Comment Re:The SS/Medicare comment is pointless (Score 1) 339
Shares and the like are not wages or income. If they could tax you when the value goes up, could you tax them when the value goes down?
Shares and the like are not wages or income. If they could tax you when the value goes up, could you tax them when the value goes down?
Who the hell has a CD player these days? I haven't seen a music CD in at least 7-10 years.
Just a couple of points:
Virtually all DVD players are CD players. Eg I use the DVD player in my bedroom to play CDs sometimes (and I have a couple of dedicated CD players as well, although they don't get used much these days).
Amazon (in the UK anyhow) often sell music CDs for significantly less than the equivalent download (e.g. £5 vs £7), and ripping those CDs to flac gives you better quality** than the mp3 downloads, and an optical disc copy as well as your hard drive copy and backups. This is totally bizarre and stupid, but as long as this continues to be the case I'll carry on buying physical CDs.
** You get a losslessly compressed file which can then be converted to a lossy mp3 or aac or whatever at any quality you like, taking into account the capacity and sound quality of the target device. This is quite important to me. But even if you don't care, why pay *more* for lower quality?
I am NOT interested in you telling me what you have to sell. If I want or need something, I am perfectly capable to search for it myself and assess which product is what I want.
I do everything in my power to not run into things. That doesn't mean someone driving down the road the opposite direction isn't going to be drunk/falling asleep and run into me. I'd still like to be able to survive that.
And what happens when you hit someone else with the same vehicle? Or do you only aim for little cars?
Would an EMP-pulse disable an airbag-release system?
Here's where you can get the MEDIAN home price of Brainerd, Minnesota...
I don't see where he said that you can buy a median home with fifty-four grand. He just said that you could buy a home in her neighborhood for that amount. This is a fact and no reason to pitch a conniption.
largest fine in history (by ~2x) is no difference to what is handed to member country companies?
Wow...
GE/Honeywell and Boeing/McDonnell Douglas, both of which were approved in the U.S. but either died in the E.U. or were substantially affected by E.U. pre-merger conditions.
how about that NDC Health (EU) infringed on the (C) of IMS Health (US) in Germany, and while the German courts found in favor of IMS, the EC forces IMS to license the portion of technology/software under scrutiny.
I assume this will not meet with your approval either and that's just fine. I'll not sling mud about it but I do disagree greatly with your opinion. I think the EC is protectionist to the extreme, and I think that's fine. I think the US should force Airbus to give Boeing their flight software in the interest of making all planes safer, after all, it's better for the consumer. Right?
-nB
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.