I'll give 10 to 1 odds that this is a result of some asshat policy maker (probably the one that spends all his time playing WoW) changing the rules without actually sitting down to think about the consequences of his shiny new policy... that kind of thing is a LOT more common than someone executing part of a far-reaching-conspiratorial-plan...
yeah, seriously. If you "invested", say, $10,000 worth of online currency into, oh... I dunno... this does that mean you can claim that online currency's worth as a loss?
To answer my own question: no
Now for a better question: suppose you first bought that $10,000 worth of online currency and "invested" it into that EVE Online ISK scam and lost it. Can you then claim your $10,000 investment as a loss? Since you invested the money into a business (some might argue this, but I'd argue right back that the EVE Bank had more chance of succeeding than some dot coms), with the expectation that it would make a profit (online) which you could then sell for real money (and hence pay tax on), but instead lost it?
I mean, just how different are these two scenarios:
you invest real money into a business which makes a product, this business fails and you claim a loss
you invest real money into a virtual business which makes a product, this business fails and you claim a loss
These are the reverse of the two scenarios the IRS wants to capitalize on:
you invest real money into a business which makes a product, it succeeds, you make money and pay tax on it
you invest real money into a virtual business which makes a product, it succeeds, you make virtual money which you exchange for real money and pay tax on it
... what I want to know is can you load.pdfs that don't have DRM on here? Personally, I would love something like this for journal papers... especially if it could mimic the parts of the dead-tree versions that I like... like being able to scribble notes in the margins.... without that ability though, I can't say I'd ever care to get one of these things... why carry around a $350 device and worry about charging, DRM and finding the e-books to begin with when I can just carry around a $9 paperback? It's not like I read more than one paperback at a time (okay, maybe two, but big deal...) but carrying a stack of ~100 papers to and from university, that's a pain in the ass...
Canadian macrobrews are definitly better than US macro's but comparing macrobrews is like comparing explosive diarrhea to explosive vomiting.
Indeed...
The microbrew scene in Seattle (and the rest of the US) beats damn near any other country.
I'm not sure I believe you, but I am sure it'll be fun finding out:-)
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lol... I love as many women as I can get away with... women rock. Hell.. I've had ex girlfriends act as "wing-men" at bars telling the girl that I was hitting on that "he's a lot of fun... he lives far away so dating him probably won't happen... but if you're just looking for a good time, take him home"
All that to say, my "women are assholes?" post was supposed to be a joke... this is just the "whoosh" explaining why you're hearing it;-)
If your income is so important that you sacrifice your relationship, you don't deserve neither. I work in IT, I have been doing it for 10 years now. TEN FUCKING YEARS.
Actually, I didn't know that there was such a strong distinction between jealousy and envy... so you kinda defeat your own point by demonstrating that there *is* some signal to be had in/.
That's ridiculous, I've gone to the bar many times and well over 30 times have I had the pleasure of "meeting" random single people. Hell... some of them even became great people-whose-names-I-know...
Yes, like Royal Military College in Canada: 137.94.0.0 to 137.94.255.255 -- go nuts
By the way, a military institution, beholden to the vast majority of the most fucked up government rules imaginable, blocks absolutely nothing. Monitor, yes; block, no. I could surf for the naked pictures of Taco's mom to my heart's content and not get blocked once. Though the admins might have something to say about what I was looking at.
To the OP, tell your CIO they're just as much of a joke as the school IS is becoming...
bullshit, "ah doh bee for mat" has more syllables than "pee dee eff" so laziness wins....
Also, I work with some pretty goddamned computer-illiterate people and I have never, ever, heard anyone call a.pdf file an adobe file or an adobe format file...
Actually I got 46000 hits for bloody linux and 400 for bloody microsoft.... Mind you, coders are very bitter people when functions don't work the way they think they should, and you'd expect to see more linux code online... still quite the difference though.
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I'll give 10 to 1 odds that this is a result of some asshat policy maker (probably the one that spends all his time playing WoW) changing the rules without actually sitting down to think about the consequences of his shiny new policy... that kind of thing is a LOT more common than someone executing part of a far-reaching-conspiratorial-plan...
That shit happens... I think they were referring to the fact that an editor probably should've caught that one...
yeah, seriously. If you "invested", say, $10,000 worth of online currency into, oh... I dunno... this does that mean you can claim that online currency's worth as a loss?
To answer my own question: no
Now for a better question: suppose you first bought that $10,000 worth of online currency and "invested" it into that EVE Online ISK scam and lost it. Can you then claim your $10,000 investment as a loss? Since you invested the money into a business (some might argue this, but I'd argue right back that the EVE Bank had more chance of succeeding than some dot coms), with the expectation that it would make a profit (online) which you could then sell for real money (and hence pay tax on), but instead lost it?
I mean, just how different are these two scenarios:
These are the reverse of the two scenarios the IRS wants to capitalize on:
Where does the line get drawn?
yeah, but does it have a stylus so you can scribble notes in? That's something that would bring this from novel to useful.
... what I want to know is can you load .pdfs that don't have DRM on here? Personally, I would love something like this for journal papers... especially if it could mimic the parts of the dead-tree versions that I like... like being able to scribble notes in the margins.... without that ability though, I can't say I'd ever care to get one of these things... why carry around a $350 device and worry about charging, DRM and finding the e-books to begin with when I can just carry around a $9 paperback? It's not like I read more than one paperback at a time (okay, maybe two, but big deal...) but carrying a stack of ~100 papers to and from university, that's a pain in the ass...
Canadian macrobrews are definitly better than US macro's but comparing macrobrews is like comparing explosive diarrhea to explosive vomiting.
Indeed...
The microbrew scene in Seattle (and the rest of the US) beats damn near any other country.
I'm not sure I believe you, but I am sure it'll be fun finding out :-)
lol... I love as many women as I can get away with... women rock. Hell.. I've had ex girlfriends act as "wing-men" at bars telling the girl that I was hitting on that "he's a lot of fun... he lives far away so dating him probably won't happen... but if you're just looking for a good time, take him home"
All that to say, my "women are assholes?" post was supposed to be a joke... this is just the "whoosh" explaining why you're hearing it ;-)
/gasp!!... tell me more of this... what is this "terrible beer" that you have in Virginia?
Have you figured out the moral yet?
Women are assholes? :-)
If your income is so important that you sacrifice your relationship, you don't deserve neither.
I work in IT, I have been doing it for 10 years now. TEN FUCKING YEARS.
Christ almighty I hope you're not a coder...
whoosh?
Actually, I didn't know that there was such a strong distinction between jealousy and envy... so you kinda defeat your own point by demonstrating that there *is* some signal to be had in /.
Shit, you can get La Fin Du Monde in California
wait... let me get this straight... imported Canadian beer, kickass weather, and Californian bikinis? Where do I sign up?
/sigh... how embarARRRRRRsing
samichlaus is pretty good stuff too... was 16% when I last tried it in Quebec...
uh... oh... hey... did you hear that? *pauses* ... yup... I think that was the sound jealousy makes, kids...
Not everyone here speaks US English.
... so Pirate English it is then... ;-)
Weak beer.
I'ma get modded troll for this one for sure, but that sounds like any other place in the US...
Come to Canada where we have real beer, and some absolutely insane shit(*)
(*) - yes, it really is 9% alcohol beer. It's called La fin du monde which is french for The end of the world
That's ridiculous, I've gone to the bar many times and well over 30 times have I had the pleasure of "meeting" random single people. Hell... some of them even became great people-whose-names-I-know...
yes
Yes, like Royal Military College in Canada: 137.94.0.0 to 137.94.255.255 -- go nuts
By the way, a military institution, beholden to the vast majority of the most fucked up government rules imaginable, blocks absolutely nothing. Monitor, yes; block, no. I could surf for the naked pictures of Taco's mom to my heart's content and not get blocked once. Though the admins might have something to say about what I was looking at.
To the OP, tell your CIO they're just as much of a joke as the school IS is becoming...
/sigh ... uncle
I'm kinda stunned by your post.... I believe you completely and without reservation.... for some reason it still kinda stuns me though.
I guess I'll go listen to some winamp songs on one of those dell thingys
/cry
bullshit, "ah doh bee for mat" has more syllables than "pee dee eff" so laziness wins....
Also, I work with some pretty goddamned computer-illiterate people and I have never, ever, heard anyone call a .pdf file an adobe file or an adobe format file...
No one should ever have to see this.
ROFL!!!
Not sure why... but I think that guy was a little frustrated ;-)
Actually I got 46000 hits for bloody linux and 400 for bloody microsoft.... Mind you, coders are very bitter people when functions don't work the way they think they should, and you'd expect to see more linux code online... still quite the difference though.
And I really love this one: i=i++
hmm... apparently one of them is gtk ... it's all making sense now.