Point taken hehe It still might induce moderators to use more "underrated" points which would be a waste and elevate the karma of only slightly interesting posters.
Re:This is a sign of some sort of cultural deficie
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Goodbye, "Majestic"
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Yeah darn that new technology.
What will they think of next, a fake newscast about aliens invading earth, and no one will know whether it is real or not?
It's a scam. Lets assume the stock market is zero sum, even though it's not quite.
I buy 1000 shares of XXX corp from you at $5 a share.
You get $5000, I get 1000 shares. Lets just assume you broke even and didn't profit or lose from that first sale.
Then the stock price goes up to $10 a share, and you want to buy your shares back from me at market price. You give me $10,000 and I give you the 1000 shares.
I have $5000 in capital gains now. That same money was taxed when you originally had it as income from your job or whatnot. Double dip number 1.
Now this is the real scam. The stock price goes back down to $5 and you sell back to me because you get pissed off. You have $5000 in capital loss, of which only $3000 can be written off against your regular income.
So I am paying tax on $5000, and you are only writing off $3000 worth of loss, which you can't write off the remaining amount until next year. The government gets a free loan in the form of the taxes on $2000.
The government also makes a lot of money because you might not be aware you can carry over your loss to next year, above the $3000 limitation.
This is just one example of how the government plays the stock market tax game to thier advantage.
Another blatent one is the wash sale rules. If you are holding a stock which is in the red, you cannot sell it, take the loss and write off, then buy it back within 30 days. However, the opposite isn't true, if you sell a stock that generates capital gains, then buy it back within 30 days, the capital gains taxes must be paid and cannot be transferred to the new lot.
There are probably dozens of examples of things like this where the government has a double standard that benefits them in the tax code.
It's nothing like insurance. Insurance is voluntary, and it provided the buyer a benefit, the assurance that if something bad happens, they can file a claim to defray the cost.
This is more like a teacher punishing the whole class because of a single bad student. Fuck that.
The ability to post at zero or -1 does have the side effect that it could waste moderator points, and get new users up to the +2 bonus quicker. Someone just needs to post a semi-insightful comment at 0 or -1, and someone will probably mod it up to 0 or 1, or maybe all the way to 5, eventually, giving the poster 6 karma from a single post. Someone who has posted 5 comments like this could in theory get the +2 bonus.
I think it might be nice for people who already have say 40 karma to be able to choose how low they want their posts to start at, since to them karma doesn't really matter.
Holy shit man, thanks for the link. I had not thought of that particuilar method of compiler binary trojaning. Kinda makes you wonder about how you can trust anything, open source or not!
Time to start disassembling all those sensitive programs and looking for suspicious JMPs:)
Re:Once more, for all the slow JBT's.
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The Eyes Have It
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People look at a polygrapgh and see needles and paper and wires all being run by some clown who's "certified".
You are stating the obvious, but I guess it may be hard for some to see.
But it isn't a bad thing. You prune a tree to make it stronger. Consolidation, to an extent, at least in the commercial side of Linux means that people are no longer faced with hard choices, like should I spend a bunch of money on support from a company that might not be around a month from now. Things like that.
We contacted the AOL Instant Messenger group but never received a
response. Normally we would be inclined to provide a fix, but it is
illegal to reverse engineer the AIM executable (DMCA and AIM's license
agreement to thank), so we are unable to provide a patch which will
modify it. Instead, we recommend Robbie Saunder's AIM Filter
(http://www.ssnbc.com/wiz/) to protect yourselves.
I don't know why I am responding to such obvious flamebait, but did any of you all actually read w00w00's bugtraq post?
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We contacted the AOL Instant Messenger group but never received a response. Normally we would be inclined to provide a fix, but it is illegal to reverse engineer the AIM executable (DMCA and AIM's license agreement to thank), so we are unable to provide a patch which will modify it. Instead, we recommend Robbie Saunder's AIM Filter (http://www.ssnbc.com/wiz/) to protect yourselves.
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They notified AOL, they got no reply. They did the right thing. End of story.
I forgot to lock the vault at the bank I manage, and no one is there right now!
Limited time offer!
Re:No, more like the Soviet Union
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Well, let me point you to
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
This has always been interperted to leave most criminal law in the hands of the states, unless somehow those criminal acts cross state lines or affect interstate commerce.
Generally, the federal government originally had no power except that which was enumerated, or which fell into the commerce clause. They have consistantly stretched this definition.
Looks like a big question mark in Opera 6 in Linux.
Re:No, more like the Soviet Union
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We got it right at first, I agree.
Then we let the executive branch create huge federal police forces, under the guise of the treasury department. Federal agency courts next, seperate, though accountable to (if you're rich enough to appeal it that far), the main judiciary.
The executive order was one of the major things that destroyed the balance of power. That, and the ability to have undeclared wars, and the expansion of the federal government far past what the commerce clause allows.
Tell me how the federal government going against the wishes of the voters in California and raiding cannabis clubs that were legal is justified. Interstate commerce? Hardly, most of it was grown locally and never left the state. They weren't even commercial operations.
Most of the people I know who shoot already know that. (Being out in a rural area). I've known guys that have been shot with shotguns at a couple hundred yards (rained on) when hunting and such. It might sting, and you'd do best not to get one in the eye, but the terminal velocity of firearm projectiles being low is pretty well known by those who hunt or shoot for recreation.
Well, my positions havn't changed one bit. It just goes to show how ignorant the American people are to what their government is doing, to be shocked at something like 9/11.
Sure, it's a sad loss, but no surprise, at least to me.
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Point taken hehe It still might induce moderators to use more "underrated" points which would be a waste and elevate the karma of only slightly interesting posters.
Yeah darn that new technology.
What will they think of next, a fake newscast about aliens invading earth, and no one will know whether it is real or not?
It's a scam. Lets assume the stock market is zero sum, even though it's not quite.
I buy 1000 shares of XXX corp from you at $5 a share.
You get $5000, I get 1000 shares. Lets just assume you broke even and didn't profit or lose from that first sale.
Then the stock price goes up to $10 a share, and you want to buy your shares back from me at market price. You give me $10,000 and I give you the 1000 shares.
I have $5000 in capital gains now. That same money was taxed when you originally had it as income from your job or whatnot. Double dip number 1.
Now this is the real scam. The stock price goes back down to $5 and you sell back to me because you get pissed off. You have $5000 in capital loss, of which only $3000 can be written off against your regular income.
So I am paying tax on $5000, and you are only writing off $3000 worth of loss, which you can't write off the remaining amount until next year. The government gets a free loan in the form of the taxes on $2000.
The government also makes a lot of money because you might not be aware you can carry over your loss to next year, above the $3000 limitation.
This is just one example of how the government plays the stock market tax game to thier advantage.
Another blatent one is the wash sale rules. If you are holding a stock which is in the red, you cannot sell it, take the loss and write off, then buy it back within 30 days. However, the opposite isn't true, if you sell a stock that generates capital gains, then buy it back within 30 days, the capital gains taxes must be paid and cannot be transferred to the new lot.
There are probably dozens of examples of things like this where the government has a double standard that benefits them in the tax code.
It's nothing like insurance. Insurance is voluntary, and it provided the buyer a benefit, the assurance that if something bad happens, they can file a claim to defray the cost.
This is more like a teacher punishing the whole class because of a single bad student. Fuck that.
The real Robot Wars, in the desert (in arizona I think), not on TV, was around in 1995 or so. That is the real inspiration for battle bots.
The ability to post at zero or -1 does have the side effect that it could waste moderator points, and get new users up to the +2 bonus quicker. Someone just needs to post a semi-insightful comment at 0 or -1, and someone will probably mod it up to 0 or 1, or maybe all the way to 5, eventually, giving the poster 6 karma from a single post. Someone who has posted 5 comments like this could in theory get the +2 bonus.
I think it might be nice for people who already have say 40 karma to be able to choose how low they want their posts to start at, since to them karma doesn't really matter.
Holy shit man, thanks for the link. I had not thought of that particuilar method of compiler binary trojaning. Kinda makes you wonder about how you can trust anything, open source or not!
:)
Time to start disassembling all those sensitive programs and looking for suspicious JMPs
People look at a polygrapgh and see needles and paper and wires all being run by some clown who's "certified".
:)
Like an IIS server farm?
Because it isn't the most popular where it counts, i.e. people other than 16 year olds in their basement.
You are stating the obvious, but I guess it may be hard for some to see.
But it isn't a bad thing. You prune a tree to make it stronger. Consolidation, to an extent, at least in the commercial side of Linux means that people are no longer faced with hard choices, like should I spend a bunch of money on support from a company that might not be around a month from now. Things like that.
Gates likes this new technology.
He will finally be able to store his net worth in dollars in a single long int.
They did wait, AOL ignored them.
We contacted the AOL Instant Messenger group but never received a
response. Normally we would be inclined to provide a fix, but it is
illegal to reverse engineer the AIM executable (DMCA and AIM's license
agreement to thank), so we are unable to provide a patch which will
modify it. Instead, we recommend Robbie Saunder's AIM Filter
(http://www.ssnbc.com/wiz/) to protect yourselves.
Please get the full story before you post shit.
I don't know why I am responding to such obvious flamebait, but did any of you all actually read w00w00's bugtraq post?
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We contacted the AOL Instant Messenger group but never received a response. Normally we would be inclined to provide a fix, but it is illegal to reverse engineer the AIM executable (DMCA and AIM's license agreement to thank), so we are unable to provide a patch which will modify it. Instead, we recommend Robbie Saunder's AIM Filter (http://www.ssnbc.com/wiz/) to protect yourselves.
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They notified AOL, they got no reply. They did the right thing. End of story.
Offtopic, what the hell are you thinking crackhead moderator?
My post is very on-topic, and relevant to the topic in discussion. Maybe if you had half a brain you could figure out what an analogy is.
After the apocalypse, the only thing left will be satellites and spam.
I forgot to lock the vault at the bank I manage, and no one is there right now!
Limited time offer!
Well, let me point you to
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
This has always been interperted to leave most criminal law in the hands of the states, unless somehow those criminal acts cross state lines or affect interstate commerce.
Generally, the federal government originally had no power except that which was enumerated, or which fell into the commerce clause. They have consistantly stretched this definition.
Opera 6 in linux is still in beta. I'm not too worried about it, just letting him know it didn't work.
Looks like a big question mark in Opera 6 in Linux.
We got it right at first, I agree.
Then we let the executive branch create huge federal police forces, under the guise of the treasury department. Federal agency courts next, seperate, though accountable to (if you're rich enough to appeal it that far), the main judiciary.
The executive order was one of the major things that destroyed the balance of power. That, and the ability to have undeclared wars, and the expansion of the federal government far past what the commerce clause allows.
Tell me how the federal government going against the wishes of the voters in California and raiding cannabis clubs that were legal is justified. Interstate commerce? Hardly, most of it was grown locally and never left the state. They weren't even commercial operations.
Most of the people I know who shoot already know that. (Being out in a rural area). I've known guys that have been shot with shotguns at a couple hundred yards (rained on) when hunting and such. It might sting, and you'd do best not to get one in the eye, but the terminal velocity of firearm projectiles being low is pretty well known by those who hunt or shoot for recreation.
I'd say it's more of an Urban Myth.
We are not at war with Eurasia, we are at war with Eastasia.
Man, some moderators just are idiots. Mod the parent back up someone.
Well, my positions havn't changed one bit. It just goes to show how ignorant the American people are to what their government is doing, to be shocked at something like 9/11.
Sure, it's a sad loss, but no surprise, at least to me.
That's the fun part, when shot rains down. Just shoot straight up, and use rabbit shot.
:)
Oh, and don't look up in anticipation of the coming shot shower.