I'm watching eposide 6 of The Amazing Race right now, via Hulu, sitting in my apartment in Shanghai, China. No problem at all. And I watched a movie last night via Netflix as well. There are lots of VPNs - commercial and free - that work really, really well...
You can use this freeware tool, there are a few other freeware tools, or use SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 - a REALLY great UI, easy, big buttons, and slick enough it makes my iPhone toting friends go "whoa". HIGHLY recommended. I plan on getting the new HTC Touch Pro 2 (my i760 has a LOT of battle scars), and TF3D will be gone - it will be Mobile Shell 3.5 instead.
Didn't know that... Thanks! I guess since the iPhone doesn't have it, Steve Jobs didn't think it was worthwhile and thus we should not need or use it...;)
My Samsung i760 running Windows Mobile 6.1 does just that - if I ignore (press end while its ringing) a phone call a little window pops up asking if I'd like to send an SMS to the caller, and I can choose from a set of pre-canned messages or create a custom message. Really quite handy!
"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands." - Judge Learned Hand
No, this is the US. You get to pay your taxes to the country overseas where you live/work/build, you get to pay the duties when you bring the products on-shore, AND the IRS taxes you for your earnings overseas as well...
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We Americans like to double and triple tax everything; just because you earned every cent overseas and live overseas doesn't mean you are exempt from paying US income tax as well!
You pay Federal income taxes on adjusted gross income - your gross income after a bunch of deductions and the like. Here in Washington you get the wonderful opportunity to pay your B&O tax on gross revenue - before any deductions. That's a very big difference in taxation.
Note that Washington shares the dubious distinction of being the only state in the nation that taxes on GROSS revenue, not profit. We have this thing called a B&O tax - Business and Occupation tax. It is a tax on every dollar that comes through your doors, regardless of costs or profitability or loss associated with that dollar. So it's a bit different than any other civilized place you can find.
funny thing is....a friend of mine later found out that the backup utility (Time Machine) failed the last backup (aka..."set it and forget it" is flawed).
Steve Jobs clearly intended for this to happen, as it's called iClean and is a service whereby the clutter of the Administrative account is eliminated. You do not need any functionality or data beyond which Apple already supplies, so in an effort to keep your computer healthy iClean will auto-scrub your account.
My Samsung i760 multitasks very well. For example, right now I am using it as a broadband router (via WMWiFiRouter - it is my only Internet connection), streamimg my Squeezebox audio from my laptop to my stereo through that same router (both connected to the i760), and am flipping between reading a David Weber novel (Mobipocket) and answering Slashdot (Opera Minibrowser).
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Oh, and as far as remembering it's a phone, it does extremely well, even being so nice as to have REAL BUTTONS on the front for dialing. Simply start dialing a number and it kicks into "phone mode"; I don't have to hunt down some icon on the screen to bring up a virtual dialpad. No, I have real buttons to do that. Just like a real phone!
And I have yet to have a phone call NOT pop up the dialer, regardless of what I was doing - even when watching a movie, or answering e-mails.
I am a natural born US citizen who lives half-time in Shanghai, China. I travel every month one way (one month US, one month China). As a US citizen - with a multiple-entry, one year Chinese visa (for which I write a letter inviting myself to go to China), I have considerably LESS issues entering China as opposed to the US. My visa takes approximately 1 week to get, including delivery to and from the processing center. And on entering China immigration is quick, efficient, simple; I wish I could say the same about the US.
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Coming into China at 5:45 AM or 11 PM, I have never had to wait for immigration officers to get to their stations; officers are ready any time passengers are arriving. Contrast that to the last time I entered the US - September 14th, 2009 at LAX on NWA flight 002. The entire plane - a full 747-400 with 403 passengers - had to wait for 40 minutes until 9 AM, when immigration officers finally started their shift. And we then queued into line while the officers strolled out one at a time, took 5-10 minutes to get their station ready, then started processing.
China worse than US? Not by a mile. The US simply sucks in terms of immigration, even for US citizens. But as a US citizen, I've come to expect nothing less of any Federal employee or department; we citizens exist to serve and support them, not the other way around!
My post wasn't pro or con the idea of marketing drugs to the consumer; rather, in a thread about jobs it seems counter-intuitive to demand a major industry to stop advertising. Not only will that eliminate the marketing and advertising jobs with the drug makers, but the media outlet jobs as well.
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If you want to grow jobs, you should first think about trying not to eliminate those that currently exist.
Oil shale. There are approximately 3 trillion barrels of recoverable oil shale reserves worldwide, and the US has about 60% of that. That's 1.8 trillion barrels. Considering we use about 18 million barrels a day that means about 100,000 days of reserve, or about 274 years of supplies. And we can recover it at $20 to $40 per barrel.
I think it was the 1992 Congress that set a limit on the deductibility of salaries. I think it was something pretty high back then, around $250,000, but was not indexed to inflation or GDP. Effectively, you could only deduct the cost of a salary up to a certain point; above that, you (the company) have to pay taxes on that salary (it's not tax deductible).
Besides, R&D expenditures in the pharma industry are relatively small part of their budget. For example marketing costs are about 3 times as much (can you turn on TV and not see an add for a prescription drug?).
I've heard this many times as a pejorative that Big Drug spends more on advertising than R&D. Yet what if they cut back their advertising? Would sales decline, thus reducing the total number of dollars available for R&D? And what about the media employees who make a living because Big Drug buys those TV spots?
The original question was "What will produce 1 million jobs in the next three years"? I don't know. But, I suggest that there have been very few times in history when "we" did know the answer to this question. But, that's the great thing about capitalism -- somebody, someplace, has an idea for something revolutionary and is starting up a company to take advantage of it. They see the opportunity to make money, so they're going after that opportunity.
You hit it right on the money. What will create 1 million jobs is small business, not big business. And to do that, your best bet is to release the liquidity sitting on the sidelines (by some estimates, $14 trillion is sitting and waiting).
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Solution: eliminate the capital gains tax. Permanently. It's a $100 billion annual revenue stream (chump change on a $4 trillion budget), but I guarantee you'll immediately free up 10 times that amount annually to invest in new technologies via small businesses. Right now, we penalize the reward you get for the risk; in a jittery economy, that penalty is a double whammy in that the exact thing you need to stabilize the economy (jobs) is the very thing you are preventing by punishing investment (capital gains).
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To add liquidity to the startup funding market - which is where the vast majority of net new jobs come from (NOT from the big multinationals) - you need to make it attractive to invest in those startups. And the biggest thing the Federal Government could do would be to eliminate the capital gains tax.
Why spend trillions pursuing wind or solar, when we have a nearly-300-year supply of recoverable oil within the Continental US (not even offshore)? And that's at $40 per barrel, about a 45% discount from today's market rate.
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If you're serious about eliminating our need to protect overseas oil (the majority of the middle East's oil goes to non-US countries, by the way - we get most of our imported oil from Canada and Central and South America) then the logical choice would be to immediately develop our own internal oil sources, and then start working on seriously long-term goals like fusion (because we'll have nearly 3 centuries to get it going).
Capitalism isn't opposed to funding research; capitalism is opposed to funding research that won't have a payoff. The first company to come up with an affordable means of fusion is going to be VERY wealthy...
Self-employed individuals have the option of paying UI if they want; if they pay, then they can collect (if ever needed). If they don't pay, they cannot collect. I haven't paid my own UI for years (self-employed) because I think I can achieve a greater rate of return than the Government would. Getting 72 weeks (I think that's what it's at now) at $400 a week is considerably less than the UI I've saved over the last 10 years...
Only if we don't have to replace those panels after 40 years of so (to make back the time-value of money lost over the original 27 years). If we have to replace the panels every 15-20 years like conventional panels, it's a guaranteed money-loser every year.
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Netflix? Facebook? Myspace? Youtube? None work in China without a VPN...
Damnit! Now I have to go and tug on my braid...
I'm still waiting for the iPhone to catch up to my now-3-year-old Samsung i760 running Windows Mobile 6.1.
I'm watching eposide 6 of The Amazing Race right now, via Hulu, sitting in my apartment in Shanghai, China. No problem at all. And I watched a movie last night via Netflix as well. There are lots of VPNs - commercial and free - that work really, really well...
You can use this freeware tool, there are a few other freeware tools, or use SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 - a REALLY great UI, easy, big buttons, and slick enough it makes my iPhone toting friends go "whoa". HIGHLY recommended. I plan on getting the new HTC Touch Pro 2 (my i760 has a LOT of battle scars), and TF3D will be gone - it will be Mobile Shell 3.5 instead.
Didn't know that... Thanks! I guess since the iPhone doesn't have it, Steve Jobs didn't think it was worthwhile and thus we should not need or use it...;)
My Samsung i760 running Windows Mobile 6.1 does just that - if I ignore (press end while its ringing) a phone call a little window pops up asking if I'd like to send an SMS to the caller, and I can choose from a set of pre-canned messages or create a custom message. Really quite handy!
"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands." - Judge Learned Hand
We Americans like to double and triple tax everything; just because you earned every cent overseas and live overseas doesn't mean you are exempt from paying US income tax as well!
You pay Federal income taxes on adjusted gross income - your gross income after a bunch of deductions and the like. Here in Washington you get the wonderful opportunity to pay your B&O tax on gross revenue - before any deductions. That's a very big difference in taxation.
Note that Washington shares the dubious distinction of being the only state in the nation that taxes on GROSS revenue, not profit. We have this thing called a B&O tax - Business and Occupation tax. It is a tax on every dollar that comes through your doors, regardless of costs or profitability or loss associated with that dollar. So it's a bit different than any other civilized place you can find.
funny thing is....a friend of mine later found out that the backup utility (Time Machine) failed the last backup (aka..."set it and forget it" is flawed).
Ron Popeil is deeply saddened.
Steve Jobs clearly intended for this to happen, as it's called iClean and is a service whereby the clutter of the Administrative account is eliminated. You do not need any functionality or data beyond which Apple already supplies, so in an effort to keep your computer healthy iClean will auto-scrub your account.
Oh, and as far as remembering it's a phone, it does extremely well, even being so nice as to have REAL BUTTONS on the front for dialing. Simply start dialing a number and it kicks into "phone mode"; I don't have to hunt down some icon on the screen to bring up a virtual dialpad. No, I have real buttons to do that. Just like a real phone!
And I have yet to have a phone call NOT pop up the dialer, regardless of what I was doing - even when watching a movie, or answering e-mails.
Coming into China at 5:45 AM or 11 PM, I have never had to wait for immigration officers to get to their stations; officers are ready any time passengers are arriving. Contrast that to the last time I entered the US - September 14th, 2009 at LAX on NWA flight 002. The entire plane - a full 747-400 with 403 passengers - had to wait for 40 minutes until 9 AM, when immigration officers finally started their shift. And we then queued into line while the officers strolled out one at a time, took 5-10 minutes to get their station ready, then started processing.
China worse than US? Not by a mile. The US simply sucks in terms of immigration, even for US citizens. But as a US citizen, I've come to expect nothing less of any Federal employee or department; we citizens exist to serve and support them, not the other way around!
If you want to grow jobs, you should first think about trying not to eliminate those that currently exist.
Oil shale. There are approximately 3 trillion barrels of recoverable oil shale reserves worldwide, and the US has about 60% of that. That's 1.8 trillion barrels. Considering we use about 18 million barrels a day that means about 100,000 days of reserve, or about 274 years of supplies. And we can recover it at $20 to $40 per barrel.
Please see the grandparent - Social Security reform.
The Republicans at least listened to a great, libertarian idea. Too bad the Democrats didn't...
I think it was the 1992 Congress that set a limit on the deductibility of salaries. I think it was something pretty high back then, around $250,000, but was not indexed to inflation or GDP. Effectively, you could only deduct the cost of a salary up to a certain point; above that, you (the company) have to pay taxes on that salary (it's not tax deductible).
Besides, R&D expenditures in the pharma industry are relatively small part of their budget. For example marketing costs are about 3 times as much (can you turn on TV and not see an add for a prescription drug?) .
I've heard this many times as a pejorative that Big Drug spends more on advertising than R&D. Yet what if they cut back their advertising? Would sales decline, thus reducing the total number of dollars available for R&D? And what about the media employees who make a living because Big Drug buys those TV spots?
The original question was "What will produce 1 million jobs in the next three years"? I don't know. But, I suggest that there have been very few times in history when "we" did know the answer to this question. But, that's the great thing about capitalism -- somebody, someplace, has an idea for something revolutionary and is starting up a company to take advantage of it. They see the opportunity to make money, so they're going after that opportunity.
You hit it right on the money. What will create 1 million jobs is small business, not big business. And to do that, your best bet is to release the liquidity sitting on the sidelines (by some estimates, $14 trillion is sitting and waiting).
Solution: eliminate the capital gains tax. Permanently. It's a $100 billion annual revenue stream (chump change on a $4 trillion budget), but I guarantee you'll immediately free up 10 times that amount annually to invest in new technologies via small businesses. Right now, we penalize the reward you get for the risk; in a jittery economy, that penalty is a double whammy in that the exact thing you need to stabilize the economy (jobs) is the very thing you are preventing by punishing investment (capital gains).
To add liquidity to the startup funding market - which is where the vast majority of net new jobs come from (NOT from the big multinationals) - you need to make it attractive to invest in those startups. And the biggest thing the Federal Government could do would be to eliminate the capital gains tax.
If you're serious about eliminating our need to protect overseas oil (the majority of the middle East's oil goes to non-US countries, by the way - we get most of our imported oil from Canada and Central and South America) then the logical choice would be to immediately develop our own internal oil sources, and then start working on seriously long-term goals like fusion (because we'll have nearly 3 centuries to get it going).
Capitalism isn't opposed to funding research; capitalism is opposed to funding research that won't have a payoff. The first company to come up with an affordable means of fusion is going to be VERY wealthy...
Self-employed individuals have the option of paying UI if they want; if they pay, then they can collect (if ever needed). If they don't pay, they cannot collect. I haven't paid my own UI for years (self-employed) because I think I can achieve a greater rate of return than the Government would. Getting 72 weeks (I think that's what it's at now) at $400 a week is considerably less than the UI I've saved over the last 10 years...
Only if we don't have to replace those panels after 40 years of so (to make back the time-value of money lost over the original 27 years). If we have to replace the panels every 15-20 years like conventional panels, it's a guaranteed money-loser every year.