“I am unsure what direction Apple wants to take us, but I can bet my last dollar; I don’t want to be in the future of the Internet that Zuckerberg is trying to build.”
💬 Om Malik
What Om said.
Tasted as good as they looked.
Flat White
Latte
Johnson as Secretary General of NATO!
We really are just trying to flush everything down the crapper, aren’t we?
I have to say - the Iraqi insurgents look quite civilized compared to the American ones …
Interesting warning from Clean My Mac this morning.
Raindrop has been installed for a while. Wonder what changed?
US power companies secretly spending millions to protect profits and fight clean energy.
Count me in the bucket of unsurprised people but when you see it laid out, it is even worse than you thought.
Too much in there to even start to be selective on highlighting nuggets.
Who Is Collecting Data from Your Car?
Yikes.
I mean I know we know this - but when you see it laid out like this you find yourself saying … well …
“Yikes:
Zuckerberg: Apple, Meta are in “deep, philosophical competition”
I know my philosophy and Fakebook loses.
Apple will no longer help you set up a dial-up modem on your Mac
Important news for those of us that provide technical support to immediate family.
There’s more work coming your way. 😂
If you think it is taking a long time to nail Trump - consider this;
… when was that first reported? Two years ago? Shouldn’t we have investigated by now?
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us.”
💬 Umberto Eco
Filed in the ‘What Could Possibly Go Wrong’ bucket
Damien Hirst to burn thousands of his paintings to show art as ‘currency’.
AFTER he sold them … he’s not that dumb!
Just discovered that I can write my own logic in Text Soap. How long has that been there?
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'
💬 Bob Dylan
With the financial problems ricocheting around the world - I see occasional headlines from 50 years ago.
Three day work week - bad.
Fifty Years Later : Four day work week - good.
I get the subtle shift in the back story, just an observation.
Thinking Allowed
This is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.- More about People First
- Other People First Posts
(not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.)
Where Am I Working?
I am sitting in New Zealand writing this. It started as an idea in my head and was typed into a local file on my computer. I copied it to Wordpress (my blog hosting software of choice) and saved a draft to my People First server.
The words were then sitting on a server in Iowa, USA.
From this point on, as I edit the draft, I am in New Zealand, the words I am editing are in Iowa - where am I working?
By the time you read this post, I will have published and anybody in the world can read it.
Example, a visitor in Kenya pulls up this web site in their browser and these words are 'automagically' read in Kenya.
Question
Where is ‘the work’ done?
- New Zealand, because that is where I tapped the original words into the computer?
- New Zealand, because that is where I cut and paste those words into Wordpress?
- Iowa, because that is where the People First servers are?
- Where you are reading this because until those words delivered value (you reading them), no work was done.
I ask because once you know where the work was done, you should have an idea on where you should be taxed and arguably where you should be licensed to work.
This conversation doesn’t seem to be a major part of public discourse, because the scenario is an edge case. But for how much longer?
New York has a law that says anybody working IN NEW YORK pays New York Taxes and from that emerges things like the NY, NJ and CT tri-state tax agreement.
“Like all states with broad-based income taxes, New York has asserted the right to tax nonresident income earned within its borders. But unlike most other jurisdictions with significant cross-border commuter flows—such as Illinois and Indiana or Virginia and Maryland—New York has never given nonresidents a tax pass in the form of ‘reciprocity’ with their home states.”
But if my servers are in Iowa, my customers are in Europe, my bank account is in California and I only live in New York, should I pay New York taxes?
I write more about where we work in this week's newsletter.
Preparing for this week’s newsletter
“Like all states with broad-based income taxes, New York has asserted the right to tax nonresident income earned within its borders. But unlike most other jurisdictions with significant cross-border commuter flows—such as Illinois and Indiana or Virginia and Maryland—New York has never given nonresidents a tax pass in the form of ‘reciprocity’ with their home states.”