Tax dodges are not reality. 40 year amortization schedules on real estate are just the duration between real estate sales for tax purposes. They have nothing to do with the actual service life of buildings. Legal fiction that have to do with corporate costing of capital costs, not local real estate taxes.
It's just a tax dodge. Buildings are sold and a new 40 year depreciation starts while the building appreciates in value.
Which isn't to say any tract houses built in the last 20 years will last more than 40.
I know where you can get a house in Germany for significantly less than the value of the lot. Small town, near the old E/W border (W side though). It's a teardown, about 50-60 years old, made of crete. 10 grand, easy, to bring it down, if they don't find asbestos.
Bus wheels are much larger than car wheels. If it was beating up the busses it was destroying cars.
The city roads were no doubt a joy. It took concrete economic power (the bus companies) for get the city government to put their faces out of all the free 'cocaine motor boats' they were getting and do their damn jobs.
In the US that's a 1099 from the company, or that's where the prosecution starts.
Sucks if it was a CC that ranup at 200% for a year or two anticipating your bankruptcy. Your debt to the IRS can be more than the original balance. But that's just bad planning.
Also IIRC 'personal holding companies' (where anywhere close to all stock is held by one person) are difficult to keep legal. Annual lawyer bills, for sure.
All good. Extensive exposure to bullshit is necessary to developing critical thinking.
Remember one fact. When the teachers prohibit keeping score in games, the kids ALWAYS do anyhow. They might get the score wrong, not knowing how to count, but they try.
Every child should have a 'full of shit' uncle (or aunt).
Full of shit teachers also help, believe me, I went to a Catholic high school without the initial part of the slow grift. Watching obviously smart kids just accepting clear bullshit without a blink was educational as fuck. Also for some bizarre reason taking Latin, so I was in the room with the 'Priest track' kids.
Take the job of 'Uncle fullofshit' if it's available.
Think how much fun you can have tormenting your brother/sister by giving their kids 'good ideas'. Along with the wrist rocket slingshots, jumbo packages of TP on halloween, BB guns, 22s, Tannerite and cans of smokeless powder. Age appropriately: No explosives before they find their way there on their own, Dad, got that right. 7th grade, when I made my first black powder. 'Store bought' fire crackers don't count, nor taking them apart to make bigger. That's just normal grade school behavior they all learn from each other.
A news format with a 15 minute repeat cycle (all the 24 hours in 'news mode' vs 'editorial', not that there is much diff) is supposed to make us 'understand'?
With sound bites?
You confuse 'deliver daily derp' with 'understand'. I know the derp is comforting, but grow up.
Also 'interesting'? Both the DNC and RNC deliver daily 'talking points' via mailing lists. Get a tap, upstream of the news (takes someone in the local party, but not that hard), than watch who is regurgitating who's words.
'Burn this mother fucker down' is an oft repeated trope. But the RNC and DNC having vaults full of dirt on each other is a metastable condition that has to 'resolve'.
Portland cement liberates CO2 being produced and locks it up again when it sets.
It's another thing that's blown out of proportion by only looking at half the picture. It's not 100% but nothing is, treating it like 0% is intellectually dishonest.
The public understands the need just fine. But the partisans are all following directions from their party, throwing everything into herp/derp gridlock.
Mechanical voting machines were supposed to be more tamper proof. I haven't suggested going back to letting 'LBJ' run the elections. If you think corrupt local election bodies aren't still a huge problem, you haven't been paying attention to Washington state. Just open about it, keep 'finding' ballot boxes.
To me it goes back to UN best practices. Why aren't those for cryptographically secure electronic voting? Last I looked the competent cryptographers were going rounds and rounds of shooting down each others ideas for strong crypto, secret secure ballot systems that worked. When that community settles on a solution, we can talk about e-voting.
You can't observe everything, neither can you code all the machines, Adversarial, representative observers is the best you are ever going to do, that number doesn't have to be small.
Have you ever shipped commercial code or hardware? I'm guessing...no.
Decades of experience running grid models. You can definitely get _more_than_one_ from FERC and EPRI, but they kind of suck.
The slightly harder thing to get your hands on is a dataset, but still not that hard. The _really_ hard thing to get is initial conditions and in some cases (notably Florida) fuel availability (in anything like real time).
The fact remains, you don't need a grid model to know when the grid is subject to cascade failure. You just need to know when the reserve violations are...BTW reserves (spinning and ready) are terms used in the power industry.
Modeling those cascade failures is very challenging. Going to need detailed transmission line, fuel pipeline models and reasonably complete multi area models. Things that aren't generally done together.
I do, in fact, know how to crash the grid with low tech methods on any super hot afternoon. But I ain't saying.
Bullshit. Scientific advances did nothing for them until they got rid of their Marxist masters. Which took the defeat of Communism, even in places where it still exists nominally (e.g. China).
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You'll get my two stroke lawnmower from my cold dead fingers. You will have to fight my heirs for it. Bring a weapon if you want it.
From you...That is irony.
Tax dodges are not reality. 40 year amortization schedules on real estate are just the duration between real estate sales for tax purposes. They have nothing to do with the actual service life of buildings. Legal fiction that have to do with corporate costing of capital costs, not local real estate taxes.
It's just a tax dodge. Buildings are sold and a new 40 year depreciation starts while the building appreciates in value.
Which isn't to say any tract houses built in the last 20 years will last more than 40.
I know where you can get a house in Germany for significantly less than the value of the lot. Small town, near the old E/W border (W side though). It's a teardown, about 50-60 years old, made of crete. 10 grand, easy, to bring it down, if they don't find asbestos.
Bus wheels are much larger than car wheels. If it was beating up the busses it was destroying cars.
The city roads were no doubt a joy. It took concrete economic power (the bus companies) for get the city government to put their faces out of all the free 'cocaine motor boats' they were getting and do their damn jobs.
I feel great, every time I starve the beast with any sort of tax angle or outright dodge. So many angles, so many dodges.
In the US that's a 1099 from the company, or that's where the prosecution starts.
Sucks if it was a CC that ranup at 200% for a year or two anticipating your bankruptcy. Your debt to the IRS can be more than the original balance. But that's just bad planning.
Also IIRC 'personal holding companies' (where anywhere close to all stock is held by one person) are difficult to keep legal. Annual lawyer bills, for sure.
It's ridiculously common. But like everything else, people get greedy and bite off too much.
Illegal but not immoral, so long as there are no partners getting ripped.
LOL. Yeah, we've identified your bubble.
The police lawyers will now make all the video inadmissible, as they could have been altered.
Bet there was no contract provision for not idiotically easy to own. It sounds like they just lifted the video code from a _cheap_ drone.
All good. Extensive exposure to bullshit is necessary to developing critical thinking.
Remember one fact. When the teachers prohibit keeping score in games, the kids ALWAYS do anyhow. They might get the score wrong, not knowing how to count, but they try.
Every child should have a 'full of shit' uncle (or aunt).
Full of shit teachers also help, believe me, I went to a Catholic high school without the initial part of the slow grift. Watching obviously smart kids just accepting clear bullshit without a blink was educational as fuck. Also for some bizarre reason taking Latin, so I was in the room with the 'Priest track' kids.
Take the job of 'Uncle fullofshit' if it's available.
Think how much fun you can have tormenting your brother/sister by giving their kids 'good ideas'. Along with the wrist rocket slingshots, jumbo packages of TP on halloween, BB guns, 22s, Tannerite and cans of smokeless powder. Age appropriately: No explosives before they find their way there on their own, Dad, got that right. 7th grade, when I made my first black powder. 'Store bought' fire crackers don't count, nor taking them apart to make bigger. That's just normal grade school behavior they all learn from each other.
Better building codes and fire exits were the right end of that problem to attack in the first place.
People are weird and jumpy as crowds, we don't really have the context for 'crowded theater fire/stampede' anymore. Those stories sold newspapers.
Serious WTF?
A news format with a 15 minute repeat cycle (all the 24 hours in 'news mode' vs 'editorial', not that there is much diff) is supposed to make us 'understand'?
With sound bites?
You confuse 'deliver daily derp' with 'understand'. I know the derp is comforting, but grow up.
Also 'interesting'? Both the DNC and RNC deliver daily 'talking points' via mailing lists. Get a tap, upstream of the news (takes someone in the local party, but not that hard), than watch who is regurgitating who's words.
'Burn this mother fucker down' is an oft repeated trope. But the RNC and DNC having vaults full of dirt on each other is a metastable condition that has to 'resolve'.
They moved the ads to in video and paetronhandle? Your point?
Also: Fuzzy foreigners have 'Billion' and 'Trillion' confused.*
* Expression works on both sides of pond, for various definitions of 'fuzzy'.
Portland cement liberates CO2 being produced and locks it up again when it sets.
It's another thing that's blown out of proportion by only looking at half the picture. It's not 100% but nothing is, treating it like 0% is intellectually dishonest.
Even then, aftermarket RAM was much cheaper. The sales guy was trying to help.
Too soon. You were supposed to top it with a story of sitting in Mom's puddles and returning her massive and diverse toys to their storage boxes.
Copy con program.exe
Enter the bytes with Alt-keypad.
Klingon coding.
The public understands the need just fine. But the partisans are all following directions from their party, throwing everything into herp/derp gridlock.
Mechanical voting machines were supposed to be more tamper proof. I haven't suggested going back to letting 'LBJ' run the elections. If you think corrupt local election bodies aren't still a huge problem, you haven't been paying attention to Washington state. Just open about it, keep 'finding' ballot boxes.
To me it goes back to UN best practices. Why aren't those for cryptographically secure electronic voting? Last I looked the competent cryptographers were going rounds and rounds of shooting down each others ideas for strong crypto, secret secure ballot systems that worked. When that community settles on a solution, we can talk about e-voting.
You can't observe everything, neither can you code all the machines, Adversarial, representative observers is the best you are ever going to do, that number doesn't have to be small.
Have you ever shipped commercial code or hardware? I'm guessing...no.
UN best practices! That's all I'm asking for.
You don't think...
Decades of experience running grid models. You can definitely get _more_than_one_ from FERC and EPRI, but they kind of suck.
The slightly harder thing to get your hands on is a dataset, but still not that hard. The _really_ hard thing to get is initial conditions and in some cases (notably Florida) fuel availability (in anything like real time).
The fact remains, you don't need a grid model to know when the grid is subject to cascade failure. You just need to know when the reserve violations are...BTW reserves (spinning and ready) are terms used in the power industry.
Modeling those cascade failures is very challenging. Going to need detailed transmission line, fuel pipeline models and reasonably complete multi area models. Things that aren't generally done together.
I do, in fact, know how to crash the grid with low tech methods on any super hot afternoon. But I ain't saying.
Bullshit. Scientific advances did nothing for them until they got rid of their Marxist masters. Which took the defeat of Communism, even in places where it still exists nominally (e.g. China).
Western blue collar took it in the shorts. But China (and India etc etc) had to develop or we would have ended at war for sure.
We also eliminated socialism as a viable economic theory in the same timeframe. So 'double plus good'.
Scores more? So a billion and 40?
Where/when...you fucking moron.
And the government doesn't even show up to contest the case, while preventing private parties from participating because they 'lack standing'.