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Comment Re:Tax planning and rich people (Score 1) 2115

But he gets to subtract that cost from his income so he pays less taxes on that. Do I get to subtract the cost of fuel off my income? He gets to count his food as a business expense, do I get to do so? Why do businesses get to subtract any expense off their income, but I don't get to do the same?

Comment Re:The solution is obvious: (Score 1) 627

The American judicial system did not initially accept drug prohibition. Prosecutors argued that possessing drugs was a tax violation, as no legal licenses to sell drugs were in existence; hence, a person possessing drugs must have purchased them from an unlicensed source. After some wrangling, this was accepted as federal jurisdiction under the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. Source Prohibition of Drugs

Comment Re:good luck with that (Score 2) 351

Who cares about packets. What if I just start emailing people in Pakistan Base64 encoded random numbers? Will they have to prove it's random numbers? Does anyone have a list of government officials email addresses?

Comment Re:Was this article all a mistake? (Score 1) 688

Really? I guess you can't read pie charts http://www.humblebundle.com/

I can read the chart.

But what does it prove?

It proves that the original statement that Humble Bundle makes more money from Linux & Mac combined than from Windows. You know, what I was commenting on. Showing that the parent of my original comment was wrong.

Comment Re:I've been waiting for this. (Score 1) 521

Do the Telco's really need to keep that data beyond a month or two? Does it need to be *everybody* or just a random anonymized sample for system reliability?

Yes, they do. They need data about usage and location so they can track cell usage growth (or decline) in areas that might need more cell towers to handle the load. The data could be anonymized, though.

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