It's already out. It's called an Open MRI. Pretty good resolution (sees right through you!) but you can't really move all that much. And it costs a ton. And you pretty much need to custom build a new house without a whole lot of ferrous metal anywhere near the system.
Actually, bacon bits are the pixie dust of the universe. There isn't anything they can touch which isn't improved by a whole order of magnitude.
No, trademark owners are required to protect their IP rights or risk losing them. The one possible exception in the patent world is submarine patents, but it doesn't sound like that sort of situation was present here.
Just about anything will be too large unless every country with an international stock market adopts the same practice all at once. Otherwise, expect to see large chunks of business simply move to another part of the globe. Remember, the people who will be most impacted by this (the big investment banks) get paid billions of dollars to pay attention to these details and even very small changes count. These are the same guys who are motivating Hibernia Atlantic to spend over $300 million on a new trans-Atlantic undersea cable that will reduce trading latency by all of 10ms.
Actually, his company does pay tax on his salary (the employer side of FICA/FUTA).
And renting is not a means of avoiding property tax. It's just a means of paying it on a monthly basis through your landlord.
at least I hope it's a joke:
That might work if the case is about anything newsworthy. But 99% of them aren't and the judge knows it.
Ordinarily, attorneys are a lock for getting kicked off panels. Yet I've been practicing for 14 years and have been put on two juries in the past two years (most recently on a federal criminal jury). What's up with that? The next time I'm called, I'm going to answer every voir dire question with, "Mine's bigger than yours."
Setting up an LLC wouldn't have changed things (and might have made them worse). By default, distributions from an LLC to members who play an active role in the LLC's operations are also subject to FICA/FUTA withholdings (limited members who don't play any role in operations can avoid this outcome). An LLC can elect to be treated like an S corp for tax purposes but why would you want to go through that trouble when you can just be an S corp in the first place?
And as for Steve Jobs, has anyone seen his personal income tax return? Do we know what he payroll taxes he or Apple have paid with respect to his compensation? I would be surprised if Apple's publicly available financial statements went into this level of detail.
Getting off topic, but I seem to recall that this is one of a few instances in which female Star Fleet personnel were referred to as "Mr." I don't know if this was some reference to the way certain ranks are referred to in the US armed forces now or in the past but that was the line Spock used and similar gender references have been used in other Star Trek scenes.
Thanks for the clarification about the piece. I must confess that I didn't pay adequate attention. I was in a restaurant and they had the sound turned off. Listening to Jenny McCarthy is bad enough. Reading Jenny McCarthy dialogue in the closed captioning something I am simply not willing to do.
You have just perfectly described the CNN special I saw last night on TV about this. Anderson Cooper was using Jenny McCarthy as the counterpoint to the claims of fraud.
+1. I've got about 6,000 CDs ripped to FLAC files on a music server and the idea of having to either reencode to play on an ipod or having to jailbreak the device was enough to get me to buy a Sansa Fuze. Granted, the Fuze is pretty much good for music only (not withstanding the tiny little screen) but at least it plays FLAC files. And it's pretty cheap. And you can insert your own memory cards to seemlessly augment the Fuze's built-in memory.
My Princeton degree has worked for me and against me. I came out in 1992 with a certificate to teach high school history (through a highly unusual teaching program Princeton offers that more or less eschews normal pedagogy courses in favor of practical experience). The one interview I managed to get with a school system (out of hundreds of applications) started with the following question: "Given your educational background, how do you expect to lower your expectations to the level required of a public school teacher?" Needless to say, I didn't get the job.
Since then, my undergrad degree has played a significant role in getting me two law jobs (including the one I have now). In both instances, the hiring partner also had an Ivy League degree (either undergrad or law) and it was clear that I got my foot in the door because of their respect for the school, even though my degree had absolutely no direct relevance to the job. I had to close the deal once I got the interviews but, after getting the jobs and working with those people for many years, it is clear that they hold a certain class of school in very high regard and pre-judge job applicants accordingly.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
