I guess you don't realize that oil companies typical profit percentage is in the 6-7% range do you? The reason why they make so much money for their shareholders (who happen to be most people with retirement accounts), is that they sell so damn much of what they produce.

Now, if you want to talk about not paying taxes (which the oil companies did), lets talk companies like General Electric (whose CEO is the POTUS econ advisor) who paid $0 taxes in 2010. Or lets talk about Warren Buffets company (Berkshire Hathaway) which owes almost 1B$ in back taxes.

Or is it excessive profits you don't like? Well why don't we hit Apple on the excessive profit margins? Their PM is close to 30% now, 4-5x that of a company like Chevron or Exxon.

Finally, under what law can the IRS tell Apple what to do with their money? Or are we now living in a country where the federal government is the sole final arbiter on corporate decisions?

And this is one of the reasons why I stay with Sprint. Yea, they have a a more limited coverage and WiMax is slower then LTE but their unlimited data plans are truly unlimited.

It's not that they are bogus but that there is substantial prior art for each of them that wasn't given to the patent office.

With Islam, there is no such thing as moderate Islam.

Was down at the Fremont Fry's this weekend. The only internal HDD they had were some 320 Cavier Blues. Not a single OEM drive. The HDD drought has hit them bad.

But GE would win no matter as they have the capability to make the bombs while TW can just show pictures of them...

Prices are only different within the same cinema complex when there is a premium involved or a across the bored discount. This is normally IMAX or 3D for the premium or matinee prices for the discount. Otherwise prices are uniform.

The thing is Windows Mobile is not a inferior OS (for once). But MS's history has burned so many in the past that people are just turned off by the idea of a Windows mobile phone.

Your logic is flawed as their was never Country A. There was Empire A's mandate under the UN that included land that Country B was formed out of. When Country B was created, all the country's around it decided to try to drive them into the sea rather then work to create separate Country A and Country B. Also add in the Country A's people's traditional homeland was in the western part of Country J, not where Country A / B is. Do forget that Country B's neighbors would rather have Country A's people living without a country as it provides the dictatorships in these countries with issue to inflame their own populace away from the general crappiness of these countries.

Yea, trying to portray Israel as a villain only works in a vacumn....

The hole was always there. GWB took a shovel and made it deeper. BHO threw out the shovel and brought in a backhoe.

Apologize all you want for BHO, but he has put us more in debt then GWB did. And all the additional debt has shit for the economy.

As a conservative, I'd agree to this under one condition. Labor unions would now be considered corporations and therefore fall under all the same rules (including accounting).

Thats fine, as long as the education required to become a teacher along with the certifications, internship, and continuing eduction match that of a doctor. Teachers are not paid as much as a doctor because becoming a teacher requires a liberal arts BA degree (the easiest to get) and a fifth year of education. If we required teachers to make the same as doctors then we would have a lot of grads out of work because so many of them trained to become teachers.

It is a limitation on the CDMA. Even CDMA phones are not interchangeable due to the radio frequencies that are being used by Verizon vs Sprint. Hence no taking your Galaxy S2 you got on sprint and using it on Verizon. They cannot accept a unlocked GSM phone because it is incompatible with their networks.

Your also in a country smaller then the state of Virginia with less population.

What works for a small country does not necessarily work for a very large one.

US pop 300m+ / Size 9.8m sq Km.
Bulgaria pop 7.3m / size 111k sq Km.

Not an issue since were on the top floor.....(but I get your point). FWIW, our tapes are stored in a safe which is in a safe.