Overly simplistic and assuming you are talking about the US: So you spent 80M making a movie but for whatever reason it never makes it out of production, you never see any return on this investment. But overall this year you made 100M from something else. When you do your taxes, you can “write off” this 80M spent as a loss, so you only have to pay taxes on the remaining 20 million. It doesn’t deduct 80M from taxes owed.

Usenet is a decentralized network that works very much like the fediverse here. Anything uploaded to one server gets sent out to all the servers; that’s why you can log onto lemmy.world and see posts made on say lemm.ee. Likewise something posted to one usenet server gets sent out to all the others. And these servers are being operated by individual entities (again, much like lemmy). Whoever owns the server you’re downloading from is having to pay for everything it sends out. Which is why most of the free ones will let you access the text portions but not the file downloads.

A VPN isn’t necessary. But you do need a special program to connect to usenet. It’s built into a lot of older email clients (thunderbird is a good option).

There’s no one single usenet company for the same reason there’s no one single lemmy instance. (I’m sure someone has explained it better somewhere else in this post).

in the era of free services, why do you still have to pay for Usenet access?

Bandwidth costs money. And usenet isn’t collecting and selling your info to recoup those costs like most “free” services. A lot of ISPs do offer free usenet access to customers, albeit somewhat neutered. You can browse the bulletin boards but most of the file downloads are going to be filtered out. That’s the part you have to pay for.

Authorities used a technique known as encapsulation to destroy the drug, pulverizing the seized blocks with waste before mixing the resulting fine powder with cement, sand and glass.

Someone totally took that home. “We turned that 20 tons of coke into 20 tons of concrete. Job well done pack it up.”

You mean hockey? I also clicked the article wondering how many Stanley cup trophies you could get for $2500.

Reminds me of The Love Toilet from SNL.

Ahh, I was not aware of the demonstration clause. Thanks for clearing that up; it sounded like a dumb way to get caught otherwise.

Why skirt the law like this? It’s $500/year for a Class 1 SOT that lets you import and own all the machine guns you want. That sounds much cheaper than getting caught.

For Vickers, the felony conviction means that one of the nation’s leading gun gurus can no longer own or possess firearms. He must forfeit his gun collection to the U.S. government.

Oof, that’s gotta sting.

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Credit card chargebacks are usually much more helpful than the police.

My cat wipes the condensation off windows so she can look out.

Brass and Polonium most likely.

Calling it naive doesn’t give proper credit to the pair of huge brass balls it took to come out and say this in the first place.

Encrypted? Or digital? I thought the one here was because all you could hear was what sounded like modem static when someone keyed up. Turns out it was just a digital “encryption” that could be defeated with a $20 baofeng radio.

There are however a few places that are straight up encrypted with their own keys, and not much you can do about that.

911 calls are tracked. Listen to your local police scanner. Even if someone calls and immediately hangs up, they have a pretty good idea where that person was calling from.

I think @MagicShel meant we should actually use the information we already have, and prosecute it like the attempted murder that it is.

Pardon my ignorance; But I keep seeing articles “US sanctions ------”. What are these sanctions and why would someone like Kadyrov be affected? From a bit of searching it sounds mostly like being prohibited to do business with, or travel to, the US. I could see how this puts pressure on someone who does business with/in the US. But why would Kadyrov or his horses care? That sounds like getting banned from wal-mart.

On the next page or two it goes on to say that whole story is probably fictitious and Bill was likely never there.

Edit: Found it (sorry for the fomatting)

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh submitted a report wherein he concluded that President Clinton “did not, in fact travel to, nor was he present on, Little St. James Island between January 1, 2001 and January 1, 2003.” Menninger Decl., Ex. C. Further, if any Secret Service agents had accompanied Clinton to that location, “they would have been required to make and file shift logs, travel vouchers, and related documentation relating to the visit,” and there was a “total absence” of any such documentation. Id. Remarkably, Plaintiff now even denies telling Churcher that she ever witnessed Ms. Maxwell flying President Clinton or his Secret Service anywhere, or joking with Clinton about “what a good job she did.” Menninger Decl., Ex. D. Plaintiff’s counsel remarkably instructed Plaintiff not to answer any additional questions about the other things Sharon Churcher inaccurately reported. Id. Lending even more incredulity to Plaintiff’s story, Ms. Maxwell only received her pilot’s license in mid-1999 casting insurmountable doubt that a recently retired president and his staff would be permitted to fly with her at the helm. With the record thus, Plaintiff’s claims about Clinton’s presence on the Island and the fully concocted story about the dinner party that occurred thereon totally debunked by the former head of the FBI and with Plaintiff now disclaiming she ever witnessed the Secret Service or Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP Document 1320-28 Filed 01/03/24 Page 11 of 32 9 President Clinton being flown in a helicopter by Ghislaine Maxwell, the relevance of any testimony he might add (i.e., confirm that he was, as Louis Freeh determined, never on the Island) is non-existent. The only purpose for seeking this deposition is for the calculated media strategy that Plaintiff and her publicity-seeking attorneys have devised. Plaintiff failed to disclose President Clinton as a witness until June 1, failed to notice his deposition, failed to diligently pursue a subpoena on him and he has no relevant testimony to offer. Accordingly, Plaintiff’s leave to modify the scheduling order to permit his deposition should be denied

Like a shitty band that can’t make it, going “christian” for a guaranteed captive audience. If you find yourself not culturally relevant anymore, the bigots will always pay for validation.

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Yes, that’s another way of saying the russians shot down their own jet.

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Agreed. Maybe we could convert unused office space into giant stray cat condos.