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Nah. He's a hero.

Technically, the police are correct! ;-)

>unmarried fathers don't get legal custody automatically,

Interesting. Do unmarried fathers have any financial responsibility for the child?

I was wrong, he only earned $197.3 million from the Apprentice.

There was $230 million in "Endorsement and licensing deals that followed the show’s debut"

So it is not like NBC paid him half a billion. It was only 1/5th of a billion.

I am reminded of the joke, "Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

I know how the information was gained: someone leaked it! I am surprised it took this long.

Was it an IRS employee who leaked it in violation of federal law? Was it someone at the accounting firm Trump uses? Maybe we will find out some day, maybe not.

To me the most amazing revelation is that he got paid nearly HALF-A-BILLION for the Apprentice! I really think we should start taxing our OTA networks for their use of the public airwaves, if they have that much $$ to throw around.

>It feels like that part of the story is the bigger deal.

You think that is the bigger deal? I suppose it is a variant of doxing, but it doesn't look like the NYT is going to post the actual returns, just their interpretation.

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Gore Vidal pointed this out many years ago:

  "There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties."

Offline shopping works the same way!

The price you pay at Home Depot is influenced by how far away the nearest Lowes is.

And don't get me started on airline fares!

>Gates claims now (and then) the Government will stifle innovation,

"Innovation" when used by Gates in this context means "profits."

And I think Bill's dislike for Java was only because it was a threat to the Windows OS monopoly. The appeal of Java, as I recall, was that you could run the same application on multiple platforms.

They use proxies! So many proxies.

BTsync did that to me!

One computer had a hard drive failure, BTSync deleted all the files from the computer that didn't.

Doubleplus ungood.

But non-profits have to pay property tax, right?

I don't think religious institutions have to pay property taxes.

Ok, I looked it up: “states subsidize religions to the tune of about $26.2 billion per year by not requiring religious institutions to pay property taxes for property worth about $600 billion. This subsidy is of particular interest because property taxes pay for services such as firefighting and police, which religious institutions use the same as corporations and private citizens.”

Are we sure this is not a Submarine (PR-placed) article?

"In a normal Costco purchasing example, a company might sell their product for $0.95 and Costco might retail it for $1.00. This would result in a 5% margin (in reality the margin is a bit lower, but let’s use these numbers for estimates)."

That just rings really false to me.