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Comment Re:Corporate Taxes == Political Favoritism (Score 1) 780

You are shifting the goal posts. Your argument was that corporate profit is double-taxed. I have refuted that and nothing in this reply addresses that point. Your only claim is entirely unsubstantiated, when you say that, "That money will eventually be spent." My first link illustrated that corporate cash-on-hand is rising faster now than historically, but it has still risen historically. It cannot rise if it is "eventually" spent, unless if you are comically measuring time in decades or lifetimes.

Comment Re:Corporate Taxes == Political Favoritism (Score 1) 780

Every dollar of profit is not taxed eventually. For the most part, corporations sit on their profits to increase cash-on-hand [1]. This increases flexibility for them, gives them better banking terms, and causes share price to increase. This increases the wealth of those who own the shares, but this increase in wealth is untaxed unless these shares were to be sold. Once you are a millionaire or billionaire, you don't need to sell shares--instead, you can take out loans against them [2].

Effectively, reducing corporate tax to 0% would be a 100% loss. Corporations do not spend more money on cap ex just because they have more cash on hand. Similarly, they do not increase salaries; U.S. wages have fallen by more than 50% since 1970 (in inflation-adjusted dollars) [3].

Here are my references, which are pretty half-assed since I just googled for stuff I'd already read and linked the first similar thing. But hey, it's already 50% more informative than the average post.
[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/2012/07/16/idle-corporate-cash-piles-up/
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/opinion/the-zuckerberg-tax.html?_r=0
[3] http://www.thestreet.com/story/11480568/1/us-standard-of-living-has-fallen-more-than-50-opinion.html

Comment WTF is Righthaven (Score 5, Informative) 169

If you are like me, you thought, "What the fuck is Righthaven?"

Righthaven LLC [is] the Las Vegas “technology company” that has been filing copyright infringement lawsuits in ... Nevada against numerous unsuspecting website owners (almost always without notice) for copyright infringement of news articles originally published in the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Via http://www.righthavenlawsuits.com/.

Comment Re:PA is a great organization (Score 1) 196

I think they are progressing in their craft and growing as artists. When they started, it was just about making jokes. As you move through the comics, you can see the evolution of their personae, their cast of characters, and especially their point of view. Today, Penny Arcade produces comics that are a social commentary on the gaming industry. Their goals have expanded from making people laugh to representing gaming as a serious social movement.

Comment "The ends justify the means" (Score 1) 586

I don't think any of those things are immoral. Fortunately, they don't use subjective things like your examples in morality research. What the OP and you both ignore is that intentionality is very important in moral decisions. It is why we have the phrase, "The ends justify the means," and why most people have an uncomfortable reaction to the phrase—often it isn't true.

Comment Re:Not necessary (Score 1) 609

I am a software engineer working in product development, mostly prototyping on embedded systems. There are few cases that require more math than I could reasonably do in my head. Anything more complex than that usually should requires the input of a domain expert, simply because it isn't time effective for me to learn it.

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