Posts by Naughtyhorse 2416 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2010
rubber & glue much???
so no tax means higher wages (yay for us!)
no tax means no govt spending...
fire insurance (thats just to put it out, not recover afterwards)
crime insurance (thats just to get a copper onsite after i have been robbed, not to recover afterwards)
heath insurance (thats just.....
education insurance (see above...
employment insurance (I'm sure you have spotted the patttern by now
retirement insurance
road tolls
having to learn to speak german/russian/chinese after the various invasions
getting (even more) fucked by the banks - no regulation
suddenly im not feeling quite so well off anymore.
but dave starbuck is minted so thats okay
Biting the hand that feeds us???
are you for real? we feed the hand!
they are operating in this country because thay want our money.
so long as profits are greater than tax, then they'll stay.
thats how it works. at present they have political clout so bitch about how much they pay. with a strong leader prepared to say STFU and pay the vig, capeche. they'll knuckle under and behave.
unlike you clever clever neo-cons with your 'special' understanding of economics.
so pray tell, hows that whole 'we have eliminated all risk from ninja mortgages' thing working out for you?
so what about the Chinese economy (well known nest of Friedman worshipers if ever i saw one) out growing the good ol US by a factor of about 5. (and being more than a tad pissed off about their poor figures)
praps we need to look to Lehman bros to get a practical handle on how it all works? no, what about Kweku Adoboli, he must be a man who understands how it all works at the sharp end?
or maybe you are banging on about good corporate governance, you know HSBC _not_ laundering drug money, American Airlines, not skipping vital maintenance (gotta make a few more bucks for the shareholders, dead passengers?? that's just the cost of doing business) Enron anyone??
Anyone with 2 grey cells to rub together (so that's you out) gets that modern capitalism is comprehensively broken. By any metrics the US economy was in much better shape (sustained) in the 50's than it has been at any time since the 80's. and all you need to do is look at tax and spending policy in the respective periods to understand why. - apart from anything else the batshit crazy tax dodging 1%-ers just got their asses handed to them on a plate in an election a few weeks ago.
Mitt, the very paragon of the virtues you espouse, offered to work the same magic for the US economy that he had previously worked for so many great american businesses (mostly no longer trading) strangely they chose to stick with some kenyan terrorist!
go figure... maybe they know something you don't.
just maybe they know a lot that you don't
I have a solution...
in fact i have 2
Smith & Wesson.
P.S. the scrote responsible for this article might like to describe himself as an economist, but he is in fact just a bean-counter. and we have all had experience of their ilk.
why does the reg insist on giving valuable whiskey vouchers to idiot right-wing shills?
corporate tax is the cost of doing business in the UK, you dont want to pay it, then fuck off and trade elsewhere.
you sir a wrong-headed oaf, and, given your starting point, i cant even begin to explain why. (well i prolly could... but whats the point?)
never mind, your precious market will address this, and amazon are already bracing themselves for their worst ever christmas results.
.. as in the desktop market.
start by innovating, then fuck it all up by giving all their money to the lawyers in a vain attempt to sue the opposition out of existence.
thats certanly part of jobses DNA. He seemed to innovate just fine in an empty market, but then got all pissy as soon as anyone else showed up whether they had their own ideas or not (or even if they had both nicked the same ideas from parc)
persnly id rather eat worms than buy any of the cupertino idiot tax collectors outpourings. i can see they're pretty. and will take your word for it that they 'just work'. i have always been anti-hip, and that seals the deal for me, dosent matter what it does, i'd be 'one of them' if i had one! and i wont be part of that gang. you are clearly a fanboi (not really a criticism) and im sure the drawer full of old apple phones you have at home have all given you imesurable pleasure.
but what the article is pointing out is that, they have already lost the tech edge, are losing unit sales, reducing profits per unit sale, all they have is cache - but that will pass, and pass quickly.
and back to oblivion they will go.
I call bollocks on that!
i sync my day by the ringing of my alarm!
in the winter i get up in the dark, in the summer a slumber through many hours of usable celestial illumination.
and on weekends i sleep in (isnt having no kids bliss sometimes - particularly around mid day on a sunday, or anytime at an ATM).
it would take thousands of leap seconds to change things _that_ noticably
that's a shame, cos i was thinking of relocating to the Indian ocean off the coast of Somalia, but from what you suggest, the place is teeming with new cities, so the commute to work will still be a nightmare. guess ill relocate to northern Europe where the population density is clearly so much lower.
climate and weather are not the same thing.
climate is the average of weather and therefore _considerably_ less chaotic.
that's not to say it's not hard - weather will almost certainly turn out never to be accurately predictable over anything more than the short term. Climate is altogether different, True there is still the Sisyphean task of refining the model, in order to establish precisely how fucked we are - but broadly everyone in the world understands that CC is happening, except lewis, and Mitt Romney (only an alternate Thursdays)
lol
Top nutjob!
When is his show on Fox?
let em seceede i say, i seem to recall there was a similar problem back in the 1850's where the blue states wanted to behave like civilised human beings (ish) and the reds rebelled.
<pauses to wink theatrically at camera>
how did that whole thing work out for them then?
let em go, the immediate loss of the dead weight on the us economy will see GDP growth in double figures by next year.
don't fret! there's always alien-ware :-D (or it's alleged more sober cousin dell precision) - still has the perennial laptop shortcomings - piddly little screen, crap keyboard and touchpad, but the guts have a fair degree of grunt, plus you can take it to site and get lots off oohs and ahhs from the client as you do hard stuff in real time
Thats a failrly depressing set of comments!, here we a re at the worlds premiere tech website (plus lewis page's personal soapbox) and all commentards so far are so proud of using archaic kit!
I like my 8(ish) cores, and you know sometimes 16gig is just not enough - and just how the hell do you expect me to get anything done with just the two monitors. of course if it's a big model i can always use the 16 core 40gig behemoth in the corner of the office
That said i do remember many many years ago as machine specs shot up year on year wondering if the limiting factor would turn out to be technological or if at some point the majority of users would say,'you know, this one does all i really want, so why get a new one'
so i guess now i know
Of course all mp's are moral,
exept the selfe serving media whores on gameshows right now,
or the ones too sick<sic> to attend their own fraud trials,
and of course the ones already convicted of fraud,
and the ones who stole from us and grudgingly gave it back when caught
(have to try that at a bank sometime, rob it, and offer to pay it back if im caught.)
and not forgetting the ones responsible for the uk becoming embroiled in torture and mass murder
and geoffery archer
that list barely covers 650 or os, so that leaves....
oh!
and the head that irony went over, i dont think it was hodge's
<is that the sound of another whoosh as something passes over someones head>
I came home from the pub one night many moons ago, considerably worse for wear and <ahem> spilled <ahem> approx 4 pints of stella and 3/4 of a semi digested kebab on my beloved logitech kbd.
soaked it in the bath overnight, dried it with a hairdrier... lasted about another 6 months before one end of the spacebar took to sticking down sometimes. all in all lasted about 3 years as I recall, not bad for £15
Lewis long ago left the realms of science, this is some kind of religious crusade.
poor man, it took his powers of reason years since, now it's effecting his eyesight.
to summarise;
if it wasn't for that thing i said isn't happening, at least is happening, but isn't caused by us, yes that thing, well these guys wrote a paper which takes a few stabs in the dark, massively extrapolates the results, leaves out a few significant variables and proves i was wrong all along.
so that's lewis 1, rest of the word nil i guess.
<shakes head sadly and walks away>
the companies dont pay the tax, their staff do!
and the question is fuck all to do with efficiency, it's the cost of doing business. you make a profit from doing business in the UK it's only right you pay a bit to support the UK (it's a bit short sighted not to)
starbucks paying no UK corporate tax has put 1000's of public sector workers out of work and onto benefits, which the rest of us get to pay for, which we dont like much, and living on the dole probably isn't the best thing that ever happened to our out of work nurses.
but hey! a bunch of third rate iPhone users got all this bling and paid no tax.
i despair sometimes - it's not like it's rocket science
great point,
except of course it's bollocks. if the tax rate was set such that the tax liability of these bastards was 1p more than what they are currently paying then nothing will change. And setting it 1p less would start a dash to the bottom
it was bollocks when thatch was banging on about it in the 80's and it's still bollocks today.
most right of centre fuckwits dont lke to pay tax as a matter of principle, the rate is irrelevant. most suits are right of centre fuckwits. the only way to make them pay is to make it impossible for them not to pay. tax em on whats in the tills
risking good ol brit blood and treasure in the US????
doncher know it's the most dangerous country on earth? - just a few thousand of their troops usually manage to wipe out a few dozen of ours and an orphanage or two before the mag is empty, can you _imagine_ what a country infested with 300 million of the buggers, with constitutionaly guaranteed anti tank weapons is like?
now drones we have :-D
you know what?
i dont miss any of that crap either, and im a windoze user! thing is the situation you describe was 7 years ago.
i cant remember the last time i saw a BSOD.
only thing that ever crashes a browser these days is flash - hardly redmonds fault.
updates, cant say for sure but typically less than 10 minutes, usually in the background so you dont really notice anything.
I reinstalled vista a few times and have never had to reinstall 7
defrag and activex - really showing your age now.
plus i get all the games and endless choice (as an apple used you may want to google that last word :D) in terms of hardware.
but most of all as a 'hairy arsed design engineer' - keeping the country's lights on ALL the software i need to use is windoze only.
depends on your definition of traditional.....
traditional as in lennon & mcartney's write once get payed forever
or
traditional as in J.S.Bach write an album a week or your family starves (much like the bloke making the cars in analogies elsewhere)
for most creators the reality is still the second option, and it's _very_ hard to have much sympathy for the types trying desperately to hang on to the first option - is cowels contribution to mankind really worth all that money?
rly?
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