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Alan Browne - 02 Jul 2009 21:24 GMT

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0907/09070201nikonimagingsystem.asp

From the article they seem to want to est. a centre of excellence with
their partner Fujitsu BSC. In my experience separating the hardware and
software people raises many project challenges.

For their part Fujitsu have a lot internet/networking systems experience
(separate from the hard disk division which has been sold). So perhaps
Nikon are extending the push to merge real time photography with the
web. If so, this would be a boon to the PJ segment, in particular.

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Me - 02 Jul 2009 23:27 GMT

> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0907/09070201nikonimagingsystem.asp
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> Nikon are extending the push to merge real time photography with the
> web. If so, this would be a boon to the PJ segment, in particular.

Another possibility is that they're merely splitting off some R&D for
tax reasons, but if they said so then they'd be in trouble.

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Alan Browne - 03 Jul 2009 03:58 GMT

>> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0907/09070201nikonimagingsystem.asp
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> Another possibility is that they're merely splitting off some R&D for
> tax reasons, but if they said so then they'd be in trouble.

Tax avoidance: good
Tax evasion: bad
-Ben Franklin (I think, and he was more eloquent).

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Me - 03 Jul 2009 04:29 GMT

>>> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0907/09070201nikonimagingsystem.asp
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> Tax evasion: bad
> -Ben Franklin (I think, and he was more eloquent).

"Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if
those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we
might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much
more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our
idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by
our folly"

If that's it, then I take quite a different meaning from it.

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Alan Browne - 03 Jul 2009 20:43 GMT

>>>> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0907/09070201nikonimagingsystem.asp
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> If that's it, then I take quite a different meaning from it.

That's not it (although it is a classic, of course).

It was something along the lines of "It is every man's duty to avoid
taxes, but a certain crime to evade them."

Others: "The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the
thickness of a prison wall." (Denis Healey)

My favorite (bailouts): “The American Republic will endure until the
day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's
money”. Alexis de Tocqueville (1850's... or so).

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Simon Jester - 03 Jul 2009 21:00 GMT

>>>>> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0907/09070201nikonimagingsystem.asp
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>day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's
>money. Alexis de Tocqueville (1850's... or so).

To avoid paying taxes is much like avoiding being mugged, the mugger
protests using the term "tax evasion" and the abuse of law.
(Simon Jester)

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David J Taylor - 03 Jul 2009 22:21 GMT

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> Others: "The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the
> thickness of a prison wall." (Denis Healey)

.. who was a keen photographer, as you may know.

David

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Alan Browne - 03 Jul 2009 22:58 GMT

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>> Others: "The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the
>> thickness of a prison wall." (Denis Healey)
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> .. who was a keen photographer, as you may know.

Duh, nope. Thx.

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David J Taylor - 04 Jul 2009 07:32 GMT

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> Duh, nope. Thx.

See:

http://www.open2.net/historyandthearts/arts/photography.html

Cheers,
David

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Chris Malcolm - 04 Jul 2009 09:18 GMT

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>>>> Others: "The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the
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>> Duh, nope. Thx.

> See:

> http://www.open2.net/historyandthearts/arts/photography.html

Some University of Sussex art history students put on an exhibition of
his photographs last year, "Furniture of the Mind". Among the people
featured in portraits was a very youthful Condoleezza Rice and the
photographer Don McCullin.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/oct/08/denishealey.photos.sussex.university

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Alan Browne - 06 Jul 2009 22:34 GMT

"David J Taylor" <david-taylor@blueyonder.not-this-part.nor-
this.co.uk.invalid> wrote in news:3IC3m.51252$OO7.11188
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>>> []
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> http://www.open2.net/historyandthearts/arts/photography.html

Thx

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