Without foreigners making English spelling and grammar mistakes, we'd never be able to tell them apart from us native speakers on the internet. Don't learn Esperanto, it evilly equalizes us all!
What the market demands, the market gets, regardless of whether the original manufacturer listens or not. If this sells well, maybe Apple will hasten to complete their own tablet PC.
The Yahoo group, oil_from_algae has many knowledgeable people who are currently looking into the best strains of algae to grow, as well as methods for extracting oil from the algae.
According to the article, the IPS doesn't expect to collect any of the money. So it is likely that they will cancel the debt. Which means, according to IRS publication 525, that the spammer will owe taxes on the forgiven debt.
Let's see... $11.2 billion, at the highest tax bracket of 35%, that's $3.92 billion he'll owe the IRS.
IRS publication 525:
Canceled Debts
Generally, if a debt you owe is canceled or forgiven, other than as a gift or bequest, you must include the canceled amount in your income. You have no income from the canceled debt if it is intended as a gift to you. A debt includes any indebtedness for which you are liable or which attaches to property you hold.
If the debt is a nonbusiness debt, report the canceled amount on Form 1040, line 21. If it is a business debt, report the amount on Schedule C or Schedule C-EZ (Form 1040) (or on Schedule F (Form 1040), Profit or Loss From Farming, if the debt is farm debt and you are a farmer).
Remember the good ol' days of 3D MovieMaker
(3dmm) from the Socrates Project?* When making 3D movies was as easy as clicking a few buttons and listening to McZee tell us to "Select your movie, and press the button!" Even a child could do it! (I know, i just watched a 3dmm movie by a very cute 7-year old relative yesterday). Unfortunately, the movies created by 3dmm now look horribly archaic to our eyes. The jagged pixal edges---my eyes!
We can do better. I've been looking into creating a new up-to-date program capable of easily creating movies. After some initial exploration, i've decided that either NeoEngine or Ogre would be a good start for the creation of an open source movie creation program. An additional help is Matthew Casperson's program to run scripted sequences in either Ogre or NeoEngine (see the OgreScript development site).
If you're interested in helping out with this endeavour (or to flame me on my choice of game engines), send me an e-mail (in my profile).
*(The Socrates Project was subsequently bought up by Microsoft, who eventually stopped development on 3dmm.)
Domain ID:D69011-LROR Domain Name:FHF.ORG Created On:25-Sep-1995 04:00:00 UTC Last Updated On:15-Sep-2004 16:28:40 UTC Expiration Date:24-Sep-2005 04:00:00 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:Tucows Inc. (R11-LROR) Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED Registrant ID:tu7L1nJCKBpLCGo3 Registrant Name:Herb Peyerl Registrant Organization:Free Hardware Foundation
This is a reference to the mythical Lake Wobegone of Garisson Keillor, where "all the children are above average". In this case, all people think their salaries are *below* average, thus making it the opposite--or an Anti-(Lake Wobegone).
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The HalfBakery has an idea on this: Panic PIN.
Most people's vision is 20/20. Why should the Swedes be any different?
Without foreigners making English spelling and grammar mistakes, we'd never be able to tell them apart from us native speakers on the internet. Don't learn Esperanto, it evilly equalizes us all!
What the market demands, the market gets, regardless of whether the original manufacturer listens or not. If this sells well, maybe Apple will hasten to complete their own tablet PC.
The Yahoo group, oil_from_algae has many knowledgeable people who are currently looking into the best strains of algae to grow, as well as methods for extracting oil from the algae.
Actual Google AdWord ad below article.
They would have released it earlier, but their test machines kept getting hacked...
Open-source AYTTM already has a feature to translate your IMs via Babelfish. Gaim has a plugin for Babelfish translation as well.
Let's see... $11.2 billion, at the highest tax bracket of 35%, that's $3.92 billion he'll owe the IRS.
IRS publication 525:
Canceled Debts Generally, if a debt you owe is canceled or forgiven, other than as a gift or bequest, you must include the canceled amount in your income. You have no income from the canceled debt if it is intended as a gift to you. A debt includes any indebtedness for which you are liable or which attaches to property you hold.
If the debt is a nonbusiness debt, report the canceled amount on Form 1040, line 21. If it is a business debt, report the amount on Schedule C or Schedule C-EZ (Form 1040) (or on Schedule F (Form 1040), Profit or Loss From Farming, if the debt is farm debt and you are a farmer).
Use the CGI plsign.
MBTA Trip Planning gives you the public transit options between two addresses.
We can do better. I've been looking into creating a new up-to-date program capable of easily creating movies. After some initial exploration, i've decided that either NeoEngine or Ogre would be a good start for the creation of an open source movie creation program. An additional help is Matthew Casperson's program to run scripted sequences in either Ogre or NeoEngine (see the OgreScript development site).
If you're interested in helping out with this endeavour (or to flame me on my choice of game engines), send me an e-mail (in my profile).
*(The Socrates Project was subsequently bought up by Microsoft, who eventually stopped development on 3dmm.)
why he didn't check the check box on his MASS state tax return to pay the higher rate.
In 2004, out of 1.9 million Massachusetts tax payers, less than 1000 selected to voluntarily pay the higher tax rate. Kerry has no obligation to pay a higher tax rate than legally necessary.
See this study on the Lake Wobegone effect (pdf).
Am i the only one who immediately thought of RFC1149?
I'll just have to be quicker next time. (-;
See my almost identical comment, which was unfortunately submitted too slow.
Myth #9:
Writing open source will get you laid.
Here is another website about a similar idea, Universal Networking Language (UNL).
* NB: allowed, not required---it's your choice.
D'oh! Bad flicken, hit submit too early.
...if a tree falls in those woods, and no one is around to hear it. Would it still make a sound?
The BBC is reporting this? Wow, from the title, i would have thought that it would come from one of these fine sources.