Well I'll be sure to steer clear of Turbo Tax for good now. I've used HR Block's free federal tax online service the past couple of years since my taxes are simple and the state I live in doesn't have income tax. Since I got married in 2009, I thought about getting turbo tax to make sure I got everything right, but now I'll do anything BUT use turbo tax. Thanks NYT and Techdirt for the heads up.
I believe it is YOU who is missing the point. How are you supposed to prove you've been spied on? That's like saying, "Prove that you're not a Communist."
I don't know how anyone can watch that "Idol" clip and not come away with the impression that this guy is borderline retarded. I don't care if he's responsible for woman's sufferage, he's still an "idiot."
"What is likely is that the organizations making this claim are doing so on behalf of some commercial interest who wants to use this invention for their own profit."
I highly doubt much of this Plumpy'nut gets delivered to the US which is the only country that seems to have any significant number of peanut allergies. And I'm willing to bet that malnourished children don't develop these allergies that seem to affect only fat, lazy American kids. (Not that all Americans are fat and lazy. Some are fat, and some are lazy...)
But seriously something about our industrialized culture, whether it's processed foods, or BPAs, or whatever has made kids in the US especially susceptible to these allergies that 20 years ago were very rare. Ask a starving kid, even in the US, if he has any food allergies, and they'll look at you like you're nuts (yes, pun intended).
I also love that Mike had to create a file for "Plumpy'nut."
"The Chinese have been getting on fine with the censorship in their country..."
Just like the demonstrators at Tiananman Square got on fine with the military, right? Just like they've been getting on fine with all the human rights abuses and the oppresive totalitarian regime that they all love because if they say they don't they get thrown in prison if they are lucky, and dissapear altogether if they aren't, right?
Why don't you ask the Chinese people how fine they've been getting on before you make rediculous blanket statements.
Doesn't FCC stand for Federal Communications Commission? I would say that if any body is going to regulate the internet, it would fall to the FCC. While I like the Wild West we have now on the net, at some point the government is going to get their sticky little hands on it. That's just the way government works, like it or not.
That's just an absurd statement. You don't raise capital by implementing a tax. You raise capital by finding investors willing to fund your venture. If you aren't able to find investors, either you're not good at presenting your business plan, or you have a bad business plan. In either case, to take tax payers money for your record lable is just wasting tax payers money since investors had the good sense to not give you money directly.
Taxes don't make an investment market. Investments do. Creating a tax on one market to give to another isn't an "agressive measure." It's socialism.
I find it hard to believe you have "over twenty years experience in finance" yet are completely ignorant on basic economics. Is your financial experience comprised of mismanaging a hedge fund? Do you work at AIG?
Come on Chucky. You can't tell me Isa Dick-Hackett isn't an amusing name regardless of the context, but in this particular context... it's hilarious and ironic.
If you don't find it even the tiniest bit funny, then you have no sense of humor.
It's NOT about supporting a multibillion dollar company. It's about people who want to exert control over something that should be freely availiable and in the public domain by this point. It's the fact that I could be in Google's shoes if I had come up with a product and named it Nexus One. It's about every parasite who rides on the works of dead relatives they had nothing to do with.
Mr. Dick didn't create the term Nexus One, or android for that matter. He just used terms previously created in a story. And now no one can ever use those words again? Fat chance.
The only reason Lucas was able to trademark his Star Wars characters is because they were used to make physical commodities. If Dick Hackett had come out with a line of Nexus-6 android toys, she might have a case. But since she didn't (becuase who the hell would have bought them) she's SOL.
What makes you think you're the only one who's creative here? Because you live in A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER? Seriously go back to your studio and cry while standing naked with your junk tucked back listening to "Goodbye Horses" and wish that mean old Google would leave artists alone. Is your real name Chris Crocker?
As is mentioned by others this pathetic parasite Dick Hackett hasn't created a goddamn thing as far as we know. She just feels entitled to something she had absolutely nothing to do with.
So quit feigning umbrage over something that is clearly not that big of a deal.
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What's stopping him? That's the whole point Mike was making. Instead of sueing everyone, he should make money they old fashioned way. By earning it.
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Who can take a wiretap...
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What, like Nutriset?
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But seriously something about our industrialized culture, whether it's processed foods, or BPAs, or whatever has made kids in the US especially susceptible to these allergies that 20 years ago were very rare. Ask a starving kid, even in the US, if he has any food allergies, and they'll look at you like you're nuts (yes, pun intended).
I also love that Mike had to create a file for "Plumpy'nut."
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Just like the demonstrators at Tiananman Square got on fine with the military, right? Just like they've been getting on fine with all the human rights abuses and the oppresive totalitarian regime that they all love because if they say they don't they get thrown in prison if they are lucky, and dissapear altogether if they aren't, right?
Why don't you ask the Chinese people how fine they've been getting on before you make rediculous blanket statements.
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Re: Why so intellectually dishonest Mike?
You're right, why should you concern your self with mere studies when you're own unfounded assertions are so much more compelling?
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Federal COMMUNICATIONS Commission
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Taxes don't make an investment market. Investments do. Creating a tax on one market to give to another isn't an "agressive measure." It's socialism.
I find it hard to believe you have "over twenty years experience in finance" yet are completely ignorant on basic economics. Is your financial experience comprised of mismanaging a hedge fund? Do you work at AIG?
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If you don't find it even the tiniest bit funny, then you have no sense of humor.
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Mr. Dick didn't create the term Nexus One, or android for that matter. He just used terms previously created in a story. And now no one can ever use those words again? Fat chance.
The only reason Lucas was able to trademark his Star Wars characters is because they were used to make physical commodities. If Dick Hackett had come out with a line of Nexus-6 android toys, she might have a case. But since she didn't (becuase who the hell would have bought them) she's SOL.
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As is mentioned by others this pathetic parasite Dick Hackett hasn't created a goddamn thing as far as we know. She just feels entitled to something she had absolutely nothing to do with.
So quit feigning umbrage over something that is clearly not that big of a deal.
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