In general, I've found that expensive resort or business hotels charge for Internet access, but budget hotels do not - even when the parent company is the same (in this case, Marriot).
Knowing my luck, they'll probably replace income tax with sales tax as soon as I start drawing money from my Roth IRA.
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If you try to be precise about such things, you start to sound like a big waffler: "Nothing is black and white. Well, most things are shades of gray, but some things may be black or white from time to time."
If you really wanted to, I think you could move all the DLLs into a single directory (in your PATH) and delete all the extras. They'll end up shared in memory as well. You risk version incompatibility if you do, however.
You may use a cell phone during the entire boarding and de-boarding process, so the ban doesn't really help keep people calm and attentive during those times.
I'm with you. Get rid of all deductions. I have a feeling that deductions end up being about the same for everyone, percentagewise, anyway. Eliminate all that paperwork and just lower the overall rates. (Or, keep the rate the same and balance the budget!)
Why keep the deduction for dependents, though? Do we have a shortage of children such that we need to encourage people - through the tax system - to have dependents?
That's an interesting way to look at it. Why does the U.S. Treasury go through the formality of borrowing money to make up budget deficits, though, if they could get all they want?
I should have the right to receive, for free, a copy of any information a company has about me. It should be the same as with my credit report. By law (in the U.S.) you are entitled to a free copy of your credit report every year. I don't see why this concept can't be extended to ALL personally-identifiable data. For example, look at the way Google allows people to see their own search history. A law is needed, a "freedom of information" act, if you will, except this one should be applicable to organizations other than the government.
Gmail- do you have any complaints about it besides being beta?
Search in gmail doesn't even match partial words or match related words like the web search engine apparently does. For example, I should be able to search for "NWA" and get all emails from "Northwest Airlines." To take it even further, I would be really impressed if I could search for "mail from airlines" and have it return all of those.
This requirement of Flash will probably negate my ability to access my bank account when running Linux on my PowerMac since Flash Player is not available for it(haven't tested it yet).
Not necessarily. It sounds like, if you use the plugin, the bank won't ask you those stupid "security questions" at login time, since they will be able to "recognize the computer."
Ideas for security questions:
What is the name of the second-largest river that flows through the town where your grandmother on your father's side bought her first four-door car?
Interest from U.S. Treasury Bills/Notes/Bonds are only non-taxable at the state and local level. You'll still pay federal income tax. Municipal bonds, however, are tax free at the Federal level.
What's so special about this, though? Don't ISPs try to keep traffic on their own networks for as long as possible anyway? Is it because Comcast is applying this technique to two different kinds of networks (IP vs. phone system)?
What I don't like about that is that "company" credit cards are still in YOUR name and still show up on YOUR credit report. There's no distinction made, either, that I can tell. The fact that the company logo is on the card makes no difference.
If your company travel reimbursement claim is denied, or the system crashes, or something else delays a payment, you'd better make the payment yourself - if you value your credit history/score.
Focus on the positive! This guy created a useful script that, you must admit, requires less typing on the command line once installed. He was thorough enough to create a manpage and post it all to the web.
Similarly, your solution is an elegant one-liner. Focus on the positive!
Be careful about how readily you trust those cashiers checks; don't let the well-known bank logo fool you.
A guy at my work sold a car to a someone with a cashiers check. Turned out it was forged. The car was gone and resold in another state before anything could be done about it. His bank deducted the amount of the check from his account, even though it had already "cleared." I'm not sure how it was eventually resolved.
I've noticed that planning also suffers. Why bother planning an event/project in advance when you can always call/email people at the last minute? Some degree of flexibility is useful, I think. But after a certain point, it just becomes chaos.
You aren't thinking two-dimensionally. How do you divide a rectangle into quarters? You cut each side in half. A 480x270 picture is 1/16th (1/4th squared) of 1920x1080.
Most banks I deal with have their own message system built in to their online access web app. The most they send by email is a message that says "your statement is ready," or "you have a new message waiting." Of course, they usually also provide a link to the website, which phishers can emulate in their own phoney messages. I think financial institutions would be interested in using a PKI to send email, if it ever became widely used.
Still, you should be able to see the beams in mid air assuming there's enough power to them... I don't know how this compares to a standard green laser pointer.
What?? Only if there's smoke/dust in the air, or the lasers are vaporizing the moisture or something.
And what do you suppose accounts for someone being willing to pay more than net value for it?
How about for it's "customers"?
I understand. I just wanted to point out that good will is only quantified if there is a sale of the company - and then only to balance the books. It's not tracked like stock value. (Well, maybe it is. What do I know?) You can't go to the bank and withdraw goodwill.
BTW, what happens to goodwill over time? Is it written off, or kept forever? I forget. I only took a little accounting course last year.
A company can only accrue good will (the accounting kind) if it is purchased by another company for more than its net worth. On the balance sheet of the new owner, the extra money (value) has to be listed somewhere, so it's listed as an asset of the purchased company called "good will." (I may have mixed up who gets the "good will", but that's the general idea.)
The kind of goodwill that Google might get from this is more of the unquantified, good feelings kind.
When there's a network problem you can't send email anyway...:
Many email clients will queue messages sent offline and send them once you are reconnected. This is useful if you have a large batch of unread mail to read and respond to while offline. Even (gasp) MS Outlook handles it pretty well.
I've suggested to Google that they implement IMAP access to gmail. It wouldn't be too hard to make each label an IMAP folder. The only complication is that it would waste a space on your local computer if you cross-label many messages and download (cache) messages to the local machine. The IMAP client wouldn't be aware of the identical messages.
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In general, I've found that expensive resort or business hotels charge for Internet access, but budget hotels do not - even when the parent company is the same (in this case, Marriot).
Knowing my luck, they'll probably replace income tax with sales tax as soon as I start drawing money from my Roth IRA.
If you try to be precise about such things, you start to sound like a big waffler: "Nothing is black and white. Well, most things are shades of gray, but some things may be black or white from time to time."
If you really wanted to, I think you could move all the DLLs into a single directory (in your PATH) and delete all the extras. They'll end up shared in memory as well. You risk version incompatibility if you do, however.
Why? Will charitable giving collapse if the deduction for it goes away? I'd like to try it for a year and see.
You may use a cell phone during the entire boarding and de-boarding process, so the ban doesn't really help keep people calm and attentive during those times.
I'm with you. Get rid of all deductions. I have a feeling that deductions end up being about the same for everyone, percentagewise, anyway. Eliminate all that paperwork and just lower the overall rates. (Or, keep the rate the same and balance the budget!)
Why keep the deduction for dependents, though? Do we have a shortage of children such that we need to encourage people - through the tax system - to have dependents?
That's an interesting way to look at it. Why does the U.S. Treasury go through the formality of borrowing money to make up budget deficits, though, if they could get all they want?
I should have the right to receive, for free, a copy of any information a company has about me. It should be the same as with my credit report. By law (in the U.S.) you are entitled to a free copy of your credit report every year. I don't see why this concept can't be extended to ALL personally-identifiable data. For example, look at the way Google allows people to see their own search history. A law is needed, a "freedom of information" act, if you will, except this one should be applicable to organizations other than the government.
Search in gmail doesn't even match partial words or match related words like the web search engine apparently does. For example, I should be able to search for "NWA" and get all emails from "Northwest Airlines." To take it even further, I would be really impressed if I could search for "mail from airlines" and have it return all of those.
Not necessarily. It sounds like, if you use the plugin, the bank won't ask you those stupid "security questions" at login time, since they will be able to "recognize the computer."
Ideas for security questions:Interest from U.S. Treasury Bills/Notes/Bonds are only non-taxable at the state and local level. You'll still pay federal income tax. Municipal bonds, however, are tax free at the Federal level.
What's so special about this, though? Don't ISPs try to keep traffic on their own networks for as long as possible anyway? Is it because Comcast is applying this technique to two different kinds of networks (IP vs. phone system)?
If your company travel reimbursement claim is denied, or the system crashes, or something else delays a payment, you'd better make the payment yourself - if you value your credit history/score.
Could be a joke on the double entry bookkeeping system GNUCash uses.
May I ask who you switched to?
Similarly, your solution is an elegant one-liner. Focus on the positive!
Be careful about how readily you trust those cashiers checks; don't let the well-known bank logo fool you.
A guy at my work sold a car to a someone with a cashiers check. Turned out it was forged. The car was gone and resold in another state before anything could be done about it. His bank deducted the amount of the check from his account, even though it had already "cleared." I'm not sure how it was eventually resolved.
I've noticed that planning also suffers. Why bother planning an event/project in advance when you can always call/email people at the last minute? Some degree of flexibility is useful, I think. But after a certain point, it just becomes chaos.
You aren't thinking two-dimensionally. How do you divide a rectangle into quarters? You cut each side in half. A 480x270 picture is 1/16th (1/4th squared) of 1920x1080.
Most banks I deal with have their own message system built in to their online access web app. The most they send by email is a message that says "your statement is ready," or "you have a new message waiting." Of course, they usually also provide a link to the website, which phishers can emulate in their own phoney messages. I think financial institutions would be interested in using a PKI to send email, if it ever became widely used.
I understand. I just wanted to point out that good will is only quantified if there is a sale of the company - and then only to balance the books. It's not tracked like stock value. (Well, maybe it is. What do I know?) You can't go to the bank and withdraw goodwill.
BTW, what happens to goodwill over time? Is it written off, or kept forever? I forget. I only took a little accounting course last year.
A company can only accrue good will (the accounting kind) if it is purchased by another company for more than its net worth. On the balance sheet of the new owner, the extra money (value) has to be listed somewhere, so it's listed as an asset of the purchased company called "good will." (I may have mixed up who gets the "good will", but that's the general idea.)
The kind of goodwill that Google might get from this is more of the unquantified, good feelings kind.
Many email clients will queue messages sent offline and send them once you are reconnected. This is useful if you have a large batch of unread mail to read and respond to while offline. Even (gasp) MS Outlook handles it pretty well.
I've suggested to Google that they implement IMAP access to gmail. It wouldn't be too hard to make each label an IMAP folder. The only complication is that it would waste a space on your local computer if you cross-label many messages and download (cache) messages to the local machine. The IMAP client wouldn't be aware of the identical messages.