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Re: Microsoft to take you into the cloud
« on: October 28, 2008, 08:49:22 PM »
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Apparently the average Joe (commoners, to our ruling Elite) is no longer allowed to sell their own property on eBay to make a little extra cash, without the government and tech-industry demanding we fill out a form explaining ourselves and justify such huge sums which they would rather we didn't have.


What happens if you don't fill out the form? Better remove all your money before trying to find out, though. ;-)

In the USA, it's 10000 dollars where the banks are required to report about. And, as it turns out, if you ask what that trigger anmount is, they are required to fill out a "suspicion" form because you might be trying to skirt the law by shifting less than the trigger amount. A form, which they would also fill out, incidentally, if you put in only $9999 at a time. One other weird big brothery law is that every transaction you do would be reported if you tried to open an account without giving your social security number. (Illegal aliens not withstanding. :roll: )
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Re: Microsoft to take you into the cloud
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2008, 08:07:06 PM »
@Roj

That's pretty much how things work. That's exactly how everyone will eventually end up with a microchip or barcode.
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Re: Microsoft to take you into the cloud
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2008, 08:54:38 PM »
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Do you know how capitalism works?


The communists in China sure do. It's what's keeping communism alive.
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