It should be noted, the IRS is in the minority in this I think (I haven't done an exhaustive study or anything). I know gambling winnings are not taxable in Australia - as long as you are not a "professional gambler".
Because the IRS treats gambling winnings as income. Feel free to take it up with them/congress/the courts. Of course if they didn't there would be a pretty damn simple way to avoid tax. Pay your staff $1 a month which they spend on a you run which amazingly everyone wins and gets whatever their monthly salary was.
And things are put into the economy from this, as much as is put in from say the showing of a movie in a cinema. Online casinos employ people to answer phones/emails/etc and programmers to write the code and admins to look after the machines. Real physical casinos employ dealers, waitresses, etc. That helps money to flow around which is a necessary part of a working economy.
So what does a cinema do to put into the economy? Their profits should be tax free?
Seems a good way to provide a rather large incentive to do things which don't "put into the economy" which seems a like a silly thing to do.
1. Is surely a desirable thing coming from poker player?
2. Is what we have now - players transferring money via less straight forward mechanisms to poker sites. Taxing is less likely to make a black market than outlawing.
3. Is not the goal - the gamblers are the ones who want this...
Existing taxes is what is being asked for... Let online gambling be run in the US just like casino's are allowed to operate - subject to all the exiting taxes/regulations/etc that those casino's are. Income tax on player's for example - with actual documents rather than just hoping a US player will tell the IRS they won $20,000 on a server in another country operated by a company whose directors will be arrested if they accidentally step on US soil and hence aren't likely to be filing forms with the IRS for fun.
The MPAA/RIAA would just *love* it if there was a port on your motherboard you could just plug something into and get direct access to the contents of RAM, bypassing OS completely.
Except that everyone else uses the term "papers" to mean documents that identify who you are. When I catch the subway I buy a ticket from a machine with cash and the machine then sucks up the ticket when I enter - that's not "papers". Same with the bus.
Driving and traveling on planes is different, and I don't think that's necessarily a good thing. Driving makes perfect sense there are obvious safety issues and there has to be some way of stopping people from using someone else's certification of driving ability. A passenger on a plane I'm not so sure about...
For a very long time I had no ID documents. I had no drivers license and I had no passport. I had a medicare card (in Australia) but that had no information other than name and in fact sat in a box at home, I had a birth certificate too but that's not something anyone carries around with them. I traveled in buses and trains and on planes a couple of times with no issues.
Now that I'm in the US I have to carry my green card and show it on demand to various officials (it's never been demanded though). If I was a citizen I would expect to be allowed to walk to the corner shop without carrying ID though (and since a citizen can, I'm not sure how they can determine I have a green card in order to ask for it...).
My wife doesn't carry her papers with her everyday either. She is a US citizen and also has no drivers license - what papers do you think she carries?
Someone should tell him about the solid-state gyros already in use in aircraft instruments. Six years ago at Oshkosh I played with an all-electronic artificial horizon instrument. IIRC, it uses those funky crystals which exhibit piezo-type effects when rotated in space. The entire unit, including LCD, CPU, power supply, backup battery, and of course the three solid-state gyros, was a cylinder about 3"x3"x12".
So about 75% larger than the product described by: "Today, such products are quite big, a cube 10 centimeters on a side"...
I'm referring to picking the weapon with the highest damage per round, and min-maxing stats, and so on. Casting Harm on the dragon before he goes hostile (because you know from last time you can stand next to him until you trigger the special dialog that sets him off) and killing him with a single hit next round, that sort of stuff...
The computer couldn't throw in something designed to punish the min-maxer the way a human DM could.
If you can keep a journal as the character in the game that doesn't consist of entries like "went to the goblin cave for XP all day" then all is well. It can still actually be a level grind (the Baldur's Gate series, for example) but hopefully there's something to justify it being done from the character's point of view.
Of course the masses like the grind, which I understand in a multi-player game (there's a get better then the next person thing) but not in a single player game, in which you can save all that grind by changing a few bytes in the save file.
or look at a map and think what else changes when you cross the date line and how that might affect navigation computers, with software written by monkeys...
I don't use K&R C anymore. I don't care what a particular compiler uses. I care what the standard says and hence what is portable. I don't have a recent standard, but the chances they changed this basic is stuff is infinitesimal:
5.2.4.2.1 Sizes of integer types
[#1] The values given below shall be replaced by constant
expressions suitable for use in #if preprocessing
directives. Moreover, except for CHAR_BIT and MB_LEN_MAX,
the following shall be replaced by expressions that have the
same type as would an expression that is an object of the
corresponding type converted according to the integer
promotions. Their implementation-defined values shall be
equal or greater in magnitude (absolute value) to those
shown, with the same sign....
-- minimum value for an object of type long int
LONG_MIN -2147483647// -(2^31-1)
-- maximum value for an object of type long int
LONG_MAX +2147483647// 2^31-1
-- maximum value for an object of type unsigned long int
ULONG_MAX 4294967295// 2^32-1
Emphasis mine, which with 8 bit bytes, means sizeof(long)>=4.
Chapter and verse please. Where in the C Standard does is that stated? sizeof(long)>=4 is what I recall. Of course historically (and for compatibility with code written by people who don't care about portability) sizeof(long)==4 is the norm. sizeof(long)==8 is what makes sense for 32 bit machine. After all sizeof(int) will be 4, but due to those aforementioned programmers it never is...
Retard who thinks you can GPL an algorithm manages to reinvent an algorithm first implemented as a computer program in the 1950s, and used way before then outside of digital computers.
Also manages to not know about memset and write C code that assumes sizeof(long)==4 and puts non-inline code in header files. I don't dare look at the C++ code since there's a large probability it will cause permanent brain damage.
Aspiration is a step in the respiration cycle, it isn't a seperate thing. The plant respiration cycle produces CO2 from O2. However, plants create the sugar they use in that reaction whereas animals get it by eating plants (or by eating animals that ate plants, or by eating animals that ate animals that ate plants, and so on...).
The fact that plants have sugars left for animals to eat is a pretty good indication that they consume more CO2 than they produce.
Yes it's single sign on, so a compromise of the single part will of give up the ball game.
However, I know lots of people who use the same password in all the places they don't really care about (websites like slashdot). For them a compromise of any compromises all (and a compromise could be, the person running the site takes a peak). The idea is the single sign on should be more secure than any individual site would be. And since you used the same password everywhere anyway that results in higher security.
Of course you could not use the same password everywhere. Bit remembering 47 passwords just isn't fun.
Note: I don't use openID, I can just see the benefit a certain group of users would have from it.
People want single sign on because it's an easier option than remembering 47 unique and secure username:password pairs, and much more secure than sharing usernames/passwords for multiple accounts.
Slashdot Mirror
They aren't they telling the difference between a person deciding they will subtract the two numbers they are yet to see, or if they will add them.
So it's not addition or subtraction that is high level. It's deciding which one to do...
It should be noted, the IRS is in the minority in this I think (I haven't done an exhaustive study or anything). I know gambling winnings are not taxable in Australia - as long as you are not a "professional gambler".
Because the IRS treats gambling winnings as income. Feel free to take it up with them/congress/the courts. Of course if they didn't there would be a pretty damn simple way to avoid tax. Pay your staff $1 a month which they spend on a you run which amazingly everyone wins and gets whatever their monthly salary was.
And things are put into the economy from this, as much as is put in from say the showing of a movie in a cinema. Online casinos employ people to answer phones/emails/etc and programmers to write the code and admins to look after the machines. Real physical casinos employ dealers, waitresses, etc. That helps money to flow around which is a necessary part of a working economy.
So what does a cinema do to put into the economy? Their profits should be tax free?
Seems a good way to provide a rather large incentive to do things which don't "put into the economy" which seems a like a silly thing to do.
1. Is surely a desirable thing coming from poker player?
2. Is what we have now - players transferring money via less straight forward mechanisms to poker sites. Taxing is less likely to make a black market than outlawing.
3. Is not the goal - the gamblers are the ones who want this...
Existing taxes is what is being asked for... Let online gambling be run in the US just like casino's are allowed to operate - subject to all the exiting taxes/regulations/etc that those casino's are. Income tax on player's for example - with actual documents rather than just hoping a US player will tell the IRS they won $20,000 on a server in another country operated by a company whose directors will be arrested if they accidentally step on US soil and hence aren't likely to be filing forms with the IRS for fun.
The MPAA/RIAA would just *love* it if there was a port on your motherboard you could just plug something into and get direct access to the contents of RAM, bypassing OS completely.
Except that everyone else uses the term "papers" to mean documents that identify who you are. When I catch the subway I buy a ticket from a machine with cash and the machine then sucks up the ticket when I enter - that's not "papers". Same with the bus.
Driving and traveling on planes is different, and I don't think that's necessarily a good thing. Driving makes perfect sense there are obvious safety issues and there has to be some way of stopping people from using someone else's certification of driving ability. A passenger on a plane I'm not so sure about...
For a very long time I had no ID documents. I had no drivers license and I had no passport. I had a medicare card (in Australia) but that had no information other than name and in fact sat in a box at home, I had a birth certificate too but that's not something anyone carries around with them. I traveled in buses and trains and on planes a couple of times with no issues.
Now that I'm in the US I have to carry my green card and show it on demand to various officials (it's never been demanded though). If I was a citizen I would expect to be allowed to walk to the corner shop without carrying ID though (and since a citizen can, I'm not sure how they can determine I have a green card in order to ask for it...).
My wife doesn't carry her papers with her everyday either. She is a US citizen and also has no drivers license - what papers do you think she carries?
So about 75% larger than the product described by: "Today, such products are quite big, a cube 10 centimeters on a side"...
froogle even
I'm referring to picking the weapon with the highest damage per round, and min-maxing stats, and so on. Casting Harm on the dragon before he goes hostile (because you know from last time you can stand next to him until you trigger the special dialog that sets him off) and killing him with a single hit next round, that sort of stuff...
The computer couldn't throw in something designed to punish the min-maxer the way a human DM could.
If you can keep a journal as the character in the game that doesn't consist of entries like "went to the goblin cave for XP all day" then all is well. It can still actually be a level grind (the Baldur's Gate series, for example) but hopefully there's something to justify it being done from the character's point of view.
Of course the masses like the grind, which I understand in a multi-player game (there's a get better then the next person thing) but not in a single player game, in which you can save all that grind by changing a few bytes in the save file.
I like story, but I'm old and crusty...
That was the problem they were the computer version of rules lawyering RPG players, where you spent all of your time rolling dice. All roll, no role.
The credit bubble crash will fix this right up.
or look at a map and think what else changes when you cross the date line and how that might affect navigation computers, with software written by monkeys...
Emphasis mine, which with 8 bit bytes, means sizeof(long)>=4.
Chapter and verse please. Where in the C Standard does is that stated? sizeof(long)>=4 is what I recall. Of course historically (and for compatibility with code written by people who don't care about portability) sizeof(long)==4 is the norm. sizeof(long)==8 is what makes sense for 32 bit machine. After all sizeof(int) will be 4, but due to those aforementioned programmers it never is...
Retard who thinks you can GPL an algorithm manages to reinvent an algorithm first implemented as a computer program in the 1950s, and used way before then outside of digital computers.
Also manages to not know about memset and write C code that assumes sizeof(long)==4 and puts non-inline code in header files. I don't dare look at the C++ code since there's a large probability it will cause permanent brain damage.
Except of course in most places there's no record of that happening to be passed to the US anyway. So just tick the No box and cross your fingers.
If you're paranoid get a copy of your Police Record (or whatever it's called where you are) and check first.
If you are somewhere where that stuff is secret and not available to you, then you should be used to those sort of stupid unjust rules anyway...
Aspiration is a step in the respiration cycle, it isn't a seperate thing. The plant respiration cycle produces CO2 from O2. However, plants create the sugar they use in that reaction whereas animals get it by eating plants (or by eating animals that ate plants, or by eating animals that ate animals that ate plants, and so on...).
The fact that plants have sugars left for animals to eat is a pretty good indication that they consume more CO2 than they produce.
But they only pump out the CO2 they've taken in. They aren't using nuclear fusion to make carbon after all.
daytime:
6H2O + 6CO2 + energy -> C6H12O6+ 6O2
nighttime:
C6H12O6+ 6O2 -> 6H2O + 6CO2 + energy
But they only respirate out 50% of the carbon they took in - so the net effect is taking in CO2 and turning it into biomass.
Surely we could just pump out some more CO2 to give those plants more food, to counteract that...
patience. They can wait a year or two...
Now just wait for SWAT to serve a no knock warrant on the "wrong" house.
Yes it's single sign on, so a compromise of the single part will of give up the ball game.
However, I know lots of people who use the same password in all the places they don't really care about (websites like slashdot). For them a compromise of any compromises all (and a compromise could be, the person running the site takes a peak). The idea is the single sign on should be more secure than any individual site would be. And since you used the same password everywhere anyway that results in higher security.
Of course you could not use the same password everywhere. Bit remembering 47 passwords just isn't fun.
Note: I don't use openID, I can just see the benefit a certain group of users would have from it.
Because you can run your own OpenID provider.
People want single sign on because it's an easier option than remembering 47 unique and secure username:password pairs, and much more secure than sharing usernames/passwords for multiple accounts.
How do you manage to write when you clearly can't read (or think)?
Because it's so difficult to send it without one. Hence why there has been no spam at all prior to this.