Close your IR eye and open your normal vision eye.

Same idea as pirates moving their patch from one eye to the other when going from surface to inside the dark ship.

And if they award points for cooperation?

This is taking KPI (Key Performance Indicator) to a personalized level and giving them scores. Of course, as with current KPIs you get what you measure, and they rarely measure what senior management thinks they do.

The most effective way to stop getting customer complaints is to stop answering the phone.

Right. Save a couple billion on expanded water treatment facilities but you need a little extra per litre to cover the pipe maintenance.

It's not a net loss.

Next time your boss pulls out his list of Key Performance Indicators remember that they will get what they measure; game the system for your review.

Perhaps it'll help with conditional aggregates which are painfully slow in Libreoffice with only a few thousand records.

For example, sum the $D column when the $E column matches year '2013'. Basically anything involving squiggly brackets around a SUM equation:

{=SUM(($E$1:$E$65518=$A6) * ($D$1:$D$65518))}

I see you've met the US Customs agent I had the other day.

It may have been Samsungs idea in the first place.

Large companies like to poo-poo regulation, fees, etc. but they also realize it increases the barrier to entry which greatly benefits them.

Samsung has healthy profit margins and can cover the cost. Other manufacturers Samsung competes against will struggle just a bit more as a result. Some new guy on the block is really going to struggle if it's up-front per device manufactured and not done on a per-sale basis.

A $20k/year electricity bill is rather abnormal and would not qualify for this kind of thing.

If China builds a moon base with the primary purpose of mining rare-earth metals; it will be defended.

I'd treat it the same as any other currency transaction. It's fairly well defined how to handle gains while playing Forex.

A Russian can import goods from China into the United States. They pay duties and other fees at the border of the United States as the goods enter the country; even if they intend to pay Americans to take the product.

The internet needs some kind of enforced border to ensure duties and other fees are paid on content as they arrive. The ads, in this case, would require payment in order to be presented to an Italian client. The "good" is being consumed by an Italian and taxes/fees should be paid when it crosses the border or by the local company regardless of where the purchaser or the manufacturer are located.

They'll notice the same way they find out about other hidden income. Bank activity and assets in your possession.

True, but kernel deficiencies cannot be fixed that way.

Agreed. If the chinese are going to the moon you can expect them to stay there permanently, claim ownership, and begin sending back resources (rare-earth metals necessary for many manufactured goods).

Science is a process, not a field of study or a result.

That process can be applied to anything where you want to find a fact.