Where? When I bought my SIM card and activated it (over the phone with a live person)
What method of payment did you use? Bitcoin?
You do know, that if you provide a credit card number, that tells them your identity, And also proves your age, right? Seeing as a minor or other state-declared incompetent person is incapable of having signing authority to a bank account, they're unable to get credit cards, cannot sign a cheque, or execute a financial instrument. Or more specifically, anything they sign can be revoked, so all the payment card companies have a basic terms policy that they cannot issue to minors.
It's a possibility. Under certain conditions, the State itself cannot even apply sales tax for business operating on federal land, or tax a House, car built on federal land in the state, Etc, Let-alone tax mileage. The level of federal jurisdiction over federally-owned real property varies, depending on when the federal government acquired it, whether the president chose to accept exclusive jurisdiction in the transfer, and whether congress passed a law allowing local the state to tax or have some kind of authorities over that land.
*COUGH* I forgot the point.... To avoid it, I think we need a more popular application just as popular as Facebook users will demand, which provide a Peer-to-Peer communications function similar to TCP, where encryption prevents the ISPs from examining traffic.
If you're worried about this eventuality, and I think we should be..... Imagine internet becoming a "Free" value-added service on your Cell phone, but it only includes Facebook, Wikipedia, and Verizon TV, or AT&T Video Streaming. If you want Netflix; it will be another $100 a month plus $10 per Gigabyte. Eventually, the policy means that Netflix fails as a business, so the option disappears completely.... as demand goes down, prices go up, so before you know it's $200 a month plus $100 per Gigabyte.
I currently have Dish which doesn't allow me to watch TV when it's raining, snowing or windy outside.
This isn't an inherent problem. It is possible to receive a signal regardless of the rain, snow, or wind.
The issue is likely the cheap antenna they have provided, and the lack of measures installed to protect it, stop the conductive service being modified by rain adhering to it, etc.
No, their proposed tax stops at 60,000 feet, where they simply lack any jurisdiction.
Arguably the destination is inter-state, inter-planetary, they lack ANY jurisdiction, as soon as the vehicle is in the federal airway which starts at about 700 feet AGL.
These days you CANNOT help but to do that, period. If you put the contact in your Outlook address book, it's going to the Microsoft cloud, and now you've sent it to Microsoft, and Microsoft's EULA allows them to do whatever they want with it. If you put the contact in your iPhone, it's going to sync to iCloud, and now Apple has it, and if you put the contact in your Android phone,
Google will now have it. So WTF are we worried about an Anti-Spam/Anti-Telemarketing service having your name number, as well as billions of others, with no particular context? It's not like they can link it to your browsing habits, or something, and build a statistical model about you for the purpose of selling you to advertisers like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and now MS, Etc will do.
If you are big and have the money to bribe the government have laws against gathering personal information of minors.
You have to be 18 and show ID, before they allow you to buy a cell phone, even a burner phone. Anyways, the phone number is not personal information; a phone number is the network address used to contact you, which is about as public as it gets.
It's true there are Unlisted numbers.... Robocallers find those too, and generally they will know what your name is too.
The central benefit of Truecaller is they're a major tool in the arsenal for fighting the damn telemarketers.
It's none of their business where you store your contact list. If they trusted you with your phone number; it is your choice what phone and/or what service provider(s) to use. Phone numbers may not be public information, but they're not secret either --- once you give it out, you no longer have strong control over it.
If you don't want someone storing your contact information on their phone (Which typically includes their cloud-based addressbook Google Contacts, Apple iCloud Contacts, Truecaller, Etc), then do not give that person your phone number.
AFAIK no other animal on earth has to do parenting duties for a given offspring until they're teenagers.
They just have survival, Don't have to live in a complex society with rules, and don't require an education for higher learning and require complicated judgement.
Unless our social habits have artificially reduced our Stamina and/or Strength in the past few hundred years, and this drug somehow does something that counteracts bad habits.
I guess that means the officer who typed in the Red herring passcode provided by the suspect is going to jail.
Entering a correct Red herring passcode SHOULD be made indistinguishable to the user's point of view from entering the Secure enclave being damaged and entering the Primary passcode, so destruction cannot be proven.
I suggest Apple should introduce various secondary "Red Herring" passcodes which users can set.
If a secondary passcode is entered, then a User-configurable action occurs. They may be allowed to unlock the phone after contacting Apple's servers to determine if the Passphrase is actually the user's primary passphrase or not.
If a passcode marked as duress is attempted to be used to unlock the phone, then keys in the secure enclave will be quietly and irretrievably corrupted; Notice of what has happened will not be shown on the screen until either contact is completed with Apple's servers, ensuring that the phone completed its command sent to Apple servers to successfully overwrite the backup version, Or another attempted passphrase is entered; The message displayed will appear to indicate that a Correct passphrase has been entered, However, it will show an error "Error 53: Valid unlock code accepted, but system storage is corrupt, cannot boot.".
Though to be honest, if you had a single light always on and mechanical flaps that raised and lowered to block color filters
Traffic lights, at least traditional ones, do have a mechanical timing mechanism which is a constantly rotating gear that additional modules are inserted containing a mechanical device to select which lighting circuit will be enabled.
I don't mind paying my taxes. I get a lot in return. I mind that corporations doing business in the USA
The taxes that are paid have very little to do with any return you think you're getting for them. Taxation is mostly theft, and you can be sure you're not getting your $$$'s worth.
Corporations Do pay taxes, but of course they're going to defer their liability as long as possible.
You can defer your tax liability too. If you purchase Apple stock, its share price can double or quadruple, and you won't have to pay any taxes on your gains, until and unless they are paid out to you in dividends, or because you sold your shares with the deferred tax liability.
The effect is each sale in usa has royalty fees going to that offshore company. That's how the profits are made overseas.
I think the solution is to limit IP-related deductions. Figure if X$ is being spent on intellectual property fees, then a minimum of 2 * X$ in profit is being generated, Therefore, limit the amount that can be deducted for intellectual property costs to 50% of the taxable revenue generated using that IP.
Why push a path that isn't supported by Apple? Just use Linux (or Windows) instead -
Because maybe you're more productive on a Unix-like OS since you're adept at all the tools available, and you feel crippled running on Windows. Also, you can't stand the crappy monitor resolution scaling that Windows has vs MacOS, where Windows leaves you with tiny text you can't read right by oversized text.
OTOH, You need things like your Desktop and Audio to just work. You need to be able to switch Input sources without stopping all your programs to restart the window manager.
You don't have free time to kill.... you want to be able to get everything working either out of the box, or with minimal frustration and work, No searching internet forums for posts suggesting you tweak X y Z config file by adding blah blah blah, and then doing foo foo foo. MacOS is just perfect for this the only problem is the hardware is lagging behind, and you can't get a decent GPU card or capture board. due to Apple not keeping up......
They can't change the price of the sale, which is what you suggested
They can charge the shipping company doing delivery business in their city an additional tax, which is a variable amount, calculated based on the sales price, using any formula the city wishes.
The formula the city chooses can set that tax rate at 100% of the price the Delivery company charges for the delivery, excluding an exempt amount, which they determine based on a benchmark of the price for that same delivery to other cities in the state.
It does not matter that the delivery is part of fulfilling an interstate transaction; cities can still use ordinances to restrict aspects of a delivery that are to destinations in their city or utilize infrastructure within their city, such as private and city-owned roadways, inclusive of charging more taxes and fees.
And it assumes that property owner will make changes to their property costing anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands
The property owners will find a way to accommodate the delivery companies, Otherwise they will wind up losing their tenants and being unable to rent out the property; if it will cost them more $$$ than the cost to carve out a parking space, the owner will obviously find a way....
What is far more likely is that delivery companies will simply increase shipping charges to those cities to compensate.
When taxpayers complain, this is likely to result in ordinances being passed prohibiting the shipping company from charging a rate higher than the prevalent rate to people with an address while conducting their delivery business in city limits, or with a destination address inside their city. They'll probably create a new tax, figure the tax to be the amount on the difference in shipping prices offered to destinations in their city VS shipping price offered to destinations elsewhere in the state, and apply a 100% city tax to the shipping operation.
I guess if the bots have some agency, then attempts to interfere with the robot's operation could count as bullying.
If they want to defend against being pushed over, I would suggest equipping the bots with water guns, tasers, and paint ball guns that can be automatically deployed under specified conditions, such as physical assault.
how you think that could happen in an actual city, where businesses are not in stand-alone buildings and their only exposure is a few feet of city-owned sidewalk.
That will be up to the business owners and the building owners or landlords to work out, And until they do, they won't be able to get any deliveries. If getting the deliveries are important to their business, then i'm sure they'll be able to work something out between the people who own the real-estate their business is located in. Possibly by renting or buying additional space, renovating or demolishing portions, and constructing a delivery truck parking accommodation, and getting every Office taking deliveries through that station to pay a monthly fee for the usage of that delivery access.
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Where? When I bought my SIM card and activated it (over the phone with a live person)
What method of payment did you use? Bitcoin?
You do know, that if you provide a credit card number, that tells them your identity, And also proves your age, right?
Seeing as a minor or other state-declared incompetent person is incapable of having signing authority to a bank account, they're unable to get credit cards, cannot sign a cheque, or execute a financial instrument. Or more specifically, anything they sign can be revoked, so all the payment card companies have a basic terms policy that they cannot issue to minors.
It's a possibility. Under certain conditions, the State itself cannot even apply sales tax for business operating on federal land, or tax a House, car built on federal land in the state, Etc, Let-alone tax mileage. The level of federal jurisdiction over federally-owned real property varies,
depending on when the federal government acquired it, whether the president chose to accept exclusive jurisdiction in
the transfer, and whether congress passed a law allowing local the state to tax or have some kind of authorities over that land.
*COUGH* I forgot the point.... To avoid it, I think we need a more popular application just as popular as Facebook users will demand, which provide a Peer-to-Peer communications function similar to TCP, where encryption prevents the ISPs from examining traffic.
If you're worried about this eventuality, and I think we should be..... Imagine internet becoming a "Free" value-added service on your Cell phone, but it only includes Facebook, Wikipedia, and Verizon TV, or AT&T Video Streaming. If you want Netflix; it will be another $100 a month plus $10 per Gigabyte.
Eventually, the policy means that Netflix fails as a business, so the option disappears completely.... as demand goes down, prices go up, so before you know it's $200 a month plus $100 per Gigabyte.
I currently have Dish which doesn't allow me to watch TV when it's raining, snowing or windy outside.
This isn't an inherent problem. It is possible to receive a signal regardless of the rain, snow, or wind.
The issue is likely the cheap antenna they have provided, and the lack of measures installed to protect it,
stop the conductive service being modified by rain adhering to it, etc.
No, their proposed tax stops at 60,000 feet, where they simply lack any jurisdiction.
Arguably the destination is inter-state, inter-planetary, they lack ANY jurisdiction, as soon as the vehicle is in the federal airway which starts at about 700 feet AGL.
These days you CANNOT help but to do that, period. If you put the contact in your Outlook address book, it's going to the Microsoft cloud, and now you've sent it to Microsoft, and Microsoft's EULA allows them to do whatever they want with it. If you put the contact in your iPhone, it's going to sync to iCloud, and now Apple has it, and if you put the contact in your Android phone,
Google will now have it. So WTF are we worried about an Anti-Spam/Anti-Telemarketing service having your name number, as well as billions of others, with no particular context? It's not like they can link it to your browsing habits, or something, and build a statistical model about you for the purpose of selling you to advertisers like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and now MS, Etc will do.
If you are big and have the money to bribe the government have laws against gathering personal information of minors.
You have to be 18 and show ID, before they allow you to buy a cell phone, even a burner phone.
Anyways, the phone number is not personal information; a phone number is the network address used to contact you, which is about as public as it gets.
It's true there are Unlisted numbers.... Robocallers find those too, and generally they will know what your name is too.
The central benefit of Truecaller is they're a major tool in the arsenal for fighting the damn telemarketers.
As opposed to the original Default default App which uploads all your registered contacts to Google?
It's none of their business where you store your contact list. If they trusted you with your phone number; it is your choice what phone and/or what service provider(s) to use. Phone numbers may not be public information, but they're not secret either --- once you give it out, you no longer have strong control over it.
If you don't want someone storing your contact information on their phone (Which typically includes their cloud-based addressbook Google Contacts, Apple iCloud Contacts, Truecaller, Etc), then do not give that person your phone number.
AFAIK no other animal on earth has to do parenting duties for a given offspring until they're teenagers.
They just have survival, Don't have to live in a complex society with rules, and don't require an education for higher learning and require complicated judgement.
Unless our social habits have artificially reduced our Stamina and/or Strength in the past few hundred years, and this drug somehow does something that counteracts bad habits.
Destruction of evidence is a crime.
I guess that means the officer who typed in the Red herring passcode provided by the suspect is going to jail.
Entering a correct Red herring passcode SHOULD be made indistinguishable to the user's point of view
from entering the Secure enclave being damaged and entering the Primary passcode, so destruction cannot be proven.
I suggest Apple should introduce various secondary "Red Herring" passcodes which users can set.
If a secondary passcode is entered, then a User-configurable action occurs. They may be allowed to unlock the phone after contacting Apple's servers to determine if the Passphrase is actually the user's primary passphrase or not.
If a passcode marked as duress is attempted to be used to unlock the phone, then keys in the secure enclave will be quietly and irretrievably corrupted; Notice of what has happened will not be shown on the screen until either contact is completed with Apple's servers, ensuring that the phone completed its command sent to Apple servers to successfully overwrite the backup version, Or another attempted passphrase is entered; The message displayed will appear to indicate that a Correct passphrase has been entered, However, it will show an error "Error 53: Valid unlock code accepted, but system storage is corrupt, cannot boot.".
Though to be honest, if you had a single light always on and mechanical flaps that raised and lowered to block color filters
Traffic lights, at least traditional ones, do have a mechanical timing mechanism which is a constantly rotating gear that additional modules are inserted containing a mechanical device to select which lighting circuit will be enabled.
wish I could move my tax burden to ireland as well while still living in US.
You could, depending on the nature of your income, but there would be a few million in upfront costs for you to begin the process.
I don't mind paying my taxes. I get a lot in return. I mind that corporations doing business in the USA
The taxes that are paid have very little to do with any return you think you're getting for them.
Taxation is mostly theft, and you can be sure you're not getting your $$$'s worth.
Corporations Do pay taxes, but of course they're going to defer their liability as long as possible.
You can defer your tax liability too. If you purchase Apple stock, its share price can double or quadruple, and you won't have to pay any taxes on your gains, until and unless they are paid out to you in dividends, or because you sold your shares with the deferred tax liability.
The effect is each sale in usa has royalty fees going to that offshore company. That's how the profits are made overseas.
I think the solution is to limit IP-related deductions.
Figure if X$ is being spent on intellectual property fees, then a minimum of 2 * X$ in profit is being generated, Therefore, limit the amount that can be deducted for intellectual property costs to 50% of the taxable revenue generated using that IP.
Why push a path that isn't supported by Apple? Just use Linux (or Windows) instead -
Because maybe you're more productive on a Unix-like OS since you're adept at all the tools available, and you feel crippled running on Windows. Also, you can't stand the crappy monitor resolution scaling that Windows has vs MacOS, where Windows leaves you with tiny text you can't read right by oversized text.
OTOH, You need things like your Desktop and Audio to just work. You need to be able to switch Input sources without stopping all your programs to restart the window manager.
You don't have free time to kill.... you want to be able to get everything working either out of the box, or with minimal frustration and work, No searching internet forums for posts suggesting you tweak X y Z config file by adding blah blah blah, and then doing foo foo foo. MacOS is just perfect for this the only problem is the hardware is lagging behind, and you can't get a decent GPU card or capture board. due to Apple not keeping up......
They can't change the price of the sale, which is what you suggested
They can charge the shipping company doing delivery business in their city an additional tax, which is a variable amount,
calculated based on the sales price, using any formula the city wishes.
The formula the city chooses can set that tax rate at 100% of the price the Delivery company charges for the delivery, excluding an exempt
amount, which they determine based on a benchmark of the price for that same delivery to other cities in the state.
It does not matter that the delivery is part of fulfilling an interstate transaction;
cities can still use ordinances to restrict aspects of a delivery that are to destinations in their city or utilize infrastructure within their city,
such as private and city-owned roadways, inclusive of charging more taxes and fees.
And it assumes that property owner will make changes to their property costing anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands
The property owners will find a way to accommodate the delivery companies, Otherwise they will wind up losing their tenants and being unable to rent out the property; if it will cost them more $$$ than the cost to carve out a parking space, the owner will obviously find a way....
What is far more likely is that delivery companies will simply increase shipping charges to those cities to compensate.
When taxpayers complain, this is likely to result in ordinances being passed prohibiting the shipping company from charging a rate higher than the prevalent rate to people with an address while conducting their delivery business in city limits, or with a destination address inside their city. They'll probably create a new tax, figure the tax to be the amount on the difference in shipping prices offered to destinations in their city VS shipping price offered to destinations elsewhere in the state, and apply a 100% city tax to the shipping operation.
I guess if the bots have some agency, then attempts to interfere with the robot's operation could count as bullying.
If they want to defend against being pushed over, I would suggest equipping the bots with water guns, tasers, and paint ball guns that can be automatically deployed under specified conditions, such as physical assault.
how you think that could happen in an actual city, where businesses are not in stand-alone buildings and their only exposure is a few feet of city-owned sidewalk.
That will be up to the business owners and the building owners or landlords to work out, And until they do, they won't be able to get any deliveries. If getting the deliveries are important to their business, then i'm sure they'll be able to work something out between the people who own the real-estate their business is located in. Possibly by renting or buying additional space, renovating or demolishing portions, and constructing a delivery truck parking accommodation, and getting every Office taking deliveries through that station to pay a monthly fee for the usage of that delivery access.