AFAIU from the tax office's view the profits materialize at the time you spend or sell your bitcoins. In which case you can easily determine the value of the bitcoins from the value of the goods you got, or directly from what you sold them for.
Where it gets sticky is in the definition of what constitutes "harming others". For example, some argue that self-abuse (e.g. chronic drug use, or suicide) counts as harming others, in that by removing yourself from society, the other people in the society lose the benefits of your productivity/friendship/support/expertise/etc.
I see you didn't send me a million dollars. By not sending me a million dollars you are denying me the benefits of having that million dollars. Therefore you are harming me.
I urge you to do the only morally right thing and immediately send me a million dollars.;-)
Would whoever moderated that post troll explain in which way it is troll? Maybe Microsoft did release a Linux version of Internet explorer which I'm not aware of?
It is a fact that I don't expect to ever use or even try Internet Explorer if they don't provide a Linux version of it. That's because I'm using Linux exclusively (I don't even have a VM running Windows, and yes, my computer at work runs Linux as well).
You can't be arrested for saying you thought 9/11 was a good idea. Fred Phelps claims 9/11 was God's punishment that America deserved because of its embrace of homosexuality, and he's within his rights to express that opinion.
I wonder if he also would still be free if instead he had claimed it were Allah's punishment for suppression of the Muslims...
A drone is an offensive weapon. So it's offensive per definition.
A drone is an unmanned aircraft. It's by itself not a weapon, let alone an offensive one. You can make it into one by arming it, but otherwise it is no more a weapon than a remote controlled toy aircraft is. Indeed, strictly speaking a remote controlled toy aircraft is a drone.
Because this situation is probably common enough that the programmers thought of that and programmed it in. Probably without the "covering half the shop" part; just the parts "coming in together", "meeting at the end" and "one waiting for the other".
Given that the average HDD dies after only 4 years
I guess I must have had exceptionally good HDDs. I only had one HDD failure (and that happened after a power source failure, so I suspect it was caused by that), and with the exception of some of those currently in use, all of my HDDs (including the failed one) have been in use for more than four years. And in almost all of my computers, I had more than one HDD.
So in America you use criminal law to deal with mentally ill people? To me that sounds like misuse of criminal law. A sane law system has a criminal law to deal with criminals (who then should go to jail), and a separate law to deal with the mentally ill (who can be forcefully put into closed psychiatry if they are a danger to themselves or others). I consider criminalizing the mentally ill a crime in itself.
Please read again what I wrote. I did not claim that the copyright ended (quite the opposite; I explicitly said that your heirs own it then). But you don't own it any more, just as you don't own anything else. Dead people cannot own anything. So your claim that you and your estate keep it is wrong.
As for some of the reasons the dude committed suicide, reincarnation might obviate the exercise and even worse place him in even worse circumstance;D.
Or maybe reincarnation rewards suicide (because it quickens the reincarnation cycle), and he's reborn in a much better situation. Or maybe, when you commit suicide, you're reincarnated into an equivalent existence. Or (most likely) there is no such thing as reincarnation, and therefore there is no next life which might be better, worse, or just the same. Of course it could also be that he just lives on in a parallel universe where he failed to kill himself. So many possibilities...
(OK, "worst study ever" might be a bit of hyperbole, but it's pretty bad as studies that don't smack of Mengele go)
Do you have any information about the scientific quality of Mengele's studies? Of course his studies were highly immoral, but since there's no sign for any immorality in the study this article is about, that's irrelevant for your comparison.
Some scientists don't know what the hell they are doing - therefor a god exists?
That means if no god existed, all scientists would know what the hell they are doing. Which proves that god has a bad influence on scientists, and thus scientists better stay well away from god.;-)
I think you'll find that infinity is much more than 100%.
But dead children can break your stuff. For example if they just died, and their dead body falls onto something fragile. So while the true number is probably far beyond 100%, it is definitely far below infinity.
So, my two-year-old niece, who is normally a delight, only gets atypically pissy, stubborn and reckless when she's consumed sugar in excess because she possesses the cognizance to know she can excuse it based on supposedly false psychological conceptions?
She eats pure sugar? Or maybe she eats foods (probably processed ones) which contain a lot of sugar, but also lots of other ingredients, some of which may cause that behaviour?
Question. Me and My fiance split up the shopping and only occupy half the store. We join at the check out stand. Wonder how that got tracked?
It would be a strange coincidence that two unrelated people come in together, then cover the whole shop without significant overlap, but also without omitting any significant portion of the shop, and then meet again at the check out stand (probably even one waiting until the other arrives). This behaviour clearly shows you two belong together.
AdBlock and RequestPolicy can help you to not ever see a single advertisement. It's quite some time since I've seen the last ad on the web.
And I'm not even in principle against ads. However, internet ads as installed now have several undesirable properties:
They are often obnoxious (animations, sound, eating CPU time, placed at points where they disturb reading of the contents). That's the original reason why I started to block ads. Initially I only blocked obnoxious ads.
They come with tracking. That's today the main reason why I block all ads (and many other third-party stuff like Facebook/Google+ buttons and Google Analytics).
They are an infection vector for malware.
I can tolerate most offline advertisements because they don't include those features. Some offline advertisements (especially TV ads) are, however, also obnoxious (which is the main reason why I rarely watch private TV). But at least they don't track me (I still have analogue TV, so no back channel!) and they don't carry malware (good luck trying to infect my old "dumb" TV:-)).
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AFAIU from the tax office's view the profits materialize at the time you spend or sell your bitcoins. In which case you can easily determine the value of the bitcoins from the value of the goods you got, or directly from what you sold them for.
avoiding taxes is your own problem, and it's only stealing from yourself, you're not always going to be rich...
You think only the rich avoid taxes?
You're harming your readers.
I see you didn't send me a million dollars. By not sending me a million dollars you are denying me the benefits of having that million dollars. Therefore you are harming me.
I urge you to do the only morally right thing and immediately send me a million dollars. ;-)
Would whoever moderated that post troll explain in which way it is troll? Maybe Microsoft did release a Linux version of Internet explorer which I'm not aware of?
It is a fact that I don't expect to ever use or even try Internet Explorer if they don't provide a Linux version of it. That's because I'm using Linux exclusively (I don't even have a VM running Windows, and yes, my computer at work runs Linux as well).
You can't be arrested for saying you thought 9/11 was a good idea. Fred Phelps claims 9/11 was God's punishment that America deserved because of its embrace of homosexuality, and he's within his rights to express that opinion.
I wonder if he also would still be free if instead he had claimed it were Allah's punishment for suppression of the Muslims ...
A drone is an offensive weapon. So it's offensive per definition.
A drone is an unmanned aircraft. It's by itself not a weapon, let alone an offensive one. You can make it into one by arming it, but otherwise it is no more a weapon than a remote controlled toy aircraft is. Indeed, strictly speaking a remote controlled toy aircraft is a drone.
Probably.
Because this situation is probably common enough that the programmers thought of that and programmed it in. Probably without the "covering half the shop" part; just the parts "coming in together", "meeting at the end" and "one waiting for the other".
I guess I must have had exceptionally good HDDs. I only had one HDD failure (and that happened after a power source failure, so I suspect it was caused by that), and with the exception of some of those currently in use, all of my HDDs (including the failed one) have been in use for more than four years. And in almost all of my computers, I had more than one HDD.
Not to mention a Linux version of it.
So in America you use criminal law to deal with mentally ill people? To me that sounds like misuse of criminal law. A sane law system has a criminal law to deal with criminals (who then should go to jail), and a separate law to deal with the mentally ill (who can be forcefully put into closed psychiatry if they are a danger to themselves or others). I consider criminalizing the mentally ill a crime in itself.
Please read again what I wrote. I did not claim that the copyright ended (quite the opposite; I explicitly said that your heirs own it then). But you don't own it any more, just as you don't own anything else. Dead people cannot own anything. So your claim that you and your estate keep it is wrong.
As soon as you're dead, you've lost copyright anyway. Then your heirs own it.
Or maybe reincarnation rewards suicide (because it quickens the reincarnation cycle), and he's reborn in a much better situation. Or maybe, when you commit suicide, you're reincarnated into an equivalent existence. Or (most likely) there is no such thing as reincarnation, and therefore there is no next life which might be better, worse, or just the same. Of course it could also be that he just lives on in a parallel universe where he failed to kill himself. So many possibilities ...
Why would suicide be illegal? Where I live it isn't. How could be someone prohibited from suicide save livelong incarceration in a padded cell?
More importantly: If you committed suicide, you're dead (otherwise it would be attempted suicide). How are they going to punish you after your death?
But if the company just relocates to another country, is there anything the FCC can do?
Do you have any information about the scientific quality of Mengele's studies? Of course his studies were highly immoral, but since there's no sign for any immorality in the study this article is about, that's irrelevant for your comparison.
Some scientists don't know what the hell they are doing - therefor a god exists?
That means if no god existed, all scientists would know what the hell they are doing. Which proves that god has a bad influence on scientists, and thus scientists better stay well away from god. ;-)
I think you'll find that infinity is much more than 100%.
But dead children can break your stuff. For example if they just died, and their dead body falls onto something fragile. So while the true number is probably far beyond 100%, it is definitely far below infinity.
She eats pure sugar? Or maybe she eats foods (probably processed ones) which contain a lot of sugar, but also lots of other ingredients, some of which may cause that behaviour?
I don't know what all the fuss is about. Get Firefox with Add Block Plus and clear the cookies at program end. Use Ixquick for searches.
Why would you want to prevent Firefox from adding? ;-)
On a more serious note: Don't forget NoScript, BetterPrivacy and RequestPolicy.
Question. Me and My fiance split up the shopping and only occupy half the store. We join at the check out stand. Wonder how that got tracked?
It would be a strange coincidence that two unrelated people come in together, then cover the whole shop without significant overlap, but also without omitting any significant portion of the shop, and then meet again at the check out stand (probably even one waiting until the other arrives). This behaviour clearly shows you two belong together.
AdBlock and RequestPolicy can help you to not ever see a single advertisement. It's quite some time since I've seen the last ad on the web.
And I'm not even in principle against ads. However, internet ads as installed now have several undesirable properties:
I can tolerate most offline advertisements because they don't include those features. Some offline advertisements (especially TV ads) are, however, also obnoxious (which is the main reason why I rarely watch private TV). But at least they don't track me (I still have analogue TV, so no back channel!) and they don't carry malware (good luck trying to infect my old "dumb" TV :-)).
You are mixing things up. Wikipedia is full of links, without any of them being advertising (apart from the self-advertising banner).
Or have you already been brainwashed to no longer see the difference between information and advertisement?
I still don't have any idea what a "10W 40" is.