Card Counting is legal in the USA. I imagine other forms of "brain only" ways to "cheat" the casino are also legal. http://voices.yahoo.com/is-card-counting-really-illegal-las-vegas-3566727.html
The FBI has admitted defeat in attempts to break the open source encryption used to secure hard drives seized by Brazilian police during a 2008 investigation. <URL:http://news.techworld.com/security/3228701/>
Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 protects federal civilian employees onlyâ€"not private sector workers. When I wrote "at a federal level" I meant federal law applying to private employees, not federal law applying only to federal employees.
"single" and "unmarried" are not protected classes and so it is not illegal to discriminate against them. Smokers and fat people are also not protected classes at a federal level, though some states have made them so.
they also have the downside of well, everything you do would be recorded. So if you visit any sort of morally questionable establishment, it'll be recorded.
Maybe pervasive surveillance will finally show that EVERYONE is a criminal and EVERYONE is a pervert. Exactly how much of a criminal and how much of a pervert a person is will vary, but we are all criminals and pervs in some way. It is about time we accepted this and moved on.
First of all, the government ALREADY forces phone companies to provide rural service, effectively subsidizing the telephone costs of a few by raising rate on everyone else. I don't have a problem with that, but it is easy to corrupt the idea if there is not enough oversight. For example, when AT&T bought Bellsouth there was all sorts of talk about AT&T rolling out a major rural broadband upgrade -- as far as I know this never happened.
I would rather the local government grant a temporary monopoly (10 years?) on high speed internet access to the first company who wants to provide the service in a specific rural area. Much like telephone service (at least the wiring) or cable television service. This would create an incentive for companies to invest in rural broadband because if they don't, they will be locked out of the market for a while. This would especially protect smaller broadband organizations from having a large company come in and sell broadband at a loss.
Item X costs $10.
Mom & Pop R Us needs to collect sales tax by law. You pay 10$ + tax, ~11$
Online mega merchant doesn't. You pay $10.
Therefore, you go online cause it's cheaper. Mom & Pop suffer.
You missed the part where mega merchant charges you $3 for shipping.
The Intel 82580 does not appear to have the same issue. All our network problems went away when we put in some cards based on that chip in our systems which used the Intel 82574L for the onboard LAN. Customers stopped screaming, sales stopped screaming, management stopped screaming and I was able to get some sleep.
I pay $29.95/month for 1,200 Minutes, 3,000 Text/Picture Messages, 250 MB Data, no contract with PagePlus Cellular. They are a MVNO on Verizon, so no SIM. Since I don't have a smartphone I don't care about the data.
There is fraud, of course, but it might not be as much as you think.
These stats are for USA Unemployment Insurance, not welfare payments. Both are large programs, but I don't know if their fraud rates compare.
"Finally, $580 million of the $2.45 billion in total UI overpayments for 2001, or 1.9% of total UI payments for that year, was attributable to fraud or abuse within the UI program. By any standard, these figures add up to a lot of money. That is why the Department of Labor has been hard at work on the problem."
Which ISPs run their own wires to the customer? All ISPs I'm aware of use someone else's copper to get to the end user. Guess who owns that copper? That is right the cable company or telephone company. We need to treat the wires as a utility, not internet service, telephone service, or cable television service. The only exceptions I know of is fiber run to large buildings.
LSD with her therapist present or MDMA with her therapist and the kid present. Marijuana is not the only currently illegal drug with serious medical uses.
The problem is not "government-sanctioned monopolies". The problem is random ISP cannot afford to dig up the streets to lay their own cables. The "last mile" is a natural monopoly. No amount of rhetoric about the government is going to change that.
I wish I could find the picture I saw (or was it a painting?) of the rats nest of telephone lines over the streets of NYC when anyone who wanted to could string telephone cables to their customers. This was BEFORE the AT&T monopoly was created.
The problem with this logic is that ISPs are not considered Common Carriers in the actual USA LAWS. ISPs don't want to be Common Carriers because Common Carriers are highly regulated. Acting like a dog doesn't make you a dog. Acting like a common carrier does not make you a common carrier.
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Card Counting is legal in the USA. I imagine other forms of "brain only" ways to "cheat" the casino are also legal. http://voices.yahoo.com/is-card-counting-really-illegal-las-vegas-3566727.html
as long as they add "and must not benefit national offence" it might not be so bad.
Truecrypt.
The FBI has admitted defeat in attempts to break the open source encryption used to secure hard drives seized by Brazilian police during a 2008 investigation. <URL:http://news.techworld.com/security/3228701/>
Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 protects federal civilian employees onlyâ€"not private sector workers. When I wrote "at a federal level" I meant federal law applying to private employees, not federal law applying only to federal employees.
"single" and "unmarried" are not protected classes and so it is not illegal to discriminate against them. Smokers and fat people are also not protected classes at a federal level, though some states have made them so.
Indeed. Old, but may be relevant: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705288350/Utah-No-1-in-online-porn-subscriptions-report-says.html?pg=all
A raw amount doesn't mean much. What PERCENT of your income did you pay in taxes?
This is what people did when Sun's NeWS, Display Postscript, Berlin/Fresco, and Y Window System were released. You are in good company..
Your payroll tax increased 2% on Jan 1, if you work. That is a 2% paycut to you, period.
This simply rolls back the temporary 2% payroll tax decrease from 2 years ago.
they also have the downside of well, everything you do would be recorded. So if you visit any sort of morally questionable establishment, it'll be recorded.
Maybe pervasive surveillance will finally show that EVERYONE is a criminal and EVERYONE is a pervert. Exactly how much of a criminal and how much of a pervert a person is will vary, but we are all criminals and pervs in some way. It is about time we accepted this and moved on.
First of all, the government ALREADY forces phone companies to provide rural service, effectively subsidizing the telephone costs of a few by raising rate on everyone else. I don't have a problem with that, but it is easy to corrupt the idea if there is not enough oversight. For example, when AT&T bought Bellsouth there was all sorts of talk about AT&T rolling out a major rural broadband upgrade -- as far as I know this never happened.
I would rather the local government grant a temporary monopoly (10 years?) on high speed internet access to the first company who wants to provide the service in a specific rural area. Much like telephone service (at least the wiring) or cable television service. This would create an incentive for companies to invest in rural broadband because if they don't, they will be locked out of the market for a while. This would especially protect smaller broadband organizations from having a large company come in and sell broadband at a loss.
The crusades.
Item X costs $10. Mom & Pop R Us needs to collect sales tax by law. You pay 10$ + tax, ~11$ Online mega merchant doesn't. You pay $10. Therefore, you go online cause it's cheaper. Mom & Pop suffer.
You missed the part where mega merchant charges you $3 for shipping.
Dear Middle East, we are happy to trade you our water for your oil. -- The Western World
The Intel 82580 does not appear to have the same issue. All our network problems went away when we put in some cards based on that chip in our systems which used the Intel 82574L for the onboard LAN. Customers stopped screaming, sales stopped screaming, management stopped screaming and I was able to get some sleep.
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for OpenOffice or LibreOffice to be ported to iOS.
Yes, exactly like a contract plan.
I pay $29.95/month for 1,200 Minutes, 3,000 Text/Picture Messages, 250 MB Data, no contract with PagePlus Cellular. They are a MVNO on Verizon, so no SIM. Since I don't have a smartphone I don't care about the data.
There is fraud, of course, but it might not be as much as you think.
These stats are for USA Unemployment Insurance, not welfare payments. Both are large programs, but I don't know if their fraud rates compare.
"Finally, $580 million of the $2.45 billion in total UI overpayments for 2001, or 1.9% of total UI payments for that year, was attributable to fraud or abuse within the UI program. By any standard, these figures add up to a lot of money. That is why the Department of Labor has been hard at work on the problem."
Are you sure about that?
"U.S. Poverty On Track To Rise To Highest Since 1960s" <URL:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/22/us-poverty-level-1960s_n_1692744.html?>
By your logic, our crime rates should be about what they were in the 1960s.
Which ISPs run their own wires to the customer? All ISPs I'm aware of use someone else's copper to get to the end user. Guess who owns that copper? That is right the cable company or telephone company. We need to treat the wires as a utility, not internet service, telephone service, or cable television service. The only exceptions I know of is fiber run to large buildings.
LSD with her therapist present or MDMA with her therapist and the kid present. Marijuana is not the only currently illegal drug with serious medical uses.
http://www.maps.org/
The problem is not "government-sanctioned monopolies". The problem is random ISP cannot afford to dig up the streets to lay their own cables. The "last mile" is a natural monopoly. No amount of rhetoric about the government is going to change that.
I wish I could find the picture I saw (or was it a painting?) of the rats nest of telephone lines over the streets of NYC when anyone who wanted to could string telephone cables to their customers. This was BEFORE the AT&T monopoly was created.
The problem with this logic is that ISPs are not considered Common Carriers in the actual USA LAWS. ISPs don't want to be Common Carriers because Common Carriers are highly regulated. Acting like a dog doesn't make you a dog. Acting like a common carrier does not make you a common carrier.
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