U.S. military announces 14 airstrikes in Iraq following James Foley execution by pnasty03 in worldnews

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That's absolutely right. Think about it, you are in a war zone. You lost your family. All of them. You lost your wife. Everyone you loved. And you know it's due to Russian bombings.

No same person would NOT fight against Russia, you have a vengeance to fill. Same thing here with the middle east and IS, US foreign and military policy has completely failed ever since Vietnam and their airstrikes are the best things IS wishes for.

U.S. military announces 14 airstrikes in Iraq following James Foley execution by pnasty03 in worldnews

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Here is the video of the beheading (GRAPHIC). Pay attention to what James Foley has said.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=888_1408487001

BEWARE: Coinbase is banning accounts that play on Bitcoin gambling sites by [deleted] in Bitcoin

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They don't know that. There are tens of thousands of Seals addresses. They are checking to see what addresses my sent addresses are sending to.

Police warn sharing James Foley killing video is a crime under Britain's anti-terror laws. Even viewing the video may be a criminal offense. by TaiwanDalek in worldnews

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Because they are obviously organised? And they are called IS now.

BEWARE: Coinbase is banning accounts that play on Bitcoin gambling sites by [deleted] in Bitcoin

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No, they're doing taint analysis. I've only deposited to Seals and I generate a new deposit address that is unique to me everytime. Just got the email.

ATO tax ruling (Australia) by errantmoon in Bitcoin

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Yes.

ATO: "Bitcoin is not legally recognised as a unit of account". Germany: "Bitcoin has been recognized by the German Finance Ministry as a unit of account" by goldcakes in Bitcoin

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Protip: The ATO is saying that no foreign country recognises BTC as a unit of account. Germany, a foreign country does.

ATO tax ruling (Australia) by errantmoon in Bitcoin

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This isn't the ATO's interpretation.

http://law.ato.gov.au/atolaw/view.htm?locid=%27DXT/TD2014D13/NAT/ATO%27&PiT=99991231235958

  1. Yes. Bitcoin, when held for the purpose of sale or exchange in the ordinary course of a business, is trading stock for the purposes of subsection 70-10(1) of the ITAA 1997.

Hence: GST

Telstra found divulging web browsing histories to law-enforcement agencies without a warrant by usefullinkguy in australia

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So obviously they are keeping urls everyone visits. Use a VPN.

ATO tax ruling (Australia) by errantmoon in Bitcoin

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There may have been a factual made by the ATO.

The latest ATO draft rulings, specially TD 2014/D11 considers that Bitcoin is not foreign currency as no sovereign recognizes Bitcoin as a unit of account, or a form of payment.

ATO Claim: As Bitcoin is not legally recognised as a unit of account and form of payment by the laws of any other sovereign country it is not 'foreign currency' for the purposes of Division 775 of the ITAA 1997.

The implications of this are that Australian Bitcoin exchanges must charge 10% GST on the purchase of BTC. Yes, you must pay $550 AUD to buy BTC trading at $500.

This is ruling is factually incorrect. In 2013, Germany's Finance Ministry has recognized Bitcoin as a 'unit of account' and a form of payment. http://www.cnbc.com/id/100971898

Germany Finance Ministry: Virtual currency bitcoin has been recognized by the German Finance Ministry as a "unit of account", meaning it is can be used for tax and trading purposes in the country.

As such, Bitcoin should be considered foreign currency, and not be considered supply for GST purchases.

ATO tax ruling (Australia) by errantmoon in Bitcoin

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How much are you talking about? If it's less than ~$10,000, forget about it.

the ATO will not generally apply compliance resources to past year cases in relation to taxpayers who have behaved in a bona fide manner and made a genuine attempt to understand and satisfy their obligations.

ATO tax ruling (Australia) by errantmoon in Bitcoin

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No.

Australian exchanges must charge GST on BTC. Individuals must pay GST on BTC.

GST-registered businesses who buy BTC from Australian exchanges can get that as a credit.

ATO tax ruling (Australia) by errantmoon in Bitcoin

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No. CGT is not charged period if it's for personal use, and the value of the item when you purchased it was <$10,000. You can sell your BTC and pay zero CGT, not just use it for consumption.

ATO tax ruling (Australia) by errantmoon in Bitcoin

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No capital gains for personal use - ie, if you can argue that you purchased BTC to use it as a means of payment. I'd imagine that if you have been actively paying things, purchasing bills, etc with BTC you'll get away tax free.

ATO tax ruling (Australia) by errantmoon in Bitcoin

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The horrifying thing about it is that exchanges will have to charge GST on BTC. Australian BTC exchanges are doomed.

ATO tax ruling (Australia) by errantmoon in Bitcoin

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No. Read the draft rulings.

If you purchased Bitcoins for less than $10,000, and it is for personal use.. congrats, spending and selling these BTC are tax free, regardless of the value of BTC.

TotalBiscuit discusses the state of games journalism, Steam Greenlight, ethics, DMCA abuse and Depression Quest. by SpiritualSuccessors in gaming

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Its interesting that the mods claim they dont want to feature "alledged" information about Zoe Quinn. But the things that have been confirmed, namely her scamming the "Games-From-Women-Gamejam", will still get censored:

http://i.imgur.com/Gy2n50g.png https://soundcloud.com/super-admin/tfyc-confession

ZOE QUINN IS A SCAMMER

/r/Games Meta Discussion: 500,000 Readers, Zoe Quinn, and the Wiki by XavierMendel in Games

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Its interesting that the mods claim they dont want to feature "alledged" information about Zoe Quinn. But the things that have been confirmed, namely her scamming the "Games-From-Women-Gamejam", will still get censored:

http://i.imgur.com/Gy2n50g.png https://soundcloud.com/super-admin/tfyc-confession

ATO tax ruling (Australia) by errantmoon in Bitcoin

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No.

the Determination will not apply to taxpayers to the extent that it conflicts with the terms of settlement of a dispute agreed to before the date of issue of the Determination (see paragraphs 75 to 76 of Taxation Ruling TR 2006/10).

http://law.ato.gov.au/atolaw/view.htm?DocID=DXT/TD2014D12/NAT/ATO/00001

Be Careful Seals Users: Coinbase has blocked me because of gambling (x-post from /r/sealswithclubs) : poker by SwagPoker in Bitcoin

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STOP using coinbase. There ARE exchanges that don't question your funds, like Kraken, BTCe, and of course LocalBitcoins.

Be Careful Seals Users: Coinbase has blocked me because of gambling (x-post from /r/sealswithclubs) : poker by SwagPoker in Bitcoin

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Seals accepts Bitcoin directly. They don't use Coinbase. This user was blocked for receiving coins from Seals.

TotalBiscuit discusses the state of games journalism, Steam Greenlight, ethics, DMCA abuse and Depression Quest. by SpiritualSuccessors in gaming

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http://thezoepost.wordpress.com/

Sometime around November of 2013, I signed up for an OKCupid account and got a 98% match with a cutie with colorful hair (cool), who was super into social justice stuff (good!), and was super into video games (neat!), and liked to make them (ah! I used to make them, that was fun times!), and by some coincidence turns out to have made a somewhat esoteric game I happened to have played a while back.

So I messaged her to meet up for drinks — on my birthday.

She seemed pretty cool; I didn’t talk much at first, and mostly listened as she related tales of adversities she’d overcome and how they’d shaped her as a person and fueled her determination to improve the world. I was enamored, but after a while she caught herself ranting and asked about my interests and from there we discussed all sorts of stuff from art to programming to neurology to artificial intelligence to philosophy to how the “is it a game?” argument has literally been going on for a quarter century before video games even existed. At which point she showed me a copy of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico Philosophicus she carried around in her bag. Swoon — good birthday.

That date lasted about three days. And we went on a couple more and just kept hitting it off on every point, and within two weeks we threw caution to the wind and went exclusive — facebook official, the works.

We’d spend hours discussing anything and everything; though the conversations often turned to ethics, motivations, and stories of her past. Among the most commonly recurring were:

Stories about how the grief and confusion of being raised by a pathological liar taught her to make it a point to always say what she meant, and to communicate at face value.
Stories about an extremely manipulative ex-husband, who would do things like refuse to stop wearing the ring from his last relationship, and make her feel terrible or insane for any discomfort she expressed — though he was in fact cheating on her as he was making her feel terrible for being worried.
The pain of spending most of her childhood alone, as well as the injustice of being ostracized from various groups and communities in her adulthood.
Views on the ethics of infidelity. Which she maintained is inherently wrong even if the person who was cheated on never finds out, because (aside from willfully endangering their partner by way of increased STD risk) if the unfaithful party then has sex with their partner, they are doing so under false pretenses, and therefore without their partner’s consent. That is, sex with a partner who doesn’t know you’ve cheated on them is sex without consent.

There were other strong principled positions, sometimes brought up for their own sake, sometimes brought up in relevant situations, and almost always tied to her past, but they didn’t in any sense make up the bulk of our relationship. We’d spend a lot of time hacking around on our separate projects together, eating vegan food, flirting on tumblr, and having awesome sex.

Eventually she asked me to work with her on her new game, and I happily agreed.

She took me to IndieCade East, and she got me a pass to see her at GDC

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And it seemed everything was going immeasurably well until I started succumbing to pointless and seemingly inexplicable bouts of anxiety sometime between the very end of April to the very beginning of May. We kinda broke up, but kinda not. She’d often message me to say she loved me and wanted to be with me again someday. She had eyes only for me, she said, and wanted me to say the same for her.

A few months later, around the end of June, we get back together (though this time she was worried about a mole among her facebook friend’s list, and so she didn’t make it facebook official until two weeks into the relationship, for a carefully vetted group of, by her estimate, roughly 200 friends or so). Before you know it we’re hitting on each other over tumblr again and sending cutesy couples photos whenever we missed each other.

http://thezoepost.wordpress.com/

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TotalBiscuit discusses the state of games journalism, Steam Greenlight, ethics, DMCA abuse and Depression Quest. by SpiritualSuccessors in gaming

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http://thezoepost.wordpress.com/

TL;DR: ZOE QUINN SLEEPS WITH JOURNALISTS, SHIT GAME WITH SHIT METACRITIC USER SCORE GETS AMAZING REVIEWS.

http://thezoepost.wordpress.com/

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