Your purchase was filed with the city or county. It's a public record, one that's available online and readily scraped, though I suspect your city or county sells a subscription to get regular updates.
Isn't the point of this story that really rich angry people - the kind that can hire very smart people to predict things - have realized that there is an alternative to coal, and wants to delay that transition as long as possible (or forever, if they can finish taking over the government in time)?
Plenty of loving families are poor - mine was growing up - but to say that any family that has gotten itself financially secure before bringing life into the world is self centered is pretty fucking trollish of you.
Well, we could actually tell all the folks that signed up, "Fooled you! You thought you'd get access to health care, but we're gonna take that away now! Haha!" in a comedic Nelson voice. That'd be more dishonest.
That might still happen. We'll see how the elections go.
The whole damn bill was Republican input. It was written by Republicans and used instead of a significantly better single-payer system out of the hope that at least one Republican would support it. It worked - it got whatshisname in Pennsylvania to support it, who realized around that time that he was not crazy and so might as well switch to the Democrat party anyway.
Of the things we force inmates to do whether they want to or not, signing up for health care is neither shocking nor problematic. I presume we'd have to pay for it anyway.
Increasing access to medicaid was part of the ACA initiative, so calling that "Obamacare" (a made up term that might as well be used to cover all increased insurance coverage that happened due to Obama) sounds reasonable.
If they were supposed to be covered by increased medicaid, but their states opted out, then their states' citizens are now wholly to blame for electing representatives that decided they should pay for coverage only the most expensive way (by subsidizing emergency care for those unable to pay for it) rather than through a more cost effective method.
For the some of the rest - well we need to keep working to give them an opportunity to get signed up and start the preventative care they need to save money in the long term, and if they can't afford the insurance presented, but really want an alternative, we need to find a way to get plans in the system that match their needs and finances.
For the remaining few who could buy, but refuse insurance and would rather pay the tax - it's their own damn fault if they get an illness that the emergency room won't treat. Everyone deserves access to quality health care, but I'm not going to bleed my heart and coddle those that refuse it out of spite.
The Wikipedia article on rogue planets discusses ways in which they could retain an atmosphere, warmth, and liquid water. If we knew one of these was in the neighborhood, and knew it was going somewhere interesting, we could use it as a ship. It's possible that we could get to one in a few centuries of travel, and then perhaps colonize it, and ride it the rest of the way to our ultimate destination. That's assuming wherever the rogue planet was going was more interesting and/or less deadly than wherever Earth was going at the time.
We use a Roku box, yes, but if Netflix will give us a free subscription I'd host a reasonable peer buffer/streaming service on a Linux box for them. $10/month is probably less than Google would charge for similar in my area.
At retirement. Sum of assets, likely including home equity which you could (in theory) draw from in retirement via reverse mortgage.
$250,000 house, fully paid off (you probably bought it for $175,000 30 years prior and paid $375,000 for it over 30 years including interest) $500,000 401k after diligently saving since you paid off your college loans around age 30 $250,000 in IRA, Roth IRA, misc. stocks and bonds, bullion, etc. which you stashed away whenever you could
If you don't have that and are under 70, you probably shouldn't retire and instead plan for a Walmart greeter career.
Same with the iPod, everything can play music now. My iPad and phone included, so sure. The idea of an iPod that ONLY plays music is sort of a dated concept. My wife loves her nano and small iPods for the gym, which makes sense for working out and instances where you only need music. But in general, things like browsing the web or running apps is basically expected now, regardless of the ecosystem or OS.
An iPod that only plays music is called my old iPhone, except it also has apps, internet via wifi, video if I cared to bother, etc. my old iPhone moves between my car's iPod jack and one on a radio in our house. My wife's old phone lives in her car attached to its iPod jack, in both cases more convenient than our current phones since the plugs changed AND we don't have to bother attaching and detaching it. In my case my "iPod" cost me like $50 I would have gotten selling it, far less than the cost of a new Touch that would work in those existing plugs anyway.
I think the DRM was only for one year or two at most, and that was five or six years ago. Either I'm still punishing them for their transgression, or I have no reason to switch until H&R Block screws me, pick a reason. Either way, Turbo Tax had their chance and now H&R has theirs.
Thanks for the advice. Given our circumstances one child might be all we get. We live in a city, but since we delayed kids long enough, we're able to live somewhere nice where we can walk and play outside, and have chickens and a huge yard with vegetables and trees. If my daughter gets to play more outside than inside I'll be happy.
The odds of that egg impregnating in a 50-year-old woman are insanely low. I'll say 1.5% to make up a number. The cost to implant that egg is some pretty affordable medicine and a half day as an outpatient, and they can plant 3 at a time (assuming it's not inhumane to risk triplets or abort one, depending on your views).
However, the cost to retrieve eggs is about $15,000 in medicine, and then you only get the number of eggs produced that cycle. For a young woman, that might be 20 healthy, viable eggs. For a 35 year old woman that might be 7 eggs, only four of which are viable.
So while it won't be easier to plant a young egg in an old mother, it's much cheaper to have lots of eggs and play the numbers if you get the eggs when you're young.
Correction, not one but 5-25 eggs are released per cycle, depending on the number of active follicles. I didn't know this until we did IVF. The number of follicles that still release eggs at all goes down with age, and the average egg quality also goes down, especially over age 30.
If you're with an established partner and under age 30, but don't want kids yet, I'd encourage spending the ~$15k to freeze a dozen 5-6 day old embryos. When you're 35, you'll have a much better chance to have healthy children, and can donate the rest to women who can't produce their own. (The pregnancy odds at 35 are around 20%, so with a dozen embryos you should be able to have two or maybe three children.)
Kids aren't something to "get out of the way" - they're the most important thing in your life (if you choose to have them). I've already lived a great life with my spouse kid free, when I was young enough to enjoy it (and could focus what spare income we had on us) and now I'm ready to have a family. And now I have plenty of money and time to make the family the most important thing, not just something to get over with already.
NPR this morning mentioned that, in all of 2013, OpenSSL received just $2000 in donations that they could use for "maintenance of the code base" work. (All of their other income was earmarked for specific work for specific customers.)
Funny enough, they said they've gotten some $10,000 this year, in the last few weeks, though note that most of this is small donations from other countries. There's no indication yet that any of the big U.S. corps most affected by this want to pony up the cash for a full security audit, though maybe some have employees working on it internally (for their own servers' versions, or maybe to share upstream).
I liked the analogy made in the NPR story, that OpenSSL is like public works infrastructure, except it has no tax authority for maintenance income. Not that I think paying for software should be mandatory, but hopefully some people will decide that, even when they don't have to pay "tax" on something, sometimes it's in their best interest to do so.
My first baby will be born in a few months. My intention is for tablets to be used only outside the house, when we are in a public space like a (family-appropriate where I'm not being an ass taking my young child) restaurant, and quiet activity is most important as to not disturb neighbors (even though they should be okay with occasional child noise going to a family-appropriate restaurant). It might be appropriate in a car as well, when I'm alone with them and should be focused on the road, not them.
Real books, being read by a real parent, building blocks, and a shovel and some dirt should be the mainstay of home play. They worked pretty well for me.
I have packed a car for a road trip countless times in my life, and my ability to find the correct pattern to fill all available space is directly attributable to my extensive practice with LEGO bricks.
Actually, I think my ability to pack parts onto a PCB layout tighter than most other engineers and layout designers is also drawn from this, and that does have direct job benefits.
Someone who played a lot of Tetris might have the same skills; I was never interested in that game.
Your $100 isn't enough to get him reelected. If, on the other hand, a corporation controlled by a friend of your brother makes a $200,000 contribution to the judge's reelection campaign a few months after you're surprisingly acquitted by the judge, then that's free speech.
Turbo Tax's DRM stunt also got me to switch - in my case to Tax Cut (now called H&R Block At Home). It moved easily with me from Windows to OSX, and for the last few years it's pretty simple to type "H&R Block coupon" into Google, follow a link, and download the software I need for ~30% off their list price. It's been able to handle both our taxes and those of the grandparents we were responsible for, even as our needs have grown to now include a home business, various types of stock transactions including foreign stock, etc., plus inheritance and estate issues when we filed those final returns, too.
To the original submitter: if you live in Texas, and you only took an hour and a half to do your taxes, you did it wrong. Texans can claim a sales tax deduction because we don't pay a state income tax. The IRS provides a table you can use to guesstimate your sales tax paid, but the amount they give is a lowball, especially for people who have discretionary income to buy luxury goods like technology items - the kind of people who frequent Slashdot. It only takes a few hours of TV watching to enter all my receipts into a spreadsheet to sum them up, and last year I paid ~$2000 more in sales tax than the table would have suggested.* That translates directly into a ~$600 tax break for a few hours work. Unless you make or grow all your own food, and don't buy new laptops and phones and game systems, y'all other Texans should have been saving receipts and saving money.
* Not including taxes on a car, of course, since those can be added onto the table amount anyway.
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Your purchase was filed with the city or county. It's a public record, one that's available online and readily scraped, though I suspect your city or county sells a subscription to get regular updates.
Isn't the point of this story that really rich angry people - the kind that can hire very smart people to predict things - have realized that there is an alternative to coal, and wants to delay that transition as long as possible (or forever, if they can finish taking over the government in time)?
Plenty of loving families are poor - mine was growing up - but to say that any family that has gotten itself financially secure before bringing life into the world is self centered is pretty fucking trollish of you.
Well, we could actually tell all the folks that signed up, "Fooled you! You thought you'd get access to health care, but we're gonna take that away now! Haha!" in a comedic Nelson voice. That'd be more dishonest.
That might still happen. We'll see how the elections go.
The whole damn bill was Republican input. It was written by Republicans and used instead of a significantly better single-payer system out of the hope that at least one Republican would support it. It worked - it got whatshisname in Pennsylvania to support it, who realized around that time that he was not crazy and so might as well switch to the Democrat party anyway.
I didn't read the rest of your rant. Sorry.
Of the things we force inmates to do whether they want to or not, signing up for health care is neither shocking nor problematic. I presume we'd have to pay for it anyway.
Increasing access to medicaid was part of the ACA initiative, so calling that "Obamacare" (a made up term that might as well be used to cover all increased insurance coverage that happened due to Obama) sounds reasonable.
If they were supposed to be covered by increased medicaid, but their states opted out, then their states' citizens are now wholly to blame for electing representatives that decided they should pay for coverage only the most expensive way (by subsidizing emergency care for those unable to pay for it) rather than through a more cost effective method.
For the some of the rest - well we need to keep working to give them an opportunity to get signed up and start the preventative care they need to save money in the long term, and if they can't afford the insurance presented, but really want an alternative, we need to find a way to get plans in the system that match their needs and finances.
For the remaining few who could buy, but refuse insurance and would rather pay the tax - it's their own damn fault if they get an illness that the emergency room won't treat. Everyone deserves access to quality health care, but I'm not going to bleed my heart and coddle those that refuse it out of spite.
The Wikipedia article on rogue planets discusses ways in which they could retain an atmosphere, warmth, and liquid water. If we knew one of these was in the neighborhood, and knew it was going somewhere interesting, we could use it as a ship. It's possible that we could get to one in a few centuries of travel, and then perhaps colonize it, and ride it the rest of the way to our ultimate destination. That's assuming wherever the rogue planet was going was more interesting and/or less deadly than wherever Earth was going at the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
Per the article, it could also be a "sub-brown dwarf".
We use a Roku box, yes, but if Netflix will give us a free subscription I'd host a reasonable peer buffer/streaming service on a Linux box for them. $10/month is probably less than Google would charge for similar in my area.
At retirement. Sum of assets, likely including home equity which you could (in theory) draw from in retirement via reverse mortgage.
$250,000 house, fully paid off (you probably bought it for $175,000 30 years prior and paid $375,000 for it over 30 years including interest)
$500,000 401k after diligently saving since you paid off your college loans around age 30
$250,000 in IRA, Roth IRA, misc. stocks and bonds, bullion, etc. which you stashed away whenever you could
If you don't have that and are under 70, you probably shouldn't retire and instead plan for a Walmart greeter career.
Same with the iPod, everything can play music now. My iPad and phone included, so sure. The idea of an iPod that ONLY plays music is sort of a dated concept. My wife loves her nano and small iPods for the gym, which makes sense for working out and instances where you only need music. But in general, things like browsing the web or running apps is basically expected now, regardless of the ecosystem or OS.
An iPod that only plays music is called my old iPhone, except it also has apps, internet via wifi, video if I cared to bother, etc. my old iPhone moves between my car's iPod jack and one on a radio in our house. My wife's old phone lives in her car attached to its iPod jack, in both cases more convenient than our current phones since the plugs changed AND we don't have to bother attaching and detaching it. In my case my "iPod" cost me like $50 I would have gotten selling it, far less than the cost of a new Touch that would work in those existing plugs anyway.
I visited Taipei 101 a few months back, which has (IIRC) the fastest elevators in the world right now at about 35 MPH.
My ears popped three times. Each way.
So the answer is simple: they don't avoid the popping.
I think the DRM was only for one year or two at most, and that was five or six years ago. Either I'm still punishing them for their transgression, or I have no reason to switch until H&R Block screws me, pick a reason. Either way, Turbo Tax had their chance and now H&R has theirs.
Thanks for the advice. Given our circumstances one child might be all we get. We live in a city, but since we delayed kids long enough, we're able to live somewhere nice where we can walk and play outside, and have chickens and a huge yard with vegetables and trees. If my daughter gets to play more outside than inside I'll be happy.
The odds of that egg impregnating in a 50-year-old woman are insanely low. I'll say 1.5% to make up a number. The cost to implant that egg is some pretty affordable medicine and a half day as an outpatient, and they can plant 3 at a time (assuming it's not inhumane to risk triplets or abort one, depending on your views).
However, the cost to retrieve eggs is about $15,000 in medicine, and then you only get the number of eggs produced that cycle. For a young woman, that might be 20 healthy, viable eggs. For a 35 year old woman that might be 7 eggs, only four of which are viable.
So while it won't be easier to plant a young egg in an old mother, it's much cheaper to have lots of eggs and play the numbers if you get the eggs when you're young.
Correction, not one but 5-25 eggs are released per cycle, depending on the number of active follicles. I didn't know this until we did IVF. The number of follicles that still release eggs at all goes down with age, and the average egg quality also goes down, especially over age 30.
If you're with an established partner and under age 30, but don't want kids yet, I'd encourage spending the ~$15k to freeze a dozen 5-6 day old embryos. When you're 35, you'll have a much better chance to have healthy children, and can donate the rest to women who can't produce their own. (The pregnancy odds at 35 are around 20%, so with a dozen embryos you should be able to have two or maybe three children.)
Kids aren't something to "get out of the way" - they're the most important thing in your life (if you choose to have them). I've already lived a great life with my spouse kid free, when I was young enough to enjoy it (and could focus what spare income we had on us) and now I'm ready to have a family. And now I have plenty of money and time to make the family the most important thing, not just something to get over with already.
NPR this morning mentioned that, in all of 2013, OpenSSL received just $2000 in donations that they could use for "maintenance of the code base" work. (All of their other income was earmarked for specific work for specific customers.)
Funny enough, they said they've gotten some $10,000 this year, in the last few weeks, though note that most of this is small donations from other countries. There's no indication yet that any of the big U.S. corps most affected by this want to pony up the cash for a full security audit, though maybe some have employees working on it internally (for their own servers' versions, or maybe to share upstream).
I liked the analogy made in the NPR story, that OpenSSL is like public works infrastructure, except it has no tax authority for maintenance income. Not that I think paying for software should be mandatory, but hopefully some people will decide that, even when they don't have to pay "tax" on something, sometimes it's in their best interest to do so.
My first baby will be born in a few months. My intention is for tablets to be used only outside the house, when we are in a public space like a (family-appropriate where I'm not being an ass taking my young child) restaurant, and quiet activity is most important as to not disturb neighbors (even though they should be okay with occasional child noise going to a family-appropriate restaurant). It might be appropriate in a car as well, when I'm alone with them and should be focused on the road, not them.
Real books, being read by a real parent, building blocks, and a shovel and some dirt should be the mainstay of home play. They worked pretty well for me.
I have packed a car for a road trip countless times in my life, and my ability to find the correct pattern to fill all available space is directly attributable to my extensive practice with LEGO bricks.
Actually, I think my ability to pack parts onto a PCB layout tighter than most other engineers and layout designers is also drawn from this, and that does have direct job benefits.
Someone who played a lot of Tetris might have the same skills; I was never interested in that game.
Your $100 isn't enough to get him reelected. If, on the other hand, a corporation controlled by a friend of your brother makes a $200,000 contribution to the judge's reelection campaign a few months after you're surprisingly acquitted by the judge, then that's free speech.
H&R Block At Home is cheaper than Turbo Tax at every tier, and would have also been able to do what you wanted.
Turbo Tax's DRM stunt also got me to switch - in my case to Tax Cut (now called H&R Block At Home). It moved easily with me from Windows to OSX, and for the last few years it's pretty simple to type "H&R Block coupon" into Google, follow a link, and download the software I need for ~30% off their list price. It's been able to handle both our taxes and those of the grandparents we were responsible for, even as our needs have grown to now include a home business, various types of stock transactions including foreign stock, etc., plus inheritance and estate issues when we filed those final returns, too.
To the original submitter: if you live in Texas, and you only took an hour and a half to do your taxes, you did it wrong. Texans can claim a sales tax deduction because we don't pay a state income tax. The IRS provides a table you can use to guesstimate your sales tax paid, but the amount they give is a lowball, especially for people who have discretionary income to buy luxury goods like technology items - the kind of people who frequent Slashdot. It only takes a few hours of TV watching to enter all my receipts into a spreadsheet to sum them up, and last year I paid ~$2000 more in sales tax than the table would have suggested.* That translates directly into a ~$600 tax break for a few hours work. Unless you make or grow all your own food, and don't buy new laptops and phones and game systems, y'all other Texans should have been saving receipts and saving money.
* Not including taxes on a car, of course, since those can be added onto the table amount anyway.
My iPhone is named Archon today. I loved that game.