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You get penalties and an angry letter from the IRS if you are over a certain dollar amount and don't pay quarterlies.

At least they let you delete you account, unlike Hacker News.

Is this the same Germany that last I know allowed bribes and kickbacks on international sales to be tax deductible? We lost so many contracts because the things the Germans did were illegal for a USA company.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1995-08-06/germany-w...

I have the typical American of German descent hate for Germany because they threw my family away but now are open for everyone else to come live there (making it a huge 'fuck you and your family specifically love Germany'), but also how truly horrible they behave when it comes to business.

Find the guy making racks/benches/etc to sell, and you will find the local invite only power gym.

In theory there is something called 'chain of custody' with criminal evidence. That is the check. But in reality, if the chain of custody is messed up, the judge will use 'good faith' to still allow the evidence. So 'chain of custody' exists to placate those that have never been through the system as a make believe check to make them complacent. Go search a case database for 'chain of custody' and 'good faith' and realize chain of custody has been made optional by the judges bench because 'good faith'.

The courts routinely allow the chain of custody to be a mess and when you challenge they respond with 'good faith'. Go search Lexus/Nexus for 'good faith' and find that 'chain of custody' really isn't a requirement because really who needs anything more than 'good faith'?

Lots of 'forensic science' has been found to either be garbage or complete subjective and results dependant on the person doing the 'science'. Some of that is still allowed in court because our court is based on precedent and if it was allowed before you as the accused have to fight precedent and prove why it should not longer be allowed (even though everyone accepts it has been disproven outside of court). Lie detector tests while not allowed to be a lone factor for conviction are still routinely used and required by the courts, especially as conditions of supervised release(parole/probation) and are administered at the supervised persons expense (court mandated and $280 a pop for pseudoscience that can get you hemmed up).

When I was in prison I was approached about creating an app to sell/buy kidneys for third world countries by a guy with really good connections. I was like traffic in human body parts? Yeah no.

Then the next app old boy wanted help with was 'arranged marriage' in countries that practice that where it was more of a bride auction marketplace. So now straight human trafficking? Again pass.

He finally settled on a project where he and his son arrange for people overseas to come study in the USA. What? How do you go from human trafficking to something harmless like that? They have to live/stay on his properties so he was directing money straight to himself, and after they got to the USA his 'associates' coerced them into signing contracts to work for his companies for X years. So basically human trafficking again, and sanctioned and sponsored by these peoples home country (whom he had connections within and who was paying for these people to study overseas). Now that I'm thinking about this I should probably look into if there is a way to report this.

Smart dude with lots of money but he just couldn't not be shady AF. He thought all of these were perfectly legit things and was surprised when I didn't.

Some animals are more equal than others.

Would love to get my Acustica Audio plugins to use less CPU. I've heard good things about the 7XXX processors for this.

Next we're going to have Sea Otters riding Orcas and stealing our sailboats. Friggen 2023 man.

Right, it's not like the USA has funded containment of Russia/Soviets to the tune of 100 billions dollars in explicit defense budget allocation every year since the 1950s. Nope, it's that they look like us.

Going by your link by 'look like us' you mean look Sri Lankan like Chamath Palihapitiya? Are you saying Ukrainians look Sri Lankan and that is why the USA is promoting the same policy of Russian(and prior to that Soviet) containment that has been our very public policy since the 1950s and that we allocated over a hundred billion dollars in military budget on every year since then?

Correction, you're legal team thinks you can terminate accounts that choose to exercise their rights. That theory has yet to be put to an actual legal challenge. Will be interesting to see the ultimate outcome.

If you take away a decade of my life and I know when I release I have no job, I've lost lots of family, I'm willing to trade 1.5 years more time in order to be comfortable/live in the best possible way for the 10 versus get out in 8.5, especially if I am used to getting high and want to keep doing it. The numbers are both too big and too small to make it matter to someone whose calculus got them a 10 year sentence. I tried talking sense into so many youngsters but their lives are gone in their minds. They are going to spend their 20s and parts of their 30s behind bars. They don't care. Their only calculation is to keep their security points down so they don't end up at at a really really hard yard. That was the only thing the youngsters worried about when it came to getting in trouble. And that was mainly because they were afraid of gang rape (I don't know if that's a thing or not, it wasn't at our spot but there was a hyper fear of it going to another spot) beaten and stabbed, or if they had come down in levels zero desire to go back up.

I just took upcoming expiring domains and processed them to get things like the number of returned search results for the keywords in the name (to show interest in the topic and get a potential value also how much competition a website would have for keyword SEO) plus some other mojo I was using to generate a score that would bubble up domains that might be of interest. Pretty sure Google blocks off lots of the ways I was determining metrics now. Basically I just took the tips people did for deciding if a keyword had SEO potential for a blog SPAM farm and automatically applied the rules to upcoming expired domains instead the manual coming up with keyword ideas, see if the domain is available, see if the keywords meet certain tests that most people were doing back then. The tools then sent me an email containing ones of interest so I could do a quick sanity check before picking them up.

But here is the REAL SECRET!!!! The one cool trick I personally used to generate $30k a year in side income while watching TV!!!!! You have to remember how bad things were in 2008. A lot of people just let go really good domain names that they had been hanging onto forever. So the main thing you need is for it to be 2008-2010.

Yes. Years and years and years of it.

It doesn't really work that well. 15% just isn't enough of a motivator when considering the other factors at play on the inside (except for people who aren't totally broken that have kids they want to get back to or family members that might die within that window).

There's nuance to a different answer and the BOP isn't about nuance. They are about enforcing very rigid fixed rules. I am sure that they have no flexibility in their response ('When asked about release dates, respond with this').

Edit: The saddest thing about this is major reporting outlets have no idea how our prison system works. But I get it. I didn't either until I fell out of the world.

Nothing was reduced here. The BOP lists your estimated release date which includes good time that you have not lost.

You serve 85 percent of your sentence in the Feds if you don't lose goodtime. The numbers listed work out to 85% (there is a little bit of wonk in how they BOP calculates this number. It recently got changed as the BOP used math that reduced good time calculations and had to be told how to do math in the First Step act).

https://famm.org/wp-content/uploads/faq-federal-good-time-cr...

There have also been reductions via the First Step act but I don't know how that ended up. You got reductions for working at the Federal slave labor sweatshop (UNICOR) and for 'Programming' (taking their classes) but the BOP was fighting these pretty hard back when I was paying attention to these things a few years ago.

Do you brush your teeth with bottled water? Do your kids?

First $100 affiliate links/adsense on my blog.

First $1000 after the 2008 tech bust I automated a process to look for expiring domains, analyze them for interest (either as a business idea or potential to build out a website) and got a few banger domain names that I had no interest in using that I resold for $1K+. I started doing this because my ex-wife insisted we spend quality time together, which was us watching reality TV while she surfed Facebook so I needed something to do to not go crazy but that didn't take much attention so I could quickly context shift away from it.

I'm still hoping if the 'the government can't bypass the first amendment' case that's currently going on over the government talking to private companies (social networks) is found to have merit it will then set precedent for 'the government can't bypass the constitutional right to privacy' via the government talking to private companies.

Is there a legal argument to be made to include the right to privacy in the current dispute regarding first amendment rights and the government talking to social media companies about removing information/accounts? Basically if the government can't undermine the 1st amendment through 'asking nicely' of companies then they also can't bypass the constitutional right to privacy? That would make it a broader constitutional rights coalition.

I'm hoping this new court ruling that the Government can't go directly to companies and must go through the process if it involves civil rights (in the current case the Biden admin talking to social media sites about removing content is a violation of the first amendment) gos through and some lawyer get's it applied to all rights (in the case of your example to government going to companies to get around people's right to privacy).

Hopefully this new 'the Government can't compel companies' trial shuts this down as well

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36614678

Either corporations are allowed to be 'pressured' by the government or they aren't. But of course the legal system will make themselves a nice carveout for their uses like always.

Now do this for everything. Don't allow the government to 'request' the information they have on you. You want information, get a warrant. The two must go together. Either it's coercion by the government to ask a corporation to do XZY or it's not.

To be fair Madison personally owned around a hundred slaves and the Constitution in Article 1 Section 2 counted slaves as three-fifths of a free individual, but please tell me again that this guy is the patron saint of defining personal freedom and the Constitution some kind of twelve commandments of freedom "Thou shalt count Black people that you hold in bondages as three fifths human". And of course let's ignore the law AS WRITTEN and instead talk about slave owner Madison's feelz on inalienable freedom (◔_◔).

Open Source was supposed to be the opposite of that though.

Redhat didn't move into that space originally though. They moved into the SCO space off of the goodwill of 'geeks'. Then Redhat leveraged that into the larger UNIX space. That is why the community of 'geeks' is disappointed in them and their current moves. They have forgotten where they come from.

How do you think Redhat got in the door? People like me and my friends way back in the day staying late and porting our product over on our own time and convincing management to make it an offering. People like us who were our client's pet neckbeards convincing them it was ok to go with our Linux offering. No one buys Redhat without an application to run on top of it. That's how they cracked large market industries. Not on their own, but from good will from neckbeards who found it fun to spend their weeknights on a skunk works port on a frankenputer we hacked together (corporate was happy to stay with just offering SCO).

The Redhat that this last week has been on an anti-neckbeard crusade saying 'we aren't the distro for your type' to those of us who got them in the market is what is disappointing. It's like you help your friend become part of your larger friends group and then they ghost you when they don't need you anymore and are 'too cool' for you. So yeah, fuck off Redhat. They can do whatever they want, but they won't be getting any good will, and the petty anarchist in me will take advantage of any situations that come up to do ill upon them if it has a low personal cost.