If you take a picture of ME and then want compensation when I share it with someone, you can go screw yourself.
Photographs of a public event are absolutely copyrightable. If you doubt this, try using photos from a newspaper without permission. Fundamentally, the photographer holds the copyright on the picture.
Who the hell has a credit card these days? the charges are outrageous. Most people have debit cards. Maybe the US is different.
The US is definitely different. My credit card charges me nothing, and rebates 2% of my purchases to me. Now, if I didn't pay my bill, and ran a balance, that would be an issue, since the interest charges are huge.
Well, I guess if it's that much of a burden to carry two cards around with you, it makes sense. Personally, that doesn't bother me too much.
Also, you mention getting cash for beer. I haven't paid a bar tab with cash in years. Nor for a restaurant, nor for a taxi, nor for public transport, etc. etc. Overall, cash is 2% of my spending.
Again, unless I couldn't GET a credit card, or had poor impulse control, why would I want to use a debit card?
1. With my credit card, I get rewards (at least 2% cash back, 6% on some purchases). 2. With my credit card, I get a free month of float on the money (at current rates, not much, but not zero. 3. With my credit card, I never pay any interest, since I pay my bill on time and don't carry a balance. 4. With my credit card, if there is a fraudulent charge, the money's still in my account while it gets worked out, rather than gone and needing to be credited back to me.
Bottom line, from a CONSUMER perspective, there's zero reason to use debit instead of credit.
New York City actually handled this quite well. When the card machines first went in (around 05, if I remember correctly), there were definitely cabbies insisting they didn't work. So NYC started enforcing the rule that, if the machine doesn't work, the driver has to notify the passenger before the ride begins. If the driver doesn't say anything until the end, and the machine doesn't work, the driver is SOL - the passenger can't be forced to pay cash for the ride.
The middle class got screwed and they generated the numbers when it came to private flying, hence the massive drop.
Seriously? Private flying has always been an expensive hobby. It's not all the 1%, but it's certainly the top 20%, and the top 20% have been doing better (albeit not as well as the top 1%).
Remember -- who ever pays for it gets to decide what goes in. I don't want that to be the government, nor do I want it to be some rich "benefactor" with an agenda to push. Sure, we can get stuff like the Snowden leaks for free, but we need journalists like those at the Guardian to pore over the data and find the juicy bits.
You realize, of course, that those Guardian journalists work for the Guardian, which is funded by a trust created by a wealthy man, for the purpose of ensuring that the Guardian stayed to the editorial course he had laid out. So, it's EXACTLY a case of a publication with a "rich "benefactor" with an agenda to push."
Here's the thing - the IRS can, and should crack down on tax evasion (i.e. nonpayment of tax in violation of the law). It can't, however crack down on tax avoidance (the legal structuring of one's affairs to reduce tax owed). Multinationals are engaged in large-scale, and entirely legal, tax avoidance. We can work to change the law, thereby closing off the avenues of avoidance, but criticizing the IRS for not going after things like Apple's tax avoidance structures is like criticizing cops for not ticketing people going 65 for speeding because you think that the limit on that stretch of highway should be 55, not 65.
Just bought one of these "Roku Ready" TV's (An Insignia 39" 1080p). The Roku-readiness comes in the form of a sticker on the box, and the back of the TV next to the MHL-compatible HDMI input. You plug in a Roku streaming stick, and use the TV's remote, which includes play/pause/rewind etc. buttons, to drive it.
That's the current model. The ones coming out this fall (from TCL and HiSense) won't require the stick, they'll actually have the Roku software built in.
Hey Dip Sh!t, guess what? Tablets and phones count for designing web pages and not sitting on the MSIE short bus... Time has moved on, the desktop is NOT the focus anymore.
Wow, that's a lot of hostility you have going there. Clearly, desktop share is shrinking, but it's still 76% of Wikipedia page views.
They would. The IRS would like to shift to a model where they send you your return (based on the info they have), and you either say "cool," or "nope, not right, here's my tax return." For a very large portion of Americans, who just generate wage and interest income, and don't itemize deductions, it would be much less hassle, reduce errors, etc.
BUT...Intuit and H&R Block have lobbied against it tooth and nail, for obvious reasons.
If interest is reported, then there is an easy calculation to get the balance.
No, there's really not. If my 1099 reports $100 in interest, I could have (using the rates on accounts I actually have) anywhere from $4k in the account (if it's my 2.5% checking account) to $111k (if it's my 0.1% checking account).
In addition, even if you did know the rate on the account, you'd only know the average balance through the year - that $100 in interest could mean that I had $111k in my checking account all year, or $5 million for a week.
I have about 15 cards. Only use three of them. The rest are ones I got for the signup bonuses, or have stopped using because other cards offered a better deal (points, cashback, etc.). Unless there's an annual fee, there's no good reason to close them, so they sit in the safe.
Be careful, that's 12% of total pages, including those accessed through mobile devices. If you look at the share of pages accessed by non-mobile browsers, it's 15.7% (12%/76%).
Classic case of whole being less than the sum of the parts.
Motorola Mobility consisted of: 1. a handset business 2. a set top box business 3. a patent portfolio 4. a bunch of cash 5. a bunch of tax assets, which the company couldn't use because it wasn't making enough money
Google wanted the patent portfolio, so it bought the company (the price of which incorporated the cash), utilized the tax assets (which had been worthless until MM was purchased), sold the set top box business to a set top box maker (Arris), and is now selling the handset business to a company in the handset business.
This isn't "asset stripping," since the pieces are worth more, and can be more successful, as separate pieces. It's breaking up a conglomerate that didn't make sense.
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If you take a picture of ME and then want compensation when I share it with someone, you can go screw yourself.
Photographs of a public event are absolutely copyrightable. If you doubt this, try using photos from a newspaper without permission. Fundamentally, the photographer holds the copyright on the picture.
Carry cash and a gun! Cash to pay for your purchases and a gun to protect you from robbers. I don't pay interest rates on CASH!
I don't pay interest on a credit card, either. Also, a gun would really ruin the line of my slacks.
I've never had an issue with using my swipe card to get cash from ATMs in Asia, Europe, or Latin America.
Who the hell has a credit card these days? the charges are outrageous. Most people have debit cards. Maybe the US is different.
The US is definitely different. My credit card charges me nothing, and rebates 2% of my purchases to me. Now, if I didn't pay my bill, and ran a balance, that would be an issue, since the interest charges are huge.
Well, I guess if it's that much of a burden to carry two cards around with you, it makes sense. Personally, that doesn't bother me too much.
Also, you mention getting cash for beer. I haven't paid a bar tab with cash in years. Nor for a restaurant, nor for a taxi, nor for public transport, etc. etc. Overall, cash is 2% of my spending.
Again, unless I couldn't GET a credit card, or had poor impulse control, why would I want to use a debit card?
1. With my credit card, I get rewards (at least 2% cash back, 6% on some purchases).
2. With my credit card, I get a free month of float on the money (at current rates, not much, but not zero.
3. With my credit card, I never pay any interest, since I pay my bill on time and don't carry a balance.
4. With my credit card, if there is a fraudulent charge, the money's still in my account while it gets worked out, rather than gone and needing to be credited back to me.
Bottom line, from a CONSUMER perspective, there's zero reason to use debit instead of credit.
New York City actually handled this quite well. When the card machines first went in (around 05, if I remember correctly), there were definitely cabbies insisting they didn't work. So NYC started enforcing the rule that, if the machine doesn't work, the driver has to notify the passenger before the ride begins. If the driver doesn't say anything until the end, and the machine doesn't work, the driver is SOL - the passenger can't be forced to pay cash for the ride.
The middle class got screwed and they generated the numbers when it came to private flying, hence the massive drop.
Seriously? Private flying has always been an expensive hobby. It's not all the 1%, but it's certainly the top 20%, and the top 20% have been doing better (albeit not as well as the top 1%).
Filler / fluff classes should be pass / fail or have there own GPA.
Maybe also give the gen EUD's there own GPA as well.
I presume you regard English 101 as a filler/fluff class, then.
Remember -- who ever pays for it gets to decide what goes in. I don't want that to be the government, nor do I want it to be some rich "benefactor" with an agenda to push. Sure, we can get stuff like the Snowden leaks for free, but we need journalists like those at the Guardian to pore over the data and find the juicy bits.
You realize, of course, that those Guardian journalists work for the Guardian, which is funded by a trust created by a wealthy man, for the purpose of ensuring that the Guardian stayed to the editorial course he had laid out. So, it's EXACTLY a case of a publication with a "rich "benefactor" with an agenda to push."
Maybe dice sells a number of "promotional posts" on a biased article to various companies, one of them being Microsoft?
Or maybe they're trying a "two wrongs make a right" balance for the garbage "IE's share is plummeting!!!" post from last week?
Here's the thing - the IRS can, and should crack down on tax evasion (i.e. nonpayment of tax in violation of the law). It can't, however crack down on tax avoidance (the legal structuring of one's affairs to reduce tax owed). Multinationals are engaged in large-scale, and entirely legal, tax avoidance. We can work to change the law, thereby closing off the avenues of avoidance, but criticizing the IRS for not going after things like Apple's tax avoidance structures is like criticizing cops for not ticketing people going 65 for speeding because you think that the limit on that stretch of highway should be 55, not 65.
Record numbers of people renounce their US citizenship every year, and this is the reason why.
The numbers may be records, but they're still tiny. In the first half of 2013, it was 1810 people. On an annualized basis, that's 0.001%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
Just bought one of these "Roku Ready" TV's (An Insignia 39" 1080p). The Roku-readiness comes in the form of a sticker on the box, and the back of the TV next to the MHL-compatible HDMI input. You plug in a Roku streaming stick, and use the TV's remote, which includes play/pause/rewind etc. buttons, to drive it.
That's the current model. The ones coming out this fall (from TCL and HiSense) won't require the stick, they'll actually have the Roku software built in.
http://blog.roku.com/blog/2014...
Let's see, USA has America's Army, PRC has The Glorious Mission, what does ROK call their war recruitment game?
"Who Wants To Eat Something?"
That would be the DPRK's version.
Witness describe a hoard of armed men running through the DMZ yelling "Xbox OFF!"
Silly concept. There's no way the hoard of armed men could get out of the treasure chest in which they're trapped.
There is no possible way for the Keystone XL operators to guarantee that there will be 0 leaks, especially as the thing ages.
Of course not, and if we were comparing it to a solution which had a zero percent chance of leaks, that would be relevant.
What if 100,000 barrels of tar-sands crap spills into a body of water? Is there any amount of money that could compensate for the potential damages?
Yes.
Hey Dip Sh!t, guess what? Tablets and phones count for designing web pages and not sitting on the MSIE short bus... Time has moved on, the desktop is NOT the focus anymore.
Wow, that's a lot of hostility you have going there. Clearly, desktop share is shrinking, but it's still 76% of Wikipedia page views.
until those unused cards bite you in the ass because someone in bolivia created a card with a matching number.
I've had that happen exactly once, and it didn't cost me a dime. Card issuer reversed the charge, done and done.
They would. The IRS would like to shift to a model where they send you your return (based on the info they have), and you either say "cool," or "nope, not right, here's my tax return." For a very large portion of Americans, who just generate wage and interest income, and don't itemize deductions, it would be much less hassle, reduce errors, etc.
BUT...Intuit and H&R Block have lobbied against it tooth and nail, for obvious reasons.
If interest is reported, then there is an easy calculation to get the balance.
No, there's really not. If my 1099 reports $100 in interest, I could have (using the rates on accounts I actually have) anywhere from $4k in the account (if it's my 2.5% checking account) to $111k (if it's my 0.1% checking account).
In addition, even if you did know the rate on the account, you'd only know the average balance through the year - that $100 in interest could mean that I had $111k in my checking account all year, or $5 million for a week.
I have about 15 cards. Only use three of them. The rest are ones I got for the signup bonuses, or have stopped using because other cards offered a better deal (points, cashback, etc.). Unless there's an annual fee, there's no good reason to close them, so they sit in the safe.
Be careful, that's 12% of total pages, including those accessed through mobile devices. If you look at the share of pages accessed by non-mobile browsers, it's 15.7% (12%/76%).
Asset stripped and dumped. Thanks, Google.
Classic case of whole being less than the sum of the parts.
Motorola Mobility consisted of:
1. a handset business
2. a set top box business
3. a patent portfolio
4. a bunch of cash
5. a bunch of tax assets, which the company couldn't use because it wasn't making enough money
Google wanted the patent portfolio, so it bought the company (the price of which incorporated the cash), utilized the tax assets (which had been worthless until MM was purchased), sold the set top box business to a set top box maker (Arris), and is now selling the handset business to a company in the handset business.
This isn't "asset stripping," since the pieces are worth more, and can be more successful, as separate pieces. It's breaking up a conglomerate that didn't make sense.
they lost $7,000,000,000.00 on the "deal'. It was a pointless waste.
Except they didn't, and they got what they wanted out of it - the patent portfolio.