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DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States45937 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-18 18:50:49
February 18 2016 18:49 GMT
#8041
Just when you thought you were out of the PhD program... They pull you back in!

Leave the research. Take the cannoli.

I'll write them a proposal they can't refuse...
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
domane
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Canada1606 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-19 01:20:03
February 19 2016 01:15 GMT
#8042
Are there ways for non-experts to interfere with someone's internet connection to their internet service provider or someone's internet connection to a game server?

On rare occasions, I notice extreme spikes in ping when playing against other people (ex: average stable ping in game suddenly quadruples and on the highest end, manages to hit tenfold for a few seconds). During the rare occurrences, the context is that the game is going strong or starting to turn around in my favor.
ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
February 19 2016 01:21 GMT
#8043
On February 19 2016 03:44 JimmiC wrote:
=-)

Dang I think it was a whole godfather thing where you just didn't want to join the family but then you would get drawn in.

That is only when you think you're out.
Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain18292 Posts
February 19 2016 01:37 GMT
#8044
On February 19 2016 10:15 domane wrote:
Are there ways for non-experts to interfere with someone's internet connection to their internet service provider or someone's internet connection to the game server?

On rare occasions, I notice extreme spikes in ping when playing against other people (ex: ping in game suddenly quadruples and on the highest end, manages to hit tenfold for a few seconds).. During the rare occurrences, the context is that the game is going strong or starting to turn around in my favor.

Not really. He would need some knowledge to figure out your ip and a minor botnet to screw with your latency while not affecting his own. More likely your ISP sucks.
Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
February 19 2016 04:00 GMT
#8045
On February 19 2016 10:15 domane wrote:
Are there ways for non-experts to interfere with someone's internet connection to their internet service provider or someone's internet connection to a game server?

On rare occasions, I notice extreme spikes in ping when playing against other people (ex: average stable ping in game suddenly quadruples and on the highest end, manages to hit tenfold for a few seconds). During the rare occurrences, the context is that the game is going strong or starting to turn around in my favor.

The games ping is the ping to the other player though, right? So you are just playing against someone that you have a poor connection to, which can be due to your connection, your opponents connection, or something in between.

Or are you saying that you lose ping to your local ISP when playing? Like, doing a speed test in a browser or something?
GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States23957 Posts
February 23 2016 07:04 GMT
#8046
How many other countries have companies like H&R Block?
"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
February 23 2016 11:42 GMT
#8047
H&R block operates in Canada I know, but I'm sure that most other countries have companies that help people file taxes for a fee.
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
February 23 2016 11:46 GMT
#8048
In Czech Republic, you can hire a tax accountant to do your taxes, it even extends the deadline for submission.
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
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Oshuy
Profile Joined September 2011
Netherlands529 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-23 12:14:44
February 23 2016 12:12 GMT
#8049
For most people in France, information is sent directly from the company you work for/from your bank to the tax department. You just have to connect once a year to validate a tax declaration already filled in.

There are accountants to help small businesses and independant workers or to provide "optimizations" for higher incomes, but it's not something the average citizen would use.
Coooot
Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-23 13:30:37
February 23 2016 13:30 GMT
#8050
On February 23 2016 21:12 Oshuy wrote:
For most people in France, information is sent directly from the company you work for/from your bank to the tax department. You just have to connect once a year to validate a tax declaration already filled in.

There are accountants to help small businesses and independant workers or to provide "optimizations" for higher incomes, but it's not something the average citizen would use.

Sweden as well since long. Australia is also getting there these days, with almost everything "normal" people need filled out automatically.
ThomasjServo
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
15244 Posts
February 23 2016 13:50 GMT
#8051
On February 23 2016 20:46 opisska wrote:
In Czech Republic, you can hire a tax accountant to do your taxes, it even extends the deadline for submission.

In my personal experience smaller time businesses are better at this kind of thing, and do better than me doing my taxes myself. H&R block, and there are a ton of other services like Turbo Tax suck and honestly tend not to get you the best return in the states.
AbouSV
Profile Joined October 2014
Germany1278 Posts
February 23 2016 16:14 GMT
#8052
On February 23 2016 21:12 Oshuy wrote:
For most people in France, information is sent directly from the company you work for/from your bank to the tax department. You just have to connect once a year to validate a tax declaration already filled in.

There are accountants to help small businesses and independant workers or to provide "optimizations" for higher incomes, but it's not something the average citizen would use.

The amount you are paid is already filled in, and they also use this method so most people will not check whether there are some expenses they can deduce from this amount. So you actually have to get some more information in order to paid the real amount you owe and not the maximum amount you may owe. Though when you look for it, the information is quite clear, and the people you can contact are quite helpful (for me for far that is~)
Dark_Chill
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada3353 Posts
February 23 2016 16:42 GMT
#8053
If men on average tend to be naturally stronger than women due to different builds, do they also have different strength caps? Or to put it more clearly, is there anything biological stopping the strongest woman being as strong as the strongest man?
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KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43990 Posts
February 23 2016 16:45 GMT
#8054
On February 23 2016 16:04 GreenHorizons wrote:
How many other countries have companies like H&R Block?

Most countries don't have individuals file their own taxes. Instead they take the right amount in PAYE.

H&R, Turbotax and so forth only exist because of lobbying the US government to make overtaxation and then refund season a thing. It's this totally normal part of American life that nobody else in the world does. There is no reason why the government couldn't tax you the "right" amount, it's a fictional industry worth hundreds of billions annually that creates no value.
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puerk
Profile Joined February 2015
Germany855 Posts
February 23 2016 17:03 GMT
#8055
currently fictional industries are needed to put people to work...
as productivity grows but manhours to support life stay fairly stable new jobs have to be found... and there is no principle guaranteeing there should exist such work to be found.......
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
February 23 2016 17:09 GMT
#8056
On February 24 2016 02:03 puerk wrote:
currently fictional industries are needed to put people to work...
as productivity grows but manhours to support life stay fairly stable new jobs have to be found... and there is no principle guaranteeing there should exist such work to be found.......


No, they don't. We don't need to waste everyone's life only to keep the fantasy of employment going. If work is not needed, then it's not needed, period. It only requires people to stop thinking that the current societal system is the only possibility. But that's a rather off-topic direction even for this thread, because the question of how to reshape our societies to acknowledge the fact that the industrial revolution was two centuries ago, is everything but a simple or stupid question.
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
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puerk
Profile Joined February 2015
Germany855 Posts
February 23 2016 17:13 GMT
#8057
On February 24 2016 02:09 opisska wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 24 2016 02:03 puerk wrote:
currently fictional industries are needed to put people to work...
as productivity grows but manhours to support life stay fairly stable new jobs have to be found... and there is no principle guaranteeing there should exist such work to be found.......


No, they don't. We don't need to waste everyone's life only to keep the fantasy of employment going. If work is not needed, then it's not needed, period. It only requires people to stop thinking that the current societal system is the only possibility. But that's a rather off-topic direction even for this thread, because the question of how to reshape our societies to acknowledge the fact that the industrial revolution was two centuries ago, is everything but a simple or stupid question.

i totally agree with you.. but that is not the current status quo i was describing
i have been an advocate for the guaranteed universal income for a long time now, as redistribution seems to be the only moral (based on outcomes) solution......
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
February 23 2016 20:25 GMT
#8058
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OtherWorld
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
France17333 Posts
February 23 2016 21:56 GMT
#8059
On February 24 2016 05:25 JimmiC wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 24 2016 01:42 Dark_Chill wrote:
If men on average tend to be naturally stronger than women due to different builds, do they also have different strength caps? Or to put it more clearly, is there anything biological stopping the strongest woman being as strong as the strongest man?


Yes, almost every part of there physiology is stopping them. from bone structure onwards. With PED they could get a lot closer because of it replacing all the hormones they are missing but they will still be far behind a man on the same stuff.

you what mate
can you back it up with something at least half scientifical?
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Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany11839 Posts
February 23 2016 22:41 GMT
#8060
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_Olympic_weightlifting

Would be a good start. Notice how womens numbers are lower in every single category. So unless you assume that female athletes just don't try hard enough, it appears that there are indeed some biological factors that make the strongest women less strong than the strongest men. I haven't looked at other sets, but i am pretty sure it looks similar in every strength based competition.
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