http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=genius Fri, 24 May 2013 19:20:38 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=genius Fri, 24 May 2013 17:48:56 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=430_1369431067 swiggs Dawkins said (paraphrase): If you http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=430_1369431067 swiggs Paxman meets Hitchens full 30 minute interview with BBCs Jeremy Paxman Genius, brilliance. Wed, 22 May 2013 10:09:13 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=733_1369229688 swiggs Genius, hitchens. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=733_1369229688 swiggs The Greatest Debate of the Decade - Christopher Hitchens vs. George Gallogay. Genius, brilliance. Sun, 19 May 2013 19:38:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aac_1369006528 swiggs Genius. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aac_1369006528 swiggs Christopher Hitchens Explains Why Religion Poisons Everything Genius, brilliance. Sun, 19 May 2013 10:48:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4b0_1368971131 pheenus From Wiki : Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is a short documentary film directed by Les Blank in 1980 which depicts director Werner Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven . After Chef Alice Waters boiled the shoe for 5 hours in a soup stock, with herbs, spices and lots and lots of garlic, Herzog eats one of his shoes in its entirety, excluding the sole, explaining that eating the sole of the shoe would be like eating the bones of a chicken, and who the fuck does that? History doesn't record what happened to the other shoe, but I think it must have felt terribly lonely after Mr. Herzog consumed it's life-mate (everything but the sole). Werner Herzog is many things. A madman, a genius, one of the greatest living filmmakers, and 100% true to his word. He made a bet, he lost, and so he ate his shoe. Some people might say that Herzog's greatest achievement was corralling a group of people to pull a 300-ton steamship over a mountain in the middle of the goddamned jungle for Fitzcorraldo. Others might say it was managing to not be murdered by and/or not murdering incestuous scum bag and dangerous sociopath Klaus Kinski . But I say, that Werner Herzog's greatest achievement to date was eating that Goddamned shoe in 1982. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4b0_1368971131 pheenus Acclaimed Filmmaker Werner Herzog (Literally) Eats His Own Shoe (Most of it, anyway) Because He Lost a Bet. werner, herzog, eats, his, shoe, bet, madman, genius, herzog, soles are like bones Tue, 21 May 2013 22:35:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9f0_1369189880 plokiju 1. Almost all of Apple's foreign operations are run through an Irish company with no employees. The company told investigators that it lost all records concerning why Apple Operations International was originally set up in 1980, and why all of Apple global sales go through it. You might have a few ideas why if you keep reading. 2. Apple pays 2%-or less-in corporate income tax in Ireland. The already low-tax country gives Apple special treatment with a negotiated 2% income tax rate. But that's just the top-line number: Between 2009 and 2011, one Irish subsidiary, Apple Sales International, earned $38 billion and paid $21 million in taxes, for an effective rate of .06%. 3. Apple Operations International, which provided 30% of Apple's worldwide net profits from 2009 to 2011, doesn't pay taxes anywhere. This move is devilishly brilliant: The US decides if it can tax you based on where you incorporate your company. Ireland decides if it can tax you based on the location of the people managing the company. So if you incorporate a subsidiary in Ireland, and manage it from the US, you don't (so far) have to pay taxes in either country. And that's exactly what Apple has done, not filing a tax return for AOI anywhere in the world in the last five years. 4. Apple's US profits keep ending up in Ireland, too. The report alleges more than just the avoidance of US taxes on foreign sales of Apple's products. It also argues that Apple is effectively sending US profits to its Irish subsidiaries, too. How? Transfer pricing. Apple has set up a cost-sharing agreement with its Irish subsidiaries that gives them a disproportionate share of the profit from research and development that occurs in the United States. From 2009 to 2012, Apple allocated $4 billion in R&amp;D costs to its US unit, which had $38.7 billion in profits, while its Irish subsidiary had $4.9 billion in R&amp;D costs-and $74 billion in profits. 5. Most of the $102 billion Apple is keeping "overseas" is in US banks. Just as its Irish companies are managed by US employees, Apple's Irish cash is mostly kept in US financial institutions, largely managed by Braeburn Capital, Apple's financial engineering nexus in Nevada. 6. The magic of "check-the-box" makes whole companies disappear One of the most favored tax loop-holes for multinationals is known as "check-the-box." It allows companies to instruct the government to completely disregard certain foreign subsidiaries for tax purposes. Apple's main Irish subsidiary, AOI, checks the box for its entire global distribution network. This allowed the company to avoid paying $12.5 billion in taxes that would have been assessed for foreign sales by its network of global distributors. 7. Apple is seemingly terrible at estimating its own taxes In annual reports between 2009 and 2011, the company told investors it was setting aside $13.7 billion to pay federal taxes-but it has actually paid only $5.3 billion. Those set-asides are only advance estimates, but it's pretty strange that each year they're off by many billions of dollars. As a result, Apple's actual US tax rate is only 20.1%, much lower than the 24% to 32% it said it was paying. Absent this congressional investigation, we wouldn't know the difference. http://qz.com/86740/the-seven-craziest-findings-in-the-us-investigation-of-apples-tax-avoidance-practices/ Apple Sales International (ASI) is a second Irish affiliate. It is the repository for all of Apple's offshore intellectual property rights. ASI buys Apple's finished products from contracted manufacturers in China - think Foxconn - and resells them at a major markup to other Apple affiliates in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India and the Pacific. Although ASI is an Irish incorporated entity and the purchaser of the goods, only a small percentage of Apple's manufactured products ever entered Ireland. Upon arrival, the products were resold by ASI to the Apple distribution affiliate that took ownership of the goods. Before 2012, ASI had no employees despite $38 billion in income over three years. Apple's cost sharing arrangement facilitated the shift of $74 billion in worldwide profits away from the United States from 2009 to 2012. ASI's parent company is Apple Operations Europe Inc. Together they own the intellectual property rights to Apple goods sold offshore. Like AOI, ASI claims to be a tax resident of nowhere. It's not obligated to pay taxes to any nation. Apple Sales International pays very, very little in global taxes: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-reduces-what-it-pays-in-taxes-2013-5 Here's Who Pays the Bill for Apple's Tax Avoidance The victims, meanwhile, are ordinary taxpayers who fund most of the federal government. During the 1950s, individual income taxes typically accounted for about 60% of the government's tax revenue, with corporate taxes covering the other 40 percent. By 1970 individuals paid 73% of all taxes. By 1990 it was 83 percent, with the peak coming in 2009, when corporations claimed steep losses and individuals paid 87% of all taxes. By 2012, that had drifted down to 82%, with corporations paying 18%. http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/pays-bill-apple-tax-avoidance-183327111.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9f0_1369189880 plokiju Apple Avoids Paying $17 Million In Taxes Every Day Through A Ballsy But <span class="highlight">Genius</span> Tax Avoidance Scheme Apple, Avoids, Paying, Taxes, Tax, Avoidance, Scheme, Tue, 21 May 2013 05:50:18 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0ae_1369129649 religionhater Enjoy! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0ae_1369129649 religionhater The <span class="highlight">Genius</span> Of Morecambe &amp; Wise! Morecambe &amp; Wise, True Comedy Sun, 19 May 2013 20:02:40 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=92a_1369007731 Lord Keynes 42 intelligent predictions from the great Alex Jones. Btw, this is a repost, not originally mine. It's my friend's. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=92a_1369007731 Lord Keynes The <span class="highlight">Genius</span> of Alex Jones EXPOSED Commedy Mon, 20 May 2013 22:59:37 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=133_1369103181 LethalMutation Computer visionary, Ted Nelson presents his convincing theory on the true identity of Satoshi, inventor of Bitcoin. If Nelson's buildup irritates you, then skip to the reveal at 7:46 . Personally, I found it entertaining. Article explaining the video : The inventor of Bitcoin has been shrouded in a mystery so complete, it's baffled even core developers for the virtual currency. Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym for the person or group of people who came up with the original idea for the electronic cash system in 2008? After contributing thousands of lines of code and hundreds of posts on Bitcoin, Nakamoto sent a note to a developer in April 2011 saying that he had "moved on to other things." Later that year, the New Yorker and others tried to unravel the mystery, but came away empty-handed. But now Ted Nelson thinks he has the answer. The computer visionary has posted a video on YouTube in which he claims that the real person behind the pseudonym is none other than Shinichi Mochizuki, a math professor at Kyoto University. Of course, Nelson doesn't offer up a lot of specifics to back up his theory, only explaining that Mochizuki is a brilliant mathematician and has a background that fits with the behavior of the elusive Nakamoto. Nelson also claims to have looked where others haven't, asking himself, "What would Sherlock Holmes have done?" A large portion of the video consists of Nelson lauding the virtues of Bitcoin. He compares it to gold in one example: "Most people call Bitcoin a virtual currency, but I call it electronic gold," he says with a flourish of his eyebrows. "Like gold, Bitcoin has no central authority...Like gold there will always be a limited supply, and thus its value will increase, and like gold, Bitcoin is brilliant." He then goes on to discuss the history of Bitcoin and its founder and his own feelings of empathy for Satoshi Nakamoto, saying he felt as if during his search he was looking for his "own long lost brother." We've contacted Mochizuki for comment and will update this post when we learn more. LINK http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=133_1369103181 LethalMutation Ted Nelson reveals the true identity of Bitcoin inventor, Satoshi Bitcoin, Satoshi, Japan, currency, Ted Nelson, visionary, anarchy, libertarian, computer, mathematical, genius, dollar, economics, finance, black market, eCommerce, banks Mon, 20 May 2013 08:49:29 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ae9_1369054049 swiggs As above. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ae9_1369054049 swiggs Richard Dawkins destroys muslim on morality . Brilliance, genius. Mon, 20 May 2013 07:36:30 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=317_1369049578 swiggs As above http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=317_1369049578 swiggs Christopher Hitchens: Arrest The Pope! Brilliance, genius. Sun, 19 May 2013 18:34:31 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=593_1369002708 swiggs Mr hitchens :) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=593_1369002708 swiggs Hitchslap! Brilliance, genius. Sun, 19 May 2013 16:29:53 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4b5_1368995228 swiggs As above http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4b5_1368995228 swiggs Christoper Hitchens' Ten Commandments Brilliance, genius.