A quick question: I remember back in the day seeing adverts in GFTPM* magazine about MOSFET this and that...
But when I learned a thing or two about semiconductors, its seems that BJTs would be a much better choice for amplification (where as FETs are better at the binary thing, given their VERY limited linear range)- they give BIG amplification values and have a larger linear range.
So why don't they use BJTs?
P.S.- If you have a crappy guitar, I'm not sure how much a tube amp is gonna help.
P.P.S- if you loose enough of your hearing from lots of loud, loud music, the difference between real tubes and "sumilated" tubes doesn't matter!;)
Oh wait, I guess they are thinking about the children. And they must be thinking "Children have it so great, they don't have to work, they don't have to make mortgage payments, nor alimony payments... I know, lets take away the only fun thing they can do without a car!"
See folks, children have no lives. As such, they need something so they can 'pretend' to have a life. Violent videogames fill that niche better than any late night viewing of Skinemax.
Not to nitpick- but you can easily buy 10 games that suck for the PC, too!
Also given the way things are working for the PS2, if you wait about a year and a half, that $50 game is $20. No, not used from ebay, NEW, when rebadged as a "classic" game with the red stripe on top. So for $100 bucks I can buy 5 games. But not just any 5 games, 5 games that I've rented first from blockbuster (various deals going on, so you can rent 3 for $10 or so) and played for a week. I never needed to buy Okage. I'm sorry that you have so many bad games for your Dreamcast, but did you play test them first?
To top that off, given Sony's current "backwards compatibility" feature (PS2 can play PS1 stuff) you don't lose your investment in your current system. You may be able to harvest your sound and video card*, but I can harvest my entire library (tekken 3 looks even better on the PS2).
*On that note:you can only harvest your audio and video card for so long, the newer games demand better performing hardware- otherwise they look like dreck.
Again, this is getting away from your "New product perspective", however conspicous consumption has ALWAYS been counter to the "early adopters" (who get screwed.)
The idea is that you should be spending money that you don't plan on seeing again- you are indeed throwing it out. Given the uniform nature of consoles and the decent life of the Playstation series, I can amortize the cost of the $250 base unit over 4-5 years...
ack! you're correct! Let's get back on track, however I'll have to change my re-search angle!;)
In THIS case, where you have class-action lawyers who, for lack of a better image, leap from class action suit to class action suit and only get paid on contingency; though they may get paid quite handsomely from the settlement there are two issues I'd like to bring up:
1) its feast or famine. That book "A Class Action" (turned into a movie starring John Travolta) is a real life story about one such lawyer losing his shirt.
2)The consumer who has been slighted has two options: to sue on their own (and pay their own lawyers- there is no double jeopardy in civil suits) or to tag along with these class action suits. For some, this is the only protection/legal remedy they can afford.
In that sense, it may not be enough justice in your eyes, but it is justice that the consumer doesn't have to directly pay for OR has already paid for (in the case of CD price fixing)- but that money is gone, anyway! Especially in the case of a luxury item like a cd.
If it was the price of food and basic shelter we were arguing, I'd have to side with you.
But short of defending yourself "pro se", class actions are the most realistically equitable way to go.
I must apologize. I'm running out of time for research for this but I don't want to leave you hanging.
In terms of the bubble just bursting this year (your retort was that the tech bubble burst in 2000) I read an article in the ABA student Lawyer magazine in 2002 about the Law bubble bursting. I'll find the source.
Lawyers fresh out of school can specialize in three ways: 1) previous legal assitant/clerkship experience 2) specialized classes in law school (not all the curriculum is mandatory) 3) Summer Associate positions with lawfirms during law school.
My wife has specialized via all three. As such, when she graduates in May she will go on to do Investment company management work.
the source for highly paid corporate lawyer's 80+ hours per week is from my initial Cornell link and a function of their need to acheive 2000 billable hours. Since the time you spend in meetings not with a client, having a coffee break, going to conferences, doing research projects for partners don't count as billable hours, it is much more likely that a lawyer will put in 3000+ the figure the cornell link gave was 12 hours a day 6-7 days a week.
I would like to further support that with the fact that the burnout rate amongst lawyers is statistically higher- their rates for drugs, alcohol abuse, gambling, divorce, etc. are appreciably above "normal" trends. My wife got this statistic when she started law school; I don't know if it was in their student handbook or some additional supplemental material, but I'll find it.
So this is the direction I'm going in, I just need some time to collect my sources!
P.S.- in my understanding of colloquial american english, college and uni are more geared towards undergrad. Anything beyond would be graduate school.
Fist off these are NOT all kids who are 20-25. These are people graduationg LAW SCHOOL- some don't start till their 30 our later. At the University of Iowa the average INCOMING CLASS age is 26- add three and you have average graduating class age of 29. (check thier website, check all the law school's websites. the median incoming age spans 23-29. Add 3 for graduation.)
Actually, thing have gotten much worse. Look at your own NALP report- This 28th consecutive report documents the first decrease in the employment rate of new law graduates since 1993, with a figure of 90% of graduates for whom employment status was known. (emphasis mine) Salaries were inflated SKY HIGH due to the tech bubble. As such, that $125 is going to be the intro level salary for SPECIALIZED lawyers a looong time.
In addition there have been a great number of layoffs and not too many golden parachutes. For example, Dechert's DC office let go of 9 first years (Right before their christmas party, no less!) this past December. And there has been belt tightening all around.
But lets not forget that the $125 is for specialized LARGE FIRM lawyers ONLY. Also, they work 60-80 hours a week! My initial figures are still adequate- they don't clear $20 an hour after taxes!
Fresh out of college, during an economic downturn... Poor kids!
To recap- 1- they are graduates who are probably older than you who are NOT KIDS, they are not fresh out of college, they are fresh out of LAW school with another 100k+ debt, who will have to work at least 60 hours a week. If they have it so great- why aren't YOU going to law school?!
so lets break this down- inspite of the superstars who make partner or general counsel, etc.- we're still talking 90-120k not a crazy difference. And given a BILLABLE hour route of 2000 (which is more like 3-4k actual) though they make a lot of money, all they do is work. And lets not forget the cost of their education as well. So if you have to pay off loans, pay for dry cleaning and maid service, someone to bring you food, only to HOPE that you make partner, which odds are you won't.
Sure, lawyers get paid. But they in turn pay for it.
Once we get my bro-inlaw to move to the twins (from Grand Forks) I'll take you up on it. I bash (drums), thump(bass), screech (sing), and squeal (guitar).
Not really. Record companies simply raise their prices slightly to cover the cost. Oh, look at that, they already have. Nothing in the settlement prevents this from happening.
Those who buy their albums will be the ones to bear the cost. What? Did you think they would chose to screw their shareholders over the consumer?
Okay- you've got me over a barrel on this. Really the only thing one can hope for is the PLAN B which you are enacting:
it goes like this: corporations get fined, sharehodlers get concerned, management raises prices, consumers catch wind of the settlement and the price raising, complain, stop buying products.
BUT THAT takes a strong grass roots movement. Without people organizing and saying "we know what you're doing and we won't take it anymore. We have the numbers to back up this boycott."- this "slap on the wrist" is the best thing we can expect from the powers above us.
Already have. I highly reccomend it If you live in the D.C. metro area, we should get together and jam!
So, your friends make $18,720 $/year after taxes. (using the $17 per cd, 2 hours of work, so that's approx $9 after taxes. so $9 $/hr * 40 hr/week * 52 week/year)
assuming 30% in taxes (and thats a STRETCH, at this rate, your looking more like 20-25% in taxes), thats ~ $26,742 $/year.
Now you want me to equate the "average joe" salary of 26k with that of the average lawyer?
The average starting salary was $59,125; the median salary was $50,000.
Approximately 36% of salaries were below $40,000.
Salaries of more than $70,000 accounted for fewer than one-third of the salaries reported.
The salary of $40,000 was reported most frequently.
Approximately 55% of the class chose private practice in law firms.
About 27% took positions in public service, including judicial clerkships, government agencies, and public interest organizations.
Graduates entering business accounted for slightly over 13%.
Just under 11% of graduates were employed in non-legal positions.
While a corporate lawyer may earn $90,000 the first year in a private firm, he/she may also work twelve hours a day, six or seven days a week.
So lets break that down- the high of $90,000 is for 12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week! thats 90,000 for 72-84 hours a week, as opposed to the 40 estimated for your friends.
so lets take out 30% in taxes- $63,000 a year. Divide that by 84 hours a week (12 hours *7 days) *52 weeks a year= 63,000 $ per year / 4368 hours per year = $14.4 per hour.
So for extra education and no social life, they make $5 more an hour than your friends.
Lets take into account the higher level of education necessary to become a lawyer. Thats at LEAST 3 years to get your JD (which is requred by most BAR associations). Not to mention the loans you take on- thats approx $100k in loans (it goes higher). Also note, those loans accure interest before you even graduate and can get a job.
Is that $5 gonna pay off that 100k+ loan? If our lawyer is working 4368 hours, that's only 21k. And those loans are still accruing interest.
tit for tat... I think I have a far better grasp of the big picture here. However I don't think I clearly explicated myself.
1. The RIAA loses nothing. This is a lawsuit against a group of record labels.
same difference- record companies lose money.
But those companies are not privately held corporations. NO!!! They are Shareholder driven. And when shareholders lose money, they get pissed. And management gets fired.
Look at how the SEC does it's regulation of 'wayward' securities- they want to hurt the company in a tangible way, but not at a total expense of the shareholders. So its a balance.
2. Your signing up does not mean more money gets added to the penalty.
RIGHT! similar to the Sprint PCS settlement. But it doesn't matter if you sign up or not- they still got a slap on the wrists.
3. The settlement didn't do jack shit about high CD prices
Ah yes, the "no fault" settlement;) Is there ANY other kind?! But see my first response- while it may not be the case immediately, that is the desired outcome. You penalize a company and the people at the top who are being penalized let the crap roll downhill.
Signing up for this settlement just makes you a participant in the over-litigious culture we are rapidly becoming, while doing nothing about the problem other than make you feel like you are doing something about it.
actually, this settlement is a way of getting around the over-litigious nature of society- they bilked people for money, they got called on it, and they are paying money out.
Signing up for the settlement doesn't do dick- its the fact that this settlement even exists and that the companies are paying a penalty, THATS what is important.
And if you want to do something about it don't buy records. Buy a guitar and make your own music.
Even if you only see $5, it adds up to a large penalty against RIAA.
This goes right in line with those Sprint Spectrum settlements- where the settlement "deal" was worse than what you could get in Radio Shack! (yep, I got that one in the mail, got excited, checked the prices, and decided not to opt in)
It isn't so much to really re-imburse the consumers, but to hurt the corporations first and foremost.
Good enough for digital audio workstations. mind you, your cache isn't going to be 8 megs like on the nicer drives.
But I'm talking about the CompUsa double mail-in rebate special. I know, cuz I got one and its serving on my home lan quite nicely. (actually, mine was 100gig, but it beat the $1 gig ratio)
But you WILL be dealing with a mail-in rebate; in fact its quite likely that it will be a multiple mail-in rebate.
Also, you won't get as much buffering space for the ones that are on super sale.
But if you are diligent in sending out those rebate offers CompUsa can be a great place! (and a thousand times better than those crappy OEM resellers like a-z computers! BLECH!)
And really, the 1040 with add'l schedules isn't that hard.
Its when you buy a house and rent it back to the original owners for a few months that there are wierd tax implications. Also if you live in a house less than 2 calendar years out of 5 that you have to realize capital gains tax (however if you only do it once with less gain than 500,000 then its okay)
So its only when you get tricky that you need experts.
oh man! So FortKnox had a journal entry, which had a link to YOUR post (since you did a cut and paste of what it initially said), and I meant to reply to the Journal, NOT your comment in the article.
My reply has no bearing what-so-ever to your comment, and doesn't even make sense!
I think its important to document such gross misjudgements, but they should be expected. Slashdot sucks. I mean, its great and all, but it sucks.
I don't come here for journalistic integrity (however I have no idea where I would go to find such an elusive beast, it seems to have gone extinct) I come here for poor spelling, knee jerk responses (which the initial comment was), bad attempts to cover them up (which you are pointing out), duplicate articles and first posts.
She's in law school and has taken Federal Taxation. All she needs is a statutes book of current tax laws and she's "good to go."
Before that, my dad used to be a tax accountant. He uses turbotax (or something like it) just so it prints out pretty. For all my courses in advanced math I haven't had to file my own taxes once!
Don't worry, Lockheed Martin ATM is moving in on fixing Ratheon's disgrace.
And actually, the enroute computers that are currently in place are nice and solid (and were just installed under 2 years ago). Combine that with the reduced air traffic, and the FAA singing a contract for ERAM, and you will have your throughly modern ATC system in a few years.
Actually, to get things truly to the SEI level 5, would be to create a harmonious working atmosphere where the business process accurately reflected the way which the work is actually done. If I could have a hand in bringing that to the people, I would feel like a hero.
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Thanks, that helps.
Most all my bjt vs fet knowledge is from text books... they aren't too concerned with pratical applications of one over the other!
A quick question: I remember back in the day seeing adverts in GFTPM* magazine about MOSFET this and that...
;)
But when I learned a thing or two about semiconductors, its seems that BJTs would be a much better choice for amplification (where as FETs are better at the binary thing, given their VERY limited linear range)- they give BIG amplification values and have a larger linear range.
So why don't they use BJTs?
P.S.- If you have a crappy guitar, I'm not sure how much a tube amp is gonna help.
P.P.S- if you loose enough of your hearing from lots of loud, loud music, the difference between real tubes and "sumilated" tubes doesn't matter!
*(Guitar for the practicing musician)
Funny, that just doesn't have the same resonance on slashdot as it does when posted to the DC-RAVES mailing list, and others of its ilk.
Oh wait, I guess they are thinking about the children. And they must be thinking "Children have it so great, they don't have to work, they don't have to make mortgage payments, nor alimony payments... I know, lets take away the only fun thing they can do without a car!"
See folks, children have no lives. As such, they need something so they can 'pretend' to have a life. Violent videogames fill that niche better than any late night viewing of Skinemax.
Please- think about the children.
Not to nitpick- but you can easily buy 10 games that suck for the PC, too!
Also given the way things are working for the PS2, if you wait about a year and a half, that $50 game is $20. No, not used from ebay, NEW, when rebadged as a "classic" game with the red stripe on top. So for $100 bucks I can buy 5 games. But not just any 5 games, 5 games that I've rented first from blockbuster (various deals going on, so you can rent 3 for $10 or so) and played for a week. I never needed to buy Okage.
I'm sorry that you have so many bad games for your Dreamcast, but did you play test them first?
To top that off, given Sony's current "backwards compatibility" feature (PS2 can play PS1 stuff) you don't lose your investment in your current system. You may be able to harvest your sound and video card*, but I can harvest my entire library (tekken 3 looks even better on the PS2).
*On that note:you can only harvest your audio and video card for so long, the newer games demand better performing hardware- otherwise they look like dreck.
Again, this is getting away from your "New product perspective", however conspicous consumption has ALWAYS been counter to the "early adopters" (who get screwed.)
The idea is that you should be spending money that you don't plan on seeing again- you are indeed throwing it out. Given the uniform nature of consoles and the decent life of the Playstation series, I can amortize the cost of the $250 base unit over 4-5 years...
ack! you're correct! Let's get back on track, however I'll have to change my re-search angle! ;)
In THIS case, where you have class-action lawyers who, for lack of a better image, leap from class action suit to class action suit and only get paid on contingency; though they may get paid quite handsomely from the settlement there are two issues I'd like to bring up:
1) its feast or famine. That book "A Class Action" (turned into a movie starring John Travolta) is a real life story about one such lawyer losing his shirt.
2)The consumer who has been slighted has two options: to sue on their own (and pay their own lawyers- there is no double jeopardy in civil suits) or to tag along with these class action suits. For some, this is the only protection/legal remedy they can afford.
In that sense, it may not be enough justice in your eyes, but it is justice that the consumer doesn't have to directly pay for OR has already paid for (in the case of CD price fixing)- but that money is gone, anyway! Especially in the case of a luxury item like a cd.
If it was the price of food and basic shelter we were arguing, I'd have to side with you.
But short of defending yourself "pro se", class actions are the most realistically equitable way to go.
I must apologize. I'm running out of time for research for this but I don't want to leave you hanging.
In terms of the bubble just bursting this year (your retort was that the tech bubble burst in 2000) I read an article in the ABA student Lawyer magazine in 2002 about the Law bubble bursting. I'll find the source.
Lawyers fresh out of school can specialize in three ways:
1) previous legal assitant/clerkship experience
2) specialized classes in law school (not all the curriculum is mandatory)
3) Summer Associate positions with lawfirms during law school.
My wife has specialized via all three. As such, when she graduates in May she will go on to do Investment company management work.
the source for highly paid corporate lawyer's 80+ hours per week is from my initial Cornell link and a function of their need to acheive 2000 billable hours. Since the time you spend in meetings not with a client, having a coffee break, going to conferences, doing research projects for partners don't count as billable hours, it is much more likely that a lawyer will put in 3000+ the figure the cornell link gave was 12 hours a day 6-7 days a week.
I would like to further support that with the fact that the burnout rate amongst lawyers is statistically higher- their rates for drugs, alcohol abuse, gambling, divorce, etc. are appreciably above "normal" trends. My wife got this statistic when she started law school; I don't know if it was in their student handbook or some additional supplemental material, but I'll find it.
So this is the direction I'm going in, I just need some time to collect my sources!
P.S.- in my understanding of colloquial american english, college and uni are more geared towards undergrad. Anything beyond would be graduate school.
It mentions "Rate limiting" as the way around this.
Fist off these are NOT all kids who are 20-25.
These are people graduationg LAW SCHOOL- some don't start till their 30 our later. At the University of Iowa the average INCOMING CLASS age is 26- add three and you have average graduating class age of 29. (check thier website, check all the law school's websites. the median incoming age spans 23-29. Add 3 for graduation.)
Actually, thing have gotten much worse. Look at your own NALP report- This 28th consecutive report documents the first decrease in the employment rate of new law graduates since 1993, with a figure of 90% of graduates for whom employment status was known. (emphasis mine)
Salaries were inflated SKY HIGH due to the tech bubble. As such, that $125 is going to be the intro level salary for SPECIALIZED lawyers a looong time.
In addition there have been a great number of layoffs and not too many golden parachutes.
For example, Dechert's DC office let go of 9 first years (Right before their christmas party, no less!) this past December. And there has been belt tightening all around.
But lets not forget that the $125 is for specialized LARGE FIRM lawyers ONLY.
Also, they work 60-80 hours a week!
My initial figures are still adequate- they don't clear $20 an hour after taxes!
Fresh out of college, during an economic downturn... Poor kids!
To recap- 1- they are graduates who are probably older than you who are NOT KIDS, they are not fresh out of college, they are fresh out of LAW school with another 100k+ debt, who will have to work at least 60 hours a week.
If they have it so great- why aren't YOU going to law school?!
so lets break this down- inspite of the superstars who make partner or general counsel, etc.- we're still talking 90-120k not a crazy difference. And given a BILLABLE hour route of 2000 (which is more like 3-4k actual) though they make a lot of money, all they do is work. And lets not forget the cost of their education as well. So if you have to pay off loans, pay for dry cleaning and maid service, someone to bring you food, only to HOPE that you make partner, which odds are you won't.
Sure, lawyers get paid. But they in turn pay for it.
Once we get my bro-inlaw to move to the twins (from Grand Forks) I'll take you up on it.
I bash (drums), thump(bass), screech (sing), and squeal (guitar).
Not really. Record companies simply raise their prices slightly to cover the cost. Oh, look at that, they already have. Nothing in the settlement prevents this from happening.
Those who buy their albums will be the ones to bear the cost. What? Did you think they would chose to screw their shareholders over the consumer?
Okay- you've got me over a barrel on this.
Really the only thing one can hope for is the PLAN B which you are enacting:
it goes like this: corporations get fined, sharehodlers get concerned, management raises prices, consumers catch wind of the settlement and the price raising, complain, stop buying products.
BUT THAT takes a strong grass roots movement. Without people organizing and saying "we know what you're doing and we won't take it anymore. We have the numbers to back up this boycott."- this "slap on the wrist" is the best thing we can expect from the powers above us.
Already have. I highly reccomend it
If you live in the D.C. metro area, we should get together and jam!
So, your friends make $18,720 $/year after taxes. (using the $17 per cd, 2 hours of work, so that's approx $9 after taxes. so $9 $/hr * 40 hr/week * 52 week/year)
a w.career.html
assuming 30% in taxes (and thats a STRETCH, at this rate, your looking more like 20-25% in taxes), thats ~ $26,742 $/year.
Now you want me to equate the "average joe" salary of 26k with that of the average lawyer?
okay- from: http://www.career.cornell.edu/students/grad/law/l
Employment statistics for the class of 1999 law graduates, which totaled 39,054, reveal the following*:
The average starting salary was $59,125; the median salary was $50,000.
Approximately 36% of salaries were below $40,000.
Salaries of more than $70,000 accounted for fewer than one-third of the salaries reported.
The salary of $40,000 was reported most frequently.
Approximately 55% of the class chose private practice in law firms.
About 27% took positions in public service, including judicial clerkships, government agencies, and public interest organizations.
Graduates entering business accounted for slightly over 13%.
Just under 11% of graduates were employed in non-legal positions.
While a corporate lawyer may earn $90,000 the first year in a private firm, he/she may also work twelve hours a day, six or seven days a week.
So lets break that down- the high of $90,000 is for 12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week!
thats 90,000 for 72-84 hours a week, as opposed to the 40 estimated for your friends.
so lets take out 30% in taxes- $63,000 a year.
Divide that by 84 hours a week (12 hours *7 days) *52 weeks a year=
63,000 $ per year / 4368 hours per year = $14.4 per hour.
So for extra education and no social life, they make $5 more an hour than your friends.
Lets take into account the higher level of education necessary to become a lawyer. Thats at LEAST 3 years to get your JD (which is requred by most BAR associations). Not to mention the loans you take on- thats approx $100k in loans (it goes higher). Also note, those loans accure interest before you even graduate and can get a job.
Is that $5 gonna pay off that 100k+ loan? If our lawyer is working 4368 hours, that's only 21k.
And those loans are still accruing interest.
tit for tat...
;) Is there ANY other kind?! But see my first response- while it may not be the case immediately, that is the desired outcome. You penalize a company and the people at the top who are being penalized let the crap roll downhill.
I think I have a far better grasp of the big picture here. However I don't think I clearly explicated myself.
1. The RIAA loses nothing. This is a lawsuit against a group of record labels.
same difference- record companies lose money.
But those companies are not privately held corporations. NO!!! They are Shareholder driven. And when shareholders lose money, they get pissed. And management gets fired.
Look at how the SEC does it's regulation of 'wayward' securities- they want to hurt the company in a tangible way, but not at a total expense of the shareholders. So its a balance.
2. Your signing up does not mean more money gets added to the penalty.
RIGHT! similar to the Sprint PCS settlement. But it doesn't matter if you sign up or not- they still got a slap on the wrists.
3. The settlement didn't do jack shit about high CD prices
Ah yes, the "no fault" settlement
Signing up for this settlement just makes you a participant in the over-litigious culture we are rapidly becoming, while doing nothing about the problem other than make you feel like you are doing something about it.
actually, this settlement is a way of getting around the over-litigious nature of society- they bilked people for money, they got called on it, and they are paying money out.
Signing up for the settlement doesn't do dick- its the fact that this settlement even exists and that the companies are paying a penalty, THATS what is important.
And if you want to do something about it don't buy records. Buy a guitar and make your own music.
Even if you only see $5, it adds up to a large penalty against RIAA.
This goes right in line with those Sprint Spectrum settlements- where the settlement "deal" was worse than what you could get in Radio Shack! (yep, I got that one in the mail, got excited, checked the prices, and decided not to opt in)
It isn't so much to really re-imburse the consumers, but to hurt the corporations first and foremost.
Good enough for digital audio workstations. mind you, your cache isn't going to be 8 megs like on the nicer drives.
But I'm talking about the CompUsa double mail-in rebate special. I know, cuz I got one and its serving on my home lan quite nicely. (actually, mine was 100gig, but it beat the $1 gig ratio)
But you WILL be dealing with a mail-in rebate; in fact its quite likely that it will be a multiple mail-in rebate.
Also, you won't get as much buffering space for the ones that are on super sale.
But if you are diligent in sending out those rebate offers CompUsa can be a great place!
(and a thousand times better than those crappy OEM resellers like a-z computers! BLECH!)
And rightly so!!!
My parent post was my first world-wide spazz of the year.
It's gonna be a long one...
There is- it's called the 1040EZ.
And really, the 1040 with add'l schedules isn't that hard.
Its when you buy a house and rent it back to the original owners for a few months that there are wierd tax implications. Also if you live in a house less than 2 calendar years out of 5 that you have to realize capital gains tax (however if you only do it once with less gain than 500,000 then its okay)
So its only when you get tricky that you need experts.
oh man! So FortKnox had a journal entry, which had a link to YOUR post (since you did a cut and paste of what it initially said), and I meant to reply to the Journal, NOT your comment in the article.
My reply has no bearing what-so-ever to your comment, and doesn't even make sense!
I hope I get moderated into oblivion!
Sorry!
actually, that subj line is a bit harsh.
I think its important to document such gross misjudgements, but they should be expected. Slashdot sucks. I mean, its great and all, but it sucks.
I don't come here for journalistic integrity (however I have no idea where I would go to find such an elusive beast, it seems to have gone extinct) I come here for poor spelling, knee jerk responses (which the initial comment was), bad attempts to cover them up (which you are pointing out), duplicate articles and first posts.
She's in law school and has taken Federal Taxation.
All she needs is a statutes book of current tax laws and she's "good to go."
Before that, my dad used to be a tax accountant. He uses turbotax (or something like it) just so it prints out pretty. For all my courses in advanced math I haven't had to file my own taxes once!
Will they license Magic Gate technology for their memory cards??
I won't be able to sleep at night until that mystery is solved!
Don't worry, Lockheed Martin ATM is moving in on fixing Ratheon's disgrace.
And actually, the enroute computers that are currently in place are nice and solid (and were just installed under 2 years ago). Combine that with the reduced air traffic, and the FAA singing a contract for ERAM, and you will have your throughly modern ATC system in a few years.
Actually, to get things truly to the SEI level 5, would be to create a harmonious working atmosphere where the business process accurately reflected the way which the work is actually done. If I could have a hand in bringing that to the people, I would feel like a hero.