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I did not see that in his comment. He said tax. You are making a pretty big leap.
Your comment is wrong too and here is the IRS link on when nonresident aliens have to file American taxes. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/taxa...
The USA can, and does, tax non-citizens. Many countries tax non-citizens. Go out and buy a foreign stock-they will tax you on earnings or dividends. Go visit a country and pay the local sales tax.
What exactly is escrow for source code? Some party you paid to upload a tar.gz to an sftp server?
It is misleading to compare the two:
* One has no risk of a nuclear meltdown in a very earthquake prone area (California).
* One does not have 60+ year long successful history of lobbying governments and establishing regulatory capture (note I wrote 'successful')
* one does have issue where they do not reprocess spent fuel adding billions of risk of nuclear fuel leaking into the environment; or if they do recycle, risk creating material for nuclear weapons.
* one would struggle with it's strong baseline, yet inflexible power generation without batteries to handle afternoon peaks
Keeping hearing random arguments for nuclear fission power (why not tidal?) and yet the regulatory capture and earthquake issue is still present in the US. We moved away from nuclear power after Japan's meltdown for a reason. With recent Supreme Court decisions and fracking causing earthquakes in Nebraska it has only gotten worse. I do not trust the industry with nuclear power. California spent a lot of money to establish a working grid that can be used for sustainable power until we get useful fusion (or that big supervolcano hits). Nuclear power is more needed in Texas right now, with it's broken grid, than California.
More information on reprocessing nuclear waste: https://www.projectoptimist.us/why-us-doesnt-recycle-spent-n... https://thebulletin.org/2019/07/recycle-everything-america-e...
It is a pain to switch over; but that is the way it is with all sorts of proprietary programs. They just tighten the noose regardless if you pay or not.
I understand your point, but basically they are saying: "We hid all our assets to evade the law. Give us immunity from criminal money laundering evasion and we will only pay part of what we likely would have owed."
Can you imagine a member of Congress or the President saying this? Forgoing immunity is a scorched earth tactic, but it is also one that will dissuade future abusers. We have those overseas money reporting laws that make it difficult for Americans to get bank accounts overseas. Let's use them!
Back when Walt Disney started, copyright was 28 years. That was good enough for him to get started producing a media empire. The Berne Convention requires 50 years-why not just go back to that standard instead of the 95 years today?
95 years for works for hire; 70 years + life of the author if they make it themselves.
There are very few pieces of work that their authors are still getting benefit from, but could be lost to history. Documentaries have to be censored to remove elements now that require licensing of materials.
Walt Disney got his start remaking old works (public domain) into new ones. How many Walt Disney's are we preventing from letting them make better use of Mickey Mouse? We will find that out soon when the trademark Disney has been trying to impose gets challenged.
This has the nice benefit of encouraging companies to make good use of their works as much as possible in the limited time instead of holding out to get a better deal.
This is a red herring. The hospital still pays for a service (doctors or a group representing them) while being required to make charitable contributions to keep it's nonprofit status. These charitable contributions are very important for people in poorer and rural areas of the United States that for profit entities do not want to operate in (or would demand subsidies from the government to operate in).
Hospitals, to maintain their nonprofit status, have to provide charitable contributions. One way is when patients apply for payment reduction or discharge because they can not afford to pay. Patients need to apply for this so they have documentation to give the IRS.
> Don’t tax pharmaceutical companies, but tax the income of doctors?
How often do you ask a doctor to work for free? They still get paid by the hospital.
Yes, pharmaceutical companies, which as far as I know are private, also have something like this. This is preventing media coverage and Congress imposing max cap on prices on public assistance programs (prices private insurance will use for leverage) so they can keep charging what they want.
> I think the point of the article is that it’s really hard to make these judgments and doing way with the whole system entirely makes the most sense, which seems reasonable to me.
The point of this article is to attack the nonprofit competitors to their due paying members. They gloss over many details and as I posted elsewhere; they even defensive of the tax loopholes of their due paying members.
The Tax Foundation glosses over, and sounds defensive, over the swiss cheese rules for corporations right now. A lot of us have been discussing a tax credit that Congress recently changed that only large tech companies would see a tax benefit to take over the paperwork.
https://taxfoundation.org/blog/corporations-zero-corporate-t...
Then there are flat out tax breaks such as oil revenue being exempted from AMT with generous deductions that normally take other firms years to get.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/oil-tax-break.asp
A few of the organizations they complain about are either owned by the US government, works very, very closely with US govt, or are state institutions. Why should the US tax itself? It just adds more paper work because it would need subsidies. A US Government institution has so many more responsibilities than a private corporation. The real reason is that many large corps want to get rid of the spoiler in their market and already collect even more revenue (make credit unions and the deals they offer go by-by).
Congress enacted these institutions decades ago to stabilize the market and provide access to people the corps did not want to serve. Banks are still retreating from rural areas-think of how much worse it will be if credit unions have to more profit focused.
Taxing state institutions such as universities; this US Supreme Court will not be receptive to that even if Congress does pass a bill; and politically, it is not going to happen.
Have they? What GPU? Are you using the new open source kernel driver? Wayland or X?
Please do not use Slackware. With respect to Slackware, almost no one uses it because it is very old school. If I remember correctly you have to use a 3rd party tool to even download updates or packages. It took years for the maintainer to actually have a release. Please use a modern developer distro that has a regular release cycle and modern tools. Fedora or Ubuntu. If you need to use Nvidia, go with Ubuntu.
Also when did you use it? Linux distros haven't used floppy disks in so long.
> I'm an OpenCL guy, not even using CUDA, and have had a decent enough experience with AMD's drivers
That is not my field, but Fedora added the ROCm packages in 40. You can install those and give it a try.
> I still think MSVC, again with all its flaws, is the best C++ IDE (I've similarly tried them all, repeatedly over decades).
I still remember during my time in college (where they required us to use Visual C++) a friend and I were playing with the latest C++ features. We had this very difficult runtime bug. I later found notes in the news that Microsoft's implementation of C++ at the time was incomplete. Tried it in GCC-worked out of the box.
Have you given Linux a try? Unless you have an Nvidia card or an Adobe workflow; it is usually good. The Nvidia issue may go away in a year.
I already pay taxes; why not have the government do their job and protect my digital information and fine the companies and their executives so they learn to care about it. The government allows the corporate barrier to be pierced if employee salaries are not paid.
You can not. Inciting violence and calls for criminal action is a well establish limit of the First Amendment, but that is not what they are doing from what I gathered in this thread.
From the poster a few levels above:
> In the case of Israel, the Middle-Eastern unit were literally showing videos demanding further uprising against Israel across the region directly from Hamas. Also the entire point of Al Jazeera was for Qatar to provide political influence through media, not as an unbiased news agency.
Showing a video of an enemy of the country calling for genocide of that country is a newsworthy event that is part of journalistic practice. The American media showed Osama Bin Laden videos calling for the death of Americans, to report on him.
Please learn the difference of showing a video of a terrorist calling for genocide to report on him vs the news anchor/owner of that news company agreeing with that terrorist and joining that call for genocide.
America has other limits on free speech. Foreign control of media for example which I am not familiar with.
Terraform? Remember that? VMWare? Redis? What happens when a company stops providing a good deal? With GitHub you have lock in to the way they do things. So many of you complained about CentOS and then go lock yourselves in to far worse when you have CentOS Stream which was mostly good enough.
You have a perfectly good option: GitLab. Yes, parts of it are closed source, but most of you will be perfectly fine with the open source stuff. You can move your repos over to a self hosted option for your independence with ease. Most of you do not care about that because you want to seem like you have a lot of activity on your GitHub.
I do not blame you. I literally had an employer reach out to interview me directly because of my GitHub activity. His job offer was absolutely terrible but it was nice for them to do that this time.
But most of you also want to entertain the idea of moving up in the world from a simple coder. A tech lead, a tech business owner, vc startup, run a nonprofit, etc. Then you care about the rug being pulled from you, either because it means less money for what you want to do or it is a massive hassle to move, and this is an excellent way to prevent that.
https://betanews.com/2019/07/11/microsoft-adds-telemetry-win...
But then I thought about it. A lot of older systems have lost graphics support in modern Mesa and perhaps the kernel. Intel also was very bad with graphics for a time (GMA 500). My brother in law found a working 32bit laptop in the dumpster. It was able to run Windows 10 without issues. It is slow, but it works and for the time being, gets security updates.
Besides appliances (factory machines, atms) and retro enthusiasts, not sure what is keeping people on 7 and 8 besides the odd application or driver.
They also tend to be the more anti-government types. One family in an unincorporated part of the mountains refused to pay the voluntary firefighter service fee. When their home caught on fire the firefights just watched it and put out the parts that threatened a neighbor's house who did pay the fee.
Not sure what the point of this argument is. The mayor could appoint someone. The public can directly elect someone. Why is Florida making the boards charged with oversight of the police can only be appointed by the sheriff? It does not sound like a 'citizen review board' but it does sounds very prone to corruption.
I doubt you should assume that with the growth of venture capital owned medical facilities.