My understanding is that this is treading on very dangerous grounds with respect to FAA guidelines.

A "share" of the cost includes all expenses of the flight. Rental, fuel, etc. The pilot and passenger must each pay half of total expenses.

The passenger can have no influence on the destination. If the pilot is flying from A to B and the passenger tags along, OK. But if the pilot just wants hours and goes to B because the passenger needs to go there then I think there is an FAA regulations problem and the FAA will consider the flight commercial.

That said I am not a lawyer nor a FAA guidelines expert. All I know is what my instructor told me many years ago in ground school. "The person showing you their FAA ID is never ever there to help you. Never hand your license to the FAA official to help them read / inspect it, that can be considered surrendering your license if the FAA official wishes to interpret the act as such. Keep the license in your hand and move it closer to their face if they are having a hard time reading it, pull it away if they reach for it. If they ask for it tell them you will be handing it to your attorney and they can speak with him/her."

Unfiltered information is not necessarily correct information. A peer reviewed scientific journal is an example of filtering. Filtering is not necessarily a bad thing, it depends on the who and why of the filtering.

People sometimes think more emotionally than critically, are easy to deceive. The anti-vaccine movement grew with the internet too.

While the number of apps downloaded is coming from 3rd parties we are still left with Google's financial reports indicating $900M paid to developers compared to Apple's claim of $5,000M paid to developers.

Plus its not just Forbes indicating a huge disparity.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://techland.time.com/2013/...
http://venturebeat.com/2013/07...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ay...

Actually you do not get enough volume to make it up, at least as of August 2013. According to http://www.forbes.com/sites/tr...

Number of downloads per app, Android 60,000 and iOS 40,000.
Average revenue per download, Android $0.01875 and iOS $0.10.
Average revenue per app, Android $1,125 and iOS $4,000.

Perhaps for PC desktops but for PC laptops you are much more likely to have glitchy or unsupported hardware of some sort, ex. wifi.

And if Chrome doesn't work out you can install a full Linux on the chromebooks and you will have a complete and working set of drivers, there is a Linux under that Chrome.

Yes and no. All you see is the chrome browser, however there is Linux underneath.

If you disable OS verification you can install a full Linux on it, ChrUbuntu.

A year ago I bought an Acer C7 Chromebook and installed Linux on it. Its my first Linux laptop that has a complete and working set of drivers. Of all the previous PC laptops that I have had and converted to Linux upon their retirement, they were always glitchy in one way or another, or lacked drivers.

I have had much better luck with desktops but I tended to build my own and tended to go with well regarded parts.

That said, for US$200 the Acer C7 is a pretty good Linux laptop for the money. The screen and trackpad may be nothing special but thats acceptable given the price IMHO.

US IRS notices don't have much weight in Japan. :-)

For many, one with underbody LEDs. :-)

Each and every ledger entry has a cost basis. For incoming coins the new coins have a value based on the time they were received. The old coins returning to you based on when they were new. For outgoing coins (not including those coming back) it would probably be like other accounting practices where a first in first out (FIFO) system or a last in first out (LIFO) system is used. In either case the basis of the outgoing coins are known.

The odd thing would seem to be that as the outgoing coins are spent its necessary to determine if a gain (coins being paid at a price higher than basis) or a loss (coins being paid at a price lower than basis) is being recognized.

Ex. You buy one coin at $500 and another at $600. Coins are priced at $800 at the time of a future purchase. You buy something for $1,200, 1.5 coins. Using FIFO your basis for the outgoing 1.5 coins is $500 + $300 = $800, and the basis for the returning 0.5 coins is still $300. You experienced a gain of $400 on the 1.5 coins at the time of the sale and that $400 would seem to be taxable income. Apologies if I botched the math, its late, hopefully the point gets across.

Is all this a royal pain in the ass, yes. But basis, gains and losses seem perfectly calculable.

And until changes are made they will fine you and apply penalties if you deviate from their guidance. Their interpretation is not optional, it carries weight until a court or congress says otherwise.

I'm not an accountant, this is not tax advice.

It seems that miners need a daily log of the coins mined and the closing prices on an acceptable exchange. Each day's coins may have their own basis, the number mined multiplied by the closing price on the exchange. This basic seems to be counted as income.

Equipment and electricity are probably not factored into the basis. They are most likely a separate deduction.

The LAPD would only need to state that the images were captured with the intent of validating registration tags. Police have the right to look at a plate's registration tag when the vehicle is on a public road, and even stop you and ticket you if it is out of date. This could be automated and a ticket sent in the mail.

Computer viruses predated the internet and worked across sneaker nets. Code on a floppy can be infected. A floppy can contain data crafted to overrun buffers and execute code, etc. The internet just simplifies the process, automates it.

Not really. Merchants can out you.