Actually it does, since loans to small business were a cornerstone of the 11th five year plan and it's continued until this day. Need capital to launch a small business that will employ a few dozen people? The Chinese Government will back it. Banks do hate it, because they have to offer the loans (because they are owned by the Government), but the loans are there. Two members of my family have used such small loans in the last 7-8 years to build successful small businesses, paid back the loans, and now employ just under 100 people between them.
Given that Finland averages about EUR3400 per month, that would be about 212 employees to distribute those checks. So about 11 recipients per Government employee. Seems pretty darn low, or inefficient - or both.
We could also try what China does - give more loans/grants for starting businesses, and bigger credits to companies to employ people. Businesses tend to be pretty good, overall, and determining value and growth patterns in the economy. You hire more people, you get a bigger rebate at the end of the year. You want to start a new business? Their version of the Small Business Administration is about 3 times more generous and likely to give you a loan as compared to the US version. Encourage production and economic growth via direct cash rebates seems to be a good way to do it.
The deficit that many are predicting from this tax cut also assumes annual GDP growth of 2%, not the 3%+ we're running right now. Get back to 3% - the average we're used to seeing - and the deficit will come down.
I'm sure Finland gained nothing from a 97% caucasian racial composition, 75% Christian church affiliation, and 90% native Finnish speaking rate for their population, right? Monocultures make it a lot easier to implement these kinds of plans.
Eisenhower (the last President to actually reduce the debt, and who warned us of the military/industrial complex) wouldn't have been elected if he didn't have to win the war that FDR was allowed to foment as his only solution to ending the great depression he created.
Exactly. For example, California has a minimum $800/year sales tax remittance for all businesses. If your sales taxes collected throughout the year add up to less than $800 - you still have to pay $800. Even if you had one sale in the State, for $0.01 in tax - you have to pay $800, minimum. If you're not doing at least $10,000 worth of sales into California, you would be money ahead to ban ALL sales into the State of California.
I've been to the last 23 CES shows - including this year. A goodly portion of the Sands was unoccupied/roped off, as well as most of the top of the Venetian hotel (old high-end audio section). Lots of those spaces would have been where Kickstarter/startups would have been located, but because of flagging demand for space - they can move to more "higher visibility" areas. It wasn't because a lack of space - it was a lack of interest. Android was much more prevalent this year than in past. Both in use and in terms of product support.
Sometimes it does. iOS is losing marketshare. And when 3rd parties stop targeting your platform - it's a good indication that either the market is dying, or they are facing competition from the owner of the platform itself (like it did with Beats and Apple branded headphones/earbuds). Add in making it more and more difficult for small and innovative 3rd parties to support your hardware platform - and companies just naturally turn away. Shrinking market, increased competition from Apple itself, and roadblocks to integration = irrelevancy.
Demand is dropping a lot faster than expected. And BGR is not an anti-Apple site at all.
Personally, I'm seeing a lot of my OEM/ODM clients forgoing Apple-specific features because of falling worldwide market share, and ever-increasing difficulties in working with them. For example, audio products. If you were making an Apple-targeted headphone in the last few years, well you're basically out of luck. Between Beats and their own Airpods, Apple is now your number one competitor.
Lightning port support? Great! The IAP2, Lightning connector, and LAM will set you back about $13, AAC licensing is another $0.50, and you must build your product at factories that are 100% certified by Apple (and typically will only do tens of thousands of products at a time - sucks to be a small guy). And then you have an audio device with worse audio performance than generic Android; Apple supports "up to" 24 bit/ 48 kHz. Android supports up to 32 bit / 384 kHz and DSD256 - basically any high-res format you want. And also supports AptX, AptX HD, Sony's LDAC, and all the other high quality formats.
Apple has shrinking market share, softening demand, is expensive to work with, and highly restrictive in your own selection of supply chain. And they show no remorse at all when they decide to move into your market space. Why would you go out of your way to support them?
You had gallons per day? Damn silly-con valley richie-rich arseholes! Why when I was growing up, we had to stand behind old man Smithers' horse, catch the urine, filter it with our hair which served as our daily bath, save the teaspoon of water gathered, use it to boil some rocks for sustenance, use the cook water to wash last week's corn husks we used for clothing, and then feed it back to the horse so it wouldn't die. And we were happy! Kids today have it so easy...
California sends half its fresh water directly out to the ocean without use other than scenic rivers and other environmental desires (like delta smelt). Agriculture is second place, at 40%, and urban is about 10%. Reduce the scenic rivers demand, and we'd have plenty of fresh water.
I know really well how deductions work, apparently you don't know much about shady accounting practices some companies use.
I kind of have to disagree here, I don't think you know how they work. For a deduction to work, you first have to have something to deduct it from - like gross profit. Considering Uber doesn't make any, it's hard to take a deduction. Burning $180 million a month isn't too good of a platform for allowing deductions.
China ordering closing of BTC mining. Sorry to burst your bubble, perhaps some of us actually read more than pro-BTC/cryptocurrency sources. It's been going on for a while, and will be pretty complete in another 4-6 weeks.
Additionally, wasn't NYC and the State also a willing participant in the sale of gasoline and financial partners in the money people paid (tax) on the gasoline? They license people to sell the product, they financially benefit from the sale of the product, then turn around and sue the supplier of the product for allowing it to be sold and consumed in the first place!
It seems the USA actually met the Kyoto Protocol goals for emissions reduction, and I believe it is the only country to do so. We did not ratify that treaty, and so it was never official US policy - but we met it nevertheless. What makes you believe that ratification or failure to do so of the Paris Accord would result in anything different?
Weather is not climate. A single year does not destroy the trend. Otherwise we can claim the fact that this winter is colder than last year means that global warming is over.
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Actually it does, since loans to small business were a cornerstone of the 11th five year plan and it's continued until this day. Need capital to launch a small business that will employ a few dozen people? The Chinese Government will back it. Banks do hate it, because they have to offer the loans (because they are owned by the Government), but the loans are there. Two members of my family have used such small loans in the last 7-8 years to build successful small businesses, paid back the loans, and now employ just under 100 people between them.
Given that Finland averages about EUR3400 per month, that would be about 212 employees to distribute those checks. So about 11 recipients per Government employee. Seems pretty darn low, or inefficient - or both.
We could also try what China does - give more loans/grants for starting businesses, and bigger credits to companies to employ people. Businesses tend to be pretty good, overall, and determining value and growth patterns in the economy. You hire more people, you get a bigger rebate at the end of the year. You want to start a new business? Their version of the Small Business Administration is about 3 times more generous and likely to give you a loan as compared to the US version. Encourage production and economic growth via direct cash rebates seems to be a good way to do it.
The deficit that many are predicting from this tax cut also assumes annual GDP growth of 2%, not the 3%+ we're running right now. Get back to 3% - the average we're used to seeing - and the deficit will come down.
I'm sure Finland gained nothing from a 97% caucasian racial composition, 75% Christian church affiliation, and 90% native Finnish speaking rate for their population, right? Monocultures make it a lot easier to implement these kinds of plans.
Eisenhower (the last President to actually reduce the debt, and who warned us of the military/industrial complex) wouldn't have been elected if he didn't have to win the war that FDR was allowed to foment as his only solution to ending the great depression he created.
Exactly. For example, California has a minimum $800/year sales tax remittance for all businesses. If your sales taxes collected throughout the year add up to less than $800 - you still have to pay $800. Even if you had one sale in the State, for $0.01 in tax - you have to pay $800, minimum. If you're not doing at least $10,000 worth of sales into California, you would be money ahead to ban ALL sales into the State of California.
Delta isn't scenic rivers. Cut scenic rivers spill - and we'll have quite a bit more water, until desal is up and going strong...
I've been to the last 23 CES shows - including this year. A goodly portion of the Sands was unoccupied/roped off, as well as most of the top of the Venetian hotel (old high-end audio section). Lots of those spaces would have been where Kickstarter/startups would have been located, but because of flagging demand for space - they can move to more "higher visibility" areas. It wasn't because a lack of space - it was a lack of interest. Android was much more prevalent this year than in past. Both in use and in terms of product support.
Sometimes it does. iOS is losing marketshare. And when 3rd parties stop targeting your platform - it's a good indication that either the market is dying, or they are facing competition from the owner of the platform itself (like it did with Beats and Apple branded headphones/earbuds). Add in making it more and more difficult for small and innovative 3rd parties to support your hardware platform - and companies just naturally turn away. Shrinking market, increased competition from Apple itself, and roadblocks to integration = irrelevancy.
Alexa runs great on its Echo Show product. Decent screen as well, it's 1024 x 600 - so better than your 1989 CGA monitor!
Demand is dropping a lot faster than expected. And BGR is not an anti-Apple site at all.
Personally, I'm seeing a lot of my OEM/ODM clients forgoing Apple-specific features because of falling worldwide market share, and ever-increasing difficulties in working with them. For example, audio products. If you were making an Apple-targeted headphone in the last few years, well you're basically out of luck. Between Beats and their own Airpods, Apple is now your number one competitor.
Lightning port support? Great! The IAP2, Lightning connector, and LAM will set you back about $13, AAC licensing is another $0.50, and you must build your product at factories that are 100% certified by Apple (and typically will only do tens of thousands of products at a time - sucks to be a small guy). And then you have an audio device with worse audio performance than generic Android; Apple supports "up to" 24 bit/ 48 kHz. Android supports up to 32 bit / 384 kHz and DSD256 - basically any high-res format you want. And also supports AptX, AptX HD, Sony's LDAC, and all the other high quality formats.
Apple has shrinking market share, softening demand, is expensive to work with, and highly restrictive in your own selection of supply chain. And they show no remorse at all when they decide to move into your market space. Why would you go out of your way to support them?
You had gallons per day? Damn silly-con valley richie-rich arseholes! Why when I was growing up, we had to stand behind old man Smithers' horse, catch the urine, filter it with our hair which served as our daily bath, save the teaspoon of water gathered, use it to boil some rocks for sustenance, use the cook water to wash last week's corn husks we used for clothing, and then feed it back to the horse so it wouldn't die. And we were happy! Kids today have it so easy...
California sends half its fresh water directly out to the ocean without use other than scenic rivers and other environmental desires (like delta smelt). Agriculture is second place, at 40%, and urban is about 10%. Reduce the scenic rivers demand, and we'd have plenty of fresh water.
On the plus side, they do have their own wax for their cars...
Revenue != profit. Deductions lower your taxes, which are paid on profit, not revenue.
Need a .ai domain, too...
Reagan wouldn't have had to pay 4% of GDP against interest if Johnson hadn't gotten us into Vietnam, and Carter hadn't killed the economy...
I know really well how deductions work, apparently you don't know much about shady accounting practices some companies use.
I kind of have to disagree here, I don't think you know how they work. For a deduction to work, you first have to have something to deduct it from - like gross profit. Considering Uber doesn't make any, it's hard to take a deduction. Burning $180 million a month isn't too good of a platform for allowing deductions.
South Korea banning trading, China already banned the exchange of cryptocurrencies and crypto mining operations, and Japan is still considering banning ICOs. Tough row to hoe for crypto folks in Asia!
China ordering closing of BTC mining. Sorry to burst your bubble, perhaps some of us actually read more than pro-BTC/cryptocurrency sources. It's been going on for a while, and will be pretty complete in another 4-6 weeks.
Additionally, wasn't NYC and the State also a willing participant in the sale of gasoline and financial partners in the money people paid (tax) on the gasoline? They license people to sell the product, they financially benefit from the sale of the product, then turn around and sue the supplier of the product for allowing it to be sold and consumed in the first place!
It seems the USA actually met the Kyoto Protocol goals for emissions reduction, and I believe it is the only country to do so. We did not ratify that treaty, and so it was never official US policy - but we met it nevertheless. What makes you believe that ratification or failure to do so of the Paris Accord would result in anything different?
Democrats won in nine of the 10 most-gerrymandered districts. But eight out of 10 of those districts were drawn by Republicans. Both parties love to create districts - or agree to create districts - that guarantee safe seats. And when the fact is that "Maryland and North Carolina are essentially tied for the honor of most-gerrymandered state." but only North Carolina - a GOP State - is mentioned but Maryland - a Democrat State - is not, it's pretty clear that /. is also pretty gerrymandered...
Weather is not climate. A single year does not destroy the trend. Otherwise we can claim the fact that this winter is colder than last year means that global warming is over.