The IRS would probably see that as tax avoidance.

Which is legal, so that's not an issue.

Note that what all these companies everyone here loves to hate are doing is also legal....

And when Ireland changes its rules so it's no longer advantageous to be based out of Ireland, they'll move HQ to elsewhere, and Ireland will be out some tax dollars that won't be much by US standards, but might be a lot by Irish standards (or not)....

Anecdotally, I occasionally play EQ and EQ2 (yes, there really are players of EQ2 still out there). As does my wife.

More than half my guildies in EQ2 are women (we use voice chat a lot, if you're planning on asserting that they only claim to be women). The GM's include two Grandmothers. And (some of) their children are in guild. As are a grandchild or two...

EQ was fairly bad at putting the female characters in "slut-mail"

Yah, that always annoyed me. One of the reasons I started doing EQ2 was that I could avoid that sort of armour for my female characters (about half of them, in each of EQ1 and EQ2)

Realistically we need some kind of transaction layer tax system that captures at point of sale.

So, in your example (If I purchase something from Amazon, while in New Zealand, with my UK credit card, shipped to my Aussie address.), where, exactly, is the "point of sale"? New Zealand? Australia? Wherever the Amazon billing department processes your credit card? Wherever the product was packaged up for shipping to you?

And why?

Thank you.

I doubt I will see a Mars landing. I didn't see Moon landing live since I was born too late! :(

I don't expect to live long enough to see a Mars landing, though SpaceX might surprise me...

I *did*, however, see the Moon landings live. All of them.

there are a number of well documented cases of aircraft ditching and people inflating life-jackets inside the aircraft and people needlessly ending up drowned.

Citation?

I can't recall ever seeing that in a description of an airplane accident, but I don't read about all of them....

the states just seed control

Cede. Try not to write words you've never seen in print.

That still doesn't explain sending him home with antibiotics for what looked like a viral infection

Antibiotics to deal with secondary infections resulting from a viral illness aren't exactly unusual. Nor are they necessarily medically wrong.

Umm, your quote uses the phrase "state law". The ACA, which makes that whole pre-existing condition thing illegal is FEDERAL law.

Might want to check up on Supreme rulings about the primacy of Federal law....

That's more than 3X the rate of the Spanish flu of 1918 that killed... a third of the western world or some damn thing.

Well, if 3% is 1/3, then you're right.

Otherwise, your estimates for the 1918 flu are a bit off, and I'll assume your other estimates are similarly off....

if the benchmark for what is legal is your own preference, you are a parasite on society to that same degree.

I'm curious - does that apply to marijuana users? If so, how was illegal marijuana use fundamentally different than this?

*shrugs*

Feel free to panic, then. I suggest a cabin in a remote corner of Alaska.

Go there, avoid all human contact for at least ten years.

You should be safe by then, so you can rejoin the world no later than early 2025....

Uh, Ebola spreads through contact, so by your logic it still wouldn't be time to be concerned if every last person on earth contracted the disease...

By my logic, if you people start getting ebola with no KNOWN ebola contact, it's time to think about maybe panicking.

Because that would mean an unidentified reservoir of ebola in the country. Which is potentially disastrous.

So long as we have a clear eye on patient zero and everyone in contact with him, we don't need to be terribly worried....

For those who said "No need to panic" ... are we there yet?

No.

We MIGHT (and I stress "might") be getting to time to panic the first time we get an ebola victim who hasn't been to Africa, and hasn't been in contact with any known Ebola victim.

Note that this case is one of the 48 people who are currently being monitored due to contact with that ebola victim who brought it here from Africa.

Well, no.

From TFA, the absolute error closely approximates 0.000000000000000000004.

So you'll only see a relative error as large as you're showing (off in the fifth decimal place), if the correct answer is something like 0.000000000000000012345, which might show up as 0.000000000000000012344.