That would be easy actually. As there is this thing called fine print, and service with them requires signing an agreement. Since most people don't read theirs, it would be easy to sneak it in.
I've noticed this myself after they made this change, and found others with the same problem. So it looks like they decided to punish you if you don't, unless you delete G+: making it even more senseless as people have deleted their G+ profiles to get around it. Good move on making a move that reduces users for a service you're trying to increase usage for.
I double checked, but a number of those patents are no longer enforceable since prior to 1995 it was 17 years from the filing date. After that it was 20 years after the filing date. With the earliest date being 1977. My guess is they are throwing them all in, and hoping some stick. So everything filed in 1994 (2011 is 17 years later) or earlier has already expired. Lack of enforcement of the patents may work against them too.
Oh yeah, just look at the Self Employed tax forms you need to file if you run a business: Sole Proprietor, LLC, or Partnership. Those are such a complicated mess that you could easily screw something up. It's the reason there is quick books software to do most of the tracking for you. Lets not forget the taxes you have to pay on employee wages.
How many people realize that the taxes taken out on the W2s aren't the only income taxes paid?
Yep, every business that pays wages has to pay taxes on the wages they pay, and it won't ever show up on a paycheck or W2 because they can't take them out of employee pay. Instead they reduce their employees. This is one of the reasons small business owners are pushing for lower taxes, and the reason that lowering taxes WILL improve the job market. It just has to be a reduction on the PAYROLL taxes companies pay. I think there are also penalties for layoffs with FUTA, so they won't risk hiring in an uncertain economy if it will cost them money to let workers go.
Small business also need to go through EVERY expense they make, and follow the federal depreciation table for assets (can't use your choice of GAAP methods on taxes.) If you use your personal vehicle for taxes, or part of your home (I'm an accounting student so this was even more important to learn since many rural accountants have an office built into their home.), you need to figure out how much of that use was related to business. So you need to calculate the square footage of the office space, then get the percentage that is for the entire house.
So I completely agree that taxes are not easy to follow.
At most they can file a motion for discovery, and then a motion to compel. The rules vary by state, but you could be held in contempt: worse yet have a default judgement against you.
I only ever see the in city areas, and have driven during rush hour. That's the only time I would say they are a safety improvement. A number of idiots drive in the dusk without their headlights on out here in the country. Magnify that for city rush hour and it can get dangerous. The biggest issue is likely seeing the exit signs, so it's likely to reduce distraction of people trying to read them with the shorter range of head lights on low beams, or having people that are blinded by the high beams on behind them to get better range on the road sign reflectors.
Toyota even gives you guides on their website for performing a few standard maintenance tasks: once others would just direct you to the dealer ship for. I know based on Haynes availability I'm more likely getting a Toyota car. Instead of buying another Jeep Patriot. There is no Haynes available for it at all, and doing anything means I need to hope someone posted a good guide on the Jeep forums (unofficial) that didn't disappear. It's a decent car (no problems mechanically), but has some interior issues: carpet easily gets torn by shoes, lid of the center armrest storage broke quickly because of a cheap plastic latch, spare needs more than a crossbar to get the bolt off (too deep down), lid covering spare is all plastic so it breaks easily, need to lean far forward to see the traffic light because of the windshield design, etc.
Every time a movie is released on DVD or shown in the theaters it's copyright date is extended. This is part of the reason, other than making more money, DIsney does it's "Before it goes back in the vault" marketing: probably the second part of CD box sets too. Before copyright law was changed to allow home movie releases to extend copyright, they would release the film in theaters about every ten years. Like I said, it's the second part to the reason other than making more money. A convenience they lobbied congress for.
I attempted watching Saturday morning cartoons recently, wanted to see if any new good cartoons were on, besides the disappointment at the quality of the only two runs (Fox and CW) the ads were worse than I remember. Sometimes it barely went five minutes before a long ad break.
Do kids really have the attention span to sit through those ads?
I remember being annoyed by them when I was a kid, and getting antsy.
Landline phones are one of those funny things. A classmate remarked how theirs was helpful during that freak Oct snow storm in CT. My great uncle had no land line for over a week because *shock* the line went down. Yet with my cell phone I could go to the shelter and charge it if I needed too. So there are still people clinging too it for the reason it works in an outage...
As for a TV. The only thing it might be of use for me is a console, but I'm starting to walk away from even those. Since building a good PC for gaming is much cheaper these days. You can even stick with a laptop, and still have something great for games. It's a personal choice, but I've dropped down my moving important possessions (also fire replacement) down to my computer, clothes, and Kindle. It saves me a good deal of effort and space. Trips and school also means I can go with the entirety of my real possessions (furniture is just additional possessions that I don't care much about.)
Yeah, I was glad my parents let me play the sports I wanted to for the most part. Little league baseball was fun, but I wish I could have played ice hockey (there just wasn't a rink nearby and within their budget.) I never wanted to play football as a kid, and liked basketball as a winter sport. Though my parents were probably happy with those two because they are dirt cheap for working class parents. Just pay the fee for little league (covers the numbered shirt), and a glove lasts a few years. It was the same for basketball. The only real costs was the new cleats and basketball shoes each year.
Poor kids these days get their parents sports failures pushed on them. Sometimes my team won, mostly we lost, but we still had fun (still sore about the head of the league adding three innings five minutes before the cut off time after the standard six innings so his team could come back for a win.) In high school I switched to track to go from 80s to 90s in PE, and participate in a sport with practice that was more laid back for the throwers. Maybe I was terrible, but hanging out with people I liked more often was nice. Meets meant a great deal of sitting on your ass in the grass waiting for your event, and then warming up shortly before.
We have a 24Mbit connection, and don't have issues playing games/streaming Netflix. This is a household with four people in it too (doing more than one of those at once.) So I can imagine the reason most won't upgrade.
I played DAOC, the WoW grind is nothing, and even then I hear Everquest is worse for the grind. As for WoW, they streamlined it in Cata. It's not very hard to level fast, even quicker if you're in an old guild with friends and family (mine is like that, got an IRL friend that will fit or family member then bring em in), or can get the heirloom items.
My reaction to the Mists of Pandaria thing was "WOOHOO!" To me the expansion looks fun, and that's the point of gaming for me, and I dare say most casuals.
My college uses Blackboard, and the only way to upload files from the computer is via the Java plugin (odd since a school I went to before didn't need it to upload, unless more recent versions of blackboard added it.) Once I'm done with needing it, I do plan on getting rid of it. It's another plugin I don't really care for.
My high school had a payphone, and so did my grammar school. Those are now gone. So if I had a kid they would need one to call in for a ride home should they walk across to the library to do research after school. I had a payphone that I could always use, but those days are gone in most areas: if not all. I used the payphone numerous times from:
1) Missing the bus (running to the locker, and then to the bus as it decides to leave in less than the ten less it's supposed to wait.) 2) Walking over to the town library after school to research. 3) Using the computer lab (we didn't have a computer until after my freshman year of high school.)
All of which required me calling my mom to let her know to pick me up after work.
I'm hoping that, since it runs Windows 8, you will be able to set it up landscape on a reading stand with a bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Easy to get a smaller keyboard for portability; like the Apple one: with the detriment of no number pad. I'm not saying the Apple one is the solution, just that it's a good example of a compact keyboard. One I've tested before, and found it comfortable to type on despite my normally large keyboards.
For home use, if done right, I might just have only a Windows tablet so I can use office for the needed files. Other than Office, all I need these days is a tablet (only thing I do on a computer is internet, email, Facebook, and office.)
Along with not paying outrageous fees to get the SDK. Android SDK is free, and has a $25 fee for creating an account to publish to the store: $100 for Apple (SDK requires OS X, but has no extra charge so getting a Mac Mini is sufficient for development after you make enough on the Android market.)
This makes me glad I have the tab on the rearview. Even if you don't you might be able to achieve the same effect. All my tab does is point the mirror downwards. Get a friend, and try adjusting it down until you see the headlights reflected, but much dimmer. Remember the setting to switch for day/night. Might be annoying, but you might be able to get some relief if you don't have that tab. Though they are supposed to be much more common these days, as auto dim is the luxury feature.
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Those of us that get their personal info stolen when some clueless user clicks a phishing e-mail that lets a trojan into a healthcare provider.
You could have some sort of LEDs surrounding the dash, or back lighting similar to watches. The LEDs would need to be low/adjustable power.
That would be easy actually. As there is this thing called fine print, and service with them requires signing an agreement. Since most people don't read theirs, it would be easy to sneak it in.
I've noticed this myself after they made this change, and found others with the same problem. So it looks like they decided to punish you if you don't, unless you delete G+: making it even more senseless as people have deleted their G+ profiles to get around it. Good move on making a move that reduces users for a service you're trying to increase usage for.
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/d7XKETauIH4
Fahrenheit 451 scared the shit out of me, but I'm also a book worm.
All those books... *shudders* ...those monsters...
I double checked, but a number of those patents are no longer enforceable since prior to 1995 it was 17 years from the filing date. After that it was 20 years after the filing date. With the earliest date being 1977. My guess is they are throwing them all in, and hoping some stick. So everything filed in 1994 (2011 is 17 years later) or earlier has already expired. Lack of enforcement of the patents may work against them too.
Oh yeah, just look at the Self Employed tax forms you need to file if you run a business: Sole Proprietor, LLC, or Partnership. Those are such a complicated mess that you could easily screw something up. It's the reason there is quick books software to do most of the tracking for you. Lets not forget the taxes you have to pay on employee wages.
How many people realize that the taxes taken out on the W2s aren't the only income taxes paid?
Yep, every business that pays wages has to pay taxes on the wages they pay, and it won't ever show up on a paycheck or W2 because they can't take them out of employee pay. Instead they reduce their employees. This is one of the reasons small business owners are pushing for lower taxes, and the reason that lowering taxes WILL improve the job market. It just has to be a reduction on the PAYROLL taxes companies pay. I think there are also penalties for layoffs with FUTA, so they won't risk hiring in an uncertain economy if it will cost them money to let workers go.
Small business also need to go through EVERY expense they make, and follow the federal depreciation table for assets (can't use your choice of GAAP methods on taxes.) If you use your personal vehicle for taxes, or part of your home (I'm an accounting student so this was even more important to learn since many rural accountants have an office built into their home.), you need to figure out how much of that use was related to business. So you need to calculate the square footage of the office space, then get the percentage that is for the entire house.
So I completely agree that taxes are not easy to follow.
It's the 1040-EZ, but it's very limited use.
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040ez.pdf
In a shocker, Malloy doesn't support this tax. So it needs a 2/3 vote to pass now.
http://www.wfsb.com/story/17176089/hearing-held-on-proposed-digital-download-tax
At most they can file a motion for discovery, and then a motion to compel. The rules vary by state, but you could be held in contempt: worse yet have a default judgement against you.
Source to back it up:
http://www.ohiolegalservices.org/public/legal_problem/courts-hearings/documents-and-papers-from-a-court/motion-to-compel-discovery-and-sanctions/qandact_view
*Disclaimer*
I'm not a lawyer (accounting students must take business law), and this is not legal advice, nor should this be construed as such.
I only ever see the in city areas, and have driven during rush hour. That's the only time I would say they are a safety improvement. A number of idiots drive in the dusk without their headlights on out here in the country. Magnify that for city rush hour and it can get dangerous. The biggest issue is likely seeing the exit signs, so it's likely to reduce distraction of people trying to read them with the shorter range of head lights on low beams, or having people that are blinded by the high beams on behind them to get better range on the road sign reflectors.
Was there another final debate?
After the final debate?
That followed the final debate?
That was really just childish bickering, pointing fingers, and attacks instead of an actual debate?
Toyota even gives you guides on their website for performing a few standard maintenance tasks: once others would just direct you to the dealer ship for. I know based on Haynes availability I'm more likely getting a Toyota car. Instead of buying another Jeep Patriot. There is no Haynes available for it at all, and doing anything means I need to hope someone posted a good guide on the Jeep forums (unofficial) that didn't disappear. It's a decent car (no problems mechanically), but has some interior issues: carpet easily gets torn by shoes, lid of the center armrest storage broke quickly because of a cheap plastic latch, spare needs more than a crossbar to get the bolt off (too deep down), lid covering spare is all plastic so it breaks easily, need to lean far forward to see the traffic light because of the windshield design, etc.
Every time a movie is released on DVD or shown in the theaters it's copyright date is extended. This is part of the reason, other than making more money, DIsney does it's "Before it goes back in the vault" marketing: probably the second part of CD box sets too. Before copyright law was changed to allow home movie releases to extend copyright, they would release the film in theaters about every ten years. Like I said, it's the second part to the reason other than making more money. A convenience they lobbied congress for.
I attempted watching Saturday morning cartoons recently, wanted to see if any new good cartoons were on, besides the disappointment at the quality of the only two runs (Fox and CW) the ads were worse than I remember. Sometimes it barely went five minutes before a long ad break.
Do kids really have the attention span to sit through those ads?
I remember being annoyed by them when I was a kid, and getting antsy.
Landline phones are one of those funny things. A classmate remarked how theirs was helpful during that freak Oct snow storm in CT. My great uncle had no land line for over a week because *shock* the line went down. Yet with my cell phone I could go to the shelter and charge it if I needed too. So there are still people clinging too it for the reason it works in an outage...
As for a TV. The only thing it might be of use for me is a console, but I'm starting to walk away from even those. Since building a good PC for gaming is much cheaper these days. You can even stick with a laptop, and still have something great for games. It's a personal choice, but I've dropped down my moving important possessions (also fire replacement) down to my computer, clothes, and Kindle. It saves me a good deal of effort and space. Trips and school also means I can go with the entirety of my real possessions (furniture is just additional possessions that I don't care much about.)
Yeah, I was glad my parents let me play the sports I wanted to for the most part. Little league baseball was fun, but I wish I could have played ice hockey (there just wasn't a rink nearby and within their budget.) I never wanted to play football as a kid, and liked basketball as a winter sport. Though my parents were probably happy with those two because they are dirt cheap for working class parents. Just pay the fee for little league (covers the numbered shirt), and a glove lasts a few years. It was the same for basketball. The only real costs was the new cleats and basketball shoes each year.
Poor kids these days get their parents sports failures pushed on them. Sometimes my team won, mostly we lost, but we still had fun (still sore about the head of the league adding three innings five minutes before the cut off time after the standard six innings so his team could come back for a win.) In high school I switched to track to go from 80s to 90s in PE, and participate in a sport with practice that was more laid back for the throwers. Maybe I was terrible, but hanging out with people I liked more often was nice. Meets meant a great deal of sitting on your ass in the grass waiting for your event, and then warming up shortly before.
Yeah, I see right around 3MBs on Steam often. Speakeasy gives me the same results too.
We have a 24Mbit connection, and don't have issues playing games/streaming Netflix. This is a household with four people in it too (doing more than one of those at once.) So I can imagine the reason most won't upgrade.
I played DAOC, the WoW grind is nothing, and even then I hear Everquest is worse for the grind. As for WoW, they streamlined it in Cata. It's not very hard to level fast, even quicker if you're in an old guild with friends and family (mine is like that, got an IRL friend that will fit or family member then bring em in), or can get the heirloom items.
My reaction to the Mists of Pandaria thing was "WOOHOO!" To me the expansion looks fun, and that's the point of gaming for me, and I dare say most casuals.
My college uses Blackboard, and the only way to upload files from the computer is via the Java plugin (odd since a school I went to before didn't need it to upload, unless more recent versions of blackboard added it.) Once I'm done with needing it, I do plan on getting rid of it. It's another plugin I don't really care for.
My high school had a payphone, and so did my grammar school. Those are now gone. So if I had a kid they would need one to call in for a ride home should they walk across to the library to do research after school. I had a payphone that I could always use, but those days are gone in most areas: if not all. I used the payphone numerous times from:
1) Missing the bus (running to the locker, and then to the bus as it decides to leave in less than the ten less it's supposed to wait.)
2) Walking over to the town library after school to research.
3) Using the computer lab (we didn't have a computer until after my freshman year of high school.)
All of which required me calling my mom to let her know to pick me up after work.
I'm hoping that, since it runs Windows 8, you will be able to set it up landscape on a reading stand with a bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Easy to get a smaller keyboard for portability; like the Apple one: with the detriment of no number pad. I'm not saying the Apple one is the solution, just that it's a good example of a compact keyboard. One I've tested before, and found it comfortable to type on despite my normally large keyboards.
For home use, if done right, I might just have only a Windows tablet so I can use office for the needed files. Other than Office, all I need these days is a tablet (only thing I do on a computer is internet, email, Facebook, and office.)
Along with not paying outrageous fees to get the SDK. Android SDK is free, and has a $25 fee for creating an account to publish to the store: $100 for Apple (SDK requires OS X, but has no extra charge so getting a Mac Mini is sufficient for development after you make enough on the Android market.)
This makes me glad I have the tab on the rearview. Even if you don't you might be able to achieve the same effect. All my tab does is point the mirror downwards. Get a friend, and try adjusting it down until you see the headlights reflected, but much dimmer. Remember the setting to switch for day/night. Might be annoying, but you might be able to get some relief if you don't have that tab. Though they are supposed to be much more common these days, as auto dim is the luxury feature.