Then your accountant commited tax fraud in your name and the only way you got away with it was because you were lucky enough not to get audited.
I filed for myself, using a tax program that guarantees accuracy. If I had been audited, it would have been their problem, not mine.
Which is the next year's refund, if you file taxes in the United States. You didn't get the refund for 2001's taxes until 2002. But that $600 check you got in September 2001 was a loan against your 2002 refund.
That is correct, the Bush refund that I received in 2001 was based on a retroactive cut for the previous year's earnings.
Then why can't you just print up your own money for your own needs and leave the tax man out of it entirely? Oh no, that's called COUNTERFIETING- because it's not your money, it's the government's money.
I can print my own money, if I want to. I could make Kano Dollars in every denomination that I choose. I could print 100 Kano 1$ bills and each one would be worth 1% of my networth. Anyone who chooses to could accept them as currency with the understanding that the bill is backed up by my assets.
Of course no one would be interested in a bill that is only backed by my diminutive assets when there are bills that are backed by the US Government. I can't reproduce US Government currency and attept to pass it off as genuine, as that would be fraudulent. The crime of counterfeiting is more one of fraud than of stepping on the government's toes.
It is when you know the truth- that all money belongs to the government and is only lent to the private individual.
That worldview failed in Eastern Europe. It won't succeed here either.
Want to help REAL Americans who live off the sweat of their brows instead of fake lazy idiots who live off of investments? Raise dividend taxes and cut payroll taxes.
What would happen then? People WILL adapt, if you raise the divident interest rate to the point where it's higher than the payroll rate, know what happens then? They will stop paying dividends and give big shareholders token positions and pay them out of the company payroll. Whether the money comes through dividends, payroll or capital gains, people with money will find the path of least resistance.
That's a lie- the highest levels of income all give up their citizenship and move to the Cayman Islands or the Bermudas specifically to avoid taxes altogether.
Yes, but it was reduced by the ammount of the "tax cut check" which was really just a loan on the next year's refund.
No, I recieved roughly the same tax refund that I recieved for years before and after.
The Bush tax cut was retroactive. It reduced my tax liability for the year that I filed for.
Some people have to live paycheck to paycheck, and can't afford to lend the government money by giving them extra up front. As usual- refunds are a tax strategy that only affect those who haven't recieved a pay cut in recent years due to horrid federal trade policies.
I made slightly less in 2000 than I did in 1999. Bush's tax cut ended up putting more money in my pocket than I otherwise would have had.
And to pay for it all, they took money out of the Social Security "surplus" which was paid for with increased FICA payroll taxes on anybody earning under $95,000/year- and now they plan to cut SS benefits if you're under age 55 on top of it.
Bullshit, even people who make more than $95k in a year STILL pay FICA taxes on the first $95k of income. Moreover, tax cuts don't need to be "paid for", it's not the government's money. It's ours. It may require lower spending on other things, but that's not the same as "paying for" it. That choice of words indicates a different mindset. It assumes that all money belongs to the government and it has to justify finding ways to let the people who earn the money keep it.
Let's call that Bush tax cut for what it was- a reverse socialist policy to redistribute wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest.
Something like 50% of all American adults have stock market investments, any increase in the stock market will increase the personal fortunes of at least 50% of American adults.
Moreover, the people with the highest levels of income pay the most in taxes.
When's the last time you heard of someone going to jail for peddling the movies that Traci Lords made when she was 16 or 17? Most people really don't care about technical infractions. The outrage comes in when kids in elementary school are forced to have sex with adults while people photograph it. That is sick. Call me a prude if you must, but there is no room for moral relativism when people are hurting prepubescent children.
Altivec is good stuff but, I think it's funny how for years Mac Zealots were talking about how RISC was more efficient, but Altivec proves that speed can be gained by having more instructions in the chip.
If they do that, you might as well kiss whatever economic independance we have goodbye- because that action will instantly cause France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, China, and India to demand payment on the bonds THEY own, causing American citizens to have to pay 100% income taxes for a few years to pay back the loan- essentially becoming slaves to foreign interests.
No. There is another option. What other countries have done is instigate a hyper-inflation of their currency, pay off the debt and then allow the currency to crash again. It'll ruin a bunch of IRAs and 401ks, but it'll eliminate the debt and we all start over again. It's like bankruptcy for governments.
Good point. If someone tricks me into giving them my ATM card, how is it the bank's fault? It's essentially the same thing.
If someone sets up a fake ATM in front of the bank and uses it to capture card information and then uses that to defraud you, it kind of is the bank's fault.
Personally, I like the way old cars worked. There is no need for a computer in a car.
It's the emissions controls that necessitate onboard computers. They need to measure fuel mixture and exaust O2 levels to make sure thay they're not putting out too many hydrocarbons or CO.
Old cars are easier to fix. They also cost less to fix.
True enough.
They are also immune to electromagnetic pulse should a nuclear bomb go off.
No, there are plenty of electronics in an old car to get fried by an EMP. You've still got ignition coils, starters, alternators and Heating/Air Conditioning components that wouldn't survive.
But I wanted to use a couple of IR cameras; one to display what's directly behind me and one pointed to the right front of the car to look for hidden cop cars. A bright IR illuminator should make that reflective paint on cop cars stand out quite nicely.
These offshore 'call centers' are staffed by college graduates mostly, just looking for a good income - problem is a few 'Americans' think they are 'stupid' in many instances, and hate talking to them.
We don't think that they're stupid. We just want to talk to people who understand what we say and that we can understand. I worked at a call center and I TOOK calls from people who didn't speak english well. At the same time, my employer had a call center in Asia and many times people would call and be relieved that they got to speak to an American this time.
Offshore call centers may cost less money to run, but you will lose fewer customers (assuming that your target market is the USA) because of language barriers.
Is the alternative to sweatshop work unemployment? Homelessness? Starvation?
It may suck, but reality is that it isn't the video game industry's job to change the world. If they're playing a MMORPG or making Nike's shoes, the fact is that in third world countries the job market isn't what most of us would describe as good.
A pedophile loses interest in a child at around the age of 13 or 14. NAMBLA says "sex my eight or it's too late", we're not even dealing with a grey area. Pedophiles want prepubescent children. An adult having sex with a seven year old child is EVIL.
I'm not a liberal you fucking moron, look at my/. journal. Look at my blog.
In case you don't remember it was the fringe media that broke the stories about White Water, Lewinsky, and Travel Gate. Besides, Worldnet Daily is a right leaning site.
I side with who's correct, not accordig to party lines.
As I understand it Facts are not copyrightable. A huge list of email addresses is just a big list of facts. If they can't have a copyright on the list of email addresses they can't assert that they've been stolen.
Lead free electronics manufacturing requires higher temperatures for the board to be "baked" because it takes more heat to melt lead free solder.
Lead free solder sucks for electronics work. You need to get it hotter which requires better heat sinks to protect the components that you're soldering which will cool the solder faster which can result in lower quality solder joints.
It's funny because switching to lead free solder requires more fuel to get the solder hotter and it results in equipment that doesn't last as long so they need to be replaced more often (with the lead free components that require more fuel to make).
Way back when I ran a BBS I looked over the user's passwords and only 1 of my users had a really good password. It was something like "!@$#%^*&()". Personally, I rarely use english language passwords. I tend to use translations of words from other languages that use different alphabets so that even if someone happens to guess the correct word, the spelling isn't fixed so they could still guess wrong.
If it is a proven scientific fact that old people drive like they are drunk, why are they allowd to drive?
Because they VOTE!
Same reason why they call Social Security the "Third Rail" of politics. No one wants to piss off senior citizens because something like 80% of them vote.
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Then your accountant commited tax fraud in your name and the only way you got away with it was because you were lucky enough not to get audited.
I filed for myself, using a tax program that guarantees accuracy. If I had been audited, it would have been their problem, not mine.
Which is the next year's refund, if you file taxes in the United States. You didn't get the refund for 2001's taxes until 2002. But that $600 check you got in September 2001 was a loan against your 2002 refund.
That is correct, the Bush refund that I received in 2001 was based on a retroactive cut for the previous year's earnings.
Then why can't you just print up your own money for your own needs and leave the tax man out of it entirely? Oh no, that's called COUNTERFIETING- because it's not your money, it's the government's money.
I can print my own money, if I want to. I could make Kano Dollars in every denomination that I choose. I could print 100 Kano 1$ bills and each one would be worth 1% of my networth. Anyone who chooses to could accept them as currency with the understanding that the bill is backed up by my assets.
Of course no one would be interested in a bill that is only backed by my diminutive assets when there are bills that are backed by the US Government. I can't reproduce US Government currency and attept to pass it off as genuine, as that would be fraudulent. The crime of counterfeiting is more one of fraud than of stepping on the government's toes.
It is when you know the truth- that all money belongs to the government and is only lent to the private individual.
That worldview failed in Eastern Europe. It won't succeed here either.
Want to help REAL Americans who live off the sweat of their brows instead of fake lazy idiots who live off of investments? Raise dividend taxes and cut payroll taxes.
What would happen then? People WILL adapt, if you raise the divident interest rate to the point where it's higher than the payroll rate, know what happens then? They will stop paying dividends and give big shareholders token positions and pay them out of the company payroll. Whether the money comes through dividends, payroll or capital gains, people with money will find the path of least resistance.
That's a lie- the highest levels of income all give up their citizenship and move to the Cayman Islands or the Bermudas specifically to avoid taxes altogether.
How many of these people can you name?
LK
Yes, but it was reduced by the ammount of the "tax cut check" which was really just a loan on the next year's refund.
No, I recieved roughly the same tax refund that I recieved for years before and after.
The Bush tax cut was retroactive. It reduced my tax liability for the year that I filed for.
Some people have to live paycheck to paycheck, and can't afford to lend the government money by giving them extra up front. As usual- refunds are a tax strategy that only affect those who haven't recieved a pay cut in recent years due to horrid federal trade policies.
I made slightly less in 2000 than I did in 1999. Bush's tax cut ended up putting more money in my pocket than I otherwise would have had.
And to pay for it all, they took money out of the Social Security "surplus" which was paid for with increased FICA payroll taxes on anybody earning under $95,000/year- and now they plan to cut SS benefits if you're under age 55 on top of it.
Bullshit, even people who make more than $95k in a year STILL pay FICA taxes on the first $95k of income. Moreover, tax cuts don't need to be "paid for", it's not the government's money. It's ours. It may require lower spending on other things, but that's not the same as "paying for" it. That choice of words indicates a different mindset. It assumes that all money belongs to the government and it has to justify finding ways to let the people who earn the money keep it.
Let's call that Bush tax cut for what it was- a reverse socialist policy to redistribute wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest.
Something like 50% of all American adults have stock market investments, any increase in the stock market will increase the personal fortunes of at least 50% of American adults.
Moreover, the people with the highest levels of income pay the most in taxes.
LK
When's the last time you heard of someone going to jail for peddling the movies that Traci Lords made when she was 16 or 17? Most people really don't care about technical infractions. The outrage comes in when kids in elementary school are forced to have sex with adults while people photograph it. That is sick. Call me a prude if you must, but there is no room for moral relativism when people are hurting prepubescent children.
LK
You need to reevaluate your tax strategy. I recieved a refund the next year too.
LK
and just giving up Bush's irresponsible tax cuts will mean we don't have to worry about either of the worse options.
Did you send back your check or did you keep and spend it?
LK
Altivec is good stuff but, I think it's funny how for years Mac Zealots were talking about how RISC was more efficient, but Altivec proves that speed can be gained by having more instructions in the chip.
LK
If they do that, you might as well kiss whatever economic independance we have goodbye- because that action will instantly cause France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, China, and India to demand payment on the bonds THEY own, causing American citizens to have to pay 100% income taxes for a few years to pay back the loan- essentially becoming slaves to foreign interests.
No. There is another option. What other countries have done is instigate a hyper-inflation of their currency, pay off the debt and then allow the currency to crash again. It'll ruin a bunch of IRAs and 401ks, but it'll eliminate the debt and we all start over again. It's like bankruptcy for governments.
LK
This is why linux isn't more accepted. I mean, why not support mp3 out of the box?
All of the Mandrake and Red Hat systems that I've built for the past 6 1/2 years have been able to play MP3s.
WTF's wrong with you?
LK
Good point. If someone tricks me into giving them my ATM card, how is it the bank's fault? It's essentially the same thing.
If someone sets up a fake ATM in front of the bank and uses it to capture card information and then uses that to defraud you, it kind of is the bank's fault.
LK
Personally, I like the way old cars worked. There is no need for a computer in a car.
It's the emissions controls that necessitate onboard computers. They need to measure fuel mixture and exaust O2 levels to make sure thay they're not putting out too many hydrocarbons or CO.
Old cars are easier to fix. They also cost less to fix.
True enough.
They are also immune to electromagnetic pulse should a nuclear bomb go off.
No, there are plenty of electronics in an old car to get fried by an EMP. You've still got ignition coils, starters, alternators and Heating/Air Conditioning components that wouldn't survive.
LK
But I wanted to use a couple of IR cameras; one to display what's directly behind me and one pointed to the right front of the car to look for hidden cop cars. A bright IR illuminator should make that reflective paint on cop cars stand out quite nicely.
LK
These offshore 'call centers' are staffed by college graduates mostly, just looking for a good income - problem is a few 'Americans' think they are 'stupid' in many instances, and hate talking to them.
We don't think that they're stupid. We just want to talk to people who understand what we say and that we can understand. I worked at a call center and I TOOK calls from people who didn't speak english well. At the same time, my employer had a call center in Asia and many times people would call and be relieved that they got to speak to an American this time.
Offshore call centers may cost less money to run, but you will lose fewer customers (assuming that your target market is the USA) because of language barriers.
LK
Is the alternative to sweatshop work unemployment? Homelessness? Starvation?
It may suck, but reality is that it isn't the video game industry's job to change the world. If they're playing a MMORPG or making Nike's shoes, the fact is that in third world countries the job market isn't what most of us would describe as good.
LK
A pedophile loses interest in a child at around the age of 13 or 14. NAMBLA says "sex my eight or it's too late", we're not even dealing with a grey area. Pedophiles want prepubescent children. An adult having sex with a seven year old child is EVIL.
LK
There is no such thing as a Zealot when it comes to preventing kids from getting molested.
Problem is that government control Zealots may try to muddy the water by invoking kiddy porn to justify their attempts to regulate everything.
LK
Good thing Linux isn't written in...
.NET? Yep. Good thing it isn't.
What Visual Studio
LK
I'm not a liberal you fucking moron, look at my /. journal. Look at my blog.
In case you don't remember it was the fringe media that broke the stories about White Water, Lewinsky, and Travel Gate. Besides, Worldnet Daily is a right leaning site.
I side with who's correct, not accordig to party lines.
LK
As I understand it Facts are not copyrightable. A huge list of email addresses is just a big list of facts. If they can't have a copyright on the list of email addresses they can't assert that they've been stolen.
LK
see how long it takes for the Stewey branded Diapers.
From your mouth to God's ear.
If they did, I just might have to go out and make a baby just so I'd have someone to buy Stewie diapers for.
LK
Lead free electronics manufacturing requires higher temperatures for the board to be "baked" because it takes more heat to melt lead free solder.
Lead free solder sucks for electronics work. You need to get it hotter which requires better heat sinks to protect the components that you're soldering which will cool the solder faster which can result in lower quality solder joints.
It's funny because switching to lead free solder requires more fuel to get the solder hotter and it results in equipment that doesn't last as long so they need to be replaced more often (with the lead free components that require more fuel to make).
LK
Why are do-gooders always trying to get their hands in our pockets?
LK
Way back when I ran a BBS I looked over the user's passwords and only 1 of my users had a really good password. It was something like "!@$#%^*&()". Personally, I rarely use english language passwords. I tend to use translations of words from other languages that use different alphabets so that even if someone happens to guess the correct word, the spelling isn't fixed so they could still guess wrong.
LK
At Ease was enough to stop the casual troublemaker, but lax security or a smart student would beat it quickly.
LK
If it is a proven scientific fact that old people drive like they are drunk, why are they allowd to drive?
Because they VOTE!
Same reason why they call Social Security the "Third Rail" of politics. No one wants to piss off senior citizens because something like 80% of them vote.
LK
Neophyte friends, relatives and neighbors have bought me lots of beer/tech goodies over the years.
I'm thankful for them.
LK