You're right, all income is taxable. Not all income is taxed. But it amounts to the same thing. If your income is low enough, you're exempted from having to file a return, or exempted from having to pay income tax.
And yes, in most cases it's silly for a 14 year old to have a tax liability. But in some cases it's not.
- Person-Person transactions that are not directly taxed. If you think it should be-- fuck you, my 14 year old kid should be able to mow the neighbor's lawn without the IRS getting a cut.
I disagree, actually. If he's making enough for it to be taxable, then there's no distinction between him and a 19 year old doing the same amount of work. It's not that I think 14 year olds should be tapped for taxes, just that there's no real justification for setting an age limit. What about a 12 year old who runs a highly profitable online store?
And I should be able to pay an allowance the same.
You can, within the limits of the gift tax laws.
- Purchasing anything that I want to remain private -- legality aside.
Growing new organs would be ideal. But a synthetic hand doesn't have to work just like the organic one. It just has to work better than having no hand.
Possible, but it probably won't happen in the next 5 years, and as long as she can come up with the money she needs and the prosthesis works well, I don't think she'll regret it.
I'm a big fan of college degrees. Academically and socially, I probably learned as much in college as I did in high school. That being said, experience is what employers want. If you can do the job well, then you deserve the job.
If it's done right, this is a really good idea. I love being able to search Firefox by keyword for a web page I looked at last week. And I like to go back and re-read comments that I've posted to various social networks. But it sounds a little ambitious from a usability standpoint. For example, it can't have an understanding of the layout of every web site, and I wouldn't want it to index the contents every page I look at, in the hopes that it might be important.
Yes, but the point is that the carriers don't even have to change what they're doing. All they have to do is disclose it up front. But everyone wants to use the word Unlimited to get more sales.
Wireless bandwidth is a limited resource, and all kinds of unlimited plans usually have limits. I have free long distance at home, but that doesn't mean I can run a long distance dialup connection 24/7. Netflix is an unlimited DVD plan, but if you rent a DVD and return it every day, they'll start to throttle you. Netflix got sued for it too, so all they had to do was disclose the fact that they might throttle.
I have no more sympathy for this guy since he admitted to tethering. Running Remote Desktop from your phone for 10 hours a day is something that might be considered fair use for an unlimited plan. Plugging your phone into your PC and spending the day on Netflix or Second Life isn't.
That being said, I think there are some other people who would deserve the win. All AT&T has to do is stop calling their plan unlimited, and then they can cap all they want. Just have two plans: Lite, and Standard. Advertise the caps for each of them, and be done with it.
On one hand, you don't know whether or not it's a waste until you try.
On the other, you can have a good idea that dies from poor execution. For example, Google Desktop. Never mind that it was killed by Vista. It was a good product plagued by a few bugs and inadequacies that Google wasn't interested in fixing.
Still, you might have to sift through a lot of little ideas to come up with the next killer app. You have to look at the net good of the company, not just the losses.
TFA itself is about an asteroid that's on its way. Just not imminently. And Obama loves spending money. I think a lot of Onion articles are designed to be somewhat believable until you get about half way through. The absurdity increases as you go.
Thanks - I read half of the article before I realized it was Onion. I looked up at the address bar to see what kind of tabloid was printing this crap.:)
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You're right, all income is taxable. Not all income is taxed. But it amounts to the same thing. If your income is low enough, you're exempted from having to file a return, or exempted from having to pay income tax.
And yes, in most cases it's silly for a 14 year old to have a tax liability. But in some cases it's not.
No, income below a certain annual amount isn't taxable. And sales tax is totally unrelated.
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p501/ar02.html
- Person-Person transactions that are not directly taxed. If you think it should be-- fuck you, my 14 year old kid should be able to mow the neighbor's lawn without the IRS getting a cut.
I disagree, actually. If he's making enough for it to be taxable, then there's no distinction between him and a 19 year old doing the same amount of work. It's not that I think 14 year olds should be tapped for taxes, just that there's no real justification for setting an age limit. What about a 12 year old who runs a highly profitable online store?
And I should be able to pay an allowance the same.
You can, within the limits of the gift tax laws.
- Purchasing anything that I want to remain private -- legality aside.
Yes.
NOT paying "use tax"
Come to Missouri. We don't know what use tax is, and if you tell us what it is, we'll laugh in your face.
Interesting - I didn't know that bash worked that way. Contrary to C and PHP. But I usually use the == anyway.
So check the players for technology, and block outside communications. No algorithm needed.
For the most part, there's nothing wrong with the technology. The question is who you're trusting to maintain and secure it.
Growing new organs would be ideal. But a synthetic hand doesn't have to work just like the organic one. It just has to work better than having no hand.
Most of us don't want to fly anyway.
We created technology, and therefore we know how it works. We didn't create the human body, and it didn't come with an instruction manual.
Even so, we've come a long way in medicine. Being able to use nerve impulses to control a bionic implant is amazing to me.
Possible, but it probably won't happen in the next 5 years, and as long as she can come up with the money she needs and the prosthesis works well, I don't think she'll regret it.
It's so awesome and secure it doesn't need RAM.
O rly? I agree, it needs very little. I have a Debian appliance with 32 megs of RAM, and a Unix server with 128 megs.
One good use for gray water I can think of is to flush toilets with it
A good idea, but you'd still have to filter it, and use electricity to pump it into the toilet.
By contrast, I pay for my water, I pay for my sewer access, and I trust that my waste water is handled as efficiently as possible.
If the web site is operated in CT, then of course they should pay sales tax on digital downloads. If not, then CT doesn't deserve a penny.
I'm a big fan of college degrees. Academically and socially, I probably learned as much in college as I did in high school. That being said, experience is what employers want. If you can do the job well, then you deserve the job.
If it's done right, this is a really good idea. I love being able to search Firefox by keyword for a web page I looked at last week. And I like to go back and re-read comments that I've posted to various social networks. But it sounds a little ambitious from a usability standpoint. For example, it can't have an understanding of the layout of every web site, and I wouldn't want it to index the contents every page I look at, in the hopes that it might be important.
Yes, but the point is that the carriers don't even have to change what they're doing. All they have to do is disclose it up front. But everyone wants to use the word Unlimited to get more sales.
and are even paid extra to fix their bugs after creating them
There's no getting around that. Programmers have to eat too.
Wireless bandwidth is a limited resource, and all kinds of unlimited plans usually have limits. I have free long distance at home, but that doesn't mean I can run a long distance dialup connection 24/7. Netflix is an unlimited DVD plan, but if you rent a DVD and return it every day, they'll start to throttle you. Netflix got sued for it too, so all they had to do was disclose the fact that they might throttle.
I have no more sympathy for this guy since he admitted to tethering. Running Remote Desktop from your phone for 10 hours a day is something that might be considered fair use for an unlimited plan. Plugging your phone into your PC and spending the day on Netflix or Second Life isn't.
That being said, I think there are some other people who would deserve the win. All AT&T has to do is stop calling their plan unlimited, and then they can cap all they want. Just have two plans: Lite, and Standard. Advertise the caps for each of them, and be done with it.
It's really not difficult.
On one hand, you don't know whether or not it's a waste until you try.
On the other, you can have a good idea that dies from poor execution. For example, Google Desktop. Never mind that it was killed by Vista. It was a good product plagued by a few bugs and inadequacies that Google wasn't interested in fixing.
Still, you might have to sift through a lot of little ideas to come up with the next killer app. You have to look at the net good of the company, not just the losses.
Yeah, but is that her boyfriend? He could beat me up with one hand.
TFA itself is about an asteroid that's on its way. Just not imminently. And Obama loves spending money. I think a lot of Onion articles are designed to be somewhat believable until you get about half way through. The absurdity increases as you go.
Well you just used "==" the wrong way.
Not really. "==" means "that's how it is". "=" means "I declare it that way because I'm the God of grammar".
Thanks - I read half of the article before I realized it was Onion. I looked up at the address bar to see what kind of tabloid was printing this crap. :)