A few interesting links for December 17th through December 18th:
- Greater Chicago Red Cross News: Hey Drivers, This is Only the First Snow. Get Ready. – Photo by swanskalot.
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Goldman Sachs cuts taxes to one percent by moving profits offshore – Nicely done. “Say you got a ten billion dollar loan to shore up your finances, and you paid your employees $10.9 billion, and you raked in $2.3 billion for the year.
What would you say you owed in taxes? One percent?
That’s what you’d pay if you were Goldman Sachs, Inc. The high-flying brokerage — and former home of Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson — has announced it’s paying just $14 million in taxes this year.
Last year, their tax bill was $6 billion, or 34.1 percent. That represents a year-over-year drop of 33.1 percent.”
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http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2008/12/apple_pulls_out_of_mac_expo_bi.html – Having never been to a Macworld Expo, since I don’t do well in crowds, I could really give a shit whether or not Apple Inc goes. Some do. John Welch isn’t one: “But really, why is this a surprise? Let me be perfectly clear here:
Apple Inc. HATES unmanaged random customer contact.
If anyone thinks the powers that be at Apple have ever liked the idea that just anyone could walk up to them for 4-5 days and ask inconvenient, (read: “any”) questions of their employees, y’all are smoking crack. Apple does not like that. At all. Without Macworld Conference & Expo, here are the all the avenues that average customers can directly contact Apple: The physical Apple Stores, the online Apple Store, a small handful of public email addresses which all involve the word “feedback”, mailing lists, and the AppleCare support line.”