Since all home businesses itemize their deductions for taxes (or at least they'd be insane not to) he won't pay any taxes on income made from the business if he spent every dollar he made on the business.
You must be able to demonstrate a "reasonable expectation of profit" to be able to deduct business expenses in respect of a home-based (or any other, I suppose) business. If you can''t, the government will classify your business as a hobby and it becomes non-deductable.
Several years in a row of "no profit" but with substantial deductable business expenses is a good way to get the attention of a tax official.
There really is no reason for any (consumer/commercial/military) communications equipment to not use the latest state-of-the-art modulation techniques.
Sure there is. It's called money; you may have heard of it.
Ripping out a complete communications system and replacing it is (a) damned expensive, and (b) not an overnight job.
I guess its not like that everywhere from the sounds.
Absolutely.
At a shopping mall near where I used to live, an alarm monitoring panel was located right beside the main doors into the place. A fault light was flashing on that panel right from the day that they opened the mall until the day that I moved away.
I had to send in full page color adverts to various travel magazines. Guess what they required? Yep, CMYK in adobe format
You seem to have the shoe on the wrong foot there.
The travel magazines are selling you a product (advertising) and you are the customer. Therefore, since you are the one giving them money you are the one in the driver's seat in that transaction. That appears to have escaped your notice.
"I want to buy some advertising. I can provide you with our ad copy in Format X; you can convert it to any format that you require after you receive it."
Sure it could wipe out their own documents, but it couldn't effect any others and certainly couldn't harm the operating system.
That's nice.
The user's data and documents is the stuff that he wants to keep. The operating system itself isn't that important -- reinstall from the original CD's or whatever.
"All you can lose is your own data." Well, it's my data that I want to keep! Who gives a rat's rear if the computer still boots; if all of your data is gone it's of little value. "Ooh, wallpaper -- it's so pretty."
I dunno where you live, but the last time I called 911, I was talking to an operator within about 15 seconds.
We just recently (about a year ago) got 911 service here. Before that there were separate local phone numbers to call for police, ambulance, fire, what-have-you.
Using the "old" system, I have over the course of time reported a couple of fires, a few burglaries/robberies, and a disoriented old lady to the appropriate emergency services. The fire emergency phone and the police emergency phone were always answered by a real person within two rings.
I called 911 to report a burglary in progress across the street a couple of months back and got a recording when I called and had to wait on hold before someone got around to talkign to me.
I find that completely unacceptable so I wrote a letter of complaint to our city council.
Everyone else should do the same when that kind of thing occurs.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. it's the only thing that ever has.
That's not as much of a joke as it appears at first glance. Emergency service instructors (like the people who give fire drills in schools and such) always refer to 911 as nine-one-one, not nine-eleven for just that reason.
everybody remembers when sim city first came out. it was revolutionary. why? because it developed a whole new category: simulations.
It did? Could'a fooled me. Graphically-rich simulations, maybe. But simulations in general? This is a lot older than SimCity and it's a run-the-city simulation game too.
The problem is there wasn't enough good will to buy groceries with.
I think part of that is where the target market for the shareware is.
Someone writing a little DOS-based game and asking for $20 probably won't get it too often -- most people will play the game a few times, then move on to the next shiny thing.
I wrote a DOS-based program that maintained a database of fax numbers and contacts, and printed fax cover sheets. It was $20 shareware. Not crippleware -- there was no "registered version". It told you once the first time you ran the program that you should send $20 if you liked it, and you never saw that message again.
The program was being used in a lot of lawyer's offices. I know because I got a lot of $20 cheques from lawyers.
I think business-related applications are (or were) more likely to get money in the door because people use those applications every day to accomplish something of value to them. Unlike a game.
I don't understand why anybody in their right mind still retrieves their mail through a clientside app.
Because a local mail client application can be set to retrieve incoming mail every X minutes -- new mail magically appears on your desktop with no need to manually log in to the mailserver and check for your mail. No passwords to type, nothing to do at all, really.
a filing cabinet as "Open" - how long has it been since people used those?
Most small businesses use them every day. I keep my paid invoices, cancelled cheques and miscellaneous business records in a filing cabinet for the current year and rotate everything out into cardboard boxes at year-end.
When he gets out he finds his brother has taken (stolen) all his equipment, screwed over some customers, and skipped town!
I can top that.
I once knew a guy who ran a restaurant with his brother. He too got sick, and when he was out of the hospital he discovered that his brother had taken off with (a)all of the cash, and (b) his wife to boot!
Government has been having "industry leaders" draft legislation affecting their industry for years now.
The question becomes, who else would you have write it then?
Expertise and knowledge of a field is required to regulate it properly. If I know nothing about the game of football other than the fact that I watched a game on TV last Sunday, should I be the one to write the rules for the playoff games?
In environmental or industrial issues, would you have David Suzuki write the rules for industrial pollution, or Union Carbide? One way you have no factories at all (and no products) and the other way you have excess pollution of all kinds.
So, how to strike the proper balance? And who gets to decide what "proper" is?
The article linked within the original story is also on-topic for this discussion.
Governments could soon be using hacker tools for law enforcement and the pursuit of justice, according to an expert on IT and Internet law. Joel Reidenberg, professor of law at New York-based Fordham University, believes it likely that denial of service attacks (DoS) and packet-blocking technology will be employed by nation states to enforce their laws. This could even include attacks on companies based in other countries, he says.
Graham Titterington, principal analyst at Ovum, said "... Attacks are often launched from a site that has been hijacked, making it an unwitting and innocent -- although possibly slightly negligent -- party."
Should you fail to register any of the evaluation software available through our web pages and continue to use it, be advised that a leather-winged demon of the night will tear itself, shrieking blood and fury, from the endless caverns of the nether world, hurl itself into the darkness with a thirst for blood on its slavering fangs and search the very threads of time for the throbbing of your heartbeat. Just thought you'd want to know that.
Alchemy Mindworks accepts no responsibility for any loss, damage or expense caused by leather-winged demons of the night, either.
The problem is that Europe is starting to develop a hare-trigger for banning US imports. Afterall, bird flu in one US state does not equate to bird flu being found from coast-to-coast. It'd be the equal of us declaring because a problem was found in Spain that we'd cut off imports of that item for all of Europe... the other countries would have a problem with that.
And when the USA bans all imports of Canadian beef due to one single case of Mad Cow on the Canadian prairies, this is different how?
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Since all home businesses itemize their deductions for taxes (or at least they'd be insane not to) he won't pay any taxes on income made from the business if he spent every dollar he made on the business.
You must be able to demonstrate a "reasonable expectation of profit" to be able to deduct business expenses in respect of a home-based (or any other, I suppose) business. If you can''t, the government will classify your business as a hobby and it becomes non-deductable.
Several years in a row of "no profit" but with substantial deductable business expenses is a good way to get the attention of a tax official.
There really is no reason for any (consumer/commercial/military) communications equipment to not use the latest state-of-the-art modulation techniques.
Sure there is. It's called money; you may have heard of it.
Ripping out a complete communications system and replacing it is (a) damned expensive, and (b) not an overnight job.
I guess its not like that everywhere from the sounds.
Absolutely.
At a shopping mall near where I used to live, an alarm monitoring panel was located right beside the main doors into the place. A fault light was flashing on that panel right from the day that they opened the mall until the day that I moved away.
I had to send in full page color adverts to various travel magazines. Guess what they required? Yep, CMYK in adobe format
You seem to have the shoe on the wrong foot there.
The travel magazines are selling you a product (advertising) and you are the customer. Therefore, since you are the one giving them money you are the one in the driver's seat in that transaction. That appears to have escaped your notice.
"I want to buy some advertising. I can provide you with our ad copy in Format X; you can convert it to any format that you require after you receive it."
Problem solved.
I will never use an office suite after Office 2000.
Really?
What's wrong with Openoffice.org?
Sure it could wipe out their own documents, but it couldn't effect any others and certainly couldn't harm the operating system.
That's nice.
The user's data and documents is the stuff that he wants to keep. The operating system itself isn't that important -- reinstall from the original CD's or whatever.
"All you can lose is your own data." Well, it's my data that I want to keep! Who gives a rat's rear if the computer still boots; if all of your data is gone it's of little value. "Ooh, wallpaper -- it's so pretty."
I couldn't _believe_ that arcade games are running Windows these days!
Quite likely it's a sleazy arcade operator running MAME on a Windows box so he doesn't have to spring for an actual arcade machine.
I dunno where you live, but the last time I called 911, I was talking to an operator within about 15 seconds.
We just recently (about a year ago) got 911 service here. Before that there were separate local phone numbers to call for police, ambulance, fire, what-have-you.
Using the "old" system, I have over the course of time reported a couple of fires, a few burglaries/robberies, and a disoriented old lady to the appropriate emergency services. The fire emergency phone and the police emergency phone were always answered by a real person within two rings.
I called 911 to report a burglary in progress across the street a couple of months back and got a recording when I called and had to wait on hold before someone got around to talkign to me.
I find that completely unacceptable so I wrote a letter of complaint to our city council.
Everyone else should do the same when that kind of thing occurs.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. it's the only thing that ever has.
Your sig is appropriate here.
Damn, where is the 11 button!
That's not as much of a joke as it appears at first glance. Emergency service instructors (like the people who give fire drills in schools and such) always refer to 911 as nine-one-one, not nine-eleven for just that reason.
I can see some fun being had
That fun has been had, at your local arcade.
You can still enjoy it, as a matter of fact.
everybody remembers when sim city first came out. it was revolutionary. why? because it developed a whole new category: simulations.
It did? Could'a fooled me. Graphically-rich simulations, maybe. But simulations in general? This is a lot older than SimCity and it's a run-the-city simulation game too.
How is a small business supposed to survive that?
By doing honest business and not selling counterfeit and/or shoddy merchandise, by paying your bills on time, providing good service, and so on.
Same as any other business that intends to be around for longer than the weekend.
a 2-minute sample, which you can record over.
That sounds like a work-around or a "hack" rather than an actual feature.
"Hey, you can beat the built-in protection by doing X Y Z."
The problem is there wasn't enough good will to buy groceries with.
I think part of that is where the target market for the shareware is.
Someone writing a little DOS-based game and asking for $20 probably won't get it too often -- most people will play the game a few times, then move on to the next shiny thing.
I wrote a DOS-based program that maintained a database of fax numbers and contacts, and printed fax cover sheets. It was $20 shareware. Not crippleware -- there was no "registered version". It told you once the first time you ran the program that you should send $20 if you liked it, and you never saw that message again.
The program was being used in a lot of lawyer's offices. I know because I got a lot of $20 cheques from lawyers.
I think business-related applications are (or were) more likely to get money in the door because people use those applications every day to accomplish something of value to them. Unlike a game.
I don't understand why anybody in their right mind still retrieves their mail through a clientside app.
Because a local mail client application can be set to retrieve incoming mail every X minutes -- new mail magically appears on your desktop with no need to manually log in to the mailserver and check for your mail. No passwords to type, nothing to do at all, really.
a filing cabinet as "Open" - how long has it been since people used those?
Most small businesses use them every day. I keep my paid invoices, cancelled cheques and miscellaneous business records in a filing cabinet for the current year and rotate everything out into cardboard boxes at year-end.
When he gets out he finds his brother has taken (stolen) all his equipment, screwed over some customers, and skipped town!
I can top that.
I once knew a guy who ran a restaurant with his brother. He too got sick, and when he was out of the hospital he discovered that his brother had taken off with (a)all of the cash, and (b) his wife to boot!
Government has been having "industry leaders" draft legislation affecting their industry for years now.
The question becomes, who else would you have write it then?
Expertise and knowledge of a field is required to regulate it properly. If I know nothing about the game of football other than the fact that I watched a game on TV last Sunday, should I be the one to write the rules for the playoff games?
In environmental or industrial issues, would you have David Suzuki write the rules for industrial pollution, or Union Carbide? One way you have no factories at all (and no products) and the other way you have excess pollution of all kinds.
So, how to strike the proper balance? And who gets to decide what "proper" is?
Or $50 years before a video game is released?
Some do. "Pre-orders" are not uncommon in many industries.
How exactly am I supposed to fund a $10M video game if it's freely distributable as soon as I release it?
Maybe you aren't. Not all nice-to-have projects are economically possible to accomplish.
Whether that is good or bad depends on your point of view and your opinion of the project.
the existing TLDs are all blissfully concise.
.museum is concise?
The article linked within the original story is also on-topic for this discussion.
Governments could soon be using hacker tools for law enforcement and the pursuit of justice, according to an expert on IT and Internet law. Joel Reidenberg, professor of law at New York-based Fordham University, believes it likely that denial of service attacks (DoS) and packet-blocking technology will be employed by nation states to enforce their laws. This could even include attacks on companies based in other countries, he says.
How do ya like them apples?
Graham Titterington, principal analyst at Ovum, said "... Attacks are often launched from a site that has been hijacked, making it an unwitting and innocent -- although possibly slightly negligent -- party."
Slightly?
Best software license ever...
Naw.. I like this one better:
Should you fail to register any of the evaluation software available through our web pages and continue to use it, be advised that a leather-winged demon of the night will tear itself, shrieking blood and fury, from the endless caverns of the nether world, hurl itself into the darkness with a thirst for blood on its slavering fangs and search the very threads of time for the throbbing of your heartbeat. Just thought you'd want to know that.
Alchemy Mindworks accepts no responsibility for any loss, damage or expense caused by leather-winged demons of the night, either.
See?
The problem is that Europe is starting to develop a hare-trigger for banning US imports. Afterall, bird flu in one US state does not equate to bird flu being found from coast-to-coast. It'd be the equal of us declaring because a problem was found in Spain that we'd cut off imports of that item for all of Europe... the other countries would have a problem with that.
And when the USA bans all imports of Canadian beef due to one single case of Mad Cow on the Canadian prairies, this is different how?