So long as it's under $10,000 US you're ok. If it's over 10k, you just have to declare it - fill out a form stating what business you're in, why you're carrying so much cash/cheques/bearer bonds etc, and exactly what you plan on doing with it/them, where you will be staying, etc. Then you get asked a couple questions by the customs officer, and that's it.
If you DON'T declare it and they find out, then kiss it goodbye. You broke the law, so they take the money.
I agree. And they are going to start with TB patients. Wonderful. Yes, TB patients "forget to take their meds". Right. TB patients stop taking their meds because a) they don't want to be orange colored anymore (Rifampicin) and have can barely eat because of their medication-induced gastritis.
Lots of people stop taking their meds because they don't like the side effects (but can't be bothered to mention it to their doctor because after all they don't feel so bad from their original condition when they are off the meds). Not because they "forget".
Leaving things as they are will make (more) millions for (more) lawyers. So the government funded/susidized universities will be using gov't funds to fight the RIAA, and the RIAA will pay expensive legal bills to make sure they keep those "unrealized profits" as low as possible. Maybe one day they will wake up and...bleh, I am so sick of this argument.
Pretty much, and that's why WARF is a non-profit, and any profits they get from patents they license are sent right back to the university for more research.
The FUN thing about non-profits however is that the people who administer the non-profit ARE entitled to draw a salary for running the thing. After all fair is fair, right?
if(income > cost){
salary = income - cost;
profit = income - (cost + salary);
}
Incidentally, a real national ID card would completely solve this problem.
Not only that but nowadays there really is no excuse to not have ONE and ONLY one document that identifies you. Different agencies can use the same document to determine if you are licensed or not (via a flag in a database), and any other relevant information (blood type, known medical conditions, criminal record, credit history, etc). Then it's just a case of controlling who has access to which database. Your doctor doesn't need to know your criminal record or driver's license type, and your police officer doesn't need to know your blood type, etc.
Of course there's a huge potential for abuse. But there's abuse today anyway. Ask anyone who has had their identity stolen. Introducing YET ANOTHER document and YET ANOTHER branch of government to oversee this document is stupid. The system should be made more efficient, not LESS efficient. But I forget - bureaucracy's main goal is always to create more bureaucracy...
"Enhanced drivers licenses such as those to be issued in B.C. will lay the groundwork for a national identity card"... She characterized that program as a way of introducing a "type of national identity card" for Americans."
I'm sorry, but when did the US annex British Columbia?
OK, I will admit that as a Canadian I have insisted over the years that Canadians are part of America too (as are Mexicans and all residents of Central and South America), the word "America" to describe just the United States is not appropriate, and that "Americans" should get their own damned name for their nationality. However I don't think the summary is trying to make that specific point.
"Generally only small numbers of people are killed by terrorism" - well just 10,500+ since 9/11... no big deal right. You won't care if they kill you then?
I find it interesting the way you can pull numbers out of your ass. 10,500 people? Oh wait, are you including troops and contractors who invaded foreign countries without a formal declaration of war (against the Rules of War) and who persist on foreign soil in a de facto state of war, without any clear goals for withdrawal (against the Geneva conventions), and have been killed by nationals of those countries who resent being occupied by foreigners? Seems to me a certain nation told the British just where they could stick it a few hundred years ago too. But THAT wasn't "terrorism" back then, was it?
See when I was young, a "terrorist" was someone who blew things up for political reasons, like the IRA, ETA, PLO, etc. They'd hijack airplanes, blow up discos and hotels, etc. But NOW it seems that the very ambiguous word "terrorist" has been broadened to include "anyone who shoots at American troops" or even better "anyone who is shot at by American troops". In fact soon it will include "Anyone we call a terrorist". 10,500 people since 9/11. Right.
The trend in physics for the past 30 years has been to invent a new particle to explain any discrepancies with current theory anyway. This is no surprise.
Try $6.80 an hour (for 300 baud). Yes I remember CompuServe. And GEnie during peak hours was around $32/hr. But you could have all the minutes you wanted. For a price.
This is just (more) greed. I said good for them. Pretty soon someone will find a way to link all these wireless routers together and bypass the "ISP" altogether. Information wants to be free, especially when they want to charge you for it.
Be sure to declare this, should you find yourself trying to get into our country. Thanks...
Yes, because "freedom of speech" means something different in your country. No Mr. Paranoid, I won't declare it because I enjoy free travel across borders (it's one of the human rights you know) and don't want to be locked up on "terror" charges for speaking my mind. But don't worry, I won't be strapping any explosives to myself. You guys are doing a great job of destroying your own country as it is. Meanwhile I'll just keep taking your money on Wall Street.
It was a joke, silly, not a lament. I think India has come a LONG way in the past 20 years and I really hope that it fulfills its destiny as a major economic force in the world in the near future. I personally am anti-US or perhaps more specifically anti-Bush, and snigger every time the US has another finger slip from its tenuous position as the "world leader". But, yet again we have demonstrated that it's very difficult to effectively transmit sarcasm over the internet.
Speaking as a physician who lives in a country where dengue fever is endemic, I have the following to add:
Dengue is a mosquito disease as well as a human disease. By this I mean that the dengue virus is transmitted from mosquito parents to their offspring WITHOUT the need of humans at all (unlike say malaria, where a host organism (human) is needed for the parasite to breed). Therefore the actual situation is a chronic reservoir of virus in both mosquito AND human populations. A "healthy" mosquito bites an infected human and can contract the disease, and then form disease carrying colonies which will perpetuate the virus and continue infecting humans - which will cause mosquitoes from different colonies to become infected (the Aedes aegypti mosquito doesn't travel all that far during its life cycle after all).
So to get to my point, all you need is for ONE INFECTED MOSQUITO to survive, OR one healthy mosquito to bite an infected human - and eventually more and more mosquitoes (and therefore humans) will become infected.
I am sure that brighter minds than me are working on the problem, and I sincerely wish them luck. I personally doubt that this line of work will lead to any lasting results, however. You might as well try to eradicate all mosquitoes, and leave it at that.
Biology usually finds an original way to bite us in the ass when we try to mess with it on a large scale.
2.a A single, purchased copy (at educational discount prices) of all copyrighted works (music and movies) shall be placed in the university library. Additional federal funding will be required to purchase these works, however such funds could be covered by an additional tax on the record labels.
2.b Students will have 24hr online streaming access to the university library, so long as they play/view one work at a time.
she just seems to be for enforcing content/age restriction laws
The game ratings set by the ESRB are voluntary. Just like the movie ratings by the MPAA are voluntary. No game "HAS" to be rated. In fact several games (and movies) are released as "NR" (not rated). Hillary of course feels that government should ENFORCE ratings systems.
Oh and as for the "age restriction" - yes, there is a HUGE difference between a 17 year old playing a violent video game and an 18 year old playing the same violent video game... All this politics came out because of the "hot coffee" mod for GTA... a game released with a 17+ rating. Now at 17 you are old enough to enlist and go kill Iraqis oh sorry "insurgents", but apparently heaven forbid you witness some bad attempt at video porn (no actual oral-gential contact is visible). Big fucking deal.
Enough of the "nanny state" philosophy. It's up to parents, not the government, to regulate what their children can and can't play. And guess what - violent crime and rape statistics are at an all time low since the mid/late 90's and the popularity of home computers/internet/gaming systems.
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You obviously haven't been here very long, fanboi.
So long as it's under $10,000 US you're ok. If it's over 10k, you just have to declare it - fill out a form stating what business you're in, why you're carrying so much cash/cheques/bearer bonds etc, and exactly what you plan on doing with it/them, where you will be staying, etc. Then you get asked a couple questions by the customs officer, and that's it.
If you DON'T declare it and they find out, then kiss it goodbye. You broke the law, so they take the money.
I agree. And they are going to start with TB patients. Wonderful. Yes, TB patients "forget to take their meds". Right. TB patients stop taking their meds because a) they don't want to be orange colored anymore (Rifampicin) and have can barely eat because of their medication-induced gastritis.
Lots of people stop taking their meds because they don't like the side effects (but can't be bothered to mention it to their doctor because after all they don't feel so bad from their original condition when they are off the meds). Not because they "forget".
It's like trying to understand human psychology via unrelated still photographs of humans from orbit.
Leaving things as they are will make (more) millions for (more) lawyers. So the government funded/susidized universities will be using gov't funds to fight the RIAA, and the RIAA will pay expensive legal bills to make sure they keep those "unrealized profits" as low as possible. Maybe one day they will wake up and...bleh, I am so sick of this argument.
Pretty much, and that's why WARF is a non-profit, and any profits they get from patents they license are sent right back to the university for more research.
The FUN thing about non-profits however is that the people who administer the non-profit ARE entitled to draw a salary for running the thing. After all fair is fair, right?
if(income > cost){
salary = income - cost;
profit = income - (cost + salary);
}
Incidentally, a real national ID card would completely solve this problem.
Not only that but nowadays there really is no excuse to not have ONE and ONLY one document that identifies you. Different agencies can use the same document to determine if you are licensed or not (via a flag in a database), and any other relevant information (blood type, known medical conditions, criminal record, credit history, etc). Then it's just a case of controlling who has access to which database. Your doctor doesn't need to know your criminal record or driver's license type, and your police officer doesn't need to know your blood type, etc.
Of course there's a huge potential for abuse. But there's abuse today anyway. Ask anyone who has had their identity stolen. Introducing YET ANOTHER document and YET ANOTHER branch of government to oversee this document is stupid. The system should be made more efficient, not LESS efficient. But I forget - bureaucracy's main goal is always to create more bureaucracy...
I'm sorry, but when did the US annex British Columbia?
OK, I will admit that as a Canadian I have insisted over the years that Canadians are part of America too (as are Mexicans and all residents of Central and South America), the word "America" to describe just the United States is not appropriate, and that "Americans" should get their own damned name for their nationality. However I don't think the summary is trying to make that specific point.
"Generally only small numbers of people are killed by terrorism" - well just 10,500+ since 9/11... no big deal right. You won't care if they kill you then?
I find it interesting the way you can pull numbers out of your ass. 10,500 people? Oh wait, are you including troops and contractors who invaded foreign countries without a formal declaration of war (against the Rules of War) and who persist on foreign soil in a de facto state of war, without any clear goals for withdrawal (against the Geneva conventions), and have been killed by nationals of those countries who resent being occupied by foreigners? Seems to me a certain nation told the British just where they could stick it a few hundred years ago too. But THAT wasn't "terrorism" back then, was it?
See when I was young, a "terrorist" was someone who blew things up for political reasons, like the IRA, ETA, PLO, etc. They'd hijack airplanes, blow up discos and hotels, etc. But NOW it seems that the very ambiguous word "terrorist" has been broadened to include "anyone who shoots at American troops" or even better "anyone who is shot at by American troops". In fact soon it will include "Anyone we call a terrorist". 10,500 people since 9/11. Right.
I'm sure they're keeping terrorist recruiters or suspected terrorists under surveilance right now.
You americans make me laugh. Yeah, the government has everything under control. Keep believing it, after all it's only another lie.
The trend in physics for the past 30 years has been to invent a new particle to explain any discrepancies with current theory anyway. This is no surprise.
So if I enjoy deceiving, defrauding, embezzling, or otherwise taking advantage of other people for my personal gain
Just become a day trader...?
Won't someone please think of the meth addicts?
of 3.2 for Pi only proves this guy right...
x minutes per month?
Try $6.80 an hour (for 300 baud). Yes I remember CompuServe. And GEnie during peak hours was around $32/hr. But you could have all the minutes you wanted. For a price.
This is just (more) greed. I said good for them. Pretty soon someone will find a way to link all these wireless routers together and bypass the "ISP" altogether. Information wants to be free, especially when they want to charge you for it.
Be sure to declare this, should you find yourself trying to get into our country. Thanks...
Yes, because "freedom of speech" means something different in your country. No Mr. Paranoid, I won't declare it because I enjoy free travel across borders (it's one of the human rights you know) and don't want to be locked up on "terror" charges for speaking my mind. But don't worry, I won't be strapping any explosives to myself. You guys are doing a great job of destroying your own country as it is. Meanwhile I'll just keep taking your money on Wall Street.
XOHM will make your city one big hot spot (COVERAGE NOT AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE).
So I can get access everywhere except where I can't. Yawn. Call me when you have more than a couple silly videos to offer.
It was a joke, silly, not a lament. I think India has come a LONG way in the past 20 years and I really hope that it fulfills its destiny as a major economic force in the world in the near future. I personally am anti-US or perhaps more specifically anti-Bush, and snigger every time the US has another finger slip from its tenuous position as the "world leader". But, yet again we have demonstrated that it's very difficult to effectively transmit sarcasm over the internet.
Maybe it's time to move to India.
Why not. Your job already has.
And I, on the other hand, invoke Godwin.
Speaking as a physician who lives in a country where dengue fever is endemic, I have the following to add:
Dengue is a mosquito disease as well as a human disease. By this I mean that the dengue virus is transmitted from mosquito parents to their offspring WITHOUT the need of humans at all (unlike say malaria, where a host organism (human) is needed for the parasite to breed). Therefore the actual situation is a chronic reservoir of virus in both mosquito AND human populations. A "healthy" mosquito bites an infected human and can contract the disease, and then form disease carrying colonies which will perpetuate the virus and continue infecting humans - which will cause mosquitoes from different colonies to become infected (the Aedes aegypti mosquito doesn't travel all that far during its life cycle after all).
So to get to my point, all you need is for ONE INFECTED MOSQUITO to survive, OR one healthy mosquito to bite an infected human - and eventually more and more mosquitoes (and therefore humans) will become infected.
I am sure that brighter minds than me are working on the problem, and I sincerely wish them luck. I personally doubt that this line of work will lead to any lasting results, however. You might as well try to eradicate all mosquitoes, and leave it at that.
Biology usually finds an original way to bite us in the ass when we try to mess with it on a large scale.
Here is the beginnings of one such plan...
2.a A single, purchased copy (at educational discount prices) of all copyrighted works (music and movies) shall be placed in the university library. Additional federal funding will be required to purchase these works, however such funds could be covered by an additional tax on the record labels.
2.b Students will have 24hr online streaming access to the university library, so long as they play/view one work at a time.
After all, turnabout is fair play.
she just seems to be for enforcing content/age restriction laws
The game ratings set by the ESRB are voluntary. Just like the movie ratings by the MPAA are voluntary. No game "HAS" to be rated. In fact several games (and movies) are released as "NR" (not rated). Hillary of course feels that government should ENFORCE ratings systems.
Oh and as for the "age restriction" - yes, there is a HUGE difference between a 17 year old playing a violent video game and an 18 year old playing the same violent video game... All this politics came out because of the "hot coffee" mod for GTA... a game released with a 17+ rating. Now at 17 you are old enough to enlist and go kill Iraqis oh sorry "insurgents", but apparently heaven forbid you witness some bad attempt at video porn (no actual oral-gential contact is visible). Big fucking deal.
Enough of the "nanny state" philosophy. It's up to parents, not the government, to regulate what their children can and can't play. And guess what - violent crime and rape statistics are at an all time low since the mid/late 90's and the popularity of home computers/internet/gaming systems.
I really hope the modules are waterproof, so that FINALLY I can have my fricken sharks with fricken laser beams on their heads!
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