Cold is bad enough, but add any wind to it and it gets just plain awful. We get below 0 each winter, but not usually past -10, but we get alot of wind at the same time - that's never pleasant.
I feel bad about charging between $60 and $100 to clean a machine (depending upon the amount of time it takes), so I at least give them a "weekly checklist" that takes them through all of what they need to do to keep their PC clean and tidy (basically run adaware once per week, make sure antivirus signatures are recent, and keep windows up to date).
Are you trying to say that I can't sell advertisers space on your living room wall, just because I don't own it?
Seems to me that's what these adware programs do - they sell advertising space that they have no right to by generating popups unrelated to the users browsing.
In a perfect world, taxes would be turned on their heads. Right now, the bulk of taxes paid are sent to Washington and the various state capitals, with the localities left with the crumbs.
How many people would complain as much if the bulk of their taxes stayed local? If that were the case, the overall tax load would also be much lower because it's much easier to affect your city councilman or county supervisor than it is your congressional representative.
What should happen is that the states should get together and standardize their sales taxes - that would at least make it workable to handle online as shipping is done now.
Not only do rates differ between states (and cities and counties within the states!), but what is and isn't taxed also differs.
But if you really think about it... the worst part is that all of these taxes -- in most cases -- are paid with money that has already been taxed once. Before you even cash your paycheck, the government has already skimmed off the top... and a good portion too! How many of you actually take a good look at your pay stubs and notice the 25%+ OF YOUR MONEY that the government simply took from you?
Try closer to 40% - 15.3% FICA (all out of pocket for self employeds, 1/2 out of your employer's pocket otherwise). Likely at 15% federal tax (at best) and around 9% state tax in Iowa.
Sales tax and property tax are the ones that have the most "positive" local impact - much of that money stays at least in your own county instead of being sent to Des Moines or Washington.
I think that the parent refers to some shenanigans that took place in passing the 16th amendment - that it may not have been legally ratified.
That is really just an academic question though - you've got to play the cards your dealt, and we've got to deal with the federal income tax system, as much as it sucks.
Unless the entity keeps the money as cash under a mattress or in a vault, the money is helping the economy somewhere. Even if it is just sitting in a savings account in a bank, the money is at work in the economy because it is available to the bank to loan out.
Not really. Most (all?) states already charge sales tax and they charge it for different things. For example, in Minnesota, they don't charge sales tax on clothes, but in Iowa they do (except for like 4 days a year in August).
In Iowa, we have a 5% state sales tax (plus 1 or 2 percent local sales tax) for almost everything, except for heating fuel which is now taxed at 3% (don't ask).
It wouldn't be too difficult to do, and enforcement and collections would require a smaller department because you'll be dealing with a smaller number of taxpayers.
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I've never seen a gold backed note, but I've got a couple of $1 "silver certificates". The bills had $1 of silver backing them and they say so.
People's belief that it is inherently worth something - just like the US Dollar or the Euro.
Cold is bad enough, but add any wind to it and it gets just plain awful. We get below 0 each winter, but not usually past -10, but we get alot of wind at the same time - that's never pleasant.
Great game!
Used to play the 2D game of this in college - always fun!
I feel bad about charging between $60 and $100 to clean a machine (depending upon the amount of time it takes), so I at least give them a "weekly checklist" that takes them through all of what they need to do to keep their PC clean and tidy (basically run adaware once per week, make sure antivirus signatures are recent, and keep windows up to date).
1150 on the initial scan with 20 some "bad" processes running.
Don't know how cold it gets where you're at, but in northern Iowa, passing out in the open on a winters' night would be a death sentence.
I think they call them "drunksicles"
Snow banks sounds dangerous - like frostbite/hypothermia dangerous.
Either way, the foundations' are saved...
Is there a minimum CPU level? How much spam can a 486/25 send in the course of an hour's worth of cycles?
Sometimes short vaguely worded documents can have as many twists and turns as long vaguely worded documents.
Are you trying to say that I can't sell advertisers space on your living room wall, just because I don't own it?
Seems to me that's what these adware programs do - they sell advertising space that they have no right to by generating popups unrelated to the users browsing.
-2 -- I cleaned up two systems infected with their crap yesterday.
Anything that takes special steps to get rid of should be killed by AntiVirus software.
No Exceptions.
If they have a decent uninstaller and don't try to reinstall themselve's automatically (they act like a good citizen), then don't remove them.
If they were to stop using it without making it unconstitutional, it would eventually come back.
In a perfect world, taxes would be turned on their heads. Right now, the bulk of taxes paid are sent to Washington and the various state capitals, with the localities left with the crumbs.
How many people would complain as much if the bulk of their taxes stayed local? If that were the case, the overall tax load would also be much lower because it's much easier to affect your city councilman or county supervisor than it is your congressional representative.
I misread that to say "Beware of Geeks bearing gifts..."
What should happen is that the states should get together and standardize their sales taxes - that would at least make it workable to handle online as shipping is done now.
Not only do rates differ between states (and cities and counties within the states!), but what is and isn't taxed also differs.
But if you really think about it... the worst part is that all of these taxes -- in most cases -- are paid with money that has already been taxed once. Before you even cash your paycheck, the government has already skimmed off the top... and a good portion too! How many of you actually take a good look at your pay stubs and notice the 25%+ OF YOUR MONEY that the government simply took from you?
Try closer to 40% - 15.3% FICA (all out of pocket for self employeds, 1/2 out of your employer's pocket otherwise). Likely at 15% federal tax (at best) and around 9% state tax in Iowa.
Sales tax and property tax are the ones that have the most "positive" local impact - much of that money stays at least in your own county instead of being sent to Des Moines or Washington.
I think that the parent refers to some shenanigans that took place in passing the 16th amendment - that it may not have been legally ratified.
That is really just an academic question though - you've got to play the cards your dealt, and we've got to deal with the federal income tax system, as much as it sucks.
Unless the entity keeps the money as cash under a mattress or in a vault, the money is helping the economy somewhere. Even if it is just sitting in a savings account in a bank, the money is at work in the economy because it is available to the bank to loan out.
But the money invested does make the economy as a whole better off.
What about guns with peace symbols imprinted onto the butt?
Not really. Most (all?) states already charge sales tax and they charge it for different things. For example, in Minnesota, they don't charge sales tax on clothes, but in Iowa they do (except for like 4 days a year in August).
In Iowa, we have a 5% state sales tax (plus 1 or 2 percent local sales tax) for almost everything, except for heating fuel which is now taxed at 3% (don't ask).
It wouldn't be too difficult to do, and enforcement and collections would require a smaller department because you'll be dealing with a smaller number of taxpayers.