I said deductions, that article discuses tax breaks and other government subsidies. You're changing the topic...
A deduction isn't a direct handout... it's just the government leting you subtract money you "didn't really make" from your revenues for good reasons. The other subsidies and tax credits, however, are just plain direct handouts.
The promise of there being 500 channels is that you'll only watch 10 of them, but I'll only watch 10 of them too and my group will likely not overlap with your selections at all. Afterall, we all can only watch one show at a time anyway.
Unfortunately, books are starting to get behind the times. To be fully current now, you need to be getting your information from a realtime delivery system like the Internet or TV.
Sure, the book industry is far from dead, but as a provider of news they certainly are. They're more a provider of opinions.
The economic types may be exactly right when they say in an a la carte TV world we'd be paying about the same total per month. However, would we end up getting better value in exchange for that same money?
Unbundling channels would be a death blow to to the mega companies. Who-asked-for-that-anyway channels such as VH1 Classics and Nicktoons would simply die because nobody's going to part with pennies just to get that one channel. They wouldn't be able to say "We're giving you 10% more channels, now give us 10% more money!" anymore, which would knock their pricing back into shape.
Furthermore, new players who don't have the resources to launch dozens channels can now just launch one and be on the same competitive playing field. That'd open up the door for "indie" TV companies to come back into play. Right now, a one-network operation such as TechTV really has the deck stacked against it, which was part of the reason why they are being sold to Comcast.
Right now, it's the content makers forcing the "basic cable" model. They're the ones insisting that in order to get their popular networks, you have to take their unpopular ones too, and put them all into the same level of service as they're perscribed for. Wait a second... isn't that the kind of thing anti-trust laws usually stop?
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"Wireless desktop" is the term for a combination of wireless keyboard and wireless mouse. A "Bluetooth desktop" is a package that contains a bluetooth keyboard and a bluetooth mouse.
They're pointing out that any IP-based block could simply be defeated by the Nigerians going around and using any open web proxy in another place.
However... the law says they should only be getting paid for sessions that originate from the USA. I say the burden should be on the telcos to submit evidence that a user is a real person in the USA before they can claim their money. Since the IP isn't good enough to verify a location, you're gonna need to collect something else.:)
Didst said trolle violate thine precious IP? Yep. I don't have the money to go filing pointless lawsuits that I doubt I'd see anything from... but maybe it'd be cool to just force Slashdot to cough up the IP address of the "anonymous" troll.
Art thou's commentes no longer valid? They sure are still vaild. I don't disagree with myself very often.
A data embargo would work much like a trade embargo. Sure, "black market" activities would go under the radar... but the intent is to disrupt above-the-board activites in order to get the government to do something that it was supposed to be doing all along.
Just like how WTO punishments can often be handed out to unrelated industries... the point is just to get the violation to stop.
You DO have the power to contact the issuing bank and get the card flagged.
Call your merchant bank, give them the card number and tell them you want the phone number for the bank that issued the card.
Call the bank, ask for the security/fraud department. Talk to the sometimes unhelpful people and you'll make progress.
Banks really should issue a bounty for those who report fraudlent cards in this way. Most merchants won't put that kind of effort into saving the rest of the world from fraud without having something in it for them...
A fraud loss tax-writeoff cussions the blow of a bad sale by allowing it to be deducted from the taxable profits... but it also deducts real profits as well. Fair enough that they don't have to pay taxes on money they didn't really make.
Nobody's ever gotten rich off of claiming tax deductions. They've just prevented themselves from becoming needlessly poor by paying too much taxes. If your deductions outnumber your profits... you don't pay taxes, but you're also losing money as a business.
You should have sought a new service provider, I'm afraid. The fact that she was broadcasting availablity when in fact her TTY services were already fully subscribed to is a definite sign of trouble. Your only choice is to disconnect, as she may still be advertising availabity when you are not monitoring.
Dir you read the article? Legit deaf people can't order things via TTY anymore because store owners won't accept the calls. That's a broken service for sure...
Actually, I'd be glad to see SMTP e-mail shut down and replaced with something better too.
TTY translation service existed just fine before IP connections were accepted, so it'll be just fine after. I'm not cutting off the old way, just cutting off the new way so that the old way can continue to operate without the public distrusting it...
"TTY emulation" is a standard that nearly every dial-up modem subscribes to. Open up your 1980s-era terminal program again... that is to say, the way some of the first modems used to send text was the same way that TTY devices sent the same characters. Therefore, every modem-equiped computer can be a TTY device these days.
Will somebody just pull africas isdn line out of the wall.
Seriously... a "data embargo" against Nigeria may very well be deserved at this point. They've clearly got a problem enforcing their own anti-scam laws.
They should be busting these scam rings up, or admitting that they can't and seeking help in doing so. The fact that this isn't happening is very deserving... why do we want them as a data trade partner?
The privacy pledge is turning out to be too strict. Clearly, these people know when they're being taken advantage of... but they're not allowed to do anything about it.
It's more or less proven now that this system is implemented very poorly. IP-based TTY calls should be suspended until an effective authentication solution is in place.
The deaf people with computers can still get to this service by using their modems as a TTY terminal, and by calling a 1-800 number, there would be effective proof that the call is coming through the USA. Data calls don't get along well with VoIP services...
Car's don't testify... they can't be sworn and can't speak. What has to happen is that an expert witness qualified in examining the device will do so, and then testify to the court as to what he discovered from his analysis, and what he thinks it means.
No different than the accident reconstructionist trying to guess the speed based on what was seen at the scene after the fact... except that this technology gives a more percise number.
Imagine, you participate in a fender bender at 10 mph. But the black box says you were doing 50!
Fender benders cannot happen at 50 mph. The damage on both cars would be much greater in a high-speed crash, and your airbag would have certainly deployed. You'd be able to raise the contradictory physical evidence to get yourself off the hook.
This likely wouldn't even be able to log a fender bender as an event. It doesn't trigger the airbags, and the car would still be running afterwards. Leaving the car on while you wait for the cops to come would likely blank the memory.
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I said deductions, that article discuses tax breaks and other government subsidies. You're changing the topic...
A deduction isn't a direct handout... it's just the government leting you subtract money you "didn't really make" from your revenues for good reasons. The other subsidies and tax credits, however, are just plain direct handouts.
The promise of there being 500 channels is that you'll only watch 10 of them, but I'll only watch 10 of them too and my group will likely not overlap with your selections at all. Afterall, we all can only watch one show at a time anyway.
Unfortunately, books are starting to get behind the times. To be fully current now, you need to be getting your information from a realtime delivery system like the Internet or TV.
Sure, the book industry is far from dead, but as a provider of news they certainly are. They're more a provider of opinions.
The economic types may be exactly right when they say in an a la carte TV world we'd be paying about the same total per month. However, would we end up getting better value in exchange for that same money?
Unbundling channels would be a death blow to to the mega companies. Who-asked-for-that-anyway channels such as VH1 Classics and Nicktoons would simply die because nobody's going to part with pennies just to get that one channel. They wouldn't be able to say "We're giving you 10% more channels, now give us 10% more money!" anymore, which would knock their pricing back into shape.
Furthermore, new players who don't have the resources to launch dozens channels can now just launch one and be on the same competitive playing field. That'd open up the door for "indie" TV companies to come back into play. Right now, a one-network operation such as TechTV really has the deck stacked against it, which was part of the reason why they are being sold to Comcast.
Right now, it's the content makers forcing the "basic cable" model. They're the ones insisting that in order to get their popular networks, you have to take their unpopular ones too, and put them all into the same level of service as they're perscribed for. Wait a second... isn't that the kind of thing anti-trust laws usually stop?
"Wireless desktop" is the term for a combination of wireless keyboard and wireless mouse. A "Bluetooth desktop" is a package that contains a bluetooth keyboard and a bluetooth mouse.
It's really just a marketing phrase.
We've got Bluetooth at low power, WiFi for distance applications... where's WUSB supposed to fit in?
They're pointing out that any IP-based block could simply be defeated by the Nigerians going around and using any open web proxy in another place.
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However... the law says they should only be getting paid for sessions that originate from the USA. I say the burden should be on the telcos to submit evidence that a user is a real person in the USA before they can claim their money. Since the IP isn't good enough to verify a location, you're gonna need to collect something else.
Didst said trolle violate thine precious IP?
Yep. I don't have the money to go filing pointless lawsuits that I doubt I'd see anything from... but maybe it'd be cool to just force Slashdot to cough up the IP address of the "anonymous" troll.
Art thou's commentes no longer valid?
They sure are still vaild. I don't disagree with myself very often.
A data embargo would work much like a trade embargo. Sure, "black market" activities would go under the radar... but the intent is to disrupt above-the-board activites in order to get the government to do something that it was supposed to be doing all along.
Just like how WTO punishments can often be handed out to unrelated industries... the point is just to get the violation to stop.
You DO have the power to contact the issuing bank and get the card flagged.
Call your merchant bank, give them the card number and tell them you want the phone number for the bank that issued the card.
Call the bank, ask for the security/fraud department. Talk to the sometimes unhelpful people and you'll make progress.
Banks really should issue a bounty for those who report fraudlent cards in this way. Most merchants won't put that kind of effort into saving the rest of the world from fraud without having something in it for them...
Then they won't miss the shutdown of a service they never could use, and they likely already own a standard TTY device to communicate with.
Nope. Wasn't me... I'd like to know who's copying my post too.
At least this was posted AC... it is a total rip of What I posted in the earlier story about this, which is mentioned in the summary.
A fraud loss tax-writeoff cussions the blow of a bad sale by allowing it to be deducted from the taxable profits... but it also deducts real profits as well. Fair enough that they don't have to pay taxes on money they didn't really make.
Nobody's ever gotten rich off of claiming tax deductions. They've just prevented themselves from becoming needlessly poor by paying too much taxes. If your deductions outnumber your profits... you don't pay taxes, but you're also losing money as a business.
Nor do you do $1.6 million worth of sales of that item on one transaction ever. That's not discrimination, it's scam avoidance.
Well done.
You should have sought a new service provider, I'm afraid. The fact that she was broadcasting availablity when in fact her TTY services were already fully subscribed to is a definite sign of trouble. Your only choice is to disconnect, as she may still be advertising availabity when you are not monitoring.
The service isn't broken - it works great for me.
Dir you read the article? Legit deaf people can't order things via TTY anymore because store owners won't accept the calls. That's a broken service for sure...
Actually, I'd be glad to see SMTP e-mail shut down and replaced with something better too.
TTY translation service existed just fine before IP connections were accepted, so it'll be just fine after. I'm not cutting off the old way, just cutting off the new way so that the old way can continue to operate without the public distrusting it...
"TTY emulation" is a standard that nearly every dial-up modem subscribes to. Open up your 1980s-era terminal program again... that is to say, the way some of the first modems used to send text was the same way that TTY devices sent the same characters. Therefore, every modem-equiped computer can be a TTY device these days.
Will somebody just pull africas isdn line out of the wall.
Seriously... a "data embargo" against Nigeria may very well be deserved at this point. They've clearly got a problem enforcing their own anti-scam laws.
They should be busting these scam rings up, or admitting that they can't and seeking help in doing so. The fact that this isn't happening is very deserving... why do we want them as a data trade partner?
The privacy pledge is turning out to be too strict. Clearly, these people know when they're being taken advantage of... but they're not allowed to do anything about it.
It's more or less proven now that this system is implemented very poorly. IP-based TTY calls should be suspended until an effective authentication solution is in place.
The deaf people with computers can still get to this service by using their modems as a TTY terminal, and by calling a 1-800 number, there would be effective proof that the call is coming through the USA. Data calls don't get along well with VoIP services...
Car's don't testify... they can't be sworn and can't speak. What has to happen is that an expert witness qualified in examining the device will do so, and then testify to the court as to what he discovered from his analysis, and what he thinks it means.
No different than the accident reconstructionist trying to guess the speed based on what was seen at the scene after the fact... except that this technology gives a more percise number.
As far as I have been able to determine, there have been no USSC cases that, by abridging the right to drive, relegate it to "priviledge" status.
How about the fact that no appeal of somebody who has lost their privledge to hold a driver's license has ever made it to the USSC?
Imagine, you participate in a fender bender at 10 mph. But the black box says you were doing 50!
Fender benders cannot happen at 50 mph. The damage on both cars would be much greater in a high-speed crash, and your airbag would have certainly deployed. You'd be able to raise the contradictory physical evidence to get yourself off the hook.
This likely wouldn't even be able to log a fender bender as an event. It doesn't trigger the airbags, and the car would still be running afterwards. Leaving the car on while you wait for the cops to come would likely blank the memory.