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  1. Re:Internet megacorps not on level playing field on Italy Approves 'Google Tax' On Internet Companies · · Score: 1

    So sad that you didn't understand the most fundamental principles of accounting : income is not profit. profit is income minus expenses. A very, very important distinction.

    So if taxes increase, companies have three choices to keep their profit equal:

    1. 1) increase income (raise prices and/or sales)
    2. 2) decrease expenses
    3. 3) increase income and decrease expenses

    These will be the first tools a company will resort to. Only when the market forces them (they can't decrease cost nor increase income) will they accept a lower profit.

  2. Re:damn philanthropists on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    Hahaha, living up to the dutch expression "Mijn naam is haas" ("My name is Haas"), which is used when someone claims to known nothing, but seems to be lying about it.

  3. Money on ICANN's Trademark Clearinghouse Launching Today · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Give us your moneys to put your name on a list. Not that we will actually do something with it, but it will give you a nice and fuzzy feeling.

  4. Re:End the "Idea" Patents on The Patents That Threaten 3-D Printing · · Score: 1

    /me quickly submits patent for 'rainbow car'.

  5. Re:And we care because why? on Instagram Loses Almost Half Its Daily Users In a Month · · Score: 2

    In relation to the XKCD comic: The guy is taking storage space from Chad and Chad isn't interested in what the guy has, he wants it gone. If the guy removes his shit, Chad will have the garage for his own stuff.

    Back to instagram: the whole point of instagram is to have shit in the storage. When that shit is gone, instagram will have no purpose for its storage space. Instagram wants the stuff to be in the storage, while Chad didn't. Instagram needs the shit to even be able to own the storage space, while Chad can sell the shit to make an extra buck (either way, Chad's happy, as long as the shit is gone). The business cases for Chad and Instagram differ immensely.

    tldr: the analogy is wrong.

  6. Re:A Mature Local Machine Product vs Immature Clou on Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? · · Score: 1

    They said the same about WordPerfect back when we learned it at school.

  7. Re:A Mature Local Machine Product vs Immature Clou on Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? · · Score: 1

    What do keyboard shortcuts have to with the Ribbon interface?

  8. Re:Could someone please explain to me on Order Limit On Raspberry Pi Lifted · · Score: 1

    Why would you use tiny one-board computer when full computers aren't that expensive and, for that matter, the price probably isn't issue. You can get much better devices that way.

    Your answer.

  9. No creds on The 300 km/h Superbus · · Score: 1

    No credits to Wubbo Ockels, the Dutch astronaut who has been pushing this project for years?

    Just some marketing talk about Saudi's...

  10. Re:Keep trying til you get the vote desired on EU Commissioner Reveals He Will Ignore Any Rejection of ACTA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It should be considered treason : therefore punishable by death.

  11. Re:You mean he actually bought the European Court? on EU Commissioner Reveals He Will Ignore Any Rejection of ACTA · · Score: 1

    Please mod parent up. For this is so true...



    "vote wrong" - that such an expression exists....

  12. Re:Nonsense? on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 1

    It has every semantic and real-world significance. It doesn't matter wether you practice or not, in the eyes of the world you: you are a jew. The world is all about applying labels to people, regardless whether they desire them

  13. first against the wall when the revolution comes on Employees Admit They'd Walk Out With Stolen Data If Fired · · Score: 1

    So it is clear, we cannot trust the managers and executives. This only shows that we should have as little of them as possible and limit their access to sensitive info as much as possible.

    Also explains the firing policy that you hear about in a lot of American companies: "Ill-doers are ill-deemers".

  14. Re:Hungarians are a sad bunch on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 1

    Then you have no proper excuse for your ignorance.

  15. Re:Are Europe's demons awakening (again)? on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 1

    "Lack of opportunities" ? Please. Stop right there. Next thing you'll say is that it was their childhood that causes their behavior ? No, I don't support the racist views of the hungarion idiot; but Romans are a known 'problem'. It has everything to do with culture though....

  16. Re:Nonsense? on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 1

    There are two aspects of being Jewish: being a Jew and practising the Jewish religion.

    When you are born a Jew, you'll always be a Jew, no matter what. That is not up to the person to decide unfortunately, it is the world that says he is, due to the simple definition : mother(a) = jew -> a = jew .

    Whether or not the person practises the Jewish religion is his own free choice. (Although his environment could be of considerable influence of course).

  17. Re:Tired of Google's lack of product maintenance on Google Blockly — a Language With a Difference · · Score: 1

    Marketers, lawyers and accountants have no business running any companies. They are support functions, no more, no less.

  18. Re:Or... on US Gov't Wants Megaupload Users To Pay For Their Data · · Score: 1

    Lifetime of tax audits? What percentage of MU's users were Americans?

  19. Re:TOS Says NO! on US Gov't Wants Megaupload Users To Pay For Their Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Indeed, the gym tells you they are not responsible for my stuff. The person who steals my stuff from my locker however, is.

    If my stuff is in a locker at the gym and a foreign government decides to open all the lockers and takes the content, I will not sue the gym: I will sue that government.

  20. Grand Theft Data on US Gov't Wants Megaupload Users To Pay For Their Data · · Score: 1

    So, if MU has all it's data and there will be no case against them (apparently MU is allowed to start their site again), why did the FBI copy the data? This is international data-theft (Using the MPAA's definition of the term theft). Plain and simple. This might even be the largest theft in history :P

  21. Re:What about The Original Bill of Rights ? on A Digital Citizen's Bill of Rights · · Score: 2

    That Bill of Rights only has is your (Americans) problem. Americans are just a small percentage of the internet's demographic.

  22. Re:I'm going the way of Malda on Introducing SlashBI · · Score: 5, Funny

    But AC, you are the most active poster here. What would this site be without you... ?

  23. Re:Tesseract OCR on Open Source OCR That Makes Searchable PDFs · · Score: 1

    Agreed.

  24. Re:Impossible to imagine on Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys · · Score: 1

    In your childhood your brains trains on how to interpret 2d images that come in from your eyes in 3d references. If you were blind from birth, your brain skipped that phase and later on (when blindness suddenly dissappears for whatsoever reason) won't be able to interpret the 2d images provided by your eyes. With colors however it is merely an extension of your already known palette... perhaps you might interpret the new colors in a way that's different from other people, but you will be able to recognise them. (perhaps it will become a 24 hour acid trip ... )

  25. Re:Unscaled photo link on Most Detailed Photos of an Atom Yet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unscaled, wow. That is one HUGE atom.... no wonder they were capable of photographing it.