This achieves three aims: it keeps people accountable, ensures that the code actually works while at the same time expediting the verification of code by the community of users.
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Today I say unless a voluntary code works, we will legislate for it.
That is just the way our tax code works and the last thing you want is to be caught off guard when it happens.
The new alliance, that works like a code-sharing airline alliance, means travelers can book tickets on a multilingual website to 100 cities, rising to 400 by 2020.
To verify that the code works, the Kraays had to commission a helicopter to fly them over their own farm, allowing them to scan it while hovering hundreds of feet above.
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In the former, that everyone can see the code and how it works generally means flaws are discovered and addressed quickly.
Having negotiated these deals from the team side for 10 years, I know the code of how this works: teams tell the agent that the deal terms remain confidential yet fully expect the agent to call his media contact of choice to spin it most positively.
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Editors who often work with scanned prints and negatives might find the Visualize Spots tool to be quite useful, which helps you easily identify dust spots and remove them, while perfectionists can take advantage of Upright, the app's new perspective shift technology -- it's some crazy voodoo code that more or less works like magic (see screenshot above).
And who am I to question the value of a breathalyzer test that prevents coders from changing their code while drunk, or a robotic beer dispenser that works with a wave of an RFID-wearing wrist?
And from all of that, it seems that writing a new tax code that would not be void for vagueness and that actually works would be quite possible.
Packet-switching works for a variety of engineering reasons, not because it somehow embodies in code the distilled wisdom of Aristotle, Rousseau, Locke, and Madison.
And with the code so confusing, a taxpayer can rationalize that maybe a plan works or that everybody else must be getting around the rules, too.
The Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) code (which we won't reproduce here) apparently only works on Samsung phones running Touchwiz, and only if you are directed to the dodgy destination while inside the stock browser (rather than Chrome, for example).
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