I'm posting anonymously on purpose. I work in Scottsbluff, Nebraska and in my profession need to work with various law enforcement agencies. What they have been telling me is that since Colorado legalized pot, they have seen a huge increase in people bringing pot into the state. That is the difference from a dry to wet county.
Now, the folks they are stopping are being stopped for other things first, such as speeding. These folks also aren't bringing back a little for themselves. They bring so much that it's obvious that it's for sale. I know of one stop earlier this year near Kimball, Nebraska of folks that were trying to take pot back to Minnesota to sell.
You have no clue what you are talking about. The prices of "legitimate" cannabis purchased in Colorado are around 35% higher than black market cannabis you can purchase in neighboring states due to increased overhead and high taxation levels. While I have absolutely no doubt in my mind there is an uptick in college kids carrying across a single ounce or two, no dealer or wholesaler in their right mind would procure from the legitimate market and transport vs. obtaining it on the black market or producing it themselves. The math simply does not work unless you somehow found people willing to pay a 50-100% markup over the existing black market in their state.
Rich white frat boy "tech founders" like being around other rich white frat boys. Anyone that says otherwise, has never set foot in present day San Francisco.
Why would the autonomous car ever make a decision based on the safety of the car you crash into? The risk to the person inside the autonomous car will not be the same for both accidents, which is literally the only variable that matters to the cars owner.
The only part of this making it at all an unusual situation, Silicon Valley has decided to offer them on a regular basis to tech workers as a job perk, thereby filling a glaring gap in SF's public transit system.
this so called gap is *because* companies built their "campuses" away from existing public transit infrastructure as it was much cheaper to do so the tech buses will always have some negative externalities associated with them
Why not just shuffle anyone detected cheating into a separate game room? If they're paying customers, then they can all cheat together, and everyone wins.
because even having the perception that you would allow cheating causes casual players to flee and never spend another dime.
i understand that your suggestion would be ideal, but in practice drives customers away.
Yeah, but could that be sustained? So you hand out $1M in $20 bills and send 10 guys out shopping for computers and cameras and junk. Now you have a warehouse full of consumer stuff in boxes. Now you have to open up an ebay store just to unload all of it, and you've made $200k. Are you going to repeat next weekend?
one kilogram of gold that would literally fit in your pocket is worth upwards of $40,000 at current market price
my point is that the most important thing for the criminals is actually getting away with the crime, not getting the highest value possible for the money
Counterfeit money like this isn't used to buy a soda at a gas station. They produce it in bulk and it generally gets used overseas in currency exchanges, where they ultimately launder the fake stuff into real stuff.
*then* they go buy a soda at a gas station.
maybe this happens on a one-off basis with some extremely under the radar places, but this would be an insane method to attempt to unload any more than a hundred thousand.
as the marginal cost for fake money is almost zero, they are likely converting into tangible goods that can be resold for clean money.
a team could easily buy $250k worth of precious metals / high end electronics at flea markets or craigslist in a weekend in NYC
Proxy servers have nothing to do with this, it has everything to do with how they determine your location.
They triangulate your location using the closest cell phone towers, and get your position that way. The problem with this is that for the 300,000+ people in Jersey City or Hoboken, the strongest cell tower may be located in New York City where internet gaming is illegal, and you get shut out of using the services. Same goes for the people in Camden that may get a signal indicating they are in Philadelphia.
Yes this can be easily defeated by buying a Tracfone and leaving it at a friends house + VPN, but for non tech savvy people this is a huge deal. In Nevada when they implemented this is wasn't really a problem because besides Lake Tahoe, barely any of the population lives right on the border next to a large population center.
So to a person in a position of power at Microsoft, this is a very straightforward progression to tie the game experience into some kind of server-side authentication scheme
Coming up with some anecdotes about how SOME people don't have the luxury of an always on internet connection does not change this
I am not defending DRM, but I do believe the next step the console industry will take is widespread single-use codes to lock out used games on top of the line Titles (because of the success EA has had with it on Madden), and that always-on DRM is still a little ways off from being the industry standard for everything
Second, the D team is offering no plan at all to deal with the elephant in the room. The ginormous deficit and rampant spending. Obama promised to cut the deficit in half and instead doubled it
Without being dishonest, explain why offering large tax cuts for the wealthy somehow solves the problem of the deficit?
"Deficits are too high" is a red herring for selfish pricks that are too cowardly to actually say what they mean.
Paul Ryan was elected on a platform of fiscal responsibility, and one of the first things he did after taking office was to support legislation attempting to criminalize forms of already widely accepted birth control.
That gladly preaches on behalf of Republican Senator Scott Brown for supposedly smaller government, all the while sticking his greedy hands out for as much government subsidized $$$ as he could muster as a "world series hero"
all government spending is evil in his hypocritical world, unless you're a clown that pissed away $75 million in taxpayer money so he could play video game developer
A player is expected to have a finite life as an active user, probably less than two years. The price of the game is set based on assumptions about the attrition rate.
Giving the game to another user extends the length of time the server load exists for that copy of the software.
Tough shit for the developers, accept it as a cost of business and move on.
The nanosecond that someone figures a way to play with a private server, they lose a paying customer forever when someones friend of a friend shows him how to play online for free and becomes a pirate in the process.
EA Sports and such can get away with this because of the nature of their business, because that copy of Madden 12 is really only played online for 18 months tops before it becomes obsolete anyway.
Honest question, I'm wondering what you feel the upcoming gingerbread tablets are lacking that makes the iPad that much better? I'm still not convinced i need.. or even want.. either, but right now if i did it would be android simply so i'm not locked into iTunes again. Hated that with my iPhone, don't want to go back.
The android market has a very small fraction of the high end apps and games that the itunes store offers. I believe this will change in the future, but as of today its not even close.
Honestly, it wouldnt matter if not for the fact that almost all of the most popular applications are ios only.
This does nothing to solve this type of scheme, as the entire idea is based on putting up as many "chances" as possible to get tickets at the same time. How would this prevent the scalpers from pre-registering?
No it shouldn't be taxed. People should only be taxed for what they use, when I buy an online good for physical money what service of the government am I using? I use paypal which is a private company to use my private credit card on a private site to get something online which go through the privately owned internet lines which I pay for out of my own pocket, to another privately owned server where I play my game.
Pay for what you use, the government doesn't even enter into the equation except for a very, very, very, small amount. Such exchanges should never be taxed. The government should be a service provider, nothing more. If you don't use the service for a transaction you don't have to pay. Taxing such things is like adding shipping and handling to them, they don't need it so it shouldn't be paid.
use taxes inherently punish the poor, for whom the taxes are a much larger percentage of their comparatively smaller income.
Explain how stock trading liquidity is a benefit in and of itself - to human society and the Earth's biosphere - rather than as a benefit only to those wanting to extract wealth from the markets due to volatility.
Providing liquidity means that investors will have the confidence that whenever they with to exit the market, there will always be a willing buyer. If you do no have faith that there will always be someone willing to buy when you want to sell, then you have no incentive to make the investment in the first place.
With both engadget and Gizmodo getting their hands on the "next iPhone" in different bars in different cities, it is difficult to believe that somebody actually lost the phones. Either both engadget and Gizmodo got fooled or this is more a marketing campaign than lost phones. I would bet on latter.
Its far more likely that these are just very well made counterfeits, and that the people at gizmodo are fucking stupid. (or they know its fake but realize that they will get a shitload of hits)
Wrong. Freedom of speech is freedom from responsibility - it protects not only the act of speaking, but from being punished for it.
The thing is, freedom of speech is selective; it's purpose is to protect political (or artistic) speech, but it is limited in other cases, like libel or in this case, it might be protected by Personality Rights.
No, it protects you from being punished by the government, there are countless reasons one can be successfully punished in civil court for something that is clearly "protected speech"
You are free to disseminate trade secrets of a corporation you worked for, but they are free to sue the living shit out of you for it.
You want to know why your cable bill is so high? This is why. Cable stations (and now network stations) charge cable companies to carry their channels. So they get paid whether you watch their content or not!
This logic has never made any sense to me, since with an a la carte pricing model, only the bullshit that appeals to the lowest common denominator will ever be commercially viable. Do you REALLY want nothing but "Two and a Half Men" and "CSI: Whatfuckingever" all day long?
That had people spewing up blood after one toke over the line. DEA, Uncle Sam, and some guy named Bill are but a few to blame.
"However, independent bodies have studied paraquat in this use. Jenny Pronczuk de Garbino,[9] stated: "no lung or other injury in marijuana users has ever been attributed to paraquat contamination". Also a United States Environmental Protection Agency manual states: "... toxic effects caused by this mechanism have been either very rare or nonexistent. Most paraquat that contaminates marijuana is pyrolyzed during smoking to dipyridyl, which is a product of combustion of the leaf material itself (including marijuana) and presents little toxic hazard.""
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But considering that the loans are effectively co-signed by a AAAA organization, the interest rates are outrageous.
What part of "you cant repossess an education" therefore rates compensate the lender for that additional risk don't you understand?
I'm posting anonymously on purpose. I work in Scottsbluff, Nebraska and in my profession need to work with various law enforcement agencies. What they have been telling me is that since Colorado legalized pot, they have seen a huge increase in people bringing pot into the state. That is the difference from a dry to wet county.
Now, the folks they are stopping are being stopped for other things first, such as speeding. These folks also aren't bringing back a little for themselves. They bring so much that it's obvious that it's for sale. I know of one stop earlier this year near Kimball, Nebraska of folks that were trying to take pot back to Minnesota to sell.
You have no clue what you are talking about. The prices of "legitimate" cannabis purchased in Colorado are around 35% higher than black market cannabis you can purchase in neighboring states due to increased overhead and high taxation levels. While I have absolutely no doubt in my mind there is an uptick in college kids carrying across a single ounce or two, no dealer or wholesaler in their right mind would procure from the legitimate market and transport vs. obtaining it on the black market or producing it themselves. The math simply does not work unless you somehow found people willing to pay a 50-100% markup over the existing black market in their state.
Rich white frat boy "tech founders" like being around other rich white frat boys. Anyone that says otherwise, has never set foot in present day San Francisco.
Why would the autonomous car ever make a decision based on the safety of the car you crash into? The risk to the person inside the autonomous car will not be the same for both accidents, which is literally the only variable that matters to the cars owner.
The only part of this making it at all an unusual situation, Silicon Valley has decided to offer them on a regular basis to tech workers as a job perk, thereby filling a glaring gap in SF's public transit system.
this so called gap is *because* companies built their "campuses" away from existing public transit infrastructure as it was much cheaper to do so
the tech buses will always have some negative externalities associated with them
Why not just shuffle anyone detected cheating into a separate game room? If they're paying customers, then they can all cheat together, and everyone wins.
because even having the perception that you would allow cheating causes casual players to flee and never spend another dime.
i understand that your suggestion would be ideal, but in practice drives customers away.
Yeah, but could that be sustained? So you hand out $1M in $20 bills and send 10 guys out shopping for computers and cameras and junk. Now you have a warehouse full of consumer stuff in boxes. Now you have to open up an ebay store just to unload all of it, and you've made $200k. Are you going to repeat next weekend?
one kilogram of gold that would literally fit in your pocket is worth upwards of $40,000 at current market price
my point is that the most important thing for the criminals is actually getting away with the crime, not getting the highest value possible for the money
Counterfeit money like this isn't used to buy a soda at a gas station. They produce it in bulk and it generally gets used overseas in currency exchanges, where they ultimately launder the fake stuff into real stuff.
*then* they go buy a soda at a gas station.
maybe this happens on a one-off basis with some extremely under the radar places, but this would be an insane method to attempt to unload any more than a hundred thousand.
as the marginal cost for fake money is almost zero, they are likely converting into tangible goods that can be resold for clean money.
a team could easily buy $250k worth of precious metals / high end electronics at flea markets or craigslist in a weekend in NYC
Proxy servers have nothing to do with this, it has everything to do with how they determine your location.
They triangulate your location using the closest cell phone towers, and get your position that way. The problem with this is that for the 300,000+ people in Jersey City or Hoboken, the strongest cell tower may be located in New York City where internet gaming is illegal, and you get shut out of using the services. Same goes for the people in Camden that may get a signal indicating they are in Philadelphia.
Yes this can be easily defeated by buying a Tracfone and leaving it at a friends house + VPN, but for non tech savvy people this is a huge deal. In Nevada when they implemented this is wasn't really a problem because besides Lake Tahoe, barely any of the population lives right on the border next to a large population center.
So to a person in a position of power at Microsoft, this is a very straightforward progression to tie the game experience into some kind of server-side authentication scheme
Coming up with some anecdotes about how SOME people don't have the luxury of an always on internet connection does not change this
I am not defending DRM, but I do believe the next step the console industry will take is widespread single-use codes to lock out used games on top of the line Titles (because of the success EA has had with it on Madden), and that always-on DRM is still a little ways off from being the industry standard for everything
Second, the D team is offering no plan at all to deal with the elephant in the room. The ginormous deficit and rampant spending. Obama promised to cut the deficit in half and instead doubled it
Without being dishonest, explain why offering large tax cuts for the wealthy somehow solves the problem of the deficit?
"Deficits are too high" is a red herring for selfish pricks that are too cowardly to actually say what they mean.
Paul Ryan was elected on a platform of fiscal responsibility, and one of the first things he did after taking office was to support legislation attempting to criminalize forms of already widely accepted birth control.
LOL at the idea of you being apathetic enough to stay home on election day, but somehow this motivates you enough to vote.
the vast majority of people that would be upset by this, would already have been voting for Romney in the first place.
be upset all you want by the ruling, but dont think for a minute that anybody is convinced by your fake indignation, clown.
It's a matter of their priorities. They waste 2 years and countless amounts of time and resources to bust a mere 26 carders?
Why does the number of people busted matter to you?
Isn't the amount of compromised numbers a far more relevant figure?
One person selling 400,000 stolen cards vs 100 people selling those same 400,000 cards will hypothetically result in the same amount of theft
That gladly preaches on behalf of Republican Senator Scott Brown for supposedly smaller government, all the while sticking his greedy hands out for as much government subsidized $$$ as he could muster as a "world series hero"
all government spending is evil in his hypocritical world, unless you're a clown that pissed away $75 million in taxpayer money so he could play video game developer
Any FPS that moves fast enough to be exciting enough for the players involved is very difficult to watch as a spectator.
A player is expected to have a finite life as an active user, probably less than two years. The price of the game is set based on assumptions about the attrition rate. Giving the game to another user extends the length of time the server load exists for that copy of the software.
Tough shit for the developers, accept it as a cost of business and move on. The nanosecond that someone figures a way to play with a private server, they lose a paying customer forever when someones friend of a friend shows him how to play online for free and becomes a pirate in the process. EA Sports and such can get away with this because of the nature of their business, because that copy of Madden 12 is really only played online for 18 months tops before it becomes obsolete anyway.
Honest question, I'm wondering what you feel the upcoming gingerbread tablets are lacking that makes the iPad that much better? I'm still not convinced i need.. or even want.. either, but right now if i did it would be android simply so i'm not locked into iTunes again. Hated that with my iPhone, don't want to go back.
The android market has a very small fraction of the high end apps and games that the itunes store offers. I believe this will change in the future, but as of today its not even close. Honestly, it wouldnt matter if not for the fact that almost all of the most popular applications are ios only.
This does nothing to solve this type of scheme, as the entire idea is based on putting up as many "chances" as possible to get tickets at the same time. How would this prevent the scalpers from pre-registering?
No it shouldn't be taxed. People should only be taxed for what they use, when I buy an online good for physical money what service of the government am I using? I use paypal which is a private company to use my private credit card on a private site to get something online which go through the privately owned internet lines which I pay for out of my own pocket, to another privately owned server where I play my game. Pay for what you use, the government doesn't even enter into the equation except for a very, very, very, small amount. Such exchanges should never be taxed. The government should be a service provider, nothing more. If you don't use the service for a transaction you don't have to pay. Taxing such things is like adding shipping and handling to them, they don't need it so it shouldn't be paid.
use taxes inherently punish the poor, for whom the taxes are a much larger percentage of their comparatively smaller income.
Explain how stock trading liquidity is a benefit in and of itself - to human society and the Earth's biosphere - rather than as a benefit only to those wanting to extract wealth from the markets due to volatility.
Providing liquidity means that investors will have the confidence that whenever they with to exit the market, there will always be a willing buyer. If you do no have faith that there will always be someone willing to buy when you want to sell, then you have no incentive to make the investment in the first place.
With both engadget and Gizmodo getting their hands on the "next iPhone" in different bars in different cities, it is difficult to believe that somebody actually lost the phones. Either both engadget and Gizmodo got fooled or this is more a marketing campaign than lost phones. I would bet on latter.
Its far more likely that these are just very well made counterfeits, and that the people at gizmodo are fucking stupid. (or they know its fake but realize that they will get a shitload of hits)
I still don't understand why the Stock Market can't run 24/7.
because then, computerized trading systems would have a distinct advantage over humans.
Wrong. Freedom of speech is freedom from responsibility - it protects not only the act of speaking, but from being punished for it.
The thing is, freedom of speech is selective; it's purpose is to protect political (or artistic) speech, but it is limited in other cases, like libel or in this case, it might be protected by Personality Rights.
No, it protects you from being punished by the government, there are countless reasons one can be successfully punished in civil court for something that is clearly "protected speech"
You are free to disseminate trade secrets of a corporation you worked for, but they are free to sue the living shit out of you for it.
Al la carte, please.
You want to know why your cable bill is so high? This is why. Cable stations (and now network stations) charge cable companies to carry their channels. So they get paid whether you watch their content or not!
This logic has never made any sense to me, since with an a la carte pricing model, only the bullshit that appeals to the lowest common denominator will ever be commercially viable.
Do you REALLY want nothing but "Two and a Half Men" and "CSI: Whatfuckingever" all day long?
That had people spewing up blood after one toke over the line. DEA, Uncle Sam, and some guy named Bill are but a few to blame.
"However, independent bodies have studied paraquat in this use. Jenny Pronczuk de Garbino,[9] stated: "no lung or other injury in marijuana users has ever been attributed to paraquat contamination". Also a United States Environmental Protection Agency manual states: "... toxic effects caused by this mechanism have been either very rare or nonexistent. Most paraquat that contaminates marijuana is pyrolyzed during smoking to dipyridyl, which is a product of combustion of the leaf material itself (including marijuana) and presents little toxic hazard.""