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  • EU antitrust chief: 'don't hold your breath' for results of Apple-Ireland tax audit

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    singularity said:
    latifbp said:
    What is their to audit? It's now common knowledge that Apple had a low tax rate as companies have developed time and time again throughout history.  It's either "State Aid" as they are trying to spin it or it is not. Are their new "Laws" they are trying to sell to the public legitimate or are they not? Yet the EU can't even answer that. It's just another sign that this whole circus is a bunch of bs. 
    Not new laws. They have been in place since 1958 and updated in 1992.
    Considering the complexity of the whole EU tax rules, cross country etc I have seen liability to Apple from a few hundred million to 9 billion being reported.

    Then why does it take them 10 years to enforce them and over a year to figure out what we have so clearly been discussing here for months? I call bs, and anticipate your old, singular, worn out but repetitively recycled argument.
    jbdragon

  • EU antitrust chief: 'don't hold your breath' for results of Apple-Ireland tax audit

    latifbplatifbp
    What is their to audit? It's now common knowledge that Apple had a low tax rate as companies have developed time and time again throughout history.  It's either "State Aid" as they are trying to spin it or it is not. Are their new "Laws" they are trying to sell to the public legitimate or are they not? Yet the EU can't even answer that. It's just another sign that this whole circus is a bunch of bs. 
    jbdragon

  • San Bernardino shooter's iPhone may hold evidence of 'dormant cyber pathogen,' DA says

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    brakken said:
    If there is a pathogen in it, throw it in the fire before it spreads! The whole of San Bernadino could be in trouble!
    San Bernadino is a total wasteland. If there is even such a thing as a cyber pathogen, which the way this fool describes it is totally inaccurate factually with regard to how viruses function, it would put this dump out of it's misery.
    cornchip

  • San Bernardino victims to support FBI in iPhone decryption fight

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    muppetry said:
    jungmark said:
    Right to privacy for starters. And Apple's right of free speech (can't force them to write code/weaken software). 
    Privacy may be overridden by a properly approved court order - just like any search warrant. Free speech does not enter into it, and Apple, as a corporation, is not protected by the Constitution anyway. Requiring a corporation, or even an individual, to disclose data, or a password, is entirely legal.

    The real issue is surely the extent to which Apple can reasonably be required to create a tool that does not currently exist, especially if it jeopardizes the security of data storage for millions of people. The request seems to me to go well beyond a reasonable expectation of cooperation, and the latter is potentially a reason to refuse no matter how simple a task it may (or may not) be.
    The Supreme Court would disagree with your statement that corporations don't have rights... Citizens United, corporations are people, etc. you don't remember all that mumbo jumbo?
    palomine

  • San Bernardino victims to support FBI in iPhone decryption fight

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    Peppyhare said:
    The court should throw Tim Cook into jail for contempt of court, and fine apple for refusing to comply with a court order.
    That would be perfect... If we were Fascists.
    jfc1138anton zuykov