And because of your higher "shipping costs", your items won't sell for as much money -- basic economics. Of course, Ebay doesn't charge final value fees on shipping costs, so you will in theory save a little money that way.
Paypal banned online gambling transfers a long time ago. The credit card companies don't allow it either, because of too many chargebacks. So how do people get money to online poker sites? The money transfer services are themselves located offshore -- for example Neteller, the most popular one, is located in Canada. So you transfer money from your bank account to Neteller, then from Neteller to the poker site. There is talk of banning transfers between US banks and companies like Neteller, but the banks are very opposed to this because the way the ACH system is set up would make it very difficult/expensive to differentiate between allowed and not-allowed transactions.
Wouldn't this have to depend on whether the "stealing" is considered part of the game? No one's ever been arrested for stealing the blinds in a poker game, or stealing 2nd base in the World Series. But if you hack into a WoW server and give yourself 10 million gold, that might be against some real world law...
Will we get to the point where real-world courts are asked to decide whether someone's action in an online game constitutes cheating? Who defines cheating?
I could see this ending up like card counting in blackjack, where there's no law against it, but if you do it and get caught you'll be banned by the people running the game.
What makes these uncommon is that the digits in the year can't add up to more than 8. Obviously this condition is difficult to meet late in a century, which explains the gap from 1520 to 2004.
That used to be the case, until the B&M casinos saw how many people were going to Vegas for the World Series of Poker after winning online satellites. The whole poker boom, which B&M casinos are making a lot of money off of, would never have happened without online poker.
A lot of those countries (Indonesia for example) subsidize gas, and in some cases it's very heavily subsidized. I don't know if Saudi Arabia does this, but in general you can't assume the lowest price is the "real" price.
BTW the cost of shipping a barrel of oil halfway around the world is a small fraction of the cost of a barrel of oil. Transporting things by cargo ship is in general very cheap; that's what allows Walmart to sell cheap crap that's made in China.
The terrorists aren't out trying to cause power outages -- they're out to create fear, which means killing large numbers of people, preferably in ways that create dramatic images for TV. I don't care how much economic damage it does, the prospect of terrorists causing billions of dollars in infrastructure damage or lost productivity, which gets absorbed by insurance companies, big businesses, the government, etc. doesn't scare anyone (yes I realize individuals ultimately pay these costs, but no one really notices it). Power outages happen all the time, nothing to worry about. Lots of people think "OMG the terrorists are going to kill me". No one thinks "OMG the terrorists are going to make my stock portfolio go down 5%" or "OMG the terrorists are going to make my utility bill go up $1 a month" or "OMG the terrorists are going to mess up my WoW character".
What's next, Al Qaeda launching a ddos against Google? Videos on al jazeera threatening to cause traffic jams in LA?
There ARE scams like this though. Buy a used van and paint it up to look like the Publishers Clearing House van everyone's seen on TV. Drive up to people's houses, get out the balloons, TV cameras, etc. and tell them they've just won $10,000 -- but before they can accept the prize they need to write a check for $400, payable to the IRS, to pay for taxes.
The scammer has set up a business ahead of time and named it something like International Recording Solutions.
Their voting isn't secret ballot. If someone was messing around with the wires, it would get noticed, probably by the representative whose vote was counted incorrectly (or their staff/party/lobbyists/constituents/local newspaper).
It's even more sad that watching TV counts as "quality time" for some people. At least in an MMORPG you're actually interacting with the other person, talking to them, and doing something together. Yes, it would probably be better to go outside and play catch or something, but that might not be practical if you're in another state (or it's raining out, etc). Then again, playing chess counts as quality time, right? Would playing chess on a computer be better/worse than playing chess with a real chess set? Anyway it's a lot more interactive that everyone just sitting in the same room staring at the TV.
Mushrooms are a commodity. If all they're worth is $1 a bushel, that's all they're worth. It would be like John Elway using a 50c pen to autograph a football. A 50c pen is a 50c pen regardless of what it's used for.
On the other hand, suppose there's something special about YOUR mushrooms, and that's why Mario is making so much money. Maybe your field produces really good mushrooms. Maybe you have a brand name for your mushrooms that people are willing to pay extra for. In this case, you should charge Mario more money, and he'll pay it because people wouldn't be willing to pay as much if he used someone else's mushrooms.
Of course, there'e plenty of competition in the markets for both mushrooms and restaurants. If the only reason the baby bells can extract money out of google is because they have a monopoly, that's not right (and the regulators should stop them from doing it). If there's competition, the government should get out of the way and let whatever happens happen.
Easy. Just figure out the exact speed you have to fly so the relativistic time skew caused by the altitude is exactly cancelled out by the relativistic time skew caused by the movement of the plane.
They could easily have done that -- just order Larry Ellison to pay $133 million to Oracle. 1/4th of that ($33m) would go back to him, and the other $100 million would go to the other shareholders.
Would you rather NASA spend $100 million on missions that has a 50/50 chance of success, or $1 billion on missions that are sure to succeed? Think about it.
They can't run a deficit, but they can issue long term bonds to pay for stuff, which is basically the same thing. That's what Arnold has been doing here in California to "balance" the budget ever since he won the recall election.
They do -- but they're sneaky about it so it's hard to notice.
It used to be (and as far as I know still is) true that tobacco companies would pay convenience stores to put the cigarettes in front of the counter instead of behind the counter. The reason was that this made the cigarettes easier to shoplift, and most cigarette shoplifting is done by the teenagers that the tobacco companies would like to give away free cigarettes to.
I'm not so sure. I think one of the lessons of the 2004 election is that a polarizing candidate will do well. As a Kerry supporter, I was hoping a lot of people would be motivated to go to the polls to get rid of Bush. And they did. Unfortunately, even more people were motivated to vote FOR Bush because they like him.
In other words, being a polarizing candidate tends to increase turnout among both your supporters and your detractors, but the effect is stronger among supporters, so being polarizing produces a net gain in votes. Therefore the Texas oilman that everyone has strong feelings about beats the Senator no one had heard of before the election. Similarly, a New York senator/former first lady that everyone has strong feelings about should also do well, and for the same reason.
You're absolutely right. A hyperspace bypass would have been considered public infrastructure, and therefore an allowable reason to use imminent domain, even before this ruling was made.
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That's an eternity on Ebay. I would suggest more like 2 or 3 seconds.
I'll bet you've never had to struggle with getting a vending machine to accept currency. Dollar coins aren't all bad.
And because of your higher "shipping costs", your items won't sell for as much money -- basic economics. Of course, Ebay doesn't charge final value fees on shipping costs, so you will in theory save a little money that way.
Assuming it's made of pure gold, a one pound gold coin would be worth about $9,119.
Paypal banned online gambling transfers a long time ago. The credit card companies don't allow it either, because of too many chargebacks. So how do people get money to online poker sites? The money transfer services are themselves located offshore -- for example Neteller, the most popular one, is located in Canada. So you transfer money from your bank account to Neteller, then from Neteller to the poker site. There is talk of banning transfers between US banks and companies like Neteller, but the banks are very opposed to this because the way the ACH system is set up would make it very difficult/expensive to differentiate between allowed and not-allowed transactions.
Bush would still have been able to pardon him during his lame duck period.
Wouldn't this have to depend on whether the "stealing" is considered part of the game? No one's ever been arrested for stealing the blinds in a poker game, or stealing 2nd base in the World Series. But if you hack into a WoW server and give yourself 10 million gold, that might be against some real world law...
Will we get to the point where real-world courts are asked to decide whether someone's action in an online game constitutes cheating? Who defines cheating?
I could see this ending up like card counting in blackjack, where there's no law against it, but if you do it and get caught you'll be banned by the people running the game.
Also Friday, March 13, 2004
But it won't happen again until January 2024.
What makes these uncommon is that the digits in the year can't add up to more than 8. Obviously this condition is difficult to meet late in a century, which explains the gap from 1520 to 2004.
That used to be the case, until the B&M casinos saw how many people were going to Vegas for the World Series of Poker after winning online satellites. The whole poker boom, which B&M casinos are making a lot of money off of, would never have happened without online poker.
A lot of those countries (Indonesia for example) subsidize gas, and in some cases it's very heavily subsidized. I don't know if Saudi Arabia does this, but in general you can't assume the lowest price is the "real" price.
BTW the cost of shipping a barrel of oil halfway around the world is a small fraction of the cost of a barrel of oil. Transporting things by cargo ship is in general very cheap; that's what allows Walmart to sell cheap crap that's made in China.
The terrorists aren't out trying to cause power outages -- they're out to create fear, which means killing large numbers of people, preferably in ways that create dramatic images for TV. I don't care how much economic damage it does, the prospect of terrorists causing billions of dollars in infrastructure damage or lost productivity, which gets absorbed by insurance companies, big businesses, the government, etc. doesn't scare anyone (yes I realize individuals ultimately pay these costs, but no one really notices it). Power outages happen all the time, nothing to worry about. Lots of people think "OMG the terrorists are going to kill me". No one thinks "OMG the terrorists are going to make my stock portfolio go down 5%" or "OMG the terrorists are going to make my utility bill go up $1 a month" or "OMG the terrorists are going to mess up my WoW character".
What's next, Al Qaeda launching a ddos against Google? Videos on al jazeera threatening to cause traffic jams in LA?
There ARE scams like this though. Buy a used van and paint it up to look like the Publishers Clearing House van everyone's seen on TV. Drive up to people's houses, get out the balloons, TV cameras, etc. and tell them they've just won $10,000 -- but before they can accept the prize they need to write a check for $400, payable to the IRS, to pay for taxes.
The scammer has set up a business ahead of time and named it something like International Recording Solutions.
Who's reporting all these attacks? The city manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma?
Of those, how many are men over the age of 21?
Why is this relevant, now that we have the 19th and 26th amendments?
Their voting isn't secret ballot. If someone was messing around with the wires, it would get noticed, probably by the representative whose vote was counted incorrectly (or their staff/party/lobbyists/constituents/local newspaper).
It's even more sad that watching TV counts as "quality time" for some people. At least in an MMORPG you're actually interacting with the other person, talking to them, and doing something together. Yes, it would probably be better to go outside and play catch or something, but that might not be practical if you're in another state (or it's raining out, etc). Then again, playing chess counts as quality time, right? Would playing chess on a computer be better/worse than playing chess with a real chess set? Anyway it's a lot more interactive that everyone just sitting in the same room staring at the TV.
It depends.
Mushrooms are a commodity. If all they're worth is $1 a bushel, that's all they're worth. It would be like John Elway using a 50c pen to autograph a football. A 50c pen is a 50c pen regardless of what it's used for.
On the other hand, suppose there's something special about YOUR mushrooms, and that's why Mario is making so much money. Maybe your field produces really good mushrooms. Maybe you have a brand name for your mushrooms that people are willing to pay extra for. In this case, you should charge Mario more money, and he'll pay it because people wouldn't be willing to pay as much if he used someone else's mushrooms.
Of course, there'e plenty of competition in the markets for both mushrooms and restaurants. If the only reason the baby bells can extract money out of google is because they have a monopoly, that's not right (and the regulators should stop them from doing it). If there's competition, the government should get out of the way and let whatever happens happen.
Easy. Just figure out the exact speed you have to fly so the relativistic time skew caused by the altitude is exactly cancelled out by the relativistic time skew caused by the movement of the plane.
They could easily have done that -- just order Larry Ellison to pay $133 million to Oracle. 1/4th of that ($33m) would go back to him, and the other $100 million would go to the other shareholders.
Would you rather NASA spend $100 million on missions that has a 50/50 chance of success, or $1 billion on missions that are sure to succeed? Think about it.
They can't run a deficit, but they can issue long term bonds to pay for stuff, which is basically the same thing. That's what Arnold has been doing here in California to "balance" the budget ever since he won the recall election.
They do -- but they're sneaky about it so it's hard to notice.
It used to be (and as far as I know still is) true that tobacco companies would pay convenience stores to put the cigarettes in front of the counter instead of behind the counter. The reason was that this made the cigarettes easier to shoplift, and most cigarette shoplifting is done by the teenagers that the tobacco companies would like to give away free cigarettes to.
Unfortunately, he's probably patented fire. If you try to start your own without paying the royalty, you'll be hearing from his lawyers.
I'm not so sure. I think one of the lessons of the 2004 election is that a polarizing candidate will do well. As a Kerry supporter, I was hoping a lot of people would be motivated to go to the polls to get rid of Bush. And they did. Unfortunately, even more people were motivated to vote FOR Bush because they like him.
In other words, being a polarizing candidate tends to increase turnout among both your supporters and your detractors, but the effect is stronger among supporters, so being polarizing produces a net gain in votes. Therefore the Texas oilman that everyone has strong feelings about beats the Senator no one had heard of before the election. Similarly, a New York senator/former first lady that everyone has strong feelings about should also do well, and for the same reason.
You're absolutely right. A hyperspace bypass would have been considered public infrastructure, and therefore an allowable reason to use imminent domain, even before this ruling was made.