Intergalactic Summit

I believe that under State tax law, one third of the fair market value of the charitable donation may be deducted from investment gains, so long as the gain is not converted into a loss and no more than half of the gain in any year is offset, carrying forward any unused fair market value for use against future investment gains, subject to the same limitations as the present year, up to five years from the year in which the charitable donation was realized.

Per Valerie's remarkable treatise on surviving in the jungle, it is possible to sell the fair market value of your charitable donation to a third party at a discount on the expected deferment of investment gain, allowing the third party to realize the spread between the discount and the deduction - said spread being recognized as income in each year for which some of the acquired charitable donation is used to offset investment gains - subject to the same limitations which might apply should you choose to offset your own gains.

Several Caldari mega-corporations provide charitable donation bundling services, allowing investors expecting to realize significant gains to acquire packages of charitable donations that might be used to reduce tax exposure.

A few Caldari hedge managers offer charitable donation derivative indexes tied to the performance of investment companies that acquire packaged donations, permitting wealthy clients to either realize gains or loses on the portfolio in accordance with their tactical needs at the time of realization.

However, I do not recommend doing business with Caldari hedge funds. Their profitability tends to be inflated by excessive fee structures and predatory advice given to selected clients.

Ignoring the whole "ISK to win" idiocy -- my take-away from this is that our honored opponents were either too incompetent to make any ISK despite consistently being in reward tiers III-IV, or unwilling to spend any.

In fairness, there are a few really expensive things we did use. Not all the time, of course, and a lot of it was where they filled a unique role. Usually we didn't take those far from home.

Too much obvious power on the field scares people away. That wasn't what we wanted.

Bring Griffins where, exactly?

I don't recall seeing your face anywhere near the Evati triangle in the last three months of our presence there. You weren't even among the mop-up crew come to take the systems once MinMil realized they were no longer being defended.

Better places to be, bigger people to hit, no use killing a bunch of people when they have already submitted to their fate. Might as well go pick on the rancer folks next door.

Stomp no, make them dock up yes. For you it was just you running every chance you got.

Perhaps that time spent in Unified Consciousness helped meld Valentina into both a fine fleet commander and a fine diplomat.

She faced down a foe (superior on paper) to maintain the sovereignty of her clan. No ships were lost in combat or the effort to realign our constellation's command nodes... though it must be said that the commander was assisted in her heroic enterprise by the brilliant (if somewhat serendipitously so) sacrifice of a Tulwar captain, who - through his cloud of debris - identified the fundamental weakness in our enemy. Furthermore, let me not forget to send special love to the logistics pilots; and, to the intrepid gate diving Tristan maestro as well.

It was an honor to launch missiles from a fine State cruiser in support of two alliances dedicated to opposing the corruption which threatens All Mankind, and I do hope that Valentina's renewed diplomatic efforts blossom into a more cooperative existence with our neighbors so that we might further that objective.

(ps. if anyone is interested in becoming a special teams guerrilla terrorist to save Mankind from eternal damnation, send me a ringy ding ding.)

With the rest of min mil and amarr mil knowing you did a lot more than that.....I shall just say "uh-huh" and wish you better luck in the caldari warzone than you all have gotten.

At this point, i think the Tribal Liberation Force needs to be renamed the Tribal Liquidation Force, what with its Blood Raiders, EoM cultists, Hek station campers, and Slave Hol.. I mean "Trustees" (sorry Madame Noh!).

Diplomacy is going swimmingly (thank you again Commander Valentina), and I have just the perfect little ice planet on the edge of space picked out for my lycanthropic Sebiestor bunny boy trust beneficiaries. I will drop a habitat at the first available opportunity, and then InterBus tickets for everyone, sweeties! Mummy would come and pick you up herself, of course, but doctrine suggests that flying large cumbersome ships out of the Emperor Family station at this time would be problematic.

When Mankind has finally climbed to the high heavens, lycanthropic Sebiestor will rule the Cluster from Thukker leviathans, all thanks to my singular vision.

Well, I suppose Nation's animated corpses will still be here. A clash of species enhancement doctrines!

Speaking of diplomacy, it occurs to me that there were industrial corporations of a Caldari bent that wanted to do business in Matari space some time ago, but were rebuffed by a certain mindset that is no longer the dominant one. I wonder if those corporations are still interested in exploring development projects?