Take John Doe, a wealthy manager who has stock in AT&T. He pays the corporate income tax on the dividents and the income tax on his large salary.
Take Jane Doe, a little old lady who has stock in AT&T. She pays the corporate income tax on her dividents, and uses the rest to buy knitting supplies.
Why do they pay the same rate? Because demagoguish politicians have fooled Americans to thinking that corporations pay taxes. That is a fiction. Corporations don't pay taxes, shareholders do. And not all shareholders are rich.
The corporate income tax should not exist. A progressive individual income tax is far more suited.
What the frick are you talking about? Do you actually know what you are saying? Have you ever paid taxes on dividends before? If you have, you'd know how to spell them. You would also know it is not a "corporate income tax." It is an "ordinary dividend tax." They are calculated on Part II of Schedule B. And FYI, this is part of the progressive personal income tax in the USA. Larger amounts of taxable income (dividends included) are paid at a higher rate.
I have the feeling you are also trying to talk about capital gains taxes too (that's when you sell your AT&T stock), but I don't want to confuse you even more than you seem to be already.
This has nothing to do with a corporate tax! Sorry for the ranting, but I am proud to pay my taxes and actually understand what I am doing.
The article (yes, I read it) clearly stated that official journalists were not denied access or reporting on the events, so here's a simple solution...
An athlete gives his or her diary (oral or written) to an "official" journalist. The journalist then rewrites it in 3rd person format and sends it into the athlete's hometown newspaper. Done. Not difficult at all.
Have you ever seen the 5 minute short Twilight Zone episode with the IQ testing? It's very chilling...
...A mom and a dad are preparing their child for the intelligence test in what appears to be the future with a "1984 Big Brother" feel. The kid is all happy and says he'll do just fine because it's an easy test. The parents look nervous and you get the idea that they are not confident that he will pass. Then the parents find out that their smart child scored high. Good, right?
[Cue scary incidental music]
The parents then break down and cry as we, the viewers, learn that this society kills children that score too high, presumably to keep the people suppressed.
At my work, NetNanny is installed. Babelfish at www.babelfish.altavista.com is blocked. However, I just go to the UK version at uk.altavista.com/content/translate.jsp instead. Works just fine.
You are not wrong and it usually doesn't make sense.
Take a look at the lyrics of a Japanese pop CD (every one I own includes a book of lyrics) if you get a chance. The English-sounding words are usually written in English and not katakana (Japanese-ized foreign words). "Love" is a very very common added word.
Uh if they were scamming people they wouldn't use COD... they'd use credit cards or something, what are they going to do, mass produce fake cards and deliever them to people to collect the COD's (Cash on DELIVERY)...
Uh, actually, yes they would produce fake cards, or at least fake "somethings" in a box. Credit card companies could easily track down and expose this fraud when people complained if that was the method of payment. Credit card companies have whole divisions of people working to detect and counteract fraud and they hate being taken.
A poster to the original story (I'm too lazy to search for it) pointed out that there is no way the delivery guy would wait for you to install your card and check it before receiving payment. Thus, the hazard of COD.
If your current hardware is adequate then by all means, wait until the next announcement, but if your current hardware is inadequate and you have the money, then go ahead and purchase something.
Well put. This is the best advice for buying a computer, monitor, printer, scanner, digital camera, etc.. There will always be something better in the future. Use what you've got until you are frustrated with the lack of speed or capabilities, then buy something new (unless it less than a month before the Macworld Expo and your type of computer hasn't been graced by Steve's matrix update recently).
Ya know, i'd definatly pick up a G3 Powerbook when the price comes down, except for the fact that you're completly stuck with a 1 button mouse, unlike a desktop where you can at least replace the hockeypuck.
As already pointed out numerous times in this thread and others, you are not stuck with a 1-button mouse. I honestly don't believe you didn't know you could add any number of styles of USB mice with multiple buttons. But I digress. My real problem with this post is that you say you would "definately" get a slightly out-of-date Powerbook, if it wasn't for the mouse issue. Can the mouse issue really be that important as to change your view of using a certain OS?
Ok, I think it was pretty clear to those who checked into it that the board was a fake. However, are we really sure these guys weren't pulling a scam (not a fun-loving hoax)? If no one found out, would they have been collecting on those CODs? Their web page explaining the "truth" is fine and dandy, but who's to say they didn't write that after the world caught on to the trickery? I'm not talking about gathering a list of names for spamming, I'm talking genuine stealing of money. Did they think they could get away with it for long enough to make a small fortune? Even if 0.1% of the people fell for it, that could add up to some serious money. Let's not assume they were only pranksters.
This happens when law breaks down to the point that the government itself is simply a system of force. The US is a long way from there, despite incidents like Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Miami.
Please do not tell me Miami refers to Little Elian. To equate this (or Waco) with the gov't breaking laws is just not right. The gov't showed a huge amount of restraint by not going in immediately in either case.
You can flame me or moderate me down for standing up for the gov't in this case. I don't care.
I despise listening to Rush, but know that he is a huge Mac fan. Is it true he really wishes the DOJ would back off M$ "for the sake of the economy?" I realize that this would be consistent with his political views, but I always thought he was more "in the know" of what heavy-handed tactics M$ was always up to. I think all people who preach "alternative" OSes usually are. Please say it ain't so!
I read an article on my.netscape that included in it the following...
"This is far more ambitious than anything we've done in the past," Gates said at a Microsoft Forum 2000 conference at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Wash. "You could say it's a bet-the-company thing."
Isn't that what Gates said about Windows 2000, and probably every major product announcement in the past 5 years? They sure seem to be betting the company often since the DOJ has gotten serious. Is it a scare tactic to think we'll say, "Oh no. If we don't use this Microsoft will tank and then the whole US (or world) economy will suffer?" Puh-leeze.
What a huge mistake apple made when they didn't allow clones to be made of macs. Even when they started them late, they were going so great! This makes no sense.
1) The clones took away their market share, low as it already was.
2) The Second Coming of Steve Era has been a financial success compared to the previous 3-5 years or so.
Sure, people thought it was a bad choice to stop the clones then, but now history has shown otherwise.
Ah yes. I forgot that the bat always seemed to go for that sword and then pull the old switcheroo with the dragon.
Did you like to bash in the dragon's head from behind and then force him to open his mouth as you ran through? With the yellow dragon, and not on the advanced setting, you could do clockwise loops forever and keep making him "roar." That drove my little sister nuts.
Oooooooooooooh! That blasted bat! Just when you've got the bridge or whatever in the right spot (or hide a key until you needed it later) Bam! It gets hauled away like in the Wizard of Oz. The only real fun you could have with the bat is to get eaten by a dragon, hope for the bat to pick up the dragon (how is that possible?), and then go on a flying tour of Adventureland by getting a free ride from the bat. Of course, you are dead, so there's no fun after that.
You found the secret room in Atari's Adventure all by yourself? Without any help or hint that there was an Easter Egg there?
To do this you had to: 1) Haul the bridge around inside the Black Castle. 2) Set it down and walk through a wall. 3) Pick it up and try a different wall. 4) Repeat, repeat, repeat. 5) Do this everywhere else too in the game because you wouldn't "know" there was a secret in the Black Castle. 6) Do it all again because that magic "key" is only 1 pixel wide 7) Eventually have the idea to walk through the end wall in the main corridor to end up in the magic room.
A very timely Dilbert cartoon from my one-a-day desk calandar June 8, 2000...
Dilbert reading to himself..."By opening this package you agree you will not make copies or export to despotic nations. You will submit to strip searches in your home..."
Last frame in cartoon just as Dilbert rips open the package, a large woman with a flashlight appears and starts to put on a rubber glove and says..."Frankly, both of us would have been happier if you had just walked away."
My question exactly. As a moderator, I really wanted to fix this obvious problem and "untroll" them but I wasn't able to moderate these posts. I've only moderated twice, so maybe I am missing something here. Why are some posts unmoderatable? I can't remember reading this in the Moderator Guidelines.
And a "Funny" for the original post? Hardly. I doubt it was intended as humor.
Go buy some Limp Bizkit, even if you don't like them; they will never try to dictate what you can do with something you paid money for. Go buy some Grateful Dead, even if you don't like them, for the same reason.
Why would I pay good money for bands I can't stand? How exactly can that be considered "not buying Metallica"?
I have a better idea, I'll take the money I wasn't using anyway on Metallica and buy that good book, or a pizza, or whatever I had planned to do anyway in the first place. Seriously, how much Metallica is being bought right now?
I'm not even going to start with all the reasons why it is good that I am not allowed to freely copy and distribute any music that I buy.
Hey! I was at Best Buy yesterday too (looking for Sony Camcorder M batteries) and almost dropped a load when I saw their 6' Firewire price. I think it was $79.99. Then I went to Circuit City and found the same one (Belkin) for $29.99! Bought it on the spot with the battery.
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What the frick are you talking about? Do you actually know what you are saying? Have you ever paid taxes on dividends before? If you have, you'd know how to spell them. You would also know it is not a "corporate income tax." It is an "ordinary dividend tax." They are calculated on Part II of Schedule B. And FYI, this is part of the progressive personal income tax in the USA. Larger amounts of taxable income (dividends included) are paid at a higher rate.
I have the feeling you are also trying to talk about capital gains taxes too (that's when you sell your AT&T stock), but I don't want to confuse you even more than you seem to be already.
This has nothing to do with a corporate tax! Sorry for the ranting, but I am proud to pay my taxes and actually understand what I am doing.
Who modded this up?
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An athlete gives his or her diary (oral or written) to an "official" journalist. The journalist then rewrites it in 3rd person format and sends it into the athlete's hometown newspaper. Done. Not difficult at all.
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Have you ever seen the 5 minute short Twilight Zone episode with the IQ testing? It's very chilling...
...A mom and a dad are preparing their child for the intelligence test in what appears to be the future with a "1984 Big Brother" feel. The kid is all happy and says he'll do just fine because it's an easy test. The parents look nervous and you get the idea that they are not confident that he will pass. Then the parents find out that their smart child scored high. Good, right?
[Cue scary incidental music]
The parents then break down and cry as we, the viewers, learn that this society kills children that score too high, presumably to keep the people suppressed.
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The Una in Unabomber stands for University and Airport. Or maybe Airline. Something to do with airplanes.
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At my work, NetNanny is installed. Babelfish at www.babelfish.altavista.com is blocked. However, I just go to the UK version at uk.altavista.com/content/translate.jsp instead. Works just fine.
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Take a look at the lyrics of a Japanese pop CD (every one I own includes a book of lyrics) if you get a chance. The English-sounding words are usually written in English and not katakana (Japanese-ized foreign words). "Love" is a very very common added word.
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Uh, actually, yes they would produce fake cards, or at least fake "somethings" in a box. Credit card companies could easily track down and expose this fraud when people complained if that was the method of payment. Credit card companies have whole divisions of people working to detect and counteract fraud and they hate being taken.
A poster to the original story (I'm too lazy to search for it) pointed out that there is no way the delivery guy would wait for you to install your card and check it before receiving payment. Thus, the hazard of COD.
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Well put. This is the best advice for buying a computer, monitor, printer, scanner, digital camera, etc.. There will always be something better in the future. Use what you've got until you are frustrated with the lack of speed or capabilities, then buy something new (unless it less than a month before the Macworld Expo and your type of computer hasn't been graced by Steve's matrix update recently).
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As already pointed out numerous times in this thread and others, you are not stuck with a 1-button mouse. I honestly don't believe you didn't know you could add any number of styles of USB mice with multiple buttons. But I digress. My real problem with this post is that you say you would "definately" get a slightly out-of-date Powerbook, if it wasn't for the mouse issue. Can the mouse issue really be that important as to change your view of using a certain OS?
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Ok, I think it was pretty clear to those who checked into it that the board was a fake. However, are we really sure these guys weren't pulling a scam (not a fun-loving hoax)? If no one found out, would they have been collecting on those CODs? Their web page explaining the "truth" is fine and dandy, but who's to say they didn't write that after the world caught on to the trickery? I'm not talking about gathering a list of names for spamming, I'm talking genuine stealing of money. Did they think they could get away with it for long enough to make a small fortune? Even if 0.1% of the people fell for it, that could add up to some serious money. Let's not assume they were only pranksters.
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Dell's mice are Logitech too. Oh oh, a Logitech monopoly :)
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Please do not tell me Miami refers to Little Elian. To equate this (or Waco) with the gov't breaking laws is just not right. The gov't showed a huge amount of restraint by not going in immediately in either case.
You can flame me or moderate me down for standing up for the gov't in this case. I don't care.
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[sarcasm] Maybe we need to be told to plug our computers in, but at least we know the name of the company that makes them is Apple, not Mac.
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I despise listening to Rush, but know that he is a huge Mac fan. Is it true he really wishes the DOJ would back off M$ "for the sake of the economy?" I realize that this would be consistent with his political views, but I always thought he was more "in the know" of what heavy-handed tactics M$ was always up to. I think all people who preach "alternative" OSes usually are. Please say it ain't so!
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"This is far more ambitious than anything we've done in the past," Gates said at a Microsoft Forum 2000 conference at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Wash. "You could say it's a bet-the-company thing."
Isn't that what Gates said about Windows 2000, and probably every major product announcement in the past 5 years? They sure seem to be betting the company often since the DOJ has gotten serious. Is it a scare tactic to think we'll say, "Oh no. If we don't use this Microsoft will tank and then the whole US (or world) economy will suffer?" Puh-leeze.
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The guy's user name was dingbat_hp!
The last line was for those who think that I would have the gall to claim Steve cares about me or what I would email to him.
C'mon people!
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1) The clones took away their market share, low as it already was.
2) The Second Coming of Steve Era has been a financial success compared to the previous 3-5 years or so.
Sure, people thought it was a bad choice to stop the clones then, but now history has shown otherwise.
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Did you like to bash in the dragon's head from behind and then force him to open his mouth as you ran through? With the yellow dragon, and not on the advanced setting, you could do clockwise loops forever and keep making him "roar." That drove my little sister nuts.
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I stand corrected.
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Oooooooooooooh! That blasted bat! Just when you've got the bridge or whatever in the right spot (or hide a key until you needed it later) Bam! It gets hauled away like in the Wizard of Oz. The only real fun you could have with the bat is to get eaten by a dragon, hope for the bat to pick up the dragon (how is that possible?), and then go on a flying tour of Adventureland by getting a free ride from the bat. Of course, you are dead, so there's no fun after that.
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You found the secret room in Atari's Adventure all by yourself? Without any help or hint that there was an Easter Egg there?
To do this you had to:
1) Haul the bridge around inside the Black Castle.
2) Set it down and walk through a wall.
3) Pick it up and try a different wall.
4) Repeat, repeat, repeat.
5) Do this everywhere else too in the game because you wouldn't "know" there was a secret in the Black Castle.
6) Do it all again because that magic "key" is only 1 pixel wide
7) Eventually have the idea to walk through the end wall in the main corridor to end up in the magic room.
With all due respect Cliff, I doubt it.
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Dilbert reading to himself..."By opening this package you agree you will not make copies or export to despotic nations. You will submit to strip searches in your home..."
Last frame in cartoon just as Dilbert rips open the package, a large woman with a flashlight appears and starts to put on a rubber glove and says..."Frankly, both of us would have been happier if you had just walked away."
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And a "Funny" for the original post? Hardly. I doubt it was intended as humor.
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Why would I pay good money for bands I can't stand? How exactly can that be considered "not buying Metallica"?
I have a better idea, I'll take the money I wasn't using anyway on Metallica and buy that good book, or a pizza, or whatever I had planned to do anyway in the first place. Seriously, how much Metallica is being bought right now?
I'm not even going to start with all the reasons why it is good that I am not allowed to freely copy and distribute any music that I buy.
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Hey! I was at Best Buy yesterday too (looking for Sony Camcorder M batteries) and almost dropped a load when I saw their 6' Firewire price. I think it was $79.99. Then I went to Circuit City and found the same one (Belkin) for $29.99! Bought it on the spot with the battery.
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