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Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) loses patent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX.
PAS wrote:
On 10/3/2016 10:29 PM, Wolf K wrote: On 2016-10-03 19:06, Alan Baker wrote: [...] What harm does it do Ireland to accept businesses that would not otherwise have a presence there, and get taxes from them? [...] A whore solicits customers. Are you equating the government to whores? That's an insult to whores. +1 -- "Hey, we don't call it Apelanta for nothing. If you're coming here, I apologize in advance if any screeching jigs make your visit unpleasant." - "DFS" |
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Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) losespatent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX.
On 2016-10-04 6:10 AM, Wolf K wrote:
On 2016-10-03 23:55, Alan Baker wrote: On 2016-10-03 7:20 PM, Wolf K wrote: On 2016-10-03 18:22, Alan Baker wrote: On 2016-10-03 2:30 PM, Anonymous wrote: In article nospam wrote: now look up that it's not a sweetheart deal nor is it specific to apple, but rather it's part of the tax code itself and completely legal. also look up that apple isn't the only company to legally use the tax code in that manner. google, microsoft, facebook, intel and others do the same thing. after that, look up that ireland is siding with apple, *not* the eu. in other words, ireland doesn't want apple to pay and it's questionable whether the eu has any say in the matter in the first place. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu...reland-idUSKCN 1180WR The bad guys are sitting in the Irish parliament. For centuries Ireland tried to convert from an agricultural country to a worthless nonproductive banking nation at the EU's expense. And that plan was paid by the EU twice, by direct funding and by a big loss of taxes due to Ireland's irresponsibe tax dumping strategy, which allowed companies to avoid payments on a large scale. On top of that, when in 2008 the economic bubble burst, they once again held out their hands to be bailed out by the EU and the IMF with additional multi-billion Euro benefits. When will EU representatives recognize that it's time to end that farce, time to make the spalpeens understand that solidarity has to be mutual. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/30/how-a...e-in-2014.html Again: how is Apple doing anything different than what anyone else does: i.e. organizing its affairs to take advantage of the tax laws? Again: The Apple deal (and some others too) violated Ireland's own tax laws. These deals were kept secret until some furshlugginer so'n'so went whinging to the EU Commission about it. That's when the **** hit the fan. The Irish Parliamentarians are covered in it. Have a good day, Ireland disagrees with you. The Irish Government does. Of course. So what? So they're in a far better position to know what is an is not legal in Ireland. :-) |
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Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) losespatent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX.
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nospam wrote: In article , Wolf K wrote: Read the Washington Post articles on the issue. On August 30, 2016, WP reported: "Apple paid a tax rate of 1 percent or even less ‹ 0.0005 percent, in some years ‹..." so did google, facebook, intel and others. your issue is with *ireland*, not apple. WP also reports (repeatedly) that Ireland made a special deal with Apple. don't believe everything you read. google, facebook, intel and others are benefiting from this supposed apple deal. the reality is that it's the tax code and it would be foolish to *not* take advantage of it. |
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Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) losespatent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX.
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Alan Baker wrote: On 2016-10-04 6:10 AM, Wolf K wrote: On 2016-10-03 23:55, Alan Baker wrote: On 2016-10-03 7:20 PM, Wolf K wrote: On 2016-10-03 18:22, Alan Baker wrote: On 2016-10-03 2:30 PM, Anonymous wrote: In article nospam wrote: now look up that it's not a sweetheart deal nor is it specific to apple, but rather it's part of the tax code itself and completely legal. also look up that apple isn't the only company to legally use the tax code in that manner. google, microsoft, facebook, intel and others do the same thing. after that, look up that ireland is siding with apple, *not* the eu. in other words, ireland doesn't want apple to pay and it's questionable whether the eu has any say in the matter in the first place. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu...reland-idUSKCN 1180WR The bad guys are sitting in the Irish parliament. For centuries Ireland tried to convert from an agricultural country to a worthless nonproductive banking nation at the EU's expense. And that plan was paid by the EU twice, by direct funding and by a big loss of taxes due to Ireland's irresponsibe tax dumping strategy, which allowed companies to avoid payments on a large scale. On top of that, when in 2008 the economic bubble burst, they once again held out their hands to be bailed out by the EU and the IMF with additional multi-billion Euro benefits. When will EU representatives recognize that it's time to end that farce, time to make the spalpeens understand that solidarity has to be mutual. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/30/how-a...e-in-2014.html Again: how is Apple doing anything different than what anyone else does: i.e. organizing its affairs to take advantage of the tax laws? Again: The Apple deal (and some others too) violated Ireland's own tax laws. These deals were kept secret until some furshlugginer so'n'so went whinging to the EU Commission about it. That's when the **** hit the fan. The Irish Parliamentarians are covered in it. Have a good day, Ireland disagrees with you. The Irish Government does. Of course. So what? So they're in a far better position to know what is an is not legal in Ireland. :-) |
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I am not an Apple user (my wife is because two of our kids use facetime).
However, I am grateful to Apple for something they DID 'invent' - CUPS. The Common Unix Printing System which (as far as I know) every Linux desktop uses for printing. No need to thank me Alan Mageia 5 for x86_64, Kernel:4.4.16-desktop-1.mga5 KDE version 4.14.5 on an AMD Phenom II X4 Black edition. |
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pinnerite wrote:
I am not an Apple user (my wife is because two of our kids use facetime). However, I am grateful to Apple for something they DID 'invent' - CUPS. The Common Unix Printing System which (as far as I know) every Linux desktop uses for printing. No need to thank me They did *not* invent CUPS. They simply paid for it and its author. And it is still open source as it was from the start, and they can't change that. It would simply be forked then |
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Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) loses patent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX.
pinnerite wrote:
I am not an Apple user (my wife is because two of our kids use facetime). However, I am grateful to Apple for something they DID 'invent' - CUPS. Idiot. The Common Unix Printing System which (as far as I know) every Linux desktop uses for printing. No need to thank me No need to thank Apple, either, since they did not invent CUPS. -- "Done talking about your horrible operating system. I'm outta here. Find me in alt.comp.os.windows-10." - "Slimer" |
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Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) losespatent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX.
On 10/03/2016 10:08 PM, Alan Baker wrote:
snip Change of subject here, but have you downloaded Sierra yet? If so, did it speed up any? |
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pinnerite wrote:
I am not an Apple user (my wife is because two of our kids use facetime). However, I am grateful to Apple for something they DID 'invent' - CUPS. Apple didn't invent CUPS. In fact they bought it to get around GPL requirements in order to continue building closed source components even based on primarily GPLed software. Nothing to be proud of. It just demonstrates what money can buy. |
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Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) losespatent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX.
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GreyCloud wrote: On 10/03/2016 10:08 PM, Alan Baker wrote: snip Change of subject here, but have you downloaded Sierra yet? If so, did it speed up any? |
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Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) losespatent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX.
Wolf K wrote:
On 2016-10-04 18:41, Nathan Hale wrote: In article Absolutely nothing from Nathan Hale showed up here. Nathan apparnetly doesn't know how to post to a newsgroup. He regrets that he has only zero lines to give to this thread ;-) -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) losespatent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX.
On 2016-10-04 1:22 PM, GreyCloud wrote:
On 10/03/2016 10:08 PM, Alan Baker wrote: snip Change of subject here, but have you downloaded Sierra yet? If so, did it speed up any? No, not yet. I try and live by the advice I give my clients: don't rush to adopt the latest thing. :-) |
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Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) losespatent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX.
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Alan Baker wrote: On 2016-10-04 1:22 PM, GreyCloud wrote: On 10/03/2016 10:08 PM, Alan Baker wrote: snip Change of subject here, but have you downloaded Sierra yet? If so, did it speed up any? No, not yet. I try and live by the advice I give my clients: don't rush to adopt the latest thing. :-) |
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Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) losespatent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX.
On 10/05/2016 02:40 AM, Alan Baker wrote:
On 2016-10-04 1:22 PM, GreyCloud wrote: On 10/03/2016 10:08 PM, Alan Baker wrote: snip Change of subject here, but have you downloaded Sierra yet? If so, did it speed up any? No, not yet. I try and live by the advice I give my clients: don't rush to adopt the latest thing. :-) That's why I'm asking. The 4k iMac is nice, but it is so slow. Should've paid the extra money with one with a faster hard drive or a big SSD. BTW, when you receive email with a photo attached, and then you select the photo for printout, does the preview pane show only a portion of the photo? We're having this problem on and off since last spring. Could it be tied to the HP printer driver? |
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Apple (Who really never invented anything they could steal) losespatent retrial, owes $302.4 million to VirnetX.
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