An accountant is legally bound to believe a return is true. Only an idiot accountant would file something he/she knows is false. If the client insisted, the accountant would basically have to say, "find another accountant." The client, if he really wanted to file a false return, would then make sure the subsequent accountant was kept in the dark about the true facts.

Nice -- that's even better.

It isn't called Taco Hell for nothing you know.

Wrong. That deregulation was regulation requiring that whoever owned the wire, had to rent it out to competitors. Thus, competitors were born and prices for long distance plummeted.

From 1999:

The price war has led to speculation that long-distance phone service eventually will be "free" with a package of other communication services.

The intensifying competition reflects the continuing shake-up in the once-stodgy U.S. telephone industry, where phone companies are being forced to reduce rates because of intense competition in the long-distance market stemming from the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

http://articles.latimes.com/19...

If you read the fine print on everything you do every day, you would have about 6 hours a year left to work, sleep, eat, and go on vacation. Secondly, the stuff is such a convoluted mish mash of boilerplate from different sources, an attorney spending a week on the documents would likely only be able to tell you what it means in terms of probabilities (section XI.3.a probably means ______, but it could also mean _____ when read in conjunction with 4.e, etc. etc.).

The political reality is that the continued rightward shift of the DNC, has left liberals without any representation. Yeah, I always vote 3d party as a protest, and I understand that my views will not be represented in my lifetime, but what totally fucking galls me, is that DNC party members whose policies would make Nixon blush, have the temerity to call themselves liberals. Add to that the people who are liberal at heart, yet still vote for DNC candidates based solely on nostalgia for what the party once represented. Puke.

No, the GOP is the right wing pro-wall street pro-war party that opposes abortion and gay marriage. The DNC is the right wing pro-wall street pro-war party that supports abortion and gay marriage. That is the sum total difference between them.

Yeah, the whole last 8 years of war, drone bombings, NSA programs, plus NixonCare aka ObamaCare, have absolutely noting to do with the DNC at all. It was all the GOP's fault.

Christ, you could have incontrovertible proof of the DNC eating babies live, and you fucks would blame the GOP.

It's great to poke fun, but you do know that the DNC of today makes the GOP of Nixon's day look like pinko commies?

With the DNC, you get way more war, way more surveillance, way more militarization of the police, and, Nixon's own healthcare plan (with the liberal parts stripped out).

So you New-GOPers (aka Democrats), go ahead and tease the Old-GOP (aka Parody of Itself). Feel all superior.

Just try getting elected in America to any high political office without being or pretending to be a believer in some god.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

That Frank felt more comfortable going public with his sexuality in 1987 than he did with his secular beliefs at any point during his House career says a lot about the stigma surrounding atheism in electoral politics.

Seriously, when was the last time you received a program by email where that program was legitimate and you expected to receive it? Why can't an email client default to making the user jump through warnings and hoops in order to run a program that arrives in their email box? The GP poster's point is exceptionally valid.

I think there is an aspect to this that is being missed to some degree. Yes, it is true that repairing a device with surface mount components the size of dust by hand is a lost cause. It is true that manufacturers build their products in ways that makes opening them impossible or nearly so, and it is true that it is often cheaper to replace something than repair. None of that is going to change.

But off to the side, tons of people are making their own stuff with Arduino/Pi/etc.etc. People are learning about interfacing with the real world through sensors and adjusting it, or adjusting to it, with any number of methods. The barriers to these types of projects have dropped immensely recently and there are lots of people who take that broken toaster oven, and totally repurpose it as a soldering oven.

So, perhaps people _are_ less likely to try to fix things than they were decades ago -- instead, a great number are learning how to _design_ their own rather sophisticated stuff. Grandpa may have been able to repair his tractor, but his grandkid can automate it to minimize overlap when out tilling the fields saving diesel, time, topsoil, and mechanical wear/tear. The former skill is valuable, but the current skill is valuable in its own way.

I tried contacts once, but I couldn't get used to feeling wind in my eyes when I walked around. That's a tangent though, I have astigmatism and the contacts I got were designed to correct for that lack of roundness -- there was a top and bottom and when putting them in, I'd have to look for a tiny mark on the contact to correctly orient them. I had a ton of trouble sticking my finger in my as well -- so I quit after two months. I should say though, shortly after getting my contacts, I was ordering a latte when the barista, a complete stranger, looked at me and said -- "you have beautiful eyes." That has never happened to me while wearing glasses, and I do get the glare free lenses.

All that plus, when you watch at home, you see it on your schedule without waiting in line, you don't have to listen to other people talking to each other, you don't have to be disturbed by someone else's cell phone, you don't have to listen to crying babies or whining kids, you don't have to have the quiet parts in your movie interrupted by thunderous booms from the theater next door, you aren't going to get stuck behind a tall person blocking your view, no parking problems, the floor isn't all sticky.

I haven't gone to a movie in several years because the experience is so awful in every respect while at home, it is about as comfortable as can be. About the only thing that would make me want to go to a theater, would be to travel back in time to my teenager-living-at-home self who didn't really have any good make-out options. Barring that sort of technology, theaters probably ought to think of ways to make the experience of going out to the movies better than staying home, because things that are expensive and worse than the alternatives, don't have great longevity.

I just looked at one of the apps using opencellid -- and I'm not sure how clean the data will be. The default is to upload the position of any cell tower it sees, which means it would be uploading the position of Stingrays too. Then when a user connects to a Stingray listed in the database of towers, well, they've been given a false sense of security.