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At $14.2 billion Apple paid the 3rd most corporate taxes in the US last year. With an effective tax rate of 25% they paid at a higher rate than IBM ($5.3B / 24%), Microsoft ($4.6B / 22.8%), Intel ($3.2B / 23.6%), Oracle ($2.9 / 21.4%) and Google ($2.6 / 19.4%).
Given Google's market cap v. tax burden I'd say they're the best choice for your boycott.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Some languages may not have many jobs available, but relatively few applicants compete for each job. "Or art thou base, common and popular?"
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Speciall thanks to the .NET Framework for bringing up the C# and VB.NET to push the previous languages under a burden of their own stupidness.
I am not being rude at C++ developers, they know they can still develop applications/get jobs, using the Visual C++ on the .NET Framework, but older languages! I miss them,
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Do you know a COBOL job for me?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Why bother paying rent when you can shower, eat, work out, do laundry, and sleep at your office? What's so good about that? I do all that in my workplace as well.
Granted, I work out of my house.
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If these are California-based Googlers then I would say it saves them a heck of a lot of money. Rent is terribly expensive over there (but not as expensive as buying).
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Imagine the exact same story, except that instead of Google it's about a Chinese factory.
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I think in that case, it comes down to standard of living at the work place. How well can the person live at the workplace. I would bet that living in the office at Google is really nice compared to living at the factory complex in China. Mind you, I have never been to a Chinese factory or to China for that matter.
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We can finally lay months of rumors and speculation to rest. The iWatch is real and it's called the Apple Watch. Whaaaa? A watch? *No one* saw that coming...
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Apple have now patented nasal fund technology (NFT) for those people who literally want to pay through the nose for their technology
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Nice gadget... but I can't stand having a watch (any watch) on my wrist.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Somebody forgot to tell the designers that a watch is supposed to fit around your wrist, not be 10 times larger than a human being. At least, that's what I gleaned from the pics on that website!
Marc
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That's the main reason I think I will never own a "smart watch". I see no need to make it look like I'm carrying a shield around.
TTFN - Kent
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Are they bigger than most sport watches on the market ? (garmin, ... )
I'd rather be phishing!
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Good question - they do have two sizes. Maybe one of them will fit on my wrist.
I had the same opinion of just about every Fossil watch the last time I was in the market, so yeah. I probably haven't looked at watches beyond the classic Casios for a while.
TTFN - Kent
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You haven't been looking at regular watches recently; most of them are really really large.
I'd rather be phishing!
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It's jewellery - it is supposed to be big. (Otherwise how else can you advertise your wealth?)
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be a programmer not a coder , you must feel the difference without search for it , do you agree?
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What if I think oppositely and say, "be a coder and not a programmer"? Am I gonna get downvotes?
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Wrong forum for both of your posts.
This is for discussion about programming/developing news. In theory something like this could be on topic in the lounge; but farsebook status update drivel is unlikely to get a friendly reception there either.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Wrong forum.
I'm a developer.
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still prefer to work with desktop application , no matter works on mobile , tablet or PC, what about you ?
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I still prefer reading messages that are different than subjects...
PS: Your post fits better in The Lounge[^] rather than here...
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You're posting in the wrong forum. This forum is for reporting industry news.
/ravi
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Wrong forum.
And I prefer to write backend processes with no user interaction at all.
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