Guantanamo is outside of the US, so it's not officially under US juridiction.
That is certainly the position of the Bush administration. I'm pretty sure, however, that it has been rejected by the courts. (Thus the ruling that the detainees at Gitmo must have some form of access to the U.S. court system to determine whether they really are "enemy combatants.")
If you're documents are in good order and you stay on top of things and you arent' doing creative accounting, you'll be fine.
The key part being having your documents in good order. With good records, the vast majority of individuals (non-business owners) shouldn't have any problem doing their Federal income taxes. Without good records all the software and expertise in the world won't help.
What might be doable is Open Source tax filing software, rather than tax preparation software.
To be honest, I'd like to see any software which would allow me to figure out my taxes myself and simply file the damn things electronically. I see no reason why I should have to overpay a form monkey or put up with crappy software that can't do as good a job of figuring my taxes as I can myself.
I bet you show your receipt at the door at Fry's too...
I do. I have no problem at all with Fry's trying
to deter shoplifting. What I won't do is stand in
line to show my receipt. When there is a line, I
just walk on by, and I've never gotten anything but
a nod from the checkers.
Because even if your whole country is christian/muslim/hindu/whatever, you have to look out for that lonely athiest/budhist and let him do what he wants as long as it doesn't interfere with the rights of the others.
Not anymore.
And the irony of course is that the america's got settled by people who wanted to get away from religious persecution in europe...
To be fair, you should mention the fact that they really just wanted to be the persecutors rather than the persecutees.
My prediction is a war, likely nuclear, between the U.S. and a European/Chinese coalition. I figure it should take about 25 to 30 more years for the U.S. to strongly resemble the Republic of Gilead. (See The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.)
I'll bite. I would have agreed with you until about 20:00 ET yesterday. The thing is that this election wasn't stolen, finagled, questioned, or disputed.
Consider that President Bush got something around 53% of the popular vote as an incumbent President with a marginal economy and a very problematic (to date) war in Iraq. I believe the the Presidents "ideological majority" is actually larger than that. (I would argue that the Congressional results tend to confirm this.)
In other words the majority of the American people are basically comfortable with the USA PATRIOT act, Guantanamo Bay, preemptive war (the "Bush doctrine"), the probable reversal of Roe v. Wade, the current deficit levels, etc. Demographic trends indicate that this trend is far more likely to accelerate than it is to reverse. The results in the Great Lakes region (Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin) show the continuation of a move towards the Republican camp that's been going on since at least 1980. If state legislatures in the upper Midwest become solidly conservative, the Republican party will be within sight of 3/4 of the states.
This is what I see happening over the next 10 to 20 years -- not because the American people are ignorant or because they're being cheated, but because that's what the majority of them want. As much as I'd like to believe the in the founders' vision of this country, I don't see any place in this society for someone who has liberal values.
As of yet, I am still undecided, and am looking for some good relevant discussion as to what each candidate can most likely acomplish.
The authors of the U.S. Constitution tried to make it very hard for the Federal Government to actually do anything. They look smarter all the time. Since the House of Representatives will almost certainly be controlled by the Republicans, a vote for Kerry is a vote for healthy paralysis!
I'm just about as biased in this election as anyone here. I've already voted for a straight Democratic ticket (and the Libertarian candidates in races where there was no Democrat running).
This still looks like fishing to me. Accusing a political party of nefarious intent because they have a list of voters, any type of voters, strikes me as ridiculous.
As a business major, I only had to take one, very light, CS course. Along with learning how decode punched cards (in the late '80s!), we did have to write a few programs in Waterloo BASIC.
We were required to have a comment on every line. Trying to come up with meaningful comments for trivial lines of code was one of the most aggravating exercises in which I've ever participated.
FYI, I just changed my cellular service and got a Siemens S56 free after the rebate.
I'm not sure how little bandwidth BlueTooth has, but it's enough for me to use the HandsFreeLink in my new Acura TL without problems. (I had to get that in:-).)
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Guantanamo is outside of the US, so it's not officially under US juridiction.
That is certainly the position of the Bush administration. I'm pretty sure, however, that it has been rejected by the courts. (Thus the ruling that the detainees at Gitmo must have some form of access to the U.S. court system to determine whether they really are "enemy combatants.")
Particularly if you use the fill-in PDFs from the IRS web site.
If you're documents are in good order and you stay on top of things and you arent' doing creative accounting, you'll be fine.
The key part being having your documents in good order. With good records, the vast majority of individuals (non-business owners) shouldn't have any problem doing their Federal income taxes. Without good records all the software and expertise in the world won't help.
What might be doable is Open Source tax filing software, rather than tax preparation software.
To be honest, I'd like to see any software which would allow me to figure out my taxes myself and simply file the damn things electronically. I see no reason why I should have to overpay a form monkey or put up with crappy software that can't do as good a job of figuring my taxes as I can myself.
For now, I'm stuck using paper.
All the other IBM divisions should learn from this.
Don't worry; they will.
If they understood marketing, they'd be Intel.
I bet you show your receipt at the door at Fry's too...
I do. I have no problem at all with Fry's trying to deter shoplifting. What I won't do is stand in line to show my receipt. When there is a line, I just walk on by, and I've never gotten anything but a nod from the checkers.
I would be more than happy to use restrict, if someone could provide a comprehensible explanation of what it means!
Also Michigan's "use" tax has already been ruled Unconstitutional, so I don't know how they think they'll be able to enforce this.
Reference please.
Visa (I think it's Visa) offers something called "virtual account numbers" which may be similar.
Because even if your whole country is christian/muslim/hindu/whatever, you have to look out for that lonely athiest/budhist and let him do what he wants as long as it doesn't interfere with the rights of the others.
Not anymore.
And the irony of course is that the america's got settled by people who wanted to get away from religious persecution in europe...
To be fair, you should mention the fact that they really just wanted to be the persecutors rather than the persecutees.
My prediction is a war, likely nuclear, between the U.S. and a European/Chinese coalition. I figure it should take about 25 to 30 more years for the U.S. to strongly resemble the Republic of Gilead. (See The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.)
God, I wish this were a joke.
I'll bite. I would have agreed with you until about 20:00 ET yesterday. The thing is that this election wasn't stolen, finagled, questioned, or disputed.
Consider that President Bush got something around 53% of the popular vote as an incumbent President with a marginal economy and a very problematic (to date) war in Iraq. I believe the the Presidents "ideological majority" is actually larger than that. (I would argue that the Congressional results tend to confirm this.)
In other words the majority of the American people are basically comfortable with the USA PATRIOT act, Guantanamo Bay, preemptive war (the "Bush doctrine"), the probable reversal of Roe v. Wade, the current deficit levels, etc. Demographic trends indicate that this trend is far more likely to accelerate than it is to reverse. The results in the Great Lakes region (Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin) show the continuation of a move towards the Republican camp that's been going on since at least 1980. If state legislatures in the upper Midwest become solidly conservative, the Republican party will be within sight of 3/4 of the states.
This is what I see happening over the next 10 to 20 years -- not because the American people are ignorant or because they're being cheated, but because that's what the majority of them want. As much as I'd like to believe the in the founders' vision of this country, I don't see any place in this society for someone who has liberal values.
This is the guy we selected to run our country?
This is the guy we got stuck with largely because people in your age group are too damn lazy to get off their hung-over asses and vote.
You're revealing your age. They don't teach that stuff in American public schools anymore.
As of yet, I am still undecided, and am looking for some good relevant discussion as to what each candidate can most likely acomplish.
The authors of the U.S. Constitution tried to make it very hard for the Federal Government to actually do anything. They look smarter all the time. Since the House of Representatives will almost certainly be controlled by the Republicans, a vote for Kerry is a vote for healthy paralysis!
I'm just about as biased in this election as anyone here. I've already voted for a straight Democratic ticket (and the Libertarian candidates in races where there was no Democrat running).
This still looks like fishing to me. Accusing a political party of nefarious intent because they have a list of voters, any type of voters, strikes me as ridiculous.
As a self-described moderate Democrat, these guys make me long for the days of Dole/Kemp '96!
This from the President who locked up every Japanese American in the western half of the country.
As a business major, I only had to take one, very light, CS course. Along with learning how decode punched cards (in the late '80s!), we did have to write a few programs in Waterloo BASIC.
We were required to have a comment on every line. Trying to come up with meaningful comments for trivial lines of code was one of the most aggravating exercises in which I've ever participated.
I'm pretty sure that if the radiation exposure isn't enough to kill you, the chemical toxicity of Plutonium would be.
As to the OS, those who said it will be MVS are almost certainly correct.
Actually, it's probably TPF.
The word that you're looking for is Mercantilism.
FYI, I just changed my cellular service and got a Siemens S56 free after the rebate.
I'm not sure how little bandwidth BlueTooth has, but it's enough for me to use the HandsFreeLink in my new Acura TL without problems. (I had to get that in
But going at 3X the speed limit and not even releasing the gas pedal before impact with a real person is a bit irresponsible to me.
I bow to your mastery of understatement, sir!