All you have to do to rescind your ssn is fill out a form with the social security office and filing that form with your local recording office. Here, that means the county treasurer/auditor's office.
This isn't a decision to make lightly. There are many pros and cons. In my opinion, more cons than pros.
On the pro side: this makes you a sovereign citizen, exempt from many laws, including driver's licenses and the need for car insurance. You are also exempt from paying federal taxes. This exempts you from almost everything at the federal level.
Cons: You are exempt from almost everything at the federal level. No bank accounts because they are FDIC. No post office. They are actually flexible on this one. They let you use the post office, as long as you don't use a street address or zip code. All of you mail is received general delivery. You can't receive social security if you retire or get disabled. You can't receive federally guaranteed loans, including student loans. You can't make use of any federal program or institute. If you do, they will revoke you rescinsion(sp?).
It is NOT my responsibility to help them. I work, they can work, unless they are disabled, for which I am willing to make an exception.
So they're poor. Boo hoo. Get a job. If there are no jobs, move. If you're that broke, you don't have that much tying you down. Get a $100 bus ticket to an economically stable area.
Don't tell me the fact that I'm not lazy somehow gives me obligations to deadbeats.
I've been riding for almost 10 years, and I am all original, working equipment.
I've spilled my bike three times. The first two were when I went on a cross country trip 2 months after I got my motorcycle endorsement. They happened slow enough, that at the end of it, i was standing up over my bike.
The last one had me doing barrel rolls down the highway. I hit some gravel in a really inconvenient place. I felt the bike getting ready to flip, so I left. That hurt, but the bike still worked good enough to get me home 100 miles away.
We skipped the big package. Caller ID just isn't that important to me. I was sick of dealing with Qwest, and McLeod's reliability and customer service would be enough for me to pay the higher price, anyway.
I've had full access to all of Qwest's services. That's probably because I live 2 miles west of Minneapolis, but I don't want their service.
They have horrible customer service, lousy phone service, and they use creative billing practices. I had to double check every bill and call to complain at least every other month.
For a while, we ditched the land line completely for cell phones. Then, McLeod USA started offering residential lines in our area. We signed up, and now we have a landline cheaper and more reliable than Qwest could ever hope for.
And for your information, the reason WWII got so bad in the first place was partly because you turned your back on the world and didn't help until you got attacked.
Every time the US get involved in anything proactively, we are demonized by the rest of the world for not minding our own business. Now, you are insulting the US for trying to help in WWII?
When we got involved, we could have stayed in the Pacific and defeated that area(the area the attack originated from) before touching Europe. But no, the US, being idealistic and helpful, decided to help the poor, defenseless victims that couldn't take care of themselves, too.
This is definitely a "damned if you do" scenario.
Personally, I hope that the next time anyone in the world asks us for help, we require them to append "Property of the United States of America" to their name. If we aren't going to get gratitude, then we should get some form a recompense. A new state would be a fair trade for our military power.
The worst line noise programming language I've had to deal with is M/MUMPS. I've been programming M for a year, and the code is still horrible for me to look at. Every bit of punctuation is used in commands, and every letter is a function if there's punctuation next to it.
There's a reason I register for everything with a throwaway email address. My hotmail account is whitelisted. If there's a registration email that I need to see, I can check the junk senders folder.
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All you have to do to rescind your ssn is fill out a form with the social security office and filing that form with your local recording office. Here, that means the county treasurer/auditor's office.
This isn't a decision to make lightly. There are many pros and cons. In my opinion, more cons than pros.
On the pro side: this makes you a sovereign citizen, exempt from many laws, including driver's licenses and the need for car insurance. You are also exempt from paying federal taxes. This exempts you from almost everything at the federal level.
Cons: You are exempt from almost everything at the federal level. No bank accounts because they are FDIC. No post office. They are actually flexible on this one. They let you use the post office, as long as you don't use a street address or zip code. All of you mail is received general delivery. You can't receive social security if you retire or get disabled. You can't receive federally guaranteed loans, including student loans. You can't make use of any federal program or institute. If you do, they will revoke you rescinsion(sp?).
You can find more information here and here.
If you check your own credit report with the the credit bureaus, it does not get reflected on your credit rating.
Banks don't get to see how often you check your report.
They don't have a choice if you have legally rescinded your ssn.
Daytime TV doesn't suck. I stayed home sick last week and got to watch Macgyver and A-Team all day. What's better than that?
It also contains ephedrine.
(any finite number of bytes) file size / (infinity) bytes per second = 0
(any finite number of bytes) file size / (infinity) bytes per second != 0
(any finite number of bytes) file size / (infinity) bytes per second = "Close enough to zero as makes no odds."
This is BS math, courtesy of THHGTTG, not a legitimate argument.
I'm going to beat you to the augmentation. I'm gonna get it in 2020.
Or, in the original version, 2010. That's only a little over 6 years away.
I have a key chain that says WWGK?
Who would God kill?
I think it's a much more important question. In this case, I think the answer is Flo Flox.
And I keep a bag of pennies handy when I'm on my bike to throw over my shoulder at tailgaters.
Gotta love watching a lexus drive through a shower of pennies at 80 mph.
It is NOT my responsibility to help them. I work, they can work, unless they are disabled, for which I am willing to make an exception.
So they're poor. Boo hoo. Get a job. If there are no jobs, move. If you're that broke, you don't have that much tying you down. Get a $100 bus ticket to an economically stable area.
Don't tell me the fact that I'm not lazy somehow gives me obligations to deadbeats.
If you're on a motorcycle, everyone in a car is trying to kill you.
In my experience, the best way to avoid this is to drive faster than everyone else. Pass them quickly, leave them in the rearview.
I've been riding for almost 10 years, and I am all original, working equipment.
I've spilled my bike three times. The first two were when I went on a cross country trip 2 months after I got my motorcycle endorsement. They happened slow enough, that at the end of it, i was standing up over my bike.
The last one had me doing barrel rolls down the highway. I hit some gravel in a really inconvenient place. I felt the bike getting ready to flip, so I left. That hurt, but the bike still worked good enough to get me home 100 miles away.
We skipped the big package. Caller ID just isn't that important to me. I was sick of dealing with Qwest, and McLeod's reliability and customer service would be enough for me to pay the higher price, anyway.
I've had full access to all of Qwest's services. That's probably because I live 2 miles west of Minneapolis, but I don't want their service.
They have horrible customer service, lousy phone service, and they use creative billing practices. I had to double check every bill and call to complain at least every other month.
For a while, we ditched the land line completely for cell phones. Then, McLeod USA started offering residential lines in our area. We signed up, and now we have a landline cheaper and more reliable than Qwest could ever hope for.
And for your information, the reason WWII got so bad in the first place was partly because you turned your back on the world and didn't help until you got attacked.
Every time the US get involved in anything proactively, we are demonized by the rest of the world for not minding our own business. Now, you are insulting the US for trying to help in WWII?
When we got involved, we could have stayed in the Pacific and defeated that area(the area the attack originated from) before touching Europe. But no, the US, being idealistic and helpful, decided to help the poor, defenseless victims that couldn't take care of themselves, too.
This is definitely a "damned if you do" scenario.
Personally, I hope that the next time anyone in the world asks us for help, we require them to append "Property of the United States of America" to their name. If we aren't going to get gratitude, then we should get some form a recompense. A new state would be a fair trade for our military power.
The worst line noise programming language I've had to deal with is M/MUMPS. I've been programming M for a year, and the code is still horrible for me to look at. Every bit of punctuation is used in commands, and every letter is a function if there's punctuation next to it.
Ick.
But, you would get other benefits for building one yourself.
You can play video games, surf the net, watch divx, etc.
Also, if you watch ebay, you can find most of the parts cheaper than retail.
Not geeks?
Our failing is our inability to socialise coherently
Which would be a large part of what makes us geeks.
I got it. I laughed. I wished that I hadn't burned my mod points yesterday.
I have that bumper sticker on my car.
Lucky bastard. My wife thinks quarterly is good enough.
There's a reason I register for everything with a throwaway email address. My hotmail account is whitelisted. If there's a registration email that I need to see, I can check the junk senders folder.
Whatever happened to ethical science??
When has ethical science been a factor in anything? The vast majority of research is military in nature, from the microwave to the internet.
The trick is coming up with peaceful applications of military pursuits. Finding a peaceful application to and EMP bomb would be one hell of a trick.
There were no BSODs at the XP launch or the .NET launch in Minneapolis.