Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-18 Thread Bill Stewart
So how much does Cuban Air Traffic Control charge for U2 overflight support? 1960 - 2001, with some reasonable interest rates for late payments At 07:53 PM 07/12/2001 -1000, Reese wrote: >At 10:43 PM 7/11/01, Tim May wrote: > > >>One real world example of such. > > > >Learn to use a search

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-18 Thread Black Unicorn
nd subject only to an (expensive and normally futile) appeal to the U.S. Tax Court. Bad move. - Original Message - From: "Bill Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:47 PM Subject: Re: Who can tax a satellite? > >At

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-18 Thread Bill Stewart
>At 02:30 PM 7/11/01 -0700, Black Unicorn wrote: > >No, the real question is who can knock down or render inoperable the OWNER > >of the satellite. But ownership is easily fixed - a few magic words from a lawyer (ok, with a lot of expensive research into tax and accounting issues first), and the

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-17 Thread Petro
At 11:45 PM -0700 7/12/01, Matt Beland wrote: >It's a moot point anyway, but for the record, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 >states that no nation may claim jurisdiction or territory beyond the limits >of Earth's atmosphere, which is spelled out in a separate treaty as being >100km altitude ab

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-13 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Reese wrote: > How quaint. Do let us know when you move beyond strict technical > definitions. > > At 05:48 AM 7/13/01, Declan McCullagh wrote: > >Yes. Clearly killfiling is a concept coterminous with censorship. I urge > >Reese to expand this campaign to people who chan

Re: CDR: Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-13 Thread Trevor
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:53:09PM -1000, Reese wrote: > At 10:43 PM 7/11/01, Tim May wrote: > > >>One real world example of such. > > > >Learn to use a search engine. Search on the obvious terms, like > >"airlines overflight payments." > > > >Is this enough for the "one real world example

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-13 Thread Tim May
At 7:53 PM -1000 7/12/01, Reese wrote: >At 10:43 PM 7/11/01, Tim May wrote: > >>>One real world example of such. >> >>Learn to use a search engine. Search on the obvious terms, like >>"airlines overflight payments." >> >>The first such hit you will find in Google, one of hundreds, is: >>Or, like

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-13 Thread Declan McCullagh
Yes. Clearly killfiling is a concept coterminous with censorship. I urge Reese to expand this campaign to people who change the channel too. -Declan At 05:37 AM 7/13/01 -1000, Reese wrote: >At 04:40 AM 7/13/01, Declan McCullagh wrote: > >It doesn't bother me either way, so I have no real prefe

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-13 Thread John Young
The infallible archives show that the top users here of "fuck off" are ... well, not to provoke additional applications of the highly acceptable use term, check the archives yourself. Reese is no where near the top user, except at sea. This is not to suggest that heavy users of the term have no

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-13 Thread Declan McCullagh
It doesn't bother me either way, so I have no real preference. (If such juvenalia did bother me, I would have resigned from cpunx 6 years ago.) But you should know that it does make everyone feel a strong urge to killfile you. Consider this a fair warning. -Declan On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:56

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-12 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:19:51PM -1000, Reese wrote: > > I nub you too. Do the letters "F O" mean anything to you? Now this is certainly a new high point in cypherpunklian discourse. -Declan

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-11 Thread David Honig
At 02:30 PM 7/11/01 -0700, Black Unicorn wrote: >No, the real question is who can knock down or render inoperable the OWNER >of the satellite. > Cable landfalls... satellite control centers.. MAE... ESS.. same thing. I suppose that is a plug for a fully distributed system like pipe/black/whatev

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-11 Thread David Honig
At 08:58 AM 7/11/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I suppose, as with any racket, whoever has the ability to knock the >satellites down or render them inoperable could levy a "tax" on them. Heh, right on. But some dingleberry in LA is not about to violate an international space treaty without

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-11 Thread mmotyka
he real question is who can knock down or render inoperable the OWNER > of the satellite. > They're first cousins, I suppose. > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 8:58 AM > Subje

Re: Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-11 Thread Black Unicorn
No, the real question is who can knock down or render inoperable the OWNER of the satellite. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 8:58 AM Subject: Who can tax a satellite? > > ``I'm neutral on the

Who can tax a satellite?

2001-07-11 Thread mmotyka
> Auerbach insisted that he was not pushing for a tax on the satellites but > was simply doing his job and trying to determine whether they should be > taxed. > > ``I'm neutral on the whole thing,'' he said. ``My job is to make sure all > property that's taxable gets assessed and I'm going to fol