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Comment · 15 years ago
They forgot to mention that they really appreciate that taxes are always discussed in terms of "income".

The truly rich have no pesky income - that's for the servants. They just have property and expenses, which their accountants, lawyers and politicians keep safe.

Hints: tax-free foundations are great, intellectual property is tax-free.

(There's a reason putative class-betrayer Gore Vidal spoke of "our owners", referring to the U.S. aristocracy.)

Comment · 15 years ago
The f_c_book brigade will be here soon to downvote you.

They really hate to be called out as creeps and liars.

Comment · 15 years ago
used her father's address to enroll her two daughters in a better public school outside of their neighborhood. After spending nine days behind bars charged with grand theft, the single mother was convicted of two felony counts

Slightly insane, eh, what?

I can think of a few people roaming around foot-loose and fancy-free, and even pocketing scores of millions of dollars, who should be doing that.

Comment · 15 years ago
Depends on what you want to be. An artist or craftsman needs a good apprenticeship, or perhaps to build a good portfolio, and can easily blow away academic credentials.

But an engineer should have the chops one gets from doing the academic obstacle course.

Good luck.

Comment · 15 years ago
[Arrington's title was changed to the more explicit "Facebook: Brutal Dishonesty"]

I did not expect better of that company. Crooked is as crooked does, and that sorry bag was born crooked.

What I'm really sad about is Google going down the drain chasing after them.

Comment · 15 years ago
http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/01/brutal-dishonesty/ :

"A method is described for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain." – Facebook Patent application dated September 22, 2011

Creeps and liars.

Google must be shooting for just sincerely creepy. Competitive advantage there.

Comment · 15 years ago
That creep Zuckerberg must be laughing his ass off. He could not have bought such a dumb move to help keep users on F_c_book.
Comment · 15 years ago
Google+ is Google itself.

Hey, Larry Page, read my lips:

    DO NOT WANT!
No one wants Big Brother watching their every move, forcing a single ID on mail, maps, search, videos, blogs, etc.

Asses may well just have signed the Google death warrant.

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