Comment Re:No surprises here. (Score 1) 292
You forgot:
Because developers are in general worse than they think they are.
I would go with German,
This would lead, by definition, to a boring as hell job.
Beware of SAP!
A sale is a sale. Who cares who buys?
A sale with a 10% discount is not the same as a sale with not discount. If they have to choose between selling you something with a discount or not selling it at all they'll be happy to give you the discount, however giving a discount to something who have bought the product anyway is just bad business.
whoever thought that was a good idea deserves a special hell.
sure, lets rely on the most stolen personal object as a security measure, what could possibly go wrong?
Well, the problem here is not that it's stolen, it's that the phones are being compromised.
SMS for security was a great idea when the phones where dumb.
And to reply to your point, while it's true that phones are often stolen the fact is also immediately noticed so the SIM cards are cancelled and replaced. Compare that to for example one of those cards with a grids of number (please enter number E4...). If I took one from your wallet (and nothing else) you probably wouldn't notice until it was too late.
The majority of reply-alls can be replaced by using mailing lists.
reply-all aren't the problem. The problem is the (huge amount of) idiots who insist on CC'ing every one in the first place. If someone emails with a a tiny thing and for some reason CC's my boss of course I'm going to do a reply-all, and I reserve the right to CC his boss, too. And this is the problem.
If you remove reply-all then you will force me to add everyone manually (wasting a lot of time), and most likely leave someone important behind.
Instead of removing reply-all: Prevent people from being CC'ed in the first place *unless they are needed*.
In attracting FDI, are we having the same conversation here. Take the time to read and understand what's being said before tackling your keyboard.
In general - if you want to have any serious conversation, try not being disrespectful to the person you are conversating with. Just a matter of politeness. Thanks.
Did you miss the part where FDI creates large amounts of skilled employment in Ireland? All of those workers pay taxes too.
So? We're discussing corporate taxes here. Of course workers pay taxes. They would pay them anywhere in the Union.
Oh yeah, its not like Spain's poor economic performance threatens the very existence of the Eurozone or anything.
Well, you need to see why our debt could affect other countries. All this crap began with banks lending money to people who wouldn't pay them. But these (Spanish) banks took the money from other banks (mostly German it seems) which would now have a serious problem if we didn't pay.
Our (very corrupt) gov. wants to take European money (the famous bail out) to give it to the banks so they don't default. So they're converting private debt into public debt, rather than tell banks to fuck themselves since they accepted a risk when loaning money. But no, rather than take the hit instantly they prefer to keep the ball rolling and making the problem a lot worse by taking more and more money.
Oh hey I agree. Fuck the banks first last and forever. But don't hold up Ireland as some sort of villain - the country is doing what it must to compete, with very few assets, and is doing it successfully.
How is Ireland successful?
The Dutch, French, UK and other countries have tax havens of their own, probably Spain too.
We don't that I know of. But if we did, I'd be saying the exact same thing. I have nothing against the Irish themselves, just against their tax policies and the fact that we don't have any way to counteract them.
Maybe Spain with its massive unemployment should start looking at its own house before criticising others?
No, why? Ireland is a partner of Spain, and their tax policy is extremely hurtful to all (and all other European taxes). And not only it's hurtful, it's plain stupid because it's not even Irish companies that are saving money - it's mostly American.
And of course those companies are setting there just offices, that they take elsewhere as soon as it's convenient. It's not the kind of investment you want to bet on, knowing that once they're there they won't leave.
As for the massive unemployment over here, I fail to see the relevance on this discussion. Does our unemployment hurt Ireland or someone else in Europe? Doesn't seem that way, considering that our brightest people are going to Germany, France...
But since you mention it: If our European partners are annoyed about our unemployment, debt, or whatever they should just tell our gov. "Go fuck yourself and don't ask for help until there's no a single corrupt politician in office". Really, that's what would help. Not giving a lot of money to our banks who will in turn use it to pay their debts to German banks.
The day there's an unified tax law over Europe some non-European company will step up to replace Ireland.
That's fine. But there will be import taxes and duties, same as with anything that comes from say, China.
The problem here is that Ireland is distorting tax income in other European Union countries and these countries can't do anything about it.
Say you pay now a 30% income tax. I -legally- offer you to pay just 10% over here (but you still live wherever you are, and use the infrastructures and services over there). Do you take the offer or not? If you do, then you pay 1/3 of the taxes you should pay, you still get all the benefits (at someone else's expense), and I get 1/3 of your taxes for nothing.
That's what Ireland is doing.
Just because they can do that, doesn't make it right,
It it isn't right it should be made illegal, period. Don't blame companies for trying to minimize their taxes, we all do that using whatever legal means (deductions, etc) are made available to us.
Plus of course a US company probably doesn't care much about the effects of paying less taxes in Australia. Hell, all these IT companies are based on a state with brownouts due to financial stress
No they haven't been charged with tax evasion. However, as the Australian Taxation Office has seen claims of AU$1b in payments including GST to Google through the quarterly business activity statements that every registered business has to make, there is a very large discrepancy in how much Google are paying taxwise and how much they are earning in Australia.
Well, the thing is - you can easily put your earnings in any country you want. For example, here's what Apple does for Spain: Apple Ireland sells (all) devices to Apple Spain (however its legal form is) pretty much at the same price the devices are sold to consumers. Therefore Apple Spain makes no profit - in fact it can easily be at a loss they since have to pay to employees, leases and so on. All the profit is legally produced in Ireland where the taxes are a lot lower.
Problem here is that the European Union doesn't really want to fix it. If they wanted to, the problem would be solved rather quickly.
Ireland (and a few others) are just parasite states - their tax system is based on 'let's have foreign companies here by lowering their taxes a lot' even if they just means they're fucking the European partners which whom they share a market and a lot of other things. The day there's an unified tax law over Europe these problems will cease to exist.
Why is this a bad sign? Why should people in their mid 50's or older not be perfectly happy to stop working while still being paid?
They can be happy of course. I'm sure it's great for them. I would take that option in a heartbeat, just so I could continue doing the stuff I'm interested in.
But for the company, it means the veterans would rather be doing something else. And it implies that it's not a great place to work.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.
