Only on the profits. And only for registered securities (following my plan).
I'm willing to trade normal income tax rates on captial gains for an end to double taxation of dividends. The shareholder pays income tax on them anyway. Let corporations pay them before taxes. Like they do with debt. With this change, I'd expect a change away from debt and toward equity financing by many corporations.
If I have done the math right, tax is 15.75, 10.75 more than your profit.
Almost.* For an unregistered security. If its such a great idea, sit down with the SEC or CFTC, come up with a plan to establish a market, record transactions, etc. and we'll credit you the $100.
*Actually, your tax could be as high as $36.75. We don't know if it was long term, short term or what. As an unregulated, unregistered transaction, we don't know how long you held it. Maybe only since yesterday.
First of all: I say, let them trade. Its not a US exchange. If it or its participants go under, tough luck.
Second: For banks and other regulated institutions, let them trade. On their own accounts, that is. And, oh by the way, for the purposed of minimum capital requirements, unregulated and unregistered securities are worth zero. You can stuff your vault full of them, but when the regulators come to do an audit, they are just so much toilet paper.
Third: Why does the IRS allow capital gains to be calculated on only the profits realized from trading unregulated, unregistered securities? Last year, you bought a piece of paper for $100. Today, you sell it for $105 and pay (15%) on $5. Sorry, we don't really know what that transaction was. For all we know, that $100 you spent last year was for hookers and blow. You just received $105. You owe taxes (at income rates, not LT cap gains rates) on $105. If it was still a profitable transaction, no problem. We're not disallowing it.
All easy fixes without bringing in the heavy hand of law enforcement.
No. Everybody in this database is there because they received a call from a stolen phone. By itself, not a crime. But it can reveal a pattern of criminal activity. Lets say the criminal kingpin orders his underlings never to call him from their own (traceable) phone, but to obtain one not tied to them. Supposedly, that would make tracing communications much more difficult. But many criminals, being criminals, may just steal a phone when they need one. So if a large number of calls are placed to some individual from stolen devices, it probably is an indicator of some sort of criminal activity on his/her part.*
No arrests of alleged kingpins will be made at this point. But it does give the police some intelligence on who's who in the underworld.
* Interesting anecdote: You don't even want to know what happens to the received/placed call logs and contact lists on hookers' phones when they are picked up.
So what happens when someone steals your car, uses it to hold up a liquor store and then abandons it. When its recovered, do the cops hold you responsible for a crime if you visit the neighborhood liquor store?
Its a matter of who manages to leverage it to their advantage that makes a difference. At one point, the GOP and Karl Rove were ahead of the Democrats at using databases and software to rally support and gerrymander voting districts. But it appears that they have run out of steam.
One wonders why the Republicans haven't been the ones pushing publicly funded broadband. They are missing quite a bit of their base out in the trailer parks.
Yep, Stirling engines are too precise to be economically feasible,
I don't know about that. Stirling engines seem to be popular projects for people getting started with home machine shops. Their cost is a matter of production volume.
but similarly precise gasoline engines are so cheap
Right. Because they are high volume production items. But one must figure one's economics based upon the assumption that one will go into large scale production. Not scrounging a bunch of parts adapted from some other use. If this technology is to become viable, piston engines will be designed and built specifically for this purpose (or for Stirling engines) at a volume to keep production costs low. So in the final analysis, the engine costs will be based on the complexity and precision needed, which appear to be similar for piston engines.
Worse yet, e-mail systems with mailing lists and a wold card selection possible for all mailing lists. This happened to Boeing some years ago. Some PHB figured everyone needed to hear the wisdom of his musings. But instead of using the 'Send-All' button, somehow he managed to send to every mailing list. As many people like myself were on at leat a dozen different mailing lists, the company system was swamped.
Worse yet, one could 'Reply-All' to all mailing lists. This had an exponentially worse effect. More than a few irate responses were send to every mailing list in the company as well. Including one case I heard about where the recipient (unaware of what was going on) just saw the first name on several hundred messages (probably the poor guy with the alphabetically challenged last name) and called him, threatening to visit him in his cubicle with a pistol.
Like I said: Its a start. And an open market is by no means insignificant. If everyone pays the same for a patent, then the holder can't discriminate against one manufacturer or in favor of another. The value of a patent portfolio as a tool for market manipulation is diminished. And the lobbying pressure to keep the system as is is diminished.
And don't do any of this in the garage, carport, under eaves or on a wood (flammable) deck. I'd shield the propane line and use one long enough to be able to reach the tank valve even with the fryer fully engulfed in flames.
Ice isn't more water stuck together. Ice actually has a lower specific gravity than water (ice floats).
I think the biggest problem is that the heat of fusion (the amount of heat needed to melt the ice) actually gives it an opportunity to melt and then boil a bit slower. And that gives the ice more time to sink below the oil. Once it melts and then boils (at the bottom of the pot) it displaces a larger column of oil above it. Once that oil makes it out of the pot, it either hits you in the face (burns) or slops down onto the propane burner and catches fire (your house burns down).
Eventually, make this whole patent/licensing/royalty an open market. The gov't grants you a patent. Fine. You get to decide what its worth. No problem. So, put up a 'For Sale' sign. You want $X per unit to use your technology. You accept that price from any buyers.
This would go a long way toward ending patents as a club to selectively beat competitors over the head. And once we put a stop to that nonsense, companies will be a lot less enamored with their patent portfolios.
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with his already taxed money?
Only on the profits. And only for registered securities (following my plan).
I'm willing to trade normal income tax rates on captial gains for an end to double taxation of dividends. The shareholder pays income tax on them anyway. Let corporations pay them before taxes. Like they do with debt. With this change, I'd expect a change away from debt and toward equity financing by many corporations.
If I have done the math right, tax is 15.75, 10.75 more than your profit.
Almost.* For an unregistered security. If its such a great idea, sit down with the SEC or CFTC, come up with a plan to establish a market, record transactions, etc. and we'll credit you the $100.
*Actually, your tax could be as high as $36.75. We don't know if it was long term, short term or what. As an unregulated, unregistered transaction, we don't know how long you held it. Maybe only since yesterday.
First of all: I say, let them trade. Its not a US exchange. If it or its participants go under, tough luck.
Second: For banks and other regulated institutions, let them trade. On their own accounts, that is. And, oh by the way, for the purposed of minimum capital requirements, unregulated and unregistered securities are worth zero. You can stuff your vault full of them, but when the regulators come to do an audit, they are just so much toilet paper.
Third: Why does the IRS allow capital gains to be calculated on only the profits realized from trading unregulated, unregistered securities? Last year, you bought a piece of paper for $100. Today, you sell it for $105 and pay (15%) on $5. Sorry, we don't really know what that transaction was. For all we know, that $100 you spent last year was for hookers and blow. You just received $105. You owe taxes (at income rates, not LT cap gains rates) on $105. If it was still a profitable transaction, no problem. We're not disallowing it.
All easy fixes without bringing in the heavy hand of law enforcement.
No. Everybody in this database is there because they received a call from a stolen phone. By itself, not a crime. But it can reveal a pattern of criminal activity. Lets say the criminal kingpin orders his underlings never to call him from their own (traceable) phone, but to obtain one not tied to them. Supposedly, that would make tracing communications much more difficult. But many criminals, being criminals, may just steal a phone when they need one. So if a large number of calls are placed to some individual from stolen devices, it probably is an indicator of some sort of criminal activity on his/her part.*
No arrests of alleged kingpins will be made at this point. But it does give the police some intelligence on who's who in the underworld.
* Interesting anecdote: You don't even want to know what happens to the received/placed call logs and contact lists on hookers' phones when they are picked up.
did the thief call your mom and talk to her for 15 minutes?
That couldn't be be, your honor. My mother will testify under oath that I never call.
A planet populated by Dolly Partons.
So what happens when someone steals your car, uses it to hold up a liquor store and then abandons it. When its recovered, do the cops hold you responsible for a crime if you visit the neighborhood liquor store?
Its a matter of who manages to leverage it to their advantage that makes a difference. At one point, the GOP and Karl Rove were ahead of the Democrats at using databases and software to rally support and gerrymander voting districts. But it appears that they have run out of steam.
One wonders why the Republicans haven't been the ones pushing publicly funded broadband. They are missing quite a bit of their base out in the trailer parks.
Let Texas blabber for a while. I heard we're giving them back to Mexico soon anyway.
Yep, Stirling engines are too precise to be economically feasible,
I don't know about that. Stirling engines seem to be popular projects for people getting started with home machine shops. Their cost is a matter of production volume.
but similarly precise gasoline engines are so cheap
Right. Because they are high volume production items. But one must figure one's economics based upon the assumption that one will go into large scale production. Not scrounging a bunch of parts adapted from some other use. If this technology is to become viable, piston engines will be designed and built specifically for this purpose (or for Stirling engines) at a volume to keep production costs low. So in the final analysis, the engine costs will be based on the complexity and precision needed, which appear to be similar for piston engines.
Also known as "locker room".
Worse yet, e-mail systems with mailing lists and a wold card selection possible for all mailing lists. This happened to Boeing some years ago. Some PHB figured everyone needed to hear the wisdom of his musings. But instead of using the 'Send-All' button, somehow he managed to send to every mailing list. As many people like myself were on at leat a dozen different mailing lists, the company system was swamped.
Worse yet, one could 'Reply-All' to all mailing lists. This had an exponentially worse effect. More than a few irate responses were send to every mailing list in the company as well. Including one case I heard about where the recipient (unaware of what was going on) just saw the first name on several hundred messages (probably the poor guy with the alphabetically challenged last name) and called him, threatening to visit him in his cubicle with a pistol.
... deprecate unit of time known as the OhNo second.
.... at attention.
If it was true AI, it would have learned to look at the referee and claim to have been fouled.
Beware ..... of ...... the ......vicious .......dog.......
Auggghhh!
For Undiscovered Country is .uc
Its available.
Everyone I know uses exit nodes located on Sandy Island.
Like I said: Its a start. And an open market is by no means insignificant. If everyone pays the same for a patent, then the holder can't discriminate against one manufacturer or in favor of another. The value of a patent portfolio as a tool for market manipulation is diminished. And the lobbying pressure to keep the system as is is diminished.
Not Hollande. But the Petraeus was probably trying to enable Sarkozy's web cam hoping to get a peek at Carla Bruni walking around in her underwear.
And don't do any of this in the garage, carport, under eaves or on a wood (flammable) deck. I'd shield the propane line and use one long enough to be able to reach the tank valve even with the fryer fully engulfed in flames.
Ice isn't more water stuck together. Ice actually has a lower specific gravity than water (ice floats).
I think the biggest problem is that the heat of fusion (the amount of heat needed to melt the ice) actually gives it an opportunity to melt and then boil a bit slower. And that gives the ice more time to sink below the oil. Once it melts and then boils (at the bottom of the pot) it displaces a larger column of oil above it. Once that oil makes it out of the pot, it either hits you in the face (burns) or slops down onto the propane burner and catches fire (your house burns down).
I'll give it some more thought after the NFL games are over today.
Eventually, make this whole patent/licensing/royalty an open market. The gov't grants you a patent. Fine. You get to decide what its worth. No problem. So, put up a 'For Sale' sign. You want $X per unit to use your technology. You accept that price from any buyers.
This would go a long way toward ending patents as a club to selectively beat competitors over the head. And once we put a stop to that nonsense, companies will be a lot less enamored with their patent portfolios.
I'm sure this will attract more attention to the MalCon tent.