cuppaconcrete

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[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or just have all gambling be run by the government so the profits go to social services to support people who bankrupt themselves from gambling.

[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

In the US most of the lotteries are run by the government (typically state governments). If they can do it we can too.

[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

The idea is that if the government gets all the profit from gambling then that money can go into social services to support the people who bankrupt themselves from gambling.

[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Because you can strictly enforce spending limits per person. The current system allows people who hit the limit to go down the street to an ATM and get more cash out. A digital card system is designed to close that loophole.

[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

Already has I think. Especially with tools like radar/sonarr/jellyfin that let you "follow" tv series/movies and automatically download them as they become available and put them into your own personal "Netflix" style media server. Piracy now is better than ever.

[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

In a perfect world I would agree with you.

[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's still a bad idea. If they have some really nasty malware installed it could rootkit your device, and vice versa - and you never really know. Just build a small portable computer (eg. Raspberry pi, NUC, etc) and use their KB/mouse/display.

Other peeps are saying just connect to a remote desktop you have hosted somewhere using your friend's PC - don't do that, you can't trust their software/hardware.

[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Warburton is just awesome in general, such a nice town/area to spend a weekend.

[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Yeah I'd give FTA another decade, 2 max. Now I think about it this is kinda worrying tho, at least on FTA everyone sees the same broadcast. If everyone's streaming and each user's stream could be individually selected or even tampered with [deepfakes?] the problems we have at the moment with people living in different 'realities' could get a lot worse. I'm not saying that's gonna happen, but interesting things happen when powerful entities have access to technology like that.

[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Obrigado ❤️😎

[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Megalo, Megalo, Megalo :)

 

Next year, Australia will introduce a global minimum tax aimed at preventing multinationals based within its borders from evading tax.

It's been dubbed the "race to the bottom".

However, Singapore's effective tax rate can be much lower, as its government has incentives that greatly reduce or remove tax obligations for multinationals that set up operations and services in that country.

Last year, the ATO reached a settlement of almost $1 billion with mining giant Rio Tinto over its Singapore-based subsidiary.

Professor Sadiq says the tax will "raise very little" for Australia, providing $210 million by the 2024 financial year, "less than half a per cent of the $93 billion in company tax revenue" expected for that year.

Professor Sadiq says it would be better to distribute corporate tax revenue to countries with a company's activities actually take place.

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