Hmm, looks like the and/or presented to Amazon Marketplace sellers, which I am one. What are considered transactions for the purposes of Amazon Associates, I wonder (but could probably look up if I didn't...*)? Withdrawals of your referral fees (which would be very difficult to make 200 of in one year), or each purchase that you referred? If the latter, seems like you'd hit that far in advance of $20k.

I know Amazon fights the .gov over taxes, but as long as they store people's TINs under U.S. jurisdiction, there's nothing stopping the feds or states from changing the tax code and/or seizing the databases, which is why I terminated my mTurk and Amazon Payments accounts, and am watching my Marketplace account transaction count to deactivate it for the rest of the year before they force me to provide TIN. *Only manage the Associates account for a 501(c)(3), so giving their TIN for that was fine.

Doesn't Amazon Associates require taxpayer identification number because it counts as income? How much does the government steal from it?

Doesn't Amazon Associates require taxpayer identification number because it counts as income? How much does the government steal from it?

We can all see how well any kind of "control" works in Chicago; perfectly for violent criminals (who love when the government disarms all innocent victims for them).

Every government can do (and usually does) worse than what it is already doing (the current system). The only government involvement in the medical system should be scaled all the way back to the courts, and nothing else.

Carry both ways. Or carry a realistic fake openly, so you don't look like a soft target, and if a grab is attempted*, all they can get is a club. Bonus points if you weaken the fake so it'll fall apart if unholstered.

*When pressed to show more than one instance of open carriers being targeted for the mythical, guaranteed-gun grabs, naysayers can't.

Interesting. Maybe it's because there are very few good domain names left; you pretty much have to come up with something out of thin air and register the mark.

It wasn't a slam, I just thought it might be a good idea to act as a Bitcoin middleman for NS since the price is almost the same.

I seem to remember reddit having Network Solutions $2.99 domain ads running periodically...

I have a MIDI+joystick port adapter cable, but since that one is USB, you probably won't need it.

Thanks to Anthony at Bit-Pay, Subud CA at San Diego can now accept BTC donations by posting signs ( draft version at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16538039/bitcoinsign.pdf ) and sending fundraising emails with the QR code that would have otherwise just been on a single card.

If I didn't just have BTC0.00728 at the moment, I would send my own test payment.

You're probably going to hold the world record for Amazon temp suspensions unless they decide to permaban or permawhitehat you. Maybe if you wired Amazon $10,000 USD periodically to fund the gift cards from, they'd cut this BS out and you wouldn't need to send any more apology credits.

Let us know if you need letters of recommendation to send to Amazon.

I've seen my mom go through the quasi-malpractice (certainly violating "first do no harm") that is the practice of primary Western medicine with GPs and specialists not knowing their heads from their asses. Also, no doctor has ever come to a diagnosis (let alone a treatment plan) as to why my pain and exhaustion level for as long as I can remember has been decades advanced from my actual age, so I've sworn them off. On the other hand, the best care all of my family has received has been at emergency rooms (or A&E for our disarmed friends across the pond), and to a lesser degree urgent care facilities.

If the government wants us all to get health insurance just for ER and urgent care visits, I would invite it to stop fucking over the economy and taxing and regulating everyone to death so everyone can afford either private insurance or out of pocket.

If the government wants us all to get health insurance and see doctors on a non-emergency/urgent basis, then it might as well shove a gun up our mouths and pull the trigger. That would be the kindest thing to do.

Just tried using a KJV 1611 word search and it's not showing me where you got the questions from. I only had a chance looking at other versions. You shouldn't have to hold a doctorate in theology or discuss this amongst your group at a monastery or convent...

I was thinking of doing this too, maybe when you run out.

It is impossible because it is subject to interpretation (or arcane knowledge and wording that only you can know the answer to). I just tried to add my generated key for the Bible 1a ones, after being properly encoded to base58 starting with a '5', without success. You'd be better off providing an ISBN of a NY Times best seller, and listing page, line, and word to search for, which would only require basic counting, not mind-reading.

In Michigan, the right to self-defense is converted to a taxed privilege that costs a minimum of $105. If you're poor and law-abiding (like most Detroitans), you're legally defenseless - if you can even afford a gun (or inherit/are gifted one), ammo, and range time. http://www.michigan.gov/msp/0,4643,7-123-1586_27094-10953--,00.html

The poorer the area, the lesser people are able to pay an unconstitutional tax to exercise their fundamental human rights, or sue in federal court for the deprivation thereof. The tax is many times higher in NYC (and entirely arbitrary and capricious), but so are the incomes, bribes, and campaign contributions to ensure the privilege is granted.


Government security breaches are commonplace. Gods forbid violent criminals lose their lists of where to steal guns from, let alone stare down the barrels of their intended murder, rape, maiming victims and surrender or flee.

Except there really is no debate, not amongst honest, peer-reviewed academics (professors, researchers, statisticians, economists, epidemiologists, etc) at least. As I understand it, there were initially three camps:
Unbiased academics
Honest anti-gun academics
Dishonest anti-gun academics paid by, or simply, criminal safety advocates

The honest anti-gun academics proved their own prejudices wrong with science, and retracted any flawed studies they had published. The dishonest anti-gun academics refused to publish their methodology, data sets, or respond to peer review & criticism.

So that leaves us the only honest debate being between those who can show guns in the hands of innocents don't increase crime at all (which should be obvious, as innocent people don't commit crimes), and those who can show more guns decrease crime overall, and the exact degree of how much of a decrease.

P.S. If you are figuring gun suicides as a reason to ban guns, then either 1) you must not believe people have the right to control their own destiny 2) you believe people don't commit suicides without guns, when in fact less guns usually equals more suicide with everything else

Tyrants can do plenty against information, unless you have a route to the internet that doesn't require any infrastructure and can survive radio signal jamming. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/bart-pulls-mubarak-san-francisco

Against a crowd of defenseless innocents? All options are open, including genocide.

Against a crowd of armed innocents? Suddenly, they have to switch tactics and wait to pick off victims individually who've separated from the crowd.

"Poor people kill people, but never in self-defense because that requires bribery, so ban guns now!"