Yes, it escapes corporate income taxes, but eventually the income accrues to U.S./U.K. citizens as capital gains from the sale of shares, salaries, consulting fees or what have you. Then those people not paying can be punished (if caught, and in the case of Haliburton, if not politically well-connected as well).
. . . you would play hardball right back and show them your original basis and then the IRS would owe YOU for your loss . . .
So who has receipts going years back for garage sale-type items they're selling on eBay? Sure, going forward, we can all keep every receipt, but cleaning out the basement could be a taxable event now. Of course, all this kind of thing will do is drive people to dump things into landfills rather than deal with the hassle.
Install the CustomizeGoogle extension in Firefox (blocks Google Analytics cookies) and use a separate browser (Opera works well) for Gmail. Problem solved.
And if it had been an all-you-care-to-eat buffet and I had been removed before I was done, I would have disputed the charge for the meal with my credit card company. Why are people such sheep that they put up with this kind of crap?
Same here -- happy to pay, but not for the shackles. Another poster mentioned unskippable trailers, a particularly egregious example of some of the crap that is avoided by simply downloading the movie. I do (despite the campaign of terror by the MPAA) go see first-run movies in a "VIP room" setting. It costs $8.00 more for a decent seat and no commercials. Like you said, the experience is what matters.
You nailed it -- paying for the entertainment cartel's "content" is like paying for ones own shackles, when the DRM/rootkit/spyware/"trusted computing" stripped version is a.torrent away.
would be notification of speed traps. But then I suppose that the Speeding Ticket Industry Association of America or some such would start poisoning the network with false positives.
It does no such thing. It declines to grant (not takes away, because you never had it) the right to incorporate GPL'd software into your proprietary, closed-source software. The GPL, in so many words, says "If you want to run this program, that's great. If you want to modify it, close it, and sell it, tough shit-WRITE YOUR OWN CODE."
Comparing that with software that's sold usurping the "right" to call home by means of an obfuscated EULA is the height of disingenuousness.
Translation -- DeVry and Microsoft conspired to sell your eyeballs to advertisers, and we're going to use the per credit-hour computing fees you pay to fatten our administrative salary budget. Enjoy your glorified Hotmail account!
Exactly. People don't seem to get that all this social safety net stuff the well off resent being taxed for keeps them from being killed and eaten by a hungry mob. Same goes with philanthropy -- it's the price the super-rich pay for being allowed to stay super-rich.
Pretty much all but the lowest end laptops are about $1K more than the equivalent non-Apple laptop, particularly taking into account the more advanced graphics subsystem and faster processors in the competition. But I see I have already been modded "Troll" by some Apple fanboi that had his feelings hurt by the truth. Posting with the +1 bonus to make the point that I have more than enough karma to be comfortable telling the hurtful truth to the Apple faithful.
You're right that some scholars interpret it as being about Rome. But Rome isn't mentioned. Whether that's because it was politically dangerous to write directly about Rome or because the book is prophecy yet to be fulfilled is a question of faith.
The Bible speaks symbolically, particularly in Revelation. People of good will (however misguided), have interpreted even the U.S. Social Security Account Number as the Mark. I doubt an RFID implant would be accepted by Christians aware of the prophecy, even if it were inserted into the left hand:).
The nature of the "number of the beast" is of some controversy, and you are correct that there have been attempts to paint the Book of Revelation as a politically commentary about the Rome of the time and to link the number to Nero. Interprerations of the book are plentiful.
Perhaps Real ID or similar is not a ticket to hell. But Christian beliefs that pervasive identification schemes (particularly those that involve biometrics, or implants) are related to the charagma have been crucial in preventing us already being required to carry such identification for inspection on demand. Whether one believes that or not, the fear on the part of politicians of upsetting fundamentalists with respect to the issue has been quite politically useful as a means of stalling this particular oppression.
The Great Commission says to do just that, and many Westerm Christians are working very hard to bring the Gospel to red China full of so many lost athiests and followers of false religions. Of course, they're doing it on the QT. While martyrdom is noble, it is not generally sought out.
I suppose God, unlike you, considered the possibility that there are people alive without right hands, but not without heads. WRT "intelligent as a paramecium," your reasoning spake for itself.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
I wouldn't bet the farm on the proxy admin telling any U.S. law enforcement to stick their head anywhere. I woiuld in fact be very surprised if a significant number of "anonymous" proxies an TOR servers were not run by arms of the U.S. government.
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There's generally no discovery in small claims court.
Yes, it escapes corporate income taxes, but eventually the income accrues to U.S./U.K. citizens as capital gains from the sale of shares, salaries, consulting fees or what have you. Then those people not paying can be punished (if caught, and in the case of Haliburton, if not politically well-connected as well).
. . . what's to stop the owners from moving to a more tax friendly country?
You mean besides extradition and prison? Unless you mean the owners intend to physically move and renounce their citizenship.
So who has receipts going years back for garage sale-type items they're selling on eBay? Sure, going forward, we can all keep every receipt, but cleaning out the basement could be a taxable event now. Of course, all this kind of thing will do is drive people to dump things into landfills rather than deal with the hassle.
Install the CustomizeGoogle extension in Firefox (blocks Google Analytics cookies) and use a separate browser (Opera works well) for Gmail. Problem solved.
Steve Gibson pointed out decades-old prior art that would invalidate the Cleartype patent (if our patent system weren't corrupt) several years ago.
Exactly. Put the encrypted payload in "clear" HTTP packets. Traffic shape that.
And if it had been an all-you-care-to-eat buffet and I had been removed before I was done, I would have disputed the charge for the meal with my credit card company. Why are people such sheep that they put up with this kind of crap?
Same here -- happy to pay, but not for the shackles. Another poster mentioned unskippable trailers, a particularly egregious example of some of the crap that is avoided by simply downloading the movie. I do (despite the campaign of terror by the MPAA) go see first-run movies in a "VIP room" setting. It costs $8.00 more for a decent seat and no commercials. Like you said, the experience is what matters.
You nailed it -- paying for the entertainment cartel's "content" is like paying for ones own shackles, when the DRM/rootkit/spyware/"trusted computing" stripped version is a .torrent away.
Nice -- at first, I thought the use of the word "missionary" was unintentional, then I read on. Well-done!
would be notification of speed traps. But then I suppose that the Speeding Ticket Industry Association of America or some such would start poisoning the network with false positives.
Comparing that with software that's sold usurping the "right" to call home by means of an obfuscated EULA is the height of disingenuousness.
Translation -- DeVry and Microsoft conspired to sell your eyeballs to advertisers, and we're going to use the per credit-hour computing fees you pay to fatten our administrative salary budget. Enjoy your glorified Hotmail account!
Exactly. People don't seem to get that all this social safety net stuff the well off resent being taxed for keeps them from being killed and eaten by a hungry mob. Same goes with philanthropy -- it's the price the super-rich pay for being allowed to stay super-rich.
Pretty much all but the lowest end laptops are about $1K more than the equivalent non-Apple laptop, particularly taking into account the more advanced graphics subsystem and faster processors in the competition. But I see I have already been modded "Troll" by some Apple fanboi that had his feelings hurt by the truth. Posting with the +1 bonus to make the point that I have more than enough karma to be comfortable telling the hurtful truth to the Apple faithful.
Exactly. The Mac is a $1,000 dongle, and Apple legal isn't going to take kindly to that dongle being out-of-the-box emulated on a PC.
You're right that some scholars interpret it as being about Rome. But Rome isn't mentioned. Whether that's because it was politically dangerous to write directly about Rome or because the book is prophecy yet to be fulfilled is a question of faith.
The Bible speaks symbolically, particularly in Revelation. People of good will (however misguided), have interpreted even the U.S. Social Security Account Number as the Mark. I doubt an RFID implant would be accepted by Christians aware of the prophecy, even if it were inserted into the left hand :).
The nature of the "number of the beast" is of some controversy, and you are correct that there have been attempts to paint the Book of Revelation as a politically commentary about the Rome of the time and to link the number to Nero. Interprerations of the book are plentiful.
Perhaps Real ID or similar is not a ticket to hell. But Christian beliefs that pervasive identification schemes (particularly those that involve biometrics, or implants) are related to the charagma have been crucial in preventing us already being required to carry such identification for inspection on demand. Whether one believes that or not, the fear on the part of politicians of upsetting fundamentalists with respect to the issue has been quite politically useful as a means of stalling this particular oppression.
The Great Commission says to do just that, and many Westerm Christians are working very hard to bring the Gospel to red China full of so many lost athiests and followers of false religions. Of course, they're doing it on the QT. While martyrdom is noble, it is not generally sought out.
I suppose God, unlike you, considered the possibility that there are people alive without right hands, but not without heads. WRT "intelligent as a paramecium," your reasoning spake for itself.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
I wouldn't bet the farm on the proxy admin telling any U.S. law enforcement to stick their head anywhere. I woiuld in fact be very surprised if a significant number of "anonymous" proxies an TOR servers were not run by arms of the U.S. government.
Good linkage!