"You say that like having a full time job, financial success, and parental status has anything to do with whether or not one has a dependency issue. See here [nytimes.com] for what I mean. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying your friends are addicts or have problems, just that the points you're making do not demonstrate that they aren't."
Hmm....you know, maybe I should get with a few friends of mine and discuss this....over a few drinks.
"Whenever I hear stories like this I can't help but wonder if these are the same parents that listened to the satanic lyrics of the Beatles played backwards when they were teens."
Err...I do believe that was Led Zeppelin with the actual satanic stuff....the Beatles just talked about Paul being dead...
"It weeds out some. The totally blind, for example [1]. And those with certain types of learning difficulties will be put off trying in the first place."
Not necessarily. One year..I was a bit behind on my contact prescriptions. I could not for the life of me, read the eye chart in the machines they had at the DMV counter. So, I just listened carefully to the 3 people ahead of me, memorized what they said...and I just regurgitated what they said.
"I also hate this notion that Apple products always just work. iTunes has wiped music, ringtones and such from my phone multiple times. It crashes all the time. It messes up tags on my MP3s and stripped away album artwork so it won't display correctly in Windows Media Player."
I was about to wonder about your problems till I saw that last part...you're running iTunes on Windows?
I've run all of this on a mac (older one granted, a G5 Tower I got cheap)...and no problems at all. I'd dare say if you run Apple stuff on Apple products...9 times out of 10, it does just work. Mixing MS windows in the equation is likely asking for trouble.
"I agree, Bush wasn't really a conservative in the classic sense. He made sweeping (and illegal) changes to the government, by stepping out of the framework of law I would call him a revolutionary. But Obama kept those changes in place, conserving them."
He not only keeps them in place..but is piling on top of them at an alarming rate!!
"Yup, you can do that, but if you don't pay yourself a normal salary, the IRS will still come after you. If you are a free-lance programmer, and start a corporation for yourself, and don't pay taxes on at least $60k a year or whatever is normal for your industry, the IRS will come after you. If you look like you are playing number tricks to avoid paying, the IRS will come after you."
I'd have to say your numbers are a bit high.
You pay yourself a salary (if sole owner) for RUNNING the company..not the work it contracts out (with you as the worker bee).
If you're billing out $100K...I've known people for years that only paid themselves salary of about $25K. Now, this was a few years back.
but today, if you bill out about, say $120K...paying yourself a salary of about $40K should be plenty safe for you (only pay SS and medicare on that portion). The remainder you will still pay fed and state tax on, just not employment tax at EOY after deductions (if you do and S corp).
Of course...I'm guessing the Obama crew are wanting to close even that little way of keeping your hard earned bread....
"That of course all depends on if these "corporations" are in different countries, and it can still change your Tax rate. So if you pay yourself a salary from this corporation, then yes you pay income taxes. But if your a stock holder, and instead pay yourself with stock dividends, then you pay the Capital gains rate (20%) instead of income taxes (much higher.) With the Microsoft's of the world their foreign divisions make all the profits, so they aren't taxed in the US (but the cash isn't available to be spent in the US either, so you need to move to that country to retire and take the cash out.)
the above is not financial advice, just my understanding of the rest of the game."
Actually, you can get around THAT too.
Set up a subchapter "S" corp if an individual or small group.
This way, you pay yourself a salary...and you only have to pay employment taxes on that (SS and medicare). At the EOY, after deductions are made, the remaining corp. profit actually falls through onto your personal taxes, where you pay state and federal taxes...but you save a good deal of money not having to pay SS and medicare on that whole amount.
For example. Say you bill out $100K for the year.
You pay yourself a "reasonable" salary of maybe $32K. You pay your SS and Medicare taxes on that $32K (in addition to state and fed taxes).
And EOY, lets say after writing off mileage, company expenses..etc...you have about $59K in profits. You then pay fed and state taxes on that $59K, BUT...you don't have to pay employment (ss medicare) on that amount. That can save you a decent amount of money.
Hell, these days, incorporating yourself, doing 1099 and putting up with a CPA and paperwork are about the ONLY ways you can keep your hard earned money from U. Sam....
"But perhaps another approach to this would be to ask you how you would go about protecting these assets from cyber-attack without violating civil liberties? "
I would propose that these PRIVATE companies, be mandated to put in their own traffic monitoring and other safety measures to protect their own infrastructure, and at best...have bi-annual inspections by govt. officials. I'd be ok with the govt. oversight of the companies doing their OWN safety measures, but am uncomfortable with the govt connecting in and doing it directly.
Hmm.....my quick reading of the topic for this thread, leads me to believe that this IT person started off database knowledge with [shudder]MS Access. Something that should have been BANNED from usage lest another PHB got ahold of it, designed a database for the team to use with 2 tables...that because the office and company standard until it became so unwieldy, that they turn it over to a DBA/Data Modeller type...and say "Hey, throw this on Oracle to make it better".
And thus begins...the normalization nightmare.
Or...am I the only one that not only had to unravel the mess, learn the company's business rules to find their true data needs, to then face the daunting task of cleaning the fucking data (don't ya love free form text fields complete with hard returns in them?)...and trying to load it into the proper database structure.
Then...they complain they don't understand the SQL and need to join tables in a query...etc.
PLEASE take these "database tools easy enough for the boss to use" out of circulation, can't someone please think of the childer....er....database guys?
""Pool all the money and divide among the scavengers who claim their part of the loot"... seems to me this bureaucratic part is already being done with the tax on CD-R's. And that sure as hell wasn't an idea from the EFF!"
What tax on CR-R's are you talking about? In Canada?
We sure don't pay on here in the US....at least, I never have.
"Their cars come in at about the cost of a Ferrari. How is that *not* overpriced for a car that cannot go as far as a Ferrari?"
Umm...where exactly can you buy a new Ferrari for under $100K? And with tax/green rebates feds and state are giving...less than that....?
I know the avg distance between charges for the Tesla is ab out 250mi or so...but I think you will have to spend significant more $$$ on a Ferrari or any other super car to get it to beat a Tesla off the line, etc...
"Nope, they stopped making the Roadsters, all work now is on the S-Sedan and licensing their Drivetrain technology to Mercedes and Toyota."
Oh..that blows.
Why would anyone want just another run of the mill "family car".
If it's got > 2 functional seats, I ain't interested. If they could have just gotten the Tesla roadster down to around Corvette prices....I think a LOT more of us would have them.
I've tried watching some of the World Cup stuff, to see what it was all about.
I had to turn it off after a few minutes. That drone of those horns just blew it for me. They are especially bad if you have a slight hangover...at first I thought something was wrong with my set, then figured something was wrong with the audio portion of the transmission.
They really needed to filter that shit out much earlier, as that it may have cost them some American's possibly trying to learn about and watch this game since the US is actually in it.
"Other movies have had homing bullets in them - one (I can't find the IMDB reference) had bullets that reacted to infra-red silhouettes and thermal images - "it literally had your name written on it" was the quote"
Yeah, but the 'homer' in Logan's run...when it hit you, would unravel your nervous system..that sounds wicked.
Lesse, what were the other charges? Tangler, Needler....damn, can't remember the other 3 loads it shot...
The gun was pretty bad ass in the book from what I remember.
I hope they stick more to the BOOK, rather than the previous movie.
I'd read the book first, and IMHO, they really fsck'ed up the movie. The gun was MUCH cooler in the novel (I'd like to see how they do the 'Homer' fired out of it), and much more riveting, and character development was better as you saw Logan change through his run. That and the Sandmen were badasses, trained in all sorts of arts, like a Jason Bourne type in abilities.
At least...go back to the age limit of 21 (not 30), and for God's sake...don't do the stupid carousel thing they made up for the movie.
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Hmm....you know, maybe I should get with a few friends of mine and discuss this....over a few drinks.
Err...I do believe that was Led Zeppelin with the actual satanic stuff....the Beatles just talked about Paul being dead...
Not necessarily. One year..I was a bit behind on my contact prescriptions. I could not for the life of me, read the eye chart in the machines they had at the DMV counter. So, I just listened carefully to the 3 people ahead of me, memorized what they said...and I just regurgitated what they said.
Voila! I passed and got my new license.
I was about to wonder about your problems till I saw that last part...you're running iTunes on Windows?
I've run all of this on a mac (older one granted, a G5 Tower I got cheap)...and no problems at all. I'd dare say if you run Apple stuff on Apple products...9 times out of 10, it does just work. Mixing MS windows in the equation is likely asking for trouble.
He not only keeps them in place..but is piling on top of them at an alarming rate!!
Err....and exactly what else would one be looking for...especially in High School?
Lisa needs braces!
That's why it is set up that way. Pay yourself a 'reasonable' salary...follow the rules and you are well within the law.
My advice isn't from what I've read on the internet...but observation of many, many people in actual working practice.
I'm guessing when you drive through the older neighborhood of 'meat' houses....it all just smells like jerky??
I'd have to say your numbers are a bit high.
You pay yourself a salary (if sole owner) for RUNNING the company..not the work it contracts out (with you as the worker bee).
If you're billing out $100K...I've known people for years that only paid themselves salary of about $25K. Now, this was a few years back.
but today, if you bill out about, say $120K...paying yourself a salary of about $40K should be plenty safe for you (only pay SS and medicare on that portion). The remainder you will still pay fed and state tax on, just not employment tax at EOY after deductions (if you do and S corp).
Of course...I'm guessing the Obama crew are wanting to close even that little way of keeping your hard earned bread....
Actually, you can get around THAT too.
Set up a subchapter "S" corp if an individual or small group.
This way, you pay yourself a salary...and you only have to pay employment taxes on that (SS and medicare). At the EOY, after deductions are made, the remaining corp. profit actually falls through onto your personal taxes, where you pay state and federal taxes...but you save a good deal of money not having to pay SS and medicare on that whole amount.
For example. Say you bill out $100K for the year.
You pay yourself a "reasonable" salary of maybe $32K. You pay your SS and Medicare taxes on that $32K (in addition to state and fed taxes).
And EOY, lets say after writing off mileage, company expenses..etc...you have about $59K in profits. You then pay fed and state taxes on that $59K, BUT...you don't have to pay employment (ss medicare) on that amount. That can save you a decent amount of money.
Hell, these days, incorporating yourself, doing 1099 and putting up with a CPA and paperwork are about the ONLY ways you can keep your hard earned money from U. Sam....
I would propose that these PRIVATE companies, be mandated to put in their own traffic monitoring and other safety measures to protect their own infrastructure, and at best...have bi-annual inspections by govt. officials. I'd be ok with the govt. oversight of the companies doing their OWN safety measures, but am uncomfortable with the govt connecting in and doing it directly.
And thus begins...the normalization nightmare.
Or...am I the only one that not only had to unravel the mess, learn the company's business rules to find their true data needs, to then face the daunting task of cleaning the fucking data (don't ya love free form text fields complete with hard returns in them?)...and trying to load it into the proper database structure.
Then...they complain they don't understand the SQL and need to join tables in a query...etc.
PLEASE take these "database tools easy enough for the boss to use" out of circulation, can't someone please think of the childer....er....database guys?
data CD == CD-R's....right?
Interesting, I'd never known they even ever tried to tax recordable CD's...glad they struck it down.
I've heard it can be used at a mixer of sorts for a proper drink...but haven't tried it that often.
Hmm....
Wrong show...that's more of the basic Tony Soprano look.
Really?
Pretty much all I've ever used at home over the past years has been Gentoo. I don't find any problems with downloading and installing it.
Their help forums, IMHO, still continue to be some of the most helpful and friendly ones I've ever encountered.
Where do I sign up for one of these jobs?
I mean..almost a type of welfare job for white guys!! I could be a token whitey for the right price!!
What tax on CR-R's are you talking about? In Canada?
We sure don't pay on here in the US....at least, I never have.
Umm...where exactly can you buy a new Ferrari for under $100K? And with tax/green rebates feds and state are giving...less than that....?
I know the avg distance between charges for the Tesla is ab out 250mi or so...but I think you will have to spend significant more $$$ on a Ferrari or any other super car to get it to beat a Tesla off the line, etc...
Oh..that blows.
Why would anyone want just another run of the mill "family car".
If it's got > 2 functional seats, I ain't interested. If they could have just gotten the Tesla roadster down to around Corvette prices....I think a LOT more of us would have them.
I had to turn it off after a few minutes. That drone of those horns just blew it for me. They are especially bad if you have a slight hangover...at first I thought something was wrong with my set, then figured something was wrong with the audio portion of the transmission.
They really needed to filter that shit out much earlier, as that it may have cost them some American's possibly trying to learn about and watch this game since the US is actually in it.
Yeah, but the 'homer' in Logan's run...when it hit you, would unravel your nervous system..that sounds wicked.
Lesse, what were the other charges? Tangler, Needler....damn, can't remember the other 3 loads it shot...
The gun was pretty bad ass in the book from what I remember.
I'd read the book first, and IMHO, they really fsck'ed up the movie. The gun was MUCH cooler in the novel (I'd like to see how they do the 'Homer' fired out of it), and much more riveting, and character development was better as you saw Logan change through his run. That and the Sandmen were badasses, trained in all sorts of arts, like a Jason Bourne type in abilities.
At least...go back to the age limit of 21 (not 30), and for God's sake...don't do the stupid carousel thing they made up for the movie.