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by turc1656 9y ago
I want the people at the top of the agencies that engage in these activities to be charged. I guarantee you when they set up these programs they consulted legal council and they were warned of the possible legal issues that could arise. T
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by turc1656 9y ago
I agree with you generally, but not in this case. Anyone with a double digit IQ should have been able to know that this was illegal. This wasn't one of those gray areas where federal agents are wondering how far their power goes. A
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by turc1656 9y ago
At minimum, it should be the architects of these programs in the intelligence community. I'm not sure of the UK case, but in the US and many other countries the intelligence agencies just kind of took it upon themselves to do these th
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by turc1656 9y ago
I've always thought this as well. They can more effectively control the population and also get "dirt" on anyone they want. There's pretty much no one on this planet who hasn't said or done something they aren&#x2
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by turc1656 9y ago
"Yet again a UK court has ruled the government’s extreme mass surveillance regime unlawful. This judgement tells ministers in crystal clear terms that they are breaching the public’s human rights." So the question then remains..
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by turc1656 9y ago
I think it's pretty easy to deal with it actually. Just apply a top line revenue tax of something like 2%. That can't be avoided because it is incurred at the point of sale. So it becomes an effective tax on accessing the marke
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by turc1656 9y ago
Several thoughts on this. First, this is legal tax avoidance , not evasion which is actually illegal. Yes, it sucks, but it's completely legal, which you mention, but the terminology is important. Second, I've thought of someth
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by turc1656 9y ago
I thought those were so off-duty firefighters are able to respond to calls as-needed, no? They usually have their personal vehicles outfitted with those blue lights and the plates make it easy for any officers coming up behind them to see
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by turc1656 9y ago
"A Christmas gift of institutionalized corruption." Perfectly stated. That's precisely what these cards are - a physical token of nepotism and what I refer to as the "blue wall of bullshit". I had a very close f
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by turc1656 9y ago
I just noticed that Stella Artois is 650 years old!
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by turc1656 9y ago
This list looks like it includes for-profit only. Also, with the church, it's "company" status is relegated on a per-country basis, usually to gain non-profit taxation benefits. So it's a little murky there.
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by turc1656 9y ago
I suspect that's because pretty much every country/civilization in the past 2,000 years at some point or another has banned prostitution as a matter of law/force.
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by turc1656 9y ago
It's really incredible to see something like this. I was disheartened to see that Kongō Gumi was acquired in 2006 after 1,400+ years in business. It's just hard to wrap your mind around. But to see hotels and wineries that have
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by turc1656 9y ago
When I was down in Dallas, they have two parallel roadways - one which is the paid-for express version and one which is free. You can pay to get on the less-congested highway or choose to take the more congested, but free, highway. Maybe
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by turc1656 9y ago
All public goods are taxed even if they don't have associated fees. So, if we were to move everything to a fee-for-usage system, I don't think you'd like the result since the wealthy pay an extraordinarily outsized portion o
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by turc1656 9y ago
Yes, it's not unlike surge pricing or any sort of increased pricing found for any product/service in the face of increased demand and constant supply. However, I find these types of situation to be different. These are supposed
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by turc1656 9y ago
Yes, you are correct - I am conflating the GPS hardware with the Google Maps app. As someone else mentioned, if you don't force-close the app after you're done using it, it continues to drain your battery very significantly.
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by turc1656 9y ago
I also have WiFI disabled nearly 100% of the time. I use GPS far more often than I do WiFi.
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by turc1656 9y ago
Serious question for the HN community - why do you leave your GPS on/activated by default? I have mine disabled unless I specifically need it for something, which is rare. Usually the only time I ever need GPS is for driving instruct
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by turc1656 9y ago
Why? I'm genuinely curious why you blame him for patenting his work.
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by turc1656 9y ago
He's an inventor. Inventors usually work towards patents. Also, it's not so "no one else can use it". It's so that he can license out his work to a company like Intel. The patent is to protect him from a company
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by turc1656 9y ago
Exactly. No matter what, they would have been contacted by the outside world, probably directly by Admiral Harris (the commander of the Pacific Fleet). 38 minutes makes no sense at all unless they were really trying to figure out if they
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by turc1656 9y ago
This doesn't add up for me and doesn't pass the smell test. Looking at that dashboard and the way it's set up and knowing PACOM stands for Pacific Command, I'm not buying this story at all. Look at the way that screen
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by turc1656 9y ago
I included total monetary compensation (base+OT=other) and looked at more positions. Station agent is directly in line with what OP said, but I was looking for others that were in lower positions yet making 6 figures. Either way, we agree
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Here's the data - the claim is not supported http://blog.vctr.me/bart/ The raw, underlying data: https://github.com/enjalot/bart/blob/master/data/bart-comp-a... Throwing t
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They can legally bind the revenue to expenditure purposes when they pass the spending bills. I have actually seen this in a few states and municipalities. I believe NJ passed something within the last year or two legally binding revenue f
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by turc1656 9y ago
"This is all part of the long-standing "taxation is theft" meme that infected the USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s" No, it's not. This is all part of the scam politicians have been running on the public for
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by turc1656 9y ago
It's actually worse than that. He completed the prearranged sale of 28,000 shares that he had declared for 2017 in October. Then he sold an additional ~845k shares in November!
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"People who are CEOs of companies like Intel don’t make mistakes like this." Right. That's because this isn't a mistake, it's a criminal act with forethought. "That sale decreased his overall holdings by abo
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by turc1656 9y ago
"I didn't realize exposure times of film were short enough to get snapshots like this in the 1880's." Neither did I. If fact my immediate reaction was "bullshit". I honestly thought this was fake until I sa

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