It doesn't have to be "totally free" to save me money. Currently to e-file costs around $45. It's nearly a guarantee that the government can run the service cheaper than that. Virginia had a service like that nearly a decade ago and it cost them about $40k/year for the entire state. Lobbying from the tax return industry killed it and now every taxpayer in the state pays on the order of $55 each year to e-file. Millions of dollars funneled to H&R Block, Intuit, etc... because they bought off some representatives. Not once has any service saved me a dime off of my state taxes. I can't think of any money they have saved me on federal taxes either. The only reason I use them is because there is no free way to e-file if you have a middle class income.
Are you seriously advocating for people to send their taxes to multiple services (paying a fee for each) to determine which can find your lowest tax bill?
Nobody is saying that they want to outlaw accountants. That's a gross misreading of the law. If you want to having someone look for savings in your tax bill then that's your prerogative. If you don't think those people are worth their fee because your return is simple then a free government service will probably save you money. The only people who lose are the middlemen who take a fee and fail to find any extra savings, which is an extremely common situation.
This is like saying that someone who got in a car and was then killed when a semi-truck had a blow out right next to him and pushed him into a ditch didn't have an accident because it was his choice to get in the car.
Unless we find a suicide note or some other indication that it was a suicide attempt it seems likely that it was an accidental overdose. Especially since fentanyl is so easy to OD on.
Because then you are in danger of being bought out by a hedge fund, having the debt from the buyout transferred to your company, and have to sell off all of the assets to pay for your own buyout and then going bankrupt when the new overhead costs of renting make your business unprofitable.
This is a big documentation failure on their part. On the Linux host you need to add yourself to the 'vboxsf' group (you may need to create it) or shared folders will fail silently.
To be fair, the old methods had their problems too, notably very high latency and low bandwidth. Plus they can leave a dangerous paper trail. Every system has its own risks.
All it takes is one line in a robots.txt file! This was sheer incompetence.
The thing that surprises me is that these were out on the public internet and not hidden sites on TOR. At least then Google wouldn't be trawling them. TOR is far from perfect, but it's way better than what they were doing.
The initial mission was for two years, but that's kind of misleading because it's mostly the point at which the mission managers can write "mission successful" on their end-of-year performance reviews. In practice most people expected it to last a decade or more.
It seems to me that it's an ablative thermal material. The question in my mind is what makes this material superior to reinforced carbon-carbon? It seems like there were some significant drawbacks to this material, one of which is that its inventor is a paranoid kook.
It would apply to any site that allows users to post content. Most of the web at this point. Only the likes of Facebook or Google could hope to survive with user content. Otherwise allowing user content is suicide.
Look at the provision. Slashdot would be liable for everything its users post. Someone puts up a link to a mp3 file they would be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of euros in damages. Someone posts lyrics to a modern song and Slashdot will be party to the lawsuit. They have to become content police and personally examine every post before letting it be shown on the site. That's several full time jobs worth of effort.
It looks like the law requires every blog owner to implement an omniscient version of Youtube's much hated ContentID system to insure that nothing uploaded bears any similarity to any past work. It would basically be impossible to run a site like Slashdot under that requirement. The false positive rate would undoubtedly be incredible. Big media cartels were tired of having to do their job and want everybody else to do it for them.
If this goes through about the only solution for every comment section will be to just geoblock the EU until some gigantic content clearinghouse is created. Even then such a service would be too expensive for most message boards so only players like Facebook and Google will be able to run blogs.
I've been waiting for a couple of years for a manufacturer to bring back the flipphone, but this time with a screen on both halves. It makes a lot of sense now that we have ultra-thin bezels and ever expanding phones. Women can't even fit half of the Android phones on the market into a standard pocket. Plus the phones are so thin now that doubling the thickness isn't a problem. IMHO phablets have significant usability problems that could be solved if you could just fold the thing in half when you put it away.
Wouldn't that be the wrong example? Unless his amazing display of charity causes billionaires around the country to suddenly become far far more charitable it is an empty gesture. Working to fix the systemic problems is a lot more effectual.
Are you seriously making the argument that Bernie is being a hypocrite because he doesn't use Medicare--a system he does not qualify for? This has been a dumb thread, but that post takes the cake.
No doubt -- and what do you do if you set up a very strong passcode, and later forgot what it was? Rot in jail for the rest of your life, because you can't convince the police that you genuinely forgot it and aren't just trying to stonewall them?
Yes. Amazingly enough the courts have gone along with this.
Even a strong passcode isn't much use against a search warrant unless you're willing to go to jail indefinitely to maybe prevent the feds from unlocking your phone.
Yes Boondoggle. The Patriot missile sites out in Europe are in no way the SDI that Reagan tried to sell to the American people. They completely fail to achieve the stated goal of the SDI of protecting from intercontinental ballistic missile threats. One can argue that it was one of the many factors that caused the collapse of the Soviet Union, but you can not argue that it was a primary factor. It did cause a lot of international tension over the possibility of losing MAD, but in practice it never got close enough to deployment to actually matter.
This was a giant boondoggle in the 80s, and it's just as stupid today. I have no doubt Trump has visions of X-Wings flying around protecting America from space Muslims but it's completely divorced from the reality of the world. Is he worried that he's not building up debt fast enough? That's absolutely not a problem thanks to his disastrous tax bill.
I like how Wordpad never comes up in this discussion. In theory it can do everything notepad can do but even better, but it has one deadly misfeature that prevents me from using it regularly. In notepad when you drag a file onto the window it opens the file. In Wordpad it embeds a link to the file in your document, a feature that nobody has ever found useful. It means you need to use the File->Open dialog and navigate to your file, which is much clunkier than dragging and dropping it into the window, so we continue to use notepad even though it isn't very good.
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It doesn't have to be "totally free" to save me money. Currently to e-file costs around $45. It's nearly a guarantee that the government can run the service cheaper than that. Virginia had a service like that nearly a decade ago and it cost them about $40k/year for the entire state. Lobbying from the tax return industry killed it and now every taxpayer in the state pays on the order of $55 each year to e-file. Millions of dollars funneled to H&R Block, Intuit, etc... because they bought off some representatives. Not once has any service saved me a dime off of my state taxes. I can't think of any money they have saved me on federal taxes either. The only reason I use them is because there is no free way to e-file if you have a middle class income.
Are you seriously advocating for people to send their taxes to multiple services (paying a fee for each) to determine which can find your lowest tax bill?
Nobody is saying that they want to outlaw accountants. That's a gross misreading of the law. If you want to having someone look for savings in your tax bill then that's your prerogative. If you don't think those people are worth their fee because your return is simple then a free government service will probably save you money. The only people who lose are the middlemen who take a fee and fail to find any extra savings, which is an extremely common situation.
$31 million is like a couple of hours of profit for Apple. This is a slap on the wrist.
Keep in mind we're talking about a project that's roughly the same length as Paris to Liechtenstein. It's not a trivial undertaking.
This is like saying that someone who got in a car and was then killed when a semi-truck had a blow out right next to him and pushed him into a ditch didn't have an accident because it was his choice to get in the car.
Unless we find a suicide note or some other indication that it was a suicide attempt it seems likely that it was an accidental overdose. Especially since fentanyl is so easy to OD on.
Because then you are in danger of being bought out by a hedge fund, having the debt from the buyout transferred to your company, and have to sell off all of the assets to pay for your own buyout and then going bankrupt when the new overhead costs of renting make your business unprofitable.
This is a big documentation failure on their part. On the Linux host you need to add yourself to the 'vboxsf' group (you may need to create it) or shared folders will fail silently.
To be fair, the old methods had their problems too, notably very high latency and low bandwidth. Plus they can leave a dangerous paper trail. Every system has its own risks.
All it takes is one line in a robots.txt file! This was sheer incompetence.
The thing that surprises me is that these were out on the public internet and not hidden sites on TOR. At least then Google wouldn't be trawling them. TOR is far from perfect, but it's way better than what they were doing.
The initial mission was for two years, but that's kind of misleading because it's mostly the point at which the mission managers can write "mission successful" on their end-of-year performance reviews. In practice most people expected it to last a decade or more.
It seems to me that it's an ablative thermal material. The question in my mind is what makes this material superior to reinforced carbon-carbon? It seems like there were some significant drawbacks to this material, one of which is that its inventor is a paranoid kook.
I'm kind of dubious that they'll be able to make a sharp crease on a large single panel, but I don't mind being surprised.
It will be totally lame if you can only bend it a little. Sure it might fit better in a pocket if it can hug your leg but it will still be huge.
It would apply to any site that allows users to post content. Most of the web at this point. Only the likes of Facebook or Google could hope to survive with user content. Otherwise allowing user content is suicide.
Look at the provision. Slashdot would be liable for everything its users post. Someone puts up a link to a mp3 file they would be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of euros in damages. Someone posts lyrics to a modern song and Slashdot will be party to the lawsuit. They have to become content police and personally examine every post before letting it be shown on the site. That's several full time jobs worth of effort.
It looks like the law requires every blog owner to implement an omniscient version of Youtube's much hated ContentID system to insure that nothing uploaded bears any similarity to any past work. It would basically be impossible to run a site like Slashdot under that requirement. The false positive rate would undoubtedly be incredible. Big media cartels were tired of having to do their job and want everybody else to do it for them.
If this goes through about the only solution for every comment section will be to just geoblock the EU until some gigantic content clearinghouse is created. Even then such a service would be too expensive for most message boards so only players like Facebook and Google will be able to run blogs.
It's an empty gesture because he's not Bill Gates. His contribution wouldn't amount to more than a few weeks of relief on the problem.
I've been waiting for a couple of years for a manufacturer to bring back the flipphone, but this time with a screen on both halves. It makes a lot of sense now that we have ultra-thin bezels and ever expanding phones. Women can't even fit half of the Android phones on the market into a standard pocket. Plus the phones are so thin now that doubling the thickness isn't a problem. IMHO phablets have significant usability problems that could be solved if you could just fold the thing in half when you put it away.
Because it has lots of jobs crammed into tiny areas with heavily restrictive building requirements?
Wouldn't that be the wrong example? Unless his amazing display of charity causes billionaires around the country to suddenly become far far more charitable it is an empty gesture. Working to fix the systemic problems is a lot more effectual.
Are you seriously making the argument that Bernie is being a hypocrite because he doesn't use Medicare--a system he does not qualify for? This has been a dumb thread, but that post takes the cake.
Yes. Amazingly enough the courts have gone along with this.
Even a strong passcode isn't much use against a search warrant unless you're willing to go to jail indefinitely to maybe prevent the feds from unlocking your phone.
Yes Boondoggle. The Patriot missile sites out in Europe are in no way the SDI that Reagan tried to sell to the American people. They completely fail to achieve the stated goal of the SDI of protecting from intercontinental ballistic missile threats. One can argue that it was one of the many factors that caused the collapse of the Soviet Union, but you can not argue that it was a primary factor. It did cause a lot of international tension over the possibility of losing MAD, but in practice it never got close enough to deployment to actually matter.
This was a giant boondoggle in the 80s, and it's just as stupid today. I have no doubt Trump has visions of X-Wings flying around protecting America from space Muslims but it's completely divorced from the reality of the world. Is he worried that he's not building up debt fast enough? That's absolutely not a problem thanks to his disastrous tax bill.
I like how Wordpad never comes up in this discussion. In theory it can do everything notepad can do but even better, but it has one deadly misfeature that prevents me from using it regularly. In notepad when you drag a file onto the window it opens the file. In Wordpad it embeds a link to the file in your document, a feature that nobody has ever found useful. It means you need to use the File->Open dialog and navigate to your file, which is much clunkier than dragging and dropping it into the window, so we continue to use notepad even though it isn't very good.