"except the IRS, acne and that kid on the bike in Better Off Dead"
Google did take care of that kid on the bike for me. I don't know how they did it, but all I had to do was give Google $2 and they made him go away somehow.
When asked about the end of the show, Olmos said, "Too bad it won't live but then again what does." He then proceeded to leave oragami unicorns all over the set.
"It's My Life" had a bit of a revival in the 80's while the show Bosom Buddies was popular. That show used "It's My Life" as its theme song. I miss funny Tom Hanks. Peter Scolari needs to smack him around a bit and make him realize how good he used to be.
You can steal anything with enough balls. I remember back when I used to work for a university I had to go retrieve a computer from one of our satellite campuses. The university vans were all booked for the day so I had to take my truck. So there I was in plain clothes walking out of the satellite campus' main office with a computer that was very obviously university property in hand loading it into my personal pickup truck. Security was driving by and slowed down to look for a second. I waved at them and they drove on. What's really interesting is that later on they told us they lost the computer we had set up there and we had to explain to them that they didn't lose it. We had already picked it up. Security had obviously not bothered to check up on me.
The moral of this story is that a smile and wave is better than any well thought out back story as to why you're taking what you're stealing.
That would be a most excellent twist of irony. After all, this is the same interview where he called Spiderman 3 silly. Spiderman 3 is a bit silly but for Lucas to call it that and then throw around the idea of doing two hour-long Star Wars movies without any Skywalkers in them?
"the founders did this for a reason--you could move to the state whose politics most closely matched your own."
What? That doesn't even make any sense. Moving from state to state just didn't happen all that often back then. The founders granted so much power to the states because they were proceeding from the vantage point of allying 13 separate bodies. If they couldn't come to an agreement among the states, there wasn't going to be a United States. They gave the states as much power as they had to to get them to agree to join. Providing our nation with a wide variety of local legal options had nothing to do with it.
"As a method for producing electricity in general, it is not a clean method"
No, it's not. But if you were producing alcohol anyways as part of a brewery, it would be a great way to run your operation more efficiently. Given the amount of waste needed, I doubt this system would ever be useful outside a brewery. The cost to transport that much waste water probably outweighs any off-site use of these fuel cells.
I know this is only speaking for right now, but the motherboard and available chipsets aren't exactly AMD's weak suit. As it currently stands, at every level but the highest, the AM2's available motherboard chipsets and prices blow away the 775 Intel equivalents. If anything, I'd like to get a Core 2 Duo running on the AM2 than get an X2 running on a 775.
In my case, I've been told that I'm an audit target because I have a legitimate W2 with $0 income. You can't even e-file if you have a W-2 with $0 income. The W-2 is from a short term disability payout. The amount of the payout has to be reported but it's not technically income so Box 1 is a zero while some of the other boxes have dollar amounts in them.
"The ultimate goal is to strike the balance where no money exchanges hands at tax time."
My wife and I play Pioneers (formerly Gnocatan) along with AI players. The AI players are mostly cannon fodder, but they get in the way enough to make the game interesting to both of us. We also use Red Alert II's AI in the same way.
After buying the Settlers of Catan, Seafarers of Catan, the 5-6 Player expansion and all the other odds and ends, it may be cheaper to just buy a 360 and play it online. Does the XBox Live Catan have a decent AI? I wish the Pioneers (formerly Gnocatan) AI could use their darn ships. Fish in a barrel...
There are several rules regarding underpayment but the one the most general one is:
Topic 306 - Penalty for Underpayment of Estimated Tax
You can find it on irs.gov. Now if you fix your taxes so that they don't withhold anything and pay estimated taxes quarterly I think you're ok. As lousy as our tax code is, irs.gov is actually a decent site.
"If paying the taxes is the issue, that's what an extension is for."
You've never filed an extension, have you? The money is due on tax day whether or not you file an extension. When you are filing the extension, you are asked what you expect to owe and you are expected to enclose that amount. If you don't include enough, you pay a penalty and taxes on what you didn't include.
As long as flooding the system at the last minute decreases the likelihood of getting an audit, anyone strongly looking to avoid an audit will do so. I'm an audit target myself so I made darn sure to wait until the last minute but I didn't file an extension like I usually do because I overpaid on my tax witholdings last year so the IRS owes me money.
"I also learned a few years back that Turbo Tax is no better than most of the other products out there, free or otherwise."
It's really not. I still use it because I have a complicated tax return and all of my info from last year is moved over into the next year's return. So far I haven't seen a product that's worth it for me to move my info into a new system vs. just keeping the TurboTax stuff I already have in place.
The E-File portion of TurboTax melted down. The rest of it worked just fine. I printed out my return and mailed it off from the post office in my area that stays open late on tax day. I even made a last-minute adjustment (found a receipt for a charitable contribution I forgot about) before I printed it off. Given that there's at least one post office in most areas that stayed open until midnight on tax day, there should've still been options better than hoping Intuit got their act together before midnight.
Perhaps, but the comment isn't that people who can't house the TV can't afford it. The original comment was that if you can house the TV you can afford it and that's very, very, very false. Plenty of people have a room big enough to house the TV but don't have the $100,000 to spend on it.
Those rose-colored glasses must make it hard to read numbers. In the 60's advertisements made up 9 minutes of every hour (15%). Today advertisements take up 18 minutes of every hour (30%). That's a lot more than it used to be but it's not quite the 33% you say that "advertisers have pushed it way past" and nowhere near the 50% you claim.
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"except the IRS, acne and that kid on the bike in Better Off Dead"
Google did take care of that kid on the bike for me. I don't know how they did it, but all I had to do was give Google $2 and they made him go away somehow.
Yeah, 6 weeks is impressive. Too bad Atari didn't have this team working on ET.
Well most downloaded malware comes through online games and porn. Which one did your sister have a hankering for?
When asked about the end of the show, Olmos said, "Too bad it won't live but then again what does." He then proceeded to leave oragami unicorns all over the set.
"It's My Life" had a bit of a revival in the 80's while the show Bosom Buddies was popular. That show used "It's My Life" as its theme song. I miss funny Tom Hanks. Peter Scolari needs to smack him around a bit and make him realize how good he used to be.
You can steal anything with enough balls. I remember back when I used to work for a university I had to go retrieve a computer from one of our satellite campuses. The university vans were all booked for the day so I had to take my truck. So there I was in plain clothes walking out of the satellite campus' main office with a computer that was very obviously university property in hand loading it into my personal pickup truck. Security was driving by and slowed down to look for a second. I waved at them and they drove on. What's really interesting is that later on they told us they lost the computer we had set up there and we had to explain to them that they didn't lose it. We had already picked it up. Security had obviously not bothered to check up on me.
The moral of this story is that a smile and wave is better than any well thought out back story as to why you're taking what you're stealing.
That would be a most excellent twist of irony. After all, this is the same interview where he called Spiderman 3 silly. Spiderman 3 is a bit silly but for Lucas to call it that and then throw around the idea of doing two hour-long Star Wars movies without any Skywalkers in them?
"the founders did this for a reason--you could move to the state whose politics most closely matched your own."
What? That doesn't even make any sense. Moving from state to state just didn't happen all that often back then. The founders granted so much power to the states because they were proceeding from the vantage point of allying 13 separate bodies. If they couldn't come to an agreement among the states, there wasn't going to be a United States. They gave the states as much power as they had to to get them to agree to join. Providing our nation with a wide variety of local legal options had nothing to do with it.
My school is too busy dealing with those pesky ninjas to turn their attention to pirates just yet.
"The third rule of fight club is you can NEVER reverse engineer meatloafs fake boobs...."
His name is Robert Paulson.
"As a method for producing electricity in general, it is not a clean method"
No, it's not. But if you were producing alcohol anyways as part of a brewery, it would be a great way to run your operation more efficiently. Given the amount of waste needed, I doubt this system would ever be useful outside a brewery. The cost to transport that much waste water probably outweighs any off-site use of these fuel cells.
How come vegemite-on-turkish-toast works? That's nobody's business but the Turks.
You just need to buddy up with one or more members of the school board. That's the only way things get done in a public school system.
I know this is only speaking for right now, but the motherboard and available chipsets aren't exactly AMD's weak suit. As it currently stands, at every level but the highest, the AM2's available motherboard chipsets and prices blow away the 775 Intel equivalents. If anything, I'd like to get a Core 2 Duo running on the AM2 than get an X2 running on a 775.
In Korea, only old people are swayed into mass shootings by the violence they experience while playing video games.
"barely making ends meet to produce the milk you drank for breakfast this morning."
That's just disgusting! I drink milk that was produced by cows thank you very much.
In my case, I've been told that I'm an audit target because I have a legitimate W2 with $0 income. You can't even e-file if you have a W-2 with $0 income. The W-2 is from a short term disability payout. The amount of the payout has to be reported but it's not technically income so Box 1 is a zero while some of the other boxes have dollar amounts in them.
"The ultimate goal is to strike the balance where no money exchanges hands at tax time."
Indeed.
My wife and I play Pioneers (formerly Gnocatan) along with AI players. The AI players are mostly cannon fodder, but they get in the way enough to make the game interesting to both of us. We also use Red Alert II's AI in the same way.
After buying the Settlers of Catan, Seafarers of Catan, the 5-6 Player expansion and all the other odds and ends, it may be cheaper to just buy a 360 and play it online. Does the XBox Live Catan have a decent AI? I wish the Pioneers (formerly Gnocatan) AI could use their darn ships. Fish in a barrel...
"And this is stated in the tax code were?"
There are several rules regarding underpayment but the one the most general one is:
Topic 306 - Penalty for Underpayment of Estimated Tax
You can find it on irs.gov. Now if you fix your taxes so that they don't withhold anything and pay estimated taxes quarterly I think you're ok. As lousy as our tax code is, irs.gov is actually a decent site.
"He had no home telephone because it cost money."
"he won't have spent any of the money he saved on anything to give himself any happiness."
Yes, because you haven't experienced true joy until you get interrupted during dinner by telemarketing calls.
"If paying the taxes is the issue, that's what an extension is for."
You've never filed an extension, have you? The money is due on tax day whether or not you file an extension. When you are filing the extension, you are asked what you expect to owe and you are expected to enclose that amount. If you don't include enough, you pay a penalty and taxes on what you didn't include.
As long as flooding the system at the last minute decreases the likelihood of getting an audit, anyone strongly looking to avoid an audit will do so. I'm an audit target myself so I made darn sure to wait until the last minute but I didn't file an extension like I usually do because I overpaid on my tax witholdings last year so the IRS owes me money.
"I also learned a few years back that Turbo Tax is no better than most of the other products out there, free or otherwise."
It's really not. I still use it because I have a complicated tax return and all of my info from last year is moved over into the next year's return. So far I haven't seen a product that's worth it for me to move my info into a new system vs. just keeping the TurboTax stuff I already have in place.
The E-File portion of TurboTax melted down. The rest of it worked just fine. I printed out my return and mailed it off from the post office in my area that stays open late on tax day. I even made a last-minute adjustment (found a receipt for a charitable contribution I forgot about) before I printed it off. Given that there's at least one post office in most areas that stayed open until midnight on tax day, there should've still been options better than hoping Intuit got their act together before midnight.
Perhaps, but the comment isn't that people who can't house the TV can't afford it. The original comment was that if you can house the TV you can afford it and that's very, very, very false. Plenty of people have a room big enough to house the TV but don't have the $100,000 to spend on it.
Those rose-colored glasses must make it hard to read numbers. In the 60's advertisements made up 9 minutes of every hour (15%). Today advertisements take up 18 minutes of every hour (30%). That's a lot more than it used to be but it's not quite the 33% you say that "advertisers have pushed it way past" and nowhere near the 50% you claim.