The prescription hearing aid is a tax deductable medical expense.
"You may deduct only the amount by which your total medical care expenses for the year exceed 7.5% of your adjusted gross income." --Topic 502 - Medical and Dental Expenses
I'd be interested in what sort of arrangement makes your time a charitable contribution. According to IRS Publication 526, "Charitable Contributions" (http://www.irs.gov/publications/p526/ar02.html):
Question:
I do volunteer work 6 hours a week in the office of a qualified organization. The receptionist is paid $10 an hour to do the same work I do. Can I deduct $60 a week for my time?
Answer:
No, you cannot deduct the value of your time or services.
The best password you can remember and type will always be an acronym of a phrase. For instance, "I like hot fudge sundaes too much" maps to "Ilhfs2m".
This is a very strong password because no dictionary attack (except a dictionary of every phrase in the language) will ever guess it, yet it is easy to remember because it is actually a phrase.
when I upgraded to a Monster video cable I noticed that I had much better colour (indicating that before I was suffering from signal degradation)
There are plenty of totally crappy video cables out there. The Monster cables are certainly better than junk cables-- but there are also plenty of good cables that are not Monster cables.
Also note that some of the posters are referring to speaker cables and some are referring to RCA cables. I use lamp cord for speaker cables and I suspect it works just as well as Monster cables. But junky RCA cables will be lossy and may have bad shielding, so Monster cables (or any good RCA cable) will work better.
One final note: use the shortest RCA cables that get the job done. Extra wire coiled up behind the equipment isn't doing any good, and the loss and signal degradation will be greater for a longer cable.
I recently wanted to buy time on the SkypeOut service so that I could call people at $.02/minute from my computer. I figured it was cheaper than setting up a Vonage account, and if the quality was no good, I wouldn't be out anything. That company is located in the U.K., and they have two credit card processing systems-- one is PayPal (which I refuse to use), and the other is a company that performs a similar service in the U.K., called MoneyBookers (they seem to be popular with online casino sites).
Anywho, I plodded through the various screens of signing up, filling in my personal information, and when it came time to charge my credit card MoneyBookers said that it had some "Secure Shopping" system on it, and they would forward me to the appropriate site to enter my password. That site was in fact my credit card issuer's site, and they had me sign up for and pick an initial password for my credit card. Subsequently the MoneyBookers site said my transaction failed, at which point I gave up trying to buy SkypeOut time.
After that I got an email from my credit card issuer saying I should go set my preferences in this new service, and when I went there, lo and behold there is a "reciept" for that failed transaction (they don't seem to think it failed). But the transaction has yet to post to my actual credit card, which I can monitor using a separate website from the "Secure Shopping" website, and which website never refers to "Secure Shopping" feature at all!
When I asked at the "Secure Shopping" website for the places where I can use my "Secure Shopping" password, they list only a few in the U.S., but many, many places in the U.K. So I suspect that this service is more widespread in Europe than it is here. After all, if the merchant doesn't use the service, the check just isn't done-- the charges still go through. It's sort of "optional" extra security. Wouldn't the thief just use a site that doesn't use that security?
I wonder how much of that 3.27B came from "cheating a few pennies" on each auction?
Ebay's profit on that $3.27 Billion in sales was $829.5 Million, or 25 cents profit per dollar of sales. So in a sense it ALL comes from "cheating" a few pennies on each transaction!
Be careful with things like that. It's against the law in some places to record a telephone conversation without the knowledge of the other party. Linda Tripp, the infamous friend of Monica Lewinsky, faced criminal charges for that.
Linda Tripp sued the Pentagon for the leaking of details in her personnel file. The Pentagon settled for $595,000, all of which apparently went to pay for Tripp's legal expenses. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/02/tripp/index.html
Actually, there are several "good" studies--published in reputable journals, with good methodology and solid statistical methods--that show an association between moderate alcohol consumption and appreciably reduced risk of a number of diseases.
But showing an "association" (or "link") between moderate consumption of alchohol and a reduced risk of disease is not the same as showing that moderate consumption of alchohol results in a reduced risk of those diseases.
It is just as likely that the sort of person who drinks moderately has lower stress, and the lower stress is actually reducing the risk of (for instance) heart disease.
An interesting and insightful (but somewhat dated) analysis (by the late Robert Eisner) explaining why a large federal debt might not actually be that bad may be found at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/FederalDebt.htm l.
I don't fly very often (1-2 times per year), but I'm frequently on the "Screen" list (SSSS on your boarding pass). I am a white bread WASPy-looking male. My tickets are purchased in advance with a credit card, usually from Travelocity. Pretty Mainstream!
My understanding is that selection is done automatically by some computer system. I don't know what the selection criteria are, but they clearly are not just "dark skin and funny clothes".
This is from the terms of service, about the Digital Rights Management system:
[...]
h. Starz or its content delivery providers may install on your hard drive one or more deletion mechanisms that delete Content that is outside the availability period for such Content. This deletion mechanism will be required to be installed on your hard drive in order for you to download any Content. Starz and its content delivery providers may verify such installation pursuant to means designated solely by them.
[...]
k. The Services include a digital rights management system. You may not attempt, in conjunction with any device, software program or service, to circumvent, disable, bypass, defeat or modify the digital rights management system, or any other technological measures employed to control access to, or the rights in, any Content.
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"You may deduct only the amount by which your total medical care expenses for the year exceed 7.5% of your adjusted gross income." --Topic 502 - Medical and Dental Expenses
Incorrect conjugation of verbs also makes baby Jesus cry.
Question:
I do volunteer work 6 hours a week in the office of a qualified organization. The receptionist is paid $10 an hour to do the same work I do. Can I deduct $60 a week for my time?
Answer:
No, you cannot deduct the value of your time or services.
Red will win, even though blue gets the majority of the popular vote.
That's because they were conflicting with the new gphp front-end.
This is a very strong password because no dictionary attack (except a dictionary of every phrase in the language) will ever guess it, yet it is easy to remember because it is actually a phrase.
Hint: do not use "Ilhfs2m" as your password now.
There are plenty of totally crappy video cables out there. The Monster cables are certainly better than junk cables-- but there are also plenty of good cables that are not Monster cables.
Also note that some of the posters are referring to speaker cables and some are referring to RCA cables. I use lamp cord for speaker cables and I suspect it works just as well as Monster cables. But junky RCA cables will be lossy and may have bad shielding, so Monster cables (or any good RCA cable) will work better.
One final note: use the shortest RCA cables that get the job done. Extra wire coiled up behind the equipment isn't doing any good, and the loss and signal degradation will be greater for a longer cable.
Anywho, I plodded through the various screens of signing up, filling in my personal information, and when it came time to charge my credit card MoneyBookers said that it had some "Secure Shopping" system on it, and they would forward me to the appropriate site to enter my password. That site was in fact my credit card issuer's site, and they had me sign up for and pick an initial password for my credit card. Subsequently the MoneyBookers site said my transaction failed, at which point I gave up trying to buy SkypeOut time.
After that I got an email from my credit card issuer saying I should go set my preferences in this new service, and when I went there, lo and behold there is a "reciept" for that failed transaction (they don't seem to think it failed). But the transaction has yet to post to my actual credit card, which I can monitor using a separate website from the "Secure Shopping" website, and which website never refers to "Secure Shopping" feature at all!
When I asked at the "Secure Shopping" website for the places where I can use my "Secure Shopping" password, they list only a few in the U.S., but many, many places in the U.K. So I suspect that this service is more widespread in Europe than it is here. After all, if the merchant doesn't use the service, the check just isn't done-- the charges still go through. It's sort of "optional" extra security. Wouldn't the thief just use a site that doesn't use that security?
Ebay's profit on that $3.27 Billion in sales was $829.5 Million, or 25 cents profit per dollar of sales. So in a sense it ALL comes from "cheating" a few pennies on each transaction!
I'm pretty sure that's not even illegal.
The charges against Linda Tripp were dropped after the court decided that Monica Lewinsky was not a credible witness to the crime. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/0 5/24/trippcase.cnn/index.html
Linda Tripp sued the Pentagon for the leaking of details in her personnel file. The Pentagon settled for $595,000, all of which apparently went to pay for Tripp's legal expenses. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/02/tripp/index.html
But I agree, you should be careful with that. Laws vary by state. http://www.rcfp.org/taping/states.html summarizes the law for each state.
Are you sure they weren't painted bright colors so that the patching crew wouldn't miss them when they went down the street doing repairs?
What are examples of really big systems written in PHP that work well?
Analog to Digital Converter-- the circuit that converts the analog light-level signal from the image sensor into a digital pixel value.
Newbie!
I think that at 10 years old they need only know that IT is something that mommies and daddies do when they love each other very much.
Brittany Marries
A thousand servers cry out
To balance the load
How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face?
1. Crayons
2. Colored Pencils
3. Watercolors
On an infinite, two-dimensional, rectangular lattice of 1-ohm resistors, what is the resistance between two nodes that are a knight's move away?
Trick question: There's no such thing as a two-dimensional resistor.
... why aren't our taxes going down?
Because $160m pays for less than one day of the war in Iraq.
This would be true if DRAM were made of transistors, but it's not. It's made (mostly) of capacitors.
But showing an "association" (or "link") between moderate consumption of alchohol and a reduced risk of disease is not the same as showing that moderate consumption of alchohol results in a reduced risk of those diseases.
It is just as likely that the sort of person who drinks moderately has lower stress, and the lower stress is actually reducing the risk of (for instance) heart disease.
So go do yoga instead!
Don't know if they have a "log base 2" keyword, but [log base 2](n) = (log n)/(log 2)
An interesting and insightful (but somewhat dated) analysis (by the late Robert Eisner) explaining why a large federal debt might not actually be that bad may be found at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/FederalDebt.htm l.
2^8K possible values, unless you meant a 1Kbit file.
My understanding is that selection is done automatically by some computer system. I don't know what the selection criteria are, but they clearly are not just "dark skin and funny clothes".