jimmyvanhalen

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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
Everybody's favorite ad company is also doing the same thing btw. Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreig
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
your favorite ad company is also doing the same thing. Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits t
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
By the way, Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermu
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
How about China and India.
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
what is immoral or unethical in paying less taxes? The corporate and personal tax rates in Germany and Belgium are higher than the US. Are Germans or Belgians more moral or ethical than Americans? Apple pays billions in taxes, will pay bill
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
what they're doing is legal so what's you're problem? Apple pays billions in taxes, pays dividends to shareholders, employs thousands, etc. if you're not happy with that, maybe you should move to countries with higher corporate tax rates, i
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
if you're the CEO/CFO and you're not looking for every legal way to maximize shareholder value, then you're not doing your job.
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
..and yet when Oracle's lawyers noted that Schwartz "wasn't talking about Sun's legal position, but rather its business agenda." Schwartz said he was not a lawyer and therefore not an expert in copyright, patents and license agreements. Sch
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
Judge Alsup: "It is my job to decide whether or not the copyrights on the computer programs do or do not extend to protect the structure, sequence and organization of the code of the programs. I will not be able to decide this question unti
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
this is easy. someone call Bruce Willis.
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
New development: The judge plans to inform the jury that structure, sequence and organization of Java APIs are copyrightable.
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
Here's news to you: The Judge plans to inform jury that structure, sequence and organization of Java APIs are copyrightable.
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
Schwartz also said 30 min. prior. Schwartz said his blog post was like a press release, an official Sun statement, but there was a lot left unsaid. "We didn't like [what Google was doing with Android], but we weren't going to stop it by co
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
1. all versions of BSD prior to 4.3 BSD(?) incorporated proprietary AT&T Unix code and were, therefore, subject to an AT&T software license. 2. Google's chief Java architect: it's 'likely' I copied Sun code found in Android, 'I'm so
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
testimony of Sun co-founder Scott McNealy essentially nullified everything said by former CEO Jonathan Schwartz less than 30 minutes prior. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57422366-92/oracle-turns-to... 1. McNealy affirmed to Oracle coun
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
the "random punk" is probably a swimming coach ;)
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
>It's that the venture business is a business that scales mostly with people. I agree which is why I brought up the topic of management fees and carry. You need them both to pay for additional people in order to scale your business. (wh
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
Having capital to invest in more start-ups reduces risks and increases the chances of the VC earning bigger returns. In order to invest in more start-ups, the firm needs top-notch people (partners, associates, etc.). 1. The best people ar
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
the money they make for their LPs goes to pension funds, universities, businesses, etc. which in turn creates more jobs, start-ups, investments, donations to charities, etc. If you're going to donate to charity, do it personally and without
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
it's not foolish. it's just not the most efficient way to spend capital. look at it from the point of view of the LPs. A VCs job is to deploy capital and maximize return to it's investors. they should reduce their management fee and carried
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
clearly a PR ploy. it's a waste of capital imo. Reduce your management fee and carried interest income and return them to your LP. or re-invest that capital in start-ups to create even more jobs. edit: it's their money and what they do with
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
> This qarter only includes two weeks of the sale of the new iPad. good point.
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
comparisons are always yoy. comparing the current quarter with the previous quarter doesn't make sense due to seasonality (holiday season, summer, etc.).
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
it's a pre-emptive strike to anyone who's thinking about suing Facebook.
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
Elon Musk's first start up was called Zip2. Only after selling Zip2 was he able to co-found Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, etc. if it werent for Zip2, a online publishing company (which could've been used posting cat pictures), there wouldn't be a
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
According to Joshua Block, Google's Chief Java Architect. (slide 62 and 63) “I find it very rewarding to design great APIs and have people come to me years later and say, wow, you know, the collections framework changed my life.” "API desig
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
According to Joshua Block, Google's Chief Java Architect. (slide 62 and 63) “I find it very rewarding to design great APIs and have people come to me years later and say, wow, you know, the collections framework changed my life.” "API desig
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403292,00.asp Under questioning from Oracle lawyer Michael Jacobs, Reinhold contended that "each page of the [Java] language specification includes a copyright notice," "Page, 39, testified over the c
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by jimmyvanhalen 14y ago
In related news: Google-Sun court docs reveal long Java licensing dance For more than five years, Google sought to license Java or acquire rights to the language before Sun got into the hands of Oracle or IBM. http://news.cnet.com/8301-103

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