Comment That only makes it easier to justify. (Score 1) 316
Congratulations, you just proved that it won't fail the test of targeting one party.
Comment Welcome to the 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th, 55th.... (Score 1) 316
If they're willing to go far enough to pass that law, I wouldn't put it past them to pre-emptively shut down some tax domiciles.
Comment You operate in the US, you pay for the protection. (Score 1) 316
If you want to sell in the United States we get to tax your global profits?"
More like "If you want to operate in the US and want its protection, forget about using jurisdictional shell games"
Comment Since they're freeloading on the Rest of Us. (Score 1) 316
They aren't paying for any protection provided by the US.
For Microsoft, $93B Abroad Means Avoiding $30B Tax Hit 316
walterbyrd (182728) writes "Microsoft Corp. is currently sitting on almost $29.6 billion it would owe in U.S. taxes if it repatriated the $92.9 billion of earnings it is keeping offshore, according to disclosures in the company's most recent annual filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The amount of money that Microsoft is keeping offshore represents a significant spike from prior years, and the levies the company would owe amount to almost the entire two-year operating budget of the company's home state of Washington."
Comment Likely deployment (Score 1) 76
Apple: Cars that few can afford
Android Auto: Everyone else.
Comment For very limited (South) values of United States (Score 1) 233
Dramatic Shifts In Manufacturing Costs Are Driving Companies To US, Mexico
They're only interested in Southern or Southernized states, which is not representative of the US. That is, they're only interested in places with a well-defended "know thy place" mentality where labor is rendered servile.
Any deviance from said philosophy is severely punished, whether it be by individuals or corporations. In the case of individuals, it is measured in legally-friendly terminations, designed to break support. In the case of corporations, especially the precedent-setting Volkswagen, interest groups will threaten to take out tax incentives or otherwise hobble the company.
Comment Thank the de-prioritization of the First World. (Score 1) 544
I personally do not expect thing to get better.
That's what you get when you let a Third World hellhole be the target of design and that First World nations get shoddy translations.
Comment Works in the M7 as well. (Score 1) 544
If you make a few cuts in the side plastic, an HTC One M7 will fit in there as well. Cut out the camera section a bit more and you get to use that as well.
Comment It's also destructive to add to the problem. (Score 1) 282
With respect to contract work to people and places that normally don't see it, it is a net loss.
Comment How ironic for Atlanta to complain. (Score 1) 273
While I have my own misgivings about the randomness of non-taxi service, it's ironic that Atlanta's complaining about something being stolen from them - especially when their "economic development" department solely exists to steal companies from the North.
Comment As opposed to someone that's crossed the line? (Score 1) 138
The congressman from the House of Representatives reminds the bankers (and Edward Snowden, should he be listening) that selling top secret information is a federal offense.
FTFY.
Comment Regular Employment Beats Self-Employment (Score 1) 148
For most people, regularized employment beats self-employment and all forms of indirect employment due to economies of scale encountered by an employer.
A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls
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meghan elizabeth writes: Temple physicist Rongjia Tao has a utopian proposal to build three massive, 1,000-foot-high, 165-foot-thick walls around the American Midwest, in order to keep the tornadoes out. Building three unfathomably massive anti-tornado walls would count as the infrastructure project of the decade, if not the century. It would be also be exceedingly expensive. "Building such walls is feasible," Tao says. "They are much easier than constructing a skyscraper. For example, in Philadelphia, the newly completed Comcast building has about 300-meter height. The wall with similar height as the Comcast building should be much easier to be constructed." Update: 06/28 04:14 GMT by T : Note: originally, this story said that Tao was at Drexel rather than Temple -- now corrected
