Schedule D won't apply to tax-sheltered retirement accounts (at least during the investment stage; I haven't gotten to the withdrawal stage to figure that part out yet), so it's only if you've got investments outside of that.
Well, most retirement accounts (IRA, Roth, 401(k)) won't trigger a Schedule D, so it's only if you're investing outside of that, which many people may not need to.
Last spring I was watching 'Uncle Buck', a John Candy movie that features multiple car backfires, and I commented that it was an aging joke because it's something you never hear. The next day a car backfired driving by my house, and I've heard a couple since then. I had to laugh at the coincidence, but I also wonder if maybe we tune them out rather than they never happen.
I'm sure I'd recognize it, but I'm struggling to actually pull that sound out of my memory--it's just gone. What's still there, though, is the sound of an older Macintosh ejecting a disk. That one has stuck with me.
I still hear that sound at least weekly. Durango, Colorado has a thriving narrow gauge railroad that runs between here and Silverton. Runs from downtown up into the mountains several times every day. My little girl is nuts for it so we ride occasionally and go out of our way to see it drive by all the time.
I've had good luck with that, too. I'd say over the past couple of years the ratio is about 20:1 for Pandora:Radio in terms of useful recommendations. One of my main problems with the radio is even when I hear something new that I like I either 1) miss who the artist was in the first place, or 2) hear but fail to remember the name later, when I'm out of the car and capable of doing something about it. With Pandora at least I'm already on the computer, and can just copy/paste, or at worst thumbs-up the song, and increase the chances it'll come back around a second time.
No kidding. I never notice "poor quality" from mp3's. Frankly, even if I could tell, I don't think I'd care. I mostly listen to music at an office (plenty of background sounds and I'm focused on work), in the car (tons of noise), or at home with the family making so much chaos the music is at best an accent and at worst a distraction I have to turn off. I'm trying to imagine a scenario where I've got enough quiet and focus that I could be so absorbed in the tunes the encoding quality would tarnish the experience.
I think more atheists get it than you give credit for. There's lots of (in my mind unnecessary and unproductive) quibbling over semantics here. There's many self-identified atheists who take the soft position ("I don't believe in god") rather than the hard position ("I believe there is no god"). The soft position is basically equivalent with what you are assuming is strictly the realm of agnosticism. I've seen so many words thrown around over what's basically a disagreement as to whether soft atheism exists and is or isn't really agnosticism, it seems like a real waste.
Metaxas' entire article seems to hinge on a failure to understand the anthropic principle. It's not even remotely a novel argument, either. Why the WSJ decided it was worth printing in the first place, I'm not sure.
Descartes presented an argument. Philosophers since then have been poking holes in that argument. I have never heard a modern philosopher state that they consider his argument a valid proof.
How often does the thief in the party actually steal from team-mates in the electronic versions? Yet our team had a thief character who would do exactly that -- swipe anything that wasn't nailed down -- and sometimes use a crowbar if it was.:)
I can remember a couple of sessions where we never even got fully equipped before getting into trouble because the party thief tried to rip off the shopkeep or someone in the bar where all the characters met to start, but I can't think of many cases where the thief didn't have at least a little respect for his party. The rest of them knew where he slept, after all.
I know I spent far more time reading the manuals than playing. Especially reading monster descriptions, treasures, and equipment. I was mostly interested in D&D but probably read manuals for at least half a dozen different game types, just out of curiosity, even though I never played any of them at all.
I think you overestimate the amount of authors who are either top-selling or locked into a rewarding specialty niche. I'd bet it leaves 80% or more in what you're calling "the dreck." There's bound to be middling writers who don't have the clout or fortitude of the top-sellers, rising stars who just want to get into lots of hands, promising beginners who are happier with Amazon's $1.33 than they would be with a traditional publisher's $0.50 for their debut, niche authors who don't have command of a good audience for whatever reason, the poorly advertised and undiscovered, and, yes, of course there's still drek.
You know what lots of other people call a carefully crafted misdirection? Wit. Or humor. Why is it automatically "a dick thing to do" and not one of the former? Because Jesus is involved?
Very modern humans with excellent nutrition. It can be delayed by poor nutrition. I'm pretty sure I've seen people talking about that number dipping lower in recent centuries. I suspect it was higher in neo/paleolithic ages, when the food supply was less consistent.
The largest number of birds I've ever seen in flight came right before a massive blizzard. I was standing by a river and over it tens of thousands of ducks and geese were flying due south, away from the incoming snow. "Wow, that's ominous," I said, before going home and being trapped inside for several days by nearly three feet of snow.
What do you mean I don't own it? I can burn a CD and keep physical copies. Plus I can also get a new copy from Apple if I lose both the physical version and the digital version on my computer/iPod.
I've got a much better record buying from them than I did in previous years buying physical media that, once broken, borrowed, or lost, didn't have a replacement.
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Thanks for the confirmation. I thought so, but didn't want to say that and give anyone bad information.
Schedule D won't apply to tax-sheltered retirement accounts (at least during the investment stage; I haven't gotten to the withdrawal stage to figure that part out yet), so it's only if you've got investments outside of that.
Taxable interest is a line-item on the 1040. It's not treated as "investment income."
Well, most retirement accounts (IRA, Roth, 401(k)) won't trigger a Schedule D, so it's only if you're investing outside of that, which many people may not need to.
Both my kids actually have sound soothers that are programmed to play white noise to muffle background sounds.
Last spring I was watching 'Uncle Buck', a John Candy movie that features multiple car backfires, and I commented that it was an aging joke because it's something you never hear. The next day a car backfired driving by my house, and I've heard a couple since then. I had to laugh at the coincidence, but I also wonder if maybe we tune them out rather than they never happen.
I'm sure I'd recognize it, but I'm struggling to actually pull that sound out of my memory--it's just gone. What's still there, though, is the sound of an older Macintosh ejecting a disk. That one has stuck with me.
I still hear that sound at least weekly. Durango, Colorado has a thriving narrow gauge railroad that runs between here and Silverton. Runs from downtown up into the mountains several times every day. My little girl is nuts for it so we ride occasionally and go out of our way to see it drive by all the time.
I've had good luck with that, too. I'd say over the past couple of years the ratio is about 20:1 for Pandora:Radio in terms of useful recommendations. One of my main problems with the radio is even when I hear something new that I like I either 1) miss who the artist was in the first place, or 2) hear but fail to remember the name later, when I'm out of the car and capable of doing something about it. With Pandora at least I'm already on the computer, and can just copy/paste, or at worst thumbs-up the song, and increase the chances it'll come back around a second time.
Both of those have been available for sale on GOG for years, FYI.
No kidding. I never notice "poor quality" from mp3's. Frankly, even if I could tell, I don't think I'd care. I mostly listen to music at an office (plenty of background sounds and I'm focused on work), in the car (tons of noise), or at home with the family making so much chaos the music is at best an accent and at worst a distraction I have to turn off. I'm trying to imagine a scenario where I've got enough quiet and focus that I could be so absorbed in the tunes the encoding quality would tarnish the experience.
I think more atheists get it than you give credit for. There's lots of (in my mind unnecessary and unproductive) quibbling over semantics here. There's many self-identified atheists who take the soft position ("I don't believe in god") rather than the hard position ("I believe there is no god"). The soft position is basically equivalent with what you are assuming is strictly the realm of agnosticism. I've seen so many words thrown around over what's basically a disagreement as to whether soft atheism exists and is or isn't really agnosticism, it seems like a real waste.
Metaxas' entire article seems to hinge on a failure to understand the anthropic principle. It's not even remotely a novel argument, either. Why the WSJ decided it was worth printing in the first place, I'm not sure.
Descartes presented an argument. Philosophers since then have been poking holes in that argument. I have never heard a modern philosopher state that they consider his argument a valid proof.
Sounds interesting; thanks for the recommendation.
Don't tell me it was our system's seventh planet ...
How often does the thief in the party actually steal from team-mates in the electronic versions? Yet our team had a thief character who would do exactly that -- swipe anything that wasn't nailed down -- and sometimes use a crowbar if it was. :)
I can remember a couple of sessions where we never even got fully equipped before getting into trouble because the party thief tried to rip off the shopkeep or someone in the bar where all the characters met to start, but I can't think of many cases where the thief didn't have at least a little respect for his party. The rest of them knew where he slept, after all.
I know I spent far more time reading the manuals than playing. Especially reading monster descriptions, treasures, and equipment. I was mostly interested in D&D but probably read manuals for at least half a dozen different game types, just out of curiosity, even though I never played any of them at all.
Hah. No, but carrying a large knife does very adequately suggest, "Don't stand so close to me."
I think you overestimate the amount of authors who are either top-selling or locked into a rewarding specialty niche. I'd bet it leaves 80% or more in what you're calling "the dreck." There's bound to be middling writers who don't have the clout or fortitude of the top-sellers, rising stars who just want to get into lots of hands, promising beginners who are happier with Amazon's $1.33 than they would be with a traditional publisher's $0.50 for their debut, niche authors who don't have command of a good audience for whatever reason, the poorly advertised and undiscovered, and, yes, of course there's still drek.
You know what lots of other people call a carefully crafted misdirection? Wit. Or humor. Why is it automatically "a dick thing to do" and not one of the former? Because Jesus is involved?
You're forgetting the Bioshock scenario here. That would be far more sensational.
Puberty starts 8-12 in modern humans.
Very modern humans with excellent nutrition. It can be delayed by poor nutrition. I'm pretty sure I've seen people talking about that number dipping lower in recent centuries. I suspect it was higher in neo/paleolithic ages, when the food supply was less consistent.
The largest number of birds I've ever seen in flight came right before a massive blizzard. I was standing by a river and over it tens of thousands of ducks and geese were flying due south, away from the incoming snow. "Wow, that's ominous," I said, before going home and being trapped inside for several days by nearly three feet of snow.
What do you mean I don't own it? I can burn a CD and keep physical copies. Plus I can also get a new copy from Apple if I lose both the physical version and the digital version on my computer/iPod.
I've got a much better record buying from them than I did in previous years buying physical media that, once broken, borrowed, or lost, didn't have a replacement.