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  1. Re:Not Hollywood alone on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    Ah, troll feeding. Neither of the things you stated is true: libertarians do not believe in anarchy, nor in justice for the rich only. Happy? If you would like to know more, head on over to reason.com; you'll find a reasonably (heh, heh) broad spectrum of libertarian thought. There are a few people over at National Review who trend that way. Same with Slate; there are people who advocate libertarian ideas from the left.

  2. Re:Impressive on Climategate and the Need For Greater Scientific Openness · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The point is that any serious evaluation of the work in question should be undertaken by those who have demonstrated that they have; a) the chops for the task, and b) no ties to those whose interests are financially/politically adverse to the work in question.

    Shouldn't they have to demonstrate that they also have no financial, political, or professional affinity to the work in question, too? It might end up as a circle-jerk, or it might end up as a circular firing squad - but either way, the results will be suspect.

  3. Re:Impressive on Climategate and the Need For Greater Scientific Openness · · Score: 0, Troll

    He used the same words to continue the metaphor. Weren't you perceptive enough to get that?

  4. Re:Impressive on Climategate and the Need For Greater Scientific Openness · · Score: 1

    Also: don't complain about the politicization of your science when you're the one who started making policy prescriptions.

  5. Re:Not Hollywood alone on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    I'm really not up on Libertarianism, as I have never been an adherent of that political party. But as for libertarianism, well, get back to me when you grow up and are open-minded enough to consider that your side might be wrong about some things.

  6. Re:Not Hollywood alone on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the fill-in. I had always assumed that separating liability and making corp-v-personal accounting (e.g., the deductions you mention) easier and more defensible was why people set up S corps.

  7. Re:Let's see how well it flies on Fan-Developed Ultima VI Remake Released · · Score: 1

    You could do IPX/SPX networked DOOM on at least some DOS versions. I didn't have access to one of those networks, but as I understand it the program was not well behaved - everything was multicast, it basically would shut down that network segment.

    Doom for the NeXT was a TCP/IP capable client. We uploaded the registered .WAD from one of our PCs to the NeXT machines in the lab and played four-player deathmatch.

  8. Re:ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS COMPLETELY OWNED BY JEWS on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1, Funny

    The obvious solution is to convert to Judaism.

  9. Re:Forest Gump on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    You also have to have quite a bit of money to be able to hold their feet to the fire in court about honestly reporting all those sub-deals.

  10. Re:Not Hollywood alone on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    hear those libertarian ideas about getting rid of the last bits of regulations the government still enforce.

    This is such a gross misstatement of libertarianism that I cannot comprehend how you came honestly to acquire such a belief. Are you trolling, lying, or just badly brainwashed? Are you planning to suggest I move to Somalia next?

  11. Re:Not Hollywood alone on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    That's a nice theory. Know anyone who's survived an IRS audit doing that?

    There are a lot of ideas that float around because nobody's been caught doing them yet, but that the IRS would take a very, very dim view of. They might not send you to jail, exactly, but they'll get their cash.

  12. Re:Not a new trick on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    Also: always cut your contract with the umbrella organization.

  13. Re:A thought occurs to me on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    The studio still shows a profit, just not the specific movie. You can shift the money around so as not to pay any partner stupid enough to take a cut of the net and to tax-advantage any profits you make, but the IRS isn't that dumb.

  14. Re:Let's see how well it flies on Fan-Developed Ultima VI Remake Released · · Score: 1

    Which FPS were those? Wolf3D and Ultima Underworld came out in '92. DOOM was late '93, about 18 months later, and was the first multiplayer beast. (PC depended on IPX/SPX, but NeXTDOOM, e.g., was TCP/IP from the beginning.)

  15. Re:escalators too on Should Cities Install Moving Sidewalks? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oddly enough, if you just ask politely for people to step aside ("excuse me, I'm in a hurry" usually works), I've found they'll step out of the way for you. Works in Atlanta and Charlotte.

  16. Re:Cut the cable on Sidestepping A-to-D Convertors For Town Government's Cable TV? · · Score: 1
    While I generally agree with your point,

    traffic

    The entire town owns 10 TV's outside of the fire and police departments. I don't think they get traffic reports, unless it's "Dave, old man Watkins got drunk and hit a telephone pole at Main and Elm. Can you go arrest him and tow his car out of the way?"

  17. Re:advice: on Sidestepping A-to-D Convertors For Town Government's Cable TV? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As someone noted upthread, this is probably going to see the most use in fire/EMS stations, where you have to pay guys to stand around and wait 24/7 even if nothing's going on. I'm pretty hard on government waste, but a thousand dollars a month so the firemen can have cable... it's a benefit that costs very little but provides them a great value.

  18. Re:Correlation is not causation on Parasite Correlated With World Cup Success · · Score: 1

    (that's right America football not soccer)

    If you insist on using British English in all circumstances, try entering an American bar and telling the guy next to you that you're dying for a fag.

  19. Re:Limited Options on Paperless Tickets Flourish Despite 'Grandma Problem' · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's amazing how much correlation there is between poverty and bitterness.

    Actually, I think you'll find that the correlation is between lack of ability and jealousy.

  20. Re:Limited Options on Paperless Tickets Flourish Despite 'Grandma Problem' · · Score: 1

    At this point, given the number of places that have had ostensibly Communist governments, it's also a very safe bet that Marx and Engels were just wrong about how things would work (e.g., historical inevitability), and that anyone who propounds Communism is actually trying to set up a totalitarian dictatorship and should be treated accordingly.

  21. Re:Hmmm... on Police Stop Journalists From Photographing Metrorail System · · Score: 1

    Your employer may only ask about convictions, but if you're in a field that requires a professional license, that board can and will ask for arrests. Failure to disclose can be grounds for denial. The same is true of security clearances - an arrest in which charges are dropped probably won't be an issue, but failing to tell them about it would be.

  22. Re:Hmmm... on Police Stop Journalists From Photographing Metrorail System · · Score: 1

    You don't claim the right to be able to detain, assault, or kill people under color of law and with immunity. They do. Big difference. (Your example would matter if we were talking about arresting cops for stealing paperclips or padding timesheets.)

  23. Re:No Surprise... on Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use · · Score: 1

    It's like splitting left and right by having agree/disagree with "God has given each people upon earth a land for their own and a destiny tied to that land." People who agree with that are definitely on the right - the far, far right. As a test, it's very specific, but not very sensitive.

  24. Re:No Surprise... on Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use · · Score: 1

    this is what it takes for you to be formally in a war

    Says who? Troops are fighting, Congress is paying the bills for it. Sounds like war to me. If "interstate commerce" includes growing food for use on your own land, then I'm pretty sure that "declar[ing] war" covers paying for troops, weapons, and vehicles to travel around the world and implement our will by force of arms.

    Would you argue that the Civil War was also illegal? The USA certainly did not recognize the CSA formally.

  25. Re:No Surprise... on Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use · · Score: 1
    Or their political compass is a pile of crap. Sample agree/disagree questions:

    Land shouldn't be a commodity to be bought and sold.

    "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is a fundamentally good idea.

    People are ultimately divided more by class than by nationality.

    Seriously? Whether you are left or right wing is determined by how much you agree with doctrinaire Communism?