Whatever happened to the concept of Personal Responsibility? Of being held accountable for your own actions, instead of the knee-jerk reaction of "it's the firearms fault, ban them everywhere we can."
Why allow someone to knowingly decrease their ability to drive?
If that were the case nobody would be driving. - Got a bad grade on your final exam? You might be angry and drive less safely. Criminal! - Found out your girlfriend is cheating on you and you drive away? You are not emotionally stable enough to drive. Off to jail you go! - "Oh man! The new Whatevergame Expansion is finally out! I'll go grab it now omgomg!" You are too excited and not in your normal mental state and should not drive. - No radios in cars and no talking to passengers. Listening to the radio or talking to people means a part of you is not paying attention to the road. You could be driving in a safer manner but you are not. You just lost your license to drive a car. - No advertizements on the side of the highways. You are either looking at the road or at the advertizements. This is not safe. Hand over your license and your car will be impounded. - You're been driving for three hours / need to go pee / are hungry or thirsty / bored == you are not driving as safely as you should be. - Etc, etc
As a society we acknowledge that it is not reasonably possible for individuals to drive in the safest manner all the time. There are two options: (1) Nobody should drive, or (2) We acknowledge the fact that humans are imperfect and we put laws to mitigate the damage done by factors which decrease our ability to drive. This is why you can listen to radio/music but not talk/text on your cellphone, you can drive after a long and tiresome day's work to go back home, you can drink a glass of wine or a beer (but not a dozen) at a friend's house and drive back home, etc. I think most people believe this to be the optimal solution.
We have to draw the line somewhere. And I think that both a BAC of 0.00 or a BAC of 1.00+ is not where that line should be reasonably drawn.
I presume that you think it would be a good idea to tax all uses of cash as well?
If you buy 1 BTC for $100 and sell it for $120 then yes, you should be taxed on the $20 profit you made. As is done currently with speculating on stock and currency exchange. What's the big news?
Whoosh. That is not what the proposal is about. The Canadian proposal is that if you buy $100 worth of bitcoins and sell them for the exact same price, you will have to pay a transaction tax, unlike the case with normal cash.
I didn't see that in the article. It says (1) if you buy BTC and make a profit when you sell them, you pay taxes (similar to stock speculation, that makes sense) and (2) if you buy something with them, you pay taxes on the price paid (also makes sense, when I go to the store and buy something for $100, there is a 15% tax so it comes to $115).
I presume that you think it would be a good idea to tax all uses of cash as well?
If you buy 1 BTC for $100 and sell it for $120 then yes, you should be taxed on the $20 profit you made. As is done currently with speculating on stock and currency exchange. What's the big news?
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Unless you compile from vetted source code on an un-compromised system using an un-compromised compiler
A very interesting (and quite short) read about that : Reflections on Trusting Trust
New Zealand stands in contrast, are you sure?
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2013/11/locked-up-warriors-201311481133704146.html
you should drink for the taste and not the feeling. If you drink only for the feeling, you might be looking at problems no too far in the future..
Those missing children...
Cyan, the company behind Myst, is taking another shot at an game in vain
I wonder what percentage of the US population works in things related to the NSA spying program.
Not necessarily : http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/dissertation/wheeler-trusting-trust-ddc.pdf
It's like the batshit crazy ex who doesn't want to be with you but also doesn't want anyone else being with you.
Either way, you're screwed.
And not screwing.
I would so have put a screaming zombie appearing from nowhere right in the middle of that video.
I'm the king of the world LOLL!!!!11one
Zombie apocalypse in 3, 2, 1......
We rarely see such wise words on Slashdot.
good thing!
it's time to rediscover Damascus steel.
At all.
One size doesn't fit all.
You've never been in the army I suppose? ;-)
Whatever happened to the concept of Personal Responsibility? Of being held accountable for your own actions, instead of the knee-jerk reaction of "it's the firearms fault, ban them everywhere we can."
You mean like drugs?
Unfortunately this appears to only be for future released games, those previously released will still be subject to this feature.
How can that be called a feature?
Why allow someone to knowingly decrease their ability to drive?
If that were the case nobody would be driving.
- Got a bad grade on your final exam? You might be angry and drive less safely. Criminal!
- Found out your girlfriend is cheating on you and you drive away? You are not emotionally stable enough to drive. Off to jail you go!
- "Oh man! The new Whatevergame Expansion is finally out! I'll go grab it now omgomg!" You are too excited and not in your normal mental state and should not drive.
- No radios in cars and no talking to passengers. Listening to the radio or talking to people means a part of you is not paying attention to the road. You could be driving in a safer manner but you are not. You just lost your license to drive a car.
- No advertizements on the side of the highways. You are either looking at the road or at the advertizements. This is not safe. Hand over your license and your car will be impounded.
- You're been driving for three hours / need to go pee / are hungry or thirsty / bored == you are not driving as safely as you should be.
- Etc, etc
As a society we acknowledge that it is not reasonably possible for individuals to drive in the safest manner all the time. There are two options:
(1) Nobody should drive, or
(2) We acknowledge the fact that humans are imperfect and we put laws to mitigate the damage done by factors which decrease our ability to drive. This is why you can listen to radio/music but not talk/text on your cellphone, you can drive after a long and tiresome day's work to go back home, you can drink a glass of wine or a beer (but not a dozen) at a friend's house and drive back home, etc. I think most people believe this to be the optimal solution.
We have to draw the line somewhere. And I think that both a BAC of 0.00 or a BAC of 1.00+ is not where that line should be reasonably drawn.
I wonder if they use cochineal as a food dye so that they can label the food as "natural color"...
That's just a government plot that will make us more tolerant to the idea of drones. First, drones serving beer. Then, drones serving bombs!
I presume that you think it would be a good idea to tax all uses of cash as well?
If you buy 1 BTC for $100 and sell it for $120 then yes, you should be taxed on the $20 profit you made. As is done currently with speculating on stock and currency exchange. What's the big news?
Whoosh. That is not what the proposal is about. The Canadian proposal is that if you buy $100 worth of bitcoins and sell them for the exact same price, you will have to pay a transaction tax, unlike the case with normal cash.
I didn't see that in the article. It says (1) if you buy BTC and make a profit when you sell them, you pay taxes (similar to stock speculation, that makes sense) and (2) if you buy something with them, you pay taxes on the price paid (also makes sense, when I go to the store and buy something for $100, there is a 15% tax so it comes to $115).
I presume that you think it would be a good idea to tax all uses of cash as well?
If you buy 1 BTC for $100 and sell it for $120 then yes, you should be taxed on the $20 profit you made. As is done currently with speculating on stock and currency exchange. What's the big news?
In other news, Plants vs. Zombies 2: Plants are Zombies, is scheduled for release at the end of the year.
Capitol gains are taxable.
What about White House gains? Are they also taxable?