Tax laws are ridiculously complex (if they weren't you wouldn't need tax software). You really need a team of lawyers and accountants, which TurboTax, Tax Cut, etc. provide.
I sure wouldn't trust a 15 year old kid, a socialist hippy, or some guy in a foreign country to write tax preparation software.
That pretty much disqualifies any open source/freeware/shareware tax packages.
Considering the time/headache of doing it yourself vs an accountant vs tax software, I think the software is a good deal.
Hi. I've used TaxCut the past 2 years (I used to do my taxes manually, but I had some capital gains and couldn't quite understand how the forms were supposed to be filled out). I went with TaxCut for price reasons. How would you say TurboTax is better than TaxCut?
That's an interesting perspective. Do you also appluad the courage of their political prisoners who don't mind having their organs harvested? Did Chernoble's victims have guts, or did the gov't not want to admit they fucked up?
In case you forgot, China is a communist country with state-run media and more censorship than michael sims can dream about. If a space shuttle explodes and kills a few taikonauts then the launch never happened.
Wandering around doesn't improve your chances. Modern slots are a random number generator. Statistically, playing one machine is the same as jumping from machine to machine. The only advantage wandering has is that you're not losing money while you're walking between machines. I suspect this theory is based on the idea that some slots are looser than others. By playing them all, you'll get the average looseness rather than possibly being stuck on a machine tighter than virgin pussy. Most casinos have a single looseness setting for all machines these days.
The gambler never has an edge. Especially where slots are involved. The best payout you'll find is around 95%; the house keeps 5-20%. It's a zero sum game - every $0.75 you win was a dollar lost by someone else. The only way to gain an edge involves cheating or card counting (either direct or indirectly).
When casinos were mob-owned, they made their own rules. Indian casinos are on soverign territory, and can play by their own rules, but otherwise the gaming industry is *very* regulated. Sure, they could pull tricks on you with bar codes, but they could have done that already with frequent-player cards used for comps. They don't need to, though, because the odds are stacked in their favor.
The compression is non-linear delta based. Although it's easy enough (with the right hardware) to decode to your screen for viewing, you can't just edit a single frame. You would need to decode teh DIV/mpeg/etc to a raw frame-by-frame format (a few hundred gigs for the average movie), then edit the individual frames, then recompress.
That's going to result in a lower quality movie overall from the dual compression.
Had Steve Jobs not been kicked out, Apple might have been like NeXT - trying to sell (even more) ridiculously expensive hardware, except with a shitty OS. And probably would have gone bankrupt, too.
where i live, the state is divided into regions, and each region has 1 electric company servicing it. The same is partially true of telephone service (my lines are owned by one of the baby bells, but my billing is handled by a local company which rents the line from the baby bell). The same is true of cable service. The city selected a cable company, and I don't have any choice. I don't like the local airport, so I tried building another. I'm shit out of luck, though, because they're a monopoly too.
Canadian incomes are, on average, 30% lower. Because of that, many items are priced less in Canada.
Another factor is that direct consumer advertising is illegal in Canada. (US is one of the few countries where it is legal). So the marketing is done only to doctors and gov't beaurocrats, not consumers.
As for cost shifting, Medicare/Medicaid only pay for 50-70% of the actual cost. The other 30-50% is paid for by higher rates for paying (insured) people. There's no explicit tax raising the cost of pills.
Apache was originally developed at NCSA in Illinois - ie college students, gov't funding.
BSD was originally developed at Berkeley - ie college students, gov't funding.
XWindows was originally developed at MIT - ie college students, gov't funding
GNU was originally developd at MIT - ie tenured college professors stealing BSD code and relicensing it.
Linux was originally developed by a college student in Finland.
See a pattern yet?
Perl is actually an exception in that it was originally developed to scan HTTP logs to see who was downloading porn at the NSA, and Larry Wall is now employed by O'Reilly which is the number 1 publisher of perl books, does a lot of perl training, etc. so there is a business model behind it.
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I sure wouldn't trust a 15 year old kid, a socialist hippy, or some guy in a foreign country to write tax preparation software.
That pretty much disqualifies any open source/freeware/shareware tax packages.
Considering the time/headache of doing it yourself vs an accountant vs tax software, I think the software is a good deal.
please post an interesting story instead of this shit.
Have you ever heard of Deep Blue (or it's brethren) defeating a female chess player? Of course not.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Slashdot runs MS ads.
In case you forgot, China is a communist country with state-run media and more censorship than michael sims can dream about. If a space shuttle explodes and kills a few taikonauts then the launch never happened.
I hope their space suits can handle diarrhea!
I don't see how we could be behind the times. They didn't develop their own space program, they bought some old russian parts.
0xbeefbabe & (~0x04) == 0xbeefbabe & 0xfffffff8
I prefer a doggy-style server architecture.
More likely google's referrer string points you to information on their cache, in case you don't want to be spirdered.
That's going to result in a lower quality movie overall from the dual compression.
Yeah, this would ruin the movie for me too.
Had Steve Jobs not been kicked out, Apple might have been like NeXT - trying to sell (even more) ridiculously expensive hardware, except with a shitty OS. And probably would have gone bankrupt, too.
just make sure your mail form is nice and secure... unless you like spammers violating it like CmdrTaco's ass in prison :(
The GNU General Public License is NOT Open Source.
where i live, the state is divided into regions, and each region has 1 electric company servicing it. The same is partially true of telephone service (my lines are owned by one of the baby bells, but my billing is handled by a local company which rents the line from the baby bell). The same is true of cable service. The city selected a cable company, and I don't have any choice. I don't like the local airport, so I tried building another. I'm shit out of luck, though, because they're a monopoly too.
Canadian incomes are, on average, 30% lower. Because of that, many items are priced less in Canada.
Another factor is that direct consumer advertising is illegal in Canada. (US is one of the few countries where it is legal). So the marketing is done only to doctors and gov't beaurocrats, not consumers.
As for cost shifting, Medicare/Medicaid only pay for 50-70% of the actual cost. The other 30-50% is paid for by higher rates for paying (insured) people. There's no explicit tax raising the cost of pills.
I don't know about the front end, but you can get a picture of the back-end here
holy fuck! I would eat the corn out of her shit!
BSD was originally developed at Berkeley - ie college students, gov't funding.
XWindows was originally developed at MIT - ie college students, gov't funding
GNU was originally developd at MIT - ie tenured college professors stealing BSD code and relicensing it.
Linux was originally developed by a college student in Finland.
See a pattern yet?
Perl is actually an exception in that it was originally developed to scan HTTP logs to see who was downloading porn at the NSA, and Larry Wall is now employed by O'Reilly which is the number 1 publisher of perl books, does a lot of perl training, etc. so there is a business model behind it.