Exactly, if the company does not pay the money to the employees, it has profit left over and that amount gets taxed. Tax collected. Check.
If the company does pay it all out to employees, the government taxes it. Tax collected. Check.
This is not the story the summary wants to imply. There are real examples of tax strategies that are truly questionable. Paying out the profit to employees (who get taxed at high rates) is not one.
Is the British corporate rate that different from the personal rate? Did the British government not collect the taxes either way, or did I miss something?
(North American here, not an expert on British tax rates)
Who cares? It is not my debt, it is my company's debt. I can take a vacation to Hawaii, while the company crashes and burns (ie sheds/restructures debt through bankruptcy proceedings).
If you believe this kind of deep leverage will not affect the cultures at these companies, from the top down, you're probably mistaken.
You, sir, are not welcome here. We will not have informed opinions, insightful comments, or otherwise. We're poop flinging monkeys (we sometimes screech) and we like it. Who are you and what have you done with the real 'willworkforbeer?' Hmm?
Ok, I'm back from Walmart with a new poopflinger. What happened?
wind's capacity factor has risen from 32% to 37%. Even more interns of percentage gains, solar's capacity factor has risen from 16 to 20% in that same time frame.
Which is still pretty low, and is why you need to couple expansion of wind and solar with a non-carbon-generating power source with a high capacity factor, such as hydroelectric or nuclear. And nuclear is a lot safer and more environmentally friendly than hydro.
As to your question, I was trying to point out the rising slope, the trend of improvements in those sectors. Lots of room to improve, and it;s happening.
I agree that modern nuclear, like Thorium / MSR should be a big part of the future energy production. It seems insurmountable to educate people on the differences between Grampa's nuclear reactor designs vs. the Thorium/MSR nextgen designs, but it can be done.
In the meantime, the renewables trendlines are going in the right direction for both solar and wind. At the margin, there will come a point when the gains are in ever-smaller increments, but costs will be dropping in a steady curve and make renewables affordable of parts of the world where MSR are not cost effective.
Then again, if modular compact MSR reactors could be mass produced, it may be affordable for markets as small as a small village.
http://www.ted.com/talks/taylo...
The Fine Article also has an interesting graphic relating "Capacity Factor", which is "the percentage of a power plant's maximum potential that's actually achieved over time."
Notably, in the last 12 months, wind's capacity factor has risen from 32% to 37%. Even more interns of percentage gains, solar's capacity factor has risen from 16 to 20% in that same time frame.
This is the worst variation of the "Kevin Bacon Game." It's the Six Degrees of Political Connection, where any topic, no matter how neutral or broad in scope (like naturally occurring bacteria) can be linked to any political opinion.
Wasn't it Jim Gaffigan who pointed out the way to stop a conversation was with, "I'd like to talk to you about Jesus"? Now it's, "I'd like to inject my my politics into whatever you just said."
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Exactly, if the company does not pay the money to the employees, it has profit left over and that amount gets taxed. Tax collected. Check.
If the company does pay it all out to employees, the government taxes it. Tax collected. Check.
This is not the story the summary wants to imply. There are real examples of tax strategies that are truly questionable. Paying out the profit to employees (who get taxed at high rates) is not one.
Is the British corporate rate that different from the personal rate? Did the British government not collect the taxes either way, or did I miss something?
(North American here, not an expert on British tax rates)
Californians are just terrible people in general, and no amount of "green" technology or reduction in fossil fuel consumption can change their nature.
It's generation X. Now back in the good old days.......
Who cares? It is not my debt, it is my company's debt. I can take a vacation to Hawaii, while the company crashes and burns (ie sheds/restructures debt through bankruptcy proceedings).
If you believe this kind of deep leverage will not affect the cultures at these companies, from the top down, you're probably mistaken.
I would be a red shirt if it meant going into space. Captain is a crap job.
Actually, cleaning the Captain's waste reclamation unit is the crap job, Brown Shirt.
Imagine the pressure of waking up every day with a US$60Billion debt over your head. No pressure, sales weasels, no pressure at all.
And people willing to let families keep massive vineyard estates over many generations, like those nice Picards.
What if many people wanted their own county-sized vineyard estate home in the country? How is that not scarcity?
Quick! Someone get over to Wikipedia and add a paragraph on this subject to the 'chicken' entry.
I think things like 'chicken entry' is exactly what's being banned at Amazon.
Experiment 626 is what we are really anxious to hear about.
Dude, you've been back into the Experiment 420 again, haven't you.
It's possible - you don't really need to make the AI any smarter if you can just make the "consumers" dumber instead.
But if you make them any dumber, we'll need shoe-typing robots... Oh, I get it, it's a robot construction jobs program.
More specifically, an alphabetical listing problem, as referenced by the modern maxim: "bro" before "ho".
Since they filmed parts of Star Wars there. Just think of the Annual Nerd Pilgrimage tourism dollars pouring into Tunisia.
A name for this mass migration / convention? Not 'SciFi Con' or 'Force Con'... Call it, The "Ultimate Con".
Oh, and those disks make a detour to the NSA on their way to Amazon. Very convenient, indeed.
It was the shipping via Black Helicopter Express that gave it away.
So how do you know which chip you got? There's an app for that.
And for you grumpy geezers complaining that you're getting weary of the Apple news cycle, well, "There's a nap for that."
Master(De)baters
Thanks for explaining the joke, Captain.
That's funny, I've always heard Harvard is just full of Master Debaters.
I have so many dick pics it's crazy.
Um... oookay. "Had" might have been a better choice of words.
Wait, what? You read the article?
You, sir, are not welcome here. We will not have informed opinions, insightful comments, or otherwise. We're poop flinging monkeys (we sometimes screech) and we like it. Who are you and what have you done with the real 'willworkforbeer?' Hmm?
Ok, I'm back from Walmart with a new poopflinger. What happened?
Well sure you're going to get more capacity when you use even more interns.
Two-shay, my fiend.
wind's capacity factor has risen from 32% to 37%. Even more interns of percentage gains, solar's capacity factor has risen from 16 to 20% in that same time frame.
Which is still pretty low, and is why you need to couple expansion of wind and solar with a non-carbon-generating power source with a high capacity factor, such as hydroelectric or nuclear. And nuclear is a lot safer and more environmentally friendly than hydro.
As to your question, I was trying to point out the rising slope, the trend of improvements in those sectors. Lots of room to improve, and it;s happening.
I agree that modern nuclear, like Thorium / MSR should be a big part of the future energy production. It seems insurmountable to educate people on the differences between Grampa's nuclear reactor designs vs. the Thorium/MSR nextgen designs, but it can be done.
In the meantime, the renewables trendlines are going in the right direction for both solar and wind. At the margin, there will come a point when the gains are in ever-smaller increments, but costs will be dropping in a steady curve and make renewables affordable of parts of the world where MSR are not cost effective.
Then again, if modular compact MSR reactors could be mass produced, it may be affordable for markets as small as a small village. http://www.ted.com/talks/taylo...
The Fine Article also has an interesting graphic relating "Capacity Factor", which is "the percentage of a power plant's maximum potential that's actually achieved over time."
Notably, in the last 12 months, wind's capacity factor has risen from 32% to 37%. Even more interns of percentage gains, solar's capacity factor has risen from 16 to 20% in that same time frame.
...thinks it's indistinguishable from Government.
FTFY.
So what exactly does a neutrino taste like?
Probability says: Chicken.
This is so typical of the Republicans.
This is the worst variation of the "Kevin Bacon Game." It's the Six Degrees of Political Connection, where any topic, no matter how neutral or broad in scope (like naturally occurring bacteria) can be linked to any political opinion.
Wasn't it Jim Gaffigan who pointed out the way to stop a conversation was with, "I'd like to talk to you about Jesus"?
Now it's, "I'd like to inject my my politics into whatever you just said."
Clearly the phone is just unhappy at not being fondled constantly, since most people can't put the fucking thing down for more than 2 minutes.
Careful, you'e talking about my precious.