You actually believe that? Wow. You realise that "the market" no longer cares about the actual income of the people it's serving any more? Some few years back, property investors managed to make moving to a new rented house have barriers to entry so high most people cannot afford them. "The market" does precisely nothing to ensure that you take home $X or more, it no longer has to because it has captive audiences.
Who gives a flying fuck? This is about Google AUSTRALIA not paying taxes to the AUSTRALIAN Government. You can take your anti-American-government rhetoric and fuck off, it doesn't apply here.
Then you have a shitty government. Our government hires lots of people doing useful jobs like teaching, healing, policing, putting out fires, protecting national parks, stopping drug importing, and uses tax money to pay for it too. Unfortunately the fucking sheep elected a mini-American government, and they're now firing lots of people.
Except this isn't a bogus claim, it's the truth. And they're all doing it (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Sony, everyone) so it's not some anti-Google agenda. Unless all these companies have a Mutually Assured PR Destruction Treaty or something of course.
Because, dumbass, you'd be entitled to the same healthcare, whether you would "struggle to afford it" under the old system or not?
I do not get why Americans are so rabid in their opposition to decent fucking healthcare. It makes no sense. It's not even the "me me me" mentality, because even the poor oppose it!
I've always felt that a government with not enough power is as dangerous as one with too much. The problem is that no-one can agree on the balance at which point the government has enough power to do the job we elect it for, and not enough for it to exceed its mandate.
And contrary to right wing rhetoric, I don't believe that the government has no business running private companies. Competing in the right sectors is both a great way to enforce competition without regulation, and return dividends to the government and reduce the tax burden.
A flat tax with the first $20K or so exempt would be a decent compromise. If you then grant everyone $20K per year as a social security allowance, abated by $1 for every $1 earned until that allowance reaches zero, but still make sure there is a reasonable minimum wage, you might be onto a winner. Not sure how sustainable it would be though.
Last I checked it was 28% in Australia, and 30% in New Zealand. Except in NZ we usually have our multinationals working out of Oz and skipping paying our taxes at all.
That makes no sense. If you lower the tax rates, it reduces avoidance sure, but it doesn't increase tax revenues, since all you've done is make the tax obligation the same as what they were paying before. The solution is to prosecute, not legitimise these scams.
Of course it's intentional. It links to a job posting for a security engineer, and the job posting clearly does not appear in every single Facebook page so that's definitely not the actual source of the page.
If you're using.NET (any.NET language) MSDN Document Writers will fall from the sky to assassinate you if you write an SQL query without using SqlCommand and Parameters.
Mine hit concrete once. It landed on a corner though, so it just dented the concrete and scuffed the metal. I dread it landing screen down though - gorilla glass tends to just shatter if that happens.
I used to have a Nokia that survived many a drop though. I swear they made them out of the same stuff as aircraft black-boxes.
Unless of course you're a CEO that provides incorrect financial information based on the information available at the time that just didn't turn out how you hoped, in which case it's also fine.
Well, if they say "in our opinion... blah blah" followed by the standard disclaimer "DISCLAIMER: Our Delorean is non-functional, and we have not actually travelled 10 years into the future to check that this opinion turns out to be correct. We may be wrong, and the Magic 8-Ball should be consulted by investors prior to relying on this information" then yes, they should be able to say it. Outright lying would be a different story. But if the board actually believed based on knowledge available at the time that things could turn out as they predicted, well - no case to answer.
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You actually believe that? Wow. You realise that "the market" no longer cares about the actual income of the people it's serving any more? Some few years back, property investors managed to make moving to a new rented house have barriers to entry so high most people cannot afford them. "The market" does precisely nothing to ensure that you take home $X or more, it no longer has to because it has captive audiences.
Who gives a flying fuck? This is about Google AUSTRALIA not paying taxes to the AUSTRALIAN Government. You can take your anti-American-government rhetoric and fuck off, it doesn't apply here.
Then you have a shitty government. Our government hires lots of people doing useful jobs like teaching, healing, policing, putting out fires, protecting national parks, stopping drug importing, and uses tax money to pay for it too. Unfortunately the fucking sheep elected a mini-American government, and they're now firing lots of people.
You forgot breakeven, which by the looks of the GPs post they refer to breakeven as "profit".
Except this isn't a bogus claim, it's the truth. And they're all doing it (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Sony, everyone) so it's not some anti-Google agenda. Unless all these companies have a Mutually Assured PR Destruction Treaty or something of course.
Because, dumbass, you'd be entitled to the same healthcare, whether you would "struggle to afford it" under the old system or not?
I do not get why Americans are so rabid in their opposition to decent fucking healthcare. It makes no sense. It's not even the "me me me" mentality, because even the poor oppose it!
Why would Obama care how much Google Australia is paying the ATO again?
I've always felt that a government with not enough power is as dangerous as one with too much. The problem is that no-one can agree on the balance at which point the government has enough power to do the job we elect it for, and not enough for it to exceed its mandate.
And contrary to right wing rhetoric, I don't believe that the government has no business running private companies. Competing in the right sectors is both a great way to enforce competition without regulation, and return dividends to the government and reduce the tax burden.
A flat tax with the first $20K or so exempt would be a decent compromise. If you then grant everyone $20K per year as a social security allowance, abated by $1 for every $1 earned until that allowance reaches zero, but still make sure there is a reasonable minimum wage, you might be onto a winner. Not sure how sustainable it would be though.
Last I checked it was 28% in Australia, and 30% in New Zealand. Except in NZ we usually have our multinationals working out of Oz and skipping paying our taxes at all.
What? Australia is not in the EU, and never has been. It's on the other side of the planet.
Because if a person makes a loss in a tax year, they actually can claim a refund?
That makes no sense. If you lower the tax rates, it reduces avoidance sure, but it doesn't increase tax revenues, since all you've done is make the tax obligation the same as what they were paying before. The solution is to prosecute, not legitimise these scams.
So that your assets aren't stored as DB blobs, the slowest and worst possible way in which to store files?
Hey arrogant twat, the rest of the civilised world writes it as DD-MM. Nobody, except Americans, thinks it should ever be MM-DD.
Of course it's intentional. It links to a job posting for a security engineer, and the job posting clearly does not appear in every single Facebook page so that's definitely not the actual source of the page.
FastCGI is unaffected. I've tested (not like testing this issue is hard).
If you're using .NET (any .NET language) MSDN Document Writers will fall from the sky to assassinate you if you write an SQL query without using SqlCommand and Parameters.
Great track record? This 8 year old exploit begs to differ.
Right, you just keep believing that. Don't let reality get in the way of your Microsoft hate campaign.
Um, no, it's nothing like that at all. It's like Pepsi having lower sales this month because more people bought Coke.
I'm confused. The stock price tanked long before the Microsoft deal, according to that chart. Are you linking to the wrong page?
Mine hit concrete once. It landed on a corner though, so it just dented the concrete and scuffed the metal. I dread it landing screen down though - gorilla glass tends to just shatter if that happens.
I used to have a Nokia that survived many a drop though. I swear they made them out of the same stuff as aircraft black-boxes.
Unless of course you're a CEO that provides incorrect financial information based on the information available at the time that just didn't turn out how you hoped, in which case it's also fine.
Well, if they say "in our opinion... blah blah" followed by the standard disclaimer "DISCLAIMER: Our Delorean is non-functional, and we have not actually travelled 10 years into the future to check that this opinion turns out to be correct. We may be wrong, and the Magic 8-Ball should be consulted by investors prior to relying on this information" then yes, they should be able to say it. Outright lying would be a different story. But if the board actually believed based on knowledge available at the time that things could turn out as they predicted, well - no case to answer.