I think the knock-down argument against your troll is that, just like on TV or the radio, if people flip away durring the ads then it isn't the people's fault. The ads and the service providers just have to try to live on what does get through.
Okay, with SBC, I got back all the money they bilked me out of and stopped the nasty pratice of selling people "basic service" that was the fully loaded (and most expensive) service.
"Unfortunately class action law suits are generally rigged to reward lawyers, not the victims. It is gross."
Unfortunately, this is FUD. There are cases of greedy lawyers doing this, but it is the exception not the rule.
I think most people don't realize how much they need tort to stay the way it is until they are offended.
Put it this way, in order to get the money out of the company, the company needs to have wronged people for at least that amount of money. Would you rater have the nasty company have the money or the greedy lawyer? For me that is a toss up (bad vs. bad) but when you consider that if the company gets to keep the money there is no incentive not to continue the nasty business pratice or to start new sleezier ones, then I think it does matter that the company gets gouged too. The situation is worse than it might be, but after the Right Wing gets its way, it will be much worse. Companys will do what ever they can to bilk consumers and face no monitary pay out what so ever.
Well, yes and no. thi s article claims that even the fastest lcds can only match 60 Hz... so right now refresh rates are not the issue. Don't show me your calculation of how the refresh rate is faster than than. it isn't measured right to do that.
All I was saying is that you claim, "If you use the computer in any way for work, you can deduct it." Was dubious. It's exactly that kind of thinking that can puts you outside the law. i.e. people who claim, "I took a 'business trip' because I thought about work while on sipping margaritas--so I can write off the whole trip as a business expense." Are sometimes surprised that that isn't the intent of the law. Your claim that using a computer, " in any way for work" is similarly misleading.
you write, " If you use the computer in any way for work, you can deduct it."
I write, "If you look in pub 529 you will see that your home computer can only be deducted in certain cases--they say that taking work home does not count and have a 50% use test..."
You write, "You didn't read my original post... My list was fairly specific."
Well, you can deduct your grocery bill if you want, but that doesn't mean that you won't end up in court if you get audited.
I wouldn't deduct most of what you listed (look at pub 529). It is not a business expense because it is otherwise useful (the books and most magazines are useful). As an example, you can't deduct the cost of any dress cloathing that you have to wear to work so long as you could wear it not to work. i.e. coveralls and hard hat are deductable, 3-piece suit, not.
You have to remember though that the people who give you advide (including your tax preparer) are not on the liable for the advice they gave when you get audited. It is you who gets nailed when you get audited, so there is an incentive among preparers to fudge around the edges so that their clients like them and give them word of mouth advertising--afterall, it is their client's asses, not theirs. And since most won't be audited, this works.
If you look in pub 529 you will see that your home computer can only be deducted in certain cases--they say that taking work home does not count and have a 50% use test... but good luck with the roll of the dice.
I'm curious, what made you think that SS benifits have been slashed?
they only cut they have received in the last 30 years is when Regan changed the inflator (the amount the benifits increas by) from the CPI to a more accurate (but every so slightly lower) chain-weighted CPI. There was an outrage and he had to spend a lot of political capital to get it done. But that wasn't a decrease in benefits, and it was over 20 years ago.
Don't know what country you are talking about, but nominal taxes are falling in the United States. Over all outlays are increasing (and thus real taxes are increasing) but they were decreasing from 1993 to 2000.
I've looked for, " administrative bloat, graft, and corruption" and had a hard time finding it. For example, the Social Security Administration is lauded as one of the most efficient orginizations on Earth. They distribute massive amounts of money with almost zero overhead. They are well know for having incredibly dedicated and hard working staff.
Medicare is a health care system manager with only 3% overhead. No insurance company operates with less than 20% overhead. They are a model of efficiency.
I've worked with a lot of government agencies and have seen them all model efficiency on a variety of fronts, many credit it to effective management in the Clinton years.
True, I've never worked with defense and I've heard horror stories and read about the (still) thousand dollar nails.
Never, ever try to apply logic when trying to figure out how the government is run. Your assumption is wrong.
A contractor can only grant access to their facility, however, with a background check you can get access to a wide variety of facilities. The question is, how is your identity verified.
Weather reports are incredibly important to farmers, knowing how much rain will fall this growing season, when there will be a hard frost, et cetera is priceless.
Did you know that reprocessing makes 10 times more volume of waste than not? The 37 year half life of Cs-137 means that storing 1 MCi would require about a thousand years before it was intrinsically safe.
You also can't fission all the transuranics. Or at least and not make money doing so. and there has never been a breeder reactor that was close to sucessful.
good ideas, but you are talking about dreams and we would have to reinvest in tehcnology development (and I mean loads of money) before any of this could be realized.
I think he was trying to say 50% of so called 'descressionary spending.' A term we got when Regan mixed in the Social Security trust (which was and is running in the black) into the rest of the budget to make his spending look like it wasn't costing so much (which was and is running in the red).
No, its more like if we knew of a way to pipe a geothermal vent on another and the two of them were then several million times hotter than either was before.
Just like we have and FAA to make sure planes are safe, we have an NRC to make sure the nuclear power plants are safe. That said, planes do sometimes crash...
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I think the knock-down argument against your troll is that, just like on TV or the radio, if people flip away durring the ads then it isn't the people's fault. The ads and the service providers just have to try to live on what does get through.
Okay, with SBC, I got back all the money they bilked me out of and stopped the nasty pratice of selling people "basic service" that was the fully loaded (and most expensive) service.
I think most people don't realize how much they need tort to stay the way it is until they are offended.
Put it this way, in order to get the money out of the company, the company needs to have wronged people for at least that amount of money. Would you rater have the nasty company have the money or the greedy lawyer? For me that is a toss up (bad vs. bad) but when you consider that if the company gets to keep the money there is no incentive not to continue the nasty business pratice or to start new sleezier ones, then I think it does matter that the company gets gouged too. The situation is worse than it might be, but after the Right Wing gets its way, it will be much worse. Companys will do what ever they can to bilk consumers and face no monitary pay out what so ever.
It's about the gramar. Microsoft can't cause anything. But their work can cause things to happen.
Or, by your logic, every head I see is a triangle, if you can only see three sides, that must be all there is!
Something tells me you do that thing in hide and go seek where you just cover your face--if you can't see them, they can't see you.
None the less, movies look awful on the lcds I've seen. So there is a problem, but it's probably not the 60 Hz issue, I'll give you that.
Well, yes and no. thi s article claims that even the fastest lcds can only match 60 Hz... so right now refresh rates are not the issue. Don't show me your calculation of how the refresh rate is faster than than. it isn't measured right to do that.
All I was saying is that you claim, "If you use the computer in any way for work, you can deduct it." Was dubious. It's exactly that kind of thinking that can puts you outside the law. i.e. people who claim, "I took a 'business trip' because I thought about work while on sipping margaritas--so I can write off the whole trip as a business expense." Are sometimes surprised that that isn't the intent of the law. Your claim that using a computer, " in any way for work" is similarly misleading.
I write, "If you look in pub 529 you will see that your home computer can only be deducted in certain cases--they say that taking work home does not count and have a 50% use test..."
You write, "You didn't read my original post... My list was fairly specific."
I'm going to suggest you take your own medicine.
I wouldn't deduct most of what you listed (look at pub 529). It is not a business expense because it is otherwise useful (the books and most magazines are useful). As an example, you can't deduct the cost of any dress cloathing that you have to wear to work so long as you could wear it not to work. i.e. coveralls and hard hat are deductable, 3-piece suit, not.
You have to remember though that the people who give you advide (including your tax preparer) are not on the liable for the advice they gave when you get audited. It is you who gets nailed when you get audited, so there is an incentive among preparers to fudge around the edges so that their clients like them and give them word of mouth advertising--afterall, it is their client's asses, not theirs. And since most won't be audited, this works.
If you look in pub 529 you will see that your home computer can only be deducted in certain cases--they say that taking work home does not count and have a 50% use test... but good luck with the roll of the dice.
Please, explain it to me.
I asked you what made you think social security was cut. can you tell me?
they only cut they have received in the last 30 years is when Regan changed the inflator (the amount the benifits increas by) from the CPI to a more accurate (but every so slightly lower) chain-weighted CPI. There was an outrage and he had to spend a lot of political capital to get it done. But that wasn't a decrease in benefits, and it was over 20 years ago.
PS, Your talking out your ass about this one too, "Exactly what is it automating which isn't already automated?"
Building enterance; controlled by a guard using visual inspection.
I've looked for, " administrative bloat, graft, and corruption" and had a hard time finding it. For example, the Social Security Administration is lauded as one of the most efficient orginizations on Earth. They distribute massive amounts of money with almost zero overhead. They are well know for having incredibly dedicated and hard working staff.
Medicare is a health care system manager with only 3% overhead. No insurance company operates with less than 20% overhead. They are a model of efficiency.
I've worked with a lot of government agencies and have seen them all model efficiency on a variety of fronts, many credit it to effective management in the Clinton years.
True, I've never worked with defense and I've heard horror stories and read about the (still) thousand dollar nails.
Uh, you are talking out of your ass. 'classified' is not a marking. Look at executive order 13292 .
A contractor can only grant access to their facility, however, with a background check you can get access to a wide variety of facilities. The question is, how is your identity verified.
right, and the humidity in a fog is what again?
Weather reports are incredibly important to farmers, knowing how much rain will fall this growing season, when there will be a hard frost, et cetera is priceless.
Yes, but it is uninformed... so it isn't a very good argument, is it?
You also can't fission all the transuranics. Or at least and not make money doing so. and there has never been a breeder reactor that was close to sucessful.
good ideas, but you are talking about dreams and we would have to reinvest in tehcnology development (and I mean loads of money) before any of this could be realized.
I think he was trying to say 50% of so called 'descressionary spending.' A term we got when Regan mixed in the Social Security trust (which was and is running in the black) into the rest of the budget to make his spending look like it wasn't costing so much (which was and is running in the red).
No, its more like if we knew of a way to pipe a geothermal vent on another and the two of them were then several million times hotter than either was before.
hmm... do we have anybody out there like that...
Just like we have and FAA to make sure planes are safe, we have an NRC to make sure the nuclear power plants are safe. That said, planes do sometimes crash...