"last year alone, Apple Australia paid only $AU88.5 million in tax, or 0.044% of estimated potential tax liabilities"
implying that Apple Australia made $AU200 billion last year?
Yes you made a mistake. You correctly calculate (88.5 * 0.044) * 100 million or about 200 billion. What you forget though is that this is the tax liability - not their profit. Since the corporate tax rate in Australia is 30% this means their profit was 200 billion / 30 * 100 or 667 billion odd.
Re: tired of the lack of progress on GIMP
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It gets worse. GIMP also has an atrocious, screen hogging interface that was clearly designed by someone who doesn't really understand the workflow of most professional users.
I agree it has a strange interface, which seems to be different to almost any other app, but I would not say screen-hogging. In fact one of the advantages of the wirerd design is that you can have a full-screen image and float the various toolboxes in front as you need them.
It's also slow. Very slow. For example, a 64 pixel Gaussian blur takes twice as long in GIMP to compute as it does Photoshop, the same for most other operations.
I don't know how it compares with other apps but a 64 pixel Gaussian blur on a large image takes just under 3 seconds.
The text tool is awful too.
It's a fair cop - yes it is pretty awful - difficult to position text, size at anything apart from a point size, etc.
GIMP is way over-promoted by FOSS zealots who usually can't accomplish much more than cropping a picture and applying a few filters to the entire image.
Of course they're going to ignore the 500 madrassas in England which do precisely the same thing and seek out the only Jewish school they could find than shriek and moan and predict the Evil Jew Menace (tm, BBC) is going to destroy all of civilization. This is what they do every day.
But of course it's the one Jewish school that they pick on.
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tired of the lack of progress on GIMP
GIMP is very feature-rich already and to me seems to be in the stage where change is more incremental. Even so it seems steady. Looking at the Krita site I get the impression it is aimed more at anime/comic book artists than the general-purpose GIMP. Does anyone know how they compare?
Fusion... we dont want that to get in the way of OIL
Whereas there are certainly some oil lobbying groups that will push this line I doubt if this is the government's reasoning. If they thought that it was likely that it would produce a commercial energy source in anything but the extreme long term I expect the US government would love to have US patents on unlimited, sustainable energy. I can just see the "change of heart" where suddenly everyone must sign up to to CO2 emission targets - and use US patented technology as a large part of meeting them!
This seems to be the opposite of the argument in the real world. Here we say that supermarkets are bad as they force farm prices to be artificially low to get business. On the other hand farmer's markets, where people pay a small fee then sell their produce at a price they choose - we see as good. People say that this lets farmers trade based on quality.
Why should it be the opposite on Valve - surely people with quality games will ask for what they see as a fair price?
Not defending them, but it's not murder unless they're killing humans. "Slaughtered" would be a better word to use.
Feel free to show me where PETA as an organization has suggested similar penalties for eating animals as for willful cannibalism -- life in prison presumably. Saying that they want animals treated as people is an oversimplification which makes for an easy strawman.
legally yes... but sometimes its nice to judge people by their own criteria
You are the one bringing up the strawman. The claim is that "killing animals is murder", which PETA claim in the link.
A strawman is an argument that you bring up yourself just to defeat that the other party does not old. - for example suggesting " similar penalties for eating animals as for willful cannibalism", not sticking with exactly what they say.
would you be happy w/ your compensation if you knew bob who doesn't show up until lunch time and takes off at 2pm every friday makes $30k more than you per year?
I really have no idea what any of my colleagues earn (within salary bands), but I have no reason to think there is a difference. Certainly both make and female seem to be as happy with their packages.
Well now I'm clearly going to have to spend all afternoon looking up how the Inuit diet works, physiologically.
I've had a look too and some sites seem to say that to thrive on a carnivorous diet the chewing of raw blubber was essential as some vitamins degrade when cooked.
I am sorry, I need a source other than PETA to believe that they don't like it. They provide no evidence that their claim is true.
You have a strange argument here. Its akin to saying that someone wanting to promote healthy living liked unfit people dying of heart attacks. Granted they are odd an extreme, but to say that they like killing animals - despite them saying the opposite - seems unjustified.
No, otherwise they wouldn't go on massive slaughter-fests. An animal PETA gets its hands on has an 84% chance of getting murdered within 24 hours.
To be fair to them they don't like it and only do it so that they can accept animals rejected by other shelters. I have mixed feelings on this, on one hand I think they should turn more away - but on the other hand if the alternative is the animals being dumped by the roadside or worse then maybe accepting and euthenising is best
Wouldn't a human being who was a carnivore fall down dead from malnutrition pretty quickly? Everyone I know is an omnivore.
Yes I meant omnivore - though on the carnivore question I don't know. I believe Inuits were traditionally carnivores for most of the year, so I don't think you would suffer from malnutrition quickly, if you ever would.
Find some vegetarian, and ask them if they would eat meat if it came from artificial means. If they're the type that doesn't eat meat because they feel sorry for animals, they will get a really confused look on their face, say, "well, uh......" and say something very entertaining and random. That's not something they think about normally.
There are all sorts of motivations - environmental, concern for animals, religious, or ethical based on a relative valuation of animal lives that differs from the norm. All will have different reactions to this. Some may also have a yuck factor - just the same as many carnivores would have if offered a meal of cultured human tissue - and may say that though logically they can't object, they wouldn't want to try it.
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Seems like a negligible improvement..
Yes WebP would be a better choice
because i have been in the past.
"last year alone, Apple Australia paid only $AU88.5 million in tax, or 0.044% of estimated potential tax liabilities"
implying that Apple Australia made $AU200 billion last year?
Yes you made a mistake. You correctly calculate (88.5 * 0.044) * 100 million or about 200 billion. What you forget though is that this is the tax liability - not their profit. Since the corporate tax rate in Australia is 30% this means their profit was 200 billion / 30 * 100 or 667 billion odd.
It gets worse. GIMP also has an atrocious, screen hogging interface that was clearly designed by someone who doesn't really understand the workflow of most professional users.
I agree it has a strange interface, which seems to be different to almost any other app, but I would not say screen-hogging. In fact one of the advantages of the wirerd design is that you can have a full-screen image and float the various toolboxes in front as you need them.
It's also slow. Very slow. For example, a 64 pixel Gaussian blur takes twice as long in GIMP to compute as it does Photoshop, the same for most other operations.
I don't know how it compares with other apps but a 64 pixel Gaussian blur on a large image takes just under 3 seconds.
The text tool is awful too.
It's a fair cop - yes it is pretty awful - difficult to position text, size at anything apart from a point size, etc.
GIMP is way over-promoted by FOSS zealots who usually can't accomplish much more than cropping a picture and applying a few filters to the entire image.
There are some real artists using it.
Of course they're going to ignore the 500 madrassas in England which do precisely the same thing and seek out the only Jewish school they could find than shriek and moan and predict the Evil Jew Menace (tm, BBC) is going to destroy all of civilization. This is what they do every day.
In the mean time the Muslims teach their kids much worse things than creationism. Like children as young as 11 learning that Hindus have ‘no intellect’ and that they ‘drink cow piss, and hatred of Jews and Christians.
But of course it's the one Jewish school that they pick on.
tired of the lack of progress on GIMP
GIMP is very feature-rich already and to me seems to be in the stage where change is more incremental. Even so it seems steady. Looking at the Krita site I get the impression it is aimed more at anime/comic book artists than the general-purpose GIMP. Does anyone know how they compare?
That makes it easy
1. Inherit IPAD
2. Join Police force
3. Profit
There are two types of theorems: trivial and unproven.
Actually, there are 3. Proof left for the reader.
Does that include proofs that are too big to fit in the margin?
Media leaks legislation?
When did the US Government become an enemy of freedom?
I guess the answer depends on what side of the Mason Dixon line you live on.
but from the still image the guy looks like a monkey
he's a code monkey!
Fusion... we dont want that to get in the way of OIL
Whereas there are certainly some oil lobbying groups that will push this line I doubt if this is the government's reasoning. If they thought that it was likely that it would produce a commercial energy source in anything but the extreme long term I expect the US government would love to have US patents on unlimited, sustainable energy. I can just see the "change of heart" where suddenly everyone must sign up to to CO2 emission targets - and use US patented technology as a large part of meeting them!
This seems to be the opposite of the argument in the real world. Here we say that supermarkets are bad as they force farm prices to be artificially low to get business. On the other hand farmer's markets, where people pay a small fee then sell their produce at a price they choose - we see as good. People say that this lets farmers trade based on quality.
Why should it be the opposite on Valve - surely people with quality games will ask for what they see as a fair price?
And they even missed the sex part!
That's why its worse. It's mot pleasure followed by pain - it's just pain!
mysql_real_escape_string is a wrapper of a C function. Does that make C the laughing stock for you as well?
Wrapping your house in toilet paper would make your house a laughing stock ... that doesn't mean your house is now though
One In Ten Americans Thinks HTML Is a Type of Sexually Transmitted Infection
Those who have used it know that it's much worse
Not defending them, but it's not murder unless they're killing humans. "Slaughtered" would be a better word to use.
Feel free to show me where PETA as an organization has suggested similar penalties for eating animals as for willful cannibalism -- life in prison presumably. Saying that they want animals treated as people is an oversimplification which makes for an easy strawman.
legally yes ... but sometimes its nice to judge people by their own criteria
You are the one bringing up the strawman. The claim is that "killing animals is murder", which PETA claim in the link.
A strawman is an argument that you bring up yourself just to defeat that the other party does not old. - for example suggesting " similar penalties for eating animals as for willful cannibalism", not sticking with exactly what they say.
would you be happy w/ your compensation if you knew bob who doesn't show up until lunch time and takes off at 2pm every friday makes $30k more than you per year?
Hey ... is that you Bob .... you don't do you?
Not defending them, but it's not murder unless they're killing humans. "Slaughtered" would be a better word to use.
legally yes ... but sometimes its nice to judge people by their own criteria.
he was just testing the filters!
I really have no idea what any of my colleagues earn (within salary bands), but I have no reason to think there is a difference. Certainly both make and female seem to be as happy with their packages.
Well now I'm clearly going to have to spend all afternoon looking up how the Inuit diet works, physiologically.
I've had a look too and some sites seem to say that to thrive on a carnivorous diet the chewing of raw blubber was essential as some vitamins degrade when cooked.
I am sorry, I need a source other than PETA to believe that they don't like it. They provide no evidence that their claim is true.
You have a strange argument here. Its akin to saying that someone wanting to promote healthy living liked unfit people dying of heart attacks. Granted they are odd an extreme, but to say that they like killing animals - despite them saying the opposite - seems unjustified.
I don't really care about antioxidants, one way or the other, but Your signature made me laugh out loud, so I just wanted to say thanks for that.
I think the bacon and cheese explain his need for antioxidants!
No, otherwise they wouldn't go on massive slaughter-fests. An animal PETA gets its hands on has an 84% chance of getting murdered within 24 hours.
To be fair to them they don't like it and only do it so that they can accept animals rejected by other shelters. I have mixed feelings on this, on one hand I think they should turn more away - but on the other hand if the alternative is the animals being dumped by the roadside or worse then maybe accepting and euthenising is best
Wouldn't a human being who was a carnivore fall down dead from malnutrition pretty quickly? Everyone I know is an omnivore.
Yes I meant omnivore - though on the carnivore question I don't know. I believe Inuits were traditionally carnivores for most of the year, so I don't think you would suffer from malnutrition quickly, if you ever would.
Find some vegetarian, and ask them if they would eat meat if it came from artificial means. If they're the type that doesn't eat meat because they feel sorry for animals, they will get a really confused look on their face, say, "well, uh......" and say something very entertaining and random. That's not something they think about normally.
There are all sorts of motivations - environmental, concern for animals, religious, or ethical based on a relative valuation of animal lives that differs from the norm. All will have different reactions to this. Some may also have a yuck factor - just the same as many carnivores would have if offered a meal of cultured human tissue - and may say that though logically they can't object, they wouldn't want to try it.