You might want to look into getting an IDP (International Drivers Permit.) Remember, they are NOT valid in the place of issue, so please don't go to AAA and get one.
You will also want to learn about the: Manufacturer's Statement of Origin
You DO NOT own your car, unless you have the MSO (Manufacturer's Statement of Origin.) When the police ask for my driver's license and registration, I only give them my IDP, and don't give them the registration, since I don't have one as my car is not registered with the government. Once the police realize that you are outside their jursidiction, they let you go.
Doesn't it seem logical that one could be legally EXTERNAL ?
Here's some starting information on how to protect your money offshore.
1. Expatriate and become a Sovereign State Citizen. BILL OF RIGHTS, Article XIV. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State they reside."
Why is this important?
From the 1998 Filing requirements. http://ftp.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf or http://ftp.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf "These rules also apply to nonresident aliens and dual-status aliens who where married to U.S citizens or residents at the end of 1998 and who have elected to be taxed as resident aliens."
Income tax is voluntary for non-resident aliens, how nice!
Things that make you go hmmm: You might also want to research WHY the the constitution is title "united States of America." WHY did the original writers use a LOWERCASE 'u' on uSA when they were knew better? Because the jurisdiction of the United States is different then the uSA.
What exactly is the jurisdiction of the United States?
The United States is defined by the Constitution: "To exercise exclusive Legistlation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square)..."
2. Revoke your Social Insurance Number. (There is no law that requires you to have one.:-)
3. Get a company formed off shore. You will find certain countries don't tax foreign income.;-)
4. Work for the above mentioned company to manage its business. A company id card and VISA is a must.
5. Since the company doesn't have a US Tax Payers Identification Number, (since it is formed in an off-shore jurisdiction), submit a W-8 to your boss, which notifies them that he/she can't with-hold wages, since they are NOT paying you, but the off-shore company.
Work smarter, not harder.
"No man has the right to be taxed without his consent."
If you need more info, email me at mpohores@sfu.ca
Here are some links to get you started:
How the constitution is slowly being eroded. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1559501 278/americanpatriotnA/002-6543589-3496023
Black's Law book, 6th ed. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/031476271 X/002-6543589-3496023
United States definition essay http://www.civil-liberties.com/
Copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7006/rulebook .html http://www.ole.net/~tmb/document/CRB-JURY.TXT
The IRS scam http://freedomabovefortune.com/ http://members.tripod.com/~fedinfo/tax_page.html http://www.mind-trek.com/practicl/tl16d.htm http://www.mind-trek.com/treatise/ls-tbj/appendi x.htm
A good starting point at sovereinty info. http://www.devvy.com/index.html
> Modula-3's been around since about 1990, and in having garbage collection
You need to be able to turn this OFF if your doing embedded real-time systems programming. Part of the reason why C/C++ is still popular: there is no "right way" to do garbage collection.
> and OO Last time I checked, M3 didn't have operator overloading. The opaque types were cool though.
> M3 never caught on, mostly because of the superficial syntactic issue of being a Pascal/Modula-derived language
It is not superficial, it IS a modern Pascal/Modula2 langunage done right. Unfortunately, M3 is still a straight jacket like Pascal.
Heck, the front-end compiler even generated C code.
> Just because something is simple to use doesn't mean smart people shouldn't use it.
You forgot that smarter people use the right tool (language) for the right job.
Far too many programmers too easily blaspheme their favorite language in the name of the Holy War of Languages by preaching their language is the One True Way.
You aren't going to write a compiler or an OS in VB. Use the langauge(s) for what they were designed for. (Design and Evolution of C++ is a great place to start for what C++ IS and IS NOT good for.)
For my needs VB is absolutely useless, for others its perfect. (I'm a game developer, performance has the hight priority. Throwing an interface together and data mining has the lowest priority.)
If you look at any legal state documents or books, say a Judges Manual, (mine is dated 1957) you will see the legal name for Mass. is "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts"
Look up "corporate sole" in Black's Law Dictionary (under corporation) and learn WHY that would never work. Why is the Queen of England a corporate sole?!
Also, off shore trusts are another way to transfer money without being taxed.
> To allow the USA to have a truely 'free market' economy, the antitrust laws would have to be repealed.
Who creates a business/corporation? The government/state does. Proof: Who grants a business license? (Go look up corporation and business license in Black's Law Dictionary if you need to verify this, which you SHOULD be doing;-)
Now does that mean you need a business license in order to conduct business? How do you think people conducted business before there were corporations? People used TRUSTS for the last thousand or so years. As another/. reader pointed out, corporations (and trusts) ARE persons, aka legal entities. Why? The whole point of creating another legal entity is limit the liability against the real owner / person. You will notice the abundance of "LLC"s, aka Limitied Liability Company.
We ALREADY have a truely free market. Anyone is able to engage in free enterprise. It just depends on how much protection you want to provide for yourself. If you enter the jurisidiction of the state by acquiring a business license, then you have to play by their rules.
> Is it your position that government regulations that prohibit my dumping of toxic chemicals into the aquifier on my property are "anti free market?"
The owner of the land decides what is done with it.
Unless you hold your land in Allodial Title, you DO NOT own it, the government does. You might wish to acquire Black's Law Dictionary, its very informative.
> they're happy to have the government protect their private interests. The government is just looking after its assets. Makes more sense now that you understand Allodial Title, doesn't it?
> As much as it galls the little open-source fanatic in me, it was really good to see someone at last come out with a very well-reasoned decision to use NT as a development platform.
I'm not sure where you have been hiding:), but most fellow game developers [not just programmers, designers, artists, etc.] that I know, would rather use NT then Winblows 95/96/98/99. Only a few of us programmers run Win9X where I work, everyone else is using NT.
A lot of [game] developers wanted to use NT 4 when it first game out, but we had no choice, since D3D wasn't fully supported under NT (i.e. no hardware acceleration for D3D.) I don't even want to mention the huge OpenGL vs D3D that divided the community a few years back. Most developers agreed OpenGL was cleaner, but didn't want the hassle of fighting to get working (and fast) OpenGL drivers for NT/9X when MS was pushing DirectX drivers come hell or high water.
MSDev is a pretty sweet IDE. If the Linux community had an IDE just as good or better then MSDev, I could probably get the rest of my co-workers to switch over to Linux, or at least even consider porting our games.:)
I did manage to find a few Linux Dev Tools, but haven't had a chance to check them out.
I am so sick and tired of hearing this crud. Especially since I am a GAME DEVELOPER, developing on NT ! Go figure !
a) What IS WRONG with MS conceding that it is OK to play games on NT? Isn't NT _GOOD ENOUGH_ to play games on? Oh wait, I forgot GAMES are the ONLY apps that need real-time rendering ! *sarcasm off*
b) Programmers need to relax too !! I HATE having to reboot to a crap OS just to play games. Thank-you Carmack for letting Quake run on NT!;-)
> games on Win2000 with no problem. They seem to run faster and are SO much more stable than they are in Win98. Windows98 is a joke. Hey, we agreed on something! Will wonders never cease on/. ?!:-)
> (you seem to use your systems mostly for games; I don't). Actually I use it for software development (VC is pretty sweet), surfing, gaming, email, icq, etc, all the usuall things one does with a computer.;-)
> The problem with Microsoft's operating systems is that there really aren't any instructions. Not only that, but Windows9X is SO badly written. Thats WHY I use NT, Linux, and BeOS. (Doesn't anyone read the first 2 paragraphs?!!) With a REAL OS, I don't have to worry about the darn OS crashing every 5 mins.
> At least with Linux, I have instructions, in the form of the various HOWTOs, etc., to refer to if something goes awry during installation I agree: an advantage in that help is availabble, and a dis-advantage that you need a lot of time to wade thru all the HOWTOs.
> however, I haven't had an install go wacky since an early 1.0.x kernel Slackware distribution Actually I started using Linux with an early Slackware ver as well! The only hardware probs that I've had is getting Linux to recognize my 2nd NIC (nothing a compile didn't solve;-)
> agreed with was failing to make emergency boot disks when prompted. Yeap, I've been bitten by that one in both NT and Linux. At least in Linux its relatively easy to make a boot disk;-)
> While you are talking about the 1996 version of NT, most of your agruments are moot with Windows 2000 (NT5). Yeap, I know. I run RC2 at work. The original article discussed NT 4, not Win2K, so I did the same.
> but we don't want to spread FUD, do we? The post was an attempt at humor, with a little bit of truth to each point.
>> 5. Using the wrong Pagefile size > ??? NT pages most of it kernal out, i.e. 11 of its 12 megs. NT doesn't like NOT having a page file. Linux handles this MUCH better, i.e. you DON"T need a page file to run Linux if you have more then i.e. 32 Megs, and even there is not really a need of setting more then 8 or 16 megs swap space, UNLIKE NT, where the usually recommendation is RAM * 1.5, which I think is silly. (sorry for the run-on sentence.)
#pragma message( "I use Linux, BeOS, and NT, and happen to like them ALL. This message is NOT meant to be flamebait." )
#include "i_cant_find_my_funny_bone.h"
> 1. Using the wrong hardware When Linux is perfectly happy running on older Pentiums and 486s. As BOTH a Server and Desktop.
> 2. Installing Windows NT where it doesn't belong Especially when alot of games require Winblows 9X & DirectX 6, and NT 4 won't support DX6.
> 3. Choosing the wrong file system An OS that only recognizes FAT16, FAT32 (unofficially), and NTFS.
> 4. No emergency repair disk Not being able to boot to a NT command line prompt unless you shell out a few clams for some special ERD Commander Pro utility.
> 5. Using the wrong Pagefile size NT being so brain-dead that it won't let you set a pagefile of 0 bytes. Hey you with 256 Megs of Ram, don't you know you need a pagefile !
> 6. Missing a key network component Having to reboot everytime you change one little network setting.
> 7. Forgetting the password DOH! You mean I need to REMEMBER info? I thought that's what computers were for;-)
> 8. Using older applications... not knowing that Doom or some other DOS-based games simply wouldn't work in NT. Doom (DOS version and other VGA DOS Games) DO work, just not with sound.
>9. Applying service packs unwisely You mean like installing SP3, then installing a network card, then having to re-install the damn thing again?
> 10. Cloning Windows NT Its not like anyone would need 100 identical copies of NT running on 100 different computers? Hey Mr Library SysAdmin, do you know that you shouldn't be cloning those public NT boxes?:-)
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You might want to look into getting an IDP (International Drivers Permit.) Remember, they are NOT valid in the place of issue, so please don't go to AAA and get one.
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You will also want to learn about the:
Manufacturer's Statement of Origin
You DO NOT own your car, unless you have the MSO (Manufacturer's Statement of Origin.) When the police ask for my driver's license and registration, I only give them my IDP, and don't give them the registration, since I don't have one as my car is not registered with the government. Once the police realize that you are outside their jursidiction, they let you go.
http://www.ptialaska.net/~swampy/interest/trave
Cheers
What does the name IRS mean?
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:-)
;-)
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Internal Revenue Service, right?
Doesn't it seem logical that one could be legally EXTERNAL ?
Here's some starting information on how to protect your money offshore.
1. Expatriate and become a Sovereign State Citizen.
BILL OF RIGHTS, Article XIV.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State they reside."
Why is this important?
From the 1998 Filing requirements.
http://ftp.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf
or
http://ftp.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf
"These rules also apply to nonresident aliens and dual-status aliens who where married to U.S citizens or residents at the end of 1998 and who have elected to be taxed as resident aliens."
Income tax is voluntary for non-resident aliens, how nice!
Things that make you go hmmm:
You might also want to research WHY the the constitution is title "united States of America."
WHY did the original writers use a LOWERCASE 'u' on uSA when they were knew better?
Because the jurisdiction of the United States is different then the uSA.
What exactly is the jurisdiction of the United States?
The United States is defined by the Constitution: "To exercise exclusive Legistlation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square)
2. Revoke your Social Insurance Number. (There is no law that requires you to have one.
3. Get a company formed off shore. You will find certain countries don't tax foreign income.
4. Work for the above mentioned company to manage its business. A company id card and VISA is a must.
5. Since the company doesn't have a US Tax Payers Identification Number, (since it is formed in an off-shore jurisdiction), submit a W-8 to your boss, which notifies them that he/she can't with-hold wages, since they are NOT paying you, but the off-shore company.
Work smarter, not harder.
"No man has the right to be taxed without his consent."
If you need more info, email me at mpohores@sfu.ca
Here are some links to get you started:
How the constitution is slowly being eroded.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D155950
Black's Law book, 6th ed.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/03147627
United States definition essay
http://www.civil-liberties.com/
Copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7006/ruleboo
http://www.ole.net/~tmb/document/CRB-JURY.TXT
The IRS scam
http://freedomabovefortune.com/
http://members.tripod.com/~fedinfo/tax_page.htm
http://www.mind-trek.com/practicl/tl16d.htm
http://www.mind-trek.com/treatise/ls-tbj/append
A good starting point at sovereinty info.
http://www.devvy.com/index.html
IANAL
Cheers
> And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
> whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire
So if death and hell are cast into the fire, where does it say that people will suffer for eternity? I don't see a "burn, baby, burn" in the bible?!
> Modula-3's been around since about 1990, and in having garbage collection
You need to be able to turn this OFF if your doing embedded real-time systems programming. Part of the reason why C/C++ is still popular: there is no "right way" to do garbage collection.
> and OO
Last time I checked, M3 didn't have operator overloading. The opaque types were cool though.
> M3 never caught on, mostly because of the superficial syntactic issue of being a Pascal/Modula-derived language
It is not superficial, it IS a modern Pascal/Modula2 langunage done right. Unfortunately, M3 is still a straight jacket like Pascal.
Heck, the front-end compiler even generated C code.
Cheers
> Just because something is simple to use doesn't mean smart people shouldn't use it.
You forgot that smarter people use the right tool (language) for the right job.
Far too many programmers too easily blaspheme their favorite language in the name of the Holy War of Languages by preaching their language is the One True Way.
You aren't going to write a compiler or an OS in VB. Use the langauge(s) for what they were designed for. (Design and Evolution of C++ is a great place to start for what C++ IS and IS NOT good for.)
For my needs VB is absolutely useless, for others its perfect. (I'm a game developer, performance has the hight priority. Throwing an interface together and data mining has the lowest priority.)
Cheers
> Probably too busy enjoying Baywatch.
:-)
You mean BabeWatch or BoobWatch (although Xena is getting pretty bad in that later department
If you look at any legal state documents or books, say a Judges Manual, (mine is dated 1957) you will see the legal name for Mass. is "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts"
Nothing really new here.
IANAL.
Cheers
Take a look at Be OS. The API's are pretty nice.
> Using science to prove creation is much better than placing science and God on opposite sides.
;-)
I agree.
Science explains HOW, Relegion explains WHY.
2 sides of the same coin
Cheers
Look up "corporate sole" in Black's Law Dictionary (under corporation) and learn WHY that would never work. Why is the Queen of England a corporate sole?!
Also, off shore trusts are another way to transfer money without being taxed.
Work smarter, not harder.
Cheers
2 words: corporate sole
;-)
and
3 words: off shore trusts
Why is the Queen of England a Corporate Sole ?
Left as an exercise for the readers
Work smarter, not harder !
Cheers
Well, what's the punch line ??!!
> I personally think that everyone should learn to speak canadian.
Huh?! I didn't know we had our own language! I thought us Canadians spoke Enlish / French / German / Polish / etc.
Old Canadian Joke:
Q. How do you spell Canada?
A. C, eh? N, Eh? D, eh?
Cheers
> To allow the USA to have a truely 'free market' economy, the antitrust laws would have to be repealed.
;-)
/. reader pointed out, corporations (and trusts) ARE persons, aka legal entities.
Who creates a business/corporation? The government/state does. Proof: Who grants a business license? (Go look up corporation and business license in Black's Law Dictionary if you need to verify this, which you SHOULD be doing
Now does that mean you need a business license in order to conduct business? How do you think people conducted business before there were corporations? People used TRUSTS for the last thousand or so years. As another
Why? The whole point of creating another legal entity is limit the liability against the real owner / person. You will notice the abundance of "LLC"s, aka Limitied Liability Company.
We ALREADY have a truely free market. Anyone is able to engage in free enterprise. It just depends on how much protection you want to provide for yourself. If you enter the jurisidiction of the state by acquiring a business license, then you have to play by their rules.
> Is it your position that government regulations that prohibit my dumping of toxic chemicals into the aquifier on my property are "anti free market?"
The owner of the land decides what is done with it.
Unless you hold your land in Allodial Title, you DO NOT own it, the government does. You might wish to acquire Black's Law Dictionary, its very informative.
> they're happy to have the government protect their private interests.
The government is just looking after its assets. Makes more sense now that you understand Allodial Title, doesn't it?
IANAL
Cheers
> As much as it galls the little open-source fanatic in me, it was really good to see someone at last come out with a very well-reasoned decision to use NT as a development platform.
:), but most fellow game developers [not just programmers, designers, artists, etc.] that I know, would rather use NT then Winblows 95/96/98/99. Only a few of us programmers run Win9X where I work, everyone else is using NT.
:)
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/. 4 237&mode=thread
;-)
I'm not sure where you have been hiding
A lot of [game] developers wanted to use NT 4 when it first game out, but we had no choice, since D3D wasn't fully supported under NT (i.e. no hardware acceleration for D3D.) I don't even want to mention the huge OpenGL vs D3D that divided the community a few years back. Most developers agreed OpenGL was cleaner, but didn't want the hassle of fighting to get working (and fast) OpenGL drivers for NT/9X when MS was pushing DirectX drivers come hell or high water.
MSDev is a pretty sweet IDE. If the Linux community had an IDE just as good or better then MSDev, I could probably get the rest of my co-workers to switch over to Linux, or at least even consider porting our games.
I did manage to find a few Linux Dev Tools, but haven't had a chance to check them out.
Code Crusader
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/jcc/
Exuberant Tags
http://home.hiwaay.net/~darren/ctags/index.html
GCC 2.95 Buglist
http://egcs.cygnus.com/bugs.html
KDevelop
http://www.kdevelop.org/
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-09
Code Fusion review on
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/09/09/105
Visual SlickEdit
http://www.slickedit.com/frameset_prodinfo.htm
BeOS is also pretty slick. You even get a free IDE with it ! If anyone has any info for porting Win32/Linux apps to BeOS feel free to post urls
Just how the heck do you pronounce Li18nux ?
Someone moderate that post up as informative.
.dlls but the SYSTEM won't let a user ! *argh*
He was just posting fact(s).
Also, when you install a Service Pack, it will SOMEHOW get write access to overwrite critical
"BeOS is in practise, what in theory NT should of been." - UnknownSoldier
> NT4 isn't a games os.
;-)
/. ?! :-)
I am so sick and tired of hearing this crud. Especially since I am a GAME DEVELOPER, developing on NT ! Go figure !
a) What IS WRONG with MS conceding that it is OK to play games on NT? Isn't NT _GOOD ENOUGH_ to play games on?
Oh wait, I forgot GAMES are the ONLY apps that need real-time rendering ! *sarcasm off*
b) Programmers need to relax too !! I HATE having to reboot to a crap OS just to play games.
Thank-you Carmack for letting Quake run on NT!
> games on Win2000 with no problem. They seem to run faster and are SO much more stable than they are in Win98. Windows98 is a joke.
Hey, we agreed on something! Will wonders never cease on
Cheers
> (you seem to use your systems mostly for games; I don't). ;-)
;-)
;-)
Actually I use it for software development (VC is pretty sweet), surfing, gaming, email, icq, etc, all the usuall things one does with a computer.
> The problem with Microsoft's operating systems is that there really aren't any instructions.
Not only that, but Windows9X is SO badly written. Thats WHY I use NT, Linux, and BeOS. (Doesn't anyone read the first 2 paragraphs?!!) With a REAL OS, I don't have to worry about the darn OS crashing every 5 mins.
> At least with Linux, I have instructions, in the form of the various HOWTOs, etc., to refer to if something goes awry during installation
I agree: an advantage in that help is availabble, and a dis-advantage that you need a lot of time to wade thru all the HOWTOs.
> however, I haven't had an install go wacky since an early 1.0.x kernel Slackware distribution
Actually I started using Linux with an early Slackware ver as well! The only hardware probs that I've had is getting Linux to recognize my 2nd NIC (nothing a compile didn't solve
> agreed with was failing to make emergency boot disks when prompted.
Yeap, I've been bitten by that one in both NT and Linux. At least in Linux its relatively easy to make a boot disk
Cheers
> While you are talking about the 1996 version of NT, most of your agruments are moot with Windows 2000 (NT5).
Yeap, I know. I run RC2 at work. The original article discussed NT 4, not Win2K, so I did the same.
> but we don't want to spread FUD, do we?
The post was an attempt at humor, with a little bit of truth to each point.
>> 5. Using the wrong Pagefile size
> ???
NT pages most of it kernal out, i.e. 11 of its 12 megs. NT doesn't like NOT having a page file. Linux handles this MUCH better, i.e. you DON"T need a page file to run Linux if you have more then i.e. 32 Megs, and even there is not really a need of setting more then 8 or 16 megs swap space, UNLIKE NT, where the usually recommendation is RAM * 1.5, which I think is silly. (sorry for the run-on sentence.)
Cheers
Could someone please explain the PVM acronym?
And post a link?
Thx.
#pragma message( "I use Linux, BeOS, and NT, and happen to like them ALL. This message is NOT meant to be flamebait." )
;-)
:-)
#include "i_cant_find_my_funny_bone.h"
> 1. Using the wrong hardware
When Linux is perfectly happy running on older Pentiums and 486s. As BOTH a Server and Desktop.
> 2. Installing Windows NT where it doesn't belong
Especially when alot of games require Winblows 9X & DirectX 6, and NT 4 won't support DX6.
> 3. Choosing the wrong file system
An OS that only recognizes FAT16, FAT32 (unofficially), and NTFS.
> 4. No emergency repair disk
Not being able to boot to a NT command line prompt unless you shell out a few clams for some special ERD Commander Pro utility.
> 5. Using the wrong Pagefile size
NT being so brain-dead that it won't let you set a pagefile of 0 bytes. Hey you with 256 Megs of Ram, don't you know you need a pagefile !
> 6. Missing a key network component
Having to reboot everytime you change one little network setting.
> 7. Forgetting the password
DOH! You mean I need to REMEMBER info? I thought that's what computers were for
> 8. Using older applications... not knowing that Doom or some other DOS-based games simply wouldn't work in NT.
Doom (DOS version and other VGA DOS Games) DO work, just not with sound.
>9. Applying service packs unwisely
You mean like installing SP3, then installing a network card, then having to re-install the damn thing again?
> 10. Cloning Windows NT
Its not like anyone would need 100 identical copies of NT running on 100 different computers? Hey Mr Library SysAdmin, do you know that you shouldn't be cloning those public NT boxes?
check out: www.reactos.com
Cheers
Absolute Error = (Xo - X) = (355/133 - pi) = 2.66764e-7
;-)
Relative error = AbsErr / X = 8.4913e-8
Percentage Error = RelErr*100 = 0.0000084913
Damn, I wish had known about that ratio when I was still back in school/college/university.
(And who said numerical analysis wasn't usefull