$350 for what? Convenience?
It's simply enough to fill in the forms yourself.
People pay for an accountant to do their tax for the same reason they pay a mechanic to fix their car, or a plumber to install their gas central heating.
They don't want to spend the time learning something that doesn't interest them, and perhaps more importantly they want a professional who can spot anything unusual that requires additional work, and react quickly and accurately if something goes wrong.
Just because you're self employed doesn't mean you're rich.
No, but it means that whatever your income level you can legitimately pay much less tax than an equivalent employed person if you know what you're doing.
A CPA knows what he is doing; you probably don't. There is a reason why accountants and tax lawyers exist, and it's not because people like paying them for the fun of it.
For any tax situation that is even slightly complicated, relying on a piece of software is unwise. It's like self-diagnosing illnesses via the internet: I'd rather go to my doctor.
Why do these AI experts assume that biological intelligence is better? If machines are smarter, if they can out-compete humans and florish.... why should they be controlled by an inferior life form? Are we biased in favor of ourselves (how unique is that?) or can we just let evolution, in the larger sense, take it's course?
There's nothing magical about evolution, it's just what happens if no one interferes with nature. Once you're talking about robots and AI, you are way beyond that point already.
the top religious authority in Saudi Arabia (our ally) informed that there is no age restriction on consuming women as long as they are physically developed enough
I don't think that even the more extreme versions of Islam allow you to eat women.
The patent is only a piece of paper granting you, within a particular jurisdiction, exclusive rights to control the production of a particular implementation of an idea - something which by it's nature cannot be owned at all.
A contract is also just a piece of paper (or verbal agreement), but contract law exists.
The debate about whether patents and copyrights should be called "intellectual property" at all is interesting, but ultimately irrelevant. Just because the offence you commit isn't 'stealing a piece of physical property' doesn't mean it's not illegal.
A lot of people here argue that there are two sorts of laws, natural and artificial. In fact, all laws are artificial. If you're alone on a desert island the concept of law is as meaningless as your "right" to life or liberty or whatever.
Unless you believe in God, of course, but that's another question.
I think the OP's whole (non explicit) point was that people write "ex-patriot" when they mean "expatriate".
It's not really a grammatical error, more a sign that the writer doesn't read much, and hence indicative of illiteracy. It's like using "to all intensive purposes" instead of "to all intents and purposes", or "should of" instead of "should've": it shows that you've only ever heard it said, not written down
Except that's pronounced "Nawftees." Just doesn't work.
Is that a joke about the vagaries of English spelling/pronounciation (rough, through, bough, etc)or do you really not know that it derives from "nought" which rhymes with "ought"?
Why did they remove homosexuality and not pedophilia from the list?
Does the phrase "informed consent" ring any bells? A true paedophile would presumably not class any sexual actrivity between an adult and a child as automatically wrong.
Now, if you're talking about people who are purely paedophiles in their own heads, that's a different matter, as you can act inside your own head however you please.
You are correct that more research into this area is needed. But the idea that the vast majority of paedophiles will never act out their desires seems unrealistic in the extreme.
I'm not American, but the idea that elite colleges (by which I assume you mean Harvard, MIT, Stanford, etc) and their graduates are somehow "left wing" shows how bizarre US politics is.
Not everyone needs to go to college, If they can't afford it, there are very good living levels to be made by learning a trade. Hell, plumbers around here make more than some GP physicians at the lower levels.
Yes, but why should someone who is low to averagely intelligent but with rich parents be allowed the choice between a trade and a profession, while someone who is above averagely intelligent but with poor parents not have the choice?
There is nothing meritocratic about your parents being the main deciding factor in your future career prospects.
I know that a few poor but brilliant students will find a way through due to scholarships, etc. It's the very good non-geniuses who suffer.
I am speculating however that if even 2 or 3 of the weekly's personnel carried (and used) the odd.38 or 9mm, it would have mattered substantially in the outcome
There were two armed and highly trained policemen guarding them, and that didn't help much.
If all the staff had been carrying machine guns, the terrorists would just have bombed the offices instead. In Afghanistan and Iraq there are a lot of armed people around, so the terrorists use car bombs.
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what does a cute girl look like too you????)
As this is slashdot, probably two dimensional, hand drawn and with tentacles nearby.
Be very afraid when Slashdot starts saying 'cute' in its summaries of electronic devices. I just gagged a little..
That's why I block Apple stories. "Cute" might be nausea-inducing, but it's better than "sexy".
I stopped reading at "climate change."
They are your "and here's a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed" words?
You do know that The Matrix isn't a documentary or scientific paper, right?
Yes, because only in IT is everyone given more than one task at a time to do and has multiple competing deadlines.
So though far I've never had an audit
That's what everyone says. Until they get audited.
$350 for what? Convenience?
It's simply enough to fill in the forms yourself.
People pay for an accountant to do their tax for the same reason they pay a mechanic to fix their car, or a plumber to install their gas central heating.
They don't want to spend the time learning something that doesn't interest them, and perhaps more importantly they want a professional who can spot anything unusual that requires additional work, and react quickly and accurately if something goes wrong.
Just because you're self employed doesn't mean you're rich.
No, but it means that whatever your income level you can legitimately pay much less tax than an equivalent employed person if you know what you're doing.
A CPA knows what he is doing; you probably don't. There is a reason why accountants and tax lawyers exist, and it's not because people like paying them for the fun of it.
For any tax situation that is even slightly complicated, relying on a piece of software is unwise. It's like self-diagnosing illnesses via the internet: I'd rather go to my doctor.
Your post raises the question of whether there's such a thing as human intelligence,never mind AI.
Why do these AI experts assume that biological intelligence is better? If machines are smarter, if they can out-compete humans and florish.... why should they be controlled by an inferior life form? Are we biased in favor of ourselves (how unique is that?) or can we just let evolution, in the larger sense, take it's course?
There's nothing magical about evolution, it's just what happens if no one interferes with nature. Once you're talking about robots and AI, you are way beyond that point already.
You know what? If you want to publish some cartoons denouncing King John as a pedophile, I will totally support your right to do so.
That's because you probably know or care nothing abut King John, so it's a meaningless comparison.
the top religious authority in Saudi Arabia (our ally) informed that there is no age restriction on consuming women as long as they are physically developed enough
I don't think that even the more extreme versions of Islam allow you to eat women.
The patent is only a piece of paper granting you, within a particular jurisdiction, exclusive rights to control the production of a particular implementation of an idea - something which by it's nature cannot be owned at all.
A contract is also just a piece of paper (or verbal agreement), but contract law exists.
The debate about whether patents and copyrights should be called "intellectual property" at all is interesting, but ultimately irrelevant. Just because the offence you commit isn't 'stealing a piece of physical property' doesn't mean it's not illegal.
A lot of people here argue that there are two sorts of laws, natural and artificial. In fact, all laws are artificial. If you're alone on a desert island the concept of law is as meaningless as your "right" to life or liberty or whatever.
Unless you believe in God, of course, but that's another question.
Probably because this is a topic that deserves actual commentary and discussion and not cheap jokes.
Yeah let's leave the jokes to posts about non serious topics like the Charlie Hebdo shootings.
It's always good to get a sociopath's point of view.
I think you misspelled "libertarian".
It's not really a grammatical error, more a sign that the writer doesn't read much, and hence indicative of illiteracy. It's like using "to all intensive purposes" instead of "to all intents and purposes", or "should of" instead of "should've": it shows that you've only ever heard it said, not written down
It ought to be the Noughties
Except that's pronounced "Nawftees." Just doesn't work.
Is that a joke about the vagaries of English spelling/pronounciation (rough, through, bough, etc)or do you really not know that it derives from "nought" which rhymes with "ought"?
You get my vote as the cleverest troll currently writing for slashdot.
Altogether, these data support an X-linked multi-locus sexually antagonistic hypothesis rather than an autosomal multi-locus overdominance hypothesis.
tl;dr having a gay grandad makes women more fertile
Why did they remove homosexuality and not pedophilia from the list?
Does the phrase "informed consent" ring any bells? A true paedophile would presumably not class any sexual actrivity between an adult and a child as automatically wrong.
Now, if you're talking about people who are purely paedophiles in their own heads, that's a different matter, as you can act inside your own head however you please.
You are correct that more research into this area is needed. But the idea that the vast majority of paedophiles will never act out their desires seems unrealistic in the extreme.
Hopefully you mean 'near hits' because a near miss would just be a hit.
No, in English we say "near miss". It is a contraction of "it was a miss, but very near".
I'm not American, but the idea that elite colleges (by which I assume you mean Harvard, MIT, Stanford, etc) and their graduates are somehow "left wing" shows how bizarre US politics is.
The world needs ditch diggers too.
Not everyone needs to go to college, If they can't afford it, there are very good living levels to be made by learning a trade. Hell, plumbers around here make more than some GP physicians at the lower levels.
Yes, but why should someone who is low to averagely intelligent but with rich parents be allowed the choice between a trade and a profession, while someone who is above averagely intelligent but with poor parents not have the choice?
There is nothing meritocratic about your parents being the main deciding factor in your future career prospects.
I know that a few poor but brilliant students will find a way through due to scholarships, etc. It's the very good non-geniuses who suffer.
>> If you’ve ever said, 'markets are conversations'
Um...did you mean to post this on SlashDot? I'm pretty sure no one here ever said that...
I once said "meerkats adore conservation" does that count?
I am speculating however that if even 2 or 3 of the weekly's personnel carried (and used) the odd .38 or 9mm, it would have mattered substantially in the outcome
There were two armed and highly trained policemen guarding them, and that didn't help much.
If all the staff had been carrying machine guns, the terrorists would just have bombed the offices instead. In Afghanistan and Iraq there are a lot of armed people around, so the terrorists use car bombs.