So they don't impact the cost of goods, they just impact every other way that business spends it's money: dividends for shareholders, wages for employees, and available jobs.

Great!

End the wars.

Cut spending.

Take your pick.

BTW, you don't really think businesses pay taxes do you?

Business taxes are just indirect taxes on people. Consumers pay more for goods, investors receive fewer dividends or the value of their shares decreases, and employees receive lower wages and have fewer job opportunities.

Politicians love business taxes because it lets them raise taxes on YOU without most of you even realizing it.

Really, do you think Google is going to deploy an inefficient design to make money on cycles? That seems incredibly short-sighted, far better to offer great performance and sign up more customers.

But that's why they're a company and you're posting anonymous snarky comments from the peanut gallery.

Yes. But Slashdot users have a propensity for Libertarian anarchism.

Libertarians don't believe in anarchy.

However, I think most of us would agree that instead of convincing the FBI to raid these businesses, AT&T and Verizon could have filed a lawsuit against the alleged offenders, and handled this matter through normal channels. But when you have connections, I guess you can skip a few steps.

Exactly what I was thinking on the recent slashdot article about some insane system of tracking road use with GPS:

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1076699&cid=26272069

If you don't do it, then you'll have things like NBA players that set themselves up as a business, not a person. They get their salary paid to that business, the business does endorsements, and the actual person is the owner and an employee of that business. They game the system in order to reduce taxes.

Yep, and that's one reason why I support eliminating all income taxes and replacing them with the FairTax.

This article is from February 1st.

Since then, that $10 billion for broadband has been cut from the bill.

Move along...

You're talking about the abstract sense of 'the cloud.'

But in reality, cloud computing is more about having (effectively) unlimited resources available to you: unlimited CPU, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited memory, unlimited disk space. You can scale up, and you typically pay only for what you're using.

Now, we know you don't REALLY have unlimited resources, but the numbers are so high, and the cloud-computing companies are doing pretty well at providing an extremely high upper end, that you can pretend that you do (or at least, most companies can).

This allows you to do things in a different way. You can stop worrying about certain limitations, like 'what do I do when I have a million users,' because if you engineer things for the cloud, it's not the same kind of concern that it used to be.

That's cloud computing. And no, it's not really anything like a mainframe and a dumb terminal from the 70s.

Businesses never pay taxes. YOU DO.

Businesses necessarily must make up for less profit by sticking it to their customers (in the form of higher prices or less choice), their employees (less wages, fewer benefits, and fewer jobs), their shareholders (less earnings per share, less dividends).

When you tax businesses, you're just indirectly taxing everyone else related to that business, including YOU. Business taxes appeal to the ignorant, because it makes it seem like someone else is paying, when in reality, it's YOU.

I have over an 800 credit score, I'm building up money for a down payment on a house and doing things the responsible way, living within my means, and my tax rate is going to be jacked up to pay for an "economic stimulus" that consists of handouts to Obama's worthless friends and to "bail out" the mortgage of people who somehow got a $250k house on a credit rating of 400, $30k/year job, and no money down? I DO NOT FUCKING THINK SO.

Don't forget you're going to be overpaying for your house because the government is doing everything it can now to prop up the housing market artificially. How long will that last?

I bought my house December 2006. I put 10% down, and later paid off my 2nd mortgage so that I had 20% equity in the house.

My house is now worth less than 80% of the original price, meaning I'm now upside down. Nothing has changed about the area, but the house of cards has come tumbling down around us. All I can do is the right thing, keep paying my mortgage down and wait it out. Meanwhile, my taxes will keep going up...

Hilarious. So, it's the meager tax cuts fault that we're in this mess, not the insane spending of both parties for the past 8+ years, or the meddling of the government in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and everything else they had their hands in, that really caused the problem?

Do you live in vacuum?

Our schools are foundering.

They've been foundering for 30+ years. Let's try something different than "dump a bunch of money in their laps."

Our internet is slower than any other developed nation.

I don't know if that's true, but how about comparing us to developed nations that are as large and spread out as we are. Let's compare it to nations that don't tax the hell out of their populace in order to implement government-run infrastructure.

They haven't cut nearly enough from this bill, it's a total disgrace.

What happens when it was the government's meddling that caused the economic downturn in the first place?

Rather than Philips, I would travel further up the chain to CREE.

Wrong, there are plenty of 'warm' LED lights available now. Check our CREE lighting, they are the leader in LED tech:

http://www.creelighting.com/residential.htm

This is why Apple no longer wants to be involved with MacWorld. Imagine if instead of being letdown this week, you just had to wait X more months, and Apple rolls out, say, a tablet running iPhone OS or, say, a smaller iPhone, or say, Snow Leopard.