Vote only for politicians who declare a willingness to make our tax code more fair and less protective of the wealthy.

When "the rich" top 1% of income owners pay 2x their share of income in taxes, then the only way to make the tax code "more fair" would be to lower taxes on the rich, not to increase them. When the top 50% of income owners pay 97.5% of income taxes, then the bottom 50% who pay only 2.5% of the taxes aren't in a position to declare that's "not fair". I'm not sure you understand what "fair" means. It'd be fair if everyone contributed in taxes exactly what they got back in benefits over their lifetime, but we left that behind a long time ago in the name of envy and greed.

It's not just video medias. Same for computer technologies. Others and I got sick of it. We'll just keep using the old stuff that still work, stable, cheaper, etc. For an example, I still use my decade old home built desktop PCs, OmniCube KVM from Y2K, inkjet printer from 2006, etc. I finally went HDTV from CRT TV in late 2014. When I was younger, I used to want the (new/lat)est stuff but things got buggy, costly, annoying, etc. :(

https://youtu.be/3NHd7oC1w58
https://youtu.be/dsx2vdn7gpY

This is a Federal tax deduction, and even Texans pay Federal Income Taxes.

This very same deduction benefits literally millions of "non-CEOs" each year. Losses are "earned" (I know, a perverse turn of phrase).

 

Yet you seem to be able to "assume" it is a net loss for the tax collector...

It isn't higher pay, it's a reward for an increased stock price - they got stock options at trivial prices, had to remain with the company for years and cause explosive growth, and only years later could they "cash in" their stock options.

... is that in space the comic relief character dies at the beginning, right after the black / minority character. So yes, I can see how adding a funny guy to the mix can improve the crew's morale.

You're not wrong. I bought a Samsung blu ray player and they put out a firmware update that knocked the audio out of sync. I waited for a fix which never came so I returned the player as faulty and they replaced it with another one which was fine until it did the same firmware update. Samsung had moved on to another model and weren't updating their previous player so I was stuck with a 6 month old player that didn't work.

This is roughly my experience as well, only mine never had a firmware version that really worked. There were spots in playback (perhaps at each layer switch?) where the audio invariably dropped out on one of them, and the other one had problems with audio dropouts at the DVD layer switch. I ended up switching to LG and never had a problem after that. Unfortunately, in my case, by the time I started finding discs that each player couldn't deal with, I had owned them for a year or more, and was stuck with them.

And my Samsung TV isn't much better. Though it lasted many years, what eventually killed it was capacitor plague. In most of the industry, this was fixed by 2005. Not Samsung. They kept using junk until at *least* August of 2007. And as soon as I fixed that, I had another failure a few months later, this time caused by the T-Con board being bad. No big deal, I thought. I'll just buy a replacement board. And that one was bad. And then I replaced that, and got another bad one. It turns out that this board fails so often that "working pulls" from existing equipment are approximately *never* actually working. Fortunately, this part is used by multiple companies (presumably by anybody that ships a Samsung panel in their TVs), so there's a manufacturer that actually builds new replacement T-Con boards. But it took about a month before I got TV was working again, all because (at least according to the working theory) these chips are so sensitive to thermal stress that they end up slightly damaged when they solder them onto the boards, and as a result, they fail prematurely a few years later, without warning.

Samsung is, at this point, basically on my blacklist, right alongside companies whose products nearly started fires, had dead shorts across power pins, and other nightmares.

Right... politicians aren't in the least bit responsible for how they vote in Congress, so it doesn't matter which ones are running things.

Has nothing to do with electing people and allowing them to have the power over us to decide which economic interests to favor or not.

just fine them like the good bitch they are...

https://med.stanford.edu/sbfnl...

You literally made that up. How does a corporation give employees stock options, and then the employees turn around and "hide" (in "tax havens and writeoffs") that very same income from the IRS? This reminds me of the kerfuffle over Mitt Romney having foreign investments and their very existence was seen as "proof" he didn't pay his income taxes... Except the way his opponent learned about those foreign investments was because they were reported on his tax paperwork! - apparently Romney was simultaneously reporting AND hiding his income from the IRS.

A US Citizen can't escape US taxes owed on US-derived income by "simply (having a) place of (residence) not in the US.

never! :P

Taxes on profits which are specific to a company or industry are passed on to shareholders, which in turn drives investors to invest in other companies/industries with a better return on capital.

Taxes which are universal in application to all companies (like the corporate income tax) in a country with at least semi-free trade are primarily passed on to employees, then a little bit to customers and the even smaller remaining to shareholders.

From the Harvard Business Review:

If a country allows free capital flows and free trade and has a corporate tax rate much higher than that of its neighbors, investors can choose to buy shares in companies elsewhere that face a lower tax, and corporate management can choose to move operations abroad. Consumers, meanwhile, can buy from foreign suppliers. By comparison, workers are pretty immobile. It’s hard for them to switch employers, let alone countries. So the tax lands on them, in the form of lower wages and/or skimpier benefits. And as those at the top of today’s corporate hierarchies seem to have done a pretty great job of keeping their paychecks from being adversely affected, the impact is presumably greatest on those farther down in the organization.

So yeah, if your goal is to tax working people more, then increase the corporate income tax is great for that. Otherwise, it's just a stupid double-tax which is useful to politicians for disguising to people that they're getting taxed extra.

It'll be a good way to get some of the wealthiest companies on earth to help re-elect everyone who opposes it.

(Using your distinction of upper case and lower case income taxes and Income Taxes)

There's no evidence Amazon didn't pay every "income tax" it owed, which likely was in the hundreds of millions, both it's portion and collected from employee paychecks.

This article is about "Income Taxes", and that Amazon didn't pay any last tax year.

The original poster obviously conflated the two.

Do Comedians Help Morale On Long Space Missions? Yes. When you space them.

Why to you think colleges are such intersectional, communist crybaby spaces now?

"Captain? Why did you "space" your crew morale person?"

"He told that joke last month! It wasn't funny then! It still ain't funny now!"

Yeah, that's still not gonna work in the US. Notice how the generator station STILL relies on a large elevation change, even with everything subterranean to operate.

I think you're forgetting just how FLAT the Central US can be. And there's 750,000 or so square miles of flat.

Yes, like with nuclear, geothermal, etc, it can be a locational/situational thing.

I merely think that a hybrid nuclear+renewables solution is a more intelligent fit.

Thats an interesting contortion.

No, but it handles 4C without any problems.

No. Because simply BURNING hydrogen is still less energy dense than gasoline. Worse, it needs to be kept at high pressures in a very heavy containment vessel.

And your comparison between an electric engine and an ICE isn't cogent. Because you're comparing the equivalent of the gas tank in one vehicle to the source of motive power in the other.

You don't run the wheels in a Tesla directly off the batteries. You hook the batteries to an electric motor.
The batteries are the "gas tank". And the electric motor is the several hundred pounds of "engine", gearbox, etc.

is it multiple choice?

Exactly.

The devil comes in the details.

And you'll always have some dumbfuck tripping over a dollar to pick up a dime.

Nuclear power is only God's gift to humanity only if the people designing, building and running them don't act like idiots and/or assholes.

Carlton was imitating the dance from footloose... so this makes no sense.

Quick, send some of this to every internet user, stat!

Just because the recommendations were "in flux" doesn't magically absolve potential liability. You are not a US criminal lawyer. And reasonable effort is decided by a judge and/or jury - not a CEO, a lawyer, or the public, unwashed masses of social media. And it can be decided many years after the fact, since the law is now on the books. The fact that you don't know, for sure, exactly HOW to follow it doesn't mean you're absolved from needing to follow it anyways.

There were no "fire engines".

There were diesel generators (which are also NOT "fire engines") on-site whose sole job was to power the coolant system.

These were flooded out by the ensuing tsunami, due to a combination of an under-built sea wall and poor positioning of generators (essentially in "basement" areas).

I confuse nothing.

John 14:26 - "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."

Prophets are sent to lead you to the path, which leads you to the Holy Ghost, whereby you are then instructed. Are you saying humans are the teachers and refute what Christ said as written in the bible?

The search for truth is like a teacher, not a human passing around little pieces of paper. Today's generation is so enamored with other peoples papers that they don't even care for the truth at all, but instead what another with a piece of paper says.... that is their truth now.

You know the truth the moment you hear it, even when you do everything you can to refuse it.

Strange the anonymous poster should mention 1984. "...[Julia] worked in the Fiction Department. Presumably -- since he had sometimes seen her with oily hands and carrying a spanner -- she had some mechanical job on one of the novel-writing machines."

This can all be looked up readily if youâ(TM)re skeptical, itâ(TM)s not secret. Presumably you have internet access.