Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #35 Peace is good for Business
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2987638]It increasingly looks like Trump's going to get the parties to negotiate a ceasefire, instead of continuing with a senseless war. Maybe President Trump will receive the Nobel Peace Prize!
President Putin is serving as an intermediary for negotiations between the USA and Iran, that may also bring peace to the Middle East. Perhaps Trump and Putin will jointly receive a Nobel! And now that Trump's talked some sense into him, Zelenskyy too! Wouldn't that be the cat's meow!
Can't wait to hear what Xpartan thinks about this![/QUOTE][B]Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #35[/B]: [I]Peace is good for Business[/I]!
In other news, I am considering an electric scooter / motorcycle here in Pattaya, Thailand. Research online leads me to believe that some have removable battery packs that can be taken up to my room and charged overnight there. I can even have two so if I am rolling hard during the day I could use my room as hub and change out the battery pack during the day and keep rolling. For my in town movements that ranges are perfect. For longer rides I still need a ICE. But that's ok as I was planning to buy a scooter for errands and maxi scooter for longer trips. The crypto and stock market have been very, very, very good to me.
As far as I can tell, your GILTI reasoning sounds fine!
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2987650]I only have personal knowledge about how one multinational major did things. It held its patents and proprietary software in a USA entity, so wouldn't have paid the GILTI tax because there was no foreign income. It didn't share or sell the results of its research in upstream (exploration and production), because it viewed it as a competitive advantage. And it only received a very small percent of its income from licensing its refining patents. I bet other large USA Oil and gas E&P and integrated companies would operate similarly.
A lot of the "intangibles" are held by the service companies, like Schlumberger, who may hold their patents in places like Ireland for all I know. I don't think Schlumberger is the best example though, as I don't believe it's a USA Company.
The big players in tankers, FPSO vessels (floating production, storage and offloading vessels) and offshore seismic acquisition are mostly foreign. The seismic companies have a lot of intangible assets. Up until Republicans cut the federal corporate tax rate to 21% in 2017, American companies couldn't compete in these areas because of the tax advantages the foreigners had.[/QUOTE]Your explanation sounds reasonable enough to me, as I'm still trying to reconcile and wrap my head around, why or what made the reporter think CFCs or foreign O&G companies, were using foreign tax loopholes (ie. Maybe the use GILTI), to sidestep million in taxes and it seem to center around the income from their intangible assets.
Anyways, perhaps there's nothing to the report, perhaps there is. I guess when time permits, I'll take a second look. Same goes for the wind farm subsidies.
Still Not buying it! ... Is that really all of ChapGPT's conclusions?
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2987652]Your wish is my command!
Natural gas is considered a clean-burning fuel primarily because of its chemical composition and combustion characteristics compared to other fossil fuels like coal and oil. Here's why:
1. Lower Carbon Emissions.
Natural gas is mostly methane (CH₄, which has a high hydrogen-to-carbon ratio.
When burned, it produces less carbon dioxide (CO₂ per unit of energy compared to coal or oil.
[b]On average, natural gas emits about 50-60% less CO₂ than coal and about 25-30% less than oil.[/b]
...[/QUOTE]
Really! Allow me to just stop you, at #1
So when ChatGPT tells you [b]"On average, natural gas emits about 50-60% less CO2", [/b] you believe that, that is clean burning, when it still emitting 40-50% CO2....C'mon man are you kidding me!
A simple Google search using "Is natural gas a clean burning fuel?" and I get one of several articles, that all more or less tell me, "CLEANER but not CLEAN"
[b]Cleaner but not clean[/b] - Why scientists say natural gas won't avert climate disaster
[url]https://www.reuters.com/article/business/cleaner-but-not-clean-why-scientists-say-natural-gas-wont-avert-climate-disas-idUSKCN25E1DR/[/url]
[b]Natural Gas Is Not A Clean Burning Renewable Fuel[/b]
[url]https://theclimateguru.org/natural-gas-is-not-a-clean-burning-renewable-fuel/[/url]
Forgive me, but I doubt very much, that if you typed the following, into ChatGPT [i][b]"Is natural gas a clean burning fuel?"[/b][/i], it would just return the basic composition of the gas, its properties and relation to other fossil feuls and not come to the same conclusions as those articles I provided.
So with that in mind, when I have a hard time believing you or ChatGPT version of events, I will naturally ask for [i][b]"the sources"[/i][/b] (if you could be so kind), so I may determine the facts for myself, should the need arise.
You forget, I'm not MAGA and therefore don't take things blindly!
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The MAGA need to Own The Libs is a deep, deep psychosis
[QUOTE=Xpartan;2987646]What boggles the mind is that Axel is not your typical MAGA cultist. When Elvis spews his own brand of nonsense, you know where it comes from -- Elvis is a conspiracy theorist, he's a guy MAGA IS MADE OF. But Axel is not like that. I've communicated with him, he's a worldly, intelligent person. How is it possible that people like that can't see Trump's incessant lies and empty boasts, his crazy rants and off-the-charts boorishness worthy of a drunken vagrant, his fantastical stories from his own alternative universe? And did I mention his pure LIES -- lies so patently obvious that even a 9-year-old could easily cut through them -- and yet, these grown-up fellas keep coming here to mindlessly and exuberantly defend the pure-evil incompetent scamster and his team of sycophants, no matter what they say and do.
One can dismiss his [B]Day One promises[/B]: to end the war and lower the prices (very bold promises that ended in spectacular failures) as typical Trump's bravado, but why none of them is asking one simple question:
[B]For what reason, the president who has the majority in both chambers of Congress is ruling with executive orders? He's signed at least 75 orders since taking the Oval office, "the most executive orders within a president's first 100 days over the past 80 years.[/B]".
[URL]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-many-executive-orders-has-trump-signed-during-his-second-term/ar-AA1zQer1[/URL]
Seriously, MAGA, why?[/QUOTE]Repubs have been demonizing and scape-goating Liberals and by extension Democrats since at least Nixon. It really swung into serious neurotic behavior under Reagan and by the time his VP became president their sick culture had decided "Liberal" was such a terrible label to put on someone that silly man would refer to Liberals as "The L word. " That is how terrible they hoped people would consider Liberal / Democrats to be.
The demonizing and scape-goating got to be as vicious and irrational as the anti-Jewish sentiment in 1930's Germany.
Oh, it is so easy to blame "Libs" for all the failures of your life and the ills of society. Chicago, San Francisco, New York and the rest had been hotbeds of crime, gangs and corruption since the day they were built, through Repub and Dem Mayorships and State Governorships. But it is always the fault of "Lib / Dems", don't ya' know. LOL.
Jews in 1930's Germany.
Of course, never mind that "Lib / Dem" policies and stewardship has so surpassed that of "Conservative-Repub"s for at least 100 years on economic Recoveries, expansions and damn near every job created over the past 50 years while Conservative-Repubs' only specialty appears to be driving us into one Great Depression, Great Recession and Massive Jobs Destruction after another in our and our parents' lifetimes.
So that creates a very inconvenient problem for Repubs; how to demonize and scape-goat the side whose economic results are far and away superior to their own? Particularly when you just had a several decades' long pattern of Conservative-Repub disaster vs Lib-Dem Success too blatantly obvious to ignore?
Enter the Repubs' sucker social issues. On steroids.
Now the most horrible thing to happen to America isn't another Great Repub Depression and Massive Jobs Destruction. Oh no. Hey, shit happens. Wild coincidence. Magical economic cycles. A Witch's Curse. No big deal.
It is now "wokeism", "pronouns", "child mutilation", defund the police", blah blah blah shit that almost no Conservative-Repub can define or point to ever happening as often as someone getting struck by lightning 3 times in a week during the Summer.
But the weak-minded demonizers and scape-goaters must believe in it to keep their deep "own the libs" psychosis alive and kicking. And for the Repub pols to win votes and ever get elected for anything.
Do you know there were Emergency Room staff reports of old MAGAs dying of Covid and with their last choking gasp they still refused to believe they had what their lord and savior assured them was a "Democrat Party Hoax"? That they had essentially chosen to die rather than get a vaccine or avoid crowds in closed rooms and thereby be mistaken for a "Democrat"? LOL.
That is how deeply psychotic the need for "owning the libs" is among MAGAs.
A. H. Is a social issue sucker. So is Tiny to a certain extent. So are many otherwise seemingly lucid and capable MAGAs.
They will vote in a way that directly elects or helps Trumps and Trumpists win elections even though it is blatantly obvious that those traitors' only mission is to destroy the USA Economy, wipe out millions of jobs, skyrocket the debt and deficit with nothing of value to show for it because they have been indoctrinated from an early age to demonize and scape-goat the very Party and philosophy whose policies and stewardship have ever actually ever Made America Great.
Con man Trump knew this from the very beginning. He knew where the suckers were and how to bamboozle them because their deep psychosis gave them no choice. And he knew very, very well it was not going to be among Lib-Dems.
Delusions about "clean burning gas" aside...
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2987726]It's all in the way you ask the question. Try "Please make the argument that natural gas is a clean burning fuel. " If you were using Elon Musk's AI chatbox you might not have to beat around the bush, but the people who wrote ChatGPT are politically correct. ChatGPT will listen to reason though, just as you're starting to with GILTI. Argue with it long enough and often it will agree with you.
While you may not accept it, the fact is perfect is the enemy of good. And natural gas is a practical bridge to get to a future with cleaner air and reduced CO2 emissions.[/QUOTE]That's the biggest cop-out I've ever heard! You can do better than that!
BTW, if you have to tell ChatGPT to [b]"make the argument",[/b] then you've lost the argument already.
However, that still doesn't alleviate you, from providing the sources (just as I've done) to backup the claims of ChatGPT. So what, you just let ChatGPT do all the thinking for you?
Since when does Tiny 12, shy away from providing source material to his arguments, especially if he's using ChatGPT, to do the research, for him?
Again, I would like to ponder those very sources, for myself!
PS: But look no further than S+W+B that [b]perfectly[/b] emit zero 0% CO2 emissions!
Whomp whomp whomp, get a clue you tranny lover
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2987714]Repubs have been demonizing and scape-goating Liberals and by extension Democrats since at least Nixon. It really swung into serious neurotic behavior under Reagan and by the time his VP became president their sick culture had decided "Liberal" was such a terrible label to put on someone that silly man would refer to Liberals as "The L word. " That is how terrible they hoped people would consider Liberal / Democrats to be.
The demonizing and scape-goating got to be as vicious and irrational as the anti-Jewish sentiment in 1930's Germany.
Oh, it is so easy to blame "Libs" for all the failures of your life and the ills of society. Chicago, San Francisco, New York and the rest had been hotbeds of crime, gangs and corruption since the day they were built, through Repub and Dem Mayorships and State Governorships. But it is always the fault of "Lib / Dems", don't ya' know. LOL.
Jews in 1930's Germany.
Of course, never mind that "Lib / Dem" policies and stewardship has so surpassed that of "Conservative-Repub"s for at least 100 years on economic Recoveries, expansions and damn near every job created over the past 50 years while Conservative-Repubs' only specialty appears to be driving us into one Great Depression, Great Recession and Massive Jobs Destruction after another in our and our parents' lifetimes.
So that creates a very inconvenient problem for Repubs; how to demonize and scape-goat the side whose economic results are far and away superior to their own? Particularly when you just had a several decades' long pattern of Conservative-Repub disaster vs Lib-Dem Success too blatantly obvious to ignore?
Enter the Repubs' sucker social issues. On steroids.
Now the most horrible thing to happen to America isn't another Great Repub Depression and Massive Jobs Destruction. Oh no. Hey, shit happens. Wild coincidence. Magical economic cycles. A Witch's Curse. No big deal.
It is now "wokeism", "pronouns", "child mutilation", defund the police", blah blah blah shit that almost no Conservative-Repub can define or point to ever happening as often as someone getting struck by lightning 3 times in a week during the Summer.
But the weak-minded demonizers and scape-goaters must believe in it to keep their deep "own the libs" psychosis alive and kicking. And for the Repub pols to win votes and ever get elected for anything.
Do you know there were Emergency Room staff reports of old MAGAs dying of Covid and with their last choking gasp they still refused to believe they had what their lord and savior assured them was a "Democrat Party Hoax"? That they had essentially chosen to die rather than get a vaccine or avoid crowds in closed rooms and thereby be mistaken for a "Democrat"? LOL.
That is how deeply psychotic the need for "owning the libs" is among MAGAs.
A. H. Is a social issue sucker. So is Tiny to a certain extent. So are many otherwise seemingly lucid and capable MAGAs.
They will vote in a way that directly elects or helps Trumps and Trumpists win elections even though it is blatantly obvious that those traitors' only mission is to destroy the USA Economy, wipe out millions of jobs, skyrocket the debt and deficit with nothing of value to show for it because they have been indoctrinated from an early age to demonize and scape-goat the very Party and philosophy whose policies and stewardship have ever actually ever Made America Great.
Con man Trump knew this from the very beginning. He knew where the suckers were and how to bamboozle them because their deep psychosis gave them no choice. And he knew very, very well it was not going to be among Lib-Dems.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/06/walmart-tells-chinese-suppliers-absorb-cost-trumps-tariffs/[/URL]
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