"Oh no not ugly, because of course the first function of a car is to look cool."
I've never owned anything in my life but 2-seat sports cars (ok, the 911 turbo technically was a 4-seater, but no one really could sit in the back).
Do I buy cars like this for what other people think? No.
I just happen to enjoy performance cars, cars that are fun to drive. Unlike some people, a car is not merely a means to get from point A to point B. Every time I get in one of my cars, it is an adventure. I like to crank up the tunes and hit the road. Sometimes, fun to turn off the music, and listen to a nicely tuned exhaust note. Performance and looks of a car are the #1 things important to me (aside from price tag), I could care less about fuel consumption. I have a good job, I can afford gas, no problem.
I'm not the only one out there that enjoys a good car like this...so, if they want everyone to be actually interested in an efficient car...make it handle well, tweak out performance..and make it look good. If you can get the price tag reasonable...that would seal the deal.
I'd LOVE to get a Tesla. If they could get it down to the price of a standard Corvette...I'd have one.
It isn't a matter of growing up...unless your definition of growing up is to give up the things in life that excite and amuse you? If so, I feel sorry for ya.
Life is WAY too short to compromise and live dully....I try to find things every day to make my day worth living and fun. I ain't gonna be here forever, so, I'm making the most of every minute I have here. Fun cars are one of the many treats I give myself.
However, shooting invading foreigners while not funny...makes sense I think. We need to do something to protect our borders, hell it is one of the FEW enumerated powers the federal govt. is supposed to have and do per the Constitution.
I have no problem with immigrants who come over through legal channels. Like Dennis Miller once said....I don't care if you want to come over, just sign the fucking guest book on the way in..
We can regulate, and ensure we are getting good people, and keep the criminal element out. I'm for streamlining the immigration policy and laws. But I think we need to have a serious deterrent to people illegally crossing our borders and invading our soil. I'd have no problem with having a no man's land section, and let our military sharpshooters get practice taking out anyone coming across where they shouldn't be. In lieu of that...lets put land mines all along the border.
I mean...anyone not crossing at the designated checkpoints, can't be up to any good...so, lets deter their asses. If we can't build a fence, lets mine it or put up snipers to guard it. I'll be after criminals trying to cross illegally see some head shots and people blowing up...that'll stop that illegal crossing real fucking quick.
"You live in New Orleans and don't see sidewalks? "
Yes, I live in NOLA. I exaggerated a bit, but not too much. Sure I see sidewalks, I am lucky to live in one of the safer neighborhoods down here...I walk my dog around the block...when weather warms up, I'll walk over to City Park. But aside from that...there are MANY sidewalks down here you don't wanna be walking on...you could get mugged and/or shot. And to do daily things in life like work...buy groceries, shop for anything...etc...walking just isn't a viable method of transport. I was saying in most US cities, walking just isn't useful for anything but some occasional exercise for you and your pet.
I'm actually fortunate enough to live not far from the newer streetcar lines, and when I want to hit the Quarter, and not deal with parking (and not on my motorcycle which makes that easier)...I hop on the street car. But you can't depend on it for times, etc...so, it has to be a day when you're not in a hurry or on a tight schedule. Often I ride down in the day, but have to catch a cab home if I wanna get home at any decent hour. Public transportation and walking/biking are just not practical for daily life needs in most cities.
Older manual cars? Err..they still make plenty of manual transmission cars. Personally, I've never owned a car with an automatic transmission in my entire life...
"Heh. You don't need to know everyones name on a busy city street to navigate down the sidewalk do you?"
Trouble is in most cities...the only time one sees a sidewalk is when getting the newpaper outside the doorsteep...or in my case...when I get outta the car and walk around the French Quarter for a bit.
To get anywhere in most cities, walking ain't gonna do it.
Well, there's your problem. Remember the words "Rap" and "Music" are mutually exclusive terms...kinda like Military Intelligence, they just don't go together!!!
"And still no WYSIWYG comment box, only HTML or plain text. If I wanted to code I wouldn't be reading slashdot would I?"
You know...I've been typing messages here for so long, adding HTML tags for the comments, that I actually forget and start adding them in absent-mindedly on other sites where it isn't required.
How the fuck can I turn on the classic Slashdot look and feel? I don't care about what changed under the sheets, but I can't find shit on the pages anymore, and is a PITA to read easily.
Because that is all he receives as a salary, likely at a W2 employee of Apple. I'm sure he declares other income..stocks...etc.
What I'm talking about, and what the guy got busted for was likely as being a contractor...a one person S corporation. What I described was say that you worked and through your company..billed $120K a year. You paid yourself a salary of only $40K out of that.on which you pay SS, medicare, state and federal taxes. At the end of the year...the remaining $100K 'falls through' to your personal taxes. Now..that remaining amount (minus business deductions) is taxed ONLY for federal and state...you don't pay SS and medicare on that money....hence your savings.
Your 'salary' you pay yourself has to be a 'reasonable' amount...on what you charge basically, to manage your own company and employee(s)..
It is a tax loophole basically for the common man. Perfectly legal, as long as you don't get greedy and don't pay SS and medicare on enough of what you bill.
You can easily do this in an S corp....in fact that's why most people set them up.
But you just have to pay yourself a 'reasonable' salary. For instance, if you bill like $120K roughly...then pay yourself a salary of $40-$50K....pay employer taxes on that...and the rest can fall through.
Only declaring $24K salary on almost $400K is just asking for the IRS to kick you in the balls.
Of course, with the Feds spending the country into oblivion, they may start looking even at people paying reasonable (according to the vague rules that have worked for decades) and try to fsck with them. Sad...this was about the last and only way to keep a proper amount of one's earnings from Uncle Sam.
"Not any more than not getting it at all. Meaning a third worlder who can get said out of date medicine would be better off with it."
Yeah, but isn't overpopulation a problem in most 3rd world countries?
If we give them ways to keep too many people alive longer, rather than let nature correct the problem, just make things worse over there for the people and their already limited resources?
Not a 'nice' thing to think about...but kinda logical?
I refuse to have a Debit card. Last couple times, they tried sending me an ATM card, it doubled as a debit card. I sent them back, the bank apologized, and sent me an ATM only card.
I don't like the idea of if a thief gets a card, or in this case my phone...the cash is GONE out of my account then and there, until "I" can somehow prove that it wasn't me who took it out.
I don't like debit cards...I'll certainly not be allowing my phone to be signed up to purchase things.
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I've never owned anything in my life but 2-seat sports cars (ok, the 911 turbo technically was a 4-seater, but no one really could sit in the back).
Do I buy cars like this for what other people think? No.
I just happen to enjoy performance cars, cars that are fun to drive. Unlike some people, a car is not merely a means to get from point A to point B. Every time I get in one of my cars, it is an adventure. I like to crank up the tunes and hit the road. Sometimes, fun to turn off the music, and listen to a nicely tuned exhaust note. Performance and looks of a car are the #1 things important to me (aside from price tag), I could care less about fuel consumption. I have a good job, I can afford gas, no problem.
I'm not the only one out there that enjoys a good car like this...so, if they want everyone to be actually interested in an efficient car...make it handle well, tweak out performance..and make it look good. If you can get the price tag reasonable...that would seal the deal.
I'd LOVE to get a Tesla. If they could get it down to the price of a standard Corvette...I'd have one.
It isn't a matter of growing up...unless your definition of growing up is to give up the things in life that excite and amuse you? If so, I feel sorry for ya.
Life is WAY too short to compromise and live dully....I try to find things every day to make my day worth living and fun. I ain't gonna be here forever, so, I'm making the most of every minute I have here. Fun cars are one of the many treats I give myself.
No...shooting poor people is not funny.
However, shooting invading foreigners while not funny...makes sense I think. We need to do something to protect our borders, hell it is one of the FEW enumerated powers the federal govt. is supposed to have and do per the Constitution.
I have no problem with immigrants who come over through legal channels. Like Dennis Miller once said....I don't care if you want to come over, just sign the fucking guest book on the way in..
We can regulate, and ensure we are getting good people, and keep the criminal element out. I'm for streamlining the immigration policy and laws. But I think we need to have a serious deterrent to people illegally crossing our borders and invading our soil. I'd have no problem with having a no man's land section, and let our military sharpshooters get practice taking out anyone coming across where they shouldn't be. In lieu of that...lets put land mines all along the border.
I mean...anyone not crossing at the designated checkpoints, can't be up to any good...so, lets deter their asses. If we can't build a fence, lets mine it or put up snipers to guard it. I'll be after criminals trying to cross illegally see some head shots and people blowing up...that'll stop that illegal crossing real fucking quick.
Oops...reread the article...99MPH.
Hmm..not too good, you could get run over on some patches of highway down here doing that...
I'd take a bit less mileage if they could improve the top speed and what I'm guessing are fairly abysmal 0-60mph speeds. It sure looks sport though!!!
I wonder what its 0-60mph times are? Top speed?
I was thinking the same thing..but that they could kill two birds with one stone so to speak.
Get an illegal to hold the drugs and shoot them BOTH over the fence at the same time!!!
Now...if we just had our sharpshooters ready it would be like shooting MX skeet.
"PULL".....bang....[sombrero goes spinning up in the air]
How can I get it to show on my front page again...yesterdays stories...etc?
Yes, I live in NOLA. I exaggerated a bit, but not too much. Sure I see sidewalks, I am lucky to live in one of the safer neighborhoods down here...I walk my dog around the block...when weather warms up, I'll walk over to City Park. But aside from that...there are MANY sidewalks down here you don't wanna be walking on...you could get mugged and/or shot. And to do daily things in life like work...buy groceries, shop for anything...etc...walking just isn't a viable method of transport. I was saying in most US cities, walking just isn't useful for anything but some occasional exercise for you and your pet.
I'm actually fortunate enough to live not far from the newer streetcar lines, and when I want to hit the Quarter, and not deal with parking (and not on my motorcycle which makes that easier)...I hop on the street car. But you can't depend on it for times, etc...so, it has to be a day when you're not in a hurry or on a tight schedule. Often I ride down in the day, but have to catch a cab home if I wanna get home at any decent hour. Public transportation and walking/biking are just not practical for daily life needs in most cities.
Older manual cars? Err..they still make plenty of manual transmission cars. Personally, I've never owned a car with an automatic transmission in my entire life...
Trouble is in most cities...the only time one sees a sidewalk is when getting the newpaper outside the doorsteep...or in my case...when I get outta the car and walk around the French Quarter for a bit.
To get anywhere in most cities, walking ain't gonna do it.
Well, there's your problem. Remember the words "Rap" and "Music" are mutually exclusive terms...kinda like Military Intelligence, they just don't go together!!!
Hey...if they'd at least gotten that chick (Fergie?)...they'd have at least gotten someone they could put in ads for people to enjoy looking at....
You know...I've been typing messages here for so long, adding HTML tags for the comments, that I actually forget and start adding them in absent-mindedly on other sites where it isn't required.
How the fuck can I turn on the classic Slashdot look and feel? I don't care about what changed under the sheets, but I can't find shit on the pages anymore, and is a PITA to read easily.
I assumed universal, bit if picking...American.
Geez, I can't find shit in here...and when trying to hit options (with firefox), looks like half the options aren't showing up...
*sigh*
I hope in preferences there is a way to revert back yet again to classic slashdot...
Hey, that sounds like a plus!!
If they interrupt Family Guy, well then....that's a WHOLE new ballgame!!
It sucks...if they get rid of this..then ONLY big corporations can ditch taxes. Kill the regular guy first I guess is how the feds want it...
Those roaming charges are gonna be a mother fucker!!!
Hmm...guess I could have googled first....
How shall we fuck off oh lord?
What I'm talking about, and what the guy got busted for was likely as being a contractor...a one person S corporation. What I described was say that you worked and through your company..billed $120K a year. You paid yourself a salary of only $40K out of that.on which you pay SS, medicare, state and federal taxes. At the end of the year...the remaining $100K 'falls through' to your personal taxes. Now..that remaining amount (minus business deductions) is taxed ONLY for federal and state...you don't pay SS and medicare on that money....hence your savings.
Your 'salary' you pay yourself has to be a 'reasonable' amount...on what you charge basically, to manage your own company and employee(s)..
It is a tax loophole basically for the common man. Perfectly legal, as long as you don't get greedy and don't pay SS and medicare on enough of what you bill.
But you just have to pay yourself a 'reasonable' salary. For instance, if you bill like $120K roughly...then pay yourself a salary of $40-$50K....pay employer taxes on that...and the rest can fall through.
Only declaring $24K salary on almost $400K is just asking for the IRS to kick you in the balls.
Of course, with the Feds spending the country into oblivion, they may start looking even at people paying reasonable (according to the vague rules that have worked for decades) and try to fsck with them. Sad...this was about the last and only way to keep a proper amount of one's earnings from Uncle Sam.
"Damn...now I'll never be able to get her to shut up...never...."
Yeah, but isn't overpopulation a problem in most 3rd world countries?
If we give them ways to keep too many people alive longer, rather than let nature correct the problem, just make things worse over there for the people and their already limited resources?
Not a 'nice' thing to think about...but kinda logical?
I refuse to have a Debit card. Last couple times, they tried sending me an ATM card, it doubled as a debit card. I sent them back, the bank apologized, and sent me an ATM only card.
I don't like the idea of if a thief gets a card, or in this case my phone...the cash is GONE out of my account then and there, until "I" can somehow prove that it wasn't me who took it out.
I don't like debit cards...I'll certainly not be allowing my phone to be signed up to purchase things.