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Shaggar posted:those guys are actually cheating on their taxes. that's not the same as "loopholes" the loophole is that after a certain point the profit from cheating is more than the punishment for cheating
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who is KPMG?
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# ? Jun 7, 2014 07:26 |
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the 1%, the hoi polloi this means common people
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# ? Jun 7, 2014 11:26 |
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so what im saying is gas
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# ? Jun 7, 2014 11:26 |
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:p.s. are u.k. rental cars just really expensive? i'm accustomed to like $100/day i dunno, i can't drive quote:from what i can tell london is half the country no it's just a city unto it's own, a bit like nyc
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# ? Jun 7, 2014 11:46 |
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theadder posted:this means common people yes, in this context the 1% are the common rabble can't let the bond traders and doctors get into the same tax dodges as old money and billionaires, it just wouldn't do!
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# ? Jun 7, 2014 17:28 |
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the only loophole is that you're able to take effectively unlimited amounts of tax deductions cap it to a certain % of your taxes and all of the issues magically go away
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# ? Jun 7, 2014 18:47 |
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yeah, you could establish a minimum income over which you have to pay an alternative tax
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# ? Jun 7, 2014 18:52 |
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if you have enough money that you are saving or investing 95% of your money we should just tax you on all of it unless you spend it in americann small businesses in which case you dont get taxed on any of it
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# ? Jun 7, 2014 19:05 |
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computer parts posted:the only loophole is that you're able to take effectively unlimited amounts of tax deductions for little people this is true. we could stop your doctor or whatever from dodging taxes this way, and we do, via amt the big boys have elaborate mazes of trusts and shell corporations to shuffle losses around and avoid tax. and there are shitloads of loopholes.
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# ? Jun 7, 2014 19:49 |
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this doesn't matter much for 300 miles. hell, car rentals in the u.s. often have gas included for free. it's just not that big a deal, because people don't drive rentals that far. where are you renting b/c I've never had a rental that did that they've taken to offering to let you pay for the 'full' tank it comes with at some microscopic discount but that's a sucker's game unless you bring it back with the light on or close to
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# ? Jun 7, 2014 20:03 |
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:P.s. The last time a rich man risked jail for his "defensible position" was when KPMG got uppity and started selling "defensible position" letters to regular schmucks, mere millionaires instead of aristocrats willie....
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# ? Jun 7, 2014 20:04 |
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fritz posted:where are you renting b/c I've never had a rental that did that it started w/ zipcar but there are several of these firms now w/ all-inclusive pricing
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# ? Jun 7, 2014 20:11 |
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bring back lf so its not in here
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# ? Jun 8, 2014 11:37 |
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:p.s. are u.k. rental cars just really expensive? i'm accustomed to like $100/day i rented a car in london last fall and it was like £260 per day, no gas included. but that was because it was a business trip so my company was picking up the tab for me to drive a luxury sedan. they had some for like £70 per day or so iirc e: no wait i think after all the fees and gas etc i paid £463 to rent it for 22 hours fart simpson fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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MeramJert posted:i rented a car in london last fall and it was like £260 per day, no gas included. but that was because it was a business trip so my company was picking up the tab for me to drive a luxury sedan. they had some for like £70 per day or so iirc A,AL260 per day sure sounds like a
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 16:37 |
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Bloody posted:A,AL260 per day sure sounds like a i know that the "l" is british pounds, but what are the two "a"s?
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 16:50 |
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prefect posted:i know that the "l" is british pounds, but what are the two "a"s? character encoding getting hosed up as usual
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 16:51 |
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Bloody posted:A,AL260 per day sure sounds like a sounds like a what?
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 17:09 |
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MeramJert posted:i rented a car in london last fall and it was like £260 per day, no gas included. but that was because it was a business trip so my company was picking up the tab for me to drive a luxury sedan. they had some for like £70 per day or so iirc so basically what's going on here is a character encoding problem some idiot typed a UTF-8 UK pound sterling sign which is U+00A3, two bytes, 0b11000010 0b10100011 some idiot took these bytes to be Latin-1 (or one of its derivatives), in which case they represent two characters: a capital A with a circumflex followed by a UK pound sterling sign then some idiot transcoded the Latin-1 into UTF-8 again, in which we have two characters occupying four bytes, U+00C3 U+00A3 = 0b11000011 0b10000010 0b11000010 0b10100011 and finally some idiot took those four bytes and interpreted them as Windows-1252 (a Latin-1 derivative), in which encoding they represent four characters: a capital A with tilde, a single low-9 quotation mark, a capital A with a circumflex and a UK pound sterling sign at least one of these idiots is user MeramJert
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 17:23 |
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i blame awful.app
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 17:26 |
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i deal with ebcdic on a daily basis so this is basically how i relax
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 17:27 |
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qntm posted:i deal with ebcdic on a daily basis so this is basically how i relax lol owned
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 17:28 |
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ebcdic is the character encoding with three separate characters for "carriage return", "line break" and "new line"
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 17:31 |
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if you put an ascii string through a ascii-to-ebcdic converter 484,330 times it becomes ascii again
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 17:34 |
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C code:
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 17:37 |
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qntm posted:i deal with ebcdic on a daily basis so this is basically how i relax
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 17:44 |
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qntm posted:so basically what's going on here is a character encoding problem dang
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 18:04 |
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yeah apparently the android forums app has encoding issues, who could have guessed
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 18:07 |
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MeramJert posted:i blame awful.app MeramJert posted:yeah apparently the android forums app has encoding issues, who could have guessed so is it awful.app or awful.apk
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 19:59 |
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i thought i had ipad posted that at first, but I thought harder and later remembered it was posted from my android phone, so awful.apk it was
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 20:14 |
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mysql is probably set to its happy default of latin/swedish case insensitive encoding
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 20:37 |
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my stepdads beer posted:mysql is probably set to its happy default of latin/swedish case insensitive encoding well i can type a pound £ edit: and it looks ok to me.
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 20:46 |
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my stepdads beer posted:mysql is probably set to its happy default of latin/swedish case insensitive encoding was the inventor swedish?
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 20:47 |
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MeramJert posted:i thought i had ipad posted that at first, but I thought harder and later remembered it was posted from my android phone, so awful.apk it was character encoding for the forums is pretty much 'here be dragons' forums don't accept utf-8 directly, if you force it it'll munge it internally and generate that kind of jibberish. the accepts header specifies iso8859, but that's wrong because it actually expects win1252. afaik, the only reason unicode works on the forums is everything is encoded in html-escaped characters at some point. it's terrible, the third party apps work around it but weird poo poo pops up e: here's the text the forums returns for a reply in chinese: code:
it's actually double-encoded too "& amp ;#22902;" zeekner fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jun 9, 2014 |
# ? Jun 9, 2014 21:35 |
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it doesn't surprise me remotely that at least two of the other idiots are radium
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 22:11 |
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why can't it be whoever wrote vbulletin, I mean why the heck would radium dabble into unicodes
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 22:14 |
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Symbolic Butt posted:why the heck would radium dabble into <noun>
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# ? Jun 9, 2014 22:23 |
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what's the least terrible version control product that will integrate into vs2012?
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# ? Jun 10, 2014 11:10 |
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St Evan Echoes posted:what's the least terrible version control product that will integrate into vs2012? git is the best version control product but I dunno about the rest of your question
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