Lawsuits aren't always about winning. Sometimes they're about bullying and showing dominance. Sometimes they're about stalling a competing product while you finish your own. In the case of a big company or troll going after a small company, drawn out legal battles are used to bleed the company dry until they settle or go bankrupt.
In Germany, OSM maps are beautiful and extremely comprehensive. Apple maps are woefully incomplete and ugly as hell. If Apple is indeed using OSM data, they threw away half of it when creating their own maps.
Looking at the maps for Japan on OSM and iOS 6, if they are using OSM data it must be a very small subset and they're adding a ton of crap over it.
For example: they usually have one label for a train/subway station which is well placed and then a second label for the same station 200m to the south-east. OSM has nothing like this. They must be cobbling many datasets together with no fact-checking...
I think this is going to be fun because you will be able to concentrate on one player. Imagine if they had done this while, e.g., Lawrence Taylor, was still playing?
This is a real treat because we will get the see the attributed greatness* that previously only coaches, players and NFL Films could verify.
* The type of players for which coaches make adjustments, a week before the game, to account for.
I think this sums it up quite nicely. The intent, which is encouraged by all branches and is culturally engrained (I will retrieve citations if requested), is "reduce your taxes as low as possible".
With the right advisors, corporations can do this very effectively. This should not be a surprise to anyone. They will pay less, much less. After all, that's what you encouraged them to do.
If your aim is to collect more taxes, then why encourage those being taxed to seek to reduce their tax liability as low as possible?
Forgive me if I am missing the obvious. But this to me has never made sense.
If I track down a quote from a famous US Justice from the early 1900's where he says every American is expected to try to lower their taxes, would that cause you to reconsider your view?
That is exactly it. And though I do not have the quote in front of me, I can tell you this is how the justice who said it approached every issue.
Maybe "encouraged" and "engrained" were not the right words. How about "endorsed"? I think rational self-interest is a concept that might vary in the degree to which it is adopted into people's behavior as you move from country to country. That's only a theory. Certainly, in the US, reducing tax liability, and doing so vigorously, is believed to be the rational thing to do.
But if I'm the taxing entity, is it rational for me to endorse the idea of paying less? That would seem to lead to a reduction in the amount I will collect as those being taxed adopt and refine their tax reduction strategies.
If you think it's an American thing, go look up how IKEA avoids taxes sometime. In exactly what country do most companies voluntarily pay more tax than they're legally required to?
I don't know but that would be a cool country to live in, don't you think? Rational self-interested people helping each other out. It could be a good thing.
I think what he's saying is if you go outside and look at a tree, then the truth will be revealed to you. No need to do this if you've seen a tree in the last year though. But perhaps I read his comment wrong.
Not sure about the headline but it makes sense what his kids are doing. Reddit and Tumblr allow much more freedom and do not try so blatently hard to profit from traffic.
Facebook is dying a slow death for what it was once used for: fun. They have too much cash on hand to disappear any time soon. But users will grow tired of Facebook as a pleasurable diversion. Because Facebook will keep trying harder and harder to make money. Because the traffic will gradually slow down. When you make all your money from display ads, and the traffic begins to slow, you get desperate. Slowly, Facebook is inching toward this inevitability.
