Where are you from where the dealerships are owned by "little guys"?
The dealers are "little guys" in the same sense that Carlo Gambino was a "little guy": They are sometimes short in stature.
Personally, I would much rather my money go to Jeff Bezos than some scumbag car dealership. At least Jeff isn't using political cronyism to force me to buy through Amazon.
Most businesses are not corporations. If an individual citizen employs other individual citizens they are required to file the same forms as a corporation. Tax compliance has nothing to do with "incorporation".
Nothing in there about an exemption from the 4th Amendment.
If the IRS can only request documentation and audit people when they have probable cause that a crime has been committed (as the 4th Amendment requires), then compliance will fall to near zero. Employers will no longer be required to submit W2s or 1099s, and citizens will no longer file returns.
The police kicked in my door. The assured me that they were not executing a search warrant, but conducting an administrative audit
The IRS are not "the police". The police must respect the rights of citizens under the 4th Amendment. The IRS has greater powers because of the 16th Amendment. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" does not include records that document financial transactions.
I am not saying this is the way it "should be", I am just pointing out that this is the way it "is". There is no fair and efficient way to enforce an income tax without the government prying into every nook and cranny of our lives.
It is not that simple. The IRS request is not a subpoena, it is an an administrative demand for information. They are not (yet) investigating a crime, but ensuring tax compliance. Your rights during a tax audit are not the same as your rights in criminal court. I hope Coinbase can stop this disclosure, but I am not optimistic. If the IRS prevails, then we should expect most bitcoin transactions to move offshore.
There is no way that the payment will even begin to cover the cost over a century, or two
One word: Compound Interest. Wait, that was two words, but whatever, the point is still valid.
Sooner or later the money will run out, or society will break down
In that case, she will be no more dead than she had done nothing. So the worst cryonics case is the same as the best non-cryonics case. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
The term "alt-right" was not imposed by a leftist conspiracy. It started as a term of self-identification for people that disagreed with the economic policies of the establishment-right, while advocating even more extreme social policies. The alt-right people that I know (such as my idiot brother-in-law), wear the label with pride.
As for killing trees, well unless you live a place where the energy is from a renewable source such as hydro. Well you're trading killing trees to burning coal
The amount of "pollution" cause by viewing a PDF is negligible. It is orders of magnitude less than the environmental cost of printing the same document on paper.
I think the paperless office is pointless. Sometimes physical paper cannot be replaced, and the convenience cannot be matched.
I print something about once a month, and it is almost always needed to interact with either the government or a lawyer. Otherwise, my office is paperless. There are appropriate uses for paper, but business documents are not one of them.
You are assuming that she will be the ONLY one that is "woken up". But if she can be revived, so can all the others. So there will be a whole group of people that share the culture of the early 21st century. They can hang out together.
It is only wasteful if few people do it. But if thousands or millions freeze themselves, there is good economy of scale. If you have a million corpse cryogenic warehouse, the cost per-body would be very low. Even cheaper if you only freeze the head, since a new body can be generated from stem cells.
Better hope there's no power outage.
In the event of a power outage, it would take a long time for all the N2 to evaporate. A large well insulated cryogenic warehouse can easily go without power for days.
Until a human compatible antifreeze is discovered, cryogenics is a waste of time and money. Unless future humans want piles of mush.
You are thinking too narrowly. You don't necessarily need to revive the flesh. You could slice the frozen brain, scan the neuron connections, and then duplicate them in-silico.
When you say "Our sysadmin is in Shanghai", what you really mean is "Our proprietary data is being shared all over China".
Our sysadmin is in China. Our server is not. Besides, you only put stuff on a server if you want to share it. There is no reason to put proprietary data like source code on a server. Even if our source was disclosed, I really don't think anyone would be interested in it. Why would they?
Slashdot Mirror
Where are you from where the dealerships are owned by "little guys"?
The dealers are "little guys" in the same sense that Carlo Gambino was a "little guy": They are sometimes short in stature.
Personally, I would much rather my money go to Jeff Bezos than some scumbag car dealership. At least Jeff isn't using political cronyism to force me to buy through Amazon.
Hint: Forming a corporation is ... blah blah blah
Most businesses are not corporations. If an individual citizen employs other individual citizens they are required to file the same forms as a corporation. Tax compliance has nothing to do with "incorporation".
It's a pretty big assumption that memories would survive the freezing process.
Many animals can tolerate being frozen, and they do not lose their memories.
Because some bureaucrat says "records" are not "papers or effects?"
If by "some bureaucrat" you 75% of the state legislatures and the Supreme Court of the United States, then yes.
The end does not justify the means, and it's better than one person gets away with something than that millions have their rights violated.
Just tell that to the IRS on April 15th when they demand your tax return. Good luck.
US Constitution, Fourth Amendment.
Keep reading. Let us know when you get to #16.
You can't just change the terminology to step around the rule of law.
No, but you can amend the Constitution.
Nothing in there about an exemption from the 4th Amendment.
If the IRS can only request documentation and audit people when they have probable cause that a crime has been committed (as the 4th Amendment requires), then compliance will fall to near zero. Employers will no longer be required to submit W2s or 1099s, and citizens will no longer file returns.
The police kicked in my door. The assured me that they were not executing a search warrant, but conducting an administrative audit
The IRS are not "the police". The police must respect the rights of citizens under the 4th Amendment. The IRS has greater powers because of the 16th Amendment. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" does not include records that document financial transactions.
I am not saying this is the way it "should be", I am just pointing out that this is the way it "is". There is no fair and efficient way to enforce an income tax without the government prying into every nook and cranny of our lives.
It is not that simple. The IRS request is not a subpoena, it is an an administrative demand for information. They are not (yet) investigating a crime, but ensuring tax compliance. Your rights during a tax audit are not the same as your rights in criminal court. I hope Coinbase can stop this disclosure, but I am not optimistic. If the IRS prevails, then we should expect most bitcoin transactions to move offshore.
OpenBSD is secure, correct, microkernel-based
OpenBSD is not microkernel based.
Microkernel based: Mach, Hurd, QNX
NOT microkernel based: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
Sort of microkernelish in some ways, but not really: Mac OS
There is no way that the payment will even begin to cover the cost over a century, or two
One word: Compound Interest. Wait, that was two words, but whatever, the point is still valid.
Sooner or later the money will run out, or society will break down
In that case, she will be no more dead than she had done nothing. So the worst cryonics case is the same as the best non-cryonics case. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
A less conspiracy minded interpretation is that they just didn't do the extra programming to take advantage of the new features.
Indeed. Never attribute to conspiracy that which can be adequately explained by laziness.
Oh yeah. Totally forgot that that had been demonstrated to even be a thing.
It works with nematodes. So it just needs to be scaled up.
The term has been twisted by the left to mean "racist/xenophobic/misogynist/DISAGREES WITH ME".
You should meet my brother-in-law. At least in his case, this meaning is not "twisted", it is accurate.
the so-called "alt-right" doesn't even exist.
The term "alt-right" was not imposed by a leftist conspiracy. It started as a term of self-identification for people that disagreed with the economic policies of the establishment-right, while advocating even more extreme social policies. The alt-right people that I know (such as my idiot brother-in-law), wear the label with pride.
As for killing trees, well unless you live a place where the energy is from a renewable source such as hydro. Well you're trading killing trees to burning coal
The amount of "pollution" cause by viewing a PDF is negligible. It is orders of magnitude less than the environmental cost of printing the same document on paper.
So what's worse?
If you don't know, then you're an idiot.
How much does this cost?
$100,000 for whole body, $35,000 for head-only.
Cost of Cryonics
I could think of plenty of better things to spend that money on.
You could say the same thing about money spent on sports cars, nice houses, or gourmet coffee. It is their money, they can do what they want with it.
If you're completely fantasizing, like you seem to be, just freeze some stem cells and be done with it.
Then you lose all the memories. Identical twins are different people because of their different life experiences.
I think the paperless office is pointless. Sometimes physical paper cannot be replaced, and the convenience cannot be matched.
I print something about once a month, and it is almost always needed to interact with either the government or a lawyer. Otherwise, my office is paperless. There are appropriate uses for paper, but business documents are not one of them.
The father probably didn't want to pay for the yearly costs of keeping a dead corpse on ice
Nope. The mom's family had already agree to cover the cost. It would have cost Dad nothing either way.
You are assuming that she will be the ONLY one that is "woken up". But if she can be revived, so can all the others. So there will be a whole group of people that share the culture of the early 21st century. They can hang out together.
It's incredibly wasteful, too.
It is only wasteful if few people do it. But if thousands or millions freeze themselves, there is good economy of scale. If you have a million corpse cryogenic warehouse, the cost per-body would be very low. Even cheaper if you only freeze the head, since a new body can be generated from stem cells.
Better hope there's no power outage.
In the event of a power outage, it would take a long time for all the N2 to evaporate. A large well insulated cryogenic warehouse can easily go without power for days.
Until a human compatible antifreeze is discovered, cryogenics is a waste of time and money. Unless future humans want piles of mush.
You are thinking too narrowly. You don't necessarily need to revive the flesh. You could slice the frozen brain, scan the neuron connections, and then duplicate them in-silico.
Anyone still believe what president Hollande says?
Who cares? He will be long gone by 2023, and nobody will even remember this meaningless promise.
Since then, everyone, including Japan, has quietly started going back to nuclear.
Germany hasn't. They are still on track to be nuke free by 2022.
When you say "Our sysadmin is in Shanghai", what you really mean is "Our proprietary data is being shared all over China".
Our sysadmin is in China. Our server is not. Besides, you only put stuff on a server if you want to share it. There is no reason to put proprietary data like source code on a server. Even if our source was disclosed, I really don't think anyone would be interested in it. Why would they?