but more methane emissions

It filled a Nietzsche.

How is that not relevant? A good many users here believe the rich to be essentially evil, corrupt hoarders of money, who have stolen more than their fair share of the common wealth from us, and who do not pay their fair share of taxes; and then to add insult to injury I suppose, use that wealth as leverage to pay even less taxes or none at all. You can't deny this is a common mantra here.
So, the ethical dilemma I proposed (and this is why it's devil's advocate): what if instead of an accountant in this story, the IRS had illegally come across a multimillionaire who had cooked their books? On one hand, bad IRS.. but on the other, bad multimillionaire. Sooo... would the 99%er's here still feel the IRS should get the smackdown for their actions and let the guy go free, or should there be an exception here?

The Bullwinkle party :-D

You can tell it's an election year. It's just desperate handwaving ("Bush! "Squirrel!") because polls indicate the democrats aren't looking too good, and they have nothing substantive to counter with.

I think that's a bit optimistically premature. When Asia finally does eventually get around to stopping that practice, Africa will probably be the next, last bastion for poor and oppressed labor. It's always been the way of third world countries trying to compete in a global market.

Well thank ya very much for that lovely imagery! May as well put a thong on a snowman. Actually, that sounds less horrific.

Hah, my second thought when reading this article, was would it enable solid state guitar amps to sound more like tube amps..? Upon further reflection, I think most likely not. I'm not very happy with modeling though, I'm still a tube head.

My *first* thought was, transistors were "discovered"? What, were they found nesting in a rock by a lake somewhere, pre-assembled? Nomenclature like this leads me to believe the submitter doesn't believe in any kind of IP whatsoever. They were invented. What was discovered was the result of doping silicon into N type and P type material.

Y'know, in my younger days, I pretty much hated winter, the cold, and short days and long nights.. I loved summertime, beaches, sunshine, long days.. but oddly, as I approach middle age (some would say I'm there already) I find myself preferring wintertime now. As you said, it's easier to get warm than it is to get cool. Also, I hate having to mow my lawn at least once a week every week, and I'm tired of the incessant drone of lawnmowers and chainsaws all weekend long, every weekend. (Obviously I live in the 'burbs). And the mosquitoes. And constant thunderstorms, which knock out power (sucks being in IT when UPSes fail, and we have stations spread out all over the state)
Things just seem more calm in the winter, there's just less static background buzz, and snow is pretty. (well.. literally speaking, there's more static - zap). I should move farther north. A blanket, a fire, a book, and a mug of hot chocolate, life is good.

But there's still one thing to be said for summertime that winter will never match. women in tank tops, shorts and bikinis. Guess I'm not that old yet.

I wonder who here would dispense with their principles and be for prosecuting this guy if he were a corporate multimillionaire CEO, instead of a mere accountant, evading his obligation to pay taxes. Not that I condone CEOs getting insane salaries and /or bonuses and evading taxes through loopholes, nor do I sanction the IRS's overreaching tyranny. I'm for neither.

Just stop with the common sense already. That leaves little room for outrage, hyperbole and overreaching capitalism bashing. You're no fun.
That said, it is important to shop around for the right dealer, there are a lot of scumbags out there.

Yes, entirely Exchange's fault. No one at the IRS has ever heard of backups.

Thank you for making my day

Can't Remember A Thing, I believe

you lost me on BFDB.. Big F'n Deal B ...? I got the rest.