Non sequitur. Lots of places guarantee their citizens freedom of expression, and honour this guarantee quite well, without letting them carry guns all over the place.
As the father of an Australian child, you don't know how grateful I am to have my kid growing up in a country where she actually might not get shot at school.
Weapons are just another form of power like knowledge or freedom.
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things is not quite the same.
Hint: Knowledge and freedom don't generally put your wife 6 feet under when your 3-year-old gets hold of one of them and figures out how to disengage the safety.
Because the tax on citizens is already retarded and no other country is that retarded. The fix is to get rid of that retardation, not spread it to corporations.
*That* is an argument that is very possibly worth making.
US law says that, if you're a US citizen, you're liable for US taxes. Doesn't matter where you live or where your money comes from. However, it also recognises that it's not nice to subject citizens residing overseas to double taxation--so if you live in $country and pay $country's taxes on your income there, the US will often accept this as having fulfilled your obligation. But if you've income that you're not paying taxes on, anywhere, and the IRS finds out, they will come calling.
What Obama is apparently intending is to extend this philosophy to US corporations, which currently enjoy a much better deal than you or I. They pay US taxes on profits reported in the US. They don't pay US taxes on profits reported in other countries--and here comes the important part--even if they report those profits in $nation, which happens to have negligible or even zero corporate taxes. Whereas, if I move to $nation and they don't make me pay income tax there, then I get to pay it to the US.
So corporations currently get a huge overseas tax dodge that you and I don't. Quoth TFS,
In the future, the budget proposes that U.S. companies pay a 19 percent tax on all of their foreign earnings as they are earned, while a tax credit would be issued for foreign taxes paid, the official said.
So in other words, US corporations making money overseas would be subject to taxes on it in a manner very much like how US citizens are already subject to their overseas earnings, and with same proviso that they won't be doubly taxed.
Okay, go ahead and explain how this is "retarded" or unfair. Seems pretty smart and fair to me.
One of the biggest changes in GIMPShop was the single window mode that docked the toolbox into the image window, GIMP 2.8 has such a feature as standard(if it's not default it's in the window menu, i think)...
Well, duh. I honestly did not know this. Thank you, AC!
Ok, I've had a slightly longer look, and (*cough* slightly customised version of *cough* the GPL notwithstanding) I see no way to obtain the GimpShop sources. There's a.deb but it's version 2.2.11, whereas the Windows version is at 2.8 (like GIMP). The source download link just points you to ftp.gimp.org
So, yeah, as far as I'm concerned, GimpShop is dead. Ah well, too bad.
My time has value, so if I have to spend 3 extra hours...
You've got to be fucking kidding.
A Windows installation from scratch, plus updates, plus apps, plus updates for the apps, is going to run you 5-6 hours, and maybe more if you can't find that one Adobe CD or your 'Net connection is flaky. Whereas you can install an "everything including the kitchen sink" version of any major Linux distro, complete with all the latest updates, complete with all the latest versions of all applications, in less than an hour.
Thanks for reminding me that this existed. Wish my distro had a package for it. Not that hard to build from source, but a bit tricky to replace the default version. Maybe this time I'll try installing it in my ~/bin and leaving the version installed by my distro alone.
Of course the Newton came first, you bloody nitwit. You're so busy looking for offence that you turned a compliment to your totem corporation on its head. *facepalm*
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I guess that means that all of us who don't happen to run Gentoo are just SOL, then?
Rolling releases are *not* good for developers when an update breaks your build environment. What known good previous version do you roll back to?
Fear of what devices designed to kill people might do in the hands of some self-styled loony "militiamen" is hardly irrational.
Non sequitur. Lots of places guarantee their citizens freedom of expression, and honour this guarantee quite well, without letting them carry guns all over the place.
As the father of an Australian child, you don't know how grateful I am to have my kid growing up in a country where she actually might not get shot at school.
Ah, yes, if we'd just had that one lone hero... *eyeroll*
Australia's crime rate went up after guns were outlawed in 1996...
That same old horseshit that's been forwarded to half the email accounts on the planet? Not quite the case, mate.
...such monitoring is wrong, whereas torture is an issue that's very much up in the air as to being reasonable to use...
Um, no, nothing "up in the air" about it at all. Torture is wrong.
Weapons are just another form of power like knowledge or freedom.
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things is not quite the same.
Hint: Knowledge and freedom don't generally put your wife 6 feet under when your 3-year-old gets hold of one of them and figures out how to disengage the safety.
Wow, that's the first correct thing you've said in this thread.
Because the tax on citizens is already retarded and no other country is that retarded. The fix is to get rid of that retardation, not spread it to corporations.
*That* is an argument that is very possibly worth making.
Aw, crap, that should have been "very much like how US citizens are already subject to US taxes on their overseas earnings".
(And I even used Preview, dammit.)
Nobody's talking about "taxing other countries".
US law says that, if you're a US citizen, you're liable for US taxes. Doesn't matter where you live or where your money comes from. However, it also recognises that it's not nice to subject citizens residing overseas to double taxation--so if you live in $country and pay $country's taxes on your income there, the US will often accept this as having fulfilled your obligation. But if you've income that you're not paying taxes on, anywhere, and the IRS finds out, they will come calling.
What Obama is apparently intending is to extend this philosophy to US corporations, which currently enjoy a much better deal than you or I. They pay US taxes on profits reported in the US. They don't pay US taxes on profits reported in other countries--and here comes the important part--even if they report those profits in $nation, which happens to have negligible or even zero corporate taxes. Whereas, if I move to $nation and they don't make me pay income tax there, then I get to pay it to the US.
So corporations currently get a huge overseas tax dodge that you and I don't. Quoth TFS,
In the future, the budget proposes that U.S. companies pay a 19 percent tax on all of their foreign earnings as they are earned, while a tax credit would be issued for foreign taxes paid, the official said.
So in other words, US corporations making money overseas would be subject to taxes on it in a manner very much like how US citizens are already subject to their overseas earnings, and with same proviso that they won't be doubly taxed.
Okay, go ahead and explain how this is "retarded" or unfair. Seems pretty smart and fair to me.
I suspected something was fishy about the .com, but did not know the story. Thanks.
One of the biggest changes in GIMPShop was the single window mode that docked the toolbox into the image window, GIMP 2.8 has such a feature as standard(if it's not default it's in the window menu, i think)...
Well, duh. I honestly did not know this. Thank you, AC!
Ok, I've had a slightly longer look, and (*cough* slightly customised version of *cough* the GPL notwithstanding) I see no way to obtain the GimpShop sources. There's a .deb but it's version 2.2.11, whereas the Windows version is at 2.8 (like GIMP). The source download link just points you to ftp.gimp.org
So, yeah, as far as I'm concerned, GimpShop is dead. Ah well, too bad.
I use gcc and make. What sort of installer do you prefer?
My time has value, so if I have to spend 3 extra hours...
You've got to be fucking kidding.
A Windows installation from scratch, plus updates, plus apps, plus updates for the apps, is going to run you 5-6 hours, and maybe more if you can't find that one Adobe CD or your 'Net connection is flaky. Whereas you can install an "everything including the kitchen sink" version of any major Linux distro, complete with all the latest updates, complete with all the latest versions of all applications, in less than an hour.
What ever happened to GimpShop?
http://www.gimpshop.com/
Thanks for reminding me that this existed. Wish my distro had a package for it. Not that hard to build from source, but a bit tricky to replace the default version. Maybe this time I'll try installing it in my ~/bin and leaving the version installed by my distro alone.
*nod*
When I want to make a fashion statement, I go buy a new sweater.
You have some problems with this "sequence of events" thing, eh? Let me spell it out for you:
The people who actually did the work have long since been paid.
The only people "losing" anything are the ones trying to charge rent... forever and ever, amen .
You sound a bit like the "making available" folks.
Let me be the first (*this* time round, that is) to say, "You should have used Preview."
Of course the Newton came first, you bloody nitwit. You're so busy looking for offence that you turned a compliment to your totem corporation on its head. *facepalm*
Actually, if you adjust for inflation, the Dutch East India Company still has the market cap crown.