Pennsylvania Gets Snipes for Prison Sentence

Wesley Snipes has reported to jail. He started serving his sentence following a protracted courtroom fight. Snipes reported to a Pennsylvania prison to begin serving his sentence on Dec. 9th. Neglecting to file income taxes resulted in Snipes receiving a three year sentence. Evidently there wasn't a paydayloans large enough to purchase off his freedom with this one.
Wesley Snipes prison term begins
Actor Wesley Snipes reported to prison today, Dec. 9, in Pennsylvania, according to ABC. The McKean Federal Correctional Institution that he will be serving in is in Lewis Run, Penn., and he can be serving for three years. Snipes, now Bureau of Prisons inmate number 43355-018, is likely to be housed within the minimum security wing of the prison, a facility located adjacent to the primary prison. The wing for minimum security is typically for any inmates who don't have risk of violence. They are typically white collar criminals. Snipes will probably serve at least 26 months of his sentence supposed to last 36 months as he is in a federal prison.
Legal battle seemed too long
Staying out of prison was Wesley Snipes' goal. This is why he went via the legal battle. A federal judge in FL ordered a sentence to start being served by Snipes just this year. Wesley Snipes had appealed his sentence, which is not really for tax evasion. Wesley Snipes didn't file a tax return instead of willfully trying to keep away from paying taxes which is the definition of tax evasion as Wesley Snipes and Larry King discussed. Advisors told Snipes they were filing his returns. He thought it had been getting done. His firm had been defrauding him meaning they didn't really file.
Charges of finance with other stars
Snipes is not the first celebrity to face jail time over white collar crimes. Six months was given to Martha Stewart for insider trading charges. Charges for taxes got hotel magnate and heiress Leona Helmsley jailed. Then there was Willie Nelson who owed the IRS so much. He wrote a song called "The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories?" after getting his house back after it was taken from him.
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ABC News
abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wesley-snipes-report-federal-prison-year-sentence/story?id=12345648&page=3

ipad Expected to Slow the Sale of Personal Computers

The 2010 Personal Computer sales prediction has been revised downward from initial projections. The iPad and other tablet Personal computers are whittling away at 2010 PC product sales and analysts expect the trend to continue. The growing popularity of hosted virtual desktops for business, combined with the tablet, is looked at as harbingers of the PC era’s conclusion.
Tablets slow sale of personal computers this year
The global 2010 Personal Computer sales forecast was cut by a popular tech research firm Gartner on Monday. There was a huge change in Personal Computer sales. This was since the Apple iPad tablet came out. You will find also a lot of product sales of tablet iPad imitators. PC sales are expected to drop due to them too. Gartner changed what the 2010 Personal Computer sales from 2009 were. It went from 17.9 percent to 14.3 percent now. Also, growth was intended to be 18.1 percent in 2011 for Personal Computer sales and is now 15.9 percent. 10 percent of Personal Computer sales are expected to be taken by tablets. Really, this ought to happen by 2014.
The reason fewer PCs are sold
Because of the weak employment and uncertain business climate, the PC sales already were suffering before Apple's iPad. Apple's Macintosh computers have been selling fewer than the iPad already. Personal computers haven't been able to innovate as much since the volume increase and price decrease has been the focus although Gartner points out that PC's are necessary. Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple. He explained the change from farmer's trucks to family vehicles in the 20th century is just like the change from PCs to tablets.
The PC monster?
The hosted virtual desktops (HVDs) are also not helping Personal Computer sales. Employees are able to use HVDs in order to connect to a virtual machine running on a back-end server with cheap terminals. IT departments are able to fix problems with systems without having to go to each and every individual unit with HVDs. It’s expected that HP and Dell will take huge hits soon. This is what will occur with these changes. Microsoft, which sells 85 percent of Windows on new Personal computers, may also have to adapt.
Citations
Computerworld
computerworld.com/s/article/9198381/Tablets_expected_to_clobber_PC_sales_in_2011?taxonomyId=12
Apple Insider
appleinsider.com/articles/10/11/29/tablets_like_apples_ipad_expected_to_displace_10_of_pcs_in_2014.html
San Francisco Chronicle
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/11/29/businessinsider-business-pc-market-strong-today-but-watch-out-2010-11.DTL