WildPalmTree

Tax transfers to those countries to the ever-loving-shit degree. Want to move money to this tax paradise? Sure. We take 90%. Not on profit. On transfer. Let's see them work around that. Want to move it to a country that doesn't have the same rules? Sure. We take 90% of that.

Activist, not activists. The grammar mistake is elsewhere.

Don't think I've ever seen an actual red-light-jump. Different driving culture, I guess. People on bikes here doesn't seem to understand that there isn't a rule that says "bikes always go first" and they seem to be clueless about the consequences of being hit. Sure, I'll feel bad, but not physically. They might be dead or broken.

People suck at driving cars. They are entitled shitheads that should be kicked in the head repeatedly. But they are sooooo much better at driving than most people on bikes. Dear Deity!

I've never been able to quite let go of that movie. It's very on-the-nose but still hits home. So many of us are what we see as the bad guys in the movie; just move it all down to earth and there we are.

Buy another.

Probably not much, given that she looks 12 and she had to wear outdoor clothes to keep warm.

I believe that is what I said.

Not really. Now, please remember, im not a Japanese or American tax lawyer. A write-off is just a bookkeeping manouver that means: we are never going to make a profit on this investment so we will take the remaining cost right now instead of in installment over the bookkeeping calculated time frame we intended. It might have a time-vslue of money effect on the total value of the cost, but it's not very significant. The tax write-off was always going to come; it was a cost after all. It's just a matter of timing.

Let me give you an example. I'm developing a game console and it takes me 10 dollars and a year to do it. In a naïve bookkeeping world, I'd have a cost of 10 dollars the first year and for the next ten years, I'd have the COGS (cost of goods sold) as the cost and the money people pay as the income. This is not how modern bookkeeping works. The cost of year one will be split on the (for example) first 10 years of the game console life as this more realistically reflects what is going on. Cashflow is a very different thing.

I'm sure I've used the wrong terms for cost and income, I always do. But no one that didn't already know what I said will notice....

I'd put a frame around it and make it a feature.

Maybe there isn't one....

The word "legitimate" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, bro.