If you incorrectly believe that _everyone_ pays the US 35% corporate tax sure, the US has the highest corporate tax rate. You would have to be extremely ignorant or gullible to believe that anyone pays the base rate.
A lot of people do. They are the hard working local stores, builders, mom & pop hotels, and so on. Its only the big guys get exemptions.
its a problem with ANY group or individual that want to decide what's "best for you."
what's best for you never seems to be very good for them.
Shh
It was so cheap because India relied on the R&D done by developed nations
Partly, but the key technologies were not shared as the USA blocked this, so India developed a lot itself.
There you go again. You really need some help. You do realise that it's not normal behaviour to group ~1.6bn people together, and even less normal to think it's a good idea to shoot them simply because they're near you, right?
You sound dangerously close to a small-minded xenophobe. So close the difference is, at best, imperceptible.
I wasn't seriously sugesting shooting them at random - it was a joke. You don't deal with them by becoming like them, or else they have won.
Yeah, I want these fucking things all over my neighborhood. I swear to god if these start sprouting up like toadstools I'm going to start using them for sighting in the
Quite agree, but that's enough about Muslims.
The official chemical name IS Aluminium with Aluminum being an alternate spelling
Except it's not. You are right about "alumium", however.
It is the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) standard international name, though they recognise Aluminum as an alternative.
Can I come work for you, sabri?
I don't know
And neither does the American Secret Service.
Are you sure about that?
> a Chrome Book is the answer
Several people suggested Chromebooks. I can understand why, they are easy and locked down. But, as far as I know, a Chromebook cannot do dialup, which, as the original post says, is a requirement. So, unless your Chromebook is very different from mine, that's not such good advice.
They could use either a wireless or Ethernet (most models) dial-up router/modem
[...] They once had a brilliant young developer who wrote more in three months than their team did in years, before being sacked for delivering code with a bug that caused an outage. [...]
Please tell me this is an exaggeration. Show me a single developer who hasn't caused an issue of some sorts, in production, and I'll show you a developer that hasn't fully matured yet.
Only slight. He had been given warnings for later delivery previously, and rather than actually being sacked he was told that if he chose to stay he would be held over for pay increases or promotions for two years. And that was a time when two years pay increase would have made a big difference
As a software house we were called in many times as a scapegoat, a game we all knew. A project would not be working and have no hope of delivering, so we would be called in. We would then give an estimate for remaining time and be severely berated for it not matching the timescale, but they'd agree to pay for it to be done. We would take full responsibility and the managers would not seem to see anything strange about us having been working on a project for a week (estimating) and in that time got behind by three months. That way nobody was sacked.
The company programmers themselves did hardly any work. They once had a brilliant young developer who wrote more in three months than their team did in years, before being sacked for delivering code with a bug that caused an outage. The people who survived spent more time covering themselves in case something went wrong tan doing work. For example, I once had a call from a guy who asked "how do you send a block of data to a certain output device". I told him, and years later I saw some code with a comment "IO as specified and recommended by Chris Q of XXX on 03 March 1998", The whole module was covered with comments like this and by the dates it had taken almost a three weeks for this guy to write a program o read a file, and send it in blocks with a maximum length of 256 bytes to an output device with a "continue" flag set for all but the last block. The guy is now in their IT management
I always warned people never to work for that company!
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
