The second is that if you tax corporate income, then it is in the corporation's best interest to minimize income - i.e. to not pile up wads of cash as Apple is currently doing.
Income. Savings. I think you might want to look up the definition of each...
Increasing the amount produced per acre does not mean that you are reducing the labor per produce.
Ever worked on a real farm? Yield is directly tied to labor - it's an inverse relationship. You need one person to drive the combine or tractor, and they can cover X number of acres per day. You get your 1000 bushels out of 1000 acres? It's going to take so many days to do it. You get those same 1000 bushels from 10 acres? Now you need 1/100th the number of days to do your job. Increased yield allows the labor to be much more efficent as well, meaning you need a lot less labor for given dollars/yields.
Harvest rates are tremendously impacted by yield - fewer acres needing to be farmed means fewer laborers. It's all about productivity - whether it's through crop yield or mechanization/automation of the process.
It was only strawberries and soybeans that were 3% less productive. So unless your diet consists of strawberry flavored tofu, you'll have a considerably lower productivity with the organic food...
My cats were always happiest when they were allowed to not only eat spiders and flies, but worms and the occasional small bird or mouse that wasn't quite fast enough... Having had 3 that lived past the age of 17 (one until 23) shows that a little natural diet seems to work quite well for them...
People bread like rabbits once there is enough food and water to go around.
Actually, I find that for people you need to add a bit of milk to the egg wash to get the breading to stick to them or it all comes off when you drop them into the fryer - with rabbit, it's a quick egg wash, a dip in some Panko or bread crumbs and sizzle away.
Probably has to do with the fat content of the meat...
The argument, to bear a gun because the constitution grants the right to do so is the fallacy. This is no logical reason.
There is no logical reason for the 3rd Amendment; after all, we have military bases and the like. Let's just toss that one away as well, shall we?
Now how about the 5th Amendment? After all, there's no logical reason to protect yourself unless you've done something wrong, so only those who are evil-doers will need to claim the 5th Amendment.
And might as well tack on the 4th, since again there's no logical reason to be protected from the Government's interests unless you're up to something nefarious and need to hide stuff. So let's give that one up too... I mean, to have received a right is no reason to execute it...
Calling NZ's Government "large" is like calling a sparrow a 747. Consider the US Federal Government alone is 27% of the US GDP, and employs somewhere around 6% of the total workforce. Add in States and municipalities and we're pushing close to 40% of the entire GDP and 15% of the total employment.
As a multi-decadal contractor/consultant/independent business man, there are hundreds of people I've worked for that don't know me - personally - very well. But they know my technical reputation and my reputation in the industry for getting good things done. Does that mean I'm trustworthy with your bank account (which is what a small company basically gambles on a high-powered contractor/consultant)? Maybe - maybe not. So cover yourself a bit until you DO know that I'm a decent, upstanding guy...
The only time I've plugged my Android phone into my PC was when I used it as a flash drive, to move a bunch of data files off one computer to another. USB cord, phone. Plug in, drag and drop the files I want to the phone, unplug. Then plug into the other computer drag and drop the files off the phone (cut and paste, actually - took them off my phone permanently). And that was that. No need to use a computer at all with Android.
The Trimble was quite compact, not much bigger than a modern TomTom GPS unit. The cell phone? Classic brick. Laptop size of a modern laptop. Methinks your extreme hyperbole wasn't very effective or applicable...
Food, water, shelter, sanitation, basic medical care, transportation, basic education - I think those ALL rate quite a bit higher than "the Internet" in terms of needs. In fact, I dare say the Internet isn't even in a need, based upon travels and living over here in Asia - much of the 3.5 billion or so people living here have, in fact, no Internet access, yet lives seem to work fine - even modern I dare say.
Well damn. I guess in 1991 I couldn't have used Trimble commercial GPS systems for high-resolution SONAR research, and I guess the Motorola phones simply wouldn't last a few days on battery when we were out bobbing in the water. And I guess my 486DX2/50 NEC laptops with touchpanel add-on didn't run for a few hours when out on the water, just on battery power... I guess all your points are spot on!/s
I use http://www.vpnmakers.com/ - cheap, reliable, works great for streaming content, plenty of speed. Month-to-month billing as well, pay only when you need it ($4.85 per month).
And why wouldn't you want a central console between the front seats, unless you're one of those losers who likes having a shifter on the steering wheel and bench seats? Those are things I hope never to see in cars again.
Spoken like a geek that never had a date and makeout session in a car... Ahh, the joys of a big bench seat in early 60s iron!
Uhh, the pirates wouldn't retaliate with torpedoes and rocket launchers. They want the ships INTACT, so as to get paid back for their release/ransom. A scuttled ship and dead crew bring no ransom.
Semaphore flags? SEMAPHORE FLAGS? Wow, you younguns certainly had it easy. When I was growing up we had smoke signals, and when the wind blew the wrong direction we'd have to chase half-way around the world to establish a connection. It took months to simply write out a smiley face, and I'm still waiting for my "You've Got Mail" notice to arrive.
Except that China doesn't pay that tariff - the US importer pays the tariff. That's how tariffs are assessed in the US - on the entity bringing that product into the US. Now, increasing the tariff can make it harder for the US importer - because his costs are higher. But unless that negatively impacts his sales, it in no way damages or monetarily impacts the Chinese manufacturer - it only taxes and lowers the profit of the US importer.
There's a central chase next to the stairwell/elevator shaft in most apartment blocks, where cable and phone is delivered. They pulled fiber into that space, then tapped through the wall for me. And yes, China Telecom is State-owned, but they still have to abide by the rules. I pushed them on it, and it did take 6 weeks - but I got the speedy service I contracted for. The techs were pretty worthless, and it took 9 visits - but it did happen.
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The second is that if you tax corporate income, then it is in the corporation's best interest to minimize income - i.e. to not pile up wads of cash as Apple is currently doing.
Income. Savings. I think you might want to look up the definition of each...
Increasing the amount produced per acre does not mean that you are reducing the labor per produce.
Ever worked on a real farm? Yield is directly tied to labor - it's an inverse relationship. You need one person to drive the combine or tractor, and they can cover X number of acres per day. You get your 1000 bushels out of 1000 acres? It's going to take so many days to do it. You get those same 1000 bushels from 10 acres? Now you need 1/100th the number of days to do your job. Increased yield allows the labor to be much more efficent as well, meaning you need a lot less labor for given dollars/yields.
Harvest rates are tremendously impacted by yield - fewer acres needing to be farmed means fewer laborers. It's all about productivity - whether it's through crop yield or mechanization/automation of the process.
It was only strawberries and soybeans that were 3% less productive. So unless your diet consists of strawberry flavored tofu, you'll have a considerably lower productivity with the organic food...
My cats were always happiest when they were allowed to not only eat spiders and flies, but worms and the occasional small bird or mouse that wasn't quite fast enough... Having had 3 that lived past the age of 17 (one until 23) shows that a little natural diet seems to work quite well for them...
People bread like rabbits once there is enough food and water to go around.
Actually, I find that for people you need to add a bit of milk to the egg wash to get the breading to stick to them or it all comes off when you drop them into the fryer - with rabbit, it's a quick egg wash, a dip in some Panko or bread crumbs and sizzle away.
Probably has to do with the fat content of the meat...
The argument, to bear a gun because the constitution grants the right to do so is the fallacy. This is no logical reason.
There is no logical reason for the 3rd Amendment; after all, we have military bases and the like. Let's just toss that one away as well, shall we?
Now how about the 5th Amendment? After all, there's no logical reason to protect yourself unless you've done something wrong, so only those who are evil-doers will need to claim the 5th Amendment.
And might as well tack on the 4th, since again there's no logical reason to be protected from the Government's interests unless you're up to something nefarious and need to hide stuff. So let's give that one up too... I mean, to have received a right is no reason to execute it...
Waiting until he's old enough to grow a neck beard...
Calling NZ's Government "large" is like calling a sparrow a 747. Consider the US Federal Government alone is 27% of the US GDP, and employs somewhere around 6% of the total workforce. Add in States and municipalities and we're pushing close to 40% of the entire GDP and 15% of the total employment.
As a multi-decadal contractor/consultant/independent business man, there are hundreds of people I've worked for that don't know me - personally - very well. But they know my technical reputation and my reputation in the industry for getting good things done. Does that mean I'm trustworthy with your bank account (which is what a small company basically gambles on a high-powered contractor/consultant)? Maybe - maybe not. So cover yourself a bit until you DO know that I'm a decent, upstanding guy...
The only time I've plugged my Android phone into my PC was when I used it as a flash drive, to move a bunch of data files off one computer to another. USB cord, phone. Plug in, drag and drop the files I want to the phone, unplug. Then plug into the other computer drag and drop the files off the phone (cut and paste, actually - took them off my phone permanently). And that was that. No need to use a computer at all with Android.
The Trimble was quite compact, not much bigger than a modern TomTom GPS unit. The cell phone? Classic brick. Laptop size of a modern laptop. Methinks your extreme hyperbole wasn't very effective or applicable...
Food, water, shelter, sanitation, basic medical care, transportation, basic education - I think those ALL rate quite a bit higher than "the Internet" in terms of needs. In fact, I dare say the Internet isn't even in a need, based upon travels and living over here in Asia - much of the 3.5 billion or so people living here have, in fact, no Internet access, yet lives seem to work fine - even modern I dare say.
I bet he wishes he got lucky with Anna Chapman instead...
Cost != retail price.
Well damn. I guess in 1991 I couldn't have used Trimble commercial GPS systems for high-resolution SONAR research, and I guess the Motorola phones simply wouldn't last a few days on battery when we were out bobbing in the water. And I guess my 486DX2/50 NEC laptops with touchpanel add-on didn't run for a few hours when out on the water, just on battery power... I guess all your points are spot on! /s
I use http://www.vpnmakers.com/ - cheap, reliable, works great for streaming content, plenty of speed. Month-to-month billing as well, pay only when you need it ($4.85 per month).
And why wouldn't you want a central console between the front seats, unless you're one of those losers who likes having a shifter on the steering wheel and bench seats? Those are things I hope never to see in cars again.
Spoken like a geek that never had a date and makeout session in a car... Ahh, the joys of a big bench seat in early 60s iron!
So you're the one that makes Algore cry and kills all the polar bears...
Uhh, the pirates wouldn't retaliate with torpedoes and rocket launchers. They want the ships INTACT, so as to get paid back for their release/ransom. A scuttled ship and dead crew bring no ransom.
You had tablets? We just had to stamp out patterns on the ground and home the neanderthals next door understood what we were trying to do...
Semaphore flags? SEMAPHORE FLAGS? Wow, you younguns certainly had it easy. When I was growing up we had smoke signals, and when the wind blew the wrong direction we'd have to chase half-way around the world to establish a connection. It took months to simply write out a smiley face, and I'm still waiting for my "You've Got Mail" notice to arrive.
Except that China doesn't pay that tariff - the US importer pays the tariff. That's how tariffs are assessed in the US - on the entity bringing that product into the US. Now, increasing the tariff can make it harder for the US importer - because his costs are higher. But unless that negatively impacts his sales, it in no way damages or monetarily impacts the Chinese manufacturer - it only taxes and lowers the profit of the US importer.
Probably - they've already given it to everyone else...
The article is BS because it compares repairing an iPad to a tractor!! Really? What next? Comparing repairing a toilet to an attack helicopter?
Toilet? No. Bidet? Perhaps...
There's a central chase next to the stairwell/elevator shaft in most apartment blocks, where cable and phone is delivered. They pulled fiber into that space, then tapped through the wall for me. And yes, China Telecom is State-owned, but they still have to abide by the rules. I pushed them on it, and it did take 6 weeks - but I got the speedy service I contracted for. The techs were pretty worthless, and it took 9 visits - but it did happen.