When will the government ministers in Ireland who set up this massive tax giveaway to Apple be jailed or fired?
Why would anyone in Ireland be jailed or fired? Their tax program made Ireland THE PLACE for multinational corporations to set up headquarters. It's the European Union that has a problem with Ireland unfairly competing against her neighbors.
As someone who looked liked the poster child for mongolism (large head and slow learner), misdiagnosed as mentally retarded due to an undiagnosed hearing lost in kindergarten, and spent eight years in Special Ed classes, I can tell you exactly what quality Microsoft is looking for. It's the same quality that my Special Ed teachers prized the most when I was in class: a well-behaved idiot.
Sure it is, a second job is what a lot of us old timers did and we saved some pretty nice nest eggs. But you have to get off your ass and go do it.
I'm building several businesses that I'm planning to nurture for the next 20 years and takeover full time when I retire from my regular job.
The problem is you young hipster types think menial jobs are beneath you and would rather post a vine about how hard things are instead of taking it seriously.
I'm a Gen X'er. When I did a PC refresh project at a local hospital, my baby boomer partner was more interested in talking to the nurses. I had to unbox 750 PCs and 1,500 monitors, haul the cardboard and Styrofoam out of the building, and load up three massive dumpsters by myself.
Trump and Hillary have a reasonably close race right now.
Uh, no.
I don't even understand how this makes sense to say. Those were Obama's maps.
The underlying demographic and statistical trends for 2016 electoral map is similar to 2008 and 2012 electoral maps. All three electoral maps are favorable to the Democrats. Obama won 2008 with 365 electoral votes and 2012 with 332 electoral votes. Hillary starts off with 269 electoral votes, and may capture up to 354 electoral votes.
Has Hillary earned the assumption that she's a third term Obama?
According to the Republicans, yes.
Trump has already defeated a large field of Republicans who spent most of their time and money shitting on Trump.
Trump defeated the weakest slate of candidates that the Republican Party has ever fielded.
And somehow you read all this as "less effort than Romney"?
I wrote that Trump had to perform better than McCain and Romney. If you compare Trump to where McCain and Romney were at this time of the campaign, he fails across the board in all metrics.
Claiming that "the current two term Democratic president had more electoral votes, therefore the Democratic contender does before the first vote has been cast" is silly as fuck.
You're probably not used to thinking with numbers to predict likely outcomes.
A deflection of "I'm too good to be here" is a pretty lame one.
Slashdot is entertainment. I don't give a shit beyond that.
Also, if you think I'm a troll, I recommend you research the term.
If you reply to my comments, you must be a troll.;)
Walking into a thread and claiming to predict the future based on the past should give you pause, given how you were previously unable to even predict *the past and present*.
This is called critical thinking. Don't worry. It's a skill that most Americans don't bother to learn even if they went to college.
If Trump wins and I link you to your post, what will you do? Probably ignore it, or have some crazy thing to blame, or just be like "how could I be expected to know?"
As I posted elsewhere, Trump will need a miracle. If Trump wins, then it's a miracle. We will find out in two months.
You are now on record as not just predicting that Hillary will win, but that her electoral votes will be a landslide. This is a solid and falsifiable claim. Lets see how it turns out!
This isn't my claim. This is the historical record. The 2016 electoral map is identical to the 2008 and 2012 electoral maps. Trump has to do better than McCain (2008) and Romney (2012) — and he's not even trying. Hillary is projected to have 269 to 354 delegates in the electoral college. Unless Trump pulls off a miracle, Hillary will win by a landslide in the electoral college. If she win's the popular vote by 5% or more, the Senate and the House will flip to the Democrats in a wave. I haven't been this interested in an election since the Supreme Court ruled (correctly) for George W. in the 2000 election.
Older posts of yours (from before the FBI email statement) show that you didn't think Hillary sent emails classified at the time of sending (contrary to later statements from the FBI), imply that you think 16 GB will remain the lowest capacity iPhone, and call Trump a "corporatist" (not falsified yet, but seemingly less likely based on the large corporations throwing a lot of weight into defeating him). Your crystal ball may not be outright covered in crap, but it is definitely at least a little blurry.
Slashdot exists to keep me amuse while I'm waiting for a script to finish at work. I love trolling the trolls on Slashdot. Thank you for participation!
You aren't guaranteed a job because you went to college. You definitely are not guaranteed a job in your home city.
I went to community college — twice. Both times I worked my way through school without taking on debt. I've been working in Silicon Valley and SF Bay Area for 30+ years.
If you got an obsolete/undesired degree or refuse to move, you are at fault.
It's my fault that recruiters saw help desk on my resume, automatically assumed that I wanted a help desk job, and told me that no help desk job was available even though I didn't apply for a help desk job? With seven applicants for every job opening and no company offering assistance to move, moving wasn't a viable option. When the economy turned around and there were only three applicants for every job opening three years later, I was working again.
Six months of savings is almost always possible if you are frugal.
It took me five years to get back to where I could save again. It will take me another five years to get back to where I was before the Great Recession.
The electoral maps are a toss up or leaning Trump among polls of likely voters.
The electoral map is well defined and Trump has a narrow path to win. If Trump wasn't an equal opportunity offender, he might have an even chance of winning.
Romney only spent $100M+ on consultants who told him he would win. Obama spent $10M+ on consultants who told him he would lose. Funny how that worked out.
[...] that's your fault (unless you've had a recent disaster).
Let see... Great Recession... Some people on Slashdot argued that it was my fault that I was out of work for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011. I just file it under "Shit Happens" and move on. Five years later I'm still in recovery mode. Six months saved up is a nice goal, but it's not always possible.
I better get back to work so I can pay my taxes so you can get that cushy $100K+ job with paid holidays, 20 paid time off days and healthcare and 401k.
My next job probably won't be a government job. Like I said, it's nice break. I doubt I'll become a lifer in the government.
If I work a bit harder maybe I can get you that gold-plated watch and/or pension you want.
The IT folks who worked 20+ years aren't getting a gold-plated watch and/or pension. Those days are long gone.
You should join the private sector. We get $50k "adjustments" all the time.
I'm two years into a five-year contract that's fully funded by Congress. If the Republicans shut down the government tomorrow, I'll still be working as an essential employee. It's a nice break from working on one-year contracts that end after nine months. Meanwhile, I'm working on my InfoSec certs for my next $100K+ job.
You should ask the taxpayers to pay a bit more for your gold-plated watch and pension.
My request for a $50K cost of living adjustment because I live and work in Silicon Valley got denied. No need to thank me for making substantially less than my peers while serving the public.
I studied computer programming at community college and went into IT after graduating with a 4.0 GPA. I love working in IT. Especially government IT since I have paid holidays, 20 paid time off days, 401k and healthcare. Alas, no gold-plated watch and/or pension.
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He's probably the most famous Canadian alive.
So William Shatner was on stage at the Apple event?
When will the government ministers in Ireland who set up this massive tax giveaway to Apple be jailed or fired?
Why would anyone in Ireland be jailed or fired? Their tax program made Ireland THE PLACE for multinational corporations to set up headquarters. It's the European Union that has a problem with Ireland unfairly competing against her neighbors.
The popular belief in my country is, that a company, to be successful, must be in debts for at least 50% of it's value.
Or maybe interest rates are so amazingly low that it's cheaper to borrow money and write off the interest payments on the corporate tax return?
I stand corrected, smart ass. :P
Making Apple pay taxes requires a lot of computational thinking.
Oh, Intel. We're halfway in between in Oregon. We left the marketing and hr in Santa Clara.
I don't think that was the case in 1975 when Microsoft BASIC came out for the Altair 8080 based on the Intel 8080 processor.
Redmond is a valley? It seems to be missing a side.
OP probably meant Silicon Valley. Without Intel to provide processors, Microsoft would be missing a side.
As someone who looked liked the poster child for mongolism (large head and slow learner), misdiagnosed as mentally retarded due to an undiagnosed hearing lost in kindergarten, and spent eight years in Special Ed classes, I can tell you exactly what quality Microsoft is looking for. It's the same quality that my Special Ed teachers prized the most when I was in class: a well-behaved idiot.
Sure it is, a second job is what a lot of us old timers did and we saved some pretty nice nest eggs. But you have to get off your ass and go do it.
I'm building several businesses that I'm planning to nurture for the next 20 years and takeover full time when I retire from my regular job.
The problem is you young hipster types think menial jobs are beneath you and would rather post a vine about how hard things are instead of taking it seriously.
I'm a Gen X'er. When I did a PC refresh project at a local hospital, my baby boomer partner was more interested in talking to the nurses. I had to unbox 750 PCs and 1,500 monitors, haul the cardboard and Styrofoam out of the building, and load up three massive dumpsters by myself.
Trump and Hillary have a reasonably close race right now.
Uh, no.
I don't even understand how this makes sense to say. Those were Obama's maps.
The underlying demographic and statistical trends for 2016 electoral map is similar to 2008 and 2012 electoral maps. All three electoral maps are favorable to the Democrats. Obama won 2008 with 365 electoral votes and 2012 with 332 electoral votes. Hillary starts off with 269 electoral votes, and may capture up to 354 electoral votes.
Has Hillary earned the assumption that she's a third term Obama?
According to the Republicans, yes.
Trump has already defeated a large field of Republicans who spent most of their time and money shitting on Trump.
Trump defeated the weakest slate of candidates that the Republican Party has ever fielded.
And somehow you read all this as "less effort than Romney"?
I wrote that Trump had to perform better than McCain and Romney. If you compare Trump to where McCain and Romney were at this time of the campaign, he fails across the board in all metrics.
Claiming that "the current two term Democratic president had more electoral votes, therefore the Democratic contender does before the first vote has been cast" is silly as fuck.
You're probably not used to thinking with numbers to predict likely outcomes.
A deflection of "I'm too good to be here" is a pretty lame one.
Slashdot is entertainment. I don't give a shit beyond that.
Also, if you think I'm a troll, I recommend you research the term.
If you reply to my comments, you must be a troll. ;)
Walking into a thread and claiming to predict the future based on the past should give you pause, given how you were previously unable to even predict *the past and present*.
This is called critical thinking. Don't worry. It's a skill that most Americans don't bother to learn even if they went to college.
Holy shit he made you look like the fucking moron that you are.
So what? This is Slashdot. You must be new around here.
If Trump wins and I link you to your post, what will you do? Probably ignore it, or have some crazy thing to blame, or just be like "how could I be expected to know?"
As I posted elsewhere, Trump will need a miracle. If Trump wins, then it's a miracle. We will find out in two months.
You are now on record as not just predicting that Hillary will win, but that her electoral votes will be a landslide. This is a solid and falsifiable claim. Lets see how it turns out!
This isn't my claim. This is the historical record. The 2016 electoral map is identical to the 2008 and 2012 electoral maps. Trump has to do better than McCain (2008) and Romney (2012) — and he's not even trying. Hillary is projected to have 269 to 354 delegates in the electoral college. Unless Trump pulls off a miracle, Hillary will win by a landslide in the electoral college. If she win's the popular vote by 5% or more, the Senate and the House will flip to the Democrats in a wave. I haven't been this interested in an election since the Supreme Court ruled (correctly) for George W. in the 2000 election.
Older posts of yours (from before the FBI email statement) show that you didn't think Hillary sent emails classified at the time of sending (contrary to later statements from the FBI), imply that you think 16 GB will remain the lowest capacity iPhone, and call Trump a "corporatist" (not falsified yet, but seemingly less likely based on the large corporations throwing a lot of weight into defeating him). Your crystal ball may not be outright covered in crap, but it is definitely at least a little blurry.
Slashdot exists to keep me amuse while I'm waiting for a script to finish at work. I love trolling the trolls on Slashdot. Thank you for participation!
Despite the loudness of the GOP, they are a minority and are much better served by suppressing the vote.
The GOP also know that they need the Latino vote to win the presidency. And yet they keep shooting themselves in the foot on immigration.
You aren't guaranteed a job because you went to college. You definitely are not guaranteed a job in your home city.
I went to community college — twice. Both times I worked my way through school without taking on debt. I've been working in Silicon Valley and SF Bay Area for 30+ years.
If you got an obsolete/undesired degree or refuse to move, you are at fault.
It's my fault that recruiters saw help desk on my resume, automatically assumed that I wanted a help desk job, and told me that no help desk job was available even though I didn't apply for a help desk job? With seven applicants for every job opening and no company offering assistance to move, moving wasn't a viable option. When the economy turned around and there were only three applicants for every job opening three years later, I was working again.
Six months of savings is almost always possible if you are frugal.
It took me five years to get back to where I could save again. It will take me another five years to get back to where I was before the Great Recession.
The electoral maps are a toss up or leaning Trump among polls of likely voters.
The electoral map is well defined and Trump has a narrow path to win. If Trump wasn't an equal opportunity offender, he might have an even chance of winning.
Including Romney!
Romney only spent $100M+ on consultants who told him he would win. Obama spent $10M+ on consultants who told him he would lose. Funny how that worked out.
How many bills did Rep Lofgren introduce/vote for that would have increased the IT budget for the UC system?
None. Rep. Lofgren is federal and not state. You should ask your state representative about why they keep cutting the UC system budget all the time.
I'm pretty sure you are going to be a government lifer. You sound exactly like one.
How do you draw that conclusion?
[...] that's your fault (unless you've had a recent disaster).
Let see... Great Recession... Some people on Slashdot argued that it was my fault that I was out of work for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011. I just file it under "Shit Happens" and move on. Five years later I'm still in recovery mode. Six months saved up is a nice goal, but it's not always possible.
I better get back to work so I can pay my taxes so you can get that cushy $100K+ job with paid holidays, 20 paid time off days and healthcare and 401k.
My next job probably won't be a government job. Like I said, it's nice break. I doubt I'll become a lifer in the government.
If I work a bit harder maybe I can get you that gold-plated watch and/or pension you want.
The IT folks who worked 20+ years aren't getting a gold-plated watch and/or pension. Those days are long gone.
You should join the private sector. We get $50k "adjustments" all the time.
I'm two years into a five-year contract that's fully funded by Congress. If the Republicans shut down the government tomorrow, I'll still be working as an essential employee. It's a nice break from working on one-year contracts that end after nine months. Meanwhile, I'm working on my InfoSec certs for my next $100K+ job.
You should ask the taxpayers to pay a bit more for your gold-plated watch and pension.
My request for a $50K cost of living adjustment because I live and work in Silicon Valley got denied. No need to thank me for making substantially less than my peers while serving the public.
No, it's way to early to know how this will play out.
It's already played out. It will take a miracle for Trump to win the White House.
Fuck engineering, study something else, kids!
I studied computer programming at community college and went into IT after graduating with a 4.0 GPA. I love working in IT. Especially government IT since I have paid holidays, 20 paid time off days, 401k and healthcare. Alas, no gold-plated watch and/or pension.