Taxes on activities carried out in the Real World (tm) are taxes because those activities depend on certain services which are funded by tax monies.
What on earth makes you think that? I've never heard that before, I don't think it's written in any laws.
The truth of course is that there is simply less government involvement. Thus such transactions should be carried out at a reduced tax rate.
So real world transactions carried out entirely on private premises with little government involvment should carry a lower tax rate? I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Two thousand years ago, you and millions of others were slaving building colloseums whilst emperors sat indoors all day eating grapes. Today, even the poorest can sit inside all day eating grapes, whilst billionaires fly into space.
The richest and most powerful have always had it better, being bitter about it isn't going to change anything. Today's luxury is tomorrow's commodity.
I expect to see a lot of people commenting "hey, he was smart, he worked hard, he deserves that money". My response to that is: "Really? Is he a hundred thousand times smarter than the average American? Is he a hundred thousand times harder working than some guy who does hot tar roofing for a living? Really?"
His software made billions of dollars. Can you say that about a roof tarrer? If this billionaire didn't do anything special, why doesn't everyone do what he does?
Is an American programmer several times smarter or harder working than an Indian programmer? No, so why do they get paid several times the amount?
1) It is an elimination game with a platykurtic expected duration distribution.
If you're going to say something, it might be sensible to use real words. Then people might actually know what you're talking about.
1) 'Roll & Move' includes a completely unnecessary step. Customized dice could replace the entire token track. 2) Keeping score to four-digit precision serves no purpose when player decisions only have two-digit granularity. Player spend too much time tracking what they cannot control.
Has anyone got that in English? Or in fact any language whatsoever other than 'boardgamish'?
1) The gameboard wastes a colossal amount of space. Games that waste real estate can less easily be enjoyed at the players' convenience.
Oh boo hoo hoo. I'm sitting there playing Monopoly mourning the amount of wasted 'real estate'. Get real. Making a 'busy' board where every square millimetre is covered with crap is nothing to be proud of.
2) Paper money is inferior to plastic chips for the required transactions. Modern games with similar MSRP have a far greater production quality.
Rubbish. Plastic chips would make it feel like a game of poker. Get rid of the paper money and you'd lose half of the charm of Monopoly.
Obviously to you, a board game is something mechanical, to be quantified and analysed, rather than something to be played and enjoyed.
How is intellectual property any more artificial than normal property? I could say that in a truly free market, everyone would be free to take and use whatever they wanted, without having to worry about whether some whiny ass had it before.
If you're a bus company, you don't have to pay to use the roads, the government has already done all the hard work for you.
The roads are entirely paid for by road tax and petrol tax. Anyone using the roads is paying more than the cost of maintenance to use them, with the excess going into government coffers to subsidise other things.
Yeah, it could have a few seats in, maybe room at the back for luggage, and to save needing a complicated infrastructure to coordinate them all, the person in each pod could direct it themselves via some sort of round 'steering' device. We'd better patent this quick.
Japan, china and western Europe were annihilated during ww2, and yet with American help (mostly loans) they came back to be major powers, so why cant we fix Central America?
After the war, Europe's problems were merely economical, beforehand they were decent countries. Central America's problems go way beyond economics, their problems are institutional and ingrained. They're completely corrupt, and I'm not sure that can be easily changed.
How are unskilled workers getting a free ride? I'm pretty sure they're working for a living. The skilled immigrants have more chance of making a living back in their own country than the unskilled workers anyway.
There's no need for a car that goes more than 70mph.
If your car has a maximum speed of 70mph it will take about ten minutes to get there. Good luck merging onto motorways or overtaking. Acceleration isn't an issue if your journey is all at a fixed speed on an empty road. In the real world, driving involves lots of accelerating and slowing down.
Now they're demanding Apple charge the same amount in different countries
No, they're allowing them to charge what they want whevever, but they can't stop someone in one country buying from another. This is the whole point of a common market.
Should Apple raise prices in some places and lower them in others to cover costs and effectively subsidize pricing in some countries with money from customers in other countries? Does anyone believe Apple will still be selling any music in poorer countries when they're forced to raise prices drastically above what CDs cost in those countries?
That's Apple's problem. The EU's only business is to enforce the common market. Do companies in America not sell in poor areas because rich people can come over and buy them?
Pass some fricking laws forcing the record companies to charge one flat license fee for Europe and pass some laws requiring all EU countries to tax music the same.
Why? It's not the EU's business to work out arguments between Apple and record companies, but at the end of the day they have to follow the law.
How is the US a third world society? There are more opportunities for making a living than anywhere else, it's probably the easiest place in the world to start a business and become successful. Land and resources are cheap and plentiful, there are many top universities, low taxes, a strong entertainment industry, and with each state and county having its own laws you can always find somewhere to live that suits your lifestyle.
True there is poverty in America, but that's due to lifestyle choices, not lack of opportunity.
Decent CEOs won't work for failing companies without being paid a lot of money. With a cheaper CEO they'd be doing even worse. Anyway he's just saved them $30M, so he's already paid back his salary and then some.
Same thing with the strawberry pickers, without them the strawberry sellers can't sell any strawberries and so goes out of business. Therefore, these people are, for their respective employers, invaluable. The only reasons companies can treat the like shit is.... because they can!
That's because anyone can pick strawberries. And similarly, anyone can be trained up to be a circuit city salesman. It's not exactly rocket science.
Then how come places in the middle of nowhere in Scandanavia have better broadband connectivity than many US suburban areas? The posts in this thread are trying to make out that America is a giant desert with one person every ten miles, with no towns or cities.
They are trying to kill a very poplar and nice Goliath.
Youtube is popular because of what's on it. If NBC's version contains content people want to watch, then it can compete with youtube.
If they put up full-length, high-quality clips that play without buffering, and filter out the chaff such as people miming to songs, then they could do youtube some damage.
'Cool' doesn't count for much, what's cool today is passe tomorrow.
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Two thousand years ago, you and millions of others were slaving building colloseums whilst emperors sat indoors all day eating grapes. Today, even the poorest can sit inside all day eating grapes, whilst billionaires fly into space.
The richest and most powerful have always had it better, being bitter about it isn't going to change anything. Today's luxury is tomorrow's commodity.
Is an American programmer several times smarter or harder working than an Indian programmer? No, so why do they get paid several times the amount?
You're saying that if you have the physical power to take someone's property you should be able to?
Obviously to you, a board game is something mechanical, to be quantified and analysed, rather than something to be played and enjoyed.
How is intellectual property any more artificial than normal property? I could say that in a truly free market, everyone would be free to take and use whatever they wanted, without having to worry about whether some whiny ass had it before.
That's an issue of game balance, not an issue of pvp vs pve. I don't see the excitement in playing in a world where you can't be jumped at any moment.
If you're on a non-pvp server, then what do you actually do? I can't imagine there's any fun in just killing mobs all day.
Yeah, it could have a few seats in, maybe room at the back for luggage, and to save needing a complicated infrastructure to coordinate them all, the person in each pod could direct it themselves via some sort of round 'steering' device. We'd better patent this quick.
How are unskilled workers getting a free ride? I'm pretty sure they're working for a living. The skilled immigrants have more chance of making a living back in their own country than the unskilled workers anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_market
How is it silly? The whole point of a common market is that it's...a common market.
It's no different to America's laws on inter-state commerce.
The main reason to buy a DS seems to be to play games that are clones of PC/console games from over a decade ago.
How is the US a third world society? There are more opportunities for making a living than anywhere else, it's probably the easiest place in the world to start a business and become successful. Land and resources are cheap and plentiful, there are many top universities, low taxes, a strong entertainment industry, and with each state and county having its own laws you can always find somewhere to live that suits your lifestyle.
True there is poverty in America, but that's due to lifestyle choices, not lack of opportunity.
It's not practical to drive a car or play baseball in your room, but you can play a guitar.
Decent CEOs won't work for failing companies without being paid a lot of money. With a cheaper CEO they'd be doing even worse. Anyway he's just saved them $30M, so he's already paid back his salary and then some.
Let's face it if these people were any good they wouldn't be working for circuit city.
Then how come places in the middle of nowhere in Scandanavia have better broadband connectivity than many US suburban areas? The posts in this thread are trying to make out that America is a giant desert with one person every ten miles, with no towns or cities.
If the only thing unique about her was youtube, then perhaps she's not that good.
If they put up full-length, high-quality clips that play without buffering, and filter out the chaff such as people miming to songs, then they could do youtube some damage.
'Cool' doesn't count for much, what's cool today is passe tomorrow.