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Re:National or state makes quite a difference by fyngyrz · 2010-11-06 12:12 · Score: 1 · on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions

I wish you had read the thread instead of just replying to a sentence or two. You're entirely missing the point. Which is just what they want you to do. I've written this (again) just for you. So please do me the courtesy of reading the whole thing.

No, it most certainly is not. Someone making that little is tax-exempt and need not even file.

ok, right. Now here we go with what happens from there:

Now, the guy hasn't filed, and hasn't paid, right? And he's got the whole $100 he earned. He pays that to you so you'll do some work for him. YOU, however, are not poor, and if you have a 35% tax rate, you'll pay $35 of that $100 to the taxman.

Now, are you going to give the guy $100 worth of work, considering you only KEPT $65, or are you going to limit it to $65? And if he's only getting $65 worth of work out of his $100 because of that tax hit on the worker side of his transaction, what is his effective tax rate?

35%.

If that's still not clear, try this:

Re:National or state makes quite a difference by fyngyrz · 2010-11-06 11:57 · Score: 1 · on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions

ok, in cartoon form:

Re:National or state makes quite a difference by fyngyrz · 2010-11-06 11:57 · Score: 1 · on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions

ok, in cartoon form:

Re:National or state makes quite a difference by fyngyrz · 2010-11-06 11:57 · Score: 1 · on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions

ok, in cartoon form:

Re:Easy fix by noidentity · 2010-11-04 02:42 · Score: 1 · on Harry Potter Blamed For India's Disappearing Owls

The next Harry Potter [...] should feature wild killer possums with rabies as pets.

Too late

Re:Not just iPhone 4s by aliquis · 2010-11-01 05:21 · Score: 1 · on iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in

No she doesn't! :/

Idiocracy Hospital Keyboard by theodp · 2010-10-31 12:36 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall!

From Idiocracy: Keyboard for hospital admissions

Re:Poor lawyers by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-31 02:57 · Score: 0 · on Apple Counter-Sues Motorola Over Touchscreen Patents

lol, no, but I know what people thought about it :D

Win 98 SE or 2k/XP where better for some reason..

Moose shit for the Germans.

Das Pwn HaMM3r HaZ b33n Dr0p3d by segagman · 2010-10-28 00:43 · Score: 0 · on Pay Or Else, News Site Threatens

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8010717@N02/5123264762/

Re:Houses too by mccalli · 2010-10-27 19:03 · Score: 1 · on How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks

Hi - hope you get this, saw your reply a bit late.

Thanks for that. My dad died last year, in his sleep and surrounded by all his family (including me). Couldn't have scripted a better ending. Like your uncle, he did a lot of work afterwards for his community - starting and running a youth club for instance, to help out with kids who had little to do.

He didn't talk that much about what really went on. I have some stories, but it was only when we went through his things that we realised he'd kept things like the Eisenhower letter from before the landings. He did describe Belsen, which they simply couldn't believe when they saw it. People like your Uncle and my dad - they had a tough time of it, and we owe them a lot.

Cheers,
Ian

Already done by tru3ntropy · 2010-10-27 11:57 · Score: 1 · on The Home-Built Dark Knight Batmobile

Australians built one a while back. http://www.flickr.com/photos/highoctanephotos/4569942668/

Re:As a hillbilly from a desert island, I have to by DavidShor · 2010-10-26 17:43 · Score: 1 · on From Apple To Xbox, Tech Companies Lean Left

That's a bullshit argument. You neglect the fact that the whites and blacks live in completely different areas. Even on a city level, take a look at racial habitation within Birmingham: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/5010401643/ . To look on a state level, you can look at Obama returns on a county level at http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/county/#ALP00map (Literaly 98% of Alabama blacks voted for Obama and 88% of Whites voted for McCain, so it's a pretty good proxy).

Diverse would be a place like Miami, where 60% of the population wasn't born in the United States, and the largest ethnic group(Cubans) makes up only 30% of the population.

Re:They've already busted that twice now by Crudely_Indecent · 2010-10-25 02:07 · Score: 1 · on President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters

"Bushie" isn't the sitting president. You can't continue to blame everything on Bush. For a little while it's cute, but after enough time it becomes pathetic.

God-given mission? No, he claimed to be god....at least his campaign site did.

Since you obviously didn't follow the link:

Previously on the Obama campaign site - has since been removed:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/2619205229_cc2d84e9c6.jpg?v=0 [flickr.com]

Re:Steve Jobs has clout by MikeBabcock · 2010-10-24 04:43 · Score: 1 · on Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History?

Just have to throw this out there, but I love my USB heavy motherboard.

what about parody photos? by TheGratefulNet · 2010-10-21 03:16 · Score: 2, Funny · on All Your Stonehenge Photos Are Belong To England

wonder if they'll come after me for this one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/linux-works/140536377/

yes, it was a slow day in the hardware lab and I felt inspired at the time. I know that if anyone will 'get' what those are, its the slash crowd.

Re:They've already busted that twice now by Crudely_Indecent · 2010-10-18 07:43 · Score: 4, Informative · on President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters

They do sound pretty juvenile, I wonder who is being parodied? Oh, that's right, they're making fun of the left-wingers!

“I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years,” he said. “What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history. ... The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.”
-- Jesse Jackson, Jr.

"Does it not feel as if some special hand is guiding Obama on his journey, I mean, as he has said, the utter improbability of it all?"
-- Daily Kos

"He communicates God-like energy..."
-- Steve Davis (Charleston, SC)

"Not just an ordinary human being but indeed an Advanced Soul"
-- Commentator Chicago Sun Times

"He is not operating on the same plane as ordinary politicians. . . . the agent of transformation in an age of revolution, as a figure uniquely qualified to open the door to the 21st century."
-- Gary Hart

"Barack Obama is our collective representation of our purest hopes, our highest visions and our deepest knowings . . . He's our product out of the all-knowing quantum field of intelligence."
-- Eve Konstantine

"This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New Testament." "I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often. No, seriously. It's a dramatic event."
-- Chris Matthews

"Obama has the capacity to summon heroic forces from the spiritual depths of ordinary citizens and to unleash therefrom a symphonic chorus of unique creative acts whose common purpose is to tame the soul and alleviate the great challenges facing mankind."
-- Gerald Campbell

"We're here to evolve to a higher plane . . . he is an evolved leader . . . [he] has an ear for eloquence and a Tongue dipped in the Unvarnished Truth."
-- Oprah Winfrey

“I would characterize the Senate race as being a race where Obama was, let’s say, blessed and highly favored. That’s not routine. There’s something else going on. I think that Obama, his election to the Senate, was divinely ordered. . . . I know that that was God’s plan."
-- Bill Rush

Previously on the Obama campaign site - has since been removed:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/2619205229_cc2d84e9c6.jpg?v=0

Rabbi David Saperstein, reading from Psalms in English and Hebrew, noticed from the altar that the good men and women of the congregation that day, including the Bidens and other dignitaries, had not yet stood. Finally Bishop Vashti McKenzie of the African Methodist Church asked that everyone rise. At that moment Saperstein saw something from his angle of vision: "If I had seen it in a movie I would have groaned and said, 'Give me a break. That's so trite.'" A beam of morning light shown [sic] through the stained-glass windows and illuminated the president-elect's face. Several of the clergy and choir on the altar who also saw it marveled afterward about the presence of the Divine.
The Promise: President Obama, Year One, by Jonathan Alter.

"In a way Obama is standing above the country, above the world. He's sort of GOD. He's going to bring all different sides together."
- Newsweek editor Evan Thomas

"No one saw him coming, and Christians believe God comes at us from strange angles and places we don't expect, like Jesus being born in a manger."
Some see God's will in Obama win, by Dahleen Glanton. Chicago Tribune November 29, 2008.

TFA written by a Windows magazine editor? by bl8n8r · 2010-10-18 01:40 · Score: 5, Insightful · on Desktop Linux Is Dead

I figured microsoft had more to worry about right now than FUD'ing up the linux arena with Paid-for blogging*, but meh.

Desktop Linux works for me, and has been since 1997. If you don't like it, don't use it. Be thankful you have alternatives. If it weren't for *nix, you probably wouldn't.

[*] - http://www.blogger.com/profile/5530582
http://www.flickr.com/photos/strohmy/315871552/

Re:Fractint by baud123 · 2010-10-17 08:48 · Score: 1 · on Benoit Mandelbrot Dies At 85

There's Gnofract 4D too at http://gnofract4d.sourceforge.net/ and with even a flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/gnofract4d/

Re:I hope it is clear now by istartedi · 2010-10-16 09:30 · Score: 1 · on Tablets Are Game-Changers For Special Needs Kids

Insurance companies won't pay for something that might also be used for non-medical purposes

uh-oh...

Re:Clearly the answer is more government intervent by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-12 18:48 · Score: 2, Informative · on Dutch Hotels Must Register As ISPs

Seeing as how I've actually been to TEA party rallies and support Libertarian ideas, and have not come across a single example of a libertarian push for government control of anything, I must ask you to cite your sources.

Tea Party protests FOR government intervention to stop the rebulding of a mosque at ground zero.

Brooklyn Tea Party founder John Press, who rallied against the Ground Zero Mosque in recent weeks, again raised the spectre of foreign domination. "The Mosque is founded by a very scary people and the US Constitution does not guarantee the right of a foreign nation to build a mosque in our country," he said. It's unclear if Mr. Press had merely forgotten the First Amendment, but one member of his protest group did recall the constitutional barrier on government suppression of religion -- he just chose to ignore it.

Link

Mark Williams, chairman of the Tea Party Express, blogged about the 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center planned at Park Place and Broadway, calling it a monument to the 9/11 terrorists. "The monument would consist of a Mosque for the worship of the terrorists' monkey-god,"

Link

Example 2: Tea Party anti-abortionists that WANT government to legislate against abortion.
Link

Example 3: Tea Party WANTS laws to differentiate Gay and Lesbians.

Montana Tea Party Leader Endorses Violence Toward Gay People

Link

In other words the Tea Party is nothing more than religious conservatives trying to control our lives. The Libertarian Party used to be run by Ron Paul who helped kick start the tea party movement. The two are clearly intrinsically linked. Libertarian has come to mean the opposite of its original definition thanks to people trying to play double-speak.

Re:The missing link by Bigjeff5 · 2010-10-11 10:07 · Score: 1 · on Motorola Sues Apple

It's already way beyond a threesome man:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/floorsixtyfour/5061246255/

Re:Patent wars by Bigjeff5 · 2010-10-11 09:49 · Score: 1 · on Motorola Sues Apple

That one is innacurate (and way too simplified), use this one instead.

photos of the flight by ChrisCampbell47 · 2010-10-10 17:09 · Score: 2, Informative · on SpaceShipTwo Flies Free For the First Time