Vegas is just one example - a favorite of mine since its a dry season away from being out of water - it won't even take anything dramatic to make life unpleasant there.
You mean the same Las Vegas that's just 15 minutes from Hoover dam? No, those guys would have water. They'd probably be the only ones who would actually.
I created some virtual items in SL and sold them for a couple of years and made a decent Linden profit with 0 investment. Then, last fall I cashed out around $500 worth of my Lindens to apply to a new computer.
0 investment? You mean you had a free subscription to SL all those years?
I am sure I need to pay taxes on this, but they don't send out W2's or anything and I have no idea what to report it as.
Even in the real World, they usually send out W2s only if the amount was more than $500 for that one year, not $500 over the course of multiple years.
In any case, I assume you're salaried, so you could have added that amount ($200 a year or whatever) to your 'other income' column. With the IRS, even non-monetized barter is taxable as income, you just have to estimate/guess how much that amount is for that year and declare it as income (not that many people even know about this).
Second Life makes this very clear. You own your account. You own your own stuff. You can monetize it. You can even take your intellectual property outside of Second Life and put it on your own server (not that you'd want to, since you'd be alone on your own server). But this is a growing trend for virtual worlds that want to attract and keep content creators.
WoW I suppose is a different kind of virtual world, where it's not so much dependent on user-generated content or user-generated scripts?
When somebody is that valuable, it makes sense. For the big three, a mid-point would have been if all three(and their assistants), had taken the same private plane.
Actually at my company, the rule was that no critical personnel could share the same jet/airplane. This policy was created after an airplane crash killed all the key employees of a major public company. This usually meant that if our CEO, VPs, and Executive Assistants, were going to the same location, the CEO would get the Jet, and may be one other non-essential person would fly with him, but the rest would have to book flights on different airplanes at different times.
If he has proof to back that up, fair enough but to accuse someone of illegal practices like that when you've no proof is libel.
No, in the US it's legally safer to accuse someone of illegal practices if you don't do any research. For instance, Rush Limbaugh has been sued for libel several times, but since legal discovery showed that he routinely didn't do any double-checking before he accused people of crimes -- the worse he's had to do was make a retraction and he's never lost a penny for any damage he caused.
In this case, even the parent poster is legally in the clear for pronouncing the reviewer a criminal should he not have any proof. And the same goes for what I've just said, since I didn't do any double-checking on what I've just said (yeah, I've always been lazy like that), and since I live in the great free country of the United States -- I'm legally in the clear for any false statements/accusations/claims I may have gotten wrong.
Wow I can finally have all the advantages of IPv6 like
Actually, it should help some University students in Ukraine. Until they get IPv6 implemented, I'm blocking all Ukraine Universities from accessing my sites. Now, most of those University students probably have no idea what's going on, but unless their Universities start jumping on the IPv6 bandwagon, their students, faculty, and staff, are going to get an increasingly high number of 404 errors -- with no explanation whatsoever -- until one day the only web site those students will be able to access is the one hosted by their buddy in the dorm room next door to them.
I have personally seen them send out blank checks with your account information already on them. Now, of course the fine print of this "check" is that the check being cashed or used actually adds that to your account under some strange special offer loan thing.
Actually, there is nothing special about checks, anyone can print them up as long as they have the right account and routing information (no special printer is necessary or anything). Quicken can print them. Excel can print them. Technically, you could write your own software for it too.
In France, when the banks started increasing their fees for getting your checks printed, there was an annoyed silent protest. We would fold the checks so that they couldn't go through the machines. We would write checks using plain notepad paper writing everything by hand (including the bank information and routing number, no bar code necessary). The merchants and the banks had to accept those checks. There was a law that said that as long as all the information was correct, it was valid as any other check. So the banks accepted the checks, thereby increasing their manual processing costs, and eventually they reduced the fees for printing checks (because having cheap printed checks was as much for *their* convenience as it was for ours). Now, I'm not saying an handwritten would work in the US, the Federal Reserve in the US probably has its own rules for clearing checks, but at least, if you open Quicken or any financial software, you should see how easy it is to print your own checks from your own bank.
If anything is a problem, it's actually those special anti-counterfeiting checks. Those give the consumer a false sense of security. And they're only as marginally useful as separating the checks that must be checked more thoroughly from the checks that "look" normal, so they're still useful and every little bit helps where it comes to security I assume -- but it's at the expense of keeping the average consumer in the dark.
In California we already pay an Electronic Waste Disposal Fee whenever we purchase a new TV that varies based on the price of the TV, but was $20-30 last time I purchased one.
Apparently, you haven't properly disposed of your old TV set yet, because when I did that -- instead of paying them money to dispose of it as I was expecting them to ask me -- they gave me $37 in cash instead (which is based on the actual weight of the TV or Computer CRT). The only thing they check is your California id and they write your name and your address down so as not to get old televisions coming in from out of State (but I don't know what is the actual number of screens they limit you to, I saw one guy, he was disposing of five). Now if some idiot leaves their broken TV on the curb, I'll just pick it up, recycling aluminum cans is not worth my time, but recycling CRTs is (since the place I drop it off at is on my way to work anyway).
Something similar happened to me recently as well. The google security thingy thought that my second domain with duplicate content was masquerading as some kind of phishing web site (since my original domain was still up).
I'm too lazy to actually check in this case, but it could even be a host of other things, like another site he doesn't own using the same ip address on some shared host, it could be some proxy, some relay, or some webmail, that he might possibly be hosting as well (he's a python programmer after all). It wouldn't have to an open relay, nor some public webmail accessible to all. Some employers are so paranoid about their employees using personal email, that they'd rather block most of the internet by default.
May be your choice of publisher, or your lack of one, was the problem? Personally, I've never even heard of your publisher and I've never even seen your book on a shelf. Not only that, but your book was published pretty recently and it still doesn't have the search inside feature on amazon, nor does it have a table of content, nor a table index, it doesn't have any customer reviews, and it doesn't even have a picture of its book cover on amazon. What's up with that? May be, you should just have used that $400 to purchase complimentary copies of your book and given it to some colleagues in exchange for some honest customer reviews (I think you'll find many people at user groups will be more than willing to write good reviews as long as you don't ask them to lie about what they find).
Except, just three years ago my company used to pay $11,000 for the license to a standard version of SQL Server 2000, and more recently we started paying a fraction of that cost (may be $700 or $900) for the SQL Server 2005 Workgroup version which worked just as well for us as the previous version did (as far as I could tell, it had all the same advanced wizards, the same licensing terms, and then some). SQL Server used to be a cash cow for them, now I'm not so sure anymore.
I am down for women being naked, but I understand not everyone wants to see that. It's not appropriate in public. Maybe you don't get offended by it, but a lot of people do.
Breastfeeding is important because it improves both the immune system and the nutrition of the child. The fact that not enough women breastfeed is a serious public health problem. A woman probably feels awkward enough already trying to breastfeed her kid, let's not add to her discomfort. This outdated taboo must die. The people who get offended by it will get over it (and it won't be the end of their World).
I'm not sure why that situation doesn't qualify as anti-competitive, but controlling distribution options is a basic part of some businesses' plans.
The difference is, that the landlord owns the mall. The real racket begins when governments start implementing those measures. In the city of San Francisco for instance, the demand for taxi cabs is so high, that taxi cab drivers make more money not working and just renting out their cab medallions to the taxi cab companies that don't have any. Now in New York, apparently black people can not get cabs, well in San Francisco during commuting hours, both white and black people can't get cabs, and the only cabs on the road are either there to taunt us -- or they're just on their way home themselves.
Recently, the insanity has just been increasing, now the SFO airport (its own separate entity, but still government funded and its trustees government-appointed) is going to drastically reduce the number of airport shuttle companies making curb pick ups. So if you're flying into SFO, you're not just going to contend with having to pay three times as more for normal food items, but you'll probably have to pay three times as more and wait three times as long just to get a shuttle out of there (better start going by the Oakland Intl airport or the San Jose Intl airport from now on).
Also, if your proprietary firefox extension/add-on already has a dozen competing free open source firefox add-ons that already do the same thing (previewing links), then you're probably fooling yourself and you're probably defrauding/scamming/lying to your clueless angel investor as well.
Here in Germany they don't use sarcasm so much, but I think that's OK. Do you really want your car made by a bunch of clowns?
It depends really, how many of us are actually buying German cars these days?
I'm not. If I were you, I'd start investing in some make-up, a big red nose, and a good pair of ridiculous over-sized shoes. If you guys can't be naturally funny, at least you might as well try dressing the part.
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A better example might be post partum depression (pregnancy and post pregnancy depression). A number of mothers have been found "not guilty" of viciously murdering their newborns and their other family members using that kind of condition as a defense (although, that kind of defense certainly hasn't work in all cases using it). Also a man was acquitted of some violent crime once it was found there were traces of a particular chemical, some kind of nerve agent, found in his home. Apparently that chemical was known to provoke violent outbursts in the people it affected.
Taking recreational drugs and drinking alcohol on the other hand is something that most of us can readily identify with, so we might not be so willing to believe someone using it as an excuse to kill/rape someone. Also even if we were to believe that alcohol and drugs could take away our free choice, it's usually something we chose to take/drink in the first place, knowing full well that there may be some risks of impaired judgment involved, so if we're willing to gamble with it -- we might as well be ready to pay the price for it.
Now, I'm not saying we should believe all these kinds of (post partum, sleep walking, or nerve agent) defenses, and I don't even think all these types of defenses work 100% of the time to clear someone of a serious crime, but at the very least, if it can really be shown that those people on trial had really displayed a consistent pattern with those types of symptoms before they really committed their crime, then I would be much more willing to believe them in those cases.
You're assuming that the interviewee in this scenario didn't have any power in the interview process. You're also assuming that because he was being interviewed, he was unemployed already. Those two assumptions, although probably correct for most job applicants, tells us more about your mindset and your station in life than anything about him and his.
Are you talking about the same Obama that put Joe the plumber under intense investigation, getting him fired, airing the fact that he has a late library book in the 5th grade. Is this the Obama that makes you feel warm and fuzzy about the 1st amendment?
[Citation needed]
No doubt that Joe had a library book late in the 5th grade, but please give me a reliable source that says that Obama is the one who outed him.
If the price is low enough, someone will buy them. All you need is someone who is slightly less leveraged than others. For instance Warren Buffett, that guy has made a killing in the market these past couple of months. And it's not that he's really that cash rich, it's just that his asset to debt ratio is lower than others, so he's been able to capitalize on that difference.
I'm all for fair and equal, free market economics, but if it looks like a whole industry is going down, not just a single company, fair and equal bailouts are the right thing to do. If any one industry fails, it could cause a chain reaction that stalls virtually all production and maintenance, and things degenerate into the stone age or at least third world.
Come on, let's say a couple of car manufacturers go down, then the surviving car manufacturers just come in and buy up the contracts and factories for pennies on the dollar. If you don't let this natural garbage collection process occur, then you're effectively choking the entire system -- you're not releasing resources -- and you're compounding the problem even more. Keep this up, and then yes, we'll get to the stone age/third world doomsday scenario you speak of.
If you ask me, this entire mess proves that bankruptcies are taking way too long. We should fast-track the bankruptcy system (at the very least, for the people we know who purposefully lied on their loan applications, and the bankers/lenders who helped them do it). The sooner we can do these quick fire sales, the quicker we'll get the economy up and running again.
FTA: "Thumbtack works in Internet Explorer and Firefox, but it lacks some features when used in Firefox, Microsoft said."
This makes no sense. The code is already there to make it work on firefox. There are probably five or more extensions that do this kind of thing on Firefox, and some are already superior to Google notebooks. They should just use that code (at least for the client-side), and stop trying to reinvent the wheel
And for some that might say that the license might be a problem, think again, most extensions on firefox are not encumbered by restrictive open source licenses, and like I said, there are plenty to chose from, so it's very likely that Microsoft finds one that's just right for them.
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You mean the same Las Vegas that's just 15 minutes from Hoover dam? No, those guys would have water. They'd probably be the only ones who would actually.
You mean teasing?
0 investment? You mean you had a free subscription to SL all those years?
Even in the real World, they usually send out W2s only if the amount was more than $500 for that one year, not $500 over the course of multiple years.
In any case, I assume you're salaried, so you could have added that amount ($200 a year or whatever) to your 'other income' column. With the IRS, even non-monetized barter is taxable as income, you just have to estimate/guess how much that amount is for that year and declare it as income (not that many people even know about this).
Second Life makes this very clear. You own your account. You own your own stuff. You can monetize it. You can even take your intellectual property outside of Second Life and put it on your own server (not that you'd want to, since you'd be alone on your own server). But this is a growing trend for virtual worlds that want to attract and keep content creators.
WoW I suppose is a different kind of virtual world, where it's not so much dependent on user-generated content or user-generated scripts?
I hope not.
"however, habitual knuckle crackers were more likely to have hand swelling and lower grip strength."
Actually at my company, the rule was that no critical personnel could share the same jet/airplane. This policy was created after an airplane crash killed all the key employees of a major public company. This usually meant that if our CEO, VPs, and Executive Assistants, were going to the same location, the CEO would get the Jet, and may be one other non-essential person would fly with him, but the rest would have to book flights on different airplanes at different times.
No, in the US it's legally safer to accuse someone of illegal practices if you don't do any research. For instance, Rush Limbaugh has been sued for libel several times, but since legal discovery showed that he routinely didn't do any double-checking before he accused people of crimes -- the worse he's had to do was make a retraction and he's never lost a penny for any damage he caused.
In this case, even the parent poster is legally in the clear for pronouncing the reviewer a criminal should he not have any proof. And the same goes for what I've just said, since I didn't do any double-checking on what I've just said (yeah, I've always been lazy like that), and since I live in the great free country of the United States -- I'm legally in the clear for any false statements/accusations/claims I may have gotten wrong.
Actually, it should help some University students in Ukraine. Until they get IPv6 implemented, I'm blocking all Ukraine Universities from accessing my sites. Now, most of those University students probably have no idea what's going on, but unless their Universities start jumping on the IPv6 bandwagon, their students, faculty, and staff, are going to get an increasingly high number of 404 errors -- with no explanation whatsoever -- until one day the only web site those students will be able to access is the one hosted by their buddy in the dorm room next door to them.
Actually, there is nothing special about checks, anyone can print them up as long as they have the right account and routing information (no special printer is necessary or anything). Quicken can print them. Excel can print them. Technically, you could write your own software for it too.
In France, when the banks started increasing their fees for getting your checks printed, there was an annoyed silent protest. We would fold the checks so that they couldn't go through the machines. We would write checks using plain notepad paper writing everything by hand (including the bank information and routing number, no bar code necessary). The merchants and the banks had to accept those checks. There was a law that said that as long as all the information was correct, it was valid as any other check. So the banks accepted the checks, thereby increasing their manual processing costs, and eventually they reduced the fees for printing checks (because having cheap printed checks was as much for *their* convenience as it was for ours). Now, I'm not saying an handwritten would work in the US, the Federal Reserve in the US probably has its own rules for clearing checks, but at least, if you open Quicken or any financial software, you should see how easy it is to print your own checks from your own bank.
If anything is a problem, it's actually those special anti-counterfeiting checks. Those give the consumer a false sense of security. And they're only as marginally useful as separating the checks that must be checked more thoroughly from the checks that "look" normal, so they're still useful and every little bit helps where it comes to security I assume -- but it's at the expense of keeping the average consumer in the dark.
Apparently, you haven't properly disposed of your old TV set yet, because when I did that -- instead of paying them money to dispose of it as I was expecting them to ask me -- they gave me $37 in cash instead (which is based on the actual weight of the TV or Computer CRT). The only thing they check is your California id and they write your name and your address down so as not to get old televisions coming in from out of State (but I don't know what is the actual number of screens they limit you to, I saw one guy, he was disposing of five). Now if some idiot leaves their broken TV on the curb, I'll just pick it up, recycling aluminum cans is not worth my time, but recycling CRTs is (since the place I drop it off at is on my way to work anyway).
My guess is that it's because he's hosting the same content on two different domains.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/python/index.html
http://valdyas.org/python/index.html
Something similar happened to me recently as well. The google security thingy thought that my second domain with duplicate content was masquerading as some kind of phishing web site (since my original domain was still up).
I'm too lazy to actually check in this case, but it could even be a host of other things, like another site he doesn't own using the same ip address on some shared host, it could be some proxy, some relay, or some webmail, that he might possibly be hosting as well (he's a python programmer after all). It wouldn't have to an open relay, nor some public webmail accessible to all. Some employers are so paranoid about their employees using personal email, that they'd rather block most of the internet by default.
May be your choice of publisher, or your lack of one, was the problem? Personally, I've never even heard of your publisher and I've never even seen your book on a shelf. Not only that, but your book was published pretty recently and it still doesn't have the search inside feature on amazon, nor does it have a table of content, nor a table index, it doesn't have any customer reviews, and it doesn't even have a picture of its book cover on amazon. What's up with that? May be, you should just have used that $400 to purchase complimentary copies of your book and given it to some colleagues in exchange for some honest customer reviews (I think you'll find many people at user groups will be more than willing to write good reviews as long as you don't ask them to lie about what they find).
Except, just three years ago my company used to pay $11,000 for the license to a standard version of SQL Server 2000, and more recently we started paying a fraction of that cost (may be $700 or $900) for the SQL Server 2005 Workgroup version which worked just as well for us as the previous version did (as far as I could tell, it had all the same advanced wizards, the same licensing terms, and then some). SQL Server used to be a cash cow for them, now I'm not so sure anymore.
Breastfeeding is important because it improves both the immune system and the nutrition of the child. The fact that not enough women breastfeed is a serious public health problem. A woman probably feels awkward enough already trying to breastfeed her kid, let's not add to her discomfort. This outdated taboo must die. The people who get offended by it will get over it (and it won't be the end of their World).
The difference is, that the landlord owns the mall. The real racket begins when governments start implementing those measures. In the city of San Francisco for instance, the demand for taxi cabs is so high, that taxi cab drivers make more money not working and just renting out their cab medallions to the taxi cab companies that don't have any. Now in New York, apparently black people can not get cabs, well in San Francisco during commuting hours, both white and black people can't get cabs, and the only cabs on the road are either there to taunt us -- or they're just on their way home themselves.
Recently, the insanity has just been increasing, now the SFO airport (its own separate entity, but still government funded and its trustees government-appointed) is going to drastically reduce the number of airport shuttle companies making curb pick ups. So if you're flying into SFO, you're not just going to contend with having to pay three times as more for normal food items, but you'll probably have to pay three times as more and wait three times as long just to get a shuttle out of there (better start going by the Oakland Intl airport or the San Jose Intl airport from now on).
Just wait until games go 4-D, I've got all the patents on 4-D, 5-D, and 6-D games.
Also, if your proprietary firefox extension/add-on already has a dozen competing free open source firefox add-ons that already do the same thing (previewing links), then you're probably fooling yourself and you're probably defrauding/scamming/lying to your clueless angel investor as well.
It depends really, how many of us are actually buying German cars these days?
I'm not. If I were you, I'd start investing in some make-up, a big red nose, and a good pair of ridiculous over-sized shoes. If you guys can't be naturally funny, at least you might as well try dressing the part.
A better example might be post partum depression (pregnancy and post pregnancy depression). A number of mothers have been found "not guilty" of viciously murdering their newborns and their other family members using that kind of condition as a defense (although, that kind of defense certainly hasn't work in all cases using it). Also a man was acquitted of some violent crime once it was found there were traces of a particular chemical, some kind of nerve agent, found in his home. Apparently that chemical was known to provoke violent outbursts in the people it affected.
Taking recreational drugs and drinking alcohol on the other hand is something that most of us can readily identify with, so we might not be so willing to believe someone using it as an excuse to kill/rape someone. Also even if we were to believe that alcohol and drugs could take away our free choice, it's usually something we chose to take/drink in the first place, knowing full well that there may be some risks of impaired judgment involved, so if we're willing to gamble with it -- we might as well be ready to pay the price for it.
Now, I'm not saying we should believe all these kinds of (post partum, sleep walking, or nerve agent) defenses, and I don't even think all these types of defenses work 100% of the time to clear someone of a serious crime, but at the very least, if it can really be shown that those people on trial had really displayed a consistent pattern with those types of symptoms before they really committed their crime, then I would be much more willing to believe them in those cases.
You're assuming that the interviewee in this scenario didn't have any power in the interview process. You're also assuming that because he was being interviewed, he was unemployed already. Those two assumptions, although probably correct for most job applicants, tells us more about your mindset and your station in life than anything about him and his.
[Citation needed]
No doubt that Joe had a library book late in the 5th grade, but please give me a reliable source that says that Obama is the one who outed him.
The article's title should read: "Here is an article about the RIAA, I only skimmed it, let me know what it says".
If the price is low enough, someone will buy them. All you need is someone who is slightly less leveraged than others. For instance Warren Buffett, that guy has made a killing in the market these past couple of months. And it's not that he's really that cash rich, it's just that his asset to debt ratio is lower than others, so he's been able to capitalize on that difference.
Come on, let's say a couple of car manufacturers go down, then the surviving car manufacturers just come in and buy up the contracts and factories for pennies on the dollar. If you don't let this natural garbage collection process occur, then you're effectively choking the entire system -- you're not releasing resources -- and you're compounding the problem even more. Keep this up, and then yes, we'll get to the stone age/third world doomsday scenario you speak of.
If you ask me, this entire mess proves that bankruptcies are taking way too long. We should fast-track the bankruptcy system (at the very least, for the people we know who purposefully lied on their loan applications, and the bankers/lenders who helped them do it). The sooner we can do these quick fire sales, the quicker we'll get the economy up and running again.
This makes no sense. The code is already there to make it work on firefox. There are probably five or more extensions that do this kind of thing on Firefox, and some are already superior to Google notebooks. They should just use that code (at least for the client-side), and stop trying to reinvent the wheel
And for some that might say that the license might be a problem, think again, most extensions on firefox are not encumbered by restrictive open source licenses, and like I said, there are plenty to chose from, so it's very likely that Microsoft finds one that's just right for them.