A person earning $10MM on standard payroll would be subjected to these payroll taxes. THIS distinction is the whole point -- Should a worker (or CEO) take in only a $1 Salary, then they are subject to those payroll withholdings/burdens on that standard payroll amount.

Money-savvy executives gladly accept a $1 salary because the remainder of their overall compensation package is awarded as semi-regulated financial instruments potentially subject to capital gains taxes, or awarded in any other manner which sidesteps traditional/standard payroll systems.

The net result? The executive's $1 salary means they are paying less in taxes than the $30K laborer employed by the same company.

If any high-income earners are literally making their earnings strictly through standard payroll, then I would question the finance management savvy of that company's CFO! That's a LOT of liquidity walking out the door on an annual basis independent of the company's revenues. (Bonuses are not salaries or wages, so they don't compute the same way for either the employer or the employee.)

Your argument is rather shallow. There are trillion-dollar corporations that nominally pay less in corporate taxes than blue-collar workers earning $30K per year -- so reducing the argument to high-income earners necessarily pay more in taxes than lower-income earners is objectively false.

Finance-savvy higher-income earners often also hire personal finance advisors/managers and adopt money-management techniques which reverse their total tax burdens on an annualized basis; lower-income earners often cannot afford their preferred living expenses, increases in longer-term savings balances, or hire third-party personal finance advisors adept at reducing their annual tax burdens.

PS: Some money-management techniques are only available beyond certain income thresholds. Although some mandatory proportional income taxes (like social security withholdings from paychecks) are unavoidable in and of themselves, the overall burden can be reduced by setting up alternative compensation arrangements which do not qualify as "income" (thus not subject to paycheck withholdings) that private banks then provide the customer with a spending card (recognizing that the banks get repaid before any residuals may ultimately get deposited into the customer's own checking account).

PPS: These setups are fully legal, "old-school", and part of the financial industry backstory. "Ya gotta have money to make money," (and avoid tax burdens) as the saying goes...

KilledByGoogle seems to have been killed (or abandoned?) cuz there's no new entries for 2025 -- and this is hardly the first project to discontinue this year.

Such temperature/conditions swings are extremely rare in Seattle/PNW for sure, 100% -- but such dramatic fluctuations (aka "extreme weather") do occur more often in Seattle than places like SF or LA burning down due to natural causes (despite their respective wildfire seasons forevermore).

And that's the gist of Waymo's deployment; there's more variability/extremes in Denver and/or Seattle during any given year than those 5 other markets combined. (So I wouldn't argue about their usage of "extreme weather" compared to those markets; places like upper midwest [Chicago, Minneapolis] and northeast [NYC, Boston, Philly, DC] offer more extremes in any given year for sure, but Waymo is being gradual in their rollouts, and I appreciate that.)

Why yes it does! Seattle has between 4 and 14 seasons, depending on how sensitive you are to the false season changes and how smoky the seasons become.

But most importantly, compared to the existing Waymo service areas (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta), both Denver and Seattle have more seasonal weather variations in any 3-month period.

Denver gets things like frost-to-extreme heat-to-snowfall within arbitrary 36-hour periods, and Seattle goes from 30s with marine clouds (mist and rain) to blue bird upper-80s back to 30s (windy mist) within its own 36-hour periods. Those fluctuations are definitely more "extreme" than mother nature just changing the humidity dial.

I am dutifully offended, OFFENDED, that word will get out that I do, on occasion, fancy myself a... vegetarian meal on an airplane.

OH MY LORD! I HOPE THIS DOESN'T RUIN MY PUBLIC IMAGE!

Carbon monoxide, not oxygen.

In the 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, the age of globalization [aided by the "information superhighway"] swept over the industrialized world: manufacturing migrated more intensely overseas, outsourcing was all of the rage, and overall cost efficiencies became achievable within years instead of decades. This business opportunity (economies of scale) was the underbelly behind Amazon from a profits-by-volume measure.

China became the dominant manufacturing hub but there was plenty of blowback for the increasing Made-in-China labels across all kinds of consumer goods. In the US, Made-in-America became a rallying cry for politicians and a marketing campaign by manufacturers... all with the promise that higher-quality domestic production, which would command higher price tags relative to the global market choices, would win-out the consumers' overall purchasing habits.

And it did: opinion polls all over agreed that domestic production was of higher-quality, and opinion polls agreed that their higher price tags were fully justified. Fast-forward to today and manufacturing in China far outweighs domestic production regardless of cost because money talks and everyone, by and large, would rather save money than not.

The same will happen with AI-or-AI-free products development and marketing. Will people be willing to pay more? Sure. But will people actually pay more for non-AI-laden products? Hahaha, no. Reduced operating costs for the products while increasing the product pricing equals MORE PROFITS and that's the last thing people want to pay for... loading up executives' pockets over the increase in profit margins.

Any products marketed as, "and now without any AI," should be viewed skeptically as just another money-grab. It's the same decision model used by many crooks holding positions of power, also.

Only the completed form (and associated metadata) is transferred to the IRS API -- not the various workflow processes used to populate or generate the completed form.

Depending how people sort out their financial lives, the various tax laws are more imperative for their everyday accounting software rather than their quarterly/annual tax prep steps. So it's not a technical challenge/issue but rather how individuals do NOT leverage accounting tools and often feel caught off-guard by their annual income tax reporting actions.

Yeah, I know! People spend their lives completing their taxes EVERY SINGLE YEAR and yet they continually, constantly, without any sense of irony or sarcasm, remark how they had no way of being prepared and having their affairs sorted in order to complete their taxes on schedule! That's bananas to me!!!

From Wikipedia:
Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (Azure, GitHub, Visual Studio, npm, C#, .NET, TS)
Experiences and Devices (Windows, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, Bing, Edge, Surface, HoloLens)
Gaming (Xbox, Xbox Game Studios, ZeniMax Media, Activision Blizzard, Game Pass, Cloud Gaming, Xbox network)
Technologies and Research [now Mustafa's AI Research team](Garage, M12, Microsoft Research)

So, in fact, the extreme majority of household consumer brands for Microsoft are within the E+D Group. Definitely no small potatoes!

I would argue obtaining IRS API authorization (those pesky API keys that would actually accept the data transmissions) is the trickier part -- especially since those processes occur behind-the-scenes already (server-to-server calls).

The summary (and The Verge's rephrasing) is much more confusing than the actual internal memo -- which is short and crystal clear:

Rajesh heads the E+D Group, Mustafa heads the AI Group, Scott Guthrie heads the Cloud + AI Group (and these are the 3 "Engineering" Groups, while most of the other groups are more distinct, like Gaming, IT, Legal, HR, etc.)
Ryan (CEO LinkedIn) is also becoming EVP Office/Microsoft365Copilot (which reports to Rajesh in the E+D Group),
Charles (BIC Team) is moving adjacent to Ryan (so BIC/Charles will also report to Rajesh in the E+D Group).

The takeaway is that Rajesh is handing off hands-on duties of Office/M365Copilot to Ryan, and Ryan and Charles will collaborate on a unified Business Copilot strategy across these respective portfolios.(As noted, the consumer-oriented and research divisions of Copilot things are staying firmly with Mustafa.)

You know what would be interesting to see happen? AT&T partners with Google Fiber (Alphabet, really) to make this financing scheme work. Perhaps Google could piggyback off of AT&T (nee Lumen's Quantum Fiber infrastructure) to broadly offer their services as online-only bundles with devices, and the same infrastructure would equally be utilized by AT&T for their existing consumer and business services needs.

It's rather telling that the acquisition agreement came before the equity partner agreement -- it means AT&T needs the assets to get an equity investor (thus leveraging the Lumen fiber network as collateral and stacking up the NetworkCo with insane debt levels).

Much as you said, this will not end well... it's basically Free Money for the AT&T executives.

In case you missed it, I attended law school with concentrations in international law and IP law; I worked for a global IP law firm with top-flight clients; I specialized in anticounterfeiting and innovative quality improvement technologies; the attorneys I fired were IP lawyers with egos akin to your own and those matters mostly dealt with the USPTO.

And out of all of your bullshit, at no point did you ever concede to ANY OF YOUR OWN misinterpretations. Yet you continue your condescending attitude as though you're God's Gift To Mankind. Holy Fucking Shit!

Your toxic alpha-male-bro-dude attitude is what discourages discourse online (including beyond the confines of Slashdot). I stopped indulging your strongheadedness when this entire comment thread is just plain boring to me. I'm not even phased in the slightest. It's rather sad how much effort you put into these comments just for me to throw it away due to your inability to take ownership of your own misunderstanding/misinterpretation of written words. THIS IS NOT A LEGAL FILING. THESE ARE NOT LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. YOU ARE NOT GOD.

kthxbye

You started with name-calling, then rolled-in low-grade cuss words, added insults and more insensitive terms most mature human beings would not want their school-age children to speak aloud to strangers, you doubled-down on your usage of those terms... and this is after you've already engaged with your registered account.

You should know that no reasonable person would presume these Anonymous Coward replies were from any other account (especially since the Slashdot system already notified me that it was your logged-in account which replied although you simply ticked the 'Post Anonymously' checkbox). Hiding behind the Post Anonymously feature is not sound legal advice; then again, neither is your word choices altogether.

Also, in my professional career, I have regularly dismissed attorneys from working on my filings due to their unprofessionalism and/or poor work quality and/or improper conduct. Without knowing who you are (because I don't care enough to cross-reference your slashdot handle with any other digital traces of whom you actually are) I can assure you that I would also dismiss you from working on my cases.

Please think of the children (including yourself).