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PhoenixVoid
Canada32754 Posts
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/442718-new-york-senate-passes-bill-to-allow-congress-to-request-trumps-state-tax | ||
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farvacola
United States18866 Posts
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KwarK
United States44203 Posts
On May 09 2019 04:24 farvacola wrote: I can’t speak to the NY tax scheme, but many states import a ton of data from an individual’s federal return into their state return, so there is likely some juicy stuff in there. Yeah. Federal numbers appear all over state returns. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Taelshin
Canada420 Posts
Anyways good topic really I think we certainly have push back against these companies with our own wallets, though its hard to say it will have any impact with the 15 year old blowing 300 bucks on his parents credit card. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
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Simberto
Germany11941 Posts
On May 09 2019 06:16 Gahlo wrote: The problem with voting with your wallet against MTX, especially after paying an entry barrier, is similar to how campaign finance works. The "whales" as the industry like to call them will vote more than enough to cover many detractors, even if we remove kids from the equation. True, but that shouldn't stop you from not buying games like that. I personally find the idea of a company constantly trying to squeeze money out of me abhorrent, and it greatly reduces my enjoyment of a game if i feel that that is happening. Thus, i don't buy them. However, simultaneously there should be regulations to protect vulnerably people from predatory monetization. In the same way that there are a lot of laws regulating gambling, similar regulations should also regulate all the little psychological tricks used in modern games to get money away from people without them really noticing. Loot boxes are the worst offenders, but mobile market style microtransactions are also problematic. I have no real problem with whales who can actually afford to spend that much money on a game and feel that it is worth it, but often times these people can really not afford to spend the amount of money they spend. And that is where government protections should kick in. And maybe, as an aside, we also get more enjoyable games in the long run. I have at this point mostly checked out of the AAA market due to exactly this crap. But i guess the amount of money which i spend on games is simply peanuts to that which other people spend, so i guess i am not exactly the target group. | ||
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Sent.
Poland9324 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
And I disagree with the argument that video games can be made anyplace. The last 5 years have shown that talent in video games in finite and losing talent hurts studios. If you have read anything about EA's struggles with Bioware since, you will see that a massive amount of talent leaving the studio and terrible management(due to the talent leaving) has become a major problem. And I've said this in other threads, the secret is out when it comes to video games jobs. They are not dream jobs at magic factories that produce fun toys. They are shitty jobs with high demands, mandatory overtimes good pay and you are likely to be laid off after the game is done. People who can code have eminence value in this economy, so they are going to get jobs someplace else and be paid more. It is wild time in video games and this potential legislature is only going to make it wilder. | ||
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ZerOCoolSC2
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GreenHorizons
United States24156 Posts
They basically make online company towns and use addiction (sunk-cost comes up a lot too) rather than geography to trap people in them. Problem is company towns were never specifically made illegal they just faded away (mostly) when people could escape with cars. | ||
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Ben...
Canada3485 Posts
Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued a subpoena to Attorney General William P. Barr for documents and materials related Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, including all counterintelligence and foreign intelligence materials produced during the Special Counsel’s investigation, the full unredacted report, and the underlying evidence. The subpoena requires the Department of Justice to produce the documents by Wednesday, May 15, 2019. Chairman Schiff said in a statement: “For the last month and a half, the Committee has engaged the Department of Justice in a good faith effort to reach an accommodation of our requests for all of the foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information related to the Special Counsel’s investigation, and the Mueller report and its underlying materials. The Department has repeatedly failed to respond, refused to schedule any testimony, and provided no documents responsive to our legitimate and duly authorized oversight activities. “As both the Special Counsel and the Department of Justice have recognized, the Congress has a vital constitutional role in evaluating misconduct by the Executive Branch, including the President, and to assess and refine laws that address the ‘sweeping and systematic’ invasion of our democracy by Russia. We therefore need these materials in order to do our job. The Department’s stonewalling is simply unacceptable. “The Department repeatedly pays lip service to the importance of a meaningful accommodation process, but it has only responded to our efforts with silence or outright defiance. Today, we have no choice but to issue a subpoena to compel their compliance. If the Department continues to ignore or rejects our requests, we will enforce our request in Congress and, if necessary, the courts. “The law is on our side. The Committee’s efforts to obtain necessary documents to do our constitutionally-mandated oversight work will not be obstructed.” You might be wondering what the difference in this and the previous subpoena is. Note the inclusion of "Counterintelligence and Foreign Intelligence Materials". The DOJ was citing a specific law regarding grand jury materials in their refusal to hand over the report and underlying evidence but as it turns out there is a specific sub-clause in that law added after 9/11 that allows the House Intelligence Committee to compel the DOJ to hand over grand jury material and associated material for investigations with a foreign intelligence component. Other thing to note, this letter was co-written and co-signed by Devin Nunes. This appears to at least on the surface be a bipartisan act. Nunes is doing it for a different reason than Schiff (he apparently wants the material for an investigation into the FBI's justification into their investigation or something along those lines), but non-the-less, both people signed the letter, which I imagine will complicate things a great deal for the DOJ. | ||
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CorsairHero
Canada9491 Posts
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
On May 09 2019 09:50 CorsairHero wrote: So why is Burr of the senate intel committee issuing a subpoena to Trump jr? So they can play catch with a softball, allowing Jr. cover to duck any others. | ||
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iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4433 Posts
On May 09 2019 06:01 JimmiC wrote: Unionizing the video game industry is going to be very hard because you can make video games anywhere. I also am not sure how that helps with the loot box thing. It more helps with hours for programmers and those issues. Would unionising impact deadline hours? Programmers did 24+ hr stints near the end of broodwars development. | ||
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Danglars
United States12133 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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ZerOCoolSC2
9062 Posts
If you work from home, you're probably going to work erratic hours but it'll be about the same amount of effectiveness. You'll either negotiate for a higher amount and work strictly 6 hours straight, or take the lower amount with greater flexibility. I know when I used to program in C++, I'd do 24 hour pulls during uni for the thrill of it. Nowadays, not a fucking chance. Now that I work in Architecture, I completely shut it down when I leave the office. I assume most places are the same if the pay isn't commiserate with the workload being thrust upon them. | ||
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