Word: coded
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...their competing visions to the test. ION's big idea is that the age of game technology is over and the age of game design has begun. "Three-D is like Technicolor," says Wilson, pooh-poohing the value of Carmack's perpetual tinkering with his game engines (the latest, code-named Trinity, is due next year). "Once you're there, you're there. It's time to focus on content...
...venue is her kitchen, well-equipped, with microwave and freezer. Their home is comfy and welcoming, with wall-to-wall carpeting, a floral arrangement in the front window, wind chimes at the door and an illuminated sign hanging out the front. But the Sutherlands have no permanent zip code. No phone lines. They pay no property taxes. Their pad has wheels. It's a 35-ft., $65,000 Fleetwood Southwind, one of the thousands of recreational vehicles, or RVs, that Americans are calling home. "Oh, we have a home, all right," Sutherland likes to quip. "It just depends on where...
...free sample from the KnowX database listed six lawsuits in which the Senator is named, a dozen lien records and four filings under the Uniform Commercial Code. (Unfortunately, there are no bankruptcies on file; these are usually good sources of home addresses and Social Security numbers.) To get more detail I had to pay: $3.48 for a single record or $15 for a multirecord discount...
Technically, mere infidelity is not illegal in the military. True, there have been rules against it for more than 200 years. But Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice prohibits adultery only when it is prejudicial to "good order and discipline" or will "bring discredit upon the armed forces." For more than two centuries, millions of American servicemen honoring military tradition in bordellos around the globe were not deemed thus prejudicial; they worried more about disease than about prosecution. Many Air Force pilots today continue to salute each other with the phrase "Wings up, [wedding] rings off." Some...
Simple is often best. But as people who do their own form 1040s can attest, that isn't exactly a guiding principle of the U.S. tax code. So it's a bad joke that the current debate over tax relief for investors centers on a cut in the capital-gains tax, the 28% levy that you pay on stocks, bonds and other assets held more than a year and sold at a profit. The bad part is that while it would be relatively easy to install--Poof! Your tax rate is lower--what the Federal Government really needs...