The IRS contract is NULL and VOID via Blizzard's Terms and Services which _directly_ states you do NOT have ownership. If you don't have ownership then neither does the IRS.
No Ownership Rights in Account.
Not withstanding anything to the contrary herein, you acknowledge and agree that you shall have no ownership or other property interest in any account stored or hosted on a Blizzard system, including without limitation any BNET account or World of Warcraft account, and you further acknowledge and agree that all rights in and to such accounts are and shall forever be owned by and inure to the benefit of Blizzard.
The IRS has ZERO jurisdiction over digital "currency."
They don't get to tax me on WoW gold or any other currency that is made out of thin air, aka, bits. BitCoin is no different. Just because something is popular doesn't mean they have authority.
> Bose targets the more mature ignorant quality-seeking crowd,
FTFY.
In what universe does Bose and quality even go together?!?!? They are a complete over-priced under-quality joke by many audiophiles. They are nowhere in the top ten at Hi-Fi http://www.head-fi.org/f/113/h...
Maybe if Bose didn't sound like shit and actually listed* their technical specs such THR -- oh wait Bose relies on ignorance and marketing just like Beats.
Bose Corporation takes its psychoacoustics outlook right down to its controversial methods of published specifications, in that it does not publish specs by standard measured electrical and objective acoustic performance.
We all can have a laugh then when First Contact happens within 10 years (by 2024) and our Pleiadian parents look humanoid.:-)
You can keep laughing when Scientists discover the quantum energy flow between white holes and black holes, and the remaining 2 fundamental forces.
Clairvoyants have to follow spiritual laws too. Information is NOT allowed to just be "put out there." It follows a schedule just like everything else in the universe.
Five years and at least $600,000 on, with unhappy staff complaining of interoperability problems with Microsoft Office documents, city administrators called in a consultant from a Microsoft partner to support the city council in fixing the problem. The solution proposed: a complete reversal of course, switching back to Microsoft Office for a sum of at least $500,000, with a $360-per-seat cost for licensing Microsoft Office and no firm estimates for undoing the earlier migration.
There are no details on what the "interoperability" problems were. Was it features lacking in LibreOffice? Was it bugs in LibreOffice? The article doesn't say.
If businesses actually pooled their resources they could actually get LibreOffice "fixed" -- but they would rather piss money away on licensing costs.
Exactly. This human myopic assumptions are purely asinine at times. (Just like Scientists assume the Laws of Physics are constant for the universe based purely on visual data which has huge margins of error.)
Other stupid assumptions: Assuming life favors a single-star system when in reality it favors a twin-star system.
Government should only be allowed to use open standards. This proprietary vendor lock-in is a crime against society -- the very people the government is supposed to serve.
I'm not denying there is are natural physical boundaries but political boundaries are purely conceptual boundaries -- witness how many times the border of Poland moved in the 20th century!
> Nations must have borders or the nation ceases to exist.
I question that basic assumption: All that does is divide people into an "us vs them" mentality.
Why must there even BE _artificial_ human inventions such as borders?
The earth doesn't have borders, only men do.
I want a world where:
* People can freely live and work they may without another man giving them permission * Personal Rights and Freedoms are respected and placed at a higher value then artificial government granted privileges, * Governments to acknowledge that they are created BY the people to SERVE the people, not the other way around where people are brainwashed into believing they need artificial government granted privileges. * Governments are Accountable for their actions * Governments are Open about their actions
If people, and government which are an extension of people, would spend less time living in FEAR and profiting off making machines to kill other men we wouldn't even need borders.
Eventually a unified world government is more efficient but since that scares the hell out of a lot of people that will never happen until we remove money (corruption) from politics.
> "According to the Sacramento Bee, the average teacher salary in 2011 was $67,871.
How the hell is that "enough" when CEO & entertainers -- the most useless people in society -- make millions, yet the most important people in society -- teachers barely make a decent salary??
What gets me about this whole KiB MiB bullshit is that it is revisionist history based on some pointless ideology. Years ago I recognized:
Any ideology taken to an extreme is usually never a good idea in the long run.
IF the terms had been invented back in the '70s, then fine, we _might_ of adopted it. But in 1998? Fuck off. If there really is _that_ much confusion then either put a 2 or 10 subscript below the K or M to distinguish the base.
i.e. 16 G2B = 16384 K2B = 16,777,216 bytes 299 M10m = 299.792458 Mm = 299,792,458 m.
We use B for Bytes, and b for bits. From context we can tell that base-2 is implied.
> Yes, RAM has been traditionally been measured using prefixes that imply powers of 2, but the errors have been getting worse and worse as the numbers get larger.
Total nonsense. You never buy 16,000,000,000 bytes of RAM. You buy 16 GB = 16384 KB of RAM, because the address line is always in base 2, never base 10.
Likewise hard disk drives are intentionally marketed to confuse people. Sectors have always been 256 bytes (Apple ][), 512 bytes (MFM) or 4096 bytes (modern HD)
Clock cycles were measured in MegaHertz, so powers of 10 are natural.
Getting bent out of shape because of some theoretical definition of perfection is a waste of time.
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The IRS contract is NULL and VOID via Blizzard's Terms and Services which _directly_ states you do NOT have ownership. If you don't have ownership then neither does the IRS.
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/c...
-- /. lameness filter is lame."
"The
* Graphene "miracle" Monday
* BitCoin "scandal" Tuesday
* Microsoft "who-cares" Wednesday
* Apple "hipster iShiny" Thursday
* Interesting news on Friday
-- /grumpy-old-programmer
"Get off my LAN"
And they can go fuck themselves. I already pay 5 digit taxes, as in, between $10,000 and $99,999 inclusive.
The IRS has ZERO jurisdiction over digital "currency."
They don't get to tax me on WoW gold or any other currency that is made out of thin air, aka, bits. BitCoin is no different. Just because something is popular doesn't mean they have authority.
You're missing the point.
Bose is over priced crap. You can buy significantly better quality headphones for half the cost.
> Bose targets the more mature ignorant quality-seeking crowd,
FTFY.
In what universe does Bose and quality even go together?!?!? They are a complete over-priced under-quality joke by many audiophiles. They are nowhere in the top ten at Hi-Fi http://www.head-fi.org/f/113/h...
Senn cans are consistently top rated. I.e. http://www.head-fi.org/product...
Maybe if Bose didn't sound like shit and actually listed* their technical specs such THR -- oh wait Bose relies on ignorance and marketing just like Beats.
* Audioholics http://www.audioholics.com/edi...
/sarcasm "People graduate from college. News at 11."
We all can have a laugh then when First Contact happens within 10 years (by 2024) and our Pleiadian parents look humanoid. :-)
You can keep laughing when Scientists discover the quantum energy flow between white holes and black holes, and the remaining 2 fundamental forces.
Clairvoyants have to follow spiritual laws too. Information is NOT allowed to just be "put out there." It follows a schedule just like everything else in the universe.
Exactly. The first step in ANY compression algorithm is:
Know Thy Data
Your mention of FLAC is a perfect example.
From your first link, with emphasis addd:
Five years and at least $600,000 on, with unhappy staff complaining of interoperability problems with Microsoft Office documents, city administrators called in a consultant from a Microsoft partner to support the city council in fixing the problem. The solution proposed: a complete reversal of course, switching back to Microsoft Office for a sum of at least $500,000, with a $360-per-seat cost for licensing Microsoft Office and no firm estimates for undoing the earlier migration.
There are no details on what the "interoperability" problems were. Was it features lacking in LibreOffice? Was it bugs in LibreOffice? The article doesn't say.
If businesses actually pooled their resources they could actually get LibreOffice "fixed" -- but they would rather piss money away on licensing costs.
I prefer the more accurate term ePenis over eSport.
--
"Once money is involved, the art & activity is almost always corrupted. Politics, Sports, Movies, Games, etc."
There is nothing more pathetic then Sony trying to "win" back customers then bribing them with free games.
Why do you assume Science is the _only_ way to acquire knowledge?
Exactly. This human myopic assumptions are purely asinine at times. (Just like Scientists assume the Laws of Physics are constant for the universe based purely on visual data which has huge margins of error.)
Other stupid assumptions: Assuming life favors a single-star system when in reality it favors a twin-star system.
Earth is the anomaly here; NOT the norm.
> Is that really a super big breakthrough?
Searching through look-up tables?
Nah, not really.
We're talking about documents (and their formats), not physical objects. We can work on _that_ "problem" once we take care of the basics.
Government should only be allowed to use open standards. This proprietary vendor lock-in is a crime against society -- the very people the government is supposed to serve.
I'm not denying there is are natural physical boundaries but political boundaries are purely conceptual boundaries -- witness how many times the border of Poland moved in the 20th century!
> Nations must have borders or the nation ceases to exist.
I question that basic assumption: All that does is divide people into an "us vs them" mentality.
Why must there even BE _artificial_ human inventions such as borders?
The earth doesn't have borders, only men do.
I want a world where:
* People can freely live and work they may without another man giving them permission
* Personal Rights and Freedoms are respected and placed at a higher value then artificial government granted privileges,
* Governments to acknowledge that they are created BY the people to SERVE the people, not the other way around where people are brainwashed into believing they need artificial government granted privileges.
* Governments are Accountable for their actions
* Governments are Open about their actions
If people, and government which are an extension of people, would spend less time living in FEAR and profiting off making machines to kill other men we wouldn't even need borders.
Eventually a unified world government is more efficient but since that scares the hell out of a lot of people that will never happen until we remove money (corruption) from politics.
> "According to the Sacramento Bee, the average teacher salary in 2011 was $67,871.
How the hell is that "enough" when CEO & entertainers -- the most useless people in society -- make millions, yet the most important people in society -- teachers barely make a decent salary??
So documenting piss-poor UI / User Experience is limited to only expensive devices???
Preaching to the choir, brother !
What gets me about this whole KiB MiB bullshit is that it is revisionist history based on some pointless ideology. Years ago I recognized:
Any ideology taken to an extreme is usually never a good idea in the long run.
IF the terms had been invented back in the '70s, then fine, we _might_ of adopted it. But in 1998? Fuck off. If there really is _that_ much confusion then either put a 2 or 10 subscript below the K or M to distinguish the base.
i.e.
16 G2B = 16384 K2B = 16,777,216 bytes
299 M10m = 299.792458 Mm = 299,792,458 m.
We use B for Bytes, and b for bits. From context we can tell that base-2 is implied.
> You: 65535
Incorrect. I said 65536. Please quote properly.
The op probably transposed the the last 6 and 3 as you point out, however his argument is completely invalid as I demonstrated with my followup.
> Yes, RAM has been traditionally been measured using prefixes that imply powers of 2, but the errors have been getting worse and worse as the numbers get larger.
Total nonsense. You never buy 16,000,000,000 bytes of RAM. You buy 16 GB = 16384 KB of RAM, because the address line is always in base 2, never base 10.
Likewise hard disk drives are intentionally marketed to confuse people. Sectors have always been 256 bytes (Apple ][), 512 bytes (MFM) or 4096 bytes (modern HD)
Clock cycles were measured in MegaHertz, so powers of 10 are natural.
Getting bent out of shape because of some theoretical definition of perfection is a waste of time.
> 64K = 64,000
> In no unit of measurement is 64K(anything) = 65635.
How the hell did this ignorance of computer history get modded up??
In the context of [binary] computers, 64K = 65536
In the context of Science, 64K = 64,000
There were many ads showing 64K and there was never any confusion over it. Hell, Microsoft never adapted the KiB notation either.
The retarded term KiB wasn't EVEN invented until 1998!