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mike1 said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

I like the two security guys trailing them in the background trying to act casual. 

And more in front of them too, I'm sure.

mikethemartian said:

DAalseth said:

I agree with the author but it’s not just Apple. Calling things “Intelligent” has become like “organic” or “vegan” or if you go back a few years “computerized”. It’s becoming a word that is getting applied to everything and so is beginning to mean nothing. 

“Organic” is what is known in propaganda as a “glittering generality”. Vegan is more specific.

danox said:

Companies (Slippery Eels) do not pay taxes we like to believe they do. They are just clearing houses. The customers pay the tax and the cost is passed down to the citizens (lowest level). Example Uber, and Airbnb, pay nothing but their drivers and customers certainly do.

Mizrahi Developments, Walmart, Trump enterprises, the Guess company are other examples in a more evil sense. Don’t ever be a subcontractor/worker involved with these companies you will pay them.

The Hudson Bay Company never paid taxes in their existence but the minions underneath certainly did.

How does Ireland compare to continental Luxembourg, Switzerland, or Monaco, These countries are aristocratic tax havens, Ireland is an upstart blue collar country how dare they go above their station?

Hopefully the money will actually be used to benefit the actual citizens of Ireland, but the way government works across the world I wouldn’t hold my breath, 1 billion or so Euros in the escrow account have already been lost in bad investments so far.