So, basically, you're saying countries should just let themselves be held hostage by corporations? If there was a rash of bank robberies, would you throw up your arms and say "We should just give them all the money in our banks. After all, if we don't let them, who would want to rob our banks in the future?"
I think a better analogy would be that for each person who made a legitimate withdrawal you spin a wheel and if it comes up '0', you shoot him. The number of '0's on the wheel depends on the size of the withdrawal. No how many people would deposit money with your bank? What sort of interest rate would you have to pay to attract deposits?
Google is using the standard "report income where tax is lowest" strategy in EU. Google has subsidiaries in multiple countries, and they can avoid paying more taxes by moving their income around as internal expenses.
Subsidiaries appear to be barely breaking even, and mothercompany reports higher profit.
So why aren't money and/or expenses that are shuffled this way between subsidiaries taxed as imports/exports each time it crosses a border? If subsidiary companies were required to incorporate as independent entities in each country, these numbers games could be reduced or eliminated.
yup, it's called fractional reserve banking. For X units of currency on the books under 'loans', bank has to hold only n% of X to be considered legit.
That means that, assuming 10% of mandatory reserve, having 1 dollar in deposits allows for 10 dollars in loans. Nowadays the level of reserves around the world is much less than 10%, i'd even risk saying that it's less than 5%.
That's ok though, because it's not like there is anything substantial backing that dollar anyway. It's just a piece of paper that's only worth whatever real goods or services people are willing to trade for it.
Not in the Irish case. Companies "in Ireland for tax reasons" don't necessarily employ many people there. They just have to allocate certain revenues to an Irish subsidiary for tax purposes, and then re-"export" these same on-paper revenues to tax havens like Bermuda. The so called "Double Irish" and "Dutch Sandwich" (they use another holding company in Holland too) that meant Google paid only 2.4% tax rather less than Ireland's 12.5% to 25% rates. It doesn't depend on how many people you employ. Nor on actually making much in Ireland. Just on sharp practice to ensure that even the toilet cleaners at these countries pay higher rates of tax than the company does.
So if tax revenue is limited and employment of locals is non-existent, why should Ireland care if Google packed its bags and left?
"I have no idea what's going on, why this is happening to me," Marlinspike said in an interview for CNET.
Really? You can't? No idea at all? Someone who was there please tell me that he didn't say this with a straight face. I admire and applaud the man's work, but there is no way in this day and age (and an administration that believes it is above the law) that he can do what he does and not expect there to be consequences.
And yet you turn around and exclude an important implication that Moxie pointed out:
He refused to do so, and all the devices were returned to him before he was released, but he thinks that there is a high possibility that the contents were copied and that hardware was modified or new keyboard firmware was installed. "I can't trust any of these devices now," Marlinspike said to Wired.
Settle down all you knee-jerkers, that's not actually what he said [dot.gov]
But the summary was a quote from an article in The Register which was citing an article in The Daily Caller which was referring to an interview with msnbc. How could it possibly be incorrect?
Indeed. In today's legislative environment, at most 50% of the code in an engine controller is actually related to controlling the engine; the rest is OBD and other diagnostics, plus perhaps some other "advanced" features used for differentiation.
Sounds like the ECU I currently have in my car. The ECU has a physical switch on it. Set one way the ECU appears, for all intents and purposes, like a stock factory ECU. The car runs like it too. The switch spends about an hour a year that way when I take the car in for emissions testing. The rest of the year the switch is in the other position, which yields somewhat different performance characteristics.
With the decline in recruitment and the subsequent reduction of requirements to where the army lets in high school dropouts and convicted felons, I wouldn't be surprised if they've also got a few of the special ed kids.
I also served in the '80s and I saw three groups. A small group of professional operators, a group of kids looking for a way to make money for college, and a group who were given the choice of service or jail by a judge. I stayed in the special forces groups because the other two groups scared the crap out of me.
Imagine that someone printed your social security number on your new "great and modern ID card"!
You mean like on my driver's license here in the US up until a few years ago? That's why my new driver's licenses always had an unfortunate encounter with a belt sander soon after issue.
On Tuesday November 09 at 03:14PM, oldmac31310 said:
"It is amazing how the standard of English grammar and spelling plummets particulary on threads about file-sharing. Appalling that the advocates for freedom are so poor at expressing their/they're/there essentially good ideas!"
Does anybody know of any phones that are simple, elegantly designed, work-as-advertised, and constructed with quality, and they aren't made for Barbie or Ken? RAZRs? Mattels?
For a simple phone I like the motorola razr v3.
My reasons are:
What about FireShepherd which actively jams Firesheep?
Actively jams Firesheep or DDOS Facebook? The program sends a bogus request to Facebook with an interesting payload every 400ms. The assumption is that the payload somehow interferes with Firesheep. If enough people run this it could be interpreted as a DDOS attack.
All things being considered, the RIAA might get billions of dollars worth of judgments, but find themselves deeply in the red when they total up all the lawyer fees, court fees, service fees, etc.
No one, not even the RIAA, believes that they will see more than a pittance of this judgment. That doesn't matter to the RIAA in the least. They will have paid a small price to get:
A judgment amount large enough to put fear into the hearts of any who would presume to download music (or at least make them think twice)
A judgment in their favor that they will use as a cornerstone for future litigation
As far as the expense goes, how much does a single television commercial cost? How effective is a commercial that people probably skip past anyway, compared to a million dollar plus judgment that people will talk about and thus have in the back of their minds for quite a while? You can also expect "follow up" news pieces from time to time to refresh people's memories.
Best Buy is trying for 3% and achieving it in a lot of stores.
Yeah, there's a great example. They practically call you a thief to your face while they mug you at the door on the way out. Once their default position was to start treating me like a criminal, I quit shopping there. Best Buy may be down to 3% shrinkage, but has that reduction made up for the lost sales?
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So, basically, you're saying countries should just let themselves be held hostage by corporations? If there was a rash of bank robberies, would you throw up your arms and say "We should just give them all the money in our banks. After all, if we don't let them, who would want to rob our banks in the future?"
I think a better analogy would be that for each person who made a legitimate withdrawal you spin a wheel and if it comes up '0', you shoot him. The number of '0's on the wheel depends on the size of the withdrawal. No how many people would deposit money with your bank? What sort of interest rate would you have to pay to attract deposits?
Google is using the standard "report income where tax is lowest" strategy in EU. Google has subsidiaries in multiple countries, and they can avoid paying more taxes by moving their income around as internal expenses. Subsidiaries appear to be barely breaking even, and mothercompany reports higher profit.
So why aren't money and/or expenses that are shuffled this way between subsidiaries taxed as imports/exports each time it crosses a border? If subsidiary companies were required to incorporate as independent entities in each country, these numbers games could be reduced or eliminated.
yup, it's called fractional reserve banking. For X units of currency on the books under 'loans', bank has to hold only n% of X to be considered legit. That means that, assuming 10% of mandatory reserve, having 1 dollar in deposits allows for 10 dollars in loans. Nowadays the level of reserves around the world is much less than 10%, i'd even risk saying that it's less than 5%.
That's ok though, because it's not like there is anything substantial backing that dollar anyway. It's just a piece of paper that's only worth whatever real goods or services people are willing to trade for it.
The actual facts do not meet with your dogma, I'm afraid.
At some point his karma will run over his dogma.
Not in the Irish case. Companies "in Ireland for tax reasons" don't necessarily employ many people there. They just have to allocate certain revenues to an Irish subsidiary for tax purposes, and then re-"export" these same on-paper revenues to tax havens like Bermuda. The so called "Double Irish" and "Dutch Sandwich" (they use another holding company in Holland too) that meant Google paid only 2.4% tax rather less than Ireland's 12.5% to 25% rates. It doesn't depend on how many people you employ. Nor on actually making much in Ireland. Just on sharp practice to ensure that even the toilet cleaners at these countries pay higher rates of tax than the company does.
So if tax revenue is limited and employment of locals is non-existent, why should Ireland care if Google packed its bags and left?
"I have no idea what's going on, why this is happening to me," Marlinspike said in an interview for CNET.
Really? You can't? No idea at all? Someone who was there please tell me that he didn't say this with a straight face. I admire and applaud the man's work, but there is no way in this day and age (and an administration that believes it is above the law) that he can do what he does and not expect there to be consequences.
He refused to do so, and all the devices were returned to him before he was released, but he thinks that there is a high possibility that the contents were copied and that hardware was modified or new keyboard firmware was installed. "I can't trust any of these devices now," Marlinspike said to Wired.
Nothing to worry about citizen, unless you have something to hide?
Just remember, there is more than one way to skin a cat. Having completed several anatomy classes in college, I can verify this statement.
But the summary was a quote from an article in The Register which was citing an article in The Daily Caller which was referring to an interview with msnbc. How could it possibly be incorrect?
That's not going to happen. It's the U.S. government we are talking about here after all.
I would love to. Citation needed.
Sounds like the ECU I currently have in my car. The ECU has a physical switch on it. Set one way the ECU appears, for all intents and purposes, like a stock factory ECU. The car runs like it too. The switch spends about an hour a year that way when I take the car in for emissions testing. The rest of the year the switch is in the other position, which yields somewhat different performance characteristics.
Would that be Lucas, the prince of darkness by any chance?
Isn't that what Firehose is supposed to do?
I also served in the '80s and I saw three groups. A small group of professional operators, a group of kids looking for a way to make money for college, and a group who were given the choice of service or jail by a judge. I stayed in the special forces groups because the other two groups scared the crap out of me.
You mean like on my driver's license here in the US up until a few years ago? That's why my new driver's licenses always had an unfortunate encounter with a belt sander soon after issue.
Oh, the irony!
For a simple phone I like the motorola razr v3.
My reasons are:
Actively jams Firesheep or DDOS Facebook? The program sends a bogus request to Facebook with an interesting payload every 400ms. The assumption is that the payload somehow interferes with Firesheep. If enough people run this it could be interpreted as a DDOS attack.
I thought that was Disney(tm).
No one, not even the RIAA, believes that they will see more than a pittance of this judgment. That doesn't matter to the RIAA in the least. They will have paid a small price to get:
As far as the expense goes, how much does a single television commercial cost? How effective is a commercial that people probably skip past anyway, compared to a million dollar plus judgment that people will talk about and thus have in the back of their minds for quite a while? You can also expect "follow up" news pieces from time to time to refresh people's memories.
Because it was in the article and summaries have become nothing more than cut and paste jobs. There isn't any actual summarizing any more.
Can you imagine what the interest rate for Safari users is?
Yeah, there's a great example. They practically call you a thief to your face while they mug you at the door on the way out. Once their default position was to start treating me like a criminal, I quit shopping there. Best Buy may be down to 3% shrinkage, but has that reduction made up for the lost sales?