Preface: Said as a person who lived in China full-time for 6 years, and has spent the majority of the last 3 years in China. And married to a Chinese national...
China has a lot of really, really smart people. However, innovation does not exist culturally within the vast majority of Chinese - and seems to be even less present in those with university degrees. There is still a lot of the old Maoist "follow orders only/don't speak up" culture well set within China.
If you want to execute on an idea, China can be a good place to do so - lots of very smart people who, for the most part, follow direction. But if you're looking for innovation/inspiration? Look elsewhere.
NOTE: the current generation of college students being educated overseas are starting to movement towards innovation. My feeling is that it will be their kids that really kick off the innovation revolution within China. About 30 years out, at this time...
I remind everyone that the Chinese Communist Party is made up of the smartest people in China. It is full of scientists and engineers, people with analytical minds, and people who are qualified to make decisions for others. If Slashdot were based in China, the most thoughtful constantly-modded-up users would be mostly CCP members.
WHAT? Hi there, I've lived in China the vast majority (like 80%+) of the last 10 years, and am married to a Chinese national. Most of the CCP members inherited their positions from their parents. They also tend to be the ones who inherited the biggest companies in China as well (banks, telecoms, heavy industries). Capability/intelligence is NOT the reason you're in the CCP - relationships/political gamesmanship/familial relations are what keep the CCP members in the CCP.
Think of John Gruber, the MIT economist who helped get the badly needed Affordable Care Act passed despite opposition from lesser minds.
Badly needed ACA? The biggest failure of legislation in the last several decades, that had to be unilaterally amended by the President to provide political cover for members of his party? That ACA? If you want to claim Gruber as "one of the best and brightest" because of the ACA, you have a really, REALLY low bar...
Books, sales, marketing, employee handbooks, Government required postings, vacation policies... Get that stuff in place before you start hiring. Then treat it as a business - regardless of what your product is.
The bloggy post is in response to an article calling out organizations such as his. The main argument is the $1B/year spent on AGW FUD is really the sum total of those groups entire budgets, not just what they spend on trying to trick people into doubting that CO2 emitted by human activity is causing detrimental climate effects (which it is of course). How much of the budget? Why don't I just say 10% for no good reason.
He then says environmental groups get $1.6B/year claiming thats almost entirely for pushing AGW. Thats the exact argument he JUST REFUTED IN HIS OWN BLOG! WTF?!
Good for the goose, good for the gander. If you're going to apply certain rules to one side, you need to apply the same rules to the other side. And you end up with it skewed towards the pro-AGW group.
Um, since when was skepticism the foundation of science? Repeatability of observations and utility of prediction are the foundations of science.
Hmmm... Why do we repeat and VERIFY findings by others? Why don't we just take the word of anyone who claims anything? It's called "skepticism". The whole core of the scientific method is to not simply take a person's word at face value, but to see if you can repeat what they claim independently before accepting the claim. That's scientific skepticism and is really expected of anyone in any research/scientific/engineering role. Show your work, show your data, allow others the opportunity to examine and repeat as needed to quell their own skepticism.
Grow the fuck up.
Given the nature and non-sequitur nature of the rest of your screed, I might suggest you try it yourself...
Fascism as well is an economic model with a centrally planned economy. It uses hatred of other races/nations rather than class envy as its means of mobilizing the masses, however. Fascists love to nationalize industries (much like socialists dream to do), look at what Mussolini, Allende, Hitler, and a bevy of other fascists did.
Most of those are progressive, but were passed because of (or with stronger support than the Democrat) Republican support. Everything except the Great Society which has been an abysmal failure, that is... Perhaps the GOP really is the party of the individual, and the Democrats are the party of Big Business and Money. Shhh - don't tell anyone - but that is, in fact, the case...
And Grassley had what kind of input? He wasn't even a cosponsor of the bill. I guess he had a chance to speak - and was ignored. Which is probably why he also didn't vote for PPACA.
This is just Comcast trying to get some good PR before they force their agenda through. There is no purpose in companies kissing up to President Barack "Lawnchair" Obama, as he has consistently caved to the demands of conservatives and big businesses every time it was important to do otherwise during his administration.
Every. Single. Time.
Remember how he said he was going to stand up to insurance companies, and offer a single-payer option for health care? Remember how that was going to be his crowning achievement as president? Did we get any of that? No.
Ah yes, Obamacare. How many Republican votes did it get? How many chances did Republicans get to put in their $0.02 in conference? How is this a cave to the Republicans when they were locked out of the entire process and the entire thing passed with zero Republican support?
The system has been rigged so that the wealthy and corporations have way to skirt around tax law that the rest of us do not
False. About $1500 to set up a Hong Kong LLC, and about $800 a year to maintain it. Profits earned overseas are then not taxed until you repatriate them to the US. And HK will not tax your profits as long as you don't do the work within Hong Kong. So a great way to defer your taxation until you decide you want to pay it. And quite cheap, too - it doesn't take much in the way of profit (as a personal consultant) to save $800 in taxation...
That statute applies. The difference is that the profits taxed under that statute are NOT taxed in their company's home country. If you're a UK or German company, and pay taxes under that US statute on some of your profits, you don't also pay taxes in the UK or Germany on those profits. Now, if you are a US company, and you pay taxes in Germany or the UK on some of your profits, you ALSO pay taxes in the US on those profits. Thus the reason to go Double Irish or Double Dutch.
Why not eliminate them altogether? They are about 10% of the total revenues of the US Government. So why not just eliminate them altogether? Here's my thinking...
Eliminate the corporate tax in the US altogether. Every company based in the US will suddenly exist in the greatest tax haven in the world. All companies world-wide will want to rush to the US to shelter their own incomes from their home countries. Lots of new revenue/assets flow to the US - as well as lots of jobs. How do those jobs come? Simple - if you want to incorporate within the US, then a certain percentage of all your jobs must be located within the US. You want to relocate from the UK or Luxembourg? Then, say, 20% of your workforce must be located in the US. That's tens of millions of new jobs coming to the US.
I bet taxes from funds spent inside the US (via personal consumption of the new jobs and spending related to construction and expansion) would more than offset the loss of corporate income tax. And we'd have more people working (rather than having nearly 100 million of working age sitting on the sidelines in the current economy). Not to mention the BEST way to raise wages is via competition - more jobs than people, which means more income for workers.
So little revenue gained from corporate taxes in the US, so eliminate them and turn that to the strength to draw all worldwide corporations into the US. And win from the economic benefits of their local spending and hiring.
The point is that only the US demands to tax on all revenues and profits made world-wide; no other G23/first and second world country does this. They all tax just profits earned in-country, since the company pays taxes on profits realized elsewhere.
It's not just multi-nationals. I do it as well, for my personal consulting. HK is a great, low-tax/no-tax jurisdiction as well, and just $1500 can get you set up there.
The House is the one that creates the budget - not the Senate. The Senate can amend and send back - but that would mean taking the bill up in the first place, which is something that Senator Reid refuses to even allow...
I guess you're not aware of how a budget works... The House proposes, the Senate votes/approves, the President signs. Two of those three entities are in the hands of the Democrats - and absent a budget, the previous allocations (with pre-determined increases for inflation and the like) stay in effect. Hard to change the budget when neither the Senate nor the President want to pass a budget...
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Preface: Said as a person who lived in China full-time for 6 years, and has spent the majority of the last 3 years in China. And married to a Chinese national...
China has a lot of really, really smart people. However, innovation does not exist culturally within the vast majority of Chinese - and seems to be even less present in those with university degrees. There is still a lot of the old Maoist "follow orders only/don't speak up" culture well set within China.
If you want to execute on an idea, China can be a good place to do so - lots of very smart people who, for the most part, follow direction. But if you're looking for innovation/inspiration? Look elsewhere.
NOTE: the current generation of college students being educated overseas are starting to movement towards innovation. My feeling is that it will be their kids that really kick off the innovation revolution within China. About 30 years out, at this time...
I remind everyone that the Chinese Communist Party is made up of the smartest people in China. It is full of scientists and engineers, people with analytical minds, and people who are qualified to make decisions for others. If Slashdot were based in China, the most thoughtful constantly-modded-up users would be mostly CCP members.
WHAT? Hi there, I've lived in China the vast majority (like 80%+) of the last 10 years, and am married to a Chinese national. Most of the CCP members inherited their positions from their parents. They also tend to be the ones who inherited the biggest companies in China as well (banks, telecoms, heavy industries). Capability/intelligence is NOT the reason you're in the CCP - relationships/political gamesmanship/familial relations are what keep the CCP members in the CCP.
Think of John Gruber, the MIT economist who helped get the badly needed Affordable Care Act passed despite opposition from lesser minds.
Badly needed ACA? The biggest failure of legislation in the last several decades, that had to be unilaterally amended by the President to provide political cover for members of his party? That ACA? If you want to claim Gruber as "one of the best and brightest" because of the ACA, you have a really, REALLY low bar...
Books, sales, marketing, employee handbooks, Government required postings, vacation policies... Get that stuff in place before you start hiring. Then treat it as a business - regardless of what your product is.
There are plenty of nerds that would love to hang out Friday or Saturday night and talk about his 68000 and other geekiness...
Oh, you mean "with a girl" kind of date?
Nope. Honest answer. But I am skeptical, and when one uses innuendo, slander, and insults to try to make their point I get quite dismissive.
The bloggy post is in response to an article calling out organizations such as his. The main argument is the $1B/year spent on AGW FUD is really the sum total of those groups entire budgets, not just what they spend on trying to trick people into doubting that CO2 emitted by human activity is causing detrimental climate effects (which it is of course). How much of the budget? Why don't I just say 10% for no good reason. He then says environmental groups get $1.6B/year claiming thats almost entirely for pushing AGW. Thats the exact argument he JUST REFUTED IN HIS OWN BLOG! WTF?!
Good for the goose, good for the gander. If you're going to apply certain rules to one side, you need to apply the same rules to the other side. And you end up with it skewed towards the pro-AGW group.
Um, since when was skepticism the foundation of science? Repeatability of observations and utility of prediction are the foundations of science.
Hmmm... Why do we repeat and VERIFY findings by others? Why don't we just take the word of anyone who claims anything? It's called "skepticism". The whole core of the scientific method is to not simply take a person's word at face value, but to see if you can repeat what they claim independently before accepting the claim. That's scientific skepticism and is really expected of anyone in any research/scientific/engineering role. Show your work, show your data, allow others the opportunity to examine and repeat as needed to quell their own skepticism.
Grow the fuck up.
Given the nature and non-sequitur nature of the rest of your screed, I might suggest you try it yourself...
Token budgets? I guess if you call multiples more spent pushing an AGW perspective relative to skepticism (the foundation of science) as "token", then you have a point...
Trick question - you cannot divide by zero!
That uses a broom, ice, and liberal quantities of Molson, right?
Faces change, policy doesn't.
pulled us out of Iraq and Afghanistan
If by pulling out of Iraq you mean sending thousands more troops or if by stating pulling out of Afghanistan you mean leaving troops until the next Administration, then you're correct.
Fascism as well is an economic model with a centrally planned economy. It uses hatred of other races/nations rather than class envy as its means of mobilizing the masses, however. Fascists love to nationalize industries (much like socialists dream to do), look at what Mussolini, Allende, Hitler, and a bevy of other fascists did.
(and socialist AND fascist, and they don't know why those don't work together either)
Pssst. Fascism is just socialism with the class warfare replaced by nationalism. Two sides of the same coin.
Most of those are progressive, but were passed because of (or with stronger support than the Democrat) Republican support. Everything except the Great Society which has been an abysmal failure, that is... Perhaps the GOP really is the party of the individual, and the Democrats are the party of Big Business and Money. Shhh - don't tell anyone - but that is, in fact, the case...
And Grassley had what kind of input? He wasn't even a cosponsor of the bill. I guess he had a chance to speak - and was ignored. Which is probably why he also didn't vote for PPACA.
This is just Comcast trying to get some good PR before they force their agenda through. There is no purpose in companies kissing up to President Barack "Lawnchair" Obama, as he has consistently caved to the demands of conservatives and big businesses every time it was important to do otherwise during his administration. Every. Single. Time. Remember how he said he was going to stand up to insurance companies, and offer a single-payer option for health care? Remember how that was going to be his crowning achievement as president? Did we get any of that? No.
Ah yes, Obamacare. How many Republican votes did it get? How many chances did Republicans get to put in their $0.02 in conference? How is this a cave to the Republicans when they were locked out of the entire process and the entire thing passed with zero Republican support?
The system has been rigged so that the wealthy and corporations have way to skirt around tax law that the rest of us do not
False. About $1500 to set up a Hong Kong LLC, and about $800 a year to maintain it. Profits earned overseas are then not taxed until you repatriate them to the US. And HK will not tax your profits as long as you don't do the work within Hong Kong. So a great way to defer your taxation until you decide you want to pay it. And quite cheap, too - it doesn't take much in the way of profit (as a personal consultant) to save $800 in taxation...
That statute applies. The difference is that the profits taxed under that statute are NOT taxed in their company's home country. If you're a UK or German company, and pay taxes under that US statute on some of your profits, you don't also pay taxes in the UK or Germany on those profits. Now, if you are a US company, and you pay taxes in Germany or the UK on some of your profits, you ALSO pay taxes in the US on those profits. Thus the reason to go Double Irish or Double Dutch.
Why not eliminate them altogether? They are about 10% of the total revenues of the US Government. So why not just eliminate them altogether? Here's my thinking...
Eliminate the corporate tax in the US altogether. Every company based in the US will suddenly exist in the greatest tax haven in the world. All companies world-wide will want to rush to the US to shelter their own incomes from their home countries. Lots of new revenue/assets flow to the US - as well as lots of jobs. How do those jobs come? Simple - if you want to incorporate within the US, then a certain percentage of all your jobs must be located within the US. You want to relocate from the UK or Luxembourg? Then, say, 20% of your workforce must be located in the US. That's tens of millions of new jobs coming to the US.
I bet taxes from funds spent inside the US (via personal consumption of the new jobs and spending related to construction and expansion) would more than offset the loss of corporate income tax. And we'd have more people working (rather than having nearly 100 million of working age sitting on the sidelines in the current economy). Not to mention the BEST way to raise wages is via competition - more jobs than people, which means more income for workers.
So little revenue gained from corporate taxes in the US, so eliminate them and turn that to the strength to draw all worldwide corporations into the US. And win from the economic benefits of their local spending and hiring.
The point is that only the US demands to tax on all revenues and profits made world-wide; no other G23/first and second world country does this. They all tax just profits earned in-country, since the company pays taxes on profits realized elsewhere.
It's not just multi-nationals. I do it as well, for my personal consulting. HK is a great, low-tax/no-tax jurisdiction as well, and just $1500 can get you set up there.
NOW we know why Apple always has problems with daylight savings time and leap years...
The House is the one that creates the budget - not the Senate. The Senate can amend and send back - but that would mean taking the bill up in the first place, which is something that Senator Reid refuses to even allow...
And? The Metro UI app is as simple as the Windows 7 app to add a user. It's the same thing - just with different looks...
I guess you're not aware of how a budget works... The House proposes, the Senate votes/approves, the President signs. Two of those three entities are in the hands of the Democrats - and absent a budget, the previous allocations (with pre-determined increases for inflation and the like) stay in effect. Hard to change the budget when neither the Senate nor the President want to pass a budget...