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1 hour ago, spivonious wrote

Nice quote here

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This would mirror my feelings as well. Most Office users only use 5% of the functionality. Google products would be fine for them. It seems like the real Office power users are the ones who are upset with the choice.

Obviously "the enterprise solution" is to not have one, to not "standardize" (lol) on one f**king technology stack for an entire giant organization. Because, you know, our corporate peons (errr "employees") don't all do the same exact sh!t with their computers. Yes, this is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. People who use the phrase "the enterprise solution" non-ironically need to get punched in the mouth.

Thought this was a bit interesting.

3 minutes ago, PaoloM wrote

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Aww... hurting much?

A little this morning, but nothing that a Sudafed can't cure.

Such a strong outpouring of grassroots disgust! Why, look at all those people using Microsoft's anti-Google marketing term "scroogled" and linking to articles on Microsoft's Office marketing website "whymicrosoft.com".

5 minutes ago, ScanIAm wrote

Well, there's that.  Corporations are a way to manage risk and that is a clever way of saying "I won't go to jail if my corporation commits a crime for me". 

LLC.

8 minutes ago, ScanIAm wrote

Perhaps a solution would be that all corporate assets must be resolved down to the individual for tax purposes each year to avoid this kind of shenanigans.

Yup. You are taxed (via the 1099-DIV form) when you derive personal income from a corporation's profits.

F**k offshore accounts and moving money around. You can totally avoid paying corporation taxes simply by not registering one in the first place.

1 day ago, evildictait​or wrote

 whether it is acceptable for companies like Apple to push $30bn of their US profits into a company with no employees in order to avoid paying taxes on any of it to any government.

Yes.

But, I was specifically responding to this though:

When companies like Apple fail to pay taxes to the US, the deficit increases.

As if Apple started paying taxes it would make any real difference in the grand scheme of things. The answer is: no. Technology devalues human labor and any economic system that distributes resources based on the value of human labor is thus destined to fail under any circumstance.

Which is maybe a slightly different argument than Lenin-Marxism, which was developed in a society with far less automation.

Technology devalues human labor. -> Unemployment increases. -> Tax revenues decline. Government is forced to adopt Keynesian economics to fight unemployment. -> Spending increases. -> Debt grows uncontrollably. -> Default on debt inevitable.

The continued survival of current economic system in the near future is unlikely, thus entire topic of this thread -> entirely pointless in the grand scheme of things.

And what's great about it is there is nothing extra to buy, no extra cords and boxes to hook up and you don't have to remember what INPUT mode your $RANDOM_EXTRA_BOX is on (oops, you scrolled too fast, time to go through all 10 f**king input modes all over again!). Oops, make sure that $RANDOM_EXTRA_BOX is powered on before you rape your INPUT button. Oh and not to leave it powered on by mistake after you are done with it so it can overheat and die.

I mean it's great that I can use a TV to watch TV for once. The smart TV could punch me in the nuts after every use and it'll probably be an better experience overall.

Am I the only one who seems to have no real problem working with the smart TV stuff? I mean both HBO Go and Amazon let you browse movies/TV shows using a mildly attractive multi-layer list view, search for content using a hipster-themed textbar and on-screen keyboard with autocomplete, and when selected it lets you um play whatever at the expected framerate as well as pause/rewind/fast-forward whatever you are playing. It's nothing revolutionary, but it does what it says it does. What else is it suppose to do? I mean is this like not working for anyone else? Well *, maybe I'm just really lucky or something or got some fancy new model Samsung smart TV?

Yeah you can improve on it, maybe make it read your mind and preemptively selected content to play but it already takes all of 30 seconds to select a movie already so..