It would suck if you went away for 3 months on holiday and came back to discover your only avenue of correction expired a month back.
It would also suck if you were a business instead of an individual in which case by the time they send you the statement it is already too late to dispute the charges. (I was told it is 3 business days ).
Accountants are also good at finding tax loop holes.
I think you mean incentives put there on purpose by the revenue service in order to encourage businesses and people to spend or invest money in a particular way.
A lot of people are saying that these statements are really complex, but nobody is saying how they are complex.
I used to develop custom statements for banks, and I believe I know of the type of statement that could cause this type of problem. For their customers who had thousands of transactions each month, the statements were not more complex, but simpler. Rather than list out 3,000 transactions for the month, they simply listed for every day that there was any activity, the number and amount of debits and the number and amount of credits, and then the daily ending balance. Perhaps the idea here is that if you see a discrepancy that you are supposed to call up and get a daily detail or something. But with checks getting posted 1 day to 6 months from when you put them on your ledger, this could easily get overwhelming.
The only problem is they called it a "Conveninence charge" and tack on another $3.
Yup, same here. I was going to use direct debit on on of our utilities, but they were going to charge extra for the convenience of them not having to hire someone to open my envelope.
Also, we have the same charge when we renew our car registration. $1.50 fee if we mail it in, or $.50 fee if we go to a tag agency and stand there and wait for them to type it in. There is no option for no fee at all.
those radio folks should have been praised for defending democracy by avoiding that people with a brain age of 5 could influence the result
That's the problem. They didn't defend democracy by preventing stupid people from voting. They only prevented stupid people from one party from voting. Now if they had said "Republicans Wednesday, Democrats Thursday, and everyone else on Friday", that would have been different. However, it still wouldn't defend democracy, because democracy means by the people, of the people and for the people, whether they are stupid or not.
As it stands now, every other state has an unfair advantage over New York in the amount of the New York tax rate simply because the buyers do not pay Use Tax.
By that logic doesn't a New York company have an unfair advantage in the other 49 states?
In fact it does. But it is not very efficient for every state's businesses to have an unfair advantage in other states. If anything, the businesses should have an unfair advantage in their own states. Of course that would possibly run afoul of the interstate commerce act, but maybe not. There are plenty of tax breaks given to local businesses that don't seem to cause problems.
This measure was supposed to boost local businesses and lower unemployment.
If people were paying their Use Tax, then this measure would be unnecessary. If people paid their Use Tax, then the tax paid on an item built in New York would be the same as one built in California, and the only competition would be based on efficiency of the business. As it stands now, every other state has an unfair advantage over New York in the amount of the New York tax rate simply because the buyers do not pay Use Tax.
If the foreign companies charge sales tax for New York, that also evens the playing field, however, New York has no jurisdiction to require out-of-state vendors to charge sales tax. So they are pretty much stuck with the Use Tax. Also, the Use Tax does not violate interstate commerce laws. It merely makes the playing field level for in-state versus out-of-state.
The thing is that if we were to remove say 90% of cars from the roads, we could scale up power coal or gas plants by exactly that much and still see a net gain.
And how are we going to scale up coal and natural gas plants when every attempt to build a new plant gets shot down, as is happening today?
TV Satellite dishes point south - So when I'm lost in the wilderness, that's what I look for.
The ultimate survival tool is a short length of fiber optic cable. Simply dig a shallow trench, place the fiber optic in the trench, fill it back up, and wait for the backhoe to come dig it up.
I don't see this happening in Oklahoma, as there is neither the pressing need for this sort of concentration of humanity nor the money to pull it off.
I live in Oklahoma you insensitive clod!
And...I see what you mean.
Still, I'd live in such a structure, as long as I can have an acre of land to call my own and the blue sky above me.
Their convention video is not compatible with my browser. Their platform is not compatible with my ideologies. Their rhetoric is not compatible with reality. Nothing to see here, move along.
What do they need this for in the first place?
I don't believe they need it at all. Supposedly they need it because we work with healthcare information and they say HIPAA requires it. HIPAA in and of itself does not require much of anything specifically. So everybody and their brother interprets it according to their own whim.
Who keeps the time sensitive part up to date?
The employees are supposed to let the company know if anything happens, such as a speeding ticket, bankruptcy or other change in credit report, if they get sued, if they get busted, etc. I also forgot that they also want us to take a drug test even though I just had a drug test at my previous employer. Also, they know my salary and should be fully aware that I can not afford drugs. Unless the employee is driving for the company how are "traffic violations" even remotly relevent?(What about an employee who dosn't even drive to work?)
Again, I don't think that it is any of the company's business. Traffic violations are not singled out as special. In fact it is the fact that they are excluded provisionally that makes them special. We are supposed to report everything including misdemeanors EXCEPT "traffic violations under $150". In my state and county the only traffic violation under $150 is driving or transporting a front seat passenger without wearing a seatbelt. So the minor traffic violation exclusion is not even an exclusion.
You'll probably have to wait awhile. The chances of another event involving the heat energy available in the 9/11 event happening in one of only a couple of dozen comparably sized structures means that it probably won't happen again for awhile. After all, it hasn't happened before up until 2001.
Yet we have "data loss" on an almost weekly base and nothing happens.
This is why I am resisting my company's new policy of storing online and in a filing cabinet every employees credit report, retail theft report, criminal check report, fingerprints, passport, birth certificate and self declaration of any crimes for the last 7 years including minor traffic violations. They intend to show this to any current or prospective clients (mostly large banks, many of whom lose that sort of data on a weekly basis) and also to release it if any of our customers audit us.
Unfortunately, I am now pretty much the only one resisting, so I guess I will be fired for not releasing information to the company that is none of the company's or any of the company's customers' business.
Which brings me over to the question "what is an IT person?"
That is exactly my question. Our small firm has technically only one IT person depending on how rigidly you define IT, or about 80% IT if you define it loosely.
The way my company defines it, the programmers and operations are all IT, so there are really only about 6 people out of about 30 that are definitely not in IT. These people jokingly (but somehow not funny to me) refer to themselves as "useless overhead".
Great. Now when you're kidnapped the first thing they'll do is cut off a chunk of your flesh. Or even just stick you in a metallic sack so that the radio signal can't escape.
But wait! The best part is, if you try to tamper with the internal device, it explodes violently, marking everything in the vicinity with a blue die, and rendering the kidnapped person useless.
But the Fair Debt Collection Act only covers the deadbeats that actually owe the money. It doesn't protect the person whose number the deadbeat gave his creditors. If you say "No, that person doesn't live here" they have to assume you are that person and you are lying and continue to call. If it turns out they were wrong (and they are) then there is nothing the law can do about it, because you are not the person that the FDCPA protects. Your best bet is to lie and say "yep, that's me. Now stop calling". Then they can't call back. Of course, I couldn't do that because I am honest to a fault. And I don't encourage others to be dishonest. But that is unfortunately, the best way out when some lying deadbeat bastard gets you into this situation.
And me makes four. The automated message leaves a number to call and asks for a person that does not and has never lived here. My number is not even recycled. I got Cox soon after they started offering phone service and mine was part of a brand new prefix that had never been assigned.
Until I read this article, I used to get all pissed at the agency because I had long thought that it was ALREADY illegal to call anyone with a prerecorded message unless you already had a pre-existing business relationship.
That's encouraging harassment and an endorsement of mob justice. However, I really dislike this bitch and, as a parent, I could see myself falling into this kind of destructive behavior after losing a child. I'd like to think I'm emotionally adjusted enough to rise above that, but I've not dealt with that kind of emotional trauma since reaching adulthood and can't testify that I'd hold up well.
I am a parent as well, and I know myself well enough to realize that if someone were to hurt one of my children and the law let them get away with it, that I would most likely end up in jail. Vigilantism is a worse crime than rape, murder or driving drunk in a society where the main purpose of the law seems to be to keep the law-abiding in line rather than stopping criminal behavior.
He was looking to find the East Indies for a shorter trading route but ended up in the Carribean instead. He thought he had found it, so he named the natives "Indians."
If he really thought he had found the East Indies, why would he go around naming all the islands? Shouldn't they already be named?
Also, why would he name the natives "Indians", shouldn't they already have the name Indians?
That being said, my research today shows that all of the theories which as little as one year ago were being espoused as the new truth on Columbus are now being debunked, and people are saying that he really WAS looking for an overwater route (though probably to Japan and China). However, it still perplexes me that he would believe that after travelling less than 1/3 of what scientists of the day thought it should take, that he would believe himself in India.
Matthew 19:23 - "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God"
I always marvel at how people always quotes these two verses without the context of the next two.
Matthew 19:25-26 "When the disciples heard this, they were completely astonished and said, "Who, then, can be saved? Jesus looked at them intently and said, "For humans this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.""
After all, plenty of rich people in the Bible seemed like they were in pretty good standing with God. What if God made you rich because you served him so well? Does that mean you can't go to heaven? Hardly!
The term Indian referring to American Indians was a homonym of "In Deo" meaning "with God" as Columbus found the natives to be a very spiritual people. India as a country did not yet exist.
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but they may not be exactly *the* thousand words you need to convey your information.
If I didn't know better I would say this is this a subtle argument for RISC versus CISC.
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It would suck if you went away for 3 months on holiday and came back to discover your only avenue of correction expired a month back.
It would also suck if you were a business instead of an individual in which case by the time they send you the statement it is already too late to dispute the charges. (I was told it is 3 business days ).
Accountants are also good at finding tax loop holes.
I think you mean incentives put there on purpose by the revenue service in order to encourage businesses and people to spend or invest money in a particular way.
A lot of people are saying that these statements are really complex, but nobody is saying how they are complex.
I used to develop custom statements for banks, and I believe I know of the type of statement that could cause this type of problem. For their customers who had thousands of transactions each month, the statements were not more complex, but simpler. Rather than list out 3,000 transactions for the month, they simply listed for every day that there was any activity, the number and amount of debits and the number and amount of credits, and then the daily ending balance. Perhaps the idea here is that if you see a discrepancy that you are supposed to call up and get a daily detail or something. But with checks getting posted 1 day to 6 months from when you put them on your ledger, this could easily get overwhelming.
The only problem is they called it a "Conveninence charge" and tack on another $3.
Yup, same here. I was going to use direct debit on on of our utilities, but they were going to charge extra for the convenience of them not having to hire someone to open my envelope.
Also, we have the same charge when we renew our car registration. $1.50 fee if we mail it in, or $.50 fee if we go to a tag agency and stand there and wait for them to type it in. There is no option for no fee at all.
First woman or First black man?
So half black equals all black? Where do we draw the line? I guess Washington was the first black president.
those radio folks should have been praised for defending democracy by avoiding that people with a brain age of 5 could influence the result
That's the problem. They didn't defend democracy by preventing stupid people from voting. They only prevented stupid people from one party from voting. Now if they had said "Republicans Wednesday, Democrats Thursday, and everyone else on Friday", that would have been different. However, it still wouldn't defend democracy, because democracy means by the people, of the people and for the people, whether they are stupid or not.
As it stands now, every other state has an unfair advantage over New York in the amount of the New York tax rate simply because the buyers do not pay Use Tax.
By that logic doesn't a New York company have an unfair advantage in the other 49 states?
In fact it does. But it is not very efficient for every state's businesses to have an unfair advantage in other states. If anything, the businesses should have an unfair advantage in their own states. Of course that would possibly run afoul of the interstate commerce act, but maybe not. There are plenty of tax breaks given to local businesses that don't seem to cause problems.
This measure was supposed to boost local businesses and lower unemployment.
If people were paying their Use Tax, then this measure would be unnecessary. If people paid their Use Tax, then the tax paid on an item built in New York would be the same as one built in California, and the only competition would be based on efficiency of the business. As it stands now, every other state has an unfair advantage over New York in the amount of the New York tax rate simply because the buyers do not pay Use Tax.
If the foreign companies charge sales tax for New York, that also evens the playing field, however, New York has no jurisdiction to require out-of-state vendors to charge sales tax. So they are pretty much stuck with the Use Tax. Also, the Use Tax does not violate interstate commerce laws. It merely makes the playing field level for in-state versus out-of-state.
The thing is that if we were to remove say 90% of cars from the roads, we could scale up power coal or gas plants by exactly that much and still see a net gain.
And how are we going to scale up coal and natural gas plants when every attempt to build a new plant gets shot down, as is happening today?
TV Satellite dishes point south - So when I'm lost in the wilderness, that's what I look for.
The ultimate survival tool is a short length of fiber optic cable. Simply dig a shallow trench, place the fiber optic in the trench, fill it back up, and wait for the backhoe to come dig it up.
I don't see this happening in Oklahoma, as there is neither the pressing need for this sort of concentration of humanity nor the money to pull it off.
I live in Oklahoma you insensitive clod!
And...I see what you mean.
Still, I'd live in such a structure, as long as I can have an acre of land to call my own and the blue sky above me.
Their convention video is not compatible with my browser. Their platform is not compatible with my ideologies. Their rhetoric is not compatible with reality. Nothing to see here, move along.
What do they need this for in the first place?
I don't believe they need it at all. Supposedly they need it because we work with healthcare information and they say HIPAA requires it. HIPAA in and of itself does not require much of anything specifically. So everybody and their brother interprets it according to their own whim.
Who keeps the time sensitive part up to date?
The employees are supposed to let the company know if anything happens, such as a speeding ticket, bankruptcy or other change in credit report, if they get sued, if they get busted, etc. I also forgot that they also want us to take a drug test even though I just had a drug test at my previous employer. Also, they know my salary and should be fully aware that I can not afford drugs.
Unless the employee is driving for the company how are "traffic violations" even remotly relevent?(What about an employee who dosn't even drive to work?)
Again, I don't think that it is any of the company's business. Traffic violations are not singled out as special. In fact it is the fact that they are excluded provisionally that makes them special. We are supposed to report everything including misdemeanors EXCEPT "traffic violations under $150". In my state and county the only traffic violation under $150 is driving or transporting a front seat passenger without wearing a seatbelt. So the minor traffic violation exclusion is not even an exclusion.
You'll probably have to wait awhile. The chances of another event involving the heat energy available in the 9/11 event happening in one of only a couple of dozen comparably sized structures means that it probably won't happen again for awhile. After all, it hasn't happened before up until 2001.
Yet we have "data loss" on an almost weekly base and nothing happens.
This is why I am resisting my company's new policy of storing online and in a filing cabinet every employees credit report, retail theft report, criminal check report, fingerprints, passport, birth certificate and self declaration of any crimes for the last 7 years including minor traffic violations. They intend to show this to any current or prospective clients (mostly large banks, many of whom lose that sort of data on a weekly basis) and also to release it if any of our customers audit us.
Unfortunately, I am now pretty much the only one resisting, so I guess I will be fired for not releasing information to the company that is none of the company's or any of the company's customers' business.
Which brings me over to the question "what is an IT person?"
That is exactly my question. Our small firm has technically only one IT person depending on how rigidly you define IT, or about 80% IT if you define it loosely.
The way my company defines it, the programmers and operations are all IT, so there are really only about 6 people out of about 30 that are definitely not in IT. These people jokingly (but somehow not funny to me) refer to themselves as "useless overhead".
Great. Now when you're kidnapped the first thing they'll do is cut off a chunk of your flesh. Or even just stick you in a metallic sack so that the radio signal can't escape.
But wait! The best part is, if you try to tamper with the internal device, it explodes violently, marking everything in the vicinity with a blue die, and rendering the kidnapped person useless.
But the Fair Debt Collection Act only covers the deadbeats that actually owe the money. It doesn't protect the person whose number the deadbeat gave his creditors. If you say "No, that person doesn't live here" they have to assume you are that person and you are lying and continue to call. If it turns out they were wrong (and they are) then there is nothing the law can do about it, because you are not the person that the FDCPA protects. Your best bet is to lie and say "yep, that's me. Now stop calling". Then they can't call back. Of course, I couldn't do that because I am honest to a fault. And I don't encourage others to be dishonest. But that is unfortunately, the best way out when some lying deadbeat bastard gets you into this situation.
And me makes four. The automated message leaves a number to call and asks for a person that does not and has never lived here. My number is not even recycled. I got Cox soon after they started offering phone service and mine was part of a brand new prefix that had never been assigned.
Until I read this article, I used to get all pissed at the agency because I had long thought that it was ALREADY illegal to call anyone with a prerecorded message unless you already had a pre-existing business relationship.
Well maybe its time you invested in a recycled telephone number
Right, and the solution to crime is to put the lawabiding safely away behind bars.
That's encouraging harassment and an endorsement of mob justice. However, I really dislike this bitch and, as a parent, I could see myself falling into this kind of destructive behavior after losing a child. I'd like to think I'm emotionally adjusted enough to rise above that, but I've not dealt with that kind of emotional trauma since reaching adulthood and can't testify that I'd hold up well.
I am a parent as well, and I know myself well enough to realize that if someone were to hurt one of my children and the law let them get away with it, that I would most likely end up in jail. Vigilantism is a worse crime than rape, murder or driving drunk in a society where the main purpose of the law seems to be to keep the law-abiding in line rather than stopping criminal behavior.
He was looking to find the East Indies for a shorter trading route but ended up in the Carribean instead. He thought he had found it, so he named the natives "Indians."
If he really thought he had found the East Indies, why would he go around naming all the islands? Shouldn't they already be named?
Also, why would he name the natives "Indians", shouldn't they already have the name Indians?
That being said, my research today shows that all of the theories which as little as one year ago were being espoused as the new truth on Columbus are now being debunked, and people are saying that he really WAS looking for an overwater route (though probably to Japan and China). However, it still perplexes me that he would believe that after travelling less than 1/3 of what scientists of the day thought it should take, that he would believe himself in India.
Matthew 19:23 - "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God"
I always marvel at how people always quotes these two verses without the context of the next two.
Matthew 19:25-26 "When the disciples heard this, they were completely astonished and said, "Who, then, can be saved? Jesus looked at them intently and said, "For humans this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.""
After all, plenty of rich people in the Bible seemed like they were in pretty good standing with God. What if God made you rich because you served him so well? Does that mean you can't go to heaven? Hardly!
The term Indian referring to American Indians was a homonym of "In Deo" meaning "with God" as Columbus found the natives to be a very spiritual people. India as a country did not yet exist.
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but they may not be exactly *the* thousand words you need to convey your information.
If I didn't know better I would say this is this a subtle argument for RISC versus CISC.