Ah, so not the scent-memories that were triggered in me then. Different Nintendo scents, makes sense.

suddenly tastes like a Nintendo Switch cartridge.

Fuck. I know this smell. You just triggered NES and Super Nintendo memories in me. Never played Switch but I’m assuming they’re about the same.

I agree that violence is violence, however, the legal repercussions are very often not the same, the public repercussions are often not the same.

No we don’t. The USPS is not tax funded, it is self funded by shipping costs and stamp sales.

When I worked at night it was the only place open 24 hours. Now the one by me doesn’t even have that going for it.

I’m sure all those old European royal families are going, “Yeah, yeah, it’s those tiny middle of nowhere American towns where the inbreeding happens. Not here. Never here.”

RDR (any of them) is not cosplay, it’s an interactive movie, a high tech pick your adventure book. Cosplay involves going outside. You can’t play paintball in your underwear on your couch. Well, you could but your living room is going to suffer.
It’s like Google Street view of Vegas versus actually visiting the casinos. It’s not the same.

But it’s not Westworld is a theme park where you cosplay; like Disneyland but you get to be a character. Video games are more like interactive movies. It’d be like saying paintball is the same as Call of Duty. One is much more interactive. It’s too much of a stretch, it’s too broad.

Yeah, this person has never seen Westworld, the show or movie, or they completely missed the plot.

Hypothetical poor people? You think people don’t repair their own cars?
People can’t afford to defend themselves in courts now. So, now you’re saying they also have to deal with an appeals process? So, not only is a vehicle value approach short-sighted its also onerous.

But that’s ignoring certain aspects. If some blue collar fella had spent his free time and money fixing his dad’s old Camaro, a car dad bought for 4,000. Now it’s still well maintained, numbers matching, original paint, etc. now it’s worth 30,000, 40,000 maybe.
Then we have some other c-suite exec in a Tesla of similar market value.

Parking fines based on vehicle value is going to penalize one person much more than the other. Fines should be based on income or total net worth, not the value of a particular piece of property.

That was difficult to type with sticky BBQ fingers.

It’s a start for sure. Just think of the windfall of cash that could be funneled to the DoD! Think of how much money could be unaccounted for during the audits.

Up until the 70s or 80s I think, in the United States, the top tax bracket was 90%.

Dammit, you stop that.

Don’t you put my name on that disappointing hot leaf water.

Source: Trust me, bro.

I like that the line you quoted from the article is pretty much a bait and switch.

*I kinda dig the layout of that website.

He would have been in the military during the Clone Wars. They served as Generals in the Republic armies. If he had not witnessed the exploits of the Jedi first hand, he most likely would have seen and heard the reports.

I couldn’t do that with my Hisense. There was no way to move past linking an email.

Eh, I would say investment into R&D should be encouraged and maybe allow tax write offs. Even of the end goal is a private power source. Once that R&D turns into workable, operable, sellable products, then tax the fuck out of them. Perhaps disallow making things that can be a boon to public infrastructure from being deem proprietary, so that it can be more easily adapted to public use.
I dunno, I’m typing from my couch after a few beers.