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  1. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 1

    Really so I have a tax lawyer I don't know about?

    Much of this stuff is not clearly laid out online. If it was I surely would not want to take advantage of it either.

  2. Re:"remarkable success" on Inside the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit · · Score: 2

    Because what was wanted was to prevent drive by installs and that sort of thing. Secure boot is a whole other kettle of fish.

    It is about letting MS and the MPAA own your machine, security is only a side effect.

  3. Re:Requires more metal on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 2

    Why?

    Shotguns only have to meet minimum length to avoid being AOWs. So you just make it longer.

  4. Re:Requires more metal on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those are for attaching composite decking, the screws are metal. They are simply coated with a polymer to avoid rusting and staining the composite decking.

  5. Re:Requires more metal on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Why are these not just .410?
    Then you can make it smoothbore, just longer and lower pressure.

  6. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 1

    Which is why they will have to go up in the future.

    Instead of raising taxes when times were good, our idiot government lowered them rather than spend the excess on paying down debt. Now that we need stimulus and money can be borrowed for nearly nothing they want to pay down the debt. I can only assume they failed home economics.

  7. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 1

    In what fantasy land?

    More than likely I will need what little my 401k will provide and any job I can get. Odds are by then tax rates will have gone up, so I will be even more screwed.

  8. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 1

    That most of these methods are not available to you or I. We would not even know about them without the media telling us.

    That means we get to pay more to offset what other don't pay. If we ever want to come close to balancing the budget.

    I do not take any deductions for charity, if I did that it would not be charitable giving.

  9. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 1

    How do you figure?
    I pay whatever the rate is when I take the money out. Likely higher than if I took it as income today.

    No the point of the 401k is to give money away to wall street while not providing for anyone's retirement.

  10. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 2

    You mean the money that I will pay taxes on when I have access to it?

    See how that is different from having access to the money and not paying taxes?

    Honestly I wish I could forgo the 401k it is just a scam to move pensions into the stock market so that I can end up with no retirement and make some bankers wealthy. The entire scheme is a scam on working folks.

  11. Re:I sense a great disturbance in the web... on FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    I do that already.

    I have not been able to find any wild beef herds to hunt though.

  12. Re:I sense a great disturbance in the web... on FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    Please find 1 example of number 5.

  13. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 1

    There is a significant difference between taking deductions listed on the 1040 and creating shell companies to hide your income.

    One can simply look at the amount of effort and the fact that most of these techniques would not be possible for the majority of people or companies to see this.

  14. Re:I sense a great disturbance in the web... on FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    I live in an urban area, and there is a farmers market ~20 miles away. They sell very little meat, and it goes fast. So if you want to get up at 8am on Saturday you do that. I would rather sleep and eat less meat. I will admit I am lazy.

  15. Re:I sense a great disturbance in the web... on FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    I cannot find organic beef regularly. I can never find organic irradiated ground meat. I like the irradiated as I eat burgers far too rare for good sense. If you are going to suggest cooking them, forget it. I would rather not eat a burger than eat a cooked one.

    I actually do object to that use. Antibiotics should be reserved for humans and pets. Farm animals should be quarantined and if they do not recover, destroyed.

  16. Re:I sense a great disturbance in the web... on FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually I am trying to vote with my dollars, not improve my own health.

    I would think it worth it if it improved the lives of my grandchildren.

  17. Re:I sense a great disturbance in the web... on FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 2

    Try reading.

    I have to drive 2 hours to get pork from a family farm. A normal grocery store is less than 10 minutes away.

  18. Re:I sense a great disturbance in the web... on FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell this is just not true in my area.
    I drive about 2 hours for the pork, if my parents did not live nearby I would never do that. If I have to drive farther for meat, I might as well just buy factory farmed crap or skip the meat.

  19. Re:I sense a great disturbance in the web... on FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    Shipping seems like it would be rather expensive.

    Which is not that big a deal, I only eat meat at a maximum once a day.

  20. Re:I sense a great disturbance in the web... on FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    I have a source for pork like that but no other animals.

    Beef locally is available, but they admit to using growth hormones and antibiotics. So I might as well go with factory farmed meat then.

    I have never seen it cheaper than a grocery store. For example the pork I spoke of is more than $4/lb for the meat. The price appears lower at first, but once the butchering is done there is substantial loss.

  21. Re:I sense a great disturbance in the web... on FDA To Decide Fate of Triclosan, Commonly Used In Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 2

    While I agree with you, your next step will not happen. They will not give up antibiotics for farm animals. Hell, I would be glad to buy such a product and pay more for them. Producers however will never want to make that trade.

  22. Re:Why no real specs? on Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013 · · Score: 1

    I agree, but it will come down to specs for me between another NEXUS device and this. The closed or locked down options just don't exist for me.

  23. Why no real specs? on Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why are there no real specs? Makes me think this thing will be years out of date.

    I wish them well, but I am not going to settle for something that should have come out in 2011.

  24. Re:Paging Mr Darwin on Uptick In Whooping Cough Linked To Subpar Vaccines · · Score: 2

    Population is not exploding. Hell without immigration the USA would have a negative growth rate. Even China and India's growth rates are slowing, very few nations have exploding population rates.

  25. Re:All projects need your help. on Open Source Projects For Beginners · · Score: 2

    You mean crippling it?

    Not everything needs to be dombed down that far. If the 21st century is I can only use one application at a time and the mouse is the primary input device, then I will stick with the 20th century.