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Having worked for a fax brand.. that doesn't stop shady characters from just using stolen card numbers. It's extremely common.

They own most fax brands. And allegedly sue (unless you settle) virtually every electronic fax provider for patent infringement.

Source: Used to work for, then own a fax brand many years ago.

... Who are colo'd in New York City.

Of the 25-30 times I have entered China, only once was I asked a question and it was "Are you here on business?".

They are exceedingly polite... Granted it may be because you have to receive a visa prior and the application is pretty extensive.

On other hand, being Canadian I have been grilled several times at both Canadian and US immigration.

This ideology is what gets people in trouble with the tax authorities of their resident country... talk to an accountant and watch them laugh you out the door.

www.tarsnap.com - it's pay as you go, encrypted and super simple to use and script using cron

Even if you incorporate in say Delaware, if you are physically present running your business in New York you must register your LLC there (Authority to Transact Business) which comes with the same requirements.

Taxi, takeoff and landing are the most critical parts of a flight. If something goes wrong and you can't hear instructions, chaos etc because your distracted with your music then you are a danger to yourself and your seatmates around you.

Southwest markets as being cheap. Go compare their prices with the legacy carriers and you will often find they are priced about the same.

The risk of doing business in an offshore jurisdiction.

Might I make one suggestion:

Make sure your SSH port is below 1024 (but still not 22). Reason being if your Linode is ever compromised a bad user may be able to crash sshd and run their own rogue sshd as a non root user since your original port is configured >1024.