If you think I admitted to tax evasion, then FUCK YOU.

Read a few replies above this, my replies to narcc.

I committed no crimes. I sold at a loss, and thus reported no profits. I could not prove that now since I have no receipts for the things I am selling at a loss, yet eBay will 1099 me for selling those items as though I had paid the full selling price for them PLUS shipping.

Further, you don't know me. You haven't read my tax returns, so you accuse me? FUCK YOU VERY MUCH.

I am completely aware of the difference between profit and revenue but as you say a lot of people are not. The entire problem is that this new law assumes everything is revenue and you are 1099'd on your GROSS sales and then it's up to you to prove whether is profit or not. You're assumed guilty until you prove yourself innocent more or less. That's what is unfair and onerous about it. It places the burden of knowing and PROVING that essential difference onto hobby sellers.

No, I'm not a tax cheat, and fuck you for saying so.

I paid thousands of dollars for test equipment at flea markets for years then resold it for cents on the dollar years later, well below its usual resale value, usually. I made no profit. I only hoped to recoup a tiny fraction of what I spent over the years.

So, yes, I kept records on the few items I could obtain receipts for, and am taking losses on everything I sell, so no, I am not cheating. I also used to run a lucrative software company and kept fastidious records with that, so it's not like I don't know what I'm doing in the small business area.

I know you're going for the big laughs here, but this is much more serious than you think or say. They are not just "catching tax cheats and liars", they are making a BUSINESS out of everyone who sells more than $600 or 20 items a year as a hobby or to earn a little extra cash in their spare time.

They have effectively killed off the casual hobby seller on eBay, etc. Now, everyone who sells a few items like old radios, mechanical or electrical parts, board games, plastic models, candles, etc. are going to be reported if they sell more than 20 items or make $600.00 or more per year. That means they have to report that as a self-employment "business" income, and deduct all expenses like shipping and the cost of the goods initially. They report GROSS sales and proceeds, which means you are even screwed on the cost of shipping!

I used to buy things at flea markets and resell them on eBay for many, many years. They have killed my hobby income now almost completely, Since I have no receipts for things bought at flea markets over the years, or any way to prove the cost of goods so if I were ever audited, I'd be fucked.

So, no this does not just affect "liars" and "tax cheats", it FORCES every small seller to become a formal BUSINESS whether they want to or not in order to not be taxed improperly for profits they really didn't make.

Your guess probably makes the most sense, it's possible they were a 10-11 hour plane ride from civilization to get far enough away to be drop in a "safe" place away from populated areas. They were using propeller driven bombers back then, so they were fairly slow as far as planes go.

In TFS, they say they detonated it in the "wee hours" of October 30, 1961. Does the author know what "wee hours" means?

Usually, it means the small (or "wee") hours early after midnight, i.e. 1:00 A.M. to, presumably, dawn which is sometime around 5 A.M. depending on where you live, time of year, etc.

Now, the historical description of the test says it was detonated at 11:30 AM. AM? That's a half hour before noon, DEFINITELY NOT "wee hours" by any stretch of the imagination, not even the "wee hours" of the afternoon, which doesn't exist, but if it did, it would be from 1:00 P.M. to probably dusk, around 5 P.M, but no one uses that expression, but even if they did, 11:30 A.M. does NOT qualify.

Even the video of the drop clearly shows it's daylight outside, not night time. "wee hours"?

I don't think so!

The problem is the pilings don't go down to bedrock, as I understand it. There is a layer of Bay Clay on top of the bedrock that is between the bedrock and the pilings beneath the tower. The pilings they showed in the illustration I saw only went about halfway through the Bay Clay, and that's why it's settling and tilting. If they had put in deeper pilings to begin with, all the way down to the bedrock, then this wouldn't have been a problem.

However, many buildings can't be anchored all the way down to bedrock, sometimes it's just too deep (expensive) and/or the supporting soil or clay layers are strong enough to support the building's weight, after a bit of calculated settling.

I can't speak for the other poster, but in my case, the first incidents with Linux were with just the city of Munich, as far as I can remember, and this later case was concerning a state and not just a city, SO I used the term "Germany" to collectively refer to that city and state, you know, to save time, like the time I'm now taking to respond to a random idiot here on Slashdot who is complaining about my lack of specificity on describing only a PART of Germany.

It would be equivalent to me stating that if New York had adopted Linux, stating that "American use of Linux is on the uptake" or something like that. Get it? Now go piss in someone else's beer you dimwitted tool,.

Actually, this has been going on and off for many years! It started back in 2003 when Germany adopted Linux in a big way, then under great pressure from MS and others, eventually reversed course, and went BACK to MS! :( Now, finally, the tables have turned again, and they are reconsidering Linux once more. Perhaps this has been spurred on by the less than stellar Windows 10 and the subsequent shitshow that has been Windows 11. If they want garbage on the desktop, they can at least get it for free! ;)

Here's an article I found that talks about the back-and-forth, starting back in the Windows NT 4.0 days:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/...

He's not saying that. Just the opposite, that they WON'T delete anything, except perhaps a fake sacrificial "active data set" that is the current stuff, but yesterday's backups are all still there was his point.

Not that they would try to alter history by deleting things FROM backups! Oh, noes. Actually though, that would be perfectly legal unless they were subpoenaed or given a specific court order telling them not to touch them as "evidence". But that HAS NOT HAPPENED as of yet.

Yeah, they made the switch after they found dozens of cruise missiles loitering around a cul-de-sac at the end of a one-way street per hour!

Wow, it got even weirder.

The above post didn't show up AT ALL in my profile! The "most recent" post shown is the one from the other thread (the duplicate) but now it's different. The post title is duplicated, but the body is not. It shows the 2nd post down's body, but the title of the post is a dupe of the most recent, well the one at the top.

More disturbing, the duplicated post title of the 2nd post in my profile appears as the actual post title in the big thread to which it was posted, so the indexing fuckup seems to have affected posts appearing in the yro subsection, at least as I can see it.

Good luck with this one! it appears to be getting worse with the additional posts, so I'll stop now. :)

Alright, this is truly weird. In my personal profile, it shows a double print (duplicate) of the last 2 posts I made, prior to this one. IOW I had my most recent post from another thread in my profile, then after making the above post, I now see TWO of the older post from the other topic, instead of seeing the above post! I believe my profile is public so people can see it, if you don't believe it, check it out here:

https://slashdot.org/~Mister+T...

Something with the post database is fucked up somehow, and it's mis-indexing my posts and thus showing a duplicate of my penultimate previous post instead of the proper actual most recent last post..

I hope the Management here reads this and can investigate, but it sounds like the database is getting creeping index rot or some kind of similar internal badness. Otherwise, is there a better way to report an internal problem or point out what looks like errant post indexing?

This should be interesting, sort of in a boring techie way. I hope the problem is just with the profile database or perhaps the yro subdomain database, and not the whole big master database indexing.

Finally, I'll be curious see if this most recent post kicks the problem down, or maybe it will make it worse with another dupe, perhaps? We shall see.

They should have known, it's right in the name!

Huq would be pronounced "Huck" as in "Huckster"!

Also, as far as I'm concerned, if an app requests system permission for something, assume the worst. Just because they "promise not to be evil" today, it may not be the case tomorrow, or with a new management someday.

No, if an app requests permission, it's fair to assume they will (ab)use it as far as they are able.

Indeed. I had an Exatron "Stringy Floppy" for my TRS-80 Model I that actually did use microcasettes! Oddly, the company still exists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Most of the other home computer interfaces used regular "Compact Cassette" full-sized regular audio 1/4" tapes, and at the time all I could do is save up the $400.00 I needed to buy a SINGLE 5-1/4" FLOPPY DISK DRIVE! I was so happy when I got it, and I was so frustrated from the many, many hours and programs lost from data errors and unreliable tape/audio data reading and writing. I was so annoyed by it that when I bought the disk drive and transcribed all my tapes (another supremely annoying experience!) I threw the tape drive out a 2nd story window, and watched it ,land with a delicate smash!

Then, I went downstairs, and jumped up and down on the drive for about 5 minutes, then beat it with a Golf club for another few minutes or so just for good measure at all the pain it had caused me!!

Ah, the fond memories... I just recently sold my first TRS-80 system at a Vintage Computer Show. :)