Since it is a percentage of your holdings, you should be able to pay the tax if you are, in fact, moving to another country and actually selling everything. If you are changing citizenship in name only and remaining in the US the whole year then, yes, you may have some issues. The law seems pretty carefully crafted to not harm those who are really going to obtain citizenship and live elsewhere and to only target rich guys who are playing games.
Do you have an example that would state otherwise? I'd be interested.
Actually, I thought BMW and Hyundai were the ones with problems in this area (BMWs easily stolen and Hyundais with false positives preventing their owners from driving).
I have a car that already does this (for about 3 months now) and I haven't noticed that I quit paying attention to my mirrors. But I can tell you that there have been at least 5 times when I was sure the lane next to me was empty but the blind spot light was on. 4 times, somebody had legitimately come into my blind spot from an unseen angle. This is 4 near-misses that have been avoided as I didn't even start the lane change or even signal. Once, it was a false alarm. There really was nobody there and I ultimately, after a lot of checking, changed lanes anyway.
It's this last situation (the false positive) that worries me the most. In my car, I could ignore it and make the lane change anyway. What if there was a false positive in these cars? Am I doomed to stay in my lane forever? Or at least until it clears itself up?
On 60 Minutes this weekend they had a story about a 15-year-old kid who created an early test for pancreatic cancer. He and his brother played "science lab" in the basement. Their parents stayed out of it and said, "Don't blow up the house" and they got several calls from the FBI about their "purchase history", but the parents ignored it and let them play science anyway.
Nobody's going to go into science if they get a call from the FBI every time they try.
No. They don't. The wage for software engineers in Orange County, CA has barely gone up in the last 5 years, despite there being 5 openings at every company.
One time at a startup we were trying to figure out what e-mail system to use. I asked my boss what the Magic 8-Ball was (although I knew because I had one as a child). I asked it, "What e-mail system should we use?"
He said, "You can only ask it yes or no questions."
I disagree. I recently went to New Zealand where I had no cell service (I'm on Sprint and they don't do CDMA). I downloaded New Zealand on OsmAnd and the only problem getting around is that there weren't enough waypoints on the south island. But I just went on Google maps and looked up the Lat/Long and navigated using that. Offline GPS FTW. There is no other way I could have done this without service.
This is even more true in other countries. When I was in New Zealand, I couldn't find a single person that had even been to the other island! Many had never left the area around their major city. Most Californians have at least been to Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. A fair number have been to Mexico (before it got "too dangerous") and about half the middle-class to wealthy families I know have at least flown to Hawaii once.
FTP is commonly used in business to send files from one business to another. They just drop it in a specified folder on the FTP server and the server polls the file system every minute or so to find new files. These systems have been around for decades. Even getting them to upgrade the security to secure FTP was difficult enough.
And yet, black Africans continue to come over to the US and do just as well as many other immigrants. What needs to end is the mentality that "success" is "white". Success is for anyone who applies themselves.
most Jews and Chinese are faring significantly better than white Americans
Yet another person that confuses education and success. White Americans by now should be well-known for their ability to succeed despite not achieving the highest grades.
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I don't think you CAN become a Kiwi very easily. They don't just take anyone who wants to live there, you know.
According to the law, you can return for up to 30 days every year. I don't know how hard the border police will make it on you though.
Then your answer should be that you don't enforce foreign laws either. And you should stick to your guns until they change their duplicitous tune.
Since it is a percentage of your holdings, you should be able to pay the tax if you are, in fact, moving to another country and actually selling everything. If you are changing citizenship in name only and remaining in the US the whole year then, yes, you may have some issues. The law seems pretty carefully crafted to not harm those who are really going to obtain citizenship and live elsewhere and to only target rich guys who are playing games.
Do you have an example that would state otherwise? I'd be interested.
My car already does this (radar to not hit the car in front of me while in cruise control) and the only situations I have to worry about now are:
1. Cars in front of me coming to a ridiculously fast stop
2. Getting cut off by an idiot in a space that really isn't big enough.
That's human reaction time. A computer could stop in probably about 200 feet. But still your point is well-made.
Actually, I thought BMW and Hyundai were the ones with problems in this area (BMWs easily stolen and Hyundais with false positives preventing their owners from driving).
I have a car that already does this (for about 3 months now) and I haven't noticed that I quit paying attention to my mirrors. But I can tell you that there have been at least 5 times when I was sure the lane next to me was empty but the blind spot light was on. 4 times, somebody had legitimately come into my blind spot from an unseen angle. This is 4 near-misses that have been avoided as I didn't even start the lane change or even signal. Once, it was a false alarm. There really was nobody there and I ultimately, after a lot of checking, changed lanes anyway.
It's this last situation (the false positive) that worries me the most. In my car, I could ignore it and make the lane change anyway. What if there was a false positive in these cars? Am I doomed to stay in my lane forever? Or at least until it clears itself up?
On 60 Minutes this weekend they had a story about a 15-year-old kid who created an early test for pancreatic cancer. He and his brother played "science lab" in the basement. Their parents stayed out of it and said, "Don't blow up the house" and they got several calls from the FBI about their "purchase history", but the parents ignored it and let them play science anyway.
Nobody's going to go into science if they get a call from the FBI every time they try.
No. They don't. The wage for software engineers in Orange County, CA has barely gone up in the last 5 years, despite there being 5 openings at every company.
One time at a startup we were trying to figure out what e-mail system to use. I asked my boss what the Magic 8-Ball was (although I knew because I had one as a child). I asked it, "What e-mail system should we use?"
He said, "You can only ask it yes or no questions."
I got the answer: "Outlook good."
We ended up using Outlook.
I prefer most of the Samsung apps to the Google ones.
I disagree. I recently went to New Zealand where I had no cell service (I'm on Sprint and they don't do CDMA). I downloaded New Zealand on OsmAnd and the only problem getting around is that there weren't enough waypoints on the south island. But I just went on Google maps and looked up the Lat/Long and navigated using that. Offline GPS FTW. There is no other way I could have done this without service.
And then we re-elected Obama...
Sorry, I literally LOLed, but I've had a hard day (emergency at work that just ended) and this hit the spot.
It would be VERY hard to break into a Google account using social engineering. First you'd have to find an actual person at Google.
Some of us just like fairness.
This is even more true in other countries. When I was in New Zealand, I couldn't find a single person that had even been to the other island! Many had never left the area around their major city. Most Californians have at least been to Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. A fair number have been to Mexico (before it got "too dangerous") and about half the middle-class to wealthy families I know have at least flown to Hawaii once.
There are no lawsuits for personal injury in New Zealand. One of the benefits of a really good nationalized health care system.
And I would guess that he would gravitate to the organized bullrush game.
FTP is commonly used in business to send files from one business to another. They just drop it in a specified folder on the FTP server and the server polls the file system every minute or so to find new files. These systems have been around for decades. Even getting them to upgrade the security to secure FTP was difficult enough.
I hear AT&T has been enabling this sort of use for over 100 years! Put them away immediately!
And yet, black Africans continue to come over to the US and do just as well as many other immigrants. What needs to end is the mentality that "success" is "white". Success is for anyone who applies themselves.
most Jews and Chinese are faring significantly better than white Americans
Yet another person that confuses education and success. White Americans by now should be well-known for their ability to succeed despite not achieving the highest grades.