It should be zero, so you will only have to pay taxes in Morocco, since the USA and Morocco have a double taxation avoidance treaty.

I do. Hard work beats talent (if talent doesn't work hard)

Exactly! Work and acquired knowledge (through work) is the answer.
I am not blessed with talent, I'm no artist, I'm an engineer. Everything I do in this field comes from research, analysis and self-learning, not from luck, not from talent.

I have "Zero Talent". 

Btw, here is another sale that qualifies for "occasional high-priced sale", that just happened today on SS:

Occasional high-priced sale made today:

Occasionally, yes.

These two, for example, are from the last days of July:

Quote from: Zero Talent on August 06, 2022, 10:44

My main system is a RAID 5 rack.
RAID 5 is ensuring seamless protection against 1 HDD failure (the system continues to operate with only 4 HDDs).
Besides the protection against failures, the system has a much faster read speed, because it reads data from all HDDs at the same time. I switch the rack on only when I work on photos/videos.

Additionaly, I regularly back up critical data from this RAID5 on a second smaller RAiD5 AND on a single high capacity HDD, which are otherwise always switched off.

I also save all my JPEGs on Amazon Photos.

All this, because years ago I also lost a no back-up HDD and I still feel the pain.

I can understand the data lost pain. Going through it now.
Can you share any tutorial which guides the procedure for RAID5?

It's not complicated at all, but it might be a bit expensive.
You'll need an HDD rack able to support RAID.

As I said, I have 2 of them, the most recent I got is this one:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DLVMCCV/

Then you need 6 HDDs with the capacity of your choice.
I went for enterprise-level HGST HDDs (designed to work 24/7, thus with a better MTBF than commercial HDDs) of 4TB each, for a total of about 16TB storage space.
The 5th HDD installed in the rack is for live RAID 5 redundancy purposes, and the 6th is a spare part, I keep separately, just in case. Of course, the 6th is not required, but it's highly recommended.

The rack has a switch for the RAID type selection. Once you select the RAID type, you plug your 5 HDDs, create the volume, and format it, the same way you do with any normal external unit. Be aware that RAID HDDs cannot be used individually. They only work in the RAID configuration they have been formatted for.

PS. One caveat: that rack has a built-in fan that was a bit too noisy for my taste and a replaced it with a Noctua Premium fan, for a nearly silent operation.

My main system is a RAID 5 rack.
RAID 5 is ensuring seamless protection against 1 HDD failure (the system continues to operate with only 4 HDDs).
Besides the protection against failures, the system has a much faster read speed, because it reads data from all HDDs at the same time. I switch the rack on only when I work on photos/videos.

Additionaly, I regularly back up critical data from this RAID5 on a second smaller RAiD5 AND on a single high capacity HDD, which are otherwise always switched off.

I also save all my JPEGs on Amazon Photos.

All this, because years ago I also lost a no back-up HDD and I still feel the pain.

Below are my Top 5 photo and Top 5 video best sellers

Decent month, the second-best July after 2019, with SS leading the way by some margin.

The big blunder the German government did was do decide to shutdown nuclear power plants and ban fraking, while not pushing renewable energy resources in a way that they could compensate for nuclear power and fracking.

Yes, that's what I'm saying. No disagreement.

In an ideal world, there should only be green energy.
But in the real world, caving under the pressure from extreme left groups, the German government pushed itself into a corner where there is no alternative to Putin's gas and oil.

Knowing very well that renewable energies are far from being sufficient to sustain the German economy, the German government banned fracking and shut down nuclear power plants, while investing in pipelines to Russia.

Innocent people (including children) are killed by a murderer sponsored by German money. The environment is polluted even more by re-opening coal power plants.

Big political mistake, indeed!

fracking's rape of the environment:

... music to Putin's ears! And to MBS's ears too!

Two criminals, two murderers validated by the colossal political mistake of relying on their gas and oil while rejecting viable alternatives at hand.

Quote from: Zero Talent on July 28, 2022, 08:36

Quote from: Wilm on July 28, 2022, 08:09

From my perspective, there is another big issue with gas supply in the United States, Annie.

A significant amount of the gas is now being extracted by fracking, which uses chemicals that have already contaminated the groundwater there in places. In addition, gas is a bridging technology - to which, for the reasons you mentioned, it must not be seen as a forward-looking solution, but only as an intermediate step....

Here, in the city of Kiel, there was a coal-fired power plant until recently that supplied the city with heat to a large extent. This coal-fired power plant was replaced by a modern gas-fired power plant. Now we have the problem that too little comes from Russia and we have to look for other sources of gas supply.

Be careful Wilm. See my previous post about Russia's interest in the energy industry and their interference with the climate change "debate".
A lot of the noise around fracking originates from the same Russian troll farm trained to create controversy favoring Russia's interests. It's very clear that Russia didn't like the competition they had to face when fracking took off.
Don't fall for it.

Standard drilling is also polluting. Besides, those water contamination problems were mainly an issue during the early stages of fracking, when the technology was not completely mastered.
It's not really a problem with modern fracking wells more than it is with standard oil wells.

Even climate change activists should acknowledge that, while obviously not satisfactory long term, the extra boost of gas and oil from fracking is a step forward compared with coal-based energy production.

Hmmm, the essential information in this case comes from our federal government and our Federal Environmental Agency. To what extent they are influenced by Russian trolls, I don't know.

Context is important.
Many statements may be true when compared with "green" energy.
But as long as the government is OK with traditional oil and gas drilling (including massive imports from Russia), fracking must be compared with it. Apples with apples.

For example, I don't think there was any fracking incident that caused a disaster as big as the Deepwater Horizon spill, and yet Germany and some other countries are Ok with traditional oil drilling but are banning fracking. 
Probably because we are so familiar with traditional oil drilling and we learned to accept its cons.
But if traditional oil drilling would have been discovered today, rest assured it would have been banned in some places as well, the same way fracking is banned.

Here is an analysis from 2015: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2015/05/pros-and-cons-of-fracking-5-key-issues/

Yep, I'm using it despite having all apps for free from Adobe.
There is a learning curve, since it's a different approach (nodes, instead of layers). But Youtube is full of very nice tutorials.
I even recommend paying for the studio version (one-time payment only) to gain access to additional features, like their very powerful noise reduction module (actually, it can compensate the price for additional plug-ins like Neat Video)

Quote from: Zero Talent on July 24, 2022, 15:29

Here is the result of a recent poll clarifying the American voter's priorities.

Failing to acknowledge the reality, endorsing far-left extremist positions disconnected from these priorities will only alienate voters, opening the path for stupid politicians to gain (or return to) power.

Thanks.

At least now we can discuss what the underlying problems are rather than just debating and attacking each other.

Economy is often the top priority in a lot of countries**, but its really sad though, that if in America, some think its a 'far-left extremist position' when this kind of thing is happening right now.

https://www.9news.com.au/world/california-fires-a-wildfire-is-burning-out-of-control-near-yosemite/b2d283ea-b12b-4af3-a441-aaaf36a1ab16#5


** Its the old "its the economy, stupid' reference.

("The economy, stupid" is a phrase that was coined by James Carville in 1992. It is often quoted from a televised quip by Carville as "It�s the economy, stupid." Carville was a strategist in Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign against incumbent George H. W. Bush. ... Clinton's campaign advantageously used the then-prevailing recession in the United States as one of the campaign's means to successfully unseat George H. W. Bush.) Source wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_the_economy,_stupid

Annie, my bad for not being clear enough. I am glad that adding that poll made my position more evident.

I hope that now it's also clear why I'm saying that putting climate change on top of the agenda is an extremist proposition.

Otherwise, yes, there are wildfires in Yosemite. This is nothing new. The first record dates from 1930.

https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/firehistory.htm#:~:text=Since%201970%2C%20the%20National%20Park,in%20the%20park%20each%20year.
So giving one more example doesn't mean much.

Nevertheless, there are many other more compelling arguments proving that climate change is real, the first one I can remember being Al Gore's 2006 documentary, "The Inconvenient Truth".

But the bottom line is that voters seem to care for their daily bread, and 13 other issues, more than for climate change.
Maybe this is sad for you, but it's real.

Therefore, putting issue #14 on top of the agenda is a proposition that will lead to election losses.
That is sad.
Sad will be to see Trump or people like him seizing power, because the alternative is made of idealists or far-left extremists, who are failing to ackowledge the reality, to understand what their voters want.

Sad indeed!