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Re: They have not been trained for this

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Post by mschuster91 »

ocschwar wrote: post #76
mschuster91 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "Please note that the CCC e.V. is not formally recognised as a non-profit organisation" part is a bad translation - this one is related to the German tax code. To put it short: there are two different kinds of NPOs, first "regular" e.V. and then those e.V. that fulfill exclusively "aims for the common good" ("gemeinnützige Zwecke", the full list is in §52 AO [1]) - they carry a special benefit: donations can be d…

I kind of envy Germany's large array of possible corporate charters for non-profits, for-profits and kinda-sorta-nonprofits. I wish America had the same menu to pick fro.

I'll add some more confusion to your mental list: the "gemeinnützige GmbH" aka "common-good LLC" - it is allowed to undertake commercial (income-generating) activities as its main activity (unlike the e.V. which may only do commercial activities like selling stuff on a very limited basis, stuff like selling swag for example), but the proceedings must be used only for activities in the list in §52 AO as well.

Re: They have not been trained for this

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Post by charlieyu1 »

ryandrake wrote: post #10

Looks like train manufacturers are taking a page out of the playbooks of many other companies today. The practice of manufacturers remotely disabling products after the time of purchase (for whatever reason) is becoming a scourge in many other product areas. The device's manufacturer should have no say about how a product is used once money is handed over in exchange for it. This really has to stop. Regulatory agenci…

Today? My first PC had a “do not open or lose warranty” seal.

Re: They have not been trained for this

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Post by charlieyu1 »

pmarreck wrote: post #19

What happened to the old moral rule of "if you explain to your mom what you are doing and she is dismayed, you are doing things wrong"? Because what Newag is doing very clearly violates it.

People seldom tell the truth to their families and there is always some way to distort a bit to convince yourself

Re: They have not been trained for this

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Post by pcdoodle »

sizzle wrote: post #99
jdiez17 wrote: post #32

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The payment information is a bit obfuscated, being only a parenthesized sequence of letters and numbers in the OP. IBAN: DE41 2001 0020 0599 0902 01 BIC: PBNKDEFFXXX Purpose: Lokomotive Payee: CCC eV

Why not use Bitcoin, ethereum, or monero address to receive funds from the tech saavy viewership?

I was hoping to find something like that.

Re: They have not been trained for this

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Post by sixothree »

akoboldfrying wrote: post #86
sixothree wrote: post #39

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You say this as if regulation for companies is a bad thing. Your entire existence is governed by regulations. Why should theirs not be?

It's not wholly a good or bad thing. It's a complex thing, with large secondary effects that people habitually overlook. One typical effect of increasing any kind of regulation is that large incumbents tend to benefit disproportionately compared to small operators and newcomers, for several reasons: (1) larger operations can amortise compliance costs more easily; (2) larger operations legitimately contain people with…

Are you sure you replied to the correct comment?

Re: They have not been trained for this

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Post by akoboldfrying »

sixothree wrote: post #145
akoboldfrying wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not wholly a good or bad thing. It's a complex thing, with large secondary effects that people habitually overlook. One typical effect of increasing any kind of regulation is that large incumbents tend to benefit disproportionately compared to small operators and newcomers, for several reasons: (1) larger operations can amortise compliance costs more easily; (2) larger operations legitimately contain people with…

Are you sure you replied to the correct comment?

Yes. You implied that regulation for companies is inherently a good thing, and I disagree.

Re: They have not been trained for this

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Post by consp »

jdiez17 wrote: post #121
rcbdev wrote: post #116

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This is a registered European association using fee-less European payment standards to fund a lawsuit entirely in Europe involving only European parties. Do you see the rest of the world complaining when no-one can send free uncomplicated transfers to fund a U.S. non-profit because the U.S.A. prefers to run a draconian consumer banking system? The shier American arrogance in this comment thread gives me an aneurism.…

> This is a registered European association using fee-less European payment standards to fund a lawsuit entirely in Europe involving only European parties Okay, but surely you can appreciate that making it easier for Europeans and non-Europeans to contribute to this cause would achieve the goal of the donation campaign more efficiently? My personal opinion is that it would be very much worth it to accept payments via…

Stripe is not free and neither is PayPal. Assume at least 5 to 10℅ gets lost on the way and for smaller transactions it is more. For small non profits sepa is the way to go.

Re: They have not been trained for this

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Post by fragmede »

consp wrote: post #148
jdiez17 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is a registered European association using fee-less European payment standards to fund a lawsuit entirely in Europe involving only European parties Okay, but surely you can appreciate that making it easier for Europeans and non-Europeans to contribute to this cause would achieve the goal of the donation campaign more efficiently? My personal opinion is that it would be very much worth it to accept payments via…

Stripe is not free and neither is PayPal. Assume at least 5 to 10℅ gets lost on the way and for smaller transactions it is more. For small non profits sepa is the way to go.

it's 2.9 % and 0.30, not "at least 5-10"

Re: They have not been trained for this

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Post by sfjailbird »

sizzle wrote: post #99
jdiez17 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The payment information is a bit obfuscated, being only a parenthesized sequence of letters and numbers in the OP. IBAN: DE41 2001 0020 0599 0902 01 BIC: PBNKDEFFXXX Purpose: Lokomotive Payee: CCC eV

Why not use Bitcoin, ethereum, or monero address to receive funds from the tech saavy viewership?

Those downvotes. The amount of bile on HN against crypto is a mark of shame on this community.
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