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Comment: Re:Robbing Peter to Pay Paul (Score 4, Informative) 88

by adamchou (#43777497) Attached to: NSA Data Center the Focus of Tax Controversy
Which is exactly the point. They can't tax the federal government. So they decided to create a law that allows for a loophole that taxes the power company and the law also allows the power company to pass the additional costs on to the federal government

"We don’t tax the federal government," Mayfield explained to a Utah Senate committee March 7. "So what this bill does is tax Rocky Mountain Power and then gives them the ability to pass that on as an increase in their energy bills. So we collect an equivalent of what would have been a tax on the federal government."

Comment: Re:Cry me a river... (Score 3, Informative) 88

by adamchou (#43777487) Attached to: NSA Data Center the Focus of Tax Controversy
I think you misunderstand what the bill is trying to say. The bill is allowing the Utah government to levy a tax on any organization that rents out military property from organizations like Utah National Guard or DoD. Previously, the state of Utah would tax levy taxes against private corporations just fine. However, the NSA is a federal entity so it can't tax the NSA. What this bill does is allow the the state of Utah to tax Rocky Mountain Power and allow Rocky Mountain Power to pass on the additional costs to the NSA. Read this article for a more layman explanation of what the bill says. And to drive the point home, they specifically said this during the motion for the bill...

"We don’t tax the federal government," Mayfield explained to a Utah Senate committee March 7. "So what this bill does is tax Rocky Mountain Power and then gives them the ability to pass that on as an increase in their energy bills. So we collect an equivalent of what would have been a tax on the federal government."

Comment: Re:Robbing Peter to Pay Paul (Score 1) 88

by adamchou (#43777397) Attached to: NSA Data Center the Focus of Tax Controversy
No, according to the article...

"We don’t tax the federal government," Mayfield explained to a Utah Senate committee March 7. "So what this bill does is tax Rocky Mountain Power and then gives them the ability to pass that on as an increase in their energy bills. So we collect an equivalent of what would have been a tax on the federal government."

So the US government will be writing Rocky Mountain Power a check and Rocky Mountain Power will write a check to the Utah Government.

Comment: Re:Robbing Peter to Pay Paul (Score 5, Informative) 88

by adamchou (#43777387) Attached to: NSA Data Center the Focus of Tax Controversy
Actually, that's slightly incorrect. After reading through the articles a bit more, Utah specifically said they can't tax the federal government. So what they're doing is taxing the power company the additional 6% so that the power company can pass on the additional costs to the NSA, effectively taxing the NSA an additional 6%.

Comment: Re:Yes (Score 1) 614

by adamchou (#43661251) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Won't Companies Upgrade Old Software?
I've worked with certain government organizations that have used really outdated systems and I can say that one of the reasons is exactly this...

in the long-term it's someone else's problem

The employees of the organization I worked with were only obligated to work there a year or two and then they'd go move to another location. If they just pushed off the task as much as they could citing lack of manpower, funds, or other resources, it'd eventually become someone else's problem.

Comment: Re:Why is this a problem? (Score 1) 717

by adamchou (#43648295) Attached to: The First Fully 3D-Printed Gun Has Been Successfully Test-Fired
I'm all for gun rights, but I can't see the point of building a gun that is made to be used only a few times and is made of plastic. It sounds like something that would only be used in an assassination attempt, not for self defense or hunting. It just reminds me of something like this

Comment: Re:Are You Kidding Me? (Score 5, Interesting) 256

by adamchou (#43384425) Attached to: Korea Tensions Lead To Delay Of Minuteman III Test Flight
What gives you the impression that North Korea doesn't want to kill South Koreans? Hell, the North tortures it's own citizens. What makes you think they'll even second guess bombing the shit out of Seoul? The citizens of North Korea probably have no animosity towards the South, but they're not the ones dropping bombs. And I don't know which South Koreans you're talking to, but I know plenty that would love for us to go and destroy the North.

Btw, Living in South Korea doesn't mean anything. I live in South Korea too and I'd beg to differ with your position.

Comment: Re:Are You Kidding Me? (Score 1) 256

by adamchou (#43384377) Attached to: Korea Tensions Lead To Delay Of Minuteman III Test Flight

since North and South Korea are culturally very similar, speak the same language, and are the same people basically

I'm sorry, but you seem to be extremely uninformed. Their language isn't completely different, but it differs enough that a North Korean would only understand about 60% of what a South Korean says.

Comment: Re:Are You Kidding Me? (Score 4, Informative) 256

by adamchou (#43384329) Attached to: Korea Tensions Lead To Delay Of Minuteman III Test Flight

A war like that takes months of planning and logistics if it's going to go well.

You make it seem as if this hasn't already happened. We're still in a state of war with them. I'm stationed here on the Korean peninsula and we go through peninsula wide exercises twice a year to simulate a war here. On top of that, we go through tactical training at a unit level even more frequently than that.

I only know what I read in the papers. -- Will Rogers

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