the data left little doubt about the linkages. Likely 'The Economist' doesn't have any reporters left in Mexico.

  4. Re:Never seen so many allergies in people on Our Hidden Neanderthal DNA May Increase Risk of Allergies, Depression (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Any single egg has small chances of having Salmonella. It's only at industrial scale, when they are cracking a gross of eggs at a time to make stuff that it's a problem. Especially as that sauce is sure to sit. Even there you weren't likely to get sick.

    Not sure about where you live, so YMMV.

  5. Re:Never seen so many allergies in people on Our Hidden Neanderthal DNA May Increase Risk of Allergies, Depression (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Is that anything like Saigon beef salad or Beef Carpacio?

    Americans eat raw beef from a variety of cuisines.

    The American version is 'Steak, extra rare.' Which basically means 'Heat the meat to the body temperature of a live cow, then shine a flashlight on both sides and call it cooked'.

  6. real life == dead ricin cook on Self-Propelling Microparticles Spot Ricin In Minutes (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    Ricin is one of those perennials, scare the folks in Topeka, get the nuts to kill themselves chasing 'easy solution'.

    The traditional way for the cops to find out about a ricin cook is when he/she starts to smell. 'Anarchists Cookbook' instructions being particularly fatal.

  7. Re:Proves there's strong incentive for tax avoidan on Google Settles Decade-Long Tax Dispute In UK (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    If there is room for shysters to argue about it, it's avoidance until declared otherwise by a court.

    'Grey Area' is one of the shyster class's most powerful spells.

  8. Re:Hitler was driving Mercedes on Kim Jong-Un Found To Be Mac User · · Score: 1

    No. He went more with: personally extort 10% of every contract as a kickback and if they squawk, expropriate everything.

    Hitler was the richest man in history and never worked an honest day. All government work. Germany was just bigger. More alike than different.

  9. Re:Proves there's strong incentive for tax avoidan on Google Settles Decade-Long Tax Dispute In UK (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Tax avoidance is legal by definition. Why would anybody pay more then they were legally required? When millions are involved, it's worth hiring shysters. Duh.

    You are thinking of 'Tax evasion'.

  10. Re:Hammerheads in Vermont on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    10% should pay for national defense, border guards and a minimum federal court system. That's it. Everything else, canceled.

    Read the second part of your reply back and see if you can find the flaw in reasoning/math. I'll wait. Hint: You are agreeing with me. The more you trust your government the more money/control you give it. Eurotrash trust their governments too much (as do we, just not to the same degree).

  11. Re:Might as well start calling him President Trump on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    I don't think anybody has suggested that people don't have the right to pay for their own healthcare/insurance.

    You really don't get this 'limited government' thing do you? The fact is was not listed, makes it none of the governments business.

  12. Re:Might as well start calling him President Trump on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    No, all the people stupid enough to fall for the 'free shit from the government' are already Bernie supporters. About 50% of the Ds. 25% of the population.

    You can bet, if he wins the nomination, that the sensible Ds will stay home or change sides.

  13. Re:Might as well start calling him President Trump on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    We have no better choices than gridlock.

    Name one?

  14. Re:Might as well start calling him President Trump on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    They would take no-lube and shoot back.

    The cartels ARE the real Mexican government. You could debate about weather the cartels own the parties, the parties own the cartels or they are both owned by the same people.

    The PRI was the old cartel(s) whatever they are called. The PRD is Sineloa.

    All you have to do is look at the statistics of who gets raided based on who is in charge. They don't even bother obfuscating, knowing nobody will report is domestically (they want to live) and nobody will report it in America (political correctness etc).

  15. Re:Hammerheads in Vermont on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    % of GDP spent by the central government. Higher bad, lower good.

    That % is in fact an excellent proxy how much a population trusts it's government. Not what they say, what they do.

  16. Re:Hammerheads in Vermont on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    (1 - CapGains Rate) * (1 - Corporate Rate) is fairly uniform in 1st world nations.

    Because they compete for capital. Money crosses borders like the wind and no amount of leftest bitching has been able to change that.

    Nations with low corporate rates ether tax capital gains as regular income or have higher rates.

  17. Re:Hammerheads in Vermont on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    You can't fire federal employees, much less close departments.

    We'd just end up paying for both.

  18. Re:Walmart Subsidy on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    The definition of living wage is much more than 'minimum to survive', it's commonly 'minimum to raise a family'.

    There is a huge gap between what you'd pay in self regulation and 'living wage'. In self reg your pay a minimum of a real single person, sharing an apartment, survival wage and people would not spawn until they knew something worth paying for.

  19. Re:Walmart Subsidy on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    Your subsidizing the low skilled people. Not their employers. Does Walmart get the foodstamps?

    Walmart workers aren't worth more than Walmart pays them, or they would be working elsewhere.

    If retailers didn't have morons to hire, they would not hire more skilled people, they would automate more jobs.

    Besides which 'starter jobs' need to exist.

    The real question is: 'Why are there so many adults incapable of learning useful skills?'

  20. Re:Hammerheads in Vermont on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    Reforming those people starts with cold and hunger.

    What you propose is more school, which they already failed to get anything out of.

  21. Re: Hammerheads in Vermont on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    The key flaw of socialism remains excessive concentration of power. It cannot be fixed. The philosophy is broken.

    Note: That's the means of production out of private hands version of socialism. Not the capitalist welfare states you list.

  22. Re: Hammerheads in Vermont on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    The plan backfires when Sanders loses the General and the Rs go an a spending binge.

    Our only hope is deadlock. This year that means we hold our noses and let Clinton win.

    Having DC do nothing is much closer to the libertarian ideal then letting a socialist fuck up our deadlock.

    The Ds do need to be smacked across the nose for nominating two such dweebs. But I'm unwilling to let the Rs run things to do it.

    We just have to accept Hillary will escape justice. But it's better than letting ether party actually do what they want.

  23. Re: Important Stuff (For the discussion) on Carly Is Out · · Score: 1

    The industry was in trouble.

    Which only makes Carly's decisions (e.g. buying Comaq) even _more_ stupid. She should be laughed out of the room.

  24. Re:Solution? on Why Sarcasm Is Such a Problem In Artificial Intelligence (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah right, sarcasm is lower than puns. Absolutely.

  25. Re:So, now is it finally legal to... on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Get a railroad locomotive horn. Don't fuck around with half steps.