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vansmack wrote:
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because the human mind cant remember anymore.

vansmack wrote:
Still, the findings about Apple were remarkable both for the enormous amount of money involved and the audaciousness of the company?s assertion that its subsidiaries are beyond the reach of any taxing authority.

?There is a technical term economists like to use for behavior like this,? said Edward Kleinbard, a law professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a former staff director at the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. ?Unbelievable chutzpah.?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/business/apple-avoided-billions-in-taxes-congressional-panel-says.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130521&_r=0

There is a technical term lawyers like to use for behavior like this:  "Fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to minimize tax liabilities within the law." (We're a little more long-winded than economists.)

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
There is a technical term lawyers like to use for behavior like this:  "Fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to minimize tax liabilities within the law." (We're a little more long-winded than economists.)

I think it can do it a little better.

Ireland is not an island in the Caribbean. 

That's what I took away from Tim Cook's hearing.

vansmack wrote:

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
There is a technical term lawyers like to use for behavior like this:  "Fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to minimize tax liabilities within the law." (We're a little more long-winded than economists.)

I think it can do it a little better.

what does "better" mean (honestly)?  these are income taxes, not a CSR issue.

i did your factory reset thang on my galaxy s two phone of the future, from the past.  now it works fine.  thank you.

walkonby wrote:
i did your factory reset thang on my galaxy s two phone of the future, from the past.  now it works fine.  thank you.

Glad it worked out for you.

A couple more suggestions for you:

1) Don't reinstall every app you had installed. Reinstall them slowly and as you need them.

2) Lower the settings for how many days your email clients keep email for a little while. You can increase them if performance is still strong.

3) Don't keep hundreds of text massages. Delete them every now and then.

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:

vansmack wrote:

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
There is a technical term lawyers like to use for behavior like this:  "Fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to minimize tax liabilities within the law." (We're a little more long-winded than economists.)

I think it can do it a little better.

what does "better" mean (honestly)?  these are income taxes, not a CSR issue.

My better was in reference to the hyperbole, not that I can avoid paying taxes better than Apple.  I know full well that they are not tax evaders, but are in fact employing a legal tax avoidance scheme.

But unless you're afraid of public backlash, and you should be, own up to it.  Don't hide behind a bunch of hyerbole.  Tim Cook said "We don't hide a bunch of money away on some Caribbean Island to avoid taxes." Technically true,  but that's because the island Cook chose simply doesn't happen to be in the Caribbean - it's in the Atlantic.

Apple keeps 65% of it's world wide income in Ireland, which houses only 4% of Apple's income and about 1% of it's retail sales, including revenue from patents that were researched and developed in America because they transferred ownership of them to the Irish subsidiary. 

vansmack wrote:

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
There is a technical term lawyers like to use for behavior like this:  "Fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to minimize tax liabilities within the law." (We're a little more long-winded than economists.)

I think it can do it a little better.

Ireland is not an island in the Caribbean. 

That's what I took away from Tim Cook's hearing.

They should just make a law that if you try to evade tax liability by shifting profits overseas your CEO and CFO get to spend the next 10 years in prison.  That should be an easy way to solve this problem

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vansmack wrote:
If you haven't tried the new Gmail tabs, I suggest you do.  It's awesome.

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Do people still use e-mail? 

jesus . . . what a dumb snarky comment.  i mean you can make snarky comments all day long; just dont make them dumb.

atomicfront wrote:

vansmack wrote:
If you haven't tried the new Gmail tabs, I suggest you do.  It's awesome.

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Do people still use e-mail? 

you're still using a forum, which is as old as email. 

walkonby wrote:
jesus . . . what a dumb snarky comment.  i mean you can make snarky comments all day long; just dont make them dumb.

Most people dont' use email anymore.  Not dumb or snarky.  People text. It was an honest question. 

sweetcell wrote:

atomicfront wrote:

vansmack wrote:
If you haven't tried the new Gmail tabs, I suggest you do.  It's awesome.

To enable, click the Gear Icon, Configure tabs and set it up.

Do people still use e-mail? 

you're still using a forum, which is as old as email. 

That is true. 

atomicfront wrote:
Most people dont' use email anymore.  Not dumb or snarky.  People text. It was an honest question. 

I make the same joke to my coworkers all the time, as my colleagues still insist on communicating with students via email and are surprised when they don't read them.

In the professional world though, yes, email is still king and I get many more emails than texts, though I look at a lot more tweets than email these days.

atomicfront wrote:

vansmack wrote:
If you haven't tried the new Gmail tabs, I suggest you do.  It's awesome.

To enable, click the Gear Icon, Configure tabs and set it up.

Do people still use e-mail? 

you're doing it here

you are the champ of bringing useless replies to threads.  but it's cool because we all do it

vansmack wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
Most people dont' use email anymore.  Not dumb or snarky.  People text. It was an honest question. 

I make the same joke to my coworkers all the time, as my colleagues still insist on communicating with students via email and are surprised when they don't read them.

In the professional world though, yes, email is still king and I get many more emails than texts, though I look at a lot more tweets than email these days.

thank you!  i breathe, live, eat and sometime sleep in the business professional world and there are only two types of people that use texts as a form of communication:  kids . . . and adults who keep forgetting, they arent kids.

vansmack wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
Most people dont' use email anymore.  Not dumb or snarky.  People text. It was an honest question. 

I make the same joke to my coworkers all the time, as my colleagues still insist on communicating with students via email and are surprised when they don't read them.

In the professional world though, yes, email is still king and I get many more emails than texts, though I look at a lot more tweets than email these days.

Yeah, but in the professional world Google mail is blocked.  We have to use outlook.  I try to use instant message at work but people insist on using email… I guess because they think they have a record.  You can record your instant messages and store them in outlook.  So really there is no need.

atomicfront wrote:
Yeah, but in the professional world Google mail is blocked.  We have to use outlook.  I try to use instant message at work but people insist on using email… I guess because they think they have a record.  You can record your instant messages and store them in outlook.  So really there is no need.

Not all professional worlds. 

My place of work is powered by Google so Gmail/Drive/Chat/Calendar/Docs are all encouraged as they are trying to ween us off MS Office products.  While a number of people still use Word and Excel, very few use Outlook.

This is actually quite common in businesses out West and even more so in academia nationwide.

vansmack wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
Yeah, but in the professional world Google mail is blocked.  We have to use outlook.  I try to use instant message at work but people insist on using email… I guess because they think they have a record.  You can record your instant messages and store them in outlook.  So really there is no need.

Not all professional worlds. 

My place of work is powered by Google so Gmail/Drive/Chat/Calendar/Docs are all encouraged as they are trying to ween us off MS Office products.  While a number of people still use Word and Excel, very few use Outlook.

This is actually quite common in businesses out West and even more so in academia nationwide.

Imma gonna have to disagree with you on that, Office 365 blows Google Apps out of the water.