It is more likely that the peace will come from the Jews exterminating the Palestinians, or Iran exterminating both; the Jews on purpose and the Palestinians as collateral damage.
People the world over should not draw conclusions from the media. If I were to use the US media as my primary source of information, I would think that some of these so-called other countries are simply regions of America that I've not been to. I'd also think that anyone that doesn't live on the east or west coast lacks teeth and sleeps with their guns and their sisters. Point of fact, I have most of my teeth and I only sleep with one of my guns. My sister sleeps with my brother.
We rely on the advice of a good tax guy that used to work for the IRS... So far so good... We only write off legitimate expenses and we follow the rules...
Exactly. Look at this site: www.miceage.com. Lots of Amazon, and google ads. They get a crapload of traffic. I know these guys make a profit even with the expenses...
Well, we have a $5000 deductible for hospitalization and they pay 80% (I think, I'll have to look, might be 90%), and there is a cap at $10K, again, I'll need to look at the policy to get the exact numbers. The bottom line is out maximum out of pocket (not counting the premiums) is $10K in a year. That sounds like a lot, but realize we'd need to rack up $50,000 in bills to hit that, and regular office visits, etc are covered. I simply want protection from losing my home, so we opted for a higher deductible. We don't make enough money to have a lot of assets in the primary business, so I'm not to worried about E&O, that's one of the reasons to set up an LLC. As far as number 5 goes, this is just good business. You have to know what your expenses are, in order to know how much money you are making (or not).
One of the things to keep in mind is that as an LLC or a corporation you can generally qualify for group coverage, bypassing a lot of pre-existing conditions issues (I have one) that you would have with individual coverage, this is according to our insurance guy and how we got that price. My wife and I (actually, me, with my wife as a dependent) are employees of the company which pays for the insurance.
My overriding point is that if you are willing to do the research and put in the effort, being self employed is well worth the effort, but it is work and does require a lot of effort. I spend about 20% of my time running the business, 20% doing sales and proposals, 10% working on our website and marketing materials, and about 50% doing actual work. I work 60 to 70 hours a week, but my office is 30 ft. (10 meters?) from the bedroom, so I no longer have a 1.5 hour commute each day.
Again, see my other responses in this thread. I did NOT say it needed to be illegitimate, and I did NOT say it needed to lose money. Again, here's an example: www.mouseplanet.com. This site is run by a husband and wife (or it was) and it turns a profit. Expenses related to collecting information is a legitimate deduction. Don't misinterpret what I was saying. I did not imply that you should cheat, or break the law. My primary point is that it is very possible, even in this economy, to do what you like to do and make a living at it. If people listened to the author of the article no one would ever start a company again...
No. You misunderstand. I didn't say an illegitimate business. It is perfectly legitimate to create a business that reviews and then write off expenses related to that. I didn't say that the business needs to lose money. Here's a perfect example: www.miceage.com, and another: mouseplanet.com.
Secondly, I don't know where the idea is that I have one client. I generally work for upwards of 15 to 20 clients in a given year. If you want to work for a single client for more than 6 months and they are you only client, then you are an employee. That's not what I do. I specifically and carefully only write off legitimate expenses, and we track everything. It's just that when you're in business for yourself, you have a lot more expenses then when you work for the man.
For example, we work out of our home. We need electricity, we need phone service, we need to travel to see clients, so we write off a portion of our utilities and capital expenditures on the house. We write off mileage to visit clients. We write off computer upgrades and components. I never said you have to cheat. I said you need to track everything and be creative. The key is to get paid for what you like to do.
You can only show 2 years of losses then you have to show a profit or it's reclassified as a hobby and your write offs are disallowed. I didn't say you need to lose money, btw.
Step 1. Form an LLC. It's not hard, you can do it yourself for under $100 in most cases
Step 2. Get an EIN number from the feds. Free and easy
Step 3. Open a checking account for your new LLC. might require a credit check.
Step 4. Get a decent accounting package.
Step 5. Keep track of EVERY business expense. Keep milage logs in your car. Keep receipts. What percentage of your utilities, etc are business related? Track it.
Step 6. If you think you need the additional coverage get E&O Insurance. It can be pricey, true. On the other hand if you LLC doesn't have a lot of hard assets, why worry?
Step 7. Get health coverage. We found insurance through a local trade group for $600 a month for my wife and I. Pay it out of the company, it's a write off.
Step 8. Work your ass off and enjoy the benefits of being able to write-off things you probably would have purchased anyway.
This should have been step 6 - get a good tax guy (or girl) to help you figure shit out.
Now get creative. Like to go to theme parks? Set up another LLC and create a website dedicated to reviewing them, talking about which ones have what etc. Now you get to write off trips to Six Flags and Cedar point as legitimate business research.
Life is far more enjoyable when you do what you want, when you want, for whom you want. All the accounting is a pain in the ass, yes, but not as big of a pain in the ass as working for Bill Lumberg the rest of your life.
Chiropractic feels good and can be used to temporarily release muscle tension, but you're never going to make me believe that an adjustment on a chiropractor's table lasts beyond using your muscles to get up off the table and walk out of the office. You're better off with deep tissue massage which actually has lasting effects, but DT Massage is often uncomfortable or downright painful, unlike chiropractic. So called "Network Chiropractic" is complete bullshit. The idea that a chiropractor can tap or push on my spine to fix my liver or kidneys is utterly fucking stupid. These guys need to be lumped in with homeopathic "doctors", right behind "spiritual healers", performers of Reiki and Scientology's "touch assist".
Holy fuck there are a lot of gullible people on the planet.
My guess is that the IOC is bring the typical copyright nazis they always are, and that their behavior over the past 20 years does not earn them the benefit of the doubt, or anything else for that matter. The Olympics no longer holds any interest for me, it's just another professional sporting event where the players with the most money typically win, and the cities that pay off the IOC members get rewarded. Thank Dog I have another 150 channels that aren't NBC...
I looked on Vista badly because it is a steaming pile of shit. It brought a brand new high speced machine to it's knees for no apparent gains (Dell Optiplex Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, dual 250 7200 SATA drives, ATI video with 256MB). I still have issues with my wife's Dell laptop not being able to maintain a wireless connection (yes, all patched have been applied, thank you very much), and a friend that won't talk to me anymore because I helped her buy a Dell with Vista, which turned it into a boat anchor.
Microsoft released Vista before it was baked, and to compound matters they weren't really forthcoming about the real hardware requirements.
I was a happy XP user and I'm a happy 7 user, so I'm not bashing on MS.
Oh, and sudo bash always worked for me, and I think you're confusing the issue. The issue is NOT that people who know what they are doing were causing problems. When I need to do a bunch of admin tasks on one of my Linux boxes I see nothing wrong with the appropriate use of the root login, it just shouldn't be used on a daily basis for using the machine. IMO Apple's implementation is better than the windows implementation in that regard; they prompt for the password when needed and don't inundate the user with messages. Overloading the user with messages is bad UI and bad contextual design, and will get the user to simply click OK or do whatever they have to to proceed. Win 7 is not more popular because people got used to the features it is more popular because it is a good OS (Vista isn't) that performs well (Vista doesn't) and the UAC implementation in 7 is not as invasive as it is in Vista.
All good operating systems do this. My Mac, for instance has "inactive memory", which is not exactly the same as Windows, but close enough.
If your memory is free, it's not doing anything for you. End of story.
IE8 is a baby step in the right direction, but it still exhibits some non-compliant CSS behaviors that FF, WebKit and Opera get right, and still requires some hacks. Not major stuff like in IE6 and 7, but still, annoying shit that shouldn't be there.
One that I ran across recently are random double margins in certain situations. I could not find a pattern, and had to use padding instead of margins... luckily in this case that wasn't a problem.
One could argue that $1,000 for $.25 is a lot more reasonable than $165,000 for $.70. But, that's not even generally the case:
12-691. Civil liability for shoplifting; adult; emancipated minor
An adult or emancipated minor who commits shoplifting as defined by section 13-1805 is civilly liable to the owner of the obtained goods for all of the following:
1. A penalty in the amount of the retail value of the obtained goods.
2. For an adult, an additional penalty of at least two hundred fifty dollars but not more than two hundred fifty dollars plus the actual damages to the owner.
3. For an emancipated minor, an additional penalty of at least one hundred dollars but not more than one hundred dollars plus the actual damages to the owner.
Also note that it is damages + $250, not damages +$250 per candybar
IANAL, but my basic morals tell me that what the RIAA is doing is far more dishonest and immoral than what the downloaders did
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most women would have DDD breasts and men would have penises that hang to the knee...
It is more likely that the peace will come from the Jews exterminating the Palestinians, or Iran exterminating both; the Jews on purpose and the Palestinians as collateral damage.
People the world over should not draw conclusions from the media. If I were to use the US media as my primary source of information, I would think that some of these so-called other countries are simply regions of America that I've not been to. I'd also think that anyone that doesn't live on the east or west coast lacks teeth and sleeps with their guns and their sisters. Point of fact, I have most of my teeth and I only sleep with one of my guns. My sister sleeps with my brother.
We rely on the advice of a good tax guy that used to work for the IRS... So far so good... We only write off legitimate expenses and we follow the rules...
Exactly. Look at this site: www.miceage.com. Lots of Amazon, and google ads. They get a crapload of traffic. I know these guys make a profit even with the expenses...
Well, we have a $5000 deductible for hospitalization and they pay 80% (I think, I'll have to look, might be 90%), and there is a cap at $10K, again, I'll need to look at the policy to get the exact numbers. The bottom line is out maximum out of pocket (not counting the premiums) is $10K in a year. That sounds like a lot, but realize we'd need to rack up $50,000 in bills to hit that, and regular office visits, etc are covered. I simply want protection from losing my home, so we opted for a higher deductible. We don't make enough money to have a lot of assets in the primary business, so I'm not to worried about E&O, that's one of the reasons to set up an LLC. As far as number 5 goes, this is just good business. You have to know what your expenses are, in order to know how much money you are making (or not).
One of the things to keep in mind is that as an LLC or a corporation you can generally qualify for group coverage, bypassing a lot of pre-existing conditions issues (I have one) that you would have with individual coverage, this is according to our insurance guy and how we got that price. My wife and I (actually, me, with my wife as a dependent) are employees of the company which pays for the insurance.
My overriding point is that if you are willing to do the research and put in the effort, being self employed is well worth the effort, but it is work and does require a lot of effort. I spend about 20% of my time running the business, 20% doing sales and proposals, 10% working on our website and marketing materials, and about 50% doing actual work. I work 60 to 70 hours a week, but my office is 30 ft. (10 meters?) from the bedroom, so I no longer have a 1.5 hour commute each day.
Well worth the effort.
Again, see my other responses in this thread. I did NOT say it needed to be illegitimate, and I did NOT say it needed to lose money. Again, here's an example: www.mouseplanet.com. This site is run by a husband and wife (or it was) and it turns a profit. Expenses related to collecting information is a legitimate deduction. Don't misinterpret what I was saying. I did not imply that you should cheat, or break the law. My primary point is that it is very possible, even in this economy, to do what you like to do and make a living at it. If people listened to the author of the article no one would ever start a company again...
No. You misunderstand. I didn't say an illegitimate business. It is perfectly legitimate to create a business that reviews and then write off expenses related to that. I didn't say that the business needs to lose money. Here's a perfect example: www.miceage.com, and another: mouseplanet.com. Secondly, I don't know where the idea is that I have one client. I generally work for upwards of 15 to 20 clients in a given year. If you want to work for a single client for more than 6 months and they are you only client, then you are an employee. That's not what I do. I specifically and carefully only write off legitimate expenses, and we track everything. It's just that when you're in business for yourself, you have a lot more expenses then when you work for the man.
For example, we work out of our home. We need electricity, we need phone service, we need to travel to see clients, so we write off a portion of our utilities and capital expenditures on the house. We write off mileage to visit clients. We write off computer upgrades and components. I never said you have to cheat. I said you need to track everything and be creative. The key is to get paid for what you like to do.
You can only show 2 years of losses then you have to show a profit or it's reclassified as a hobby and your write offs are disallowed. I didn't say you need to lose money, btw.
Step 1. Form an LLC. It's not hard, you can do it yourself for under $100 in most cases
Step 2. Get an EIN number from the feds. Free and easy
Step 3. Open a checking account for your new LLC. might require a credit check.
Step 4. Get a decent accounting package.
Step 5. Keep track of EVERY business expense. Keep milage logs in your car. Keep receipts. What percentage of your utilities, etc are business related? Track it.
Step 6. If you think you need the additional coverage get E&O Insurance. It can be pricey, true. On the other hand if you LLC doesn't have a lot of hard assets, why worry?
Step 7. Get health coverage. We found insurance through a local trade group for $600 a month for my wife and I. Pay it out of the company, it's a write off.
Step 8. Work your ass off and enjoy the benefits of being able to write-off things you probably would have purchased anyway.
This should have been step 6 - get a good tax guy (or girl) to help you figure shit out.
Now get creative. Like to go to theme parks? Set up another LLC and create a website dedicated to reviewing them, talking about which ones have what etc. Now you get to write off trips to Six Flags and Cedar point as legitimate business research.
Life is far more enjoyable when you do what you want, when you want, for whom you want. All the accounting is a pain in the ass, yes, but not as big of a pain in the ass as working for Bill Lumberg the rest of your life.
How original.
I'm 42 and I like to play the same stuff as the teenagers and the twenty-somethings. Fun is fun.
Chiropractic feels good and can be used to temporarily release muscle tension, but you're never going to make me believe that an adjustment on a chiropractor's table lasts beyond using your muscles to get up off the table and walk out of the office. You're better off with deep tissue massage which actually has lasting effects, but DT Massage is often uncomfortable or downright painful, unlike chiropractic. So called "Network Chiropractic" is complete bullshit. The idea that a chiropractor can tap or push on my spine to fix my liver or kidneys is utterly fucking stupid. These guys need to be lumped in with homeopathic "doctors", right behind "spiritual healers", performers of Reiki and Scientology's "touch assist".
Holy fuck there are a lot of gullible people on the planet.
don't forget the "succussion". shaking is VERY IMPORTANT!!!
My guess is that the IOC is bring the typical copyright nazis they always are, and that their behavior over the past 20 years does not earn them the benefit of the doubt, or anything else for that matter. The Olympics no longer holds any interest for me, it's just another professional sporting event where the players with the most money typically win, and the cities that pay off the IOC members get rewarded. Thank Dog I have another 150 channels that aren't NBC...
I wouldn't say they have a slam dunk case, but you're right, the kid needs to shut his mouth. Anything he says at this point can only hurt him.
That looks quite unlike any drug I've ever heard of or seen.
Apparently you missed the 70s...
I looked on Vista badly because it is a steaming pile of shit. It brought a brand new high speced machine to it's knees for no apparent gains (Dell Optiplex Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, dual 250 7200 SATA drives, ATI video with 256MB). I still have issues with my wife's Dell laptop not being able to maintain a wireless connection (yes, all patched have been applied, thank you very much), and a friend that won't talk to me anymore because I helped her buy a Dell with Vista, which turned it into a boat anchor.
Microsoft released Vista before it was baked, and to compound matters they weren't really forthcoming about the real hardware requirements.
I was a happy XP user and I'm a happy 7 user, so I'm not bashing on MS.
Oh, and sudo bash always worked for me, and I think you're confusing the issue. The issue is NOT that people who know what they are doing were causing problems. When I need to do a bunch of admin tasks on one of my Linux boxes I see nothing wrong with the appropriate use of the root login, it just shouldn't be used on a daily basis for using the machine. IMO Apple's implementation is better than the windows implementation in that regard; they prompt for the password when needed and don't inundate the user with messages. Overloading the user with messages is bad UI and bad contextual design, and will get the user to simply click OK or do whatever they have to to proceed. Win 7 is not more popular because people got used to the features it is more popular because it is a good OS (Vista isn't) that performs well (Vista doesn't) and the UAC implementation in 7 is not as invasive as it is in Vista.
All good operating systems do this. My Mac, for instance has "inactive memory", which is not exactly the same as Windows, but close enough. If your memory is free, it's not doing anything for you. End of story.
IE8 is a baby step in the right direction, but it still exhibits some non-compliant CSS behaviors that FF, WebKit and Opera get right, and still requires some hacks. Not major stuff like in IE6 and 7, but still, annoying shit that shouldn't be there.
One that I ran across recently are random double margins in certain situations. I could not find a pattern, and had to use padding instead of margins... luckily in this case that wasn't a problem.
Well, hopefully not. There are a lot of worker drones in office buildings. Better to hire hits on the executives.
One could argue that $1,000 for $.25 is a lot more reasonable than $165,000 for $.70. But, that's not even generally the case:
12-691. Civil liability for shoplifting; adult; emancipated minor An adult or emancipated minor who commits shoplifting as defined by section 13-1805 is civilly liable to the owner of the obtained goods for all of the following:
Also note that it is damages + $250, not damages +$250 per candybar
IANAL, but my basic morals tell me that what the RIAA is doing is far more dishonest and immoral than what the downloaders did
Everybody on the planet has their price. That's human nature.
What we need is a fair trial followed by a first class hangin'
Ballmer doesn't care. He rolls his fat, sweaty, nekkid body around on piles of $100 bills and farts in your general direction.