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I feel like this is a hypothetical anger (or amusement) at wisps of air. Is there anything or anyone specific that you're actually referring to or is this one of those threads where someone creates a fake internet person and everyone yells at how stupid this fake internet person is?

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I want Valkyria Chronicles

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@giffe said:

Look, Activision is in business to make as much money at as little cost as they can. You can't fault a business for not looking to basically throw away its free capital (in taxes). They made a good business decision. I applaud Activision for making a deal which has caused my investment in their stock to rise faster than a pubescent teenager at a beauty pageant.

I'm glad that this decision has benefited you but I will absolutely fault them. That is a horrible argument. A businesses only goal isn't making money. A business, when run correctly, is an extremely complex thing with many different goals and isn't only about benefiting itself. Much like how human beings like you and me shouldn't only be focusing on our own benefit but helping those around us as much as we can.

They're part of an enormous problem that fucks over actual honest tax payers. Activision, Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. can play Scarface all they want to avoid paying taxes they're more than capable of paying but by no means does the legality of this make it okay. They're doing something wrong. It's clear as day to me.

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That actually looks really really good.

This might be the first CoD I buy in years.

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@hassun: FYI, this is not tax evasion. It's called tax avoidance. The difference? One's illegal, the other is a facet of running a business. I'm getting my MBA right now, this is harped on a lot.

Now as to whether or not you believe it to be ethical that's up to you and who you vote for. I'm simply stating that this is how things are.

Our corporate accountant takes it one step further. Tax avoidance still sounds a bit scummy, tax minimisation, now you have a PR friendly term!

It's a facet of running a business because it's legal but legality isn't a constant. It can be temporary. I see this as an abuse of the rules. It should be illegal. Not in its entirety since it's important for businesses to grow and exist in other countries but this kind of stuff isn't fostering that. There is growing your business and their is exploiting the rules.

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@cuuniyevo: I'm going to blame all parties involved. There are plenty of corporations that don't put their money offshore. It's a shitty practice and companies that do it don't get their noses rubbed in it nearly enough.

Activision is responsible for their own actions.

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@imsh_pl said:

There are people who haven't upgraded to Win10 yet?

It's pretty dope.

Seriously though, compared to Windows 8 it's sooo much cleaner, faster, less clunky and more streamlined.

Yeah the opt-out data gathering would ideally be opt-in but for anyone who is concerned about it you literally have to do a google search and in 10 minutes you'll know what options to turn off and where. It's still miles ahead of trying to, say, make your facebook more private.

But are you able to opt-out as fully as you could on say Windows 7? From what I've read it sounds like, yeah you can opt out of a lot of privacy intrusions, but with 10 they're still going to monitor a ton.

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I almost always use suspend and rest mode on PS4. It's really great.

I do try to block out the energy consumption from ever entering my mind since it's probably much smarter to just turn it off.

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@ntm said:

I've never preordered a game.

Smartest person in this whole thread.

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It's absolutely reprehensible that Activision is able to get out of $1,000,000,000 in taxes.

They basically have cheat codes in the economy.

Corporations that do that shit should get nerfed. Every last one of them. Make them pay it all back.

Shameful, despicable, immoral, and conniving business tactics.