Comment Re:Easy way to solve robots taking jobs (Score 2) 540
Or, you could, like, teach them how to use birth control?
Oh no, that'd be too simple
Or, you could, like, teach them how to use birth control?
Oh no, that'd be too simple
Which is fine and dandy but there are NO 4 open positions per month for nuclear physicist. So?
Have you tried applying in North Korea?
But yes, banning you from jobs you're overqualified for is a bit daft
A very, very small step in roughly the right direction.
How many people reading this have any significant ability to adjust their 'nothing we did was other than legal' tax rate to be substantially different from their 'time to fill out the tax forms' tax rate?
Probably most of the UK readers:
1. Start saving in an ISA
2. Start putting money into your pension
3. Donate to charity and tick the "Gift Aid" box
Not as effective as Google's arrangement, I grant you, but it can make a significant difference.
RTFA. It's on independent.co.uk, and fairly early on says "In an interview in New York Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman, confirmed the company had no intention of paying more to the UK exchequer."
It's a shame the blink tag is no longer supported. It would be ideal in this situation!
the problem is that companies are creating fake deductions to ensure there is nothing left for corporation tax to be paid on, in Starbucks' case for example, they make up a fake intercompany "royalty" charge to a low tax area so that they shift off all remaining revenue to other low tax areas before corporation tax is paid on it.
Except that there's a pretty good argument that this isn't a "fake" charge. It's benchmarked to the royalty they get from non-subsidiary companies using their logo and IP.
And it's all done with the blessing of HMRC.
As to their profits coming down, maybe people have finally realised that their coffee is atrocious?
Aussie here, similar tax bracket, similar government services, similar attitude towards taxes. I too forgo the $500 "high earners" rebate for private insurance. I would much rather the public insurance fund got that money than give it to people who encourage you to spend it on "alternative medicine" insurance. I don't think that is an efficient use of my health dollars.
The NHS funds homeopathic "treatment". That is not an efficient use of health dollars (or pounds).
It's also probably one of the smaller wastes of money within the NHS.
Yes and Amen.
Are you serious? So you think paying taxes is "a waste of money"?
Look at how your tax money is actually spent. An awful lot of it is, indeed, wasted.
1) paying more taxes than absolutely necessary is NOT a waste of money, is a donation to a good greater than just your personal benefit.
I give to charities that are far more effective and efficient in alleviating suffering than the government I pay taxes to.
2) Saving in taxes by doing legal tricks that allow you to pay them in a given country, while your profit is obtained in another country ACTUALLY IS unethical. The whole point of taxes is to return part of your benefit to the society that allowed it in first place. So yes, tax evasion is against the aim of tax laws, whether their written form permits it or not.
Tax evasion is illegal. This is tax avoidance.
So would it be unethical for me to give presents to my children while I'm alive to reduce the amount of inheritance tax they have to pay when I die? Is it, in your opinion, unethical to use tax efficient savings and retirement plans?
If my government is doing unethical things (good luck trying to find one that doesn't!), is it not the ethical thing to reduce their funding?
It's not as clear cut as you think it is. You may also find that your ethical standards don't match other people's.
A good percentage don't vote Democratic or Republican. Problem is they don't make it to the poles either.
That would be because the North and the South Pole are a long way away, and very very cold.
Spelling, people, spelling. Now get off my lawn!
Prostitution - two consenting adults
Adultery - two consenting adults
Necophilia - one consenting adult, but frankly, if you're dead, you might not enjoy it, but how are you harmed?
Bestiallity - so you can kill them, and eat them, but fucking them is out of the question?
Please do tell me what's better (for the goat) - killing them (legal) or fucking them?#
Paedophilia - it boils down to consent. Can a 9 year old give consent? Clearly not. Can a 15 year old?
i think key point is this:
So he's socially inept. Wow. That's news. Like saying Elizabeth II is Queen of the United Kingdom.
This is a guy who's clearly detached himself from a lot of normal human intercourse because he champions, singlemindedly, one idea. A good idea, which has done a lot of good, on the whole.
And there are good reasons why one would advocate having fewer children. From an ecological perspective it's clear - the more children you have, the more resources they will use.
Now, as a father myself, I sympathise more with the natural instinct to procreate, but I can also understand how someone who's so focused on one idea (FFS, it's his life's work) might not be so understanding,
RMS has some good points to make. But if you expect him to be the kind of person who sends Hallmark cards for new babies you'll obviously be disappointed
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."
The age of consent does not necessarily coincide with the age of sexual maturity. Heck, I would have loved to have sex when I was 13 - the age of consent was 16.
Is it right to label a 16 year old "paedophile" for having sex with his 15 year old girlfriend?
Why do people insist on technological solutions for problems that don't need them?
Voting machines - pointless; the number of volunteers or local government workers that can be drafted for a day scales with the size of the population.
RFID badges for students to track attendance? Don't kid these days spend their lesson in front of a teacher, who could check attendance manually in about 30 seconds....like they have always done. I mean, what problems are they trying to solve?
Useful speech is the kind of stuff we see on the floor of Congress
Really?
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