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I tried reading through Birthright a couple years ago. The first few issues were fine, but the fake Kryptonian invasion killed any interest I had in finishing it.
Urge to break Impscum’s fucking legs in with a sledgehammer – most goddamn definitely rising.
His life is so pathetic that no one can do anything to make it worse.
If thinking that makes you feel good then by all means think so.
I know so. We all do. You’re the one lying to yourself.
One of us is obviously lying to make himself feel better. As long as we both feel better because of it, I don’t see any harm.
Goddamn cretin. I will literally jump for joy once the ignore feature’s back, knowing I will never have to read another one of your ego-masturbating shitposts ever again.
This thread is great. All the broken links make me sad though.
What happened to Ziggy?
I miss Ziggy, too. He was one of the best posters around here. Then he had to go back to school, and so he stopped visiting regularly. I think that was back in 2012.
He still pops up from time-to-time, though. The last time he posted was shortly before the server migration.
My dog, Pipo, died last night.
It happened pretty suddenly. At the beginning of the week, she seemed fine for a dog her age. Then around Tuesday/Wednesday, she started getting sick; she stopped eating, began throwing up, starting discharging some nasty, foul-smelling liquid from her vagina, then got weaker and weaker to the point where she stopped moving around and just laid down towards the end. She died sometime before midnight; her body was still warm when we finally noticed she was gone.
I don’t know what she died from, but her mother died the exact same way back in 2011. Perhaps it was cancer – Pipo developed hard lumps on her chest/in her teats in the last few years, and so had her mother in the years before she died – or maybe it was miscarriages.
When I got ready to take her body out of the house, she didn’t look at all good. Her eyes were fixed open and her mouth was in a rictus grin. She looked hideous, like some kind of terrifying dummy. I’ve seen too many dogs and cats dead, and not one of them looked like they were in peace, that they were just sleeping; they always look like they died in agony.
Now I’m worried about her brother, Cheech. They were both born in 2004, and he doesn’t look too healthy himself these days. Now that Pipo’s gone, Cheech is the last living thing I still have from those years – the last thing I have left from a happy period in my life. I don’t want to lose him now, not right after this.
I swear that once I move out of this place and am out on my own, I’m never going to own another dog again. Cats are one thing – I’ve never had to witness a cat die of old age; the coyotes around here make sure they never get that old – but dogs … dogs stick around, they stick around and become permanent members of the family, and so when they die, it’s hard – too damn hard for me to take. I have three dogs left, and it’s going to suck just as much when I have to bury them in the backyard. After they’re gone, never again.
Yeah, it makes me feel a little sad.
8 1/2 - A movie that never fails to make me excited about movies in general. One of my absolute favorites.
At first I thought you were giving an 8.5/10 rating to a film you failed to identify.
He also directed the appropriately named The Straight Story, which was Richard Farnsworth’s last movie before his death and a movie I’m sure even Frink would like if he gave it a chance.
Thirty-six years ago, long before introducing iPhone, iPod or even the Mac, Steve Jobs established Apple’s first operations in Europe. At the time, the company knew that in order to serve customers in Europe, it would need a base there. So, in October 1980, Apple opened a factory in Cork, Ireland with 60 employees.
At the time, Cork was suffering from high unemployment and extremely low economic investment. But Apple’s leaders saw a community rich with talent, and one they believed could accommodate growth if the company was fortunate enough to succeed.
We have operated continuously in Cork ever since, even through periods of uncertainty about our own business, and today we employ nearly 6,000 people across Ireland. The vast majority are still in Cork — including some of the very first employees — now performing a wide variety of functions as part of Apple’s global footprint. Countless multinational companies followed Apple by investing in Cork, and today the local economy is stronger than ever.
Steve Jobs visits Apple’s new facility in Cork, October 1980.
The success which has propelled Apple’s growth in Cork comes from innovative products that delight our customers. It has helped create and sustain more than 1.5 million jobs across Europe — jobs at Apple, jobs for hundreds of thousands of creative app developers who thrive on the App Store, and jobs with manufacturers and other suppliers. Countless small and medium-size companies depend on Apple, and we are proud to support them.
As responsible corporate citizens, we are also proud of our contributions to local economies across Europe, and to communities everywhere. As our business has grown over the years, we have become the largest taxpayer in Ireland, the largest taxpayer in the United States, and the largest taxpayer in the world.
Over the years, we received guidance from Irish tax authorities on how to comply correctly with Irish tax law — the same kind of guidance available to any company doing business there. In Ireland and in every country where we operate, Apple follows the law and we pay all the taxes we owe.
The European Commission has launched an effort to rewrite Apple’s history in Europe, ignore Ireland’s tax laws and upend the international tax system in the process. The opinion issued on August 30th alleges that Ireland gave Apple a special deal on our taxes. This claim has no basis in fact or in law. We never asked for, nor did we receive, any special deals. We now find ourselves in the unusual position of being ordered to retroactively pay additional taxes to a government that says we don’t owe them any more than we’ve already paid.
The Commission’s move is unprecedented and it has serious, wide-reaching implications. It is effectively proposing to replace Irish tax laws with a view of what the Commission thinks the law should have been. This would strike a devastating blow to the sovereignty of EU member states over their own tax matters, and to the principle of certainty of law in Europe. Ireland has said they plan to appeal the Commission’s ruling and Apple will do the same. We are confident that the Commission’s order will be reversed.
At its root, the Commission’s case is not about how much Apple pays in taxes. It is about which government collects the money.
Taxes for multinational companies are complex, yet a fundamental principle is recognized around the world: A company’s profits should be taxed in the country where the value is created. Apple, Ireland and the United States all agree on this principle.
In Apple’s case, nearly all of our research and development takes place in California, so the vast majority of our profits are taxed in the United States. European companies doing business in the U.S. are taxed according to the same principle. But the Commission is now calling to retroactively change those rules.
Beyond the obvious targeting of Apple, the most profound and harmful effect of this ruling will be on investment and job creation in Europe. Using the Commission’s theory, every company in Ireland and across Europe is suddenly at risk of being subjected to taxes under laws that never existed.
Apple has long supported international tax reform with the objectives of simplicity and clarity. We believe these changes should come about through the proper legislative process, in which proposals are discussed among the leaders and citizens of the affected countries. And as with any new laws, they should be applied going forward — not retroactively.
We are committed to Ireland and we plan to continue investing there, growing and serving our customers with the same level of passion and commitment. We firmly believe that the facts and the established legal principles upon which the EU was founded will ultimately prevail.
Tim Cook
For the tl;dr people in the audience:
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Yhwx is finally back on track!
I’m going to make it my permanent avatar, too, so it’ll never go away.
I don’t believe you.
It’s another trick!
+1
Episode 3 was a great movie
No.
^This. Insisting that comics be called “graphic novels” is a hipster thing to do.
I’m going to make it my permanent avatar, too, so it’ll never go away.
You should try $%^&ing yourself up your %$# with a Godzilla-sized $%&@(, you &$%@#&$%^ing @!($@#($%@.
Sorry but I am not in that kind of stuff. Don’t worry, I don’t judge you.
Urge to break Impscum’s fucking legs in with a sledgehammer – most goddamn definitely rising.
You should try $%^&ing yourself up your %$# with a Godzilla-sized $%&@(, you &$%@#&$%^ing @!($@#($%@.
Some paranoid delusions about Jesuits or Luciferians or homosexuals would inevitably crop up with him in the mix, so it does.
Yeah – if anyone other than he had created it.
People who subscribe to a streaming service only to watch one show are weird.
If you acknowledge theinternalizedhomophobehusezni’s existence, he’ll keep coming back.
I’m now getting Haeso’s new avatar confused with BrightestDayFan’s all the time now.
What!?
If Abrams & co. had set TFA 80-90 years after ROTJ instead of 30, I wouldn’t even be talking about this now.
