That's the sad part... The SJW crowd thinks they are "better", but I've come to the conclusion that the left is actually the racist group... and far more racist than anyone on the right that I have any sort of contact with.
The left has decided to break everyone down by race, gender, sexual orientation, and a host of other things. Everyone (to them) is just a member of some "oppressed" group. Well, unless you are white in which case you are pure, distilled, evil....
In fact, the left has taken it upon themselves to be outraged ON BEHALF of minorities... Talk about being fucking patronizing......
I know people who, for example, don't like blacks... (Because they are fucking racist...) But I've never seen one of those mouth-breathers stand up and pretend to speak on behalf of blacks.. Yet, I see this coming from the left ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
We had such an incident in my area not so long ago, where a bunch of snowflake liberals ran around acting all outraged over a school mascot that is done in the likeness of a certain Native American (Indian) chief.
They were just freaking out about it... However, when the local news went out and did a bunch of interviews, they couldn't find anyone, of that tribe, who was offended. Most said they were quite happy that the mascot depicted the Chief in a positive, strong, and dignified way. Not all were "pro mascot", but the worst opposition they could find was.. indifference.. i.e. some members of the tribe basically said they didn't give a crap one way or the other, but they weren't offended...
You'd think the outrage would have died down at that point.. I mean if the members of the tribe aren't upset....
But NO! The SJW's know better.. A couple of them, who were suspected of being the leaders of the protesters, were recorded on hidden camera saying (and I'm paraphrasing because I don't remember the exact wording) that the tribe had been oppressed for so long that they couldn't be trusted to know what was offensive to them.
They basically accused this tribe (which has a HUGE casino and is very prosperous) of having Stockholm Syndrome. This tribe has had a casino for about 30 years.. i.e. they are all upper middle class at this point, and the members that make up the bulk of the tribe have never been oppressed. Nobody in that tribe that is 35 or less has ever eaten government cheese or been dependent on the white man for anything.. i.e. they don't need you holier-than-thou cunts speaking for them. They don't have Stockholm Syndrome.... But, you see, to an SJW it's just a bunch of dumb Indians who need protection, from whites, by whites who know better and are more virtuous...
The level of hubris and irony is beyond......
So my dear SJW, please continue to be outraged on behalf of groups you have no connection with. Please continue to speak on their behalf and continue your own self-hatred of your own race. If you signal hard enough somebody, somewhere, might think you are a good person... Well, until they realize that you are just as racist as those on the extreme right...
At least the racists on the right just declare their racism.. They don't hide it like the left... They don't pretend to care about minorities and at the same time think said minorities are too stupid, weak, or unsophisticated to handle their own lives.
Uh.. You think IRS auditors dig that deeply? There are rare-book merchants... There are expensive books... The IRS doesn't give a crap what you are doing as long as you pay your taxes.. Hell, here in California, you can buy tax coupons for Schedule 1 narcotics.. So when you get busted dealing, you don't also get hit with a charge of Tax Evasion..
Unlikely, since it's prevalent all over the place. I see absolutely legit sellers selling Item X for $99 on one listing, and the exact same item for $499 on another listing (same condition; brand new).
I figured they were trying to catch the odd "accidental" purchase.. Or the moron who thinks he's getting a better product because it's the "expensive" one.
I really think we're mixing terms here. I don't think it's accurate to say "odds" when talking about stuff that has already happened.. I think that's where the confusion is coming in.. Maybe it's technically correct English and maybe it's not.. But it is with 100% certainty (haha) confusing..
Yeah. It was an attempt at dark humor. But.... I did kinda hope you would see my point.. The Nazis were Nazis.. Okay? To call this puffy orange Cheeto a Nazi.. man, it's just wrong. This shit goes down every fucking election..
Bush Jr was a Nazi.. He's gonna refuse to leave office.
Obama is a communist.. He's gonna refuse to leave office...
Both parties are full of assholes. Obama may have been a closet socialist, but he wasn't a communist.. And, lo and behold, he didn't refuse to leave office. Trump may be an asshole, but he's not a fucking nazi and he's not gonna set himself up as dictator.. He'll have his second term and he'll leave office.
He will never spend a single day in prison. Regardless of if he deserves it or not.. Assuming he's guilty, he WILL be pardoned.. It's Republicans all the way down the line.. For good or ill, we don't imprison our Presidents..
I missed the "though experiment part". I apologize.
I can admit when I've been an ass.:)
Let me add this: Wealth isn't a pie that needs to be distributed evenly. Wealth is created constantly. That is to say, the pie keeps getting bigger. Easiest example is.. go dig up some gold.. You're now richer than you were 5 mins ago, but you took zero money from anyone else.. Nobody is poorer because you are richer... In a.. hrm... fair system (no monopolies, no fraud, etc) this will keep the system chugging along..
I just read an article today that said the number people living in abject poverty has decreased by about 80% in the last 200 years.. yet the rich are richer.. But.. the poor are richer.. Everyone is richer... It can and does work like that..
I'm not mixing up anything. I worked for AT&T in fiber construction. AT&T promised (if given tax breaks) that they would deliver 45 mbps to HOMES. Private single family HOMES. Not businesses, HOMES.
We knew it was outlandish when they promised it, but what else are you going to say to justify an $80BN tax break? And as per usual, the government believed it.
The 45mbps number wasn't pulled out of thin air... It's the speed of a T-3 line... They promised a speed they knew some folks were familiar with. Plenty of government buildings had T-3 lines at the time.
By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up. And though it varies by state, counting the taxes, fees and surcharges that you have paid every month (many of these fees are actually revenues to the company or taxes on the company that you paid), it comes to about $4000-$5000.00 per household from 1992-2014, and that’s the low number.
In fact, in 1992, the speed of broadband, as detailed in state laws, was 45 Mbps in both directions — by 2014, all of us should have been enjoying gigabit speeds (1000 Mbps).
I didn't pull 45 mbps out of my ass and neither did AT&T. It's a super common speed..... And they fucking promised it to us for tax breaks and actual corporate grants AS WELL as being permitted to CHARGE EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THEIR NETWORK A FEE FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SAID 45MBPS NETWORK.
And by the way.. I get tired of having to say this, but National Socialism is not the extreme right. It doesn't matter how many times you lefties say it is, it's NOT. It's just as left leaning as Communism. That's not personal opinion, it's what the Nazi's themselves said. They declared many times that they were on the left, that they were socialist, that they were for the "workers". Private business ownership in Germany was a farce. The government dictated EVERYTHING regarding production, wages, hours, etc. It was a centrally planned economy. It was carried out exactly like Communism. One of the only differences was that the Nazis didn't seem to meddle with the VERY small businesses.. The mom n' pop operations.. They knew they needed that small level of capitalism.. But if you had 20+ employees, you can bet you got your directions from Berlin.. at least if what you did could even be remotely called "important" or of national importance.. And that was not a very high bar..
To you maybe, but no.. the vast amount of people who refer to Trump as Hilter Jr, are not making that distinction. How do I know this? Simple, most Americans are... stupid is not the right term.. I'd say they are absolutely ignorant of History (and certainly Geography). They are ignorant and they are not even embarrassed by that ignorance. Some practically revel it in.. as if knowledge is something only nerds acquire.
When your average leftie calls Trump a Nazi, they are referring to Hitler of 1940. I've heard enough with my own ears to come to this conclusion. In fact, the only reason they call Trump a Nazi is that National Socialism is still something that is taught in schools (as bad of course) and still has movies made about it (Inglorious Basterds). It's still very much part of the daily culture via the media. i.e. it's still shoved in their faces. That's the only reason they even remember the Nazis. Americans (my fellow countrymen) love to ignore history.
If as much time was devoted to Hitler as is devoted to Stalin, most Americans wouldn't have a clue who he was. That's why Hitler is still considered more "evil". He killed... what? 6 million? Stalin is somewhere between 20-50 million, yet the average Joe hasn't the slightest idea who the guy was. They may have heard his name, but most of him has been lost to history (to the average person).
Ah, but you see, their socialism is different. It's not the kind that leads to death. How do we know this? Why, it's so simple, they tell us it's a different kind. That's good enough for me.
I can't make sure he doesn't.. But I can mitigate it to an extent. The gear can be set to a frequency hopping mode, so unless the competition was to sit there with a scanner and learn the pattern, and then set his transmitter to the same pattern...
But, we have lines of communication. Neither of us wants interference so we have some cooperation on frequency selection. I'd call it cooperative competition. Interference for him is just as bad as for me..
If it really became a problem, there are licenses that can be purchased; 3.65GHz, for example, that mandate cooperation. Failure to engage in reasonable coordination can result in one party having their license revoked. Thus, one way or another, the interference goes away.
The FCC may or may not specifically be preventing competition, but they are a single, and relatively small, department of the government.
County / State regulations absolutely and unequivocally favor the incumbents. Sometimes they are so lopsided they actually BAN any form of competition, in whatever areas they can. Hence my reliance on OTARD.
We've all heard the stories of cities passing laws to, for example, exclude Google Fiber.... It's absolutely blatant and un-American. Well, Google Fiber isn't the only one that gets picked on.
Of course the lottery example was flawed. But it makes the point.. And yes, someone always wins. Maybe not "this week", but eventually. The amount of tickets purchased (planets in existence) eventually exceeds the huge odds against winning (developing life). Since it's all random (in theory) even if 200 million tickets are purchased, it may not happen this week, but eventually....
Otherwise, yes.. You're right.. Our planet may or may not (we're getting partially philosophical here) have had terrible odds against it happening exactly here.. But it had to happen eventually..
Your logic is flawed. It could have happened on any planet, and that's where we'd be. We're here because it happened here. There is nothing special about Earth.. We could be 150 light years to the left, and we'd have named that planet EARTH, and maybe we'd have two moons, but that's where we would be.
The odds have nothing to do with THIS ball of rock. I'm saying the odds favor it happening ONCE (at least). There are like 10,000,000,000,000,000 planets out there..(10^22). Do you realize think it's "lucky" it happened once? I personally would be surprised if it's only us.. 10^22 is a big fucking number..
Maybe another way to put it is this... The lottery... the odds are 1 in 250,000,000 of winning.. Right? (close enough for discussion)
But..There is always a winner yes? i.e. It always happens... it would be more weird if they had a lottery and nobody won. It doesn't matter that the odds are 1 in 250,000,000. That's just "per person". The odds for the lottery as a whole are nearly 100%.
So.. maybe the odds of any given planet developing life are 1 in 100 billion... But.. there are so many planets out there that it always happens.. eventually.. For us, it was here... But it doesn't matter on the whole.. It could have happened "over there". It still happened, and "over there" would be Earth... if you catch my drift..
If you are serious, you are a fucking retard. I don't care how much you dislike Trump, to equate him with a philosophy that killed tens of millions of people is insulting to both groups.
Trump may be a giant asshole, but he's not rounding up Jews and gassing them.
I don't know which is worse.. The fact you imply Trump is as evil as Nazis or the fact that you make Nazis out to be less evil than they really were, by reducing them to the level of Trump.
You are over simplifying. The law does not apply to all cancelled debts. It _mostly_ applies to debt that is a result of borrowing. i.e. you borrow $10,000 from a bank.. You never pay it back and eventually the bank writes it off (cancels it). You have effectively been paid $10,000. Thus it's income (sort of).
Now, you rack up $10,000 in long distance phone charges and AT&T cancels the debt. You do not owe the IRS a dime. You were never given money. Although, you certainly don't get to write off the $10K bill from AT&T since you never paid it, and this may push you up to a higher tax bracket...
That is, this law mostly applies to debt that involves the exchange of monies, from what I can tell. As with all things IRS, it's not crystal clear and you have to be a lawyer / CPA to be damn sure... But, your statement is demonstratively false, according to the IRS's own convoluted documentation.
You are quite wrong. I think it's settled science at this point that neutrinos or some type of solar particle can flip bits in computer memory.. So... A computer can make a mistake.. Sort of.. It carries out an operation with corrupted data.. Data that was entered, possibly, by a human and data that WAS correct at the time of entry. But, the output is incorrect.
100% my own infrastructure. I use NOBODY else. I build the towers (Rohn 25's) myself, I place the transmitters myself, I work out the land leases myself.
I PURCHASE fiber from AT&T, but that's it. To them I'm just a business customer. They are aware I'm an ISP, but they couldn't care less. I receive no special discounts or anything. I'm just another account number.
The government does nothing to help me. Thanks for trying, but no... The only thing that one could, maybe, argue is that I benefit from the OTARD legislation, but that simply preempts local/county governments from interfering in the actual dish / receiver placement on privately owned homes/buildings.
It'd be less accurate to call it "help" and more accurate to say "it keeps yokels from fucking with me"
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Hear hear! Agree with parent. Yeah, for a lot of people cell phones are... not good..
But.. YOUR son.. YOU fix the goddamn problem. You didn't specify, but are we talking about mandatory school or college?
If the former, then why the hell haven't you taken away the phone?
If the latter, are you paying for the school? If yes, then why? If no... then what's the problem?
That's the sad part... The SJW crowd thinks they are "better", but I've come to the conclusion that the left is actually the racist group... and far more racist than anyone on the right that I have any sort of contact with.
The left has decided to break everyone down by race, gender, sexual orientation, and a host of other things. Everyone (to them) is just a member of some "oppressed" group. Well, unless you are white in which case you are pure, distilled, evil....
In fact, the left has taken it upon themselves to be outraged ON BEHALF of minorities... Talk about being fucking patronizing......
I know people who, for example, don't like blacks... (Because they are fucking racist...) But I've never seen one of those mouth-breathers stand up and pretend to speak on behalf of blacks.. Yet, I see this coming from the left ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
We had such an incident in my area not so long ago, where a bunch of snowflake liberals ran around acting all outraged over a school mascot that is done in the likeness of a certain Native American (Indian) chief.
They were just freaking out about it... However, when the local news went out and did a bunch of interviews, they couldn't find anyone, of that tribe, who was offended. Most said they were quite happy that the mascot depicted the Chief in a positive, strong, and dignified way. Not all were "pro mascot", but the worst opposition they could find was.. indifference.. i.e. some members of the tribe basically said they didn't give a crap one way or the other, but they weren't offended...
You'd think the outrage would have died down at that point.. I mean if the members of the tribe aren't upset....
But NO! The SJW's know better.. A couple of them, who were suspected of being the leaders of the protesters, were recorded on hidden camera saying (and I'm paraphrasing because I don't remember the exact wording) that the tribe had been oppressed for so long that they couldn't be trusted to know what was offensive to them.
They basically accused this tribe (which has a HUGE casino and is very prosperous) of having Stockholm Syndrome. This tribe has had a casino for about 30 years.. i.e. they are all upper middle class at this point, and the members that make up the bulk of the tribe have never been oppressed. Nobody in that tribe that is 35 or less has ever eaten government cheese or been dependent on the white man for anything.. i.e. they don't need you holier-than-thou cunts speaking for them. They don't have Stockholm Syndrome.... But, you see, to an SJW it's just a bunch of dumb Indians who need protection, from whites, by whites who know better and are more virtuous...
The level of hubris and irony is beyond......
So my dear SJW, please continue to be outraged on behalf of groups you have no connection with. Please continue to speak on their behalf and continue your own self-hatred of your own race. If you signal hard enough somebody, somewhere, might think you are a good person... Well, until they realize that you are just as racist as those on the extreme right...
At least the racists on the right just declare their racism.. They don't hide it like the left... They don't pretend to care about minorities and at the same time think said minorities are too stupid, weak, or unsophisticated to handle their own lives.
You geniuses sure have an odd definition of "stalls". I'd think adding 5.2 million subscribers would count as growth..
Who the fuck writes these headlines? Fucking clickbait...
Uh.. You think IRS auditors dig that deeply? There are rare-book merchants... There are expensive books... The IRS doesn't give a crap what you are doing as long as you pay your taxes.. Hell, here in California, you can buy tax coupons for Schedule 1 narcotics.. So when you get busted dealing, you don't also get hit with a charge of Tax Evasion..
No.. You aren't gonna get to keep the cash. Fraudulent credit card transactions are reversed. The bank doesn't just walk away from them...
Unlikely, since it's prevalent all over the place. I see absolutely legit sellers selling Item X for $99 on one listing, and the exact same item for $499 on another listing (same condition; brand new).
I figured they were trying to catch the odd "accidental" purchase.. Or the moron who thinks he's getting a better product because it's the "expensive" one.
Keep it up, buttercup. Your side is going to guarantee he wins again...
Do you even know what the word fascist means?
I really think we're mixing terms here. I don't think it's accurate to say "odds" when talking about stuff that has already happened.. I think that's where the confusion is coming in.. Maybe it's technically correct English and maybe it's not.. But it is with 100% certainty (haha) confusing..
Yeah. It was an attempt at dark humor. But.... I did kinda hope you would see my point.. The Nazis were Nazis.. Okay? To call this puffy orange Cheeto a Nazi.. man, it's just wrong. This shit goes down every fucking election..
Bush Jr was a Nazi.. He's gonna refuse to leave office.
Obama is a communist.. He's gonna refuse to leave office...
Both parties are full of assholes. Obama may have been a closet socialist, but he wasn't a communist.. And, lo and behold, he didn't refuse to leave office. Trump may be an asshole, but he's not a fucking nazi and he's not gonna set himself up as dictator.. He'll have his second term and he'll leave office.
He will never spend a single day in prison. Regardless of if he deserves it or not.. Assuming he's guilty, he WILL be pardoned.. It's Republicans all the way down the line.. For good or ill, we don't imprison our Presidents..
I missed the "though experiment part". I apologize.
I can admit when I've been an ass. :)
Let me add this: Wealth isn't a pie that needs to be distributed evenly. Wealth is created constantly. That is to say, the pie keeps getting bigger. Easiest example is.. go dig up some gold.. You're now richer than you were 5 mins ago, but you took zero money from anyone else.. Nobody is poorer because you are richer... In a.. hrm... fair system (no monopolies, no fraud, etc) this will keep the system chugging along..
I just read an article today that said the number people living in abject poverty has decreased by about 80% in the last 200 years.. yet the rich are richer.. But.. the poor are richer.. Everyone is richer... It can and does work like that..
I'm not mixing up anything. I worked for AT&T in fiber construction. AT&T promised (if given tax breaks) that they would deliver 45 mbps to HOMES. Private single family HOMES. Not businesses, HOMES.
We knew it was outlandish when they promised it, but what else are you going to say to justify an $80BN tax break? And as per usual, the government believed it.
The 45mbps number wasn't pulled out of thin air... It's the speed of a T-3 line... They promised a speed they knew some folks were familiar with. Plenty of government buildings had T-3 lines at the time.
Need fucking proof? Fine... Here it is:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394.html
Here are a couple of quotes for you:
By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up. And though it varies by state, counting the taxes, fees and surcharges that you have paid every month (many of these fees are actually revenues to the company or taxes on the company that you paid), it comes to about $4000-$5000.00 per household from 1992-2014, and that’s the low number.
In fact, in 1992, the speed of broadband, as detailed in state laws, was 45 Mbps in both directions — by 2014, all of us should have been enjoying gigabit speeds (1000 Mbps).
I didn't pull 45 mbps out of my ass and neither did AT&T. It's a super common speed..... And they fucking promised it to us for tax breaks and actual corporate grants AS WELL as being permitted to CHARGE EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THEIR NETWORK A FEE FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SAID 45MBPS NETWORK.
Please, call bullshit on it again....
And by the way.. I get tired of having to say this, but National Socialism is not the extreme right. It doesn't matter how many times you lefties say it is, it's NOT. It's just as left leaning as Communism. That's not personal opinion, it's what the Nazi's themselves said. They declared many times that they were on the left, that they were socialist, that they were for the "workers". Private business ownership in Germany was a farce. The government dictated EVERYTHING regarding production, wages, hours, etc. It was a centrally planned economy. It was carried out exactly like Communism. One of the only differences was that the Nazis didn't seem to meddle with the VERY small businesses.. The mom n' pop operations.. They knew they needed that small level of capitalism.. But if you had 20+ employees, you can bet you got your directions from Berlin.. at least if what you did could even be remotely called "important" or of national importance.. And that was not a very high bar..
I mean, for fuck's sake.. National SOCIALISM...
To you maybe, but no.. the vast amount of people who refer to Trump as Hilter Jr, are not making that distinction. How do I know this? Simple, most Americans are... stupid is not the right term.. I'd say they are absolutely ignorant of History (and certainly Geography). They are ignorant and they are not even embarrassed by that ignorance. Some practically revel it in.. as if knowledge is something only nerds acquire.
When your average leftie calls Trump a Nazi, they are referring to Hitler of 1940. I've heard enough with my own ears to come to this conclusion. In fact, the only reason they call Trump a Nazi is that National Socialism is still something that is taught in schools (as bad of course) and still has movies made about it (Inglorious Basterds). It's still very much part of the daily culture via the media. i.e. it's still shoved in their faces. That's the only reason they even remember the Nazis. Americans (my fellow countrymen) love to ignore history.
If as much time was devoted to Hitler as is devoted to Stalin, most Americans wouldn't have a clue who he was. That's why Hitler is still considered more "evil". He killed... what? 6 million? Stalin is somewhere between 20-50 million, yet the average Joe hasn't the slightest idea who the guy was. They may have heard his name, but most of him has been lost to history (to the average person).
Ah, but you see, their socialism is different. It's not the kind that leads to death. How do we know this? Why, it's so simple, they tell us it's a different kind. That's good enough for me.
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Well, I disagree. We'll have to leave it at that.
I can't make sure he doesn't.. But I can mitigate it to an extent. The gear can be set to a frequency hopping mode, so unless the competition was to sit there with a scanner and learn the pattern, and then set his transmitter to the same pattern...
But, we have lines of communication. Neither of us wants interference so we have some cooperation on frequency selection. I'd call it cooperative competition. Interference for him is just as bad as for me..
If it really became a problem, there are licenses that can be purchased; 3.65GHz, for example, that mandate cooperation. Failure to engage in reasonable coordination can result in one party having their license revoked. Thus, one way or another, the interference goes away.
The FCC may or may not specifically be preventing competition, but they are a single, and relatively small, department of the government.
County / State regulations absolutely and unequivocally favor the incumbents. Sometimes they are so lopsided they actually BAN any form of competition, in whatever areas they can. Hence my reliance on OTARD.
We've all heard the stories of cities passing laws to, for example, exclude Google Fiber.... It's absolutely blatant and un-American. Well, Google Fiber isn't the only one that gets picked on.
Of course the lottery example was flawed. But it makes the point.. And yes, someone always wins. Maybe not "this week", but eventually. The amount of tickets purchased (planets in existence) eventually exceeds the huge odds against winning (developing life). Since it's all random (in theory) even if 200 million tickets are purchased, it may not happen this week, but eventually....
Otherwise, yes.. You're right.. Our planet may or may not (we're getting partially philosophical here) have had terrible odds against it happening exactly here.. But it had to happen eventually..
Your logic is flawed. It could have happened on any planet, and that's where we'd be. We're here because it happened here. There is nothing special about Earth.. We could be 150 light years to the left, and we'd have named that planet EARTH, and maybe we'd have two moons, but that's where we would be.
The odds have nothing to do with THIS ball of rock. I'm saying the odds favor it happening ONCE (at least). There are like 10,000,000,000,000,000 planets out there..(10^22). Do you realize think it's "lucky" it happened once? I personally would be surprised if it's only us.. 10^22 is a big fucking number..
Maybe another way to put it is this... The lottery... the odds are 1 in 250,000,000 of winning.. Right? (close enough for discussion)
But..There is always a winner yes? i.e. It always happens... it would be more weird if they had a lottery and nobody won. It doesn't matter that the odds are 1 in 250,000,000. That's just "per person". The odds for the lottery as a whole are nearly 100%.
So.. maybe the odds of any given planet developing life are 1 in 100 billion... But.. there are so many planets out there that it always happens.. eventually.. For us, it was here... But it doesn't matter on the whole.. It could have happened "over there". It still happened, and "over there" would be Earth... if you catch my drift..
No. No you aren't.. Sometimes you are, but not always. Your statement is false.
If you are serious, you are a fucking retard. I don't care how much you dislike Trump, to equate him with a philosophy that killed tens of millions of people is insulting to both groups.
Trump may be a giant asshole, but he's not rounding up Jews and gassing them.
I don't know which is worse.. The fact you imply Trump is as evil as Nazis or the fact that you make Nazis out to be less evil than they really were, by reducing them to the level of Trump.
You are over simplifying. The law does not apply to all cancelled debts. It _mostly_ applies to debt that is a result of borrowing. i.e. you borrow $10,000 from a bank.. You never pay it back and eventually the bank writes it off (cancels it). You have effectively been paid $10,000. Thus it's income (sort of).
Now, you rack up $10,000 in long distance phone charges and AT&T cancels the debt. You do not owe the IRS a dime. You were never given money. Although, you certainly don't get to write off the $10K bill from AT&T since you never paid it, and this may push you up to a higher tax bracket...
That is, this law mostly applies to debt that involves the exchange of monies, from what I can tell. As with all things IRS, it's not crystal clear and you have to be a lawyer / CPA to be damn sure... But, your statement is demonstratively false, according to the IRS's own convoluted documentation.
You are quite wrong. I think it's settled science at this point that neutrinos or some type of solar particle can flip bits in computer memory.. So... A computer can make a mistake.. Sort of.. It carries out an operation with corrupted data.. Data that was entered, possibly, by a human and data that WAS correct at the time of entry. But, the output is incorrect.
I dunno. Is it wild odds? Are you factoring in the number of planets, in the entire universe, that exist in the habitable zone?
I'm no expert, but the numbers seem to suggest that it would have been more unlikely for it to NOT happen, at least once.
I PURCHASE fiber from AT&T, but that's it. To them I'm just a business customer. They are aware I'm an ISP, but they couldn't care less. I receive no special discounts or anything. I'm just another account number.
The government does nothing to help me. Thanks for trying, but no... The only thing that one could, maybe, argue is that I benefit from the OTARD legislation, but that simply preempts local/county governments from interfering in the actual dish / receiver placement on privately owned homes/buildings.
It'd be less accurate to call it "help" and more accurate to say "it keeps yokels from fucking with me"