141036 pts · June 22, 2015
I'm definitely not a giraffe.
Well the good news is that the world is going to start being a whole less dependent on gas soon. Macro level. The suffering involved thats going to get us there is going to be absolutely horrific.
Lol, no. Battlefields come with lots of EW. That limits drone range to wire rather than radio. Sure there are some that can still operate at long range, the same way there's ICBM's and cruise missiles with extreme ranges. But those are effectively full out aircraft like Reapers, which are insanely expensive. Drone limitations are signal, power supply and cost.
Mortars, Artillery, basically any indirect fire weapon. And of course, the long standing tradition of the people who declared the wars and sent the soldiers to fight of course staying safely in their own homes instead of having to risk a fucking thing.
Yeah basically Live, Die, Repeat.
Skynet was big into infiltration units. It had a habit of designing lookalike things to infiltrate our remaining cells. That's the in universe reason for why. Of course, take this to its logical outcome and every piece of rubble could have been a terminator in disguise. Making any forays on the surface a really bad idea.
If you think fascism is different from the Abrahamic faiths, i encourage you to actually read their "holy books." The roadmap for fascism is right in the bible, Exodus 23 Gods Angel to Lead the Way. Torah also contains Exodus. And Islam comes from the same poisonous well.
"We humbly submit..." followed by, "Yes we are going to impose it upon you."It never ceases to amaze me how quickly they contradict themselves at all times.
Same reason a person drinks Mountain Dew, for the *flavour.*
America
*nods head sagely* Count Chocula.
I've been part of plenty committees. I've never encountered anybody using it the old way in committee meetings or out. Its great you have, like i said, word usage changes over time. Human language constantly updates.
Words change over time. Moot used to mean important discussion point. Now it means something that isnt particularly worth discussing anymore.
water running over the boot while something is inside it that easily identifies as wet when it gets wet, like one of those expanding dinosaur sponge toys. Showcase the boot resisting the water and the sponge being taken out to be completely dry.That would be a good demonstration, and accurate one. The water resistant properties of these boots are good, but that display is not. 2/2
It's implying the boot will keep your foot dry when completely submerged in water, which is flat out false. The sign literally says, "Guaranteed to keep you dry." If you were wearing that, as displayed, your foot would be absolutely soaked because the water would be coming in from the top.Shit like this should be flat out illegal. It's not just misleading, it's outright false. If they want to show the water resistant properties, they need a different kind of display demonstrating /1
Is there a go-fund me?
I want a lot more games like Helldivers 2. Devs who communicate with their players. An active warfront that we have a direct impact on. Tons of releases. Give me more!
high probability, typically - key words indicating I don't speak in absolutes
More than probable. In their own book, an angel created by god explicitly to serve him gets damned to hell. There's a 100% chance every single human goes to hell eventually. God can't even make his own servants immune to it.
Have you ever met somebody against gays? There's an extremely high probability that they're from one of the Abrahamic faith systems. Opposition to homosexuality typically stems from religion.
OMG! She left me a trace but all I could find was her bathing suit! THE TRAIL HAS GONE COLD! COLD?!? That poor woman is naked! I have to get a blanket from my truck for her so when she gets out of the water she isn't freezing. I'd want somebody to do that for me.
Agreed. So now that I've further expanded on those things as you requested, does it sound lkke somethign within the reach of small business? Can a mom and pops local diner off shore their profits and HQ their IP in another nation?
In what world do you think people are talking about taxing the shit out of mom and pops diner and not Google, Apple, Tesla? You understand these conversatioms are about the 1% who own the vsst majorirty of the wealth on this planrt right?
What makes you think im talking about small business that isnt doing this? Im not talking about anybody who *isnt* doing this.
Companies in general use a lot of different methods to avoid paying taxes. Income splitting among multiple entitites to avoid higher taxes in specific companies, private equity firms use dent loading for the same reason, IP shifting as you pointed out to pay less taxes in lower tax nations, accelerating depreciation by deducting asset costs faster than they actually depreciate, stock based compensation to reduce income tax, offshore profit havens. Lots of ways they do this.
It’s legal tax avoidance. They use structural advantages, like separating real estate into a REIT, to reduce corporate tax at the operating level. While individuals technically can incorporate and structure assets, the practical ability to do this at scale is mostly available to large corporations. That creates an effective separate class of taxes for them that lets them pay less. 2/2
But it isnt. That investment is put into other companies that they also own so they can write off even more. Take Loblaws as an example. They invest revenue in their other company REIT which they're also a major shareholder of to buy properties, and then rent those properties back to themselves. Since REIT doesnt pay corporate taxes if they invest back into the unit holders (which is again Loblaws, so themselves.) It makes their corporate taxes lower than owning the buildings themselves. /1
Yeah, and that's the scam part. Why do they get to deduct investment? I don't get to deduct my investments from my taxes. It's business avoiding taxation. One of the major problems we currently have with capital being extracted from the economy.
Yeah agreed. Property tax is how we pay for municipal services for example.
Tax evasion you dont hide the source, you hide the money from the law. So for instance, reporting you only made $1 million when you made $5 million. You're evading the taxes on the actual income. 2/2
Its not the same. Money laundering is taking illegal cash and converting it to legitimate. So say you got $10 million selling cocaine, you need a way to make that money appear legitimate. If you own a dry cleaner, you cook the books just a little bit to over-report on business and profit, using the illegal money as "proof" that stuff happened. The additional profit you report at year end is now laundered and you can safely deposit that somewhere. You hide the source of the money. /1
Well the good news is that the world is going to start being a whole less dependent on gas soon. Macro level. The suffering involved thats going to get us there is going to be absolutely horrific.
Lol, no. Battlefields come with lots of EW. That limits drone range to wire rather than radio. Sure there are some that can still operate at long range, the same way there's ICBM's and cruise missiles with extreme ranges. But those are effectively full out aircraft like Reapers, which are insanely expensive. Drone limitations are signal, power supply and cost.
Mortars, Artillery, basically any indirect fire weapon. And of course, the long standing tradition of the people who declared the wars and sent the soldiers to fight of course staying safely in their own homes instead of having to risk a fucking thing.
Yeah basically Live, Die, Repeat.
Skynet was big into infiltration units. It had a habit of designing lookalike things to infiltrate our remaining cells. That's the in universe reason for why. Of course, take this to its logical outcome and every piece of rubble could have been a terminator in disguise. Making any forays on the surface a really bad idea.
If you think fascism is different from the Abrahamic faiths, i encourage you to actually read their "holy books." The roadmap for fascism is right in the bible, Exodus 23 Gods Angel to Lead the Way. Torah also contains Exodus. And Islam comes from the same poisonous well.
"We humbly submit..." followed by, "Yes we are going to impose it upon you."
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly they contradict themselves at all times.
Same reason a person drinks Mountain Dew, for the *flavour.*
America
*nods head sagely*
Count Chocula.
I've been part of plenty committees. I've never encountered anybody using it the old way in committee meetings or out. Its great you have, like i said, word usage changes over time. Human language constantly updates.
Words change over time. Moot used to mean important discussion point. Now it means something that isnt particularly worth discussing anymore.
water running over the boot while something is inside it that easily identifies as wet when it gets wet, like one of those expanding dinosaur sponge toys. Showcase the boot resisting the water and the sponge being taken out to be completely dry.
That would be a good demonstration, and accurate one. The water resistant properties of these boots are good, but that display is not. 2/2
It's implying the boot will keep your foot dry when completely submerged in water, which is flat out false. The sign literally says, "Guaranteed to keep you dry." If you were wearing that, as displayed, your foot would be absolutely soaked because the water would be coming in from the top.
Shit like this should be flat out illegal. It's not just misleading, it's outright false.
If they want to show the water resistant properties, they need a different kind of display demonstrating /1
Is there a go-fund me?
I want a lot more games like Helldivers 2. Devs who communicate with their players. An active warfront that we have a direct impact on. Tons of releases. Give me more!
high probability, typically - key words indicating I don't speak in absolutes
More than probable. In their own book, an angel created by god explicitly to serve him gets damned to hell. There's a 100% chance every single human goes to hell eventually. God can't even make his own servants immune to it.
Have you ever met somebody against gays? There's an extremely high probability that they're from one of the Abrahamic faith systems. Opposition to homosexuality typically stems from religion.
OMG! She left me a trace but all I could find was her bathing suit! THE TRAIL HAS GONE COLD! COLD?!? That poor woman is naked! I have to get a blanket from my truck for her so when she gets out of the water she isn't freezing. I'd want somebody to do that for me.
Agreed. So now that I've further expanded on those things as you requested, does it sound lkke somethign within the reach of small business? Can a mom and pops local diner off shore their profits and HQ their IP in another nation?
In what world do you think people are talking about taxing the shit out of mom and pops diner and not Google, Apple, Tesla? You understand these conversatioms are about the 1% who own the vsst majorirty of the wealth on this planrt right?
What makes you think im talking about small business that isnt doing this? Im not talking about anybody who *isnt* doing this.
Companies in general use a lot of different methods to avoid paying taxes. Income splitting among multiple entitites to avoid higher taxes in specific companies, private equity firms use dent loading for the same reason, IP shifting as you pointed out to pay less taxes in lower tax nations, accelerating depreciation by deducting asset costs faster than they actually depreciate, stock based compensation to reduce income tax, offshore profit havens. Lots of ways they do this.
It’s legal tax avoidance. They use structural advantages, like separating real estate into a REIT, to reduce corporate tax at the operating level. While individuals technically can incorporate and structure assets, the practical ability to do this at scale is mostly available to large corporations. That creates an effective separate class of taxes for them that lets them pay less. 2/2
But it isnt. That investment is put into other companies that they also own so they can write off even more. Take Loblaws as an example. They invest revenue in their other company REIT which they're also a major shareholder of to buy properties, and then rent those properties back to themselves. Since REIT doesnt pay corporate taxes if they invest back into the unit holders (which is again Loblaws, so themselves.) It makes their corporate taxes lower than owning the buildings themselves. /1
Yeah, and that's the scam part. Why do they get to deduct investment? I don't get to deduct my investments from my taxes. It's business avoiding taxation. One of the major problems we currently have with capital being extracted from the economy.
Yeah agreed. Property tax is how we pay for municipal services for example.
Tax evasion you dont hide the source, you hide the money from the law. So for instance, reporting you only made $1 million when you made $5 million. You're evading the taxes on the actual income. 2/2
Its not the same. Money laundering is taking illegal cash and converting it to legitimate. So say you got $10 million selling cocaine, you need a way to make that money appear legitimate. If you own a dry cleaner, you cook the books just a little bit to over-report on business and profit, using the illegal money as "proof" that stuff happened. The additional profit you report at year end is now laundered and you can safely deposit that somewhere. You hide the source of the money. /1