Yes but that's really just a guidline. We're all sure the managers will be pointing out how happy harry has 50 pieces of flair and you must measure up.
You have dodged the issue. The issue is whether employees are filing their income tax returns and whether the correct amounts are being with-held.
Our income tax system has been set into an "honor" system. The IRS now lacks it's once legendary ability to make your life a living hell if you fail to file.
I have heard more than one H1-B contracter laughing over their recalcitrance in paying their INCOME taxes (above and beyond whith-holding).
Well, taxes don't work EXACTLY like that. There are all kinds of things you can do with a W-2 form.
Just remember, you do file those things called TAXES at the end of the year. If withholding took care of all of it, there would be no need for filing.
For all you know oh so many H1-B are claiming EXEMPT status. And why wouldn't the companies go along with it??? They wouldn't have to match payroll taxes. And if the H1-Bs aren't filing, the IRS aren't going after them!!!
But lets not mince words over H1-B taxation. Lets go wholesale for the LZ-1s that are more numerous for the simple fact that they are unlimited. LZ-1s aren't required to pay income taxes. So I don't know why any sane accountant would allow them to fill in a W-2 without making them check the EXEMPT box which would save the company even MORE money.
They're like the Beatles than ...
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The Beatles had a thick British accent that virtually disappeared when they sung.
Likewise, I'm sure that the butchered grammar of oh so many Indian and Chinese programmers just melt away when they translate it into the printed word. And I suppose the simple ability to converse and be understood in English is also over-rated???
Jeerio!!!
And why would they need that capital ???
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Why would they need that capital when we're pouring money into China via cheap manufactured goods???
And I suppose the H1-B fresh of the Bangalore express can write better???
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From my acquaintences I've found this generally not to be the case. The IRS really doesn't exert any effort to MAKE them pay taxes.
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China is a slave labor state. The introduction of capitalism liberates the Chinese about as much as the slaves of Rome.
Until you can vote for the men who write your laws, Chinese labor will NEVER be able to effectively organize and raise their living standards.
All we are doing by trading with China is empowering the worlds new industrial plantation system. Cut'em off. Treat em like we did the Soviet Union (or benign Cuba).
If you want a high tech material, you invest in material research. If you want a breakfast beverage (one of NASA's most tangible spinoffs), you leave it up to General Mills.
If you want "spinoff" products, just invest in the fundamental research. But that's not what you're interested in. You're interested in playing Star Trek.
Better space exploration is not a justification for space exploration. The dark side of the moon is NOT always dark. It's just the side that always faces away from the earth.
There are LAME reasons to do this mainly concerned with doing things that are "cool". I can't argue with the "cool" part. But we have to make choices about how to spend our money as a nation.
If we get a space elevator working, that may change some of the economies involved. But if you think it will be economical to build space vehicles on the moon in the next two centuries you're smoking something pretty sweet. You would have to construct an ENTIRE SOCIETY on the moon in order to make this feasible. And you would have to spend several times the US government budget to get it into a state of self sustainability.
Everything we NEED is right here on Earth. We'd best dedicate our resources to taking care of OUR planet and OUR cities and OUR people rather than blasting people into space.
If we can't take care of our business on Earth, what makes you think that we wouldn't just fuck up Mars once we got there?
They were also systematically poisoning themselves with heavy metals (lead piping).
But than again, so are we with mercury from coal burning power plants without scrubbers. The difference is the Romans had no way of knowing better. We do.
NASA has been like a hammer searching for nails for quite some time.
Many of those "experiments" sent up in the shuttle could easily be performed for MILLIONS less right here on Earth. But NASA NEEDS projects to justify the space shuttles existence, so scientists creatively think of ways to make mundane projects into "space projects".
Seriously, if the "big one" ever hits, it will be far more economical to tunnel into the earth (to wait out the storm) than try to leave for someplace like Mars.
It will cost WAY less, and you'll save WAAY more people.
Besides, why would you want to go to Mars and build terraniums when you could do the same thing here on Earth for FAR, FAR cheaper.
Yes, someday the Sun WILL burn out and I'm 100% convinced that our budgetary priorities will have ZERO effect on how humanity handles that problem millions of years from now.
Of course they didn't give a RIP about the people.
The US has some election problems. And no democracy is perfect. But I can criticize my government to my heart's content without being tossed into jail. I can protest my government without being mowed down by tanks and machine guns.
I can go where I please and say whatever I like. I can read Slashdot without having to evade all the PRK firewalls.
Are you saying that humans sitting on rock benches with a notepad are better data collectors than seismometers with printers???
Of course robots are better data collectors. They're certainly not better scientists. But all the REAL science always happens on the ground. You don't blast people into space to analyze data and write papers.
The mafia are those who want manned space flight for the sake of it.
What would people say if Hillary had never scaled Everest? They would have said nothing because there were a hundred other crazy fools willing to risk their lives to do it off private funding. Eventually some crazy underfunded fool would have survived.
This is an issue of public priorities. Those advocating for manned space flight for it's own sake and for the sake of EVEN MORE manned space flight are the ones shaking everyone down for money. It's a RACKET!!!!
The people who REALLY think it's a racket are REAL SCIENTISTS who have SERIOUS projects that are being underfunded for the sake of all this Buck Rogers bullshit.
Probes are not sexy. But they're cheap and they do their job. Occasionally they fail and blow up. But than again, so do manned space missions. And when they happen, the cost of failure are orders of magnitude less than when you loose a 10 billion dollar orbiter on re-entry. And of course, nobody ever died from a probe failure.
We would have ignored the Wright brothers if their invention to an ARMY of THOUSANDS of engineers and technicians to operate and had no practical economic or military application.
The invention of the Wright Brothers required the efforts of a few bike mechanic's spare time and some extra hands for transportation when they did their tests. It had immediate application as a "toy". And soon as a scouting vehicle for the Army.
Those bases in Antarctica are 100% supported from the outside world. Imagine how expensive a moon base would be. And then compare the cost of harvesting the same materials right here on Earth.
There is a treaty governing the withdrawal of resources from Antarctica. But that isn't the reason no one is mining there. The reason is that Antarctica is the most inhospitable climate on the planet. It is so cold in the winter that AIRPLANE FUEL will freeze in fuel lines.
If you COULD get effectively get to those resources, you could only process them a couple months a year.
Just remember that as inhospitable as Antarctica is, it's 1000 times more liveable than the moon.
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Yes but that's really just a guidline. We're all sure the managers will be pointing out how happy harry has 50 pieces of flair and you must measure up.
You have dodged the issue. The issue is whether employees are filing their income tax returns and whether the correct amounts are being with-held.
Our income tax system has been set into an "honor" system. The IRS now lacks it's once legendary ability to make your life a living hell if you fail to file.
I have heard more than one H1-B contracter laughing over their recalcitrance in paying their INCOME taxes (above and beyond whith-holding).
Well, taxes don't work EXACTLY like that. There are all kinds of things you can do with a W-2 form.
Just remember, you do file those things called TAXES at the end of the year. If withholding took care of all of it, there would be no need for filing.
For all you know oh so many H1-B are claiming EXEMPT status. And why wouldn't the companies go along with it??? They wouldn't have to match payroll taxes. And if the H1-Bs aren't filing, the IRS aren't going after them!!!
But lets not mince words over H1-B taxation. Lets go wholesale for the LZ-1s that are more numerous for the simple fact that they are unlimited. LZ-1s aren't required to pay income taxes. So I don't know why any sane accountant would allow them to fill in a W-2 without making them check the EXEMPT box which would save the company even MORE money.
The Beatles had a thick British accent that virtually disappeared when they sung.
Likewise, I'm sure that the butchered grammar of oh so many Indian and Chinese programmers just melt away when they translate it into the printed word. And I suppose the simple ability to converse and be understood in English is also over-rated???
Jeerio!!!
Why would they need that capital when we're pouring money into China via cheap manufactured goods???
Oh yeah
What happens when the Chinese and Indians finally figure out that they don't NEED those milionaire suits in New York???
What happens when the US runs out of financial reserves and Beijing decides to stop buying US Treasury bonds????
And I suppose the H1-B fresh of the Bangalore express can write better???
Jeero + Jeero = chree
From my acquaintences I've found this generally not to be the case. The IRS really doesn't exert any effort to MAKE them pay taxes.
China is a slave labor state. The introduction of capitalism liberates the Chinese about as much as the slaves of Rome.
Until you can vote for the men who write your laws, Chinese labor will NEVER be able to effectively organize and raise their living standards.
All we are doing by trading with China is empowering the worlds new industrial plantation system. Cut'em off. Treat em like we did the Soviet Union (or benign Cuba).
If you want a high tech material, you invest in material research. If you want a breakfast beverage (one of NASA's most tangible spinoffs), you leave it up to General Mills.
If you want "spinoff" products, just invest in the fundamental research. But that's not what you're interested in. You're interested in playing Star Trek.
Better space exploration is not a justification for space exploration. The dark side of the moon is NOT always dark. It's just the side that always faces away from the earth.
There are LAME reasons to do this mainly concerned with doing things that are "cool". I can't argue with the "cool" part. But we have to make choices about how to spend our money as a nation.
If we get a space elevator working, that may change some of the economies involved. But if you think it will be economical to build space vehicles on the moon in the next two centuries you're smoking something pretty sweet. You would have to construct an ENTIRE SOCIETY on the moon in order to make this feasible. And you would have to spend several times the US government budget to get it into a state of self sustainability.
Everything we NEED is right here on Earth. We'd best dedicate our resources to taking care of OUR planet and OUR cities and OUR people rather than blasting people into space.
If we can't take care of our business on Earth, what makes you think that we wouldn't just fuck up Mars once we got there?
Agreed ... I think some of our leaders our pretty envious of the Chinese and want to get us there.
They were also systematically poisoning themselves with heavy metals (lead piping).
But than again, so are we with mercury from coal burning power plants without scrubbers. The difference is the Romans had no way of knowing better. We do.
I'll ad "geopolitical threat".
We're trading with the enemy. That's what helped Rome on it's way out.
Shuttles are small space stations that you launch and recover instead of leaving in orbit like a sane person would do.
NASA has been like a hammer searching for nails for quite some time.
Many of those "experiments" sent up in the shuttle could easily be performed for MILLIONS less right here on Earth. But NASA NEEDS projects to justify the space shuttles existence, so scientists creatively think of ways to make mundane projects into "space projects".
Mud, slimey, my home this is!!!!
Seriously, if the "big one" ever hits, it will be far more economical to tunnel into the earth (to wait out the storm) than try to leave for someplace like Mars.
It will cost WAY less, and you'll save WAAY more people.
Besides, why would you want to go to Mars and build terraniums when you could do the same thing here on Earth for FAR, FAR cheaper.
Yes, someday the Sun WILL burn out and I'm 100% convinced that our budgetary priorities will have ZERO effect on how humanity handles that problem millions of years from now.
It's a COST.
NASA did NOT invent velcro. And they didn't invent hardly any other useful product or material.
There is VERY LITTLE hope that the cost of missions will lower to the point where commercial investment in space will be practical.
If it's an investment, lets set up a fund and let the private sector take care of it.
Of course they didn't give a RIP about the people.
The US has some election problems. And no democracy is perfect. But I can criticize my government to my heart's content without being tossed into jail. I can protest my government without being mowed down by tanks and machine guns.
I can go where I please and say whatever I like. I can read Slashdot without having to evade all the PRK firewalls.
Are you saying that humans sitting on rock benches with a notepad are better data collectors than seismometers with printers???
Of course robots are better data collectors. They're certainly not better scientists. But all the REAL science always happens on the ground. You don't blast people into space to analyze data and write papers.
The mafia are those who want manned space flight for the sake of it.
What would people say if Hillary had never scaled Everest? They would have said nothing because there were a hundred other crazy fools willing to risk their lives to do it off private funding. Eventually some crazy underfunded fool would have survived.
This is an issue of public priorities. Those advocating for manned space flight for it's own sake and for the sake of EVEN MORE manned space flight are the ones shaking everyone down for money. It's a RACKET!!!!
The people who REALLY think it's a racket are REAL SCIENTISTS who have SERIOUS projects that are being underfunded for the sake of all this Buck Rogers bullshit.
Probes are not sexy. But they're cheap and they do their job. Occasionally they fail and blow up. But than again, so do manned space missions. And when they happen, the cost of failure are orders of magnitude less than when you loose a 10 billion dollar orbiter on re-entry. And of course, nobody ever died from a probe failure.
I wish we could have spared that $70 million per year for levee upgrades in New Orleans.
I suppose though that it's all a question of prioritization. Universal Healthcare vs say
What would we gain in 9 years vs 13?? The same thing we would get by doing it in the first place.
ABSOLUETLY NOTHING
We would have ignored the Wright brothers if their invention to an ARMY of THOUSANDS of engineers and technicians to operate and had no practical economic or military application.
The invention of the Wright Brothers required the efforts of a few bike mechanic's spare time and some extra hands for transportation when they did their tests. It had immediate application as a "toy". And soon as a scouting vehicle for the Army.
Those bases in Antarctica are 100% supported from the outside world. Imagine how expensive a moon base would be. And then compare the cost of harvesting the same materials right here on Earth.
There is a treaty governing the withdrawal of resources from Antarctica. But that isn't the reason no one is mining there. The reason is that Antarctica is the most inhospitable climate on the planet. It is so cold in the winter that AIRPLANE FUEL will freeze in fuel lines.
If you COULD get effectively get to those resources, you could only process them a couple months a year.
Just remember that as inhospitable as Antarctica is, it's 1000 times more liveable than the moon.
If you want the experience of living on the moon, join the Navy and sign up for sub duty.