Yes, and your phone may have worked there as well. Not exactly a good comparison. Signals bounce or get blocked by lots of things, moving only a few feet can get you from no signal to usable connection.
And its retarded to claim that either that 'cheapest' plan or the tracfone route are the path that anyone buying an iPhone would take.
People buying an iPhone actually USE the phone like its intended. They don't buy it, then turn off the radios and treat it like a PDA so they can save money on a phone bill.
Your argument is, if you don't use AT&T you can do it cheaper.
Thats true, but only if you get an entirely different class of service that pretty much negates the reasons for buying the device in the first place.
If you're going to buy an iPhone and then use it exclusively on WiFi... why don't you just buy an iPod touch and stop being such a douche bag trying to convince everyone of how smart you are and how tricky you can be. You should stop, it just makes you look like an idiot.
What price advantage? You're going out and buying a phone, than handicapping yourself into using it like a PDA. Just buy a PDA and stop acting like you did something special and are sticking it to the man.
You aren't, you're just paying less because you don't use a major portion of the functionality.
Just because you see the little menu bar icon change doesn't mean thats whats actually going on.
Rapid signal drop as you walk into a building would not just effect 3G/Edge transition but also your phone trying to find a new tower with enough signal to actually stay in contact.
Yes, if you are incapable of holding a job in a single location it gets harder and requires you to do more work.
Did you know that it takes additional effort to move 4 times in one year rather than stay in one state all year? You actually need to physically move you know.
The IRS determines the rules for who gets free efiling. The IRS actually subsidizes those free efiles, so they set the rules on who gets them for free.
You call it protectionism, I call you ignorant. EVERY SINGLE THING the IRS does is written into law, which was voted into place by the politicians the population elected.
The more you talk, the more your story sounds like bullshit.
California doesn't know about the money you make outside the state unless you report it. They know about whats made on W-2s of course, and those are reported to the state that you claim residency in.
So unless you came out and told them you made a whole bunch of money in their state when you didn't, then they would have never known about the money. So either you fucked up and filed wrong, or you made money in CA and don't want to own up to it.
Either way, it becomes more obvious that you are indeed at fault when you finish up your story with, in quotes on your own 'real soon now'.
Yes, the longer you leave the situation fucked up the more its going to cost you, and you deserve it.
You can keep with the 'no one is trying to garnish my wages' thing, but that just makes you an idiot, they will go after your bank accounts if you keep acting like a twit. And of course you'll tell everyone how evil they are and how its not your fault.
I suggest in the story, if you expect people to feel sorry for you, don't tell them the whole story, at least that way only about half the people will think of you as a lying douche... the other half may believe you for a while.
Lets summarize: You reported income made outside of CA to CA as if you lived in CA while making it, now they expect you to pay the taxes and you're pissed off, and to top it off, you think you can just go on without resolving the issue because you'll get to it 'real soon now' and that you're not going to suffer any further consequences because your consulting.
No, his argument I think revolves around the fact that no one actually believes you. Well, I certainly don't.
Tax law is just that, law. It doesn't change randomly. Its not arbitrary. Its all known well in advance, before you can actually pay the taxes or have them applied to you, the laws are written. They get passed and go into effect much later. There are no surprises.
'they stole a bunch of money through withholding'... now they didn't. You pay the withholding, or your employer does, based on the information you provide them. If you fill out the forms properly you will pay the withholding that gets you real close to oweing very little or getting a small refund. If you are incapable of filling out the forms properly you should get someone who is capable.
I think its retarded that I can't just go to the fed and state websites and do all my taxes online, but lets face it, the fucking forms for doing your taxes are easier than logging into some websites, its freaking step by step, one line at a freaking time.
You fucked up, you obviously can't own up to it and want others to feel sorry for you. Good luck with that, the rest of us don't give a shit. The only people that will care what you say are the other douche bags that fucked up and want sympathy as well. You guys can have on big pity party together, but you're still going to pay your taxes, douche bags or not.
No, it really only has the initial mass, but it has the additional energy. They aren't converting energy to mass... yet. Just because it behaves as if it has more mass doesn't mean it actually does, and this sort of thinking is what causes science to be so incredibly wrong that we end up writing things in history books about the time people thought the universe revolved around the Earth.
Correlation and observation gives you ideas about whats going on, and those ideas are often wrong, even if it takes use long periods of time to realize we (and our models) were wrong, they are most certainly found wrong very often.
The Luddites that believe the LHC is going to destroy the Earth are really starting to get on my nerves. It is obvious even with a simplistic high-school level of understanding that any black holes formed by the LHC (if such a thing is even possible) are completely harmless.
First off, let me state clearly, I have no belief that they are going to create a earth swallowing black hole.
However... There is absolutely 0 proof that it will go either way. The high school physics you speak of regarding this are discussions about THEORY. Do you know what a theory is? It means we think this is the way it works but we really don't know.
You can spew shit out of your mouth about whats going to happen all day long, but if anyone knew for sure what was going to happen they wouldn't have built it.
You're title is correct, both you and the 'luddites' you speak of are ignorant. Even capturing a few electrons orbiting around a microscopic black hole can have catastrphoric effects long term. Too many people have this retarded idea that the universe is made of discrete components that can be screwed with without effecting the rest of it. Part of that statement is true, the universe is made of discrete components, but they are all interconnected and every change eventually effects everything else in some way.
Again, I don't think anything is going to happen at the LHC, but you are retarded for making presumptions like you are. Its just another example of humans thinking they are far more intelligent and important in the universe than they actually are.
Taking out some money to buy some spectrum so they can start their own mobile carrier. Its part of a long term plan that I haven't entirely figured out yet, but this is just an extension of the FCC auction stuff. ChromeOS and the android devices plays into it as well of course, maybe their going to offer free wireless service in exchange for being a bitch to their ads in everything you do.
Google checkout is the first thing that comes to my mind, but there are lots of other ways to take money on the web, authorize.net and a simple web form?
Its not hard really. You do realize that not everyplace accepts paypal right? Using paypal pretty much always puts you at a disadvantage as every method to get money in the account results in loosing the security that the previous form had, be it checking account or credit/debit card, both of which are actually regulated, unlike paypal.
Its not like using paypal makes you anonymous or anything that would be an advantage over just using your credit card directly.
My wife is a USDA vet supervising inspectors at a meat processing planet.
The employees there work 12 hour days, 6 or 7 days a week depending on whats going on at the various local farms.
If the guys slaughtering animals, and doing back breaking manual labor for minimum wage aren't bitching and are happy to be employeed, please tell me why I should give flying fuck about the whining of some well paid desk jockey who has been educated so could easily go do something else?
You ever wonder why people offshore jobs? Here is a good example.
Make the punishment for spamming execution by public stoning, allow anyone who receives a spam to short cut the process and execute the offender without a court case, with the understanding that they must provide proof after the fact or suffer the same fate as the spammer.
There are ways to stop this sort of thing, even if mine are over zealous to say the least. The reality of it is, too many people like yourself stand around and say 'it wont work' and saying that killing them won't work.
I assure you, if you kill enough of them, it will work.
The right to free speech does not include the right to impose that speech on someone else, its sad that so many people like yourself don't understand it.
You have the right to free speech, but not everywhere and at any time or using any method you want.
You do not have a right to impose your free speech on me.
You do not have the right to stand in the middle of a residential neighborhood at 3 am shouting crap at the top of your lungs, waking everyone up.
When you enter my home, business, or even public places you have lost your right to free speech. You have the right to go somewhere private and do whatever you want with authorization, but you aren't allowed to do whatever you want whenever you want wherever you want.
Freedom of speech has limits, it takes a true idiot to imply that freedom of speech protects kiddy porn or spamming. You're attempting to twist the intent of the idea into something its not.
I agree though, I don't want the government to be involved. I want the right to execute on the spot anyone who imposes their free speech on me in my own domain, such as my home or inbox.
Yes, the point is that we need to stop taking spammers to court and just shortcut the process by taking them out back and shooting them if their is even marginal evidence to prove they are doing it.
When you're punishment for them still results in a large net gain, they aren't going to give a flying fuck if you punish them.
The world has become filled with pussies who want to be nice rather than take action to fix problems.
Yes, from a purely theoretical 'it takes this long for the signal to travel round trip' then you get 600ms. However these are low data rate, high error rate, heavy protocols to correct for that bouncing not just point to point but through massive amounts of electronics.
Theory and reality are entirely different things. RDP over that link would be pure hell.
Of course every time I hear something about how NASA handles networking it makes me realize that they really need to throw out everyone who has any part of their networking system.
They use RDP when other data (like voice traffic) is flowing... because updating the display using RDP requires less data transferring than opening a simple web page locally... not.
Yes, because the datalink they use is an open network with no builtin security... and also, its the year 2002 and we've not upgraded any bits of the RDP protocol or the client or server.
You should probably look into the random crap you read on the Internet rather than believe it straight off the bat as true.
Yea? Well this sort of thing blows my support for NASA funding. I'm all for spending my tax dollars or research and exploration, I'm not OK with it being used so some douche bags can tweet.
They can wait the to get back to Earth rather than spend hundreds of dollars to show everyone they are a twit.
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Because he's got investments in verizon and when the truth comes out then his little rumor would do nothing at all to boost the stock price.
Yes, and your phone may have worked there as well. Not exactly a good comparison. Signals bounce or get blocked by lots of things, moving only a few feet can get you from no signal to usable connection.
Yes, the entire population of your tiny country lives in 2 or 3 major cities which are easy to blanket with cell towers.
Versus the US where the majority of our population lives in rural areas outside of a municipality.
Totally the same thing for comparison purposes.
How many fucking times do we have to go over this with the European countries? Do they not teach anything about America there other than we are evil?
And its retarded to claim that either that 'cheapest' plan or the tracfone route are the path that anyone buying an iPhone would take.
People buying an iPhone actually USE the phone like its intended. They don't buy it, then turn off the radios and treat it like a PDA so they can save money on a phone bill.
Your argument is, if you don't use AT&T you can do it cheaper.
Thats true, but only if you get an entirely different class of service that pretty much negates the reasons for buying the device in the first place.
If you're going to buy an iPhone and then use it exclusively on WiFi ... why don't you just buy an iPod touch and stop being such a douche bag trying to convince everyone of how smart you are and how tricky you can be. You should stop, it just makes you look like an idiot.
What price advantage? You're going out and buying a phone, than handicapping yourself into using it like a PDA. Just buy a PDA and stop acting like you did something special and are sticking it to the man.
You aren't, you're just paying less because you don't use a major portion of the functionality.
Correlation != Causation.
Just because you see the little menu bar icon change doesn't mean thats whats actually going on.
Rapid signal drop as you walk into a building would not just effect 3G/Edge transition but also your phone trying to find a new tower with enough signal to actually stay in contact.
Yes, if you are incapable of holding a job in a single location it gets harder and requires you to do more work.
Did you know that it takes additional effort to move 4 times in one year rather than stay in one state all year? You actually need to physically move you know.
The IRS determines the rules for who gets free efiling. The IRS actually subsidizes those free efiles, so they set the rules on who gets them for free.
You call it protectionism, I call you ignorant. EVERY SINGLE THING the IRS does is written into law, which was voted into place by the politicians the population elected.
Scotland will never be fixed until it stops expecting someone else to fix it.
The more you talk, the more your story sounds like bullshit.
California doesn't know about the money you make outside the state unless you report it. They know about whats made on W-2s of course, and those are reported to the state that you claim residency in.
So unless you came out and told them you made a whole bunch of money in their state when you didn't, then they would have never known about the money. So either you fucked up and filed wrong, or you made money in CA and don't want to own up to it.
Either way, it becomes more obvious that you are indeed at fault when you finish up your story with, in quotes on your own 'real soon now'.
Yes, the longer you leave the situation fucked up the more its going to cost you, and you deserve it.
You can keep with the 'no one is trying to garnish my wages' thing, but that just makes you an idiot, they will go after your bank accounts if you keep acting like a twit. And of course you'll tell everyone how evil they are and how its not your fault.
I suggest in the story, if you expect people to feel sorry for you, don't tell them the whole story, at least that way only about half the people will think of you as a lying douche ... the other half may believe you for a while.
Lets summarize: You reported income made outside of CA to CA as if you lived in CA while making it, now they expect you to pay the taxes and you're pissed off, and to top it off, you think you can just go on without resolving the issue because you'll get to it 'real soon now' and that you're not going to suffer any further consequences because your consulting.
You sir are almost the definition of idiot.
No, his argument I think revolves around the fact that no one actually believes you. Well, I certainly don't.
Tax law is just that, law. It doesn't change randomly. Its not arbitrary. Its all known well in advance, before you can actually pay the taxes or have them applied to you, the laws are written. They get passed and go into effect much later. There are no surprises.
'they stole a bunch of money through withholding' ... now they didn't. You pay the withholding, or your employer does, based on the information you provide them. If you fill out the forms properly you will pay the withholding that gets you real close to oweing very little or getting a small refund. If you are incapable of filling out the forms properly you should get someone who is capable.
I think its retarded that I can't just go to the fed and state websites and do all my taxes online, but lets face it, the fucking forms for doing your taxes are easier than logging into some websites, its freaking step by step, one line at a freaking time.
You fucked up, you obviously can't own up to it and want others to feel sorry for you. Good luck with that, the rest of us don't give a shit. The only people that will care what you say are the other douche bags that fucked up and want sympathy as well. You guys can have on big pity party together, but you're still going to pay your taxes, douche bags or not.
No, it really only has the initial mass, but it has the additional energy. They aren't converting energy to mass ... yet. Just because it behaves as if it has more mass doesn't mean it actually does, and this sort of thinking is what causes science to be so incredibly wrong that we end up writing things in history books about the time people thought the universe revolved around the Earth.
Correlation and observation gives you ideas about whats going on, and those ideas are often wrong, even if it takes use long periods of time to realize we (and our models) were wrong, they are most certainly found wrong very often.
First off, let me state clearly, I have no belief that they are going to create a earth swallowing black hole.
However ... There is absolutely 0 proof that it will go either way. The high school physics you speak of regarding this are discussions about THEORY. Do you know what a theory is? It means we think this is the way it works but we really don't know.
You can spew shit out of your mouth about whats going to happen all day long, but if anyone knew for sure what was going to happen they wouldn't have built it.
You're title is correct, both you and the 'luddites' you speak of are ignorant. Even capturing a few electrons orbiting around a microscopic black hole can have catastrphoric effects long term. Too many people have this retarded idea that the universe is made of discrete components that can be screwed with without effecting the rest of it. Part of that statement is true, the universe is made of discrete components, but they are all interconnected and every change eventually effects everything else in some way.
Again, I don't think anything is going to happen at the LHC, but you are retarded for making presumptions like you are. Its just another example of humans thinking they are far more intelligent and important in the universe than they actually are.
Perhaps its not that they don't know what quality of life is, but that 20 years have a different idea of what quality living is than a 30 year old.
Are you serious? Dangerous to their lives?
I thought you were joking but with the modding, people are taking you serious?
THEY ARE DESK JOCKEYS, get some fucking perspective people, for fucks sake.
Taking out some money to buy some spectrum so they can start their own mobile carrier. Its part of a long term plan that I haven't entirely figured out yet, but this is just an extension of the FCC auction stuff. ChromeOS and the android devices plays into it as well of course, maybe their going to offer free wireless service in exchange for being a bitch to their ads in everything you do.
Right, thats why its called 'social security' rather than 'my personal retirement fund'.
Its the group functioning in a shared way for the good of those less fortunate.
Google checkout is the first thing that comes to my mind, but there are lots of other ways to take money on the web, authorize.net and a simple web form?
Its not hard really. You do realize that not everyplace accepts paypal right? Using paypal pretty much always puts you at a disadvantage as every method to get money in the account results in loosing the security that the previous form had, be it checking account or credit/debit card, both of which are actually regulated, unlike paypal.
Its not like using paypal makes you anonymous or anything that would be an advantage over just using your credit card directly.
My wife is a USDA vet supervising inspectors at a meat processing planet.
The employees there work 12 hour days, 6 or 7 days a week depending on whats going on at the various local farms.
If the guys slaughtering animals, and doing back breaking manual labor for minimum wage aren't bitching and are happy to be employeed, please tell me why I should give flying fuck about the whining of some well paid desk jockey who has been educated so could easily go do something else?
You ever wonder why people offshore jobs? Here is a good example.
Bunch of spoiled brats.
Make the punishment for spamming execution by public stoning, allow anyone who receives a spam to short cut the process and execute the offender without a court case, with the understanding that they must provide proof after the fact or suffer the same fate as the spammer.
There are ways to stop this sort of thing, even if mine are over zealous to say the least. The reality of it is, too many people like yourself stand around and say 'it wont work' and saying that killing them won't work.
I assure you, if you kill enough of them, it will work.
The right to free speech does not include the right to impose that speech on someone else, its sad that so many people like yourself don't understand it.
You have the right to free speech, but not everywhere and at any time or using any method you want.
You do not have a right to impose your free speech on me.
You do not have the right to stand in the middle of a residential neighborhood at 3 am shouting crap at the top of your lungs, waking everyone up.
When you enter my home, business, or even public places you have lost your right to free speech. You have the right to go somewhere private and do whatever you want with authorization, but you aren't allowed to do whatever you want whenever you want wherever you want.
Freedom of speech has limits, it takes a true idiot to imply that freedom of speech protects kiddy porn or spamming. You're attempting to twist the intent of the idea into something its not.
I agree though, I don't want the government to be involved. I want the right to execute on the spot anyone who imposes their free speech on me in my own domain, such as my home or inbox.
Yes, the point is that we need to stop taking spammers to court and just shortcut the process by taking them out back and shooting them if their is even marginal evidence to prove they are doing it.
When you're punishment for them still results in a large net gain, they aren't going to give a flying fuck if you punish them.
The world has become filled with pussies who want to be nice rather than take action to fix problems.
Yes, from a purely theoretical 'it takes this long for the signal to travel round trip' then you get 600ms. However these are low data rate, high error rate, heavy protocols to correct for that bouncing not just point to point but through massive amounts of electronics.
Theory and reality are entirely different things. RDP over that link would be pure hell.
Of course every time I hear something about how NASA handles networking it makes me realize that they really need to throw out everyone who has any part of their networking system.
They use RDP when other data (like voice traffic) is flowing ... because updating the display using RDP requires less data transferring than opening a simple web page locally ... not.
Yes, because the datalink they use is an open network with no builtin security ... and also, its the year 2002 and we've not upgraded any bits of the RDP protocol or the client or server.
You should probably look into the random crap you read on the Internet rather than believe it straight off the bat as true.
Yea? Well this sort of thing blows my support for NASA funding. I'm all for spending my tax dollars or research and exploration, I'm not OK with it being used so some douche bags can tweet.
They can wait the to get back to Earth rather than spend hundreds of dollars to show everyone they are a twit.