While your link has since been taken down* this one is still up, and provides pretty clear reasoning that an arrest wasn't immediately made for legal and liability reasons:
I'd love to see that police report, but with that now-dead link and the pretty clear statement that the arrest didn't happen immediately was because evidence against Zimmerman hadn't been accumulated yet. Basically, they let him go based on his statement because they had no evidence to the contrary yet, and didn't want to A) be held liable for a wrongful arrest, B) screw the case up later on, and most certainly C) preventing a potential A from causing a for-sure B.
Makes sense to me, and my gut tells me we'll see a trial in this case. Still, it's just my gut. None of us can know the truth except Zimmerman and (hopefully, eventually) the investigators.
*From the Sanford, FL website: "The office of the State Attorney, 4th Judicial Circuit, State Attorney Angela Corey has requested that the City of Sanford remove all reports, videos and audio pertaining to the Martin/Zimmerman case from the website. Their office has provided legal justification for the action and they believe further access to the information will have an adverse effect on their efforts to come to a resolution to this investigation."
This info implies an investigation is proceeding, and the State Attorneys' office doesn't want to saturate a potential jury pool, although that's just speculation, too.
The way trials are these days, I'd rather have the police get all the evidence they can, one way or the other, prior to making an arrest.
Zimmerman shouldn't have his life fucked up any worse than it already is until there's enough evidence to reasonably convict him, and there's no way any of us can speculate enough for that evidence to just pop into existence. It's a rough, brutal story, but none of us are close enough to it to truly know what happened. If, indeed, he did murder Martin, it will be better for the prosecution to have all their ducks in a row prior to officially charging Zimmerman for murder anyway, and he's not going anywhere in the meantime.
If the investigators do decide there's insufficient evidence, or evidence of self-defense, I believe they have the responsibility to report it to the media; this case is way, way too volatile.
You're both right. There needs to be enough of a deterrent to minimize the chance of people from generating a mass panic, but not so much that even the smallest freedoms are stomped on. China's leadership isn't known for worrying too much about that second bit.
Hmm. Quite a few spots they could visit, in terms of brightness, anyway. I love this photo; Johannesburg was particularly surprising for me when I first saw it.
Right. Because if I yell "fire!" in a movie theater, adult citizens should be intelligent enough to realize I'm screwing with them. No, there are exceptions to free speech for some pretty good reasons. This may originally have been one of them, although I doubt it; 210,000 posts is a lot of "fire!" yells.
The bigger issue here is that China is in a state where it's easy to believe these types of rumors. This free speech crackdown wouldn't be necessary in the first place if weren't so busy doing things like.... cracking down on free speech. Circular logic leads to circular logic.
You're totally right, of course. Asking for others to tell him what Thunderbolt is is either dumb or a too-snarky way to say "Nice summary, brah.". Better to point out the issue directly.
You'll still have to plug all the devices into the system somewhere the line, right? Whether the current hub or a good old fashioned "daisy chain" setup (shudder), the devices still need to hop onto the Thunderbolt train somewhere.
Really it seems to just be moving the cable/port clutter to the end of the Thunderbolt line instead of right at the computer. This is helpful for a laptop that functions as a desktop, I suppose, but that problem was already solved with laptop docks. I really don't want to buy all new peripherals when USB 3.0 will be backwards compatible; I think I'd rather just buy the damn proprietary dock when I buy my new-every-5-years laptop.
The big gains seem to be in terms of transfer speed and the dual channels to do it in, though it seems like all those daisy-chained devices sharing the same bandwidth* might not guarantee that much of a gain, depending the speed requirements of the peripherals.
*"You also have more than enough bandwidth to daisy-chain multiple high-speed devices without using a hub or switch. For example, you can connect several high-performance external disks, a video capture device, and even a display to a single Thunderbolt chain while maintaining maximum throughput. (apple.com/thunderbolt):
I normally agree with you on looking something up, but the summary was 3 sentences long. There was plenty of room to say:
"Thunderbolt (Apple's latest data transfer protocol)ports have been spotted on a PC motherboard, but the reality is that the technology is far from mainstream outside of Apple products. Which is why it is interesting to hear Intel predict that 'a hundred' Thunderbolt devices are expected to be on the market by the end of the year. The comment was made this week at Intel's presentation at IDF in Beijing. Ultrabooks with Thunderbolt are expected to appear this year."
I don't mind looking things up, but at least give me very general idea about what type of info I'm about to read up on. I (yes, I am being serious) thought that these were ports to hook my Thunderbolt directly to my PC in some fancy new Intel/HTC project, and wondered what the hell Apple had to do with any of it. When I clicked the link, I was a little annoyed at just how wrong I was. If you're gonna use an ambiguous name, come up with a half sentence to disambiguate it, or at the very least provide a clarifying link.
I think one big problem is these students will be appealing to their teachers as authorities on the subject. These are not college students taking a humanities class where debate and discussion are welcome; this is public school, where kids are still learning the fundamentals. It's pretty scary to think that "creationism" will be taught in this fashion.
Actually, the creator of the show (meaning the creator of the entire world in which his show takes place) can do just that, if he wants to. I think they did just that in one episode or other; maybe that was Family Guy. It's not much different that putting Springfield be on the moon, or in my jockey shorts (this is NOT recommended, at least for today).
Still, I think there's value in knowing it's impossible for it to mirror a real-world "Springfield", and your original post really is informative (and your followup post was funny as hell; nice work;).
Well, with most of the tax software I've used, once the info's in it's mostly in. Subsequent years I just have to drop in W2s and 1099s, apply any credits for school or daycare, and done.
I still always calculate what my deductions are versus the standard deduction, though. Once my deductions are the higher, I'll finally be able to prove to my mother that I'm not a failure. Not quite there yet.;)
Wow. I don't know what's worse; Apple spreading this garbage or consumers believing it. Had the link not been provided, I'd not have believed they said it.
Fun game, substitute "data" with various other nouns, like "kids" and enjoy measuring how true the statement still is.
Well, there is that. I'd probably be helping you carry all those jars of pennies you're taking to the IRS if I hadn't given up on all my dreams years ago.
I'm curious - I imagine you pay federal and provincial taxes, much like our federal and state taxes here in the US. If I'm correct, is your provincial tax preparation also free? For us, under a certain income threshold you can file your federal taxes for free with many software applications, but state taxes is where they getcha.
Not sure this is the best example of how complicated the average US taxpayer's return is, my friend.;) It's a terrific example of how we'd all like our returns to look, though.
Filing your taxes in the US is not complicated at it's most basic form. Applying every deduction, credit, interest payment, disbursement, etc properly and legally to minimize the tax you owe, or increase the tax refund/credits you should get, can become VERY complicated. There are literally hundreds of situations that can modify the amount of tax owed in either direction, and a great many of them are totally counter-intuitive.
One can simply take the standard deduction and enter in all earned income data, but for many Americans that would leave thousands of dollars on the table, and for some Americans, it could actually get them in trouble or make them owe thousands more later on (filing self-employment income incorrectly, for example).
It gets worse when you find these laws change every single year for various reasons (I have my suspicions but this is not intended to be a political post).
The reading I've done says: Believe it or not, they might actually pay you. However, they are very unlikely to point out overpayments to you without an audit, and chances are you won't even be audited if you overpaid. If you find on your own that you did overpay, I think you have to file an amended return, meaning it's a very good idea to be prepared with every document you have supporting said overpayment.
I dunno... the cynic in me thinks that the gubmint is probably happy to let it stay somewhat vague. For every audit they do, I imagine there's some number of people who paid way, way too much.
I know that for the first couple of years I wasn't claiming the child tax credit (yay for credits which are WAY > deductions!); nobody told me I could until I started using tax software. My fault for not looking into it, but I was set in my tax-y ways.
TaxAct is also pretty transparent. My girl uses HR Block's deal, and it blows in comparison, and cost her almost $100 to use. TaxAct also lets me print the actual forms that would are submitted to the IRS, and it's cake to use since it stores last years tax info AND outlines what's different from last year. Been using it for 5 years now and hope it stays cheap and accurate.
For me, it's SO worth the extra 20 bucks or so to just have everything done online through a browser-driven tax software. As far as Taxact having my data.... well, they've had it the last 5 years running and I can access it anytime I want to (mortgage info, daycare stuff, SSNs for my kids, etc). Sure, I have all that stuff in my safe, but I can just log in and snag a couple of PDFs no matter where I am. Since I have to provide this info to banks every time I make a mega-major purchase, anyway, I really don't care if Taxact has it too. At least I can access the whole dataset at will.
It's also worth mentioning the help you'll receive from a professional, commercial product if you get audited. I don't think the open source community is the first place I'd look for tax law help, much as I love em.
As I reflect even further, it was the same type of "bribery" that my early dating career had, almost exactly. Whether it's a bribe, or just a venue to get down to business, depends on the percentage of cynicism in your blood.
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While your link has since been taken down* this one is still up, and provides pretty clear reasoning that an arrest wasn't immediately made for legal and liability reasons:
http://www.sanfordfl.gov/investigation/docs/Zimmerman_Martin_shooting.pdf
I'd love to see that police report, but with that now-dead link and the pretty clear statement that the arrest didn't happen immediately was because evidence against Zimmerman hadn't been accumulated yet. Basically, they let him go based on his statement because they had no evidence to the contrary yet, and didn't want to A) be held liable for a wrongful arrest, B) screw the case up later on, and most certainly C) preventing a potential A from causing a for-sure B.
Makes sense to me, and my gut tells me we'll see a trial in this case. Still, it's just my gut. None of us can know the truth except Zimmerman and (hopefully, eventually) the investigators.
*From the Sanford, FL website: "The office of the State Attorney, 4th Judicial Circuit, State Attorney Angela Corey has requested that the City of Sanford remove all reports, videos and audio pertaining to the Martin/Zimmerman case from the website. Their office has provided legal justification for the action and they believe further access to the information will have an adverse effect on their efforts to come to a resolution to this investigation."
This info implies an investigation is proceeding, and the State Attorneys' office doesn't want to saturate a potential jury pool, although that's just speculation, too.
The way trials are these days, I'd rather have the police get all the evidence they can, one way or the other, prior to making an arrest.
Zimmerman shouldn't have his life fucked up any worse than it already is until there's enough evidence to reasonably convict him, and there's no way any of us can speculate enough for that evidence to just pop into existence. It's a rough, brutal story, but none of us are close enough to it to truly know what happened. If, indeed, he did murder Martin, it will be better for the prosecution to have all their ducks in a row prior to officially charging Zimmerman for murder anyway, and he's not going anywhere in the meantime.
If the investigators do decide there's insufficient evidence, or evidence of self-defense, I believe they have the responsibility to report it to the media; this case is way, way too volatile.
You're both right. There needs to be enough of a deterrent to minimize the chance of people from generating a mass panic, but not so much that even the smallest freedoms are stomped on. China's leadership isn't known for worrying too much about that second bit.
Hmm. Quite a few spots they could visit, in terms of brightness, anyway. I love this photo; Johannesburg was particularly surprising for me when I first saw it.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/World_Night_Lights_Map.jpg
Right. Because if I yell "fire!" in a movie theater, adult citizens should be intelligent enough to realize I'm screwing with them. No, there are exceptions to free speech for some pretty good reasons. This may originally have been one of them, although I doubt it; 210,000 posts is a lot of "fire!" yells.
The bigger issue here is that China is in a state where it's easy to believe these types of rumors. This free speech crackdown wouldn't be necessary in the first place if weren't so busy doing things like.... cracking down on free speech. Circular logic leads to circular logic.
You're totally right, of course. Asking for others to tell him what Thunderbolt is is either dumb or a too-snarky way to say "Nice summary, brah.". Better to point out the issue directly.
You'll still have to plug all the devices into the system somewhere the line, right? Whether the current hub or a good old fashioned "daisy chain" setup (shudder), the devices still need to hop onto the Thunderbolt train somewhere.
Really it seems to just be moving the cable/port clutter to the end of the Thunderbolt line instead of right at the computer. This is helpful for a laptop that functions as a desktop, I suppose, but that problem was already solved with laptop docks. I really don't want to buy all new peripherals when USB 3.0 will be backwards compatible; I think I'd rather just buy the damn proprietary dock when I buy my new-every-5-years laptop.
The big gains seem to be in terms of transfer speed and the dual channels to do it in, though it seems like all those daisy-chained devices sharing the same bandwidth* might not guarantee that much of a gain, depending the speed requirements of the peripherals.
*"You also have more than enough bandwidth to daisy-chain multiple high-speed devices without using a hub or switch. For example, you can connect several high-performance external disks, a video capture device, and even a display to a single Thunderbolt chain while maintaining maximum throughput. (apple.com/thunderbolt):
I normally agree with you on looking something up, but the summary was 3 sentences long. There was plenty of room to say:
"Thunderbolt (Apple's latest data transfer protocol) ports have been spotted on a PC motherboard, but the reality is that the technology is far from mainstream outside of Apple products. Which is why it is interesting to hear Intel predict that 'a hundred' Thunderbolt devices are expected to be on the market by the end of the year. The comment was made this week at Intel's presentation at IDF in Beijing. Ultrabooks with Thunderbolt are expected to appear this year."
I don't mind looking things up, but at least give me very general idea about what type of info I'm about to read up on. I (yes, I am being serious) thought that these were ports to hook my Thunderbolt directly to my PC in some fancy new Intel/HTC project, and wondered what the hell Apple had to do with any of it. When I clicked the link, I was a little annoyed at just how wrong I was. If you're gonna use an ambiguous name, come up with a half sentence to disambiguate it, or at the very least provide a clarifying link.
I think one big problem is these students will be appealing to their teachers as authorities on the subject. These are not college students taking a humanities class where debate and discussion are welcome; this is public school, where kids are still learning the fundamentals. It's pretty scary to think that "creationism" will be taught in this fashion.
Actually, the creator of the show (meaning the creator of the entire world in which his show takes place) can do just that, if he wants to. I think they did just that in one episode or other; maybe that was Family Guy. It's not much different that putting Springfield be on the moon, or in my jockey shorts (this is NOT recommended, at least for today).
;).
Still, I think there's value in knowing it's impossible for it to mirror a real-world "Springfield", and your original post really is informative (and your followup post was funny as hell; nice work
Well, with most of the tax software I've used, once the info's in it's mostly in. Subsequent years I just have to drop in W2s and 1099s, apply any credits for school or daycare, and done.
;)
I still always calculate what my deductions are versus the standard deduction, though. Once my deductions are the higher, I'll finally be able to prove to my mother that I'm not a failure. Not quite there yet.
That's pretty badass of the rep. Makes it sound like all those accounts just gather dust until someone (you, rep, or act of God) opens Pandora's box*.
*That phrase always makes me giggle even at 32 years old.
Wow. I don't know what's worse; Apple spreading this garbage or consumers believing it. Had the link not been provided, I'd not have believed they said it.
Fun game, substitute "data" with various other nouns, like "kids" and enjoy measuring how true the statement still is.
Well, there is that. I'd probably be helping you carry all those jars of pennies you're taking to the IRS if I hadn't given up on all my dreams years ago.
Sigh. ANOTHER free thing in good ol' Canadia. I'm so expatriating some day.
I'm curious - I imagine you pay federal and provincial taxes, much like our federal and state taxes here in the US. If I'm correct, is your provincial tax preparation also free? For us, under a certain income threshold you can file your federal taxes for free with many software applications, but state taxes is where they getcha.
Not sure this is the best example of how complicated the average US taxpayer's return is, my friend. ;) It's a terrific example of how we'd all like our returns to look, though.
Filing your taxes in the US is not complicated at it's most basic form. Applying every deduction, credit, interest payment, disbursement, etc properly and legally to minimize the tax you owe, or increase the tax refund/credits you should get, can become VERY complicated. There are literally hundreds of situations that can modify the amount of tax owed in either direction, and a great many of them are totally counter-intuitive.
One can simply take the standard deduction and enter in all earned income data, but for many Americans that would leave thousands of dollars on the table, and for some Americans, it could actually get them in trouble or make them owe thousands more later on (filing self-employment income incorrectly, for example).
It gets worse when you find these laws change every single year for various reasons (I have my suspicions but this is not intended to be a political post).
The reading I've done says: Believe it or not, they might actually pay you. However, they are very unlikely to point out overpayments to you without an audit, and chances are you won't even be audited if you overpaid. If you find on your own that you did overpay, I think you have to file an amended return, meaning it's a very good idea to be prepared with every document you have supporting said overpayment.
I dunno... the cynic in me thinks that the gubmint is probably happy to let it stay somewhat vague. For every audit they do, I imagine there's some number of people who paid way, way too much.
I know that for the first couple of years I wasn't claiming the child tax credit (yay for credits which are WAY > deductions!); nobody told me I could until I started using tax software. My fault for not looking into it, but I was set in my tax-y ways.
I have some investments that, due to their particular details, have stumped multiple tax preparers.
They never tell you this part of being a drug runner, do they? No, it's all "see the world" and "make people happy!". Sigh.
TaxAct is also pretty transparent. My girl uses HR Block's deal, and it blows in comparison, and cost her almost $100 to use. TaxAct also lets me print the actual forms that would are submitted to the IRS, and it's cake to use since it stores last years tax info AND outlines what's different from last year. Been using it for 5 years now and hope it stays cheap and accurate.
You can always file electronically right from the IRS site: http://www.irs.gov/efile/
For me, it's SO worth the extra 20 bucks or so to just have everything done online through a browser-driven tax software. As far as Taxact having my data.... well, they've had it the last 5 years running and I can access it anytime I want to (mortgage info, daycare stuff, SSNs for my kids, etc). Sure, I have all that stuff in my safe, but I can just log in and snag a couple of PDFs no matter where I am. Since I have to provide this info to banks every time I make a mega-major purchase, anyway, I really don't care if Taxact has it too. At least I can access the whole dataset at will.
It's also worth mentioning the help you'll receive from a professional, commercial product if you get audited. I don't think the open source community is the first place I'd look for tax law help, much as I love em.
As I reflect even further, it was the same type of "bribery" that my early dating career had, almost exactly. Whether it's a bribe, or just a venue to get down to business, depends on the percentage of cynicism in your blood.