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by colburnmh 4y ago
The bond promise is not covered in the law that was effectively repealed by SB-4C which is s. 189.072(2), which covers how special districts could be dissolved prior to SB-4C. The bond issue is covered elsewhere, hence the "obscure pro
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by colburnmh 4y ago
> which is why they are removing their special tax exemption status. You are going to need to provide a citation to back up the assertion that Disney is somehow tax exempt. Disney receives no special tax exemptions resulting from the RCI
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by colburnmh 4y ago
> A corporation being granted the permission of owning an entire chunk of the American public's land Disney owns the land that RCID operates. It's not public lands and most, if not all of it, was bought from private landowners
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by colburnmh 4y ago
And it's not your responsibility to enforce false equivalency, either. You are not required to give equal time to all views. That's one of the ways that disinformation has vaulted into the national dialog so easily: media was offe
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by colburnmh 4y ago
Laws are never enacted or repealed without some politically motivated reason. And every time a law is enacted or repealed there are winners and losers, be it politically, socially, financially, or whatever. I'm not sure the point you a
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by colburnmh 4y ago
> > Not sure where that idea comes from, but Disney absolutely pays taxes and your claim is false. > It is absolutely true. Stop lying. Disney paid $780 million dollars in state and local taxes in FY 2021. Florida law does not allo
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by colburnmh 4y ago
> how is reversing special privileges for a corporate titan (Disney), that give it abilities that nobody else is allowed to have, authoritarianism? Because 1844 other special districts exist in Florida, including Sea World, Universal, an
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by colburnmh 4y ago
What taxes does Disney fail to pay? They actually are taxed at a much higher rate than Florida law would allow if they did not have the rights conferred to them as part of an independent special district. Disney paid more than $780 million
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by colburnmh 4y ago
They pay county property taxes, state sales taxes, etc., just like everyone else. In fact, Florida law requires that Disney pay the same rate as everyone else. They consume no county services that property taxes generally cover (by agreemen
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by colburnmh 4y ago
> They don’t get a lot of financial breaks and what they do get from it is based off efficiency of their models, not some “sweetheart” deal. What tax breaks does Disney get? They pay Orange and Osceola property tax, despite receiving no
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by colburnmh 4y ago
Disney's (and 1844 other entities) special district status is enshrined in Florida state and/or county law. At that point, those "privileges" become legal rights: > RCID operates in accordance with its Charter and Cha
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by colburnmh 4y ago
Despite the way it has been spun, Disney's special district status is not particularly unique. There are 1844 active special districts enshrined in Florida state and county law. Disney, Sea World, Universal, and other theme parks, all
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by colburnmh 4y ago
And the counties and their taxpayers, as well.
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by colburnmh 4y ago
The retaliatory motivation of this law is clearly documented in articles, speeches, Tweets, and other forms. The structure of the law reinforces the retaliatory nature of the legislation: the law goes into effect immediately and dissolves t
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by colburnmh 4y ago
> From my perspective, Disney should not have had special corporate privileges in the first place, so it's fair game that those special privileges are targeted for any reason since they are not rights... Disney's "special
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by colburnmh 4y ago
The creation of the Reedy Creek Improvement District had no sunset clause or date. The new law, passed as written in SB-4C, dissolves the 6 special districts (out of 1844) that were not specifically re-established after the Florida constitu
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by colburnmh 4y ago
The idea that the RCID is a "company town" is an easy catch-phrase, but it is incorrect. The concept of a company towns was one where the company ran all aspects of the town and forced workers to live there, pay rent, buy products
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by colburnmh 4y ago
That's roughly the same model that Facebook and other social media platforms employed in the US. See where that got us. I agree that outright banning information has all sorts of subtle knock-on issues. But simply assuming that authori
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by colburnmh 4y ago
TX is only ~15 minutes behind FL in terms of fascist legislative agendas. Moving from FL to TX would just be moving into the same environment. They would probably want to go somewhere that would have at least a chance of being an actual wel
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by colburnmh 4y ago
Because, unlike most businesses, Disney's park straddles two different counties (Orange and Osceola). Therefore, they have to deal with two different counties to get anything done in a consistent fashion. Further, by having control of
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by colburnmh 4y ago
Apparently the RCID has $2 billion in bonds, which would result in ~$2,200 levy on the residents of Osceola and Orange counties. Further, the RCID district operates at a loss, but that is offset by Disney's profit from the park. Now th
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by colburnmh 4y ago
The fact that this is an issue all of the time amazes me. Yes, teams have a different measure of how much work they can get done every sprint, but as long as that measure is accurate, it doesn't matter. Here the thing: two teams may op
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by colburnmh 4y ago
True, but it's an enormous miss. If they missed the projections by a few hundred thousand, there wouldn't be as much of a panic. But they only got 8%-11% of the subscriber growth they projected, depending on whether you account fo
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by colburnmh 4y ago
This isn't going to result in a huge increase in Netflix subscribers. The reason that people share passwords is because somebody wants access but doesn't want to pay. Eliminate the password sharing is a reasonable business action
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by colburnmh 4y ago
The reason most other companies don't worry about that is two-fold: culture, and costs. Apple has a culture, built top-down, that quality is paramount. While this seems to have started to decay a bit on the software side, mostly due to
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by colburnmh 5y ago
You could try using find(1) to display the results and use that to capture the results, and then use cut(1), sed(1), or awk(1) to convert that to a CSV that could be loaded into your database of choice: find . -print -ls | awk ... &gt
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by colburnmh 5y ago
Ads were identified as a way to pay for free broadcast of TV or the reduce the cost of subscriptions for users. If I'm paying a subscription fee for streaming, I expect that part of the service I'm buy is the ability to enjoy my c
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by colburnmh 5y ago
It's really a weird Volkswagen/Porsche frankenstein, despite what the badge says. Porsche designed it, Volkswagen built it. Outside the US, the Volkswagon version is 914/4, and the Porsche version being a 914/6. (The las
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by colburnmh 5y ago
And this is different from...? I agree that it's not what's intended for ACP. But lots of companies use it and don't bother to educate their employees on the rules of what constitutes appropriate usage of ACP tagging.
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by colburnmh 5y ago
Movement of currency across accounts is the classic 2PC use-case. What would you suggest that they use instead?

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