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What is the principle of net neutrality and why is it good for consumers? Why is it a big deal that Verizon and Google are merging and what will it mean for me?

Currently we have net neutrality. What that means is that every person who has an internet account to get on the net gets speeds determined by what they pay for (out of what the available choices are). And every content provider gets the speeds that they pay for. So you, as the user, can go anywhere and do anything, and the speeds are more or less the same. If you go to a place with low speeds, you get that, if you go to a place with high speeds, you get that. But it is your choice and theirs. There are no limits to where you can go or what you can do.

And that has work extremely well for everyone.

What the opponents of net neutrality want to do is take those choices away from you. They want to control the speeds with which you can get to certain places, so as to discourage going there and encourage going to places that pay a premium. This will restrict user access to places they want to see. You know how CFC is often slow? Imagine your ISP deliberately making it slower because some other company has paid more to get traffic priority.

And that's not even counting what they can do to control traffic directing. What happens when you try to go to a site and are redirected to an advertising site with some similarity? You know how much trouble those banner ads are already, what happens when your ISP won't allow you to go where you want until after you have visited the advertiser?
 
Say you're in one tax bracket(US). As capital gains are taxed according to the bracket you are in, this poses a question:

If you're in the 25% tax bracket, and via capital gains, make enough to be in the 33% bracket, are the gains still taxed at 25%, or is everything that would normally be in the 33% bracket taxed at that rate?

Just curious, since I've convinced my father to try day trading(of course, he'll need a hefty startup sum in order to actually make any money), and since I'll be managing it(calculating taxes, executing orders, etc.) I'm curious how taxes work with this.

I imagine that you do upgrade a bracket, since otherwise, it's a nice loophole... I could make hundreds of K a year potentially via capital gains at some point, yet with no actual income outside it, still tax it like the lowest bracket! :eek:
 
Say you're in one tax bracket(US). As capital gains are taxed according to the bracket you are in, this poses a question:

If you're in the 25% tax bracket, and via capital gains, make enough to be in the 33% bracket, are the gains still taxed at 25%, or is everything that would normally be in the 33% bracket taxed at that rate?

Just curious, since I've convinced my father to try day trading(of course, he'll need a hefty startup sum in order to actually make any money), and since I'll be managing it(calculating taxes, executing orders, etc.) I'm curious how taxes work with this.

I imagine that you do upgrade a bracket, since otherwise, it's a nice loophole... I could make hundreds of K a year potentially via capital gains at some point, yet with no actual income outside it, still tax it like the lowest bracket! :eek:

It's much easier if you don't think of people being in a particular bracket - portions of income are in particular brackets.

The same portions of income for every individual.
 
Say you're in one tax bracket(US). As capital gains are taxed according to the bracket you are in, this poses a question:

If you're in the 25% tax bracket, and via capital gains, make enough to be in the 33% bracket, are the gains still taxed at 25%, or is everything that would normally be in the 33% bracket taxed at that rate?

Just curious, since I've convinced my father to try day trading(of course, he'll need a hefty startup sum in order to actually make any money), and since I'll be managing it(calculating taxes, executing orders, etc.) I'm curious how taxes work with this.

I imagine that you do upgrade a bracket, since otherwise, it's a nice loophole... I could make hundreds of K a year potentially via capital gains at some point, yet with no actual income outside it, still tax it like the lowest bracket! :eek:

Day trading is probably a stupid idea to start with :p
 
Day trading is probably a stupid idea to start with :p

I've heard horror stories about accountants and other business people that try it with horrible results.
 
What is Day Trading (what makes it special beyond that you're buying/selling stocks?) and why is it bad? :D
 
A very small portion of the population has any reliable ability to match the market. Much less beat the average.
 
They think they can buy and sell stocks in the course of a few hours and make a profit. They can't
 
You should take it up with Whomp and JerhicoHill. They are both investment experts, while I am not. I've read that about 1% of the population is competent to manage their own investments and do as well as a typical fund manager. When day trading, you have to keep in mind that every trade has a cost. So these costs add up. And if you make a lot of trades, even if you do well with them, the costs can exceed your profits. If you don't do well, then you have those costs and your losses.

Investing well requires knowing companies, industries, and trends. Day trading is more about just gambling.

And the casino always wins in the end.
 
So Day trading is bad because the good investments are long-term (at least longer than a day), made based off of trends, knowledge of companies and industries, etc; things that only 1% are actually competent enough to know about?
 
I've had the statistic thrown at me that index funds outperform managed funds something like 3/4 of the time.
 
The casino wins because they charge commission, so they don't care if you win or not. It's like poker games with a rake.
 
So Day trading is bad because the good investments are long-term (at least longer than a day), made based off of trends, knowledge of companies and industries, etc; things that only 1% are actually competent enough to know about?

As best as I understand it, yes. If you really want expert input, PM those guys I mentioned and link them here and ask them or start a thread, and if they don't show up on their own, PM them and ask. I don't know who else here in OT is as knowledgeable about investments and investing as those 2.
 
When playing a M-rated game on Xbox live, why is everyone else ten years old? Who would allow them to play a mature game? Why are there no mature players who don't mic spam? Is there a way to mute them?
 
Van Gogh had the right idea.
 
When playing a M-rated game on Xbox live, why is everyone else ten years old? Who would allow them to play a mature game? Why are there no mature players who don't mic spam? Is there a way to mute them?

well I tried to buy a mature game from a store but they wanted some ID.
They explained that they will get a 5000$ fine if they don't ask for ID.

Their parent's buy it. Video Ratings are useless.
 
Ipecac.

Take 3-4 tablespoons daily.

Oh ok, it looks rare :(. And it dosen';t seem to work any better then just vomiting after each meal.
Oh well.
I was hoping for some easy to obtain herbal magic :blush:

Real men use amphetamines to loose weight fast.


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Yeah drugs work great I heard. Even from anti-drug commercials they say that they will make you lose weight rapidly.
But the problem is that these drugs are illegal here in Canada :(
And I am too poor to smoke.


Last avenue to explore is a potential parasite that can help lose weight but I will just search on google, "Parasites to help lose weight"


Thanks for the help guys :))))
 
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