Freefilefillableforms.com is an online tax preparation and efile service that is free. No income limitations and almost all 1040 related forms. I have used it for several years and it is great. You can save the return to your disk as a pdf. It computes the fields and does some basic error checking. It links to related forms and instructions. Easy to use GUI, almost too flashy sometimes. It does not store the data in any usable format, but that is fine for me because I do everything in Quicken.

I live in France and use StrongVPN for Hulu and Netflix. They are reasonable, have actually helpful 24 hour customer service on chat, and sell a preconfigured VPN Cisco gigabit router to share the VPN with the whole house (which they support). They also have good troubleshooting tools, and lots of servers to choose from. It took some patience to get it setup properly but now it's running smoothly. I recommend them. If you buy the router, I also recommend you upgrade to their OpenVPN servers.

I decided to go paperless, too. This means selecting electronic delivery of all the documents you can. For others who insist on sending you paper mail, get Virtual Post Mail (http://www.virtualpostmail.com/). They will scan all your mail to downloadable .pdf files. They will forward original documents if you wish or recycle them. They even have a check depositing service. It's about $100 per year.

I have been using them for a few months now and it is working great. No more incoming paper. As others have said, don't bother with all your past documents, put them in a banker's box and destroy them over time. It will be too time consuming and expensive to scan all your past documents.

Buy a roll of velcro tie material (http://www.bing.com/shopping/search?q=velcro+ties+roll&qpvt=velcro+ties+roll&FORM=Z7FD).

Cut them into 1" to 3" lengths depending on the thickness of your cables. Tie them off every 12" or so.

For cables of different lengths, roll the excess in a 6" roll somewhere out of the way, velcro tie that, then continue on so that the terminations are equal.

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Writing an article about these adolescents just gives them what they want: attention.

Once they put a device in your car that can record your movements, it is a slippery slope to using this device, for instance, to track your movements, to automatically give you a ticket by email when you speed, or to disable control of the vehicle remotely when the authorities want to control your movements.

If there's a need for delivering mail to Alaska, the market will fill it.

I'm not saying get rid of the Post Office. Right now it is *illegal* to even compete with the Post Office. Let the private market compete and you will see more efficiency. It has worked everywhere else, it will work here.

The insurance market is not analogous as it is highly regulated by government. By the way, insurance is a risk contract. If you are already sick, your risk is 100% so you are not insurable.

The USPS is a government monopoly. End the monopoly and let free enterprise competition enter the equation. This proven method will increase the efficiency of letter delivery more than any central committee.

One of the fundamentals of behavior modification is immediacy. A negative stimulus must be provided immediately after the offending behavior for the subject to learn. I received one of these tickets in the mail 2 months later from when I was traveling in another state. I don't even remember driving in that area as I was driving through several states at the time. So, there is no way this is going to change my behavior to make me stop speeding or increase safety.

I went to the movies last weekend and 4 of the 6 movies at the theater were sequels.

What we DO need is a centralized ID system.

At present, we use driver's licenses and SS#s which are neither very secure. Your other data is tracked by consumer credit reporting agencies who use voluntary reporting and a mishmash of public records. We know how well this is working out.

We should use a system akin to a public key encryption system, where each citizen is issued two numbers, one public and one private. The public ID number is present on a biometric ID card. The private number is akin to a PIN.

What really worries people is not a national ID system, which Europe uses, but what the government could do with it. These are valid concerns, but controls can be implemented.

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You can download the forms and form a legal entity yourself for under $100 in about 2 hours. What they really need is *startup capital*. They should say that, otherwise, it's misleading.

They have also got to learn a way to earn revenue from a free product. Look at Google. Then they wouldn't have to beg for the money and pretend they are a charity.

That doesn't make them public. Lawyers can subpena relevant bank records, medical records, or any other private data. That doesn't necessarily make them public records, or make them considered as public records.

If a party to a lawsuit makes an admission on Facebook that has bearing on his case, it's just like telling his friends (who also can be subpenaed to testify) only it's in writing. It can be subpenaed and used in court.

Consider an internet posting as a writing that can be used later against you in court, and you will have no surprises.

Before now, there was no governmental control over the internet. the Internet was regulated by NGOs such as ICANN. Now, the FCC has imposed its authority over the internet with this "net neutrality" policy.

"Takeover" is defined as, "To seize with authority". By exerting its supposed authority over the internet, the FCC has indeed made a takeover of the internet. While some may argue that the low level of interference is not a grand takeover, the FCC has asserted authority, and can now impose any regulation it sees fit. Thus, it has seized with authority, and made a takeover of the internet.

As a right-winger myself, I am not that concerned with the actual net neutrality policy. I am concerned with the FCC imposing its authority over the internet without any authorization from Congress. In the last two years, we have seen the government "takeover" the banking industry, the finance industry, the health care industry, the automobile industry, and now the internet. Anyone see a pattern here?