Just been through something similar, and we were married for 32 years!
Say yes to keep the kids and your folks happy, get sick the day before.
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bishfish
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Harlequin wrote:Holy crap, they grow to be 20-30 feet long? Never seen a dolphin that big...
You probably have, they are called Orcas!
http://www.dolphins.org/
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CannotResolveSymbol wrote:dolphin != whale
dolphin = whale!
Family cetaceans, all toothed whales, dolphins & porpoises.
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Minh wrote:Just heard this on TWiT -- about 42 minutes in. Is that right?
Just a thought - 'Twit' in many UK English speaking countries means a mild expletive to describe someone who has done something rather silly or stupid. The term 'prize twit' is saved for the really twitish.
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ScanIAm wrote:
bishfish wrote: Cybermagellan wrote: If I am correct...the B&M Gates Foundation has a value of $20 Billion....that's $20 Billion less Bill has to claim at the end of the year.
This sort of reasoning is just so much nonsense - Bill either gives $20Billion to charity or pays $20Billion to the rapacious jaws of the taxman - either way Bill is down $20 Billion - which option has the greatest benefit to the world at large?
1) he didn't donate $20Bil this year.
2) there is a limit to how much you can donate to offset taxes.
3) even though it sometimes seems opposite, taxes are actually used for good things.
Using charity to 'not pay taxes' is quite a selfish choice. You are essentially saying that the general welfare of society is less important than some random cause you came up with. Tax money is used for a number of things that you could not do without.
I can't stand it when people complain about paying too much tax. As if they don't deserve to do their fair share for society.
Donate money, but don't do it for the tax reasons.
I agree with you, which is why I finished with a question mark.
I agree especially and specifically with your final comment. I believe that Bill, and too many other large donors are labelled as donating for tax dodging. My piont was if they were doing it for that reason the money outlayed is much the same, so why bother?
Yes we need taxes for the all that Govts spend money on (good and bad
, but donations can help fill in the gaps in Govt spending.
I think all people who donate to good causes deserve our congratulation, not depracation, whether it is $2 or $2billion.
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Cybermagellan wrote:If I am correct...the B&M Gates Foundation has a value of $20 Billion....that's $20 Billion less Bill has to claim at the end of the year.
This sort of reasoning is just so much nonsense - Bill either gives $20Billion to charity or pays $20Billion to the rapacious jaws of the taxman - either way Bill is down $20 Billion - which option has the greatest benefit to the world at large?
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Why would they be practicing all week - they have nearly ten months till 1 Oct?
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Its 15 minutes into the New Year here in New Zealand. Happy New Year!
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"Still, people suing over anything is a curse of Western society, so maybe something will come of it..."
Am not sure this is true of 'Western society', I think it is perhaps a primarily American disease.
Like some posters I too wonder what is to be gained by these lawsuits, except publicity and some twisted notion of 'revenge' against the big corporations. Take the machine back, get a replacement, get a life, and stop tying up valuable Court time. -
Maurits wrote:
bishfish wrote:what about the 5 of my 7 extensions that are disabled because of incompatibility
You can hack the extension installation binaries to override the incompatibility block.
There's an extension you can install to avoid this too (Nightly Tester Tools Firefox extension)
Thanks for that - worked a treat on all but one of the xtensions I had 'lost', fortunately one I can live without till the writers update it.
